2016 Hottest 100

[jagobbin]

Seeing Illy in the predicted top 10 is disturbing. Wasn't looking for that either

My step-daughter listens to the Kyle & Jackie O show in the morning on Kiis FM and that song gets flogged to death.

 

[offtherails9]

My step-daughter listens to the Kyle & Jackie O show in the morning on Kiis FM and that song gets flogged to death.

Yeah whenever I'm forced to listen that stuff it's pretty painful. Can't understand how deadshits listen to that all day when they pretty much rotate about 10 songs on repeat

 

[Gibbsy]

Yeah whenever I'm forced to listen that stuff it's pretty painful. Can't understand how deadshits listen to that all day when they pretty much rotate about 10 songs on repeat

I have to listen to KIIS a lot at work and it's infuriating. I can understand as a commercial station they play the same new songs over and over again, but they play the same not new songs over and over as well! I've heard Rihanna - Only Girl In The World and Adam Lambert - If I Had You both at least five or six times in the past week. And I'm pretty sure they're both from like 2010 or 2011. It makes no sense. ****ing mix it up!

 

[DaRenegade]

DaRenegade, I'm not doing a count this year, first time since 2008 I've skipped it. I will make a final prediction though after voting closes based on my opinions and the counts of @Loofrundry. Are you going to put one together?

yeah I'm likely to do the same, just haven't had the time to do it like I have the last few years. gotta say, LOOFRunDry's count is interesting to say the least.

 

[thewitness]

yeah I'm likely to do the same, just haven't had the time to do it like I have the last few years. gotta say, LOOFRunDry's count is interesting to say the least.

I agree I think we might see a bigger difference between the data counts and reality this year.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Flume is criminally overrated. Most bland electronic music out there, IMO at least.

Probably a bit harsh, but I just don't understand the love his music gets at all.

Your opinion, but I like many others love his stuff!!

 

[Exports]

Oops fell into this thread. Might as well tell you all what the 10 best songs actually were last year in no particular order


Ali barter - girlie Bits

Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra

The Bennies - Detroit Rock Ciggies

Camp Cope - Done

Drapht - Mexico (ft dune rats)

Dune Rats - Bullshit

DZ Deathrays - Blood on my leather

Smith Street Band - Death to the lads

Twelve Foot Ninja - Invincible

Violent Soho - How to taste

 

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[thewitness]

