The 2022
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 ...
was announced on 28 January 2023.
It was the 30th annual countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as voted for by listeners of
Australian
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* Australia, a country
* Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia
** European Australians
** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists
** Aboriginal Aus ...
radio station
triple j
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. The day before, the Hottest 200 played, counting down songs 200–101. Merchandise sales from the event supported the
Australian Conservation Foundation
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is Australia's national environmental organisation, launched in 1965 in response to a proposal by the World Wide Fund for Nature for a more co-ordinated approach to sustainability.
One high-profi ...
.
Australian musician
Flume
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's song "
Say Nothing" featuring
May-a was voted into first place.
Australian band
Spacey Jane
Spacey Jane are an Australian indie rock band formed in Fremantle , Fremantle, Western Australia in 2016. The group consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Caleb Harper, lead guitarist Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu, drummer Kieran Lama and bassist P ...
had the most entries, with six, including three in the top 10. Over 2.4 million votes were submitted, and 57 entries in the countdown originated from Australian artists.
Background
Any song initially released between 1 December 2021 and 30 November 2022 was eligible for the triple j Hottest 100 of 2022. The
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 ...
allows members of the public to
vote online for their top ten songs of the year, which are then used to calculate the year's 100 most popular songs. Voting opened on 13 December 2022, and closed on 23 January 2023.
The
2021 triple j Hottest 100 culminated with
the Wiggles
The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney in 1991. As of 2022, the group members are Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce, Tsehay Hawkins, Evie Ferris, John Pearce (entertainer), John Pearce, Caterina Mete ...
' ''
Like a Version
''Like a Version'' is a long-running weekly segment on Australian youth radio station Triple J. It involves musicians playing two songs live in the Triple J studio, one of their own songs and then a cover version.
The series was created by pres ...
'' cover of
Tame Impala
Tame Impala is the psychedelic music project of Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker (musician), Kevin Parker. In the recording studio, Parker writes, records, performs, and produces all of the project's music. As a touring a ...
's "
Elephant
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" reaching number one. Over $1.2 million was raised for crisis support organisation
Lifeline, the countdown's partner.
Projections
On 10 January 2023, triple j announced there were fewer than 125 votes separating the top two songs.
Online database 100 Warm Tunas, "the internet's most accurate prediction" of Hottest 100 results, was favouring "
In the Wake of Your Leave" by Australian alternative rock band
Gang of Youths
Gang of Youths are an Australian alternative rock band, which formed in 2012. Since 2020, the group consists of David Le'aupepe on lead vocals, rhythm guitar and piano, Max Dunn on bass guitar, Jung Kim on guitar and keyboards, Donnie Borzesto ...
to take the top spot, followed by "
Hardlight
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Founded by Sega employee Chris ...
" by
Fremantle
Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australi ...
-based rock band
Spacey Jane
Spacey Jane are an Australian indie rock band formed in Fremantle , Fremantle, Western Australia in 2016. The group consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Caleb Harper, lead guitarist Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu, drummer Kieran Lama and bassist P ...
and "Stars in My Eyes" by
Brisbane
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-based pop rock band
Ball Park Music
Ball Park Music is an Australian five-piece indie rock band from Brisbane consisting of Sam Cromack, Jennifer Boyce, Paul Furness, Dean Hanson and Daniel Hanson. Since forming in 2008, the band has released eight studio albums. Their debut, '' ...
.
The former two bands also had major wins in the triple j Album Poll and the
2022 J Awards
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Triple J is an Australian government-funded national radio station founded in 1975 as a division ...
respectively. On the day of the countdown,
Sportsbet had English DJs
Eliza Rose and
Interplanetary Criminal's "
B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All)" and Australian producer
Flume
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's "
Say Nothing" as the most likely to win outright.
Full list
#101–200 list
On 29 January 2023, Triple J announced the songs that made the #101–200 positions.
Countries represented
Artists with multiple entries
2022 Triple J Album Poll
Voting for the triple j Album Poll was held across November and December and was announced on 11 December 2022.
