Triple J Hottest 100 2015: Live Updates & Winners

UPDATE: The winner of triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2015 has been announced.

At last, Australia Day is here and we are once again free to celebrate the anniversary of the European invasion of Australia with some flag wearing, binge drinking and triple j Hottest 100 listening. Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

And as the national youth broadcaster prepares to reveal its meticulously calculated ranking of the 100 most popular songs of the last year, we here at Music Feeds are ready to share in the excitement as we find out what the voters have decreed.

Of course what would a Hottest 100 countdown be without a range of contentious predictions over who is going to take out the top spot? And while triple j have proudly quashed any troll campaigns such as last year’s controversial #Tay4Hottest100 campaign, there is still plenty of speculation over who the winner will be, the Tepid 100 having tentatively called the winner already.

Meanwhile many like myself remain heartbroken at Justin Bieber’s exclusion after Beliebers started a #Beiber4Hottest100 campaign only to be blocked by the station’s new ‘troll clause’.

Despite all the controversy and the station resorting to ever more dictatorial measures to ensure their musical democracy, the Hottest 100 still remains the most highly respected elected title in the land… way ahead of Prime Minster.

And for those of you here early before the countdown proper begins and we go into frantic update mode, why don’t you check out our gallery of predicted front runners here below.

Update: Read our Hottest 100 2015 midway report

Milestones

• 26 artists debuted in this year’s hottest 100
• This year’s countdown didn’t quite reach the record for the most Aussie entries, which was set last year at an impressive 59.
• This is the third consecutive year that an Aussie act has taken the number one spot.
• Courtney Barnett charts four times with #95 Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party, #82 Depreston, #75 Elevator Operator and #43 Pedestrian At Best
• Tame Impala chart four times with #34 Eventually, #61 ‘Cause I’m A Man, #4 Let It Happen and #3 The Less I Know The Better
• Bring Me The Horizon chart three times with #99 True Friends, #86 Happy Song and #45 Throne
• Major Lazer chart three times with #98 Be Together, #74 Powerful and #3 Lean On
• The Wombats chart three times with #91 Be Your Shadow, #67 Give Me A Try and #29 Greek Tragedy
• Florence + The Machine chart three times with #70 What Kind of Man, #40 Ship To Wreck and #38 Delilah
• Flight Facilities chart twice with #85 Heart Attack and #83 Down To Earth
• Tuka’s Like A Version cover of Hottest 100 2010’s winner Big Jet Plane (by Angus & Julia Stone) comes in at #81
• Sticky Fingers’ Like A Version cover of Delete by DMA’s charts at #84
• A$AP Rocky charts twice with #80 Everday and #64 L$D
• Parkway Drive chart twice with #58 Vice Grip and #48 Crushed
• Halsey charts twice with #94 Ghost and #42 Hold Me Down
• CHVRCHES chart twice with #51 Clearest Blue and #32 Leave A Trace
• Jamie xx charts twice with #13 Loud Places and #26 I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)
• SAFIA chart twice with #35 Counting Sheep and #23 Embracing Me
• RÜFÜS chart twice with #28 Like An Animal and #12 You Were Right
• The Weeknd charts twice with #19 The Hills and #9 Can’t Feel My Face
• 24 tracks feature a guest artist
• This year’s countdown featured 37 songs with female vocals, including four which had both female and male vocals, as well as 30 songs from artists who have shared their music through triple j Unearthed.
• 21 female artists and 28 male artists make up the top 50 tracks

Hottest 100 of 2016 Countdown (Updated Live)

1. The Rubens – Hoops

2. Kendrick Lamar – King Kunta

3. Major Lazer & DJ Snake – Lean On (feat. MØ)

4. Tame Impala — The Less I Know The Better

5. Tame Impala – Let It Happen

6. Marcus Marr & Chet Faker – The Trouble With Us

7. Jarryd James – Do You Remember

8. Hermitude – The Buzz (Feat. Mataya/Young Tapz)

9. The Weeknd – Can’t Feel My Face

10. Disclosure – Magnets (Feat. Lorde)

11. Meg Mac – Never Be

12. RÜFÜS – You Were Right

13. Duke Dumont – Ocean Drive

14. Drake – Hotline Bling

15. Violent Soho – Like Soda

16. Vance Joy – Fire And The Flood

17. DJ Snake – Middle (Feat. Bipolar Sunshine)

18. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – DOWNTOWN (Feat. Eric Nally/Melle Mel/Kool Moe Dee/Grandmaster Caz)

