Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, 2013
The Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years was a poll conducted by Triple J to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hottest 100 's current format.[ 1] Voters were allowed to vote for 20 songs that were released from 1 January 1993 until 31 December 2012. Voting was open for 20 days from 14 May to 2 June.[ 2] The first half of the countdown was broadcast on 8 June and the second half was broadcast the following day. Approximately 940,000 votes were received.
Full list
Bold : Previous winner of an annual Hottest 100
Green background: Australian artists
#
Song
Artist
Country of origin
Year of release
Previous position (annual countdown)[ note 1]
Previous position (all-time countdown)
1
Wonderwall
Oasis
United Kingdom
1995
1
12 (2009)
2
Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes
United States
2003
3
20 (2009)
3
Last Goodbye
Jeff Buckley
United States
1994
14 (1995)
4 (1998), 7 (2009)
4
The Nosebleed Section
Hilltop Hoods
Australia
2003
9
17 (2009)
5
Bitter Sweet Symphony
The Verve
United Kingdom
1997
4
99 (1998), 14 (2009)
6
Everlong
Foo Fighters
United States
1997
61 (2006)[ note 2]
9 (2009)
7
Mr. Brightside
The Killers
United States
2003
13 (2004)
38 (2009)
8
These Days
Powderfinger
Australia
2000
1 (1999)
21 (2009)
9
Somebody That I Used to Know
Gotye featuring Kimbra
Australia/New Zealand
2011
1
10
My Happiness
Powderfinger
Australia
2000
1
27 (2009)
11
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age
United States
2002
1
45 (2009)
12
Hearts a Mess
Gotye
Australia
2006
8
77 (2009)
13
Paranoid Android
Radiohead
United Kingdom
1997
5
13 (1998), 5 (2009)
14
Little Lion Man
Mumford & Sons
United Kingdom
2009
1
15
Breathe
The Prodigy
United Kingdom
1996
7
95 (1998), 70 (2009)
16
Skinny Love
Bon Iver
United States
2007
21 (2008)
92 (2009)
17
Tomorrow
Silverchair
Australia
1994
5
59 (1998), 33 (2009)
18
Hey Ya!
OutKast
United States
2003
2
19
Dammit (Growing Up)
Blink-182
United States
1997
6
20 (1998), 68 (2009)
20
Prisoner of Society
The Living End
Australia
1997
15
18 (1998), 34 (2009)
21
1979
The Smashing Pumpkins
United States
1995
13 (1996)
71 (1998), 35 (2009)
22
Song 2
Blur
United Kingdom
1997
2
46 (1998), 61 (2009)
23
Knights of Cydonia
Muse
United Kingdom
2006
1 (2007)
18 (2009)
24
One Crowded Hour
Augie March
Australia
2006
1
59 (2009)
25
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
The Smashing Pumpkins
United States
1995
2
33 (1998), 51 (2009)
26
Chop Suey!
System of a Down
United States
2001
3
82 (2009)
27
Frontier Psychiatrist
The Avalanches
Australia
2000
6
28
Scar Tissue
Red Hot Chili Peppers
United States
1999
10
29
Take Me Out
Franz Ferdinand
United Kingdom
2004
1
100 (2009)
30
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
United States
1999
7 (2000)
31
Teardrop
Massive Attack featuring Elizabeth Fraser
United Kingdom
1998
23
22 (2009)
32
Stinkfist
Tool
United States
1996
2
24 (1998), 37 (2009)
33
Zombie
The Cranberries
Ireland
1994
1
34
Brick
Ben Folds Five
United States
1997
12 (1998)
32 (1998), 67 (2009)
35
Karma Police
Radiohead
United Kingdom
1997
9
54 (1998), 15 (2009)
36
Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley
United States
1994
3 (2009)
37
Sabotage
Beastie Boys
United States
1994
16
44 (1998), 48 (2009)
38
Sweet Disposition
The Temper Trap
Australia
2008
102
39
Heart-Shaped Box
Nirvana
United States
1993
20
101 (2009)
40
Closer
Nine Inch Nails
United States
1994
2
14 (1998), 62 (2009)
41
Yellow
Coldplay
United Kingdom
2000
5
87 (2009)
42
Brother
Matt Corby
Australia
2011
3
43
Betterman
John Butler Trio
Australia
2001
5
47 (2009)
44
One More Time
Daft Punk
France
2000
61 (2001)
96 (2009)
45
Float On
Modest Mouse
United States
2004
11
94 (2009)
46
Into My Arms
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Australia
1997
18
84 (1998), 36 (2009)
47
Self Esteem
The Offspring
United States
1994
3
80 (1998)
48
Last Nite
The Strokes
United States
2001
12
49
Dog Days Are Over
Florence and the Machine
United Kingdom
2009
10
50
Better Man
Pearl Jam
United States
1994
44 (1995)
22 (1998), 39 (2009)
51
Bohemian Like You
The Dandy Warhols
United States
2000
10
85 (2009)
52
Feel Good Inc.
