Triple J Hottest 100, 2020

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2020 Triple J Hottest 100
Triple J Hottest 100 Vol 28 CD.jpg
Album artwork for the CD compilation
Countdown details
Date of countdown23 January 2021
Charity partnerLifeline
Countdown highlights
Winning songGlass Animals United Kingdom ("Heat Waves")
Most entriesLime Cordiale (5) Australia
Chronology
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The 2020 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 23 January 2021.[1] It is the 28th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. The countdown was announced on the fourth weekend of January.

English band Glass Animals was voted into first place with their single "Heat Waves", becoming the first British act to top the annual list in 11 years - since Mumford & Sons won the 2009 countdown with "Little Lion Man". Australian band Lime Cordiale achieved the most entries in the countdown, at five.

Background[]

Triple J's Hottest 100 allows members of the public to vote online for their top ten songs of the year, which are then used to calculate the year's 100 most popular songs. Any song initially released between 1 December 2019 and 30 November 2020 was eligible for 2020's Hottest 100.

Voting opened on 8 December 2020. Several artists and presenters made their votes public, including Billie Eilish, Flume, and Glass Animals. The artists most often voted for by these artists were Tkay Maidza, Tame Impala, Spacey Jane, and The Strokes.[2]

Projections[]

Prior to the countdown, two favourites had emerged. Various music blogs and bookmakers placed "Heat Waves" by English psych-pop band Glass Animals and "Booster Seat" by Australian indie-rock band Spacey Jane as the two songs most likely to take first place.[3] Glass Animals previously placed 12th in 2014, also ranking in the top 40 in 2016 and 2019; while Spacey Jane debuted at 80th in 2019. Both songs respectively placed in first and second on the countdown.

Full list[]

