Triple J Hottest 100, 2017

2017 Triple J Hottest 100
Countdown details
Date of countdown	27 January
Charity partner	Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME)
Countdown highlights
Winning song	Kendrick Lamar ("Humble")
Most entries	Kendrick Lamar (4) Gang of Youths (4) Lorde (4) The Jungle Giants (4)
Chronology
← Previous 2016 Next → 2018

The 2017 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 27 January 2018. It was the 25th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. A record-breaking number of voters (2.386 million) participated by choosing their top ten songs of 2017. ^[1]

Kendrick Lamar's "Humble" was voted into first place, making him the first person of colour ever to top a Hottest 100. ^[2] It was also the first track by a non-Australian artist, and the first hip hop song, to win since 2012's "Thrift Shop". Lamar achieved four tracks in the countdown, as did Gang of Youths (a record-equaling three of which were in the top 10), Lorde, and The Jungle Giants.

Historically, the countdown has been announced on Australia Day (26 January), but the 2017 countdown occurred on the fourth Saturday of January (27 January), due to opposition to Australia Day's celebratory commemoration of British settlement. ^[3] This is the first Hottest 100 countdown to occur on a different day since the 2003 countdown.

Background

Triple J's Hottest 100 lets members of the public vote online for their top ten songs of the year, with these votes used to identify the year's 100 most popular songs. Any song that premiered between December 2016 and November 2017 was eligible for 2017's Hottest 100. Voting opened 12 December 2017, shortly after the end of the eligibility period. ^[4]

Several presenters made their votes public. ^[5] The artists most often voted for by Triple J presenters were: Kendrick Lamar, Lorde, Gang of Youths, and Baker Boy. On 12 December bookmakers Sportsbet, Ladbrokes and CrownBet placed Kendrick Lamar's "Humble" as the most likely song to take out first place, followed by Lorde's "Green Light" and Gang of Youths' "The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows". ^{[6] [7] [8]} Social media measurement projects 100 Warm Tunas and The Bean Counter's 100 also predicted that "Humble" will be voted No. 1 by a significant margin. ^{[9] [10]} The previous highest appearance in a Hottest 100 for both Lamar and Lorde is No. 2, with "King Kunta" in 2015 and "Royals" in 2013 respectively.

Triple J reported that 1.5 million votes had been cast five days before voting closed (17 January 2018), more than any other year at that point in the voting period. ^{[11] [12]} Once voting closed, they announced on 23 January that a total of 2,386,133 votes had been cast, breaking the prior year's record for most votes in a Hottest 100 by 5.8%. ^{[1] [13]}

Announcement date

See also: Australia Day § Controversies and issues, and History wars

In mid-2016, support grew for a campaign calling on Triple J to change the date of the Hottest 100. Calls were led by Indigenous Australian activists and supporters, many of whom regard Australia Day as "Invasion Day". ^[14] Australian hip hop duo A.B. Original and their anti-Australia Day single "January 26" were instrumental in drawing support to the cause. ^[15] Triple J responded to the campaign in September 2016, announcing a review over whether the date of the Hottest 100 should be changed. ^[16]

The review of the date continued into 2017, including consultation with Reconciliation Australia, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, and the National Australia Day Council, while 2016's Hottest 100 was held on Australia Day without change. ^[17] In August 2017, Triple J launched a survey asking for public opinion on whether the date should be changed. ^{[18] [19]} Shortly after the survey began, former Triple J presenters Matt Okine and Kyran Wheatley came out in support of a date change. ^{[20] [21]}

On 27 November 2017, Triple J announced plans to move the Hottest 100 to the fourth weekend of January. This followed analysis led by Rebecca Huntley of the aforementioned survey, ^[22] which attracted 64,990 responses, indicating that 60% of listeners supported moving the date. ^[23] The announcement was welcomed by many musicians and the Australian Greens. ^[24] Within the Liberal Party, however, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield was reportedly "bewildered" by the choice, one that MP Alex Hawke described as "disappointing" and "pathetic". ^[25] As the minister responsible for the government-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which Triple J is part of, Fifield wrote to the ABC's board of directors on 28 November asking them to return the Hottest 100 to Australia Day. ^[26]

