Triple J Hottest 100, 2016

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2016 Triple J Hottest 100
Countdown details
Date of countdown26 January 2017
Countdown highlights
Winning songFlume featuring Kai Australia/Canada ("Never Be like You")
Most entriesViolent Soho (5) Australia
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The 2016 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2017. It is the 24th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J.

2016's countdown broke several Hottest 100 records, including number of votes (over 2.25 million), number of songs by Australian acts both in the whole list (66 out of the 100) and at its top (all of the top four),[1] and longest absence between countdowns (16 years for Paul Kelly). With the first-place win of Australian producer Flume for "Never Be like You", 2016 marks a record-breaking fourth consecutive annual countdown in which the number-one track was by an Australian act, after Vance Joy in 2013, Chet Faker in 2014, and The Rubens in 2015. Flume became the first electronic dance music producer to top the countdown.

Background[]

Triple J's Hottest 100 lets members of the public vote online for their top ten songs of the year, with these votes used to identify the year's 100 most popular songs. Any song that premiered between December 2015 and November 2016 was eligible for 2016's Hottest 100. Triple J published a list of 1,909 eligible songs on their 2016 Voting List.[2] Voting commenced on 12 December 2016, as announced by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki in a nature mockumentary depicting a live music event. The short film featured cameo appearances from many musicians,[3] along with Dr Karl doing a shoey.[4][5]

Several artists and presenters made their Hottest 100 votes public.[6][7][8][9] The artists most often voted for by Triple J presenters were: D.D Dumbo; Kanye West; Julia Jacklin, who was not ultimately featured in the countdown; and A.B. Original, who are vocal critics of Australia Day (in 2016, Triple J announced a review of the countdown's date in response to criticism from the group and others).[10][11] On 12 December, bookmakers Sportsbet.com.au and William Hill placed Flume's "Never Be like You" as the song most likely to take out first place by a significant margin, with a Sportsbet representative stating that they have "never seen such a short favourite at this stage".[12]

Voting closed on 23 January 2017. By 25 January, the day before the countdown, bookmakers and media reports identified Flume's "Never Be like You" and Amy Shark's "Adore" as the clear frontrunners for first place.[13][14][15]

Full list[]

