Triple J Hottest 100, 1998

The 1998 Triple J Hottest 100, announced in January 1999, was the sixth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 36 of the songs was released. In August 1998 a Hottest 100 of All Time was conducted separate to normal countdown.

1998 Triple J Hottest 100
Album artwork for the CD compilation
Countdown details
Date of countdown	January 1999
Countdown highlights
Winning song	The Offspring "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)"
Most entries	Quan Yeomans (6)
Chronology

In February 2019, Triple J's sister station Double J conducted a "re-vote" of the 1998 top 10.^[1]

Full list

Note: Australian artists

#	Song	Artist	Country of origin
1	Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)	The Offspring	United States
2	Cigarettes Will Kill You	Ben Lee	Australia
3	Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)	Custard	Australia
4	Celebrity Skin	Hole	United States
5	Got the Life	Korn	United States
6	! (The Song Formerly Known As)	Regurgitator	Australia
7	Harpoon	Jebediah	Australia
8	The Day You Come	Powderfinger	Australia
9	Heavy Heart	You Am I	Australia
10	Save the Day	The Living End	Australia
11	Sweetest Thing	U2	Ireland
12	Brick	Ben Folds Five	United States
13	Doctor Worm	They Might Be Giants	United States
14	Josie	Blink-182	United States
15	Second Solution	The Living End	Australia
16	Addicted to Bass	Josh Abrahams and Amiel Daemion	Australia
17	Tainted Love	The Living End	Australia
18	Just Ace	Grinspoon	Australia
19	Bubblegoose	Wyclef Jean featuring Melky Sedeck	United States
20	Simultaneous	Chef	United States
21	Sex and Candy	Marcy Playground	United States
22	Black Friday	Grinspoon	Australia
23	Teardrop	Massive Attack	United Kingdom
24	Music Is Crap	Custard	Australia
25	Intergalactic	Beastie Boys	United States
26	Polyester Girl	Regurgitator	Australia
27	I Like Your Old Remix Better Than Your New Remix	Regurgitator	Australia
28	Don't You Know Who I Am?	Happyland	Australia
29	Everybody Here Wants You	Jeff Buckley	United States
30	Never There	Cake	United States
31	Throw Your Arms Around Me	Paul McDermott	Australia
32	Black Bugs	Regurgitator	Australia
33	Sweater	Eskimo Joe	Australia
34	One Week	Barenaked Ladies	Canada
35	Flagpole Sitta	Harvey Danger	United States
36	Whatareya?	TISM	Australia
37	Buy Now Pay Later (Charlie No. 2)	The Whitlams	Australia
38	The Impression That I Get	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	United States
39	Somebody Kill Me	Adam Sandler	United States
40	Song for the Dumped	Ben Folds Five	United States
41	Pure Morning	Placebo	United Kingdom
42	Teflon	Jebediah	Australia
43	Melbourne	The Whitlams	Australia
44	The Dope Show	Marilyn Manson	United States
45	Ava Adore	The Smashing Pumpkins	United States
46	Don't Wanna Be Left Out	Powderfinger	Australia
47	Do the Evolution	Pearl Jam	United States
48	Road Rage	Catatonia	United Kingdom
49	Malibu	Hole	United States
50	It's Like That	Run–D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins	United States
51	Given to Fly	Pearl Jam	United States
52	The Grouch	Green Day	United States
53	Father of Mine	Everclear	United States
54	Mum Changed the Locks	Frenzal Rhomb	Australia
55	No Surprises	Radiohead	United Kingdom
56	Charlie No. 3	The Whitlams	Australia
57	I Think I'm Paranoid	Garbage	United States
58	I Don't Like It	Pauline Pantsdown	Australia
59	History Repeating	Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey	United Kingdom
60	Untouchable Face	Ani DiFranco	United States
61	Cry	The Mavis's	Australia
62	Gone Away	The Offspring	United States
63	The Rockafeller Skank	Fatboy Slim	United Kingdom
64	Come On Spring	Antenna	Australia
65	Rumble	You Am I	Australia
66	No Shelter	Rage Against the Machine	United States
67	The Unforgiven II	Metallica	United States
68	Every Day Should Be a Holiday	The Dandy Warhols	United States
69	Cinnamon Lip	Pollyanna	Australia
70	If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next	Manic Street Preachers	United Kingdom
71	Hello	Happyland	Australia
72	Mr. Charisma	Frenzal Rhomb	Australia
73	Music Sounds Better with You	Stardust	France
74	My Hero	Foo Fighters	United States
75	Dragula	Rob Zombie	United States
76	Saint Joe on the School Bus	Marcy Playground	United States
77	Fuel	Metallica	United States
78	Shimmer	Fuel	United States
79	Don't Go Away	Grinspoon	Australia
80	Bad Old Man	Babybird	United Kingdom
81	Drinking in L.A.	Bran Van 3000	Canada
82	El President	Drugstore	United Kingdom
83	Now and Then	The Superjesus	Australia
84	Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)	Green Day	United States
85	Harpoon	Something for Kate	Australia
86	Mama's Trippin'	Ben Harper	United States
87	Push It	Garbage	United States
88	Wishlist	Pearl Jam	United States
89	Special	Garbage	United States
90	No Substitute	Chef	United States
91	Benedict	Jebediah	Australia
92	The Ballad of Tom Jones	Space with Cerys Matthews	United Kingdom
93	Untitled	Silverchair	Australia
94	Perfect	The Smashing Pumpkins	United States
95	Tropicalia	Beck	United States
96	Redneck Wonderland	Midnight Oil	Australia
97	Black Umbrella	Even	Australia
98	Baker Street	Foo Fighters	United States
99	Saturation	The Superjesus	Australia
100	Sich Offnen	Not from There	Australia

42 of the 100 songs were by Australian artists (marked with a green background).