Some organisations offered alternatives to Triple J's Hottest 100 in response to the date change. ^[12] These include nationwide rock radio station Triple M broadcasting an Ozzest 100 countdown of only Australian songs on 26 January, ^[27] and Senator Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives publishing an AC100 playlist of Australian music on Spotify. ^[28]

Full list

Note: Australian artists

#	Song	Artist	Country of origin
1	Humble	Kendrick Lamar	United States
2	Let Me Down Easy	Gang of Youths	Australia
3	Chateau	Angus & Julia Stone	Australia
4	Ubu	Methyl Ethel	Australia
5	The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows	Gang of Youths	Australia
6	Green Light	Lorde	New Zealand
7	Go Bang	Pnau	Australia
8	Sally	Thundamentals featuring Mataya	Australia
9	Lay It on Me	Vance Joy	Australia
10	What Can I Do If the Fire Goes Out?	Gang of Youths	Australia
11	Sweet	Brockhampton	United States
12	Fake Magic	Peking Duk and AlunaGeorge	Australia /  United Kingdom
13	Young Dumb & Broke	Khalid	United States
14	Homemade Dynamite	Lorde	New Zealand
15	Regular Touch	Vera Blue	Australia
16	Feel the Way I Do	The Jungle Giants	Australia
17	Marryuna	Baker Boy featuring Yirrmal	Australia
18	Exactly How You Are	Ball Park Music	Australia
19	The Man	The Killers	United States
20	Let You Down	Peking Duk featuring Icona Pop	Australia /  Sweden
21	Birthdays	The Smith Street Band	Australia
22	Lemon to a Knife Fight	The Wombats	United Kingdom
23	Not Worth Hiding	Alex the Astronaut	Australia
24	Rockstar	Post Malone featuring 21 Savage	United States
25	Weekends	Amy Shark	Australia
26	Feel It Still	Portugal. The Man	United States
27	Be About You	Winston Surfshirt	Australia
28	Mystik	Tash Sultana	Australia
29	Mended	Vera Blue	Australia
30	Low Blows	Meg Mac	Australia
31	Lay Down	Touch Sensitive	Australia
32	Numb	Hayden James featuring Graace	Australia
33	Slow Mover	Angie McMahon	Australia
34	DNA	Kendrick Lamar	United States
35	Passionfruit	Drake	Canada
36	I Haven't Been Taking Care of Myself	Alex Lahey	Australia
37	Slide	Calvin Harris featuring Frank Ocean and Migos	United Kingdom /  United States
38	Bellyache	Billie Eilish	United States
39	Got on My Skateboard	Skegss	Australia
40	True Lovers	Holy Holy	Australia
41	Blood ( Like a Version )	Gang of Youths	Australia
42	Cola	CamelPhat and Elderbrook	United Kingdom
43	Murder to the Mind	Tash Sultana	Australia
44	In Motion	Allday featuring Japanese Wallpaper	Australia
45	Every Day's the Weekend	Alex Lahey	Australia
46	Better	Mallrat	Australia
47	Want You Back	Haim	United States
48	The Comedown	Ocean Alley	Australia
49	Passiona	The Smith Street Band	Australia
50	On Your Way Down	The Jungle Giants	Australia
51	Man's Not Hot	Big Shaq	United Kingdom
52	Glorious	Macklemore featuring Skylar Grey	United States
53	Moments	Bliss n Eso featuring Gavin James	Australia /  Ireland
54	Homely Feeling	Hockey Dad	Australia
55	6 Pack	Dune Rats	Australia
56	Watch Me Read You	Odette	Australia
57	Bad Dream	The Jungle Giants	Australia
58	The Opener	Camp Cope	Australia
59	Used to Be in Love	The Jungle Giants	Australia
60	Boys	Charli XCX	United Kingdom
61	21 Grams	Thundamentals featuring Hilltop Hoods	Australia
62	Saved	Khalid	United States
63	Life Goes On	E^ST	Australia
64	Fool's Gold	Jack River	Australia
65	Everything Now	Arcade Fire	Canada
66	Lemon	N.E.R.D and Rihanna	United States /  Barbados
67	Shred for Summer	DZ Deathrays	Australia
68	Golden	Kingswood	Australia
69	I Love You, Will You Marry Me	Yungblud	United Kingdom
70	Amsterdam	Nothing But Thieves	United Kingdom
71	Perfect Places	Lorde	New Zealand
72	In Cold Blood	alt-J	United Kingdom
73	Nuclear Fusion	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Australia
74	XO Tour Llif3	Lil Uzi Vert	United States
75	Braindead	Dune Rats	Australia
76	Cloud 9	Baker Boy featuring Kian	Australia
77	Million Man	The Rubens	Australia
78	Electric Feel (Like a Version)	Tash Sultana	Australia
79	Hey, Did I Do You Wrong?	San Cisco	Australia
80	Say Something Loving	The xx	United Kingdom
81	Liability	Lorde	New Zealand
82	1-800-273-8255	Logic featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid	United States /  Canada
83	Blood Brothers	Amy Shark	Australia
84	Oceans	Vallis Alps	Australia
85	Does This Last	Boo Seeka	Australia
86	Maybe It's My First Time	Meg Mac	Australia
87	The Way You Used to Do	Queens of the Stone Age	United States
88	Edge of Town (Like a Version)	Paul Dempsey	Australia
89	Dawning	DMA's	Australia
90	Hyperreal	Flume featuring Kučka	Australia
91	Big for Your Boots	Stormzy	United Kingdom
92	Love	Kendrick Lamar featuring Zacari	United States
93	Do What You Want	The Presets	Australia
94	Second Hand Car	Kim Churchill	Australia
95	Mask Off	Future	United States
96	Chasin'	Cub Sport	Australia
97	Loyalty	Kendrick Lamar featuring Rihanna	United States /  Barbados
98	Snow	Angus & Julia Stone	Australia
99	Arty Boy	Flight Facilities featuring Emma Louise	Australia
100	Don't Leave	Snakehips and MØ	United Kingdom /  Denmark