Indie rock
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band Spacey Jane topped the poll for the second time, following their win with debut album ''
Sunlight
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'' in 2020. ''
Weirder & Weirder'' at second place and ''
The Car'' at ninth mark both
Ball Park Music
Ball Park Music is an Australian five-piece indie rock band from Brisbane consisting of Sam Cromack, Jennifer Boyce, Paul Furness, Dean Hanson and Daniel Hanson. Since forming in 2008, the band has released eight studio albums. Their debut, '' ...
's and
Arctic Monkeys
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' seventh appearances each in the annual poll, with every prior studio album from both bands making an appearance in past polls.
For the first time in a Triple J album poll, two albums were tired in a single position, with Steve Lacy and The 1975 sharing the #13 position.
Bold indicates winner of the Hottest 100. Gang of Youths won the J Award for ''Angel in Realtime.''
Minor statistics
*
Flume
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is the second artist behind
Powderfinger
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to win the Hottest 100 for a second time.
* With
Hilltop Hoods
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being voted into the countdown twice, this marks their 22nd and 23rd appearances in a Hottest 100, overtaking Powderfinger and
Foo Fighters
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' 22 appearances each to become the most featured artist in Hottest 100 history.
* With
Spacey Jane
Spacey Jane are an Australian indie rock band formed in Fremantle , Fremantle, Western Australia in 2016. The group consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Caleb Harper, lead guitarist Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu, drummer Kieran Lama and bassist P ...
having six tracks voted into the countdown, they match an annual record set by
Wolfmother
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in the
2005 poll. The band becomes the fourth artist to place thrice in the top 10, following Powderfinger in
2003
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In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
,
Chet Faker
Nicholas James Murphy (born 23 June 1988), known professionally as Chet Faker, is an Australian singer and songwriter. In 2012, as Chet Faker, he issued an extended play, '' Thinking in Textures'', and signed to Downtown Records in the United ...
in
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 ...
, and
Gang of Youths
Gang of Youths are an Australian alternative rock band, which formed in 2012. Since 2020, the group consists of David Le'aupepe on lead vocals, rhythm guitar and piano, Max Dunn on bass guitar, Jung Kim on guitar and keyboards, Donnie Borzesto ...
in
2017
2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
; and the eighth artist in the countdown's history to have two songs poll in the top 5.
* For the second year in a row, Spacey Jane finish third in the Hottest 100. Furthermore, Spacey Jane are the first artist to feature in the top 3 of a countdown for the third consecutive year. The previous record was two consecutive years held by
The Cranberries
The Cranberries were an Irish rock music, rock band formed in Limerick in 1989. The band was composed of lead singer and guitarist Dolores O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan (Noel's brother), and drummer Fergal Lawler. O'Riord ...
(
1993
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* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
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–
94), Powderfinger (
1999–2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
),
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, in 1999. The band includes brothers Caleb, Nathan, and Jared Followill and their cousin Matthew Followill.
The band's early music was a blend of Southern roc ...
(
2007– 08) and Flume (
2019– 20)
* Ten songs in the countdown were from First Nations artists, beating the previous record of six songs in the
2020 countdown.
* For the first time since
2017
2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
,
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell ( ; born December 18, 2001) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single "Ocean Eyes (song), Ocean Eyes", written and produced by her broth ...
did not feature in the top 10.
* Six previous winners of the Hottest 100 appeared in this year's countdown –
Bernard Fanning
Bernard Joseph Fanning (born 15 August 1969) is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He was the lead vocalist of Queensland alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989.
Born and raised in Toowong, Brisbane, Fanning ...
(
2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
)
Vance Joy
James Gabriel Keogh (born 1 December 1987), known professionally as Vance Joy, is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, and former Australian rules footballer. He is best known for his 2013 hit song " Riptide".
Joy signed a five-album de ...
(
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 ...
),
The Rubens
The Rubens are an Australian alternative rock band from Menangle, New South Wales. The band comprises the three Margin brothers, Izaac, Sam and Elliott, Scott Baldwin and William Zeglis. Their debut self-titled album ''The Rubens (album), The ...
(
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
), Flume (
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
),
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. Regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time, he was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, becoming the first music ...
(
2017
2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
),
Ocean Alley (
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
) & Billie Eilish (
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
), equaling the record set in the previous year's countdown.
Notes
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