Spoiler: The Witness' Final Hottest 100 Prediction

1 Flume - Never Be Like You {Ft. Kai}
2 Illy - Papercuts {Ft. Vera Blue}
3 Amy Shark - Adore
4 Hilltop Hoods - 1955 {Ft. Montaigne/Tom Thum}
5 Tash Sultana - Jungle
6 The Weeknd - Starboy {Ft. Daft Punk}
7 Flume - Say It {Ft. Tove Lo}
8 Mura Masa - Love$ick {Ft. A$ap Rocky}
9 DMA's - Believe {triple j Like A Version 2016}
10 Childish Gambino - Redbone
11 Milky Chance - Cocoon
12 MO - Final Song
13 Cub Sport - Come On Mess Me Up
14 SAFIA - Make Them Wheels Roll
15 Pnau - Chameleon
16 Peking Duk - Stranger {Ft. Elliphant}
17 Sticky Fingers - Sad Songs
18 Sticky Fingers - Our Town
19 Catfish And The Bottlemen - 7
20 Miike Snow - Genghis Khan
21 Big Scary - The Opposite Of Us
22 Luca Brasi - Anything Near Conviction
23 Drake - One Dance {Ft. Wizkid/Kyla}
24 The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra
25 Gretta Ray - Drive
26 Dune Rats - Bullshit
27 Chance The Rapper - All Night {Ft. Knox Fortune}
28 A.B. Original - January 26 {Ft. Dan Sultan}
29 Client Liaison - World Of Our Love
30 The Hard Aches - Glad That You're Gone
31 Montaigne - Because I Love You
32 Violent Soho - Viceroy
33 The xx - On Hold
34 RUFUS - Innerbloom {What So Not Remix}
35 Kingswood - Creepin
36 Broods - Free
37 Glass Animals - Youth
38 D.D Dumbo - Satan
39 Camp Cope - Lost: Season One
40 Kid Cudi - Surfin' {Ft. Pharrell Williams}
41 Flume - Smoke & Retribution {Ft. Vince Staples/KUCKA}
42 The Amity Affliction - This Could Be Heartbreak
43 Illy - Catch 22 {Ft. Anne-Marie}
44 Broods - Heartlines
45 Tash Sultana - Notion
46 Safia - My Love Is Gone
47 Blink-182 - Bored To Death
48 Sticky Fingers - Outcast At Last
49 D.D Dumbo - Walrus
50 The Weeknd - I Feel It Coming {Ft. Daft Punk}
51 Mac Miller - Dang! {Ft. Anderson .Paak}
52 DMA'S - Step Up The Morphine
53 Trophy Eyes - Chlorine
54 Desiigner - Panda
55 Halsey - Love Yourself {triple j Like A Version 2016}
56 The Amity Affliction - I Bring The Weather With Me
57 Flume - Lose It {Ft. Vic Mensa}
58 RUFUS - Say A Prayer For Me
59 Maggie Rogers - Alaska
60 The Avalanches - Because I'm Me
61 Alex Lahey - You Don't Think You Like People Like Me
62 Catfish And The Bottlemen - Twice
63 Gang Of Youths - Strange Diseases
64 L D R U - Next To You {Ft. Savoi}
65 Sofi Tukker - Drinkee
66 Birds Of Tokyo - Brace
67 Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
68 Glass Animals - Life Itself
69 Ali Barter - Girlie Bits
70 Banks - Gemini Feed
71 SAFIA - Over You
72 Paces - Keeping Score {Ft. Guy Sebastian} {triple j Like A version 2106}
73 Hilltop Hoods - Higher {Ft. James Chatburn}
74 Bliss N Eso - Dopamine {Ft. Thief}
75 A.B. Original - Dumb Things {Ft. Paul Kelly/Dan Sultan} {Live A Version 2016}
76 The Amity Affliction - All ****ed Up
77 Violent Soho - Blanket
78 The Smith Street Band - Death To The Lads
79 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife
80 Dope Lemon - Marinade
81 Empire Of The Sun - High And Low
82 Tkay Maidza - Simulation
83 Luca Brasi - How To Make Gravy {triple j Like A Version 2016}
84 Rudimental - Healing {Ft. J Angel}
85 Vera Blue - Settle
86 Camp Cope - Done
87 Hayden James - Just A Lover
88 What So Not & GANZ - Lone {Ft. JOY.}
89 Allday - Sides {Ft. NYNE}
90 Mura Masa - What If I Go {Ft. Bonzai}
91 The Avalanches - Subways
92 Dope Lemon - Uptown Folks
93 Glass Animals - Season 2 Episode 3
94 Frank Ocean - Solo
95 Elk Road - Hanging By A Thread {Ft. Natalie Foster}
96 Catfish And The Bottlemen - Soundcheck
97 Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter
98 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - People-Vultures
99 Flume - Numb & Getting Colder {Ft. KUCKA}
100 Sarah Blasko - Life On Mars {triple j Like A Version 2016}
101 Montaigne - Till It Kills Me

 

[DaRenegade]

