Triple J Hottest 100, 2014

2014 Triple J Hottest 100
Countdown details
Date of countdown	26 January 2015
Countdown highlights
Winning song	Chet Faker "Talk Is Cheap"
Most entries	Chet Faker (4 tracks)
Chronology
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The 2014 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2015. It was the 22nd countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. It was won by "Talk Is Cheap", one of three songs that Chet Faker had in the top 10 (the others being "1998" and "Gold"). ^[1]

Voting commenced in mid-December 2014, and closed on 18 January 2015. Voters nominated ten songs that were released between December 2013 and November 2014 and submitted them through the Triple J website. ^[2] In total, over 2 million votes were cast, breaking the previous record set in 2012. The year's countdown was notable for having seven Australian artists in the top ten and the top three positions being awarded to Australians, the first year for both to have occurred.

BuzzFeed campaigned for Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off" ^[3] but the track was eventually disqualified. ^[4]

Full list

Note: Australian artists

No.	Song	Artist	Country of origin
1	Talk Is Cheap	Chet Faker	Australia
2	High	Peking Duk featuring Nicole Millar	Australia
3	Cosby Sweater	Hilltop Hoods	Australia
4	Stolen Dance	Milky Chance	Germany
5	Take Me Over	Peking Duk featuring SAFIA	Australia
6	Uptown Funk	Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars	United Kingdom /  United States
7	Gold	Chet Faker	Australia
8	1998	Chet Faker	Australia
9	Chandelier	Sia	Australia
10	King and Cross	Ásgeir	Iceland
11	Faded	Zhu	United States
12	Gooey	Glass Animals	United Kingdom
13	Mess Is Mine	Vance Joy	Australia
14	Every Other Freckle	alt-J	United Kingdom
15	Arcadia	The Kite String Tangle	Australia
16	Left Hand Free	alt-J	United Kingdom
17	Tightrope	Illy featuring Scarlett Stevens	Australia
18	Yellow Flicker Beat	Lorde	New Zealand
19	She Only Loves Me When I'm There	Ball Park Music	Australia
20	Gold Snafu	Sticky Fingers	Australia
21	(Lover) You Don't Treat Me No Good ( Like a Version )	Chet Faker	Australia
22	Pittsburgh	The Amity Affliction	Australia
23	Seasons (Waiting on You)	Future Islands	United States
24	Roll Up Your Sleeves	Meg Mac	Australia
25	I'll Go Crazy	Bluejuice	Australia
26	Hunger of the Pine	alt-J	United Kingdom
27	Beggin for Thread	Banks	United States
28	Beware the Dog	The Griswolds	Australia
29	Somebody's Talking	The Preatures	Australia
30	Something I Said	Thundamentals featuring Thom Crawford	Australia
31	Sober	Childish Gambino	United States
32	West Coast	Lana Del Rey	United States
33	RUN	San Cisco	Australia
34	New Dorp. New York	SBTRKT featuring Ezra Koenig	United Kingdom /  United States
35	You Always Know the DJ	Allday	Australia
36	Won't Let You Down	Hilltop Hoods featuring Maverick Sabre	Australia /  United Kingdom
37	I Want U	Alison Wonderland	Australia
38	My Silver Lining	First Aid Kit	Sweden
39	Two Bodies	Flight Facilities featuring Emma Louise	Australia
40	Mother & Father	Broods	New Zealand
41	Maybe	Carmada	Australia
42	Window to the Sky	Kim Churchill	Australia
43	Zombie	Jamie T	United Kingdom
44	Flashed Junk Mind	Milky Chance	Germany
45	Two Weeks	FKA twigs	United Kingdom
46	Grandma's Hands	Meg Mac	Australia
47	Tennis Court (Flume Remix)	Lorde	New Zealand /  Australia
48	Delete	DMA's	Australia
49	Happy Idiot	TV on the Radio	United States
50	First Time	Vance Joy	Australia
51	Pickles from the Jar	Courtney Barnett	Australia
52	Sunshine	Flight Facilities featuring Reggie Watts	Australia /  United States
53	i	Kendrick Lamar	United States
54	Do I Wanna Know? (Like a Version)	Chvrches	United Kingdom
55	Can't Do Without You	Caribou	Canada
56	ICFTYDLM	Kingswood	Australia
57	Walking Under Stars	Hilltop Hoods	Australia
58	Everything Is Shit Except My Friendship with You	Ball Park Music	Australia
59	Monument ( The Inevitable End Version)	Röyksopp and Robyn	Norway /  Sweden
60	Sweatpants	Childish Gambino	United States
61	Talk Too Much	Andy Bull	Australia
62	Heart Beats Slow	Angus & Julia Stone	Australia
63	Red Eyes	The War on Drugs	United States
64	Don't Lean on Me	The Amity Affliction	Australia
65	Right Now	Allday	Australia
66	Work Work	clipping. featuring Cocc Pistol Cree	United States
67	Busy Earnin'	Jungle	United Kingdom
68	Drown	Bring Me the Horizon	United Kingdom
69	Surrender	The Smith Street Band	Australia
70	Is It a Banger?	Odd Mob	Australia
71	The Weigh Down	The Amity Affliction	Australia
72	Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)	Run the Jewels featuring Zack de la Rocha	United States
73	Do It Again	Röyksopp and Robyn	Norway /  Sweden
74	I Got U	Duke Dumont featuring Jax Jones	United Kingdom
75	Cocoon	Catfish and the Bottlemen	United Kingdom
76	Micro Wars	Kingswood	Australia
77	Since Last Wednesday	Highasakite	Norway
78	Quit Your Job	Thundamentals	Australia
79	Lazaretto	Jack White	United States
80	I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore	Rise Against	United States
81	Fade Out Lines	The Avener	France
82	Dreamers	Hopium featuring Phoebe Lou	Australia
83	Wrong Direction	British India	Australia
84	Something from Nothing	Foo Fighters	United States
85	Get Away	Chvrches	United Kingdom
86	Just for You	Sticky Fingers	Australia
87	Pray to God	Calvin Harris featuring Haim	United Kingdom /  United States
88	Gina Works at Hearts	DZ Deathrays	Australia
89	First	Cold War Kids	United States
90	Got Love	Thundamentals featuring Solo	Australia
91	Bridges (Like a Version)	Meg Mac	Australia
92	Talk Talk	George Maple	Australia
93	Georgia	Vance Joy	Australia
94	Liquorlip Loaded Gun	Sticky Fingers	Australia
95	Your Graduation	Modern Baseball	United States
96	Luna	Bombay Bicycle Club	United Kingdom
97	Brain	Banks	United States
98	So Soldier	#1 Dads featuring Ainslie Wills	Australia
99	Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds	SAFIA	Australia
100	Between Friends	Japanese Wallpaper featuring Jesse Davidson	Australia

