Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s

The Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s was held on 14 March 2020. It is a countdown of the most popular songs of the 2010s as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station triple j. 1.8 million votes were cast by listeners choosing their top ten songs of the decade.^[1]

2010s Triple J Hottest 100
Countdown details
Date of countdown	14 March 2020
Countdown highlights
Winning song	Tame Impala ("The Less I Know the Better")
Most entries	Flume (7)
Chronology

Tame Impala's "The Less I Know the Better" was voted into first place.

Background

The triple j Hottest 100 of the 2010s allowed members of the public to vote online for their top ten songs of the decade, which were then used to calculate the decade's 100 most popular songs. Any song initially released between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019 was eligible for the decade's Hottest 100.

On 23 January 2020, triple j first announced that a 2010s countdown would take place. Voting opened on 11 February 2020,^[2][3] and closed on 9 March 2020. Between 10 and 13 March, triple j presenters Lucy Smith, Lewis Hobba, and Michael Hing progressively announced the songs that ranked between No. 200 and No. 101 in the countdown.^[4] Voting in recent countdowns has been restricted to the preceding year. There have been some exceptions, namely the Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time in 2011, and the Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years in 2013. This is the first countdown that charts the best songs of a decade.

Projections

Based on media reports following the announcement of the existence of the countdown, some of the most frequently mentioned contenders are Frank Ocean, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Flume, and Beyoncé.^{[5][6][7][8][9]} Once voting closed, bookmakers' three most likely songs to take No. 1 were Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" (featuring Kimbra), Arctic Monkeys' "Do I Wanna Know?" and Rüfüs' "Innerbloom", both behind Gotye.^[10][11]

Full list

Note: Australian artists

Full list, with placing, title, artist(s), country of origin, year released, and original position shown