Gorillaz featuring De La Soul
United Kingdom/United States
2005
3
53
Every You Every Me
Placebo
United Kingdom
1999
5
83 (2009)
54
Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon
United States
2008
1
90 (2009)
55
Praise You
Fatboy Slim
United Kingdom
1999
4
56
Born Slippy .NUXX
Underworld
United Kingdom
1995
12 (1996)
65 (2009)
57
Banquet
Bloc Party
United Kingdom
2005
42 (2009)
58
No Aphrodisiac
The Whitlams
Australia
1997
1
36 (1998)
59
Around the World
Daft Punk
France
1997
58 (2009)
60
Glycerine
Bush
United Kingdom
1995
5 (1996)
61
Lonely Boy
The Black Keys
United States
2011
2
62
Buy Me a Pony
Spiderbait
Australia
1996
1
86 (1998)
63
Chemical Heart
Grinspoon
Australia
2002
2
64
Kids
MGMT
United States
2008
5
65
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Daft Punk
France
2001
7 (2007)[ note 3]
66
Berlin Chair
You Am I
Australia
1994
23
61 (1998), 52 (2009)
67
Breezeblocks
alt-J
United Kingdom
2012
3
68
Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Jet
Australia
2003
1
69
Lose Yourself
Eminem
United States
2002
7
70
! (The Song Formerly Known As)
Regurgitator
Australia
1997
6 (1998)
71
Clint Eastwood
Gorillaz featuring Del Tha Funky Homosapien
United Kingdom
2001
9
72
Joker & the Thief
Wolfmother
Australia
2005
9
73
Home
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
United States
2009
15
74
Let's Dance to Joy Division
The Wombats
United Kingdom
2007
12
75
Somebody Told Me
The Killers
United States
2004
4
76
Electric Feel
MGMT
United States
2008
2
77
My People
The Presets
Australia
2007
18
78
Freak
Silverchair
Australia
1997
13
79
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Arctic Monkeys
United Kingdom
2005
50
80
Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine
United States
1996
46
89 (2009)
81
Big Jet Plane
Angus & Julia Stone
Australia
2010
1
82
Teenage Dirtbag
Wheatus
United States
2000
4
83
Common People
Pulp
United Kingdom
1995
38
81 (2009)
84
Gold Digger
Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx
United States
2005
13
85
Gangsta's Paradise
Coolio featuring L.V.
United States
1995
3
86
When You Were Young
The Killers
United States
2006
4
87
Naïve
The Kooks
United Kingdom
2006
88
Monsters
Something for Kate
Australia
2001
2
89
Wolf Like Me
TV on the Radio
United States
2006
63
99 (2009)
90
Straight Lines
Silverchair
Australia
2007
2
91
Harpoon
Jebediah
Australia
1997
7 (1998)
92
Little Talks
Of Monsters and Men
Iceland
2011
2 (2012)
93
Black Hole Sun
Soundgarden
United States
1994
22
58 (1998)
94
Pumped Up Kicks
Foster the People
United States
2010
32
95
Cigarettes Will Kill You
Ben Lee
Australia
1998
2
96
Hello
The Cat Empire
Australia
2003
6
97
Paper Planes
M.I.A.
