2008 Triple J Hottest 100 | |
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Countdown details | |
Date of countdown | 26 January 2009 |
Countdown highlights | |
Winning song | Kings of Leon "Sex on Fire" |
Most entries | Kings of Leon Nick Littlemore Vampire Weekend (4 tracks) |
The 2008 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2009. It was the sixteenth countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station, Triple J.
2008 was also the first year of the countdown where Triple J made public the full list of songs that did not make the list proper. Coined as the "Hottest 200", the list was released online the day after the main countdown. [1]
Voting commenced on Boxing Day, 26 December 2008, and closed on 18 January 2009. [2] The second half of the countdown was broadcast live from Parramatta Park in New South Wales, with live crosses to the Big Day Out, held at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria. [3]
Over 800,000 votes were received, a record number. [4]
Note: Australian artists
# | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
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1 | Sex on Fire | Kings of Leon | United States |
2 | Electric Feel | MGMT | United States |
3 | Use Somebody | Kings of Leon | United States |
4 | Walking on a Dream | Empire of the Sun | Australia |
5 | Kids | MGMT | United States |
6 | Talk Like That | The Presets | Australia |
7 | The Festival Song | Pez featuring 360 & Hailey Cramer | Australia |
8 | This Boy's in Love | The Presets | Australia |
9 | That's Not My Name | The Ting Tings | United Kingdom |
10 | Jimmy Recard | Drapht | Australia |
11 | My Delirium | Ladyhawke | New Zealand |
12 | Embrace | Pnau featuring Ladyhawke | Australia/New Zealand |
13 | The King Is Dead | The Herd | Australia |
14 | No Sex for Ben | The Rapture | United States |
15 | Lights & Music | Cut Copy | Australia |
16 | You Don't Know Me | Ben Folds featuring Regina Spektor | United States |
17 | Dance wiv Me | Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris &Chrome | United Kingdom |
18 | Time to Pretend | MGMT | United States |
19 | Business Time | Flight of the Conchords | New Zealand |
20 | Broken Bones | Birds of Tokyo | Australia |
21 | Skinny Love | Bon Iver | United States |
22 | Silhouettic | Birds of Tokyo | Australia |
23 | White Noise | The Living End | Australia |
24 | Closer | Kings of Leon | United States |
25 | Never Miss a Beat | Kaiser Chiefs | United Kingdom |
26 | Paris Is Burning | Ladyhawke | New Zealand |
27 | The Lighthouse Song | Josh Pyke | Australia |
28 | That Beep | Architecture in Helsinki | Australia |
29 | Make You Happy | Josh Pyke | Australia |
30 | Oxford Comma | Vampire Weekend | United States |
31 | Bird of Feather | Cog | Australia |
32 | A-Punk | Vampire Weekend | United States |
33 | Always Where I Need to Be | The Kooks | United Kingdom |
34 | Burn Bridges | The Grates | Australia |
35 | Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Australia |
36 | I Will Possess Your Heart | Death Cab for Cutie | United States |
37 | I Said I'm Sorry | British India | Australia |
38 | Something Is Not Right with Me | Cold War Kids | United States |
39 | I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked | Ida Maria | Norway |
40 | Eye of the Storm [nb 1] | Bliss n Eso | Australia |
41 | I Will Never Love You More | Soko | France |
42 | Jungle Drum | Emilíana Torrini | Iceland |
43 | Ghosts | Laura Marling | United Kingdom |