Note: Australian artists
# Song Artist Country of origin
1 Heat Waves Glass Animals  United Kingdom
2 Booster Seat Spacey Jane  Australia
3 The Difference Flume and Toro y Moi  Australia/ United States
4 Cherub Ball Park Music  Australia
5 Lost in Yesterday Tame Impala  Australia
6 WAP Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion  United States
7 Hyperfine G Flip  Australia
8 Sending Me Ur Loving The Jungle Giants  Australia
9 I'm Good? Hilltop Hoods  Australia
10 Therefore I Am Billie Eilish  United States
11 On Our Own Lime Cordiale  Australia
12 Get on the Beers Mashd N Kutcher featuring Dan Andrews  Australia
13 Rockstar Mallrat  Australia
14 Tombstone Ocean Alley  Australia
15 Skin Spacey Jane  Australia
16 Screw Loose Lime Cordiale  Australia
17 Is It True Tame Impala  Australia
18 Tangerine Glass Animals  United Kingdom
19 You Should Be Sad Halsey  United States
20 Addicted to the Sunshine Lime Cordiale  Australia
21 Energy Stace Cadet and KLP  Australia
22 Complicated Eves Karydas  Australia
23 Good News Mac Miller  United States
24 Blue World Mac Miller  United States
25 Reality Check Please Lime Cordiale  Australia
26 No Plans to Make Plans Lime Cordiale  Australia
27 Under the Thunder Skegss  Australia
28 Straightfaced Spacey Jane  Australia
29 Dribble Sycco  Australia
30 Bagi-la-m Bargan Birdz featuring Fred Leone  Australia
31 Reasons San Cisco  Australia
32 Criminals DMA's  Australia
33 Breathe Deeper Tame Impala  Australia
34 Everybody Rise Amy Shark  Australia
35 Running Red Lights The Avalanches featuring Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu  Australia/ United States
36 Forget Me Too Machine Gun Kelly featuring Halsey  United States
37 So Done The Kid Laroi  Australia
38 Parasite Eve Bring Me the Horizon  United Kingdom
39 Righteous Juice Wrld  United States
40 Come & Go Juice Wrld and Marshmello  United States
41 I Still Dream About You The Smith Street Band  Australia
42 Whats Poppin Jack Harlow  United States
43 Together Ziggy Alberts  Australia
44 You & I G Flip  Australia
45 As Long as You Care Ruel  Australia
46 Pretty Lady Tash Sultana  Australia
47 Animals Architects  United Kingdom
48 Ain't It Different Headie One, AJ Tracey and Stormzy  United Kingdom
49 Wishing Well Juice Wrld  United States
50 Nothing to Love About Love Peking Duk and The Wombats  Australia/ United Kingdom
51 Your Love (Déjà Vu) Glass Animals  United Kingdom
52 The Glow DMA's  Australia
53 In Your Eyes The Weeknd  Canada
54 Blue (Flume Remix) Eiffel 65  Italy/ Australia
55 I Think You're Great Alex the Astronaut  Australia
56 On the Line San Cisco  Australia
57 Sobercoaster Beddy Rays  Australia
58 Fly Away Tones and I  Australia
59 Gimme Love Joji  Japan
60 Go The Kid Laroi and Juice Wrld  Australia/ United States
61 Pretty Grim Ruby Fields  Australia
62 Run Joji  Japan
63 Day & Age Ball Park Music  Australia
64 Soak Me in Bleach The Amity Affliction  Australia
65 C'mon Amy Shark featuring Travis Barker  Australia/ United States
66 Fantasising Skegss  Australia
67 Boss Bitch Doja Cat  United States
68 Lie to Me Vera Blue  Australia
69 Second Hope D  Australia
70 Low Chet Faker  Australia
71 Obey Bring Me the Horizon and Yungblud  United Kingdom
72 Way Down Ocean Alley  Australia
73 Don't Need You Genesis Owusu  Ghana/ Australia
74 Scream Drive Faster Laurel  United Kingdom
75 Photo ID Remi Wolf  United States
76 Baby It's You London Grammar  United Kingdom
77 House Arrest Sofi Tukker and Gorgon City  United States/ United Kingdom
78 Lady Marmalade (Like a Version) G Flip  Australia
79 My Future Billie Eilish  United States
80 Freaks Fisher  Australia
81 Weightless Spacey Jane  Australia
82 The Clap The Chats  Australia
83 Down for You Cosmo's Midnight and Ruel  Australia
84 Chicken Tenders Dominic Fike  United States
85 Too Tough Terry Dune Rats  Australia
86 Laugh Now Cry Later Drake featuring Lil Durk  Canada/ United States
87 Three Leaf Clover Teenage Joans  Australia
88 Heart Attack Bronson featuring Lau.ra  Australia/ United States/ United Kingdom
89 In Her Eyes The Jungle Giants  Australia
90 No Time to Die Billie Eilish  United States
91 Charlie (Like a Version) Bugs  Australia
92 These Days Thelma Plum  Australia
93 Lemonade Internet Money and Gunna featuring Don Toliver and Nav  United States/ Canada
94 Rain Aitch and AJ Tracey featuring Tay Keith  United Kingdom/ United States
95 Loose Ends Illy featuring G Flip  Australia
96 Germaphobe Hockey Dad  Australia
97 Audacity Stormzy featuring Headie One  United Kingdom
98 Your Man Joji  Japan
99 Itch Hockey Dad  Australia
100 Kool Benee  New Zealand

Countries represented[]

  •  Australia – 66[4]
  •  United States – 24
  •  United Kingdom – 14
  •  Canada – 3
  •  Japan – 3
  •  Ghana – 1
  •  Italy – 1
  •  New Zealand – 1

Artists with multiple entries[]

Five entries[]

Four entries[]

  • Spacey Jane (2, 15, 28, 81)
  • G Flip (three times solo and once with Illy) (7, 44, 78, 95)
  • Juice Wrld (twice solo, once as co-lead artist, and once with the Kid Laroi) (39, 40, 49, 60)

Three entries[]

Two entries[]

Notes[]