19. The Weeknd – The Hills

20. Foals – Mountain At My Gates

21. Gang Of Youths – Magnolia

22. L D R U – Keeping Score (Feat. Paige IV)

23. SAFIA – Embracing Me

24. Flume – Some Minds (Feat. Andrew Wyatt)

25. The Amity Affliction – Shine On

26. Jamie XX – I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) (Feat. Young Thug/Popcaan)

27. Vallis Alps – Young

28. RÜFÜS – Like An Animal

29. The Wombats – Greek Tragedy

30. Peking Duk – Say My Name (Feat. Benjamin Joseph)

31. Jamie XX – Loud Places (Feat. Romy)

32. CHVRCHES – Leave A Trace

33. Urthboy – Long Loud Hours (Feat. Bertie Blackman)

34. Tame Impala – Eventually

35. SAFIA – Counting Sheep

36. Snakehips All My Friends (Feat. Tinashe/Chance The Rapper)

37. Kendrick Lamar – Alright

38. Florence + The Machine – Delilah

39. Illy – Swear Jar

40. Florence + The Machine – Ship To Wreck

41. Claptone – Puppet Theatre (Ft. Peter Bjorn & John)

42. Halsey – Hold Me Down

43. Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian At Best

44. Hayden James – Something About You

45. Bring Me The Horizon – Throne

46. The Chemical Brothers – Go (Feat. Q-Tip)

47. Asta – Dynamite (Feat. Allday)

48. Parkway Drive – Crushed

49. San Cisco – Too Much Time Together

50. BOO SEEKA – Deception Bay

51. CHVRCHES – Clearest Blue

52. Ratatat – Cream On Chrome

53. Matt Corby – Monday

54. ZHU x Skrillex x THEY. – Working For It

55. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love

56. SIA – Alive

57. Alpine – Foolish

58. Parkway Drive – Vice Grip

59. Alison Wonderland – Run

60. MØ – Kamikaze

61. Tame Impala – ‘Cause I’m A Man

62. Disclosure – Omen

63. Boy & Bear – Walk The Wire

64. A$AP Rocky – L$D

65. Alabama Shakes – Don’t Wanna

66. Tkay Maidza – M.O.B.

67. The Wombats – Give Me A Try

68. Skepta – Shutdown

69. Japanese Wallpaper – Forces

70. Florence + The Machine – What Kind of Man

71. Grimes – Flesh without Blood

72. Birds Of Tokyo – Anchor

73. Ngaiire – Once

74. Major Lazer – Powerful (Feat. Ellie Goulding/Tarrus Riley)

75. Courtney Barnett – Elevator Operator

76. British India – Suddenly

77. DMA’s – Lay down

78. Jack Garratt – Weathered

79. The Cat Empire – Wolves

80. A$AP Rocky – Everyday

81. Tuka – Big Jet Plane (Like A Version)

82. Courtney Barnett – Depreston

83. Flight Facilities – Down To Earth

84. Sticky Fingers – Delete (Like A Version)

85. Flight Facilities – Heart Attack

86. Bring Me The Horizon – Happy Song

87. Purity Ring – begin again

88. The Bennies – Party Machine

89. Lana Del Rey – High By The Beach

90. What So Not – Gemini

91. The Wombats – Be Your Shadow

92. Golden Features – No One

93. Jai Wolf – Indian Summer

94. Halsey – Ghost

95. Courtney Barnett – Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party

96. Rudimental – Rumour Mill

97. Methyl Ethel – Twilight Driving

98. Major Lazer – Be Together (Feat. Wild Belle)

99. Bring Me The Horizon – True Friends

100. Seth Sentry – Hell Boy

Gallery: triple j Hottest 100 2015: The Frontrunners