The 2004

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was announced on 26 January 2005. It was the twelfth 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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. Voters were limited to 20 votes each: 10 via

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(charged at 30c each) and 10 via the

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(no charge). Triple J presenter Craig Reucassel encouraged voters to vote for the '' Media Watch'' theme music on the condition that his counterpart Chris Taylor would do a nude run through the

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if it made the Hottest 100. While announcing the count, Reucassel called number 7 for the Media Watch theme, initiating Taylor on a streak through the music festival. Upon Taylor's return, Reucassel explained that Media Watch was ineligible due to not being recorded in 2004 and announced the real number 7.

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was also in the studio and Reucassel goaded her into accepting a similar challenge should she win the Hottest 100. From early in the countdown, it became obvious that Franz Ferdinand's "

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" would be the clear winner of the Hottest 100. Throughout the countdown, numerous references were made to this well-established fact, including announcers sarcastically claiming "Ha-ha! You thought they'd be #1" when " The Dark of the Matinée" was played at #50 as well a mock promotional piece heard in between in which votes for other bands such as

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and Jet were ignored in favour of Franz Ferdinand. When "

" was officially announced as #1, it was reported that it had received more than double the votes of any other song. As with receiving more than double the votes, the presenters felt it sensible to also play a live version of "

" directly after the studio version played at #1. There were a record 475,000 voters that participated in the poll. As in previous years, a CD featuring 40 (not necessarily the top 40) songs was released. A DVD, containing film clips of songs from the Hottest 100 was also released. A countdown of the videos of each song was shown on the ABC music series '' Rage'' in March.

Full list

Artists with multiple entries

Countries represented

Trivia

* U2's "

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" placed at No. 38, despite having not been played on Triple J. * Two versions of "

" appeared in the countdown, the original by Franz Ferdinand at No. 1 and the

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' cover at No. 44; this is the first time it has happened since

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. ** With their covers of "Take Me Out" and "

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", the Scissor Sisters are the first band to have multiple covers feature in the same countdown. *

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

. Similarly,

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made their sixth consecutive appearance, having appeared in every annual countdown since

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. * At No. 5,

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" ties with

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's cover of "

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" as the highest ranked

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in a Hottest 100.

Top 10 Albums of 2004

Bold indicates winner of the Hottest 100.

CD release

The 2-CD set titled ''triple j – Hottest 100: Vol 12 Various Artists'' was released 2005-03-06. It is a compilation of 40 of the top 100 songs., Catalogue Number 5318135

Notes

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