Brisbane’s 4ZZZ Counts Down the Hot 100 of 2022

Brisbane’s 4ZZZ have counted down their Hot 100 with local band the Square Tugs picking up top honours for their fiercely political song ‘I Don’t Like It’ feat. Polly Cooke. The community radio station revealed the results of the listener voted poll on New Year’s Day.

The 2022 edition saw nine Australian acts and one New Zealander in the top 10. These included Full Flower Moon Band (#9), Thelma Plum (#8), Teen Jesus and The Jean Teasers (#6) and King Stingray (#4). Find the full list below.

Square Tugs – I Don’t Like It feat. Polly Cooke

In 2021, WAAX took out the top spot on the Hot 100 for the second time with ‘Most Hated Girl’, while in 2020 The Flangipanis scored their fifth number one with ‘Asshole Aunt’.

4ZZZ’s Hot 100 had its first airing on New Years Day 1977, when ‘Good Vibrations’ by The Beach Boys took the gong. This makes it older than its triple j cousin, the Hottest 100, which began in 1989. It does seem like a conspicuous case of one-upmanship that triple j would skip past the comparative adjective “hotter” and move straight to the superlative “hottest”, but them’s the breaks.

4ZZZ Hot 100 of 2022

100: Barkaa – Blak Matriarch
99: Stella Donnelly – Flood
98: Bean Magazine – Juiceman
97: Private Function – I’m This Far Away (From Being The Worst Person You’ve Ever Met)
96: The Toxic Garden Gnomes – Far Queue
95: Goon on the Rocks – Day For It
94: East Coast Alien – High To Get By
93: Dry Cleaning – Gary Ashby
92: Red Le Clerc – Being Bi
91: Radium Dolls – Shame
90: Hope D – Hate Goodbyes
89: Cate Le Bon – Remembering Me
88: Kitchen’s Floor – Haunted Houses
87: Wet Leg – Ur Mum
86: Masochist – Heavy Dread
85: Guppy – Lipshitz
84: Archie Roach – One Song
83: dameeeela – The Shake Up (feat Tjaka)
82: Pixies – There’s A Moon On
81: Jaguar Jonze – Punchline
80: Refedex – Sober
79: Perve Endings – 20 Something
78: Hatchie – Quicksand
77: Suicide Country Hour – No Cowboy Land
76: Burnt Trash – I Sat Still
75: Fingerless – You Are Going To Die
74: Tailor Made Rejects – Fading Colours
73: Fontaines D.C. – Jackie Down The Line
72: Terra Pines – Pinos Altos
71: Kombi Killers – Damaged
70: Camp Cope – Running with the Hurricane
69: Greshka – Freedom From Clive
68: Damien – 2 Out Of 20
67: Bob Vylan – GDP
66: Dune Rats – Up
65: Aldous Harding – Fever
64: Teenage Joans – Terrible
63: Tropical Fuck Storm & King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Satanic Slumber Party Part 2 (Midnight In Sodom)
62: Ghost College – Smokescreen
61: Melaleuca – Point of Normal
60: The Snouts – Lost & Found
59: Talk Heavy – I Wanna Skate Again
58: Party Dozen – Macca The Mutt (feat. Nick Cave)
57: IDLES – Crawl!
56: Mick Medew and Ursula – Evidently Boundary Street
55: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The Dripping Tap
54: Beddy Rays – Milk
53: Chong Ali – Mot Bai Tho
52: Stabbitha and the Knifey Wifeys – Stockyard
51: Drudge – Kids of the Curb
50: TEN12 – Burden
49: Eviction – GasLight
48: Plan Z – When You Don’t Give A Fuck
47: Rhino – DJW
46: Interism – The Art of Saving Face
45: Slurpee Jerks – Jackie
44: Broken Leg – Holiday
43: Mouse – Puck
42: Monsters Up North – I Want You (To Know)
41: People Mover – Trying
40: 57 Below – Below The Gods
39: The Glycereens – Electric
38: Renovator’s Delight – Bark All Night
37: Dicklord – Shit Cunt Sunnies
36: Asha Jefferies – Tank Tops
35: Lackadaisies – Payphone Text
34: The Owen Guns – Pulling On The Boots (Racist Dickhead)
33: Kathleen Turner Overdrive – Mary Winchester Blue
32: The Cutaways – Cheap Curtains
31: Sacred Hearts – Vices
30: Butterfingers – Shut the Party Down (feat. East Coast Alien & Bluntfield)
29: Full Power Happy Hour – Siblings
28: The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field
27: Ball Park Music – Sunscreen
26: Pavement – Be The Hook
25: WAAX – Help Me Hell
24: Serial Killer Dinner Party – Bleed Me Out
23: The Rockefeller Frequency – Karma Town
22: Violent Soho – Kamikaze
21: WHALEHOUSE – Cheato Doreeto
20: Screamfeeder – Don’t Get Me Started
19: Platonic Sex – Devil’s Advocate
18: Viagra Boys – Punk Rock Loser
17: Adele & The Chandeliers – Up There For Thinking
16: PhD! – Tie-Dye
15: Flangipanis – Skate
14: BLUSSH – Glamour
13: The Chats – I’ve Been Drunk In Every Pub In Brisbane
12: VOIID – Lexapro
11: Girl and Girl – Dance Now
10: Doggie Heaven – Berghain
9: Full Flower Moon Band – NY – LA
8: Thelma Plum – The Brown Snake
7: Samantha Josephine – Feel the Hate
6: Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – Girl Sports
5: The Double Happiness – Smoking Gun
4: King Stingray – Camp Dog
3: Idle Ruin – Valley Inferno
2: Mitch, Please – Rich Mitch
1. Square Tugs feat. Polly Cooke – I Don’t Like It