Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s

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The Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s was held on the 14 March 2020. It is a countdown of the most popular songs of the 2010s as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. 1.8 million votes were cast by listeners choosing their top ten songs of the decade.[1]

Tame Impala's "The Less I Know the Better" was voted into first place.

Background[]

Triple J's Hottest 100 of the 2010s allowed members of the public to vote online for their top ten songs of the decade, which were then used to calculate the decade's 100 most popular songs. Any song initially released between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019 was eligible for the decade's Hottest 100.

On 23 January 2020, Triple J first announced that a 2010s countdown would take place. Voting opened on 11 February 2020,[2][3] and closed on 9 March 2020. Between 10 and 13 March, Triple J presenters Lucy Smith, Lewis Hobba, and Michael Hing progressively announced the songs that ranked between #200 and #101 in the countdown.[4] Voting in recent countdowns has been restricted to the preceding year. There have been some exceptions, namely the Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time in 2011, and the Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years in 2013. This is the first countdown that charts the best songs of a decade.

Projections[]

Based on media reports following the announcement of the existence of the countdown, some of the most frequently mentioned contenders are Frank Ocean, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Flume, and Beyoncé.[5][6][7][8][9] Once voting closed, bookmakers' three most likely songs to take #1 were Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" (featuring Kimbra), Arctic Monkeys' "Do I Wanna Know?" and Rüfüs' "Innerbloom", both behind Gotye.[10][11]

Full list[]

