The 2002

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, announced on 26 January 2003, was the tenth of such countdowns 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 39 (not necessarily the top 39) songs was released. For the first time, a DVD, containing film clips of songs from the Hottest 100 was also released. This was also the last time that phone voting was allowed; in the 2003 poll, only internet voting was permitted.

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voting was removed for the 2003 poll but was reinstated in the 2004 event When the announcers got to the number one track, they announced that rapper

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's song "

Hot in Herre "Hot in Herre" is a song by American rapper Nelly, released as the lead single from his second album, ''Nellyville'' (2002). It was released on May 7, 2002, by Universal Records. It was written by Nelly, Charles Brown, and the producers the Nept ...

" had won the Hottest 100, after playing half of the song, they declared that it had been a joke, broke the CD on air, and began playing

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's "No One Knows". The band Salmon Hater came in at number 26 with their song "6.66" after Triple J morning show hosts

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and Wil Anderson made an effort to rig the event, telling listeners to vote for the otherwise unlikely candidate.

Full list

Artists with multiple entries

Countries represented

Notes

* It was announced that song #101 was " Nothing Lasts Forever" by

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. Triple J morning show hosts

and Wil Anderson later apologized to the band, as Salmon Hater "took their spot" in the countdown. *

Grinspoon Grinspoon are an Australian rock band from Lismore, New South Wales, which formed in 1995 by Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar, Kristian Hopes on drums and frontman Phil Jamieson on vocals and guitar. Also in that year, Grinspoon ...

equal

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 ...

's record of the highest placing of a

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artist at #2. * At age 42,

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is the oldest person to win the Hottest 100. * A record low 62 different artists appeared in the 2002 Hottest 100. *

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's ten entries with

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and the

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in the 2002 countdown, sets the record for most appearances in a Hottest 100. ** Following his appearance on "

No One Knows "No One Knows" is a song by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age written by band members Josh Homme and Mark Lanegan. It was the first single and second track from their third album, ''Songs for the Deaf'', and was released on November 26, ...

" by Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl is the first artist to have won both an annual Hottest 100, as well as an "Of All Time" countdown (Grohl previously won the

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Of All Time countdowns with his appearance on "

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" by Nirvana) * " You Give Me Something" by

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charted in the countdown for the second year in a row, having featured in the 2001 Hottest 100 at #62. *

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made their eighth consecutive appearance in the Hottest 100, having appeared in every annual countdown since

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made their seventh consecutive appearance in the Hottest 100, having appeared in every annual countdown since

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. **

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and

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both made their sixth consecutive appearance, with both bands having appeared since

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Top 10 Albums of 2002

Bold indicates winner of the Hottest 100.

CD release

The double CD titled ''triple j – Hottest 100: Vol 10 Various Artists'' was released 3 March 2003. It is a compilation of 39 songs that made it into the Hottest 100.

DVD release

# Queens of the Stone Age – "No One Knows" (#1) # The Vines – "Get Free" (#5) # Coldplay – "In My Place" (#39) # Rocket Science – "Being Followed" (#91) # Sonic Animation – "I'm a DJ (Original)" (#74) # The Hives – Hate to Say I Told You So" (#33) # Salmon Hater – "6.66" (#26) # The Waifs – "London Still" (#3) # Ben Lee – "Something Borrowed, Something Blue" (#22) # N*E*R*D – "Rock Star (Jason Nevins Remix Edit)" (#46) # Groove Armada – "Purple Haze (Edit)" (#89) # Grinspoon – "Chemical Heart" (#2) # Pacifier – "Comfort Me" (#34) # Waikiki – "Here Comes September" (#36) # Antiskeptic – "Called" (#92) # The Streets – "Don't Mug Yourself" (#42) # 1200 Techniques – "Karma" (#4) # 28 Days – "What's The Deal?" (#41) # Badly Drawn Boy – "Something to Talk About" (#78) # The Living End – "One Said to the Other" (#52) # Bodyjar – "One in a Million" (#31) # Darren Hanlon – "Punk's Not Dead" (#45) # Weezer – "Keep Fishin'" (#24) # Silverchair – "The Greatest View" (#10) # Motor Ace – "Carry On" (#29) # Ms Dynamite – "Dy-Na-Mi-Tee" (#75) # The Whitlams – "Fall for You" (#40) # John Butler Trio – "Home Is Where the Heart Is" (#27) # Machine Translations – "She Wears a Mask" (#95) # Cartman – "Shock (Living Without You)" (#98) # The Drugs – "The Bold and the Beautiful" (#38) # Elvis Presley vs. JXL – "A Little Less Conversation" (#60)

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