Note: Australian artists
# Song Artist Country of origin
1 Never Be like You Flume featuring Kai  Australia/ Canada
2 Adore Amy Shark  Australia
3 Jungle Tash Sultana  Australia
4 1955 Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Tom Thum  Australia
5 Redbone Childish Gambino  United States
6 Believe (Like a Version) DMA's  Australia
7 Papercuts Illy featuring Vera Blue  Australia
8 Say It Flume featuring Tove Lo  Australia/ Sweden
9 Stranger Peking Duk featuring Elliphant  Australia/ Sweden
10 Starboy The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk  Canada/ France
11 Chameleon Pnau  Australia
12 Cocoon Milky Chance  Germany
13 Love$ick Mura Masa featuring ASAP Rocky  Guernsey/ United States
14 Viceroy Violent Soho  Australia
15 Genghis Khan Miike Snow  Sweden
16 January 26 A.B. Original featuring Dan Sultan  Australia
17 The Opposite of Us Big Scary  Australia
18 All Night Chance the Rapper featuring Knox Fortune  United States
19 7 Catfish and the Bottlemen  United Kingdom
20 On Hold The xx  United Kingdom
21 Death to the Lads The Smith Street Band  Australia
22 Ultralight Beam Kanye West  United States
23 Catch 22 Illy featuring Anne-Marie  Australia/ United Kingdom
24 Come On Mess Me Up Cub Sport  Australia
25 Because I Love You Montaigne  Australia
26 Make Them Wheels Roll Safia  Australia
27 Drive Gretta Ray  Australia
28 Frankie Sinatra The Avalanches  Australia
29 Our Town Sticky Fingers  Australia
30 Innerbloom (What So Not Remix) Rüfüs  Australia
31 One Dance Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla  Canada/ Nigeria/ United Kingdom
32 Notion Tash Sultana  Australia
33 Bullshit Dune Rats  Australia
34 Scott Green Dune Rats  Australia
35 World of Our Love Client Liaison  Australia
36 Sad Songs Sticky Fingers  Australia
37 Smoke & Retribution Flume featuring Vince Staples and Kučka  Australia/ United States
38 Youth Glass Animals  United Kingdom
39 Step Up the Morphine DMA's  Australia
40 Surfin' Kid Cudi featuring Pharrell  United States
41 I Feel It Coming The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk  Canada/ France
42 Heartlines Broods  New Zealand
43 Final Song MØ  Denmark
44 Satan D.D Dumbo  Australia
45 Dumb Things (Like a Version) A.B. Original featuring Paul Kelly and Dan Sultan  Australia
46 Dang! Mac Miller featuring Anderson .Paak  United States
47 Walrus D.D Dumbo  Australia
48 Creepin Kingswood  Australia
49 Higher Hilltop Hoods featuring James Chatburn  Australia
50 Strange Diseases Gang of Youths  Australia
51 Outcast at Last Sticky Fingers  Australia
52 Love Yourself (Like a Version) Halsey  United States
53 Blanket Violent Soho  Australia
54 Bored to Death Blink-182  United States
55 Say a Prayer for Me Rüfüs  Australia
56 Keeping Score (Like a Version) Paces featuring Guy Sebastian  Australia
57 Twice Catfish and the Bottlemen  United Kingdom
58 Girlie Bits Ali Barter  Australia
59 Solo Frank Ocean  United States
60 Drinkee Sofi Tukker  Germany/ United States
61 Gamma Knife King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard  Australia
62 Marinade Dope Lemon  Australia
63 Life Itself Glass Animals  United Kingdom
64 Alaska Maggie Rogers  United States
65 All Fucked Up The Amity Affliction  Australia
66 Hold Up Beyoncé  United States
67 I Bring the Weather with Me The Amity Affliction  Australia
68 Next to You L D R U featuring Savoi  Australia
69 So Sentimental Violent Soho  Australia
70 Wolfie Golden Features featuring Julia Stone  Australia
71 Free Broods  New Zealand
72 Famous Kanye West  United States
73 No Shade Violent Soho  Australia
74 Lost: Season One Camp Cope  Australia
75 Because I'm Me The Avalanches  Australia
76 This Could Be Heartbreak The Amity Affliction  Australia
77 Soundcheck Catfish and the Bottlemen  United Kingdom
78 Settle Vera Blue  Australia
79 Burn the Witch Radiohead  United Kingdom
80 Gemini Feed Banks  United States
81 Panda Desiigner  United States
82 Think About It Thundamentals featuring Peta & the Wolves  Australia
83 Simulation Tkay Maidza  Australia
84 Pink + White Frank Ocean  United States
85 My Love Is Gone Safia  Australia
86 Dopamine Bliss n Eso featuring Thief  Australia
87 Uptown Folks Dope Lemon  Australia
88 Me and Your Mama Childish Gambino  United States
89 Over You Safia  Australia
90 Anything Near Conviction Luca Brasi  Australia
91 Subways The Avalanches  Australia
92 How to Taste Violent Soho  Australia
93 High and Low Empire of the Sun  Australia
94 Fading Vallis Alps  Australia
95 Lose It Flume featuring Vic Mensa  Australia/ United States
96 Hanging by a Thread Elk Road featuring Natalie Foster  Australia
97 You Don't Think You Like People Like Me Alex Lahey  Australia
98 Season 2 Episode 3 Glass Animals  United Kingdom
99 Too Good Drake featuring Rihanna  Canada/ Barbados
100 Brace Birds of Tokyo  Australia

Artists with multiple entries[]

Five entries[]

  • Violent Soho (14, 53, 69, 73, 92)

Four entries[]

Three entries[]

Two entries[]

Countries represented[]

