Triple J Hottest 100, 1998
1998 Triple J Hottest 100 | |
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![]() Album artwork for the CD compilation | |
Countdown details | |
Date of countdown | January 1999 |
Countdown highlights | |
Winning song | The Offspring ![]() ("Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)") |
Most entries | Quan Yeomans (6) ![]() |
The 1998 Triple J Hottest 100, announced in January, 1999, was the sixth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 36 of the songs was released. In August 1998 a Hottest 100 of All Time was conducted separate to normal countdown.
In February 2019, Triple J's sister station Double J conducted a 're-vote' of the 1998 top 10.[1]
Full list[]
Note: Australian artists |
# | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
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1 | Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) | The Offspring | ![]() |
2 | Cigarettes Will Kill You | Ben Lee | ![]() |
3 | Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us) | Custard | ![]() |
4 | Celebrity Skin | Hole | ![]() |
5 | Got the Life | Korn | ![]() |
6 | ! (The Song Formerly Known As) | Regurgitator | ![]() |
7 | Harpoon | Jebediah | ![]() |
8 | The Day You Come | Powderfinger | ![]() |
9 | Heavy Heart | You Am I | ![]() |
10 | Save the Day | The Living End | ![]() |
11 | Sweetest Thing | U2 | ![]() |
12 | Brick | Ben Folds Five | ![]() |
13 | Doctor Worm | They Might Be Giants | ![]() |
14 | Josie | Blink-182 | ![]() |
15 | Second Solution | The Living End | ![]() |
16 | Addicted to Bass | Josh Abrahams and Amiel Daemion | ![]() |
17 | Tainted Love | The Living End | ![]() |
18 | Just Ace | Grinspoon | ![]() |
19 | Bubblegoose | Wyclef Jean | ![]() |
20 | Simultaneous | Chef | ![]() |
21 | Sex and Candy | Marcy Playground | ![]() |
22 | Black Friday | Grinspoon | ![]() |
23 | Teardrop | Massive Attack | ![]() |
24 | Music Is Crap | Custard | ![]() |
25 | Intergalactic | Beastie Boys | ![]() |
26 | Polyester Girl | Regurgitator | ![]() |
27 | I Like Your Old Remix Better Than Your New Remix | Regurgitator | ![]() |
28 | Don't You Know Who I Am? | Happyland | ![]() |
29 | Everybody Here Wants You | Jeff Buckley | ![]() |
30 | Never There | Cake | ![]() |
31 | Throw Your Arms Around Me | Paul McDermott | ![]() |
32 | Black Bugs | Regurgitator | ![]() |
33 | Sweater | Eskimo Joe | ![]() |
34 | One Week | Barenaked Ladies | ![]() |
35 | Flagpole Sitta | Harvey Danger | ![]() |
36 | Whatareya? | TISM | ![]() |
37 | Buy Now Pay Later (Charlie No. 2) | The Whitlams | ![]() |
38 | The Impression That I Get | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones | ![]() |
39 | Somebody Kill Me | Adam Sandler | ![]() |
40 | Song for the Dumped | Ben Folds Five | ![]() |
41 | Pure Morning | Placebo | ![]() |
42 | Teflon | Jebediah | ![]() |
43 | Melbourne | The Whitlams | ![]() |
44 | The Dope Show | Marilyn Manson | ![]() |
45 | Ava Adore | The Smashing Pumpkins | ![]() |
46 | Don't Wanna Be Left Out | Powderfinger | ![]() |
47 | Do the Evolution | Pearl Jam | ![]() |
48 | Road Rage | Catatonia | ![]() |
49 | Malibu | Hole | ![]() |
50 | It's Like That | Run–D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins | ![]() |
51 | Given to Fly | Pearl Jam | ![]() |
52 | The Grouch | Green Day | ![]() |
53 | Father of Mine | Everclear | ![]() |
54 | Mum Changed the Locks | Frenzal Rhomb | ![]() |
55 | No Surprises | Radiohead | ![]() |
56 | Charlie No. 3 | The Whitlams | ![]() |
57 | I Think I'm Paranoid | Garbage | ![]() |