  • With 66 tracks by Australian artists, the 2020 countdown ties 2016's record for the most Australian tracks in a single countdown.
  • Two artists, Peking Duk and DMA's, appeared in their seventh consecutive annual Hottest 100.[4] In doing so, ties them for the 2nd longest consecutive streak alongside Regurgitator between 1995 and 2001, The Whitlams between 1996 and 2002 and Something For Kate between 1997 and 2003. They sit only 3 behind The Living End, whose tracks featured for ten years in a row between 1997 and 2006.
  • With "I'm Good?" being voted in at number 9, Hilltop Hoods marked their 22nd track to appear in an annual Hottest 100, equaling the record currently shared by Powderfinger and Foo Fighters.[5]
  • This year's countdown included six songs from Indigenous Australian artists, surpassing 2019's record of five.[6] Gamilaraay man The Kid Laroi featured twice, while there was one track each from: Torres Strait Islander woman Sycco; Butchulla/Nguburinji man Birdz; Beddy Rays, who are fronted by Wapabara man Jackson Van Issum; and Gamilaraay woman Thelma Plum.
  • At number 6, "WAP" became the first song by a female rapper to enter the top 10, with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion becoming the highest charting women of colour in Hottest 100 history.
  • At number 49 with their track "Pretty Lady", Tash Sultana is the first openly non-binary artist to feature in the countdown. Sultana has previously featured in the Hottest 100, with two songs in the 2016 countdown including the number three spot with "Jungle". Sam Smith had featured on two tracks by Disclosure prior to their coming out.
  • Juice Wrld, who died in December 2019, was posthumously voted into the countdown four times: at number 39 on "Righteous", at number 40 with Marshmello on "Come & Go", at number 49 with "Wishing Well", and at number 60 with the Kid Laroi on "Go".
  • Mac Miller, who died in September 2018, was also posthumously voted into the countdown, appearing at numbers 23 and 24 with "Good News" and "Blue World", respectively. Miller was also the first deceased artist to feature on the countdown since Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, having previously been voted in at number 60 in the 2018 countdown with "Ladders".
  • Tash Sultana, who identifies as non-binary[7] (and uses the pronoun they),[8] is the only artist who identifies as neither male nor female to feature. They came in at number 46 with "Pretty Lady". Sultana has previously featured in the countdown, with "Jungle" appearing at number 3 in the 2016 countdown. Sultana is the most successful gender-diverse artist in the history of the Hottest 100. (G Flip, who appeared in the 2018, 2019 and 2020 countdowns, came out as non-binary in 2021.[9])
  • Flume became the first artist to have appeared in each of the top 5 spots of the countdown across the years. "Never Be Like You" placed first in 2016, "Rushing Back" came second in 2019, "The Difference" placed third in 2020, "Holdin' On" placed fourth in 2012 and "Drop the Game" placed fifth in 2013.

Top 10 Albums of 2020[]

The annual Triple J album poll was held across November and December and was announced on 13 December 2020.

Note: Australian artists
# Artist Album Country of origin Tracks in the Hottest 100
1 Spacey Jane Sunlight  Australia 2, 15, 28, 81, (80 in 2019)
2 Lime Cordiale 14 Steps to a Better You  Australia 11, 16, 20, 25, 26, (86 in 2018, 7, 13, 32 in 2019)
3 Tame Impala The Slow Rush  Australia 5, 17, 33, (18, 43 in 2019)
4 Ball Park Music Ball Park Music  Australia 4, 63
5 Hockey Dad Brain Candy  Australia 96, 99, (60 in 2019)
6 DMA's The Glow  Australia 32, 52, (20 in 2019)
7 Ocean Alley Lonely Diamond  Australia 14, 72, (24, 54 in 2019)
8 Glass Animals Dreamland  United Kingdom 1, 18, 51, (34 in 2019)
9 San Cisco Between You and Me  Australia 31, 56, (48 in 2018, 97 in 2019)
10 Violent Soho Everything Is A-OK  Australia (69 in 2019)

References[]

  1. ^ "Hottest 100 2020". Triple J. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  2. ^ Newstead, Al (8 December 2020). "Hottest 100 #votespiration: Here's what Billie Eilish, Flume, Mallrat & more are voting for". triple j. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Hottest 100 2020". Sportsbet.com.au. Retrieved 2 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b Fuamoli, Sose (January 22, 2021). "Get a taste of tomorrow's Hottest 100 with these teaser stats". triple j.
  5. ^ "Triple J's Hottest 100 Archive Search". 11 November 2017.
  6. ^ Newstead, Al (23 January 2021). "Hottest 100 by the numbers: Stats fakin' me out". Triple J.
  7. ^ "Pride Month 2020: A celebration of the non-binary artist Tash Sultana and their vibrant musical career".
  8. ^ "Pride Month 2020: A celebration of the non-binary artist Tash Sultana and their vibrant musical career".
  9. ^ Morrison-Thiagu, Saskia (13 June 2021). "Aussie Music Legend G Flip Has Come Out As Non-Binary & We're So Flipping Happy For Them". Pedestrian.tv. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
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