Hottest 100 2016 | triple j
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Hottest 100 2016 Album
The Hottest 100 album is always packed full of the year’s biggest and best songs. Pre-order your copy today so you don’t miss a beat once it’s released!
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Hottest 100 in Numbers
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The Wrap Up
The Pottiest 100
Grab the mouth soap: 32 songs in this year’s countdown have swearing in ‘em. Specifically, there’s 82 x F-Bombs, 12 x Motherf’ers, 17 x Bullshits (thanks Dunies), 16 x Shits, and 22 x cries of bitch. Desiigner provides the biggest language warning, with 16 expletives in ‘Panda’ alone, but top dog Flume’s got his share of cussin’ too. His feature vocalists provide 16 expletives across the producer’s four songs in the countdown.
Longest Between Drinks
Fun fact: Radiohead are the only artist to appear both in this year’s countdown (at #79 with ‘Burn The Witch’) and in the first ever annual Hottest 100 from 1993 (at #2 with ‘Creep’). Meanwhile, The Avalanches return to the countdown for the first time since 2001. That’s 15 years since they left us, the longest gap between appearances in the Hottest 100 and breaking the 13 year record held by Zack de la Rocha (between appearing with Rage Against The Machine in 2001 and Return To The Jewels in 2014).
Highest Like A Version Ever
Do you believe in life after LAV? DMA’S beautifully brought Cher’s ‘Believe’ back to life for Like A Version back in October. No auto-tune here, just a gorgeous take on the original that earned the Sydney trio their highest Hottest 100 ranking yet and the highest charting LAV in the countdown’s history, surpassing Chet Faker’s Sonia Dada LAV (ranking at #21 in 2014). However, it’s not the highest ranking cover – that record still belongs to Boy & Bear’s ‘Fall At Your Feet’ (#5 in 2010).
Women Dominate The Top 10
When it comes to the success of women in the business end of the Hottest 100, 2016 was a year worth celebrating. Ladies appeared in seven songs in the Top 10: Amy Shark and Tash Sultana’s signature songs along with key contributions from Kai, Montaigne, Vera Blue, Tove Lo, and Elliphant. That’s the highest ever female representation in a Hottest 100 Top 10 (passing the six songs in the 2011 countdown). Meanwhile, 34 songs voted into this year’s countdown were from artists with at least one woman. 15 of those were by female artists, 13 featuring female vocals, and 7 with a female member.
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As part of this year's Hottest 100, triple j is proud to team up with AIME. We raised over $100,000 together last year to grow the program, which enables more Indigenous kids to finish school and uni. Donate now or buy your Hottest 100 t-shirt.
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