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The 1999
Triple J Hottest 100 The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music poll presented by the publicly-funded Australian youth radio station Triple J. Members of the public are invited to vote for their favourite Music of Australia, Australian and alternative music of th ...
, announced in January 2000, was the seventh such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the
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n radio station
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. As in previous years, a CD featuring 36 (not necessarily the top 36) songs was released.


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* The 1999 countdown marks the first time Australia was the most represented nation in the Hottest 100. A record of 52 songs were by Australian artists. This record was equaled in the 2007 countdown, and broken in
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. ** This is also the first Hottest 100 in which the top 3 songs were from Australian artists. * " These Days" is the first
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to win the Hottest 100, it's 'a-side' "
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" came in at No 100; making
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the first artist to be voted into No. 1 and No. 100 positions of a Hottest 100. *
Killing Heidi Killing Heidi are an Australian rock band, formed in Violet Town, Victoria in 1996, initially as a folk-pop duo by siblings Ella and Jesse Hooper. The band has released three studio albums: '' Reflector'' (March 2000), which reached No.&nb ...
and The Tenants are the first Unearthed artists to appear in the Top 10 of the Hottest 100, finishing second and third respectively. Killing Heidi's second place finish set the record for the highest ranking song by an Unearthed artist. This would later be equaled by
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),
Missy Higgins Melissa Morrison "Missy" Higgins (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Her most popular singles include "Scar", " Steer", and " Where I Stood". Her Australian number-one albums are '' The Sound of White'' (2004 ...
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), and was later broken by Vance Joy who won the 2013 countdown. * There were eight songs in a row by Australian artists between positions #45 and #38. This is the longest run of Australian songs in a Hottest 100. *
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made his seventh consecutive appearance in the Hottest 100, having featured in every annual countdown to date. **
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all made their fifth consecutive appearance, having appeared since
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Top 10 Albums of 1999


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1999 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1999. Specific locations * 1999 in British music * 1999 in Norwegian music * 1999 in South Korean music Specific genres * 1999 in classical music * 1999 in country music * 1999 in ...


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