Triple J Hottest 100, 2020
The 2020 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 23 January 2021.[1] It is the 28th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. The countdown was announced on the fourth weekend of January.
| 2020 Triple J Hottest 100 | |
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 Album artwork for the CD compilation | |
| Countdown details | |
| Countdown highlights | |
| Winning song | Glass Animals  ("Heat Waves") |
| Most entries | Lime Cordiale (5) .svg.png.webp){kind=small} |
English band Glass Animals was voted into first place with their single "Heat Waves", becoming the first British act to top the annual list in 11 years - since Mumford & Sons won the 2009 countdown with "Little Lion Man". Australian band Lime Cordiale achieved the most entries in the countdown, at five.
Background
Triple J's Hottest 100 allows members of the public to vote online for their top ten songs of the year, which are then used to calculate the year's 100 most popular songs. Any song initially released between 1 December 2019 and 30 November 2020 was eligible for 2020's Hottest 100.
Voting opened on 8 December 2020. Several artists and presenters made their votes public, including Billie Eilish, Flume, and Glass Animals. The artists most often voted for by these artists were Tkay Maidza, Tame Impala, Spacey Jane, and The Strokes.[2]
Projections
Prior to the countdown, two favourites had emerged. Various music blogs and bookmakers placed "Heat Waves" by English psych-pop band Glass Animals and "Booster Seat" by Australian indie-rock band Spacey Jane as the two songs most likely to take first place.[3] Glass Animals previously placed 12th in 2014, also ranking in the top 40 in 2016 and 2019; while Spacey Jane debuted at 80th in 2019. Both songs respectively placed in first and second on the countdown.
Full list
| Note: Australian artists |
Countries represented
- Australia – 66
United States – 24- United Kingdom – 14
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Canada – 3
Japan – 3
Ghana – 1
Italy – 1
New Zealand – 1
Artists with multiple entries
Five entries
- Lime Cordiale (11, 16, 20, 25, 26)
Four entries
- Spacey Jane (2, 15, 28, 81)
- G Flip (three times solo and once with Illy) (7, 44, 78, 95)
- Juice Wrld (twice solo, once as co-lead artist, and once with the Kid Laroi) (39, 40, 49, 60)
Three entries
- Glass Animals (1, 18, 51)
- Tame Impala (5, 17, 33)
- Billie Eilish (10, 79, 90)
- Joji (59, 62, 98)
Two entries
- Flume (once as lead artist and once as remixer/producer) (3, 54)
- Ball Park Music (4, 63)
- The Jungle Giants (8, 89)
- Ocean Alley (14, 72)
- Halsey (once solo and once with Machine Gun Kelly) (19, 36)
- Mac Miller (23, 24)
- Skegss (27, 66)
- San Cisco (31, 56)
- DMA's (32, 52)
- Amy Shark (34, 65)
- The Kid Laroi (37, 60)
- Bring Me the Horizon (38, 71)
- Ruel (45, 83)
- AJ Tracey (48, 94)
- Stormzy (48, 97)
- Headie One (once solo/as co-lead artist and once with Stormzy) (48, 97)
- Hockey Dad (96, 99)
Notes
- With 66 tracks by Australian artists, the 2020 countdown ties 2016's record for the most Australian tracks in a single countdown.
- Two artists, Peking Duk and DMA's, appeared in their seventh consecutive annual Hottest 100. In doing so, they became the artists with the longest consecutive streak of Hottest 100 appearances since The Living End, whose tracks featured for ten years in a row between 1997 and 2006.
- With "I'm Good?" being voted in at number 9, Hilltop Hoods marked their 22nd track to appear in an annual Hottest 100, equaling the record currently shared by Powderfinger and Foo Fighters.[5]
- This year's countdown included six songs from Indigenous Australian artists, surpassing 2019's record of five.[6] Gamilaraay man The Kid Laroi featured twice, while there was one track each from: Torres Strait Islander woman Sycco; Butchulla/Nguburinji man Birdz; Beddy Rays, who are fronted by Wapabara man Jackson Van Issum; and Gamilaraay woman Thelma Plum.
- At number 6, "WAP" became the first song by a female rapper to enter the top 10, with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion becoming the highest charting women of colour in Hottest 100 history.
- At number 49 with their track "Pretty Lady", Tash Sultana is the first openly non-binary artist to feature in the countdown. Sultana has previously featured in the Hottest 100, with two songs in the 2016 countdown including the number three spot with "Jungle". Sam Smith had featured on two tracks by Disclosure prior to their coming out.
- Juice Wrld, who died in December 2019, was posthumously voted into the countdown four times: at number 39 on "Righteous", at number 40 with Marshmello on "Come & Go", at number 49 with "Wishing Well", and at number 60 with the Kid Laroi on "Go".
- Mac Miller, who died in September 2018, was also posthumously voted into the countdown, appearing at numbers 23 and 24 with "Good News" and "Blue World", respectively. Miller was also the first deceased artist to feature on the countdown since Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, having previously been voted in at number 60 in the 2018 countdown with "Ladders".
Hottest 200
| Note: Australian artists |
Top 10 Albums of 2020
The annual Triple J album poll was held across November and December and was announced on 13 December 2020.
| Note: Australian artists |
| # | Artist | Album | Country of origin | Tracks in the Hottest 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spacey Jane | Sunlight | Australia |
2, 15, 28, 81, (80 in 2019) |
| 2 | Lime Cordiale | 14 Steps to a Better You | Australia |
11, 16, 20, 25, 26, (86 in 2018, 7, 13, 32 in 2019) |
| 3 | Tame Impala | The Slow Rush | Australia |
5, 17, 33, (18, 43 in 2019) |
| 4 | Ball Park Music | Ball Park Music | Australia |
4, 63 |
| 5 | Hockey Dad | Brain Candy | Australia |
96, 99, (60 in 2019) |
| 6 | DMA's | The Glow | Australia |
32, 52, (20 in 2019) |
| 7 | Ocean Alley | Lonely Diamond | Australia |
14, 72, (24, 54 in 2019) |
| 8 | Glass Animals | Dreamland | United Kingdom |
1, 18, 51, (34 in 2019) |
| 9 | San Cisco | Between You and Me | Australia |
31, 56, (48 in 2018, 97 in 2019) |
| 10 | Violent Soho | Everything Is A-OK | Australia |
(69 in 2019) |
References
- "Hottest 100 2020". Triple J. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- Newstead, Al (2020-12-08). "Hottest 100 #votespiration: Here's what Billie Eilish, Flume, Mallrat & more are voting for". triple j. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- "Hottest 100 2020". Sportsbet.com.au. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- Jolly, Nathan (21 January 2021). "Triple J's Hottest 100: who will win Australia's biggest music poll?". The Guardian.
- Newstead, Al (23 January 2021). "Hottest 100 by the numbers: Stats fakin' me out". Triple J.