  •  Australia – 66[1]
  •  United States – 21
  •  United Kingdom – 12
  •  Canada – 5
  •  Sweden – 3
  •  France – 2
  •  Germany – 2
  •  New Zealand – 2
  •  Barbados – 1
  •  Denmark – 1
  •  Nigeria – 1

Notes[]

  • The four highest-ranked tracks in the 2016 Hottest 100 were all by Australian artists (excluding the vocal feature of Canadian singer Kai on "Never Be like You"), which marks the longest continuous streak of Australians at the countdown's top, and the first time that the top four songs were by artists from the same country.
  • The 2016 list includes four covers recorded for Triple J's Like a Version: the DMA's cover of Cher; the A.B. Original cover of Paul Kelly; the Halsey cover of Justin Bieber; and the Paces cover of L D R U. This breaks the record of three Like a Version covers set by Chet Faker, Chvrches, and Meg Mac in 2014.
  • Nine songs in a row were by Australian artists in 2016, between positions #97 and #89, breaking the longest run of eight consecutive Australian songs set in 1999, 2012, and 2014.
  • Paul Kelly's feature on the A.B. Original cover of "Dumb Things" set the record for the longest absence between countdowns; Kelly last appeared in the 2000 countdown.
    • Earlier in the same countdown, The Avalanches' "Subways" broke the prior record of 13 years for the longest absence between countdowns; they last appeared in 2001.
  • The 2016 list features 11 different nationalities, equaling the record set in 1994 and 2015.
    • Wizkid's feature on "One Dance" made him Nigeria's first artist to appear in a Hottest 100, and the Hottest 100's first artist representing an African nation since Angélique Kidjo in 1996.
    • Rihanna's feature on "Too Good" allowed for the first ever appearance of the established pop star, and of an artist from Barbados, in a Hottest 100.
  • Five of Violent Soho's tracks feature in the countdown, making them the first artist with over four tracks in one countdown since Hilltop Hoods in 2006.
  • The song "Keeping Score" by L D R U made the countdown for the second consecutive year with a cover by Paces and Guy Sebastian.
  • This countdown marks the first time the top three tracks have featured female vocalists.
  • Gretta Ray's entry in the countdown with her song "Drive" at #27 marks the best Hottest 100 performance by an Unearthed High winner.

Top 10 Albums of 2016[]

The annual Triple J album poll was held in December and announced on 18 December.[16] J Award winner D.D Dumbo missed out on the top 10, with his album Utopia Defeated coming in 11th place.

Note: Australian artists

Bold indicates winner.

# Artist Album Country of origin Tracks in the Hottest 100
1 Violent Soho Waco  Australia 14, 53, 69, 73, 92, (15 in 2015)
2 Flume Skin  Australia 1, 8, 37, 95
3 The Avalanches Wildflower  Australia 28, 75, 91
4 Rüfüs Bloom  Australia 30, 55 (12, 28 in 2015)
5 Ball Park Music Every Night the Same Dream  Australia DNC (141, 143, 156 in Hottest 200)
6 Sticky Fingers Westway (The Glitter & the Slums)  Australia 29, 36, 51
7 DMA's Hills End  Australia 39, (77 in 2015), (48 in 2014)
8 Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool  United Kingdom 79
9 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity  Australia 61
10 Frank Ocean Blonde  United States 59, 84

References[]

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  8. ^ "Presenter Votes | Hottest 100 2016". ABC. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
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  10. ^ "Is This The Last Year We Hear The Hottest 100 On 26 January?". themusic.com.au. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  11. ^ Steph Harmon (24 January 2017). "Change the Date: hip-hop artists collaborate on new Australia Day track". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  12. ^ "Triple J Hottest 100 Betting Odds - Flume shortest favourite in history at $1.40". Bettingpro. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  13. ^ "Triple J Hottest 100 - Best Song Betting Odds". Odds Checker. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  14. ^ "Could Amy Shark or Flume reach No. 1 on this year's Hottest 100?". Herald Sun. 23 January 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
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