#	Song	Artist	Country of origin	Year	Annual Hottest 100 position	Previous position (all-time countdown)
1	The Less I Know the Better	Tame Impala	Australia	2015	4
2	Somebody That I Used to Know	Gotye featuring Kimbra	Australia/New Zealand	2011	1	9 (2013)
3	Do I Wanna Know?	Arctic Monkeys	United Kingdom	2013	4
4	Covered in Chrome	Violent Soho	Australia	2013	14
5	Innerbloom	Rüfüs Du Sol	Australia	2015	103
6	Magnolia	Gang of Youths	Australia	2015	21
7	Pumped Up Kicks	Foster the People	United States	2010	32	94 (2013)
8	Never Be Like You	Flume featuring Kai	Australia/Canada	2016	1
9	Big Jet Plane	Angus & Julia Stone	Australia	2010	1	81 (2013)
10	Brother	Matt Corby	Australia	2011	3	42 (2013)
11	Talk Is Cheap	Chet Faker	Australia	2014	1
12	Breezeblocks	Alt-J	United Kingdom	2012	3	67 (2013)
13	Riptide	Vance Joy	Australia	2013	1
14	Runaway	Kanye West featuring Pusha T	United States	2010	14
15	Australia Street	Sticky Fingers	Australia	2013	70
16	Royals	Lorde	New Zealand	2013	2
17	It's Nice to Be Alive	Ball Park Music	Australia	2011	31
18	Holdin On	Flume	Australia	2012	4
19	Let Me Down Easy	Gang of Youths	Australia	2017	2
20	Cosby Sweater	Hilltop Hoods	Australia	2014	3
21	Delete	DMA's	Australia	2014	48
22	Midnight City	M83	France	2011	5
23	King Kunta	Kendrick Lamar	United States	2015	2
24	Niggas in Paris	Kanye West and Jay-Z	United States	2011	98
25	Clair de Lune	Flight Facilities featuring Christine Hoberg	Australia/United States	2012	17
26	Let It Happen	Tame Impala	Australia	2015	5
27	3005	Childish Gambino	United States	2013	43
28	Redbone	Childish Gambino	United States	2016	5
29	Video Games	Lana Del Rey	United States	2011	6	99 (2013)
30	Little Talks	Of Monsters and Men	Icealand	2011	2 (2012)	92 (2013)
31	Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)	The Wombats	United Kingdom	2010	8
32	High	Peking Duk featuring Nicole Millar	Australia	2014	2
33	Rum Rage	Sticky Fingers	Australia	2014	124
34	Lost	Frank Ocean	United States	2012	8
35	Confidence	Ocean Alley	Australia	2018	1
36	1955	Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Tom Thum	Australia	2016	4
37	Stolen Dance	Milky Chance	Germany	2013	4 (2014)
38	Levels	Avicii	Sweden	2011	—
39	Crave You	Flight Facilities featuring Giselle Rosselli	Australia	2010	19
40	Latch	Disclosure featuring Sam Smith	United Kingdom	2012	21
41	Believe (Like a Version)	DMA's	Australia	2016	6
42	R U Mine?	Arctic Monkeys	United Kingdom	2012	40
43	Chateau	Angus & Julia Stone	Australia	2017	3
44	Shake It Out	Florence and the Machine	United Kingdom	2011	13
45	Lonely Boy	The Black Keys	United States	2011	2	61 (2013)
46	Hoops	The Rubens	Australia	2015	1
47	I Will Wait	Mumford & Sons	United Kingdom	2012	5
48	HyperParadise (Flume Remix)	Hermitude	Australia	2012	18
49	Jungle	Tash Sultana	Australia	2016	3
50	Get Lucky	Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams	France/United States	2013	3
51	Adore	Amy Shark	Australia	2016	2
52	The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows	Gang of Youths	Australia	2017	5
53	Chandelier	Sia	Australia	2014	9
54	Tongue Tied	Grouplove	United States	2011	16
55	Bangarang	Skrillex featuring Sirah	United States	2011	25 (2012)
56	Thrift Shop	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz	United States	2012	1
57	Humble	Kendrick Lamar	United States	2017	1
58	Gold Snafu	Sticky Fingers	Australia	2014	20
59	Teenage Crime	Adrian Lux	Sweden	2010	6
60	Swimming Pools (Drank)	Kendrick Lamar	United States	2012	71
61	Green Light	Lorde	New Zealand	2017	6
62	Thinkin Bout You	Frank Ocean	United States	2012	56
63	The Buzz	Hermitude featuring Mataya and Young Tapz	Australia	2015	8
64	Innerbloom (What So Not remix)	Rüfüs Du Sol	Australia	2016	30
65	Feels Like We Only Go Backwards	Tame Impala	Australia	2012	9
66	Elephant	Tame Impala	Australia	2012	7
67	I Love It	Hilltop Hoods featuring Sia	Australia	2011	10
68	212	Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay	United States/Belgium	2011	—
69	Drop the Game	Flume and Chet Faker	Australia	2013	5
70	7	Catfish and the Bottlemen	United Kingdom	2016	19
71	Bad Guy	Billie Eilish	United States	2019	1
72	Monster	Kanye West featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver	United States/Trinidad and Tobago	2010	88
73	Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?	Arctic Monkeys	United Kingdom	2013	6
74	Dancing on My Own	Robyn	Sweden	2010	142
75	Feel So Close	Calvin Harris	United Kingdom	2011	11
76	Sicko Mode	Travis Scott featuring Drake	United States/Canada	2018	3
77	Black Skinhead	Kanye West	United States	2013	20
78	Awkward	San Cisco	Australia	2011	7
79	Charlie	Mallrat	Australia	2019	3
80	Ultralight Beam	Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price and Kirk Franklin	United States	2016	22
81	Come On Mess Me Up	Cub Sport	Australia	2016	24
82	On Top	Flume featuring T.Shirt	Australia/United States	2012	67
83	Painkiller	Ruel	Australia	2019	22
84	Dinosaurs	Ruby Fields	Australia	2018	9
85	No Role Modelz	J. Cole	United States	2014	—
86	Greek Tragedy	The Wombats	United Kingdom	2015	29
87	Resolution	Matt Corby	Australia	2013	8
88	Gooey	Glass Animals	United Kingdom	2014	12
89	Undercover Martyn	Two Door Cinema Club	United Kingdom	2010	21
90	This Is America	Childish Gambino	United States	2018	4
91	Loving Is Easy	Rex Orange County featuring Benny Sings	United Kingdom/Netherlands	2017	107
92	M.A.A.D City	Kendrick Lamar featuring MC Eiht	United States	2012	—
93	Sleepless	Flume featuring Jezzabell Doran	Australia	2011	12 (2012)
94	Is This How You Feel?	The Preatures	Australia	2013	9
95	Losing It	Fisher	Australia	2018	2
96	Get Free	Major Lazer featuring Amber Coffman	United States	2012	6
97	Rolling in the Deep	Adele	United Kingdom	2010	—
98	You & Me (Flume Remix)	Disclosure featuring Eliza Doolittle	United Kingdom/Australia	2013	63
99	Dazed & Confused	Ruel	Australia	2018	89
100	Holocene	Bon Iver	United States	2011	53