1. Flume - Never Be Like You (ft. Kai)
2. Amy Adore - Shark
3. The Weeknd - Starboy (ft. Daft Punk)
4. Illy - Papercuts (ft. Vera Blue)
5. Tash Sultana - Jungle
6. The Hilltop Hoods - 1955 (ft. Montaigne/Tom Thum)
7. Flume - Say It (ft. Tove Lo)
8. DMA's - Believe {Like a Version}
9. Mura Masa - Love$ick (ft. A$AP Rocky)
10. Drake - One Dance (ft. WizKid/Kyla)
11. Milky Chance - Cocoon
12. Peking Duk - Stranger (ft. Elliphant)
13. Sticky Fingers - Our Town
14. Pnau - Chameleon
15. MO - Final Song
16. The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra
17. Cub Sport - Come On Mess Me Up
18. SAFIA - Make Them Wheels Roll
19. Catfish And The Bottlemen - 7
20. Miike Snow - Genghis Khan
21. Chance The Rapper - All Night (ft. Knox Fortune) Kaytranada Extended
22. Violent Soho - Viceroy
23. Kanye West - Famous
24. Childish Gambino - Redbone
25. Big Scary - The Opposite Of Us
26. Luca Brasi - Anything Near Conviction
27. Dune Rats - Bullshit
28. Sticky Fingers - Sad Songs
29. The xx - Hold On
30. The Hard Aches - Glad That You're Gone
31. A.B. Original - January 26 (ft. Dan Sultan)
32. RUFUS - Innerbloom {What So Not Remix}
33. Gretta Ray - Drive
34. Kingswood - Creepin'
35. Client Liaison - World Of Our Love
36. Glass Animals - Youth
37. Broods - Free
38. Montaigne - Because I Love You
39. Kid Cudi - Surfin' (ft. Pharrell Williams)
40. D.D. Dumbo - Satana
41. The Amity Affliction - This Could Be Heartbreak
41. Flume - Smoke & Retribution (ft. Vince Staples/KUCKA)
42. Illy - Catch 22 (ft. Anne-Marie)
43. Blink 182 - Bored To Death
44. Mac Miller - Dang! (ft. Anderson Paak)
45. Camp Cope - Lost
46. Desiigner - Panda
47. Broods - Heartlines
48. DMA's - Step Up The Morphine
49. SAFIA - My Love Is Gone
50. Halsey - Love Yourself {Like a Version}
51. Tash Sultana - Notion
52. The Weeknd - I Feel It Coming (ft. Daft Punk)
53. D.D. Dumbo - Walrus
54. Sticky Fingers - Outcast At Last
55. Flume - Lose It (ft. Vic Mensa)
56. The Amity Affliction - I Bring The Weather With Me
57. Trophy Eyes - Chlorine
58. Violent Soho - So Sentimental
59. Birds of Tokyo - Brace
60. RUFUS - Say A Prayer For Me
61. Hilltop Hoods - Higher (ft. James Chatburn)
62. L D R U - Next To You (ft. Savoi)
63. Catfish And The Bottlemen - Twice
64. The Avalanches - Because I'm Me
65. Gang Of Youths - Strange Diseases
66. Kanye West - Ultralight Beam (ft. Chance the Rapper)
67. Maggie Rogers - Alaska
68. Glass Animals - Life Itself
69. Alex Lahey - You Don't Think You Like People Like Me
70. Bliss N Eso - Dopamine (ft. Thief)
71. SAFIA - Over You
72. Ali Barter - Girlie Bits
73. Banks - Gemini Feed
74. Violent Soho - Blanket
75. The Smith Street Band - Death To The Lads
76. Paces - Keeping Score {Like a Version} ft. Guy Sebastian
77. Dope Lemon - Marinade
78. The Amity Affliction - All F****d Up
79. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife
80. Luca Brasi - How To Make Gravy {Like a Version}
81. Empire Of The Sun - High And Low
82. Rudimental - Healing (ft. J Angel)
83. A.B. Original - Dumb Things {Like a Version} ft. Paul Kelly/Dan Sultan
84. Allday - Sides (ft. NYNE)
85. What So Not & GANZ - Lone (ft. JOY)
86. Camp Cope - Done
87. Dope Lemon - Uptown Folks
88. The Avalanches - Subways
89. Hayden James - Just A Lover
90. Radiohead - Burn The Witch
91. Mura Masa - What If I Go (ft. Bonzai)
92. Frank Ocean - Solo
93. Elk Road - Hanging By A Thread (ft. Natalie Foster)
94. Catfish And The Bottlemen - Soundcheck
95. Vera Blue - Settle
96. Sofi Tukker - Drinkee
97. Drake - Too Good (ft. Rhianna)
98. Northlane & In Hearts Wake - Refuge
99. Hands Like Houses - Colourblind
100. Thundamentals - Think About It