58 | I Don't Like It | Pauline Pantsdown | ![]() |
59 | History Repeating | Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey | ![]() |
60 | Untouchable Face | Ani DiFranco | ![]() |
61 | Cry | The Mavis's | ![]() |
62 | Gone Away | The Offspring | ![]() |
63 | The Rockafeller Skank | Fatboy Slim | ![]() |
64 | Come On Spring | Antenna | ![]() |
65 | Rumble | You Am I | ![]() |
66 | No Shelter | Rage Against the Machine | ![]() |
67 | The Unforgiven II | Metallica | ![]() |
68 | Every Day Should Be a Holiday | The Dandy Warhols | ![]() |
69 | Cinnamon Lip | Pollyanna | ![]() |
70 | If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next | Manic Street Preachers | ![]() |
71 | Hello | Happyland | ![]() |
72 | Mr. Charisma | Frenzal Rhomb | ![]() |
73 | Music Sounds Better with You | Stardust | ![]() |
74 | My Hero | Foo Fighters | ![]() |
75 | Dragula | Rob Zombie | ![]() |
76 | Saint Joe on the School Bus | Marcy Playground | ![]() |
77 | Fuel | Metallica | ![]() |
78 | Shimmer | Fuel | ![]() |
79 | Don't Go Away | Grinspoon | ![]() |
80 | Bad Old Man | Babybird | ![]() |
81 | Drinking in L.A. | Bran Van 3000 | ![]() |
82 | El President | Drugstore | ![]() |
83 | Now and Then | The Superjesus | ![]() |
84 | Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) | Green Day | ![]() |
85 | Harpoon | Something for Kate | ![]() |
86 | Mama's Trippin' | Ben Harper | ![]() |
87 | Push It | Garbage | ![]() |
88 | Wishlist | Pearl Jam | ![]() |
89 | Special | Garbage | ![]() |
90 | No Substitute | Chef | ![]() |
91 | Benedict | Jebediah | ![]() |
92 | The Ballad of Tom Jones | Space with Cerys Matthews | ![]() |
93 | Untitled | Silverchair | ![]() |
94 | Perfect | The Smashing Pumpkins | ![]() |
95 | Tropicalia | Beck | ![]() |
96 | Redneck Wonderland | Midnight Oil | ![]() |
97 | Black Umbrella | Even | ![]() |
98 | Baker Street | Foo Fighters | ![]() |
99 | Saturation | The Superjesus | ![]() |
100 | Sich Offnen | Not from There | ![]() |
42 of the 100 songs were by Australian artists (marked with a green background).
Artists with multiple entries[]
Six entries
- Quan Yeomans (Four with Regurgitator and two with Happyland) (6, 26, 27, 28, 32, 71)
Four entries
- Regurgitator (6, 26, 27, 32)
Three entries
- Jebediah (7, 42, 91)
- The Living End (10, 15, 17)
- Grinspoon (18, 22, 79)
- The Whitlams (37, 43, 56)
- Pearl Jam (47, 51, 88)
- Garbage (57, 87, 89)
Two entries
- The Offspring (1, 62)
- Custard (3, 24)
- Hole (4, 49)
- Powderfinger (8, 46)
- You Am I (9, 65)
- Ben Folds Five (12, 40)
- Chef (20, 90)
- Marcy Playground (21, 76)
- Happyland (28, 71)
- The Smashing Pumpkins (45, 94)
- Green Day (52, 84)
- Frenzal Rhomb (54, 72)
- Metallica (67, 77)
- Foo Fighters (74, 98)
- The Superjesus (83, 99)
CD release[]
Disc 1
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Disc 2
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This was the last volume to be released on cassette.
A later release omits "Never There", "Got the Life", "Sweetest Thing", "Brick", "Don't You Know Who I Am", and "Everybody Here Wants You", while including "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" by Manic Street Preachers, "Untouchable Face" by Ani DiFranco, and Something for Kate's cover of "Harpoon".
Certifications[]
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[2] | 3× Platinum | 210,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Here's your new (unofficial) Hottest 100 of 1998 top 10". Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
External links[]
- Triple J Hottest 100
- 1998 in Australian music
- 1998 record charts