Note: Australian artists
# Song Artist Country of origin Year Annual Hottest 100 position
1 The Less I Know the Better Tame Impala  Australia 2015 4
2 Somebody That I Used to Know Gotye featuring Kimbra  Australia/ New Zealand 2011 1
3 Do I Wanna Know? Arctic Monkeys  United Kingdom 2013 4
4 Covered in Chrome Violent Soho  Australia 2013 14
5 Innerbloom Rüfüs Du Sol  Australia 2015 —
6 Magnolia Gang of Youths  Australia 2015 21
7 Pumped Up Kicks Foster the People  United States 2010 32
8 Never Be like You Flume featuring Kai  Australia/ Canada 2016 1
9 Big Jet Plane Angus & Julia Stone  Australia 2010 1
10 Brother Matt Corby  Australia 2011 3
11 Talk Is Cheap Chet Faker  Australia 2014 1
12 Breezeblocks Alt-J  United Kingdom 2012 3
13 Riptide Vance Joy  Australia 2013 1
14 Runaway Kanye West featuring Pusha T  United States 2010 14
15 Australia Street Sticky Fingers  Australia 2013 70
16 Royals Lorde  New Zealand 2013 2
17 It's Nice to Be Alive Ball Park Music  Australia 2011 31
18 Holdin On Flume  Australia 2012 4
19 Let Me Down Easy Gang of Youths  Australia 2017 2
20 Cosby Sweater Hilltop Hoods  Australia 2014 3
21 Delete DMA's  Australia 2014 48
22 Midnight City M83  France 2011 5
23 King Kunta Kendrick Lamar  United States 2015 2
24 Niggas in Paris Kanye West and Jay-Z  United States 2011 98
25 Clair de Lune Flight Facilities featuring Christine Hoberg  Australia/ United States 2012 17
26 Let It Happen Tame Impala  Australia 2015 5
27 3005 Childish Gambino  United States 2013 43
28 Redbone Childish Gambino  United States 2016 5
29 Video Games Lana Del Rey  United States 2011 6
30 Little Talks Of Monsters and Men  Iceland 2012 2
31 Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) The Wombats  United Kingdom 2010 8
32 High Peking Duk featuring Nicole Millar  Australia 2014 2
33 Rum Rage Sticky Fingers  Australia 2014 —
34 Lost Frank Ocean  United States 2012 8
35 Confidence Ocean Alley  Australia 2018 1
36 1955 Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Tom Thum  Australia 2016 4
37 Stolen Dance Milky Chance  Germany 2014 4
38 Levels Avicii  Sweden 2011 —
39 Crave You Flight Facilities featuring Giselle Rosselli  Australia 2010 19
40 Latch Disclosure featuring Sam Smith  United Kingdom 2012 21
41 Believe (Like a Version) DMA's  Australia 2016 6
42 R U Mine? Arctic Monkeys  United Kingdom 2012 40
43 Chateau Angus & Julia Stone  Australia 2017 3
44 Shake It Out Florence and the Machine  United Kingdom 2011 13
45 Lonely Boy The Black Keys  United States 2011 2
46 Hoops The Rubens  Australia 2015 1
47 I Will Wait Mumford & Sons  United Kingdom 2012 5
48 HyperParadise (Flume Remix) Hermitude  Australia 2012 18
49 Jungle Tash Sultana  Australia 2016 3
50 Get Lucky Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams  France/ United States 2013 3
51 Adore Amy Shark  Australia 2016 2
52 The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows Gang of Youths  Australia 2017 5
53 Chandelier Sia  Australia 2014 9
54 Tongue Tied Grouplove  United States 2011 16
55 Bangarang Skrillex featuring Sirah  United States 2012 25
56 Thrift Shop Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz  United States 2012 1
57 Humble Kendrick Lamar  United States 2017 1
58 Gold Snafu Sticky Fingers  Australia 2014 20
59 Teenage Crime Adrian Lux  Sweden 2010 6
60 Swimming Pools (Drank) Kendrick Lamar  United States 2012 71
61 Green Light Lorde  New Zealand 2017 6
62 Thinkin Bout You Frank Ocean  United States 2012 56
63 The Buzz Hermitude featuring Mataya and Young Tapz  Australia 2015 8
64 Innerbloom (What So Not remix) Rüfüs Du Sol  Australia 2016 30
65 Feels Like We Only Go Backwards Tame Impala  Australia 2012 9
66 Elephant Tame Impala  Australia 2012 7
67 I Love It Hilltop Hoods featuring Sia  Australia 2011 10
68 212 Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay  United States/ Belgium 2011 —
69 Drop the Game Flume and Chet Faker  Australia 2013 5
70 7 Catfish and the Bottlemen  United Kingdom 2016 19
71 Bad Guy Billie Eilish  United States 2019 1
72 Monster Kanye West featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver  United States 2010 88
73 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? Arctic Monkeys  United Kingdom 2013 6
74 Dancing on My Own Robyn  Sweden 2010 —
75 Feel So Close Calvin Harris  United Kingdom 2011 11
76 Sicko Mode Travis Scott  United States 2018 3
77 Black Skinhead Kanye West  United States 2013 20
78 Awkward San Cisco  Australia 2011 7
79 Charlie Mallrat  Australia 2019 3
80 Ultralight Beam Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price and Kirk Franklin  United States 2016 22
81 Come On Mess Me Up Cub Sport  Australia 2016 24
82 On Top Flume featuring T.Shirt  Australia 2012 67
83 Painkiller Ruel  Australia 2019 22
84 Dinosaurs Ruby Fields  Australia 2018 9
85 No Role Modelz J. Cole  United States 2015 —
86 Greek Tragedy The Wombats  United Kingdom 2015 29
87 Resolution Matt Corby  Australia 2013 8
88 Gooey Glass Animals  United Kingdom 2014 12
89 Undercover Martyn Two Door Cinema Club  United Kingdom 2010 21
90 This Is America Childish Gambino  United States 2018 4
91 Loving Is Easy Rex Orange County featuring Benny Sings  United Kingdom/ Netherlands 2017 —
92 M.A.A.D City Kendrick Lamar featuring MC Eiht  United States 2012 —
93 Sleepless Flume featuring Jezzabell Doran  Australia 2012 12
94 Is This How You Feel? The Preatures  Australia 2013 9
95 Losing It Fisher  Australia 2018 2
96 Get Free Major Lazer featuring Amber Coffman  United States 2012 6
97 Rolling in the Deep Adele  United Kingdom 2010 —
98 You & Me (Flume Remix) Disclosure featuring Eliza Doolittle  United Kingdom/ Australia 2013 63
99 Dazed & Confused Ruel  Australia 2018 89
100 Holocene Bon Iver  United States 2011 53