Artists with multiple entries

Four entries

• Kendrick Lamar (1, 34, 92, 97)
• Gang of Youths (2, 5, 10, 41)
• Lorde (6, 14, 71, 81)
• The Jungle Giants (16, 50, 57, 59)

Three entries

• Khalid (twice solo and once with Logic) (13, 62, 82)
• Tash Sultana (28, 43, 78)

Two entries

• Angus & Julia Stone (3, 98)
• Thundamentals (8, 61)
• Peking Duk (12, 20)
• Vera Blue (15, 29)
• Baker Boy (17, 76)
• The Smith Street Band (21, 49)
• Amy Shark (25, 83)
• Meg Mac (30, 86)
• Alex Lahey (36, 45)
• Dune Rats (55, 75)
• Rihanna (once with N.E.R.D and once with Kendrick Lamar) (66, 97)

Countries represented

•   Australia – 65
•   United States – 19
•   United Kingdom – 12
•   New Zealand – 4
•   Canada – 3
•   Barbados – 2
•   Denmark – 1
•   Ireland – 1
•   Sweden – 1

Top 10 Albums of 2017

The annual Triple J album poll was held across November and December and was announced on 10 December. ^[29] Three of the top ten albums included singles that were released in 2016 and appeared in that year's Hottest 100.

Note: Australian artists

Bold indicates winner.

#	Artist	Album	Country of origin	Tracks in the Hottest 100
1	Gang of Youths	Go Farther in Lightness	Australia	2, 5, 10
2	Lorde	Melodrama	New Zealand	6, 14, 71, 81
3	Kendrick Lamar	Damn	United States	1, 34, 92, 97
4	The Smith Street Band	More Scared of You than You Are of Me	Australia	21, 49, (21 in 2016)
5	Childish Gambino	"Awaken, My Love!"	United States	(5, 88 in 2016)
6	Alex Lahey	I Love You Like a Brother	Australia	36, 45
7	The Jungle Giants	Quiet Ferocity	Australia	16, 50, 57, 59
8	Vera Blue	Perennial	Australia	15, 29, (78 in 2016)
9	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Flying Microtonal Banana	Australia	73
10	Meg Mac	Low Blows	Australia	30, 86

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