Kendrick Lamar Wins Triple J’s Hottest 100 Of 2017

UPDATE: Some People Aren’t Happy About Kendrick Lamar’s Hottest 100 Win

ORIGINAL STORY: Well DAMN. Hip-hop king Kendrick Lamar has done it, taking out triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2017 with his gangsta rap-dismantling anthem, ‘HUMBLE’.

As the internet’s foremost stat-crunchers rightfully predicted, Kung Fu Kenny nabbed the number 1 spot in today’s big countdown with his highly J-rotated single, narrowly beating out Aussie faves Gang Of Youths, who bagged a silver medal on the hottest hundo podium with ‘Let Me Down Easy’ as well as taking #41 with their Like A Version cover of Middle East’s ‘Blood’, #5 with ‘The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows’ and ‘What Can I Do If The Fire Goes Out?’ at #10.

The rest of the top 10 songs Australia voted as the most fire of 2017 included Lorde’s ‘Greenlight’ at #6, Methyl Ethel’s ‘Ubu’ at #4 and Vance Joy at #9.

Awesomely, this year’s Hottest hundo was 65% homegrown, with 65 of the tunes to get a guernsey on the Big List performed by Aussie artists, including 6 out of the top 10.

26 artists also popped their Hottest 100 cherries this year, including UK jokester grimelord Big Shaq with ‘Man’s Not Hot’.

ICYMI: Today marked the first time in yonkers that JJJ’s Hottest 100 didn’t take place on Australia Day, after triple j decided to move the countdown away from 26th January.

The Hottest 200 will follow tomorrow — Sunday, 28th January — when Double J will also be replaying the 1997 Hottest 100 (i.e. the most popular Hottest 100 of all time).

Stay tuned to Music Feeds for live updates, and catch the full Hottest 100 of 2017 list, in all of its flaming glory, below.

Triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2017

1. 1. Kendrick Lamar – HUMBLE.
2. 2. Gang Of Youths – Let Me Down Easy
3. 3. Angus & Julia Stone – Chateau
4. 4. Methyl Ethel – Ubu
5. 5. Gang Of Youths – The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows
6. 6. Lorde – Green Light
7. 7. Pnau – Go Bang
8. 8. Thundamentals – Sally (Feat. Mataya)
9. 9. Vance Joy – Lay It On Me
10. 10. Gang Of Youths – What Can I Do If The Fire Goes Out?

1. 11. Brockhampton – Sweet
2. 12. Peking Duk & AlunaGeorge – Fake Magic
3. 13. Khalid – Young Dumb & Broke
4. 14. Lorde – Homemade Dynamite
5. 15. Vera Blue – Regular Touch
6. 16. The Jungle Giants – Feel The Way I Do
7. 17. Baker Boy – Marryuna (Feat. Yirrmal)
8. 18. Ball Park Music – Exactly How You Are
9. 19. The Killers – The Man
10. 20. Peking Duk – Let You Down (Feat. Icona Pop)

1. 21. The Smith Street Band – Birthdays
2. 22. The Wombats – Lemon To A Knife Fight
3. 23. Alex The Astronaut – Not Worth Hiding
4. 24. Post Malone – rockstar (Feat. 21 Savage)
5. 25. Amy Shark – Weekends
6. 26. Portugal. The Man – Feel It Still
7. 27. Winston Surfshirt – Be About You
8. 28. Tash Sultana – Mystik
9. 29. Vera Blue – Mended
10. 30. Meg Mac – Low Blows

1. 31. Touch Sensitive – Lay Down
2. 32. Hayden James – NUMB (Feat. GRAACE)
3. 33. Angie McMahon – Slow Mover
4. 34. Kendrick Lamar – DNA.
5. 35. Drake – Passionfruit
6. 36. Alex Lahey – I Haven’t Been Taking Care Of Myself
7. 37. Calvin Harris – Slide (Feat. Frank Ocean/Migos)
8. 38. Billie Eilish – Bellyache
9. 39. Skegss – Got On My Skateboard
10. 40. Holy Holy – True Lovers

1. 41. Gang Of Youths – Blood (Like A Version)
2. 42. CamelPhat & Elderbrook – Cola
3. 43. Tash Sultana – Murder To The Mind
4. 44. Allday – In Motion (Feat. Japanese Wallpaper)
5. 45. Alex Lahey – Every Day’s The Weekend
6. 46. Mallrat – Better
7. 47. HAIM – Want You Back
8. 48. Ocean Alley – The Comedown
9. 49. The Smith Street Band – Passiona
10. 50. The Jungle Giants – On Your Way Down

1. 51. Big Shaq – Man’s Not Hot
2. 52. Macklemore – Glorious (Feat. Skylar Grey)
3. 53. Bliss N Eso – Moments (Feat. Gavin James)
4. 54. Hockey Dad – Homely Feeling
5. 55. Dune Rats – 6 Pack
6. 56. Odette – Watch Me Read You
7. 57. The Jungle Giants – Bad Dream
8. 58. Camp Cope – The Opener
9. 59. The Jungle Giants – Used To Be In Love
10. 60. Charli XCX – Boys