2019 Revote

In February 2019, Triple J's sister station Double J conducted a "re-vote" of the 1998 top 10. Only songs that charted in the original 1998 list were eligible. 66,000 votes were cast.

#	Song	Artist	Country of origin	Previous position
1	Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)	The Offspring	United States	1
2	! (The Song Formerly Known As)	Regurgitator	Australia	6
3	Dragula	Rob Zombie	United States	75
4	Whatareya?	TISM	Australia	36
5	I Think I'm Paranoid	Garbage	United States	57
6	The Unforgiven II	Metallica	United States	67
7	Intergalactic	Beastie Boys	United States	25
8	Addicted to Bass	Josh Abrahams and Amiel Daemion	Australia	16
9	No Shelter	Rage Against the Machine	United States	66
10	The Dope Show	Marilyn Manson	United States	44

Artists with multiple entries

#	Artist	Tracks
6	Quan Yeomans[i]	6, 26, 27, 28, 32, 71
4	Regurgitator	6, 26, 27, 32
3	Jebediah	7, 42, 91
	The Living End	10, 15, 17
	Grinspoon	18, 22, 79
	The Whitlams	37, 43, 56
	Pearl Jam	47, 51, 88
	Garbage	57, 87, 89
2	The Offspring	1, 62
	Custard	3, 24
	Hole	4, 49
	Powderfinger	8, 46
	You Am I	9, 65
	Ben Folds Five	12, 40
	Chef	20, 90
	Marcy Playground	21, 76
	Happyland	28, 71
	The Smashing Pumpkins	45, 94
	Green Day	52, 84
	Frenzal Rhomb	54, 72
	Metallica	67, 77
	Foo Fighters	74, 98
	The Superjesus	83, 99

Countries Represented

Nation	Total
United States	44
Australia	42
United Kingdom	10
Canada	2
Ireland	1
France	1

Top 10 Albums of 1998

#	Artist	Album	Country of Origin	Tracks in the Hottest 100
1	The Living End	The Living End	Australia	10, 15, (15 in 1997) (41, 48 in 1999)
2	Powderfinger	Internationalist	Australia	8, 46, (25, 68, 100 in 1999)
3	Korn	Follow the Leader	United States	5, (16 in 1999)
4	Pearl Jam	Yield	United States	47, 51, 88
5	The Smashing Pumpkins	Adore	United States	45, 94
6	The Superjesus	Sumo	Australia	83, 99, (14 in 1997)
7	Massive Attack	Mezzanine	United Kingdom	23
8	Jeff Buckley	Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk	United States	29
9	Garbage	Version 2.0	United States	57, 87, 89, (12 in 1999)
10	You Am I	#4 Record	Australia	9, 65

CD release

Disc 1 Hole – "Celebrity Skin" (2:42) Josh Abrahams and Amiel Daemion – "Addicted to Bass" (3:54) Cake – "Never There" (2:44) Ben Lee – "Cigarettes Will Kill You" (3:50) Korn – "Got the Life" (D.O.S.E Woollyback Remix) (5:27) Custard – "Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)" (3:17) Powderfinger – "The Day You Come" (4:01) Blink-182 – "Josie (Everything's Gonna Be Fine)" (3:23) Jebediah – "Harpoon" (4:28) You Am I – "Heavy Heart" (3:10) They Might Be Giants – "Doctor Worm" (3:02) U2 – "Sweetest Thing" (3:00) Green Day – "The Grouch" (2:11) Ben Folds Five – "Brick" (4:42) The Living End – "Second Solution" (3:00) Marcy Playground – "Sex and Candy" (2:52) Grinspoon – "Black Friday" (2:29) Pauline Pantsdown – "I Don't Like It" (3:17)

Disc 2 Beastie Boys – "Intergalactic" (3:30) Not from There – "Sich Offnen" (3:50) Happyland – "Don't You Know Who I Am" (2:20) Eskimo Joe – "Sweater" (2:16) Barenaked Ladies – "One Week" (2:52) The Whitlams – "Buy Now Pay Later (Charlie No. 2)" (3:42) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – "The Impression That I Get" (3:14) Placebo – "Pure Morning" (4:14) Everclear – "Father of Mine" (3:52) Jeff Buckley – "Everybody Here Wants You" (4:46) Garbage – "I Think I'm Paranoid" (3:40) Regurgitator – "! (The Song Formerly Known As)" (3:25) Radiohead – "No Surprises" (3:48) Fatboy Slim – "The Rockafeller Skank" (6:53) The Dandy Warhols – "Every Day Should Be a Holiday" (4:03) Bran Van 3000 – "Drinking in L.A." (3:34) The Mavis's – "Cry" (4:09) Massive Attack – "Teardrop" (5:29)

This was the last volume to be released on cassette.

A later release omits "Never There", "Got the Life", "Sweetest Thing", "Brick", "Don't You Know Who I Am", and "Everybody Here Wants You", while including "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" by Manic Street Preachers, "Untouchable Face" by Ani DiFranco, and Something for Kate's cover of "Harpoon".

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[2]	3× Platinum	210,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

• 1998 in music

Notes

1. Four times with Regurgitator (6, 26, 27, 32), twice with Happyland (28, 71)