44 | Flippers | Art vs. Science | Australia |
45 | Ice Cream (Triple J live acoustic version) [nb 2] | Muscles | Australia |
46 | The Fear | Lily Allen | United Kingdom |
47 | Coca-Cola | Little Red | Australia |
48 | Stay with Me Bright Eyes | Something with Numbers | Australia |
49 | Young Love | Mystery Jets featuring Laura Marling | United Kingdom |
50 | Breakout | Ash Grunwald | Australia |
51 | Wild Eyed Boy | Birds of Tokyo | Australia |
52 | Human | The Killers | United States |
53 | Window and the Watcher | The Butterfly Effect [nb 3] | Australia |
54 | Baby | Pnau | Australia |
55 | Your Party | Ween | United States |
56 | Yippiyo-Ay | The Presets | Australia |
57 | L.E.S. Artistes | Santogold | United States |
58 | Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa | Vampire Weekend | United States |
59 | Where the City Meets the Sea | The Getaway Plan | Australia |
60 | The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room) | Flight of the Conchords | New Zealand |
61 | The Sea is Rising | Bliss n Eso | Australia |
62 | Sleepwalking | Faker | Australia |
63 | 2020 | The Herd | Australia |
64 | Dawn of the Dead | Does It Offend You, Yeah? | United Kingdom |
65 | White Winter Hymnal | Fleet Foxes | United States |
66 | Farewell Rocketship | Children Collide | Australia |
67 | Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros | Flight of the Conchords | New Zealand |
68 | We Are the People | Empire of the Sun | Australia |
69 | Ready for the Floor | Hot Chip | United Kingdom |
70 | Crawl | Kings of Leon | United States |
71 | One (Blake's Got a New Face) | Vampire Weekend | United States |
72 | No One's Gonna Love You | Band of Horses | United States |
73 | Spaceman | The Killers | United States |
74 | I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You | Black Kids | United States |
75 | Half Full Glass of Wine | Tame Impala | Australia |
76 | Polka | Yves Klein Blue | Australia |
77 | Falling | Drapht | Australia |
78 | Shut Up and Let Me Go | The Ting Tings | United Kingdom |
79 | Jealousy | Sparkadia | Australia |
80 | Aw Yeah | The Grates | Australia |
81 | Pork and Beans | Weezer | United States |
82 | Ulysses | Franz Ferdinand | United Kingdom |
83 | Carve Your Name | The Grates | Australia |
84 | Re-Education (Through Labor) | Rise Against | United States |
85 | 1981 | Gyroscope | Australia |
86 | Beautiful Ugly | Muph & Plutonic | Australia |
87 | Another Way to Die [nb 4] | Jack White [nb 3] and Alicia Keys | United States |
88 | The Day That Never Comes | Metallica | United States |
89 | Love Lockdown | Kanye West | United States |
90 | Fuck You [nb 5] | Lily Allen | United Kingdom |
91 | Neopolitan Dreams | Lisa Mitchell | Australia |
92 | Propane Nightmares | Pendulum | Australia |
93 | Gobbledigook | Sigur Rós | Iceland |
94 | Woodstock 2008 | Bliss n Eso | Australia |
95 | Wearing My Rolex | Wiley | United Kingdom |
96 | Flex (Dave Spoon Reflex) | Dizzee Rascal | United Kingdom |
97 | Are You Interested? | Cog | Australia |
98 | I Like It, I Love It | Lyrics Born | United States |
99 | Don't Worry About Nothin' | Muph & Plutonic | Australia |
100 | It's A War | Dukes of Windsor | Australia |
For the first time since the 1991 countdown, on 27 January 2009, Richard Kingsmill published the #101–#200 list on his blog. [5]
# | Song | Artist | Country of Origin |
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101 | All Alone | Jackson Jackson | Australia |
102 | Sweet Disposition | The Temper Trap | Australia |