 

[jagobbin]

Spoiler: The Witness' Final Hottest 100 Prediction

32 Violent Soho - Viceroy

Interesting. Why so low?

 

[JackOutback]

Starboy has has to be among the blandest songs ever played on triple j.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Jesus Christ, these lists just get worse and worse.

So much oversaturation of shit Aussie music.

The irony being Australia was producing original, internationally interesting stuff in the 90s yet international bands got the gongs and it was more even.


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[thewitness]

Interesting. Why so low?

Violent Soho have a terrible record of being over estimated by vote counts:

Year|Actual Position|Song|Position in Data Count|
2010|Not in top 200|Jesus Stole My Girlfriend|149|
2012|147|Neighbour Neighbour|169|
2012|170|Tinderbox|134|
2013|14|Covered in Chrome|3|
2013|137|In The Aisle|94|
2015|15|Like Soda|7|

The Album Poll result shows they are very popular at the moment, but the voting demographics are different there. Also topping the album poll shows that they have lots of songs that are popular splitting the Violent Soho vote in many directions. While a drop to #32 seems unlikely (my predictions were mathematical not opinion based), I think DaRenegade 's prediction of #22 is probably closer to the mark.

 

[thewitness]

Jesus Christ, these lists just get worse and worse.

So much oversaturation of shit Aussie music.

The irony being Australia was producing original, internationally interesting stuff in the 90s yet international bands got the gongs and it was more even.


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While I don't have a problem with Aussie music just because it's Aussie, I do hate how so much bland and uninspiring stuff (both local and foreign) gets in to the H100 these days. But the H100 has always been a popularity contest and not a song writing/performance contest, and this seems to be what floats the majority boat. The 2010's "music to feel nothing by".

Anyway Silent Alarm , as I respect your musical knowledge and opinions, I'd like your opinion on Gretta Ray. She is playing locally on Thursday arvo and I want something that might sway me one way or the other as to whether I go down and take a listen or stay put and catch the end of the H100. I might be able to do both if I sit in the back yard (It will be loud enough to hear from my place unless it's windy).

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

LOOFrundry on Twitter has posted his final prediction

 

[Silent Alarm]

Any cover getting that high is an absolute joke - a DMAs Cher meme cover at #7? Outrageous.


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[t_94]

Pretty bland, uninspiring list to be honest. Will be irritating listening to it at a bbq on Thursday whilst some tosser wearing John Lennon sunglasses waxes lyrical over every second song.

 

[BuddysBiggestFan]

Well well well, this has changed

 

[Gibbsy]

Well well well, this has changed

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What are you on? I'm still hoping three!

 

[Juke]

I'm no fedora and enjoy pop music as a rule, but why do people like Flume so goddamn much? I gave Skin a go the other day and wasn't impressed at all. What is the appeal? Those pop singles that everyone loves are unbelievably mediocre.

Didn't mind his hip hop songs but they weren't mind blowing. The only other track I liked was Wall F*ck and even that felt half baked and grew tiresome 2.5 minutes in.

 

[DaRenegade]

I'll agree with thewitness about Violent Soho, I think Viceroy will be 20-30 and two of So Sentimental/Blanket/How to Taste will chart in the 50-100 bracket, but they are generally over represented in our counts as opposed to the H100 positions

I like LOOFRunDry's final estimate chart overall, sure there's plenty of trash in there, but there always is. funny he feels that Beyonce is going to chart, I thought if any of her songs stood a chance it was Freedom with Kendrick

 

[GroggSquad]

All victims of having great albums without standout singles. It's no surprise to me.

