The 2015

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was announced on January 26, 2016. It is the 23rd countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station

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. Voting commenced on 9 December 2015, and closed on 22 January 2016. Voters nominated ten songs that were released between December 2014 and November 2015 and submitted them through the Triple J website. Over 2 million votes were again cast, this year from 172 countries. 54 songs in the 2015 Hottest 100 are by Australian artists, with 26 artists of any nationality making their debut. Despite a betting agency's campaign aimed at getting

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featured in the list, similar to 2014's #Tay4Hottest100, Triple J announced that no songs have been disqualified from the 2015 list.

Full list

#101–#200 List

On 31 January 2016, Triple J broadcast the second 100 songs of the countdown.

Artists with multiple entries

Countries represented

Minor statistics

* The Rubens are the first winning artist since

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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

to only feature once in the countdown. Their next closest entry was "Hallelujah" at number 121, which was announced in the "second Hottest 100" (places 200 to 101), revealed on 31 January. ** The Rubens are also the second Unearthed artist to win the Hottest 100 after Vance Joy in

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

. * Ngaiire is the first Papua New Guinean to chart in the Hottest 100 countdown. * The song "Delete" by DMA's charted in the countdown for the second year in a row after a cover by Sticky Fingers featured at number 84. Similarly "Big Jet Plane" by Angus & Julia Stone which won the countdown in

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

came in at number 81 with a cover by Tuka. * The 2015 list features 11 different nationalities, breaking the record of 10 from 2013 and

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

. * With their two entries in this year's list Flight Facilities have now had seven songs from their album ''Down to Earth'' in the countdown. This equals the record set by

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from their debut ''

''. * The song "Cream On Chrome" by Ratatat is the only instrumental song to make the countdown, and is the 5th instrumental song to appear in the Hottest 100 since

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. * "Twilight Driving" by Methyl Ethel (#97) and " Be Together" by

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featuring Wild Belle (#98) were mistakenly played in the wrong order. *

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

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. Similarly, Flight Facilities made their sixth consecutive appearance, having appeared since

CD release

Top 10 Albums of 2015

A poll of Triple J listeners' favourite albums of the year was held in December 2015. Melbourne singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett won the J Award for her album. Bold indicates winner.

Notes

References

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