103 | Everyone's At It | Lily Allen | United Kingdom |
104 | Social Currency | Children Collide | Australia |
105 | Inner City Pressure | Flight of the Conchords | New Zealand |
106 | Wannabe in L.A. | Eagles of Death Metal | United States |
107 | Computer Love | TZU | Australia |
108 | Pennnywhistle | Augie March | Australia |
109 | Changes | Van She | Australia |
110 | Mercury | Bloc Party | United Kingdom |
111 | Too Much To Do | Sparkadia | Australia |
112 | Halo | Bloc Party | United Kingdom |
113 | Weekend Wars | MGMT | United States |
114 | More News From Nowhere | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Australia |
115 | Rainbow Kraut | The John Steel Singers | Australia |
116 | Revelry | Kings of Leon | United States |
117 | Great DJ | The Ting Tings | United Kingdom |
118 | Nine in the Afternoon | Panic! at the Disco | United States |
119 | Det snurrar i min skalle | Familjen | Sweden |
120 | Leeds United | Amanda Palmer | United States |
121 | Dusk Till Dawn | Ladyhawke | New Zealand |
122 | Next in Line | Dead Letter Circus | Australia |
123 | Happiness | Goldfrapp | United Kingdom |
124 | Gamma Ray | Beck | United States |
125 | Discipline | Nine Inch Nails | United States |
126 | Invaders Must Die | The Prodigy | United Kingdom |
127 | Talons | Bloc Party | United Kingdom |
128 | Night Reconnaissance | The Dresden Dolls | United States |
129 | We Walk | The Ting Tings | United Kingdom |
130 | Golden Age | TV on the Radio | United States |
131 | Lost in the Post | The Wombats | United Kingdom |
132 | Pumpkin Soup | Kate Nash | United Kingdom |
133 | Let Me See You | Girl Talk | United States |
134 | Daddy's Gone | Glasvegas | United Kingdom |
135 | Smash the Piñata | Mammal | Australia |
136 | Happy In My Hoody | Bliss n Eso featuring Hyjak & Phrase | Australia |
137 | Skeleton Dance | Children Collide | Australia |
138 | Kicking & Screaming | The Presets | Australia |
139 | Backfire at the Disco | The Wombats | United Kingdom |
140 | Reaction | Dead Letter Circus | Australia |
141 | Cult Romance | Tom Ugly | Australia |
142 | Big Jumps | Emilíana Torrini | Iceland |
143 | Desire Be, Desire Go | Tame Impala | Australia |
144 | Black Sally | Funkoars featuring Maurice Greer | Australia |
145 | If I Know You | The Presets | Australia |
146 | Little Bit | Lykke Li | Sweden |
147 | M79 | Vampire Weekend | United States |
148 | Your Call | Hermitude featuring Urthboy & Elana Stone | Australia |
149 | Out There on the Ice | Cut Copy | Australia |
150 | Clockwork | Phrase | Australia |
151 | Final Conversation | The Butterfly Effect | Australia |
152 | Far Away | Cut Copy | Australia |
153 | Hiroshima (B-B-B-Benny Hit His Head) | Ben Folds | United States |
154 | How Do We Know? | The Living End | Australia |
155 | White Witch | Birds of Tokyo | Australia |
156 | Manhattan | Kings of Leon | United States |
157 | Dark Shades of Blue | Xavier Rudd | Australia |
158 | Two Doors Down | Mystery Jets | United Kingdom |
159 | The Youth | MGMT | United States |
160 | The Devil Called Me A Liar | Ash Grunwald | Australia |
161 | Kids (Like a Version) | The Kooks | United Kingdom |
162 | Many Shades of Black | The Raconteurs | United States |
163 | Say Your Last Goodbye | Cog | Australia |
164 | He Doesn't Know Why | Fleet Foxes | United States |
165 | Violet Hill | Coldplay | United Kingdom |
166 | Which Way to Go | Eddy Current Suppression Ring | Australia |
167 | Lucid Dreams | Franz Ferdinand | United Kingdom |
168 | Colour Day Tours | Trial Kennedy | Australia |