Countries represented

• Australia – 50^[12]
• United States – 29
• United Kingdom – 15
• New Zealand – 3
• Sweden – 3
• France – 2
• Belgium – 1
• Canada – 2
• Germany – 1
• Netherlands – 1
• Trinidad and Tobago – 1

Artists with multiple entries

Seven entries

• Flume (four times solo, once with Chet Faker and two remixes; 8, 18, 48, 69, 82, 93, 98)

Five entries

• Kanye West (14, 24, 72, 77, 80)

Four entries

• Tame Impala (1, 26, 65, 66)
• Kendrick Lamar (23, 57, 60, 92)

Three entries

• Arctic Monkeys (3, 42, 73)
• Gang of Youths (6, 19, 52)
• Sticky Fingers (15, 33, 58)
• Hilltop Hoods (20, 36, 67)
• Childish Gambino (27, 28, 90)

Two entries

• Rüfüs Du Sol (5, 64)
• Angus & Julia Stone (9, 43)
• Matt Corby (10, 87)
• Chet Faker (once solo and once with Flume; 11, 69)
• Lorde (16, 61)
• DMA's (21, 41)
• Jay-Z (once as a lead artist and once with Kanye West; 24, 72)
• Flight Facilities (25, 39)
• The Wombats (31, 86)
• Frank Ocean (34, 62)
• Disclosure (40, 98)
• Hermitude (48, 63)
• Sia (once solo and once with Hilltop Hoods; 53, 67)
• Bon Iver (once solo and once with Kanye West; 72, 100)
• Ruel (83, 99)

Songs by year

Year	Number of songs
2010	9
2011	16
2012	18
2013	13
2014	11
2015	8
2016	10
2017	6
2018	6
2019	3

Notes

• Including remixes and a collaboration, Australian producer Flume had seven tracks voted into the countdown. No artist has achieved more tracks in a Hottest 100 countdown since Dave Grohl's ten in the 2002 list.
• Azealia Banks, Rex Orange County, and Adele marked their first ever appearance in any Hottest 100 countdown.^[13]
• Some of these tracks narrowly missed the top 100 in their annual countdowns, including "Innerbloom" (#103 in 2015),^[14] "Loving is Easy" (#107 in 2017),^[15] and "Rum Rage" (#124 in 2014).^[16]
• Nine songs appeared in the countdown that have never appeared previously in a Hottest 100:^[1] Rüfüs Du Sol's "Innerbloom", Sticky Fingers' "Rum Rage", Avicii's "Levels", Azealia Banks' "212", Robyn's "Dancing on My Own", J. Cole's "No Role Modelz", Rex Orange County's "Loving Is Easy", Kendrick Lamar's "M.A.A.D City", and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep".
• Twelve songs appeared at a higher position than their initial annual countdown.^[1] The biggest jumps were: Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Niggas in Paris" (up 74 places from #98 in 2011 to #24); and Sticky Fingers' "Australia Street" (up 55 places from No. 70 in 2013 to #15).
• Considering the annual Hottest 100 countdowns between 2010 and 2019, all songs that hit No. 1 in this period made it into the Hottest 100 of the Decade, while two out of the ten songs that formerly reached No. 2 narrowly missed out: Little Red's "Rock It" (#113) from 2010, and Flume's "Rushing Back" (#152) from 2019.^[17]
• With some earlier all-time Hottest 100s drawing criticism for being male-dominated (particularly 2009, which featured only two songs with female lead vocalists and 8 with female band members),^[18] the Hottest 100 of the Decade demonstrated greater gender equality, featuring 13 songs by solo or lead female vocalists (Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Florence and The Machine, Amy Shark, Sia, Azealia Banks, Billie Eilish, Robyn, Mallrat, Ruby Fields, The Preatures, and Adele), 14 songs with featured female vocalists (Kimbra, Kai, Christine Hoberg, Nicole Millar, Montaigne, Giselle Rosselli, Sirah, Mataya, Sia, Nicki Minaj, Kelly Price, Jezzabell Doran, Amber Coffman and Eliza Doolittle), three with female co-vocalists (Of Monsters And Men, Grouplove, and San Cisco), two with uncredited female vocals (Avicii's "Levels" and Adrian Lux's "Teenage Crime") and three songs with female band members (Angus and Julia Stone and Ball Park Music). The countdown also featured three songs by non-binary gender vocalists (Sam Smith, Tash Sultana, and Cub Sport's Tim Nelson^[19]).

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