I respectfully disagree. I thought the standout singles/tracks were obvious:

Frank Ocean: Pink + White, Nikes, Ivy, Solo
Radiohead: Daydreaming, Burn The Witch
A Tribe Called Quest: Dis Generation, We The People
Bon Iver: 33 "GOD", 22 (OVER S∞∞N)
Solange: Cranes In The Sky, Don't Touch My Hair
James Blake: I Need a Forest Fire, Radio Silence
Danny Brown: Really Doe, When It Rain

Like I previously mentioned, Kanye West, QOTSA, Vampire Weekend & Arcade Fire all polled 2-3 tracks in the 2013 Hottest 100. Kendrick even scored 2 entries last year. Why are the 2016 international stars not worthy of multiple entries? Because I honestly don't see it being a case of votes being split over 7-8 album tracks for each artist.

While I don't have a problem with Aussie music just because it's Aussie, I do hate how so much bland and uninspiring stuff (both local and foreign) gets in to the H100 these days. But the H100 has always been a popularity contest and not a song writing/performance contest, and this seems to be what floats the majority boat. The 2010's "music to feel nothing by".

JJJ and festival promoters have serious power to shape what is popular IMO. The efforts of promoters to bring out quality international acts to festivals over the past year has been absolutely woeful to say the least. I've listed some of more prominent international acts at each of the main "JJJ-backed" festivals this year and many of them didn't even release music in 2016:

Groovin The Moo 2016: Danny Brown, Ratatat, MS MR, Twenty One Pilots
Splendour In The Grass 2016: The Strokes, The Cure, James Blake, At The Drive-In, Band Of Horses, Sigur Ros, Santigold, The 1975, Leon Bridges, The Kills, Peter, Bjorn & John, Tegan & Sara, Mark Lanegan
Listen Out 2016: Anderson .Paak, A$AP Ferg, Yung Lean
Falls 2016: Childish Gambino, London Grammar, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Grouplove, Booka Shade, Parquet Courts
Beyond The Valley 2016: Chance The Rapper, Hudson Mohawke, Ladyhawke, Phantogram, Zhu
Laneway 2017: Car Seat Headrest, Glass Animals, NAO, Tourist, Tycho, Whitney

It's probably no surprise Childish Gambino is a serious chance for a Top 10 spot with "Redbone" on the back of headlining Falls. "All Night" by Chance The Rapper probably wouldn't do as well if he didn't headline Beyond The Valley either. Based on this, I'm confident Radiohead, Kanye West, Frank Ocean, Bon Iver, A Tribe Called Quest etc. would all feature prominently in the Hottest 100 if promoters didn't fail in luring them here.

Instead, its much easier and cheaper for them to rinse and repeat Hilltop Hoods, DMAs, Illy, Sticky Fingers, Thundamentals, Violent Soho etc. ad nauseum at every festival since they draw good crowds no matter what due to their endless plugs on JJJ. It's sad

 

[JackOutback]

I think people put too much stick in the Hottest 100. It's fun, but if my favourite songs don't chart, I can just give them a spin. Still a better listen than any of the commercial stations.

 

[GroggSquad]

I think people put too much stick in the Hottest 100. It's fun, but if my favourite songs don't chart, I can just give them a spin. Still a better listen than any of the commercial stations.

I've been a huge Hottest 100 fan over the years and honestly do enjoy the Australian touch that makes the poll unique. But the right balance of quality music and Australian music is critical to its success I feel.

JJJ in the past has prided the Hottest 100 on being "the worlds biggest music democracy" and its ability to attract voters from 170+ countries. Unfortunately I fear it will soon start to lose relevance if it evolves into a "Triple J Unearthed Hottest 100", where the majority of artists are completely unknown beyond our shores or even outside the radio station itself.