169 | He's a Rocker | The Vines | Australia |
170 | This Dance is Loaded | British India | Australia |
171 | 5 Years Time | Noah and the Whale | United Kingdom |
172 | Bowie | Flight of the Conchords | New Zealand |
173 | Mouthwash | Kate Nash | United Kingdom |
174 | Milk Eyes | The Grates | Australia |
175 | Shadows | The Getaway Plan | Australia |
176 | The Love Me or Die | C. W. Stoneking | Australia |
177 | You Will Die and I Will Take Over | British India | Australia |
178 | Got to Do | TZU | Australia |
179 | Strange Times | The Black Keys | United States |
180 | Ode to LRC | Band of Horses | United States |
181 | I Want You | Kings of Leon | United States |
182 | Turbo Love | Bag Raiders | Australia |
183 | Strangers | Van She | Australia |
184 | Fussy | End of Fashion | Australia |
185 | It's Alright | Little Red | Australia |
186 | Polite Dance Song | The Bird and the Bee | United States |
187 | Zug Zug | The Herd | Australia |
188 | I'm Good, I'm Gone | Lykke Li | Sweden |
189 | In Step | Girl Talk | United States |
190 | Half Mast | Empire of the Sun | Australia |
191 | Geraldine | Glasvegas | United Kingdom |
192 | Lights Out | Santigold | United States |
193 | Moment of Truth | Blue King Brown | Australia |
194 | Something Good 08 (Van She Tech Mix) | Utah Saints | United Kingdom/Australia |
195 | Mistress Mabel | The Fratellis | United Kingdom |
196 | All in on One | Gyroscope | Australia |
197 | Strength in Numbers | The Music | United Kingdom |
198 | In These Hands | The Butterfly Effect | Australia |
199 | Ladies of the World | Flight of the Conchords | New Zealand |
200 | Awkward Orchid Orchid | The Boat People | Australia |
# | Artist | Tracks |
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4 | Kings of Leon | 1, 3, 24, 70 |
Nick Littlemore [nb 6] | 4, 12, 54, 68 | |
Vampire Weekend | 30, 32, 58, 71 | |
3 | MGMT | 2, 5, 18 |
The Presets | 6, 8, 56 | |
Ladyhawke [nb 7] | 11, 12, 26 | |
Flight of the Conchords | 19, 60, 67 | |
Birds of Tokyo | 20, 22, 51 | |
Lily Allen [nb 8] | 25, 46, 90 | |
The Grates | 34, 80, 83 | |
Bliss n Eso | 40, 61, 94 | |
2 | Empire of the Sun | 4, 68 |
The Ting Tings | 9, 78 | |
Drapht | 10, 77 | |
Pnau | 12, 54 | |
Dizzie Rascal | 17, 96 | |
The Herd | 13, 63 | |
Cog | 31, 97 | |
Josh Pyke | 27, 29 | |
Laura Marling [nb 9] | 43, 49 | |
The Killers | 52, 73 | |
Muph and Plutonic | 86, 99 |
Country | # |
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Australia | 48 |
United States | 29 |
United kingdom | 14 |
New Zealand [nb 10] | 6 |
Iceland | 2 |
France | 1 |
Norway | 1 |
Bold indicates winner of the Hottest 100. The Presets won the J Award for Apocalypso .
# | Artist | Album | Country of Origin | Tracks in the Hottest 100 |
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1 | Kings of Leon | Only by the Night [6] | United States | 1, 3, 24, 70 |
2 | The Presets | Apocalypso | Australia | 6, 8, 56 (18 in 2007) |
3 | MGMT | Oracular Spectacular | United States | 2, 5, 18 |
4 | Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend | United States | 30, 32, 58, 71 |
5 | Birds of Tokyo | Universes | Australia | 20, 22, 51 |
6 | Cut Copy | In Ghost Colours | Australia | 15 (39 in 2007) |
7 | Bloc Party | Intimacy | United Kingdom | DNC (110, 112, 127 in Hottest 200) |
8 | The Grates | Teeth Lost, Hearts Won | Australia | 34, 80, 83 |
9 | Empire of the Sun | Walking on a Dream | Australia | 4, 68 |
10 | Josh Pyke | Chimney's Afire | Australia | 27, 29 |
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