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