United Kingdom
2007
17
98
Leaving Home
Jebediah
Australia
1997
10
50 (1998)
99
Video Games
Lana Del Rey
United States
2011
6
100
Intergalactic
Beastie Boys
United States
1998
25
Artists with multiple entries
#
Artist
Tracks
3
Dave Grohl [ note 4]
6, 11, 39
The Killers
7, 75, 86
Silverchair
17, 78, 90
Damon Albarn [ note 5]
22, 52, 71
Daft Punk
44, 59, 65
2
Jeff Buckley
3, 36
Powderfinger
8, 10
Gotye
9, 12
Radiohead
13, 35
The Smashing Pumpkins
21, 25
Red Hot Chili Peppers
28, 30
Beastie Boys
37, 100
Gorillaz
52, 71
MGMT
64, 76
Jebediah
91, 98
Nations represented
Country
Count
United States
42
Australia
29
United Kingdom
25
France
3
Iceland
1
Ireland
1
New Zealand
1
Songs by decade
Decade
Song Count
1990s
44[ 3]
2000s
48
2010s
8
Notes
CD Release
Disc 1 Title Artist(s) 1. "Wonderwall" (#1) Oasis 4:19 2. "Mr. Brightside" (#7) The Killers 3:43 3. "The Nosebleed Section" (#4) Hilltop Hoods 3:37 4. "Somebody That I Used To Know" (#9) Gotye featuring Kimbra 4:04 5. "Last Goodbye" (#3) Jeff Buckley 4:35 6. "Knights of Cydonia" (#23) Muse 4:47 7. "One More Time" (#44) Daft Punk 3:55 8. "! (the Song Formerly Known As)" (#70) Regurgitator 3:26 9. "No One Knows" (#11) Queens of the Stone Age 4:39 10. "Little Lion Man" (#14) Mumford & Sons 4:02 11. "Video Games" (#99) Lana Del Rey 4:42 12. "These Days" (#8) Powderfinger 4:13 13. "Feel Good Inc." (#52) Gorillaz featuring De La Soul 3:41 14. "Bohemian Like You" (#51) The Dandy Warhols 3:31 15. "My People" (#77) The Presets 4:26 16. "Paper Planes" (#97) M.I.A. 3:23 17. "Chemical Heart" (#63) Grinspoon 4:39 18. "Bitter Sweet Symphony" (#5) The Verve 4:35 19. "Float On" (#45) Modest Mouse 3:28
Disc 2 Title Artist(s) 1. "Seven Nation Army" (#2) The White Stripes 3:51 2. "Paranoid Android" (#13) Radiohead 6:22 3. "Dog Days Are Over" (#49) Florence and the Machine 4:10 4. "Sweet Disposition" (#38) The Temper Trap 3:52 5. "One Crowded Hour" (#24) Augie March 4:12 6. "Gangsta's Paradise" (#85) Coolio featuring L.V. 4:01 7. "Breathe" (#15) The Prodigy 3:59 8. "Berlin Chair" (#66) You Am I 2:35 9. "Zombie" (#33) The Cranberries 5:06 10. "Let's Dance to Joy Division" (#74) The Wombats 3:11 11. "Dammit" (#19) Blink-182 2:45 12. "Kids" (#64) MGMT 5:02 13. "Hey Ya!" (#18) OutKast 4:09 14. "Big Jet Plane" (#81) Angus & Julia Stone 3:58 15. "Tomorrow" (#17) Silverchair 4:26 16. "Song 2" (#22) Blur 2:02 17. "Buy Me a Pony" (#62) Spiderbait 1:43 18. "Banquet" (#57) Bloc Party 3:18 19. "Skinny Love" (#16) Bon Iver 3:49 20. "Teardrop" (#31) Massive Attack 5:27
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