1. 61. Thundamentals – 21 Grams (Feat. Hilltop Hoods)
2. 62. Khalid – Saved
3. 63. E^ST – Life Goes On
4. 64. Jack River – Fool’s Gold
5. 65. Arcade Fire – Everything Now
6. 66. N.E.R.D. & Rihanna – Lemon
7. 67. DZ Deathrays – Shred For Summer
8. 68. Kingswood – Golden
9. 69. Yungblud – I Love You, Will You Marry Me
10. 70. Nothing But Thieves – Amsterdam

1. 71. Lorde – Perfect Places
2. 72. alt-J – In Cold blood
3. 73. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nuclear Fusion
4. 74. Lil Uzi Vert – XO TOUR Llif3
5. 75. Dune Rats – Braindead
6. 76. Baker Boy – Cloud 9 (Feat. Kian)
7. 77. The Rubens – Million Man
8. 78. Tash Sultana – Electric Feel (Like A Version)
9. 79. San Cisco – Hey, Did I Do You Wrong?
10. 80. The xx – Say Something

1. 81. Lorde – Liability
2. 82. Logic – 1-800-273-8255 (Feat. Alessia Cara/Khalid)
3. 83. Amy Shark – Blood Brothers
4. 84. Vallis Alps – Oceans
5. 85. BOO SEEKA – Does This Last
6. 86. Meg Mac – Maybe It’s My First Time
7. 87. Queens of the Stone Age – The Way You Used To Do
8. 88. Paul Dempsey – Edge Of Town (Like A Version)
9. 89. DMA’s – Dawning
10. 90. Flume – Hyperreal (feat. Kučka)

1. 91. Stormzy – Big For Your Boots
2. 92. Kendrick Lamar – LOVE. (Feat. Zacari)
3. 93. The Presets – Do What You Want
4. 94. Kim Churchill – Second Hand Car
5. 95. Future – Mask Off
6. 96. Cub Sport – Chasin’
7. 97. Kendrick Lamar – LOYALTY. (feat. Rihanna)
8. 98. Angus & Julia Stone – Snow
9. 99. Flight Facilities – Arty Boy (Feat. Emma Louise)
10. 100. Snakehips & MØ – Don’t Leave

Hottest 100 Of 2017 Milestones:

• Gang Of Youths have charted 4 times with Let Me Down Easy at #2, The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows at #5, What Can I Do If The Fire Goes Out? at #10 and Blood (Like A Version) at #41
• Angus & Julia Stone have charted twice with Chateau at #3 and Snow at #98
• Lorde has charted 4 times with Green Light at #6, Homemade Dynamite at #14, Perfect Places at #71 and Liability at #81
• Thundamentals have charted twice with Sally (Feat. Mataya) at #8 and 21 Grams (Feat. Hilltop Hoods) at #61
• Peking Duk has charted twice with Let You Down (Feat. Icona Pop) #20 and em>Fake Magic #13
• Khalid has appeared three times with his own track’s Saved at #62 and Young Dumb & Broke #13 and also featuring on Logic’s 1-800-273-8255 at #82
• Vera Blue has charted twice with Regular Touch at #15 and Mended at #29
• The Jungle Giants have charted 4 times with Feel The Way I Do at #16, On Your Way Down at #50, Bad Dream at #57 and Used To Be In Love at #59
• Baker Boy has charted twice with Marryuna (Feat. Yirrmal) at #17 and Cloud 9 (Feat. Kian) at #76
• The Smith Street Band have charted twice with Birthdays at #21 and Passiona at #49
• Amy Shark has charted twice with Weekends at #25 and Blood Brothers at #83
• Meg Mac has charted twice with Low Blows at #30 and Maybe It’s My First Time at #86
• Kendrick Lamar has charted 3 times with DNA. at #34, LOVE. (Feat. ZACARI) at #92 and LOYALTY. (Feat. RIHANNA) at #97
• Alex Lahey has charted twice with I Haven’t Been Taking Care Of Myself at #36 and Every Day’s The Weekend at #45
• Dune Rats have charted twice with 6 Pack at #55 and Braindead at #75
• Rhianna has featured twice on the chart, first on Kendrick Lamar’s LOYALTY. at #97 and then on Lemon at #66 with N.E.R.D.
• Lorde has charted twice with Perfect Places at #71 and Liability at #81
• 65 Australian songs made the countdown, one less than last year’s record-breaking total of 66
• 26 acts are making their Hottest 100 debut (up from 23 last year)
• There are songs from 10 different countries (including feature artists)
• Five songs in the countdown were first discovered on triple j Unearthed
• Eight artists are appearing in the Hottest 100 for a third time

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