Countries represented[]

  •  Australia – 50[12]
  •  United States – 28
  •  United Kingdom – 15
  •  New Zealand – 3
  •  Sweden – 3
  •  France – 2
  •  Belgium – 1
  •  Canada – 1
  •  Germany – 1
  •  Iceland – 1
  •  Netherlands – 1

Artists with multiple entries[]

Seven entries[]

  • Flume (four times solo, once with Chet Faker and two remixes; 8, 18, 48, 69, 82, 93, 98)

Five entries[]

Four entries[]

Three entries[]

Two entries[]

Songs by year[]

Year Number of songs
2010 9
2011 15
2012 19
2013 13
2014 11
2015 8
2016 10
2017 6
2018 6
2019 3

Notes[]

  • Including remixes and a collaboration, Australian producer Flume had seven tracks voted into the countdown. No artist has achieved more tracks in a Hottest 100 countdown since The Cure's nine in 1991's Hottest 100 of All Time.
  • Nine songs appeared in the countdown that have never appeared previously in a Hottest 100:[1] Rüfüs Du Sol's "Innerbloom", Sticky Fingers' "Rum Rage", Avicii's "Levels", Azealia Banks' "212", Robyn's "Dancing on My Own", J. Cole's "No Role Modelz", Rex Orange County's "Loving Is Easy", Kendrick Lamar's "M.A.A.D City", and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep".
    • Azealia Banks, Rex Orange County, and Adele marked their first ever appearance in any Hottest 100 countdown.[13]
    • Some of these tracks narrowly missed the top 100 in their annual countdowns, including "Innerbloom" (#103 in 2015),[14] "Loving is Easy" (#107 in 2017),[15] and "Rum Rage" (#124 in 2014).[16]
  • Twelve songs appeared at a higher position than their initial annual countdown.[1] The biggest jumps were: Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Niggas in Paris" (up 74 places from #98 in 2011 to #24); and Sticky Fingers' "Australia Street" (up 55 places from #70 in 2013 to #15).
  • Considering the annual Hottest 100 countdowns between 2010 and 2019, all songs that hit #1 in this period made it into the Hottest 100 of the Decade, while two out of the ten songs that formerly reached #2 narrowly missed out: Little Red's "Rock It" (#113) from 2010, and Flume's "Rushing Back" (#152) from 2019.[17]
  • With some earlier all-time Hottest 100s drawing criticism for being male-dominated (particularly 2009, which featured only two songs with female lead vocalists and 8 with female band members),[18] the Hottest 100 of the Decade demonstrated greater gender equality, featuring 13 songs by solo or lead female vocalists (Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Florence and The Machine, Amy Shark, Sia, Azealia Banks, Billie Eilish, Robyn, Mallrat, Ruby Fields, The Preatures, and Adele), 14 songs with featured female vocalists (Kimbra, Kai, Christine Hoberg, Nicole Millar, Montaigne, Giselle Rosselli, Sirah, Mataya, Sia, Nicki Minaj, Kelly Price, Jezzabell Doran, Amber Coffman and Eliza Doolittle), three with female co-vocalists (Of Monsters And Men, Grouplove, and San Cisco), two with uncredited female vocals (Avicii's "Levels" and Adrian Lux's "Teenage Crime") and three songs with female band members (Angus and Julia Stone and Ball Park Music). The countdown also featured three songs by non-binary gender vocalists (Sam Smith, Tash Sultana, and Cub Sport's Tim Nelson[19]).


References[]

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  19. ^ "Updated: Cub Sport's Tim Nelson comes out as gender 'free' ahead of new album and tour". 4 March 2020.
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