Artists with multiple entries

Four tracks

• Chet Faker (1, 7, 8, 21)

Three tracks

• Hilltop Hoods (3, 36, 57)
• Vance Joy (13, 50, 93)
• alt-J (14, 16, 26)
• Sticky Fingers (20, 86, 94)
• The Amity Affliction (22, 64, 71)
• Meg Mac (24, 46, 91)
• Thundamentals (30, 78, 90)

Two tracks

• Peking Duk (2, 5)
• Milky Chance (4, 44)
• Safia (Once with Peking Duk and once solo) (5, 99)
• Scarlett Stevens (Once with Illy and once with San Cisco) (17, 33)
• Lorde (18, 47) (Once solo and once remixed by Flume)
• Ball Park Music (19, 58)
• Banks (27, 97)
• Childish Gambino (31, 60)
• Allday (35, 65)
• Flight Facilities (39, 52)
• Chvrches (54, 85)
• Kingswood (56, 76)
• Röyksopp and Robyn (59, 73)

Countries represented

• Australia – 56
• United States – 21
• United Kingdom – 17
• New Zealand – 3
• Sweden – 3
• Norway – 3
• Germany – 2
• Canada – 1
• France – 1
• Iceland – 1

Notes

• The 2014 Hottest 100 marks only the third time all Top 3 songs have been from Australian artists, following the countdowns for 1999 and 2006.
• 78 unique musical acts appeared on this countdown, 15 of which featured additional artists collaborating.
• This year's Hottest 100 gathered over 2 million votes, the first to break the 2 million vote mark and the holds the record for the highest number of votes in a single countdown.
• Chet Faker is the first artist to win the Hottest 100, Triple J Album Poll, the J Award and achieve the most tracks in a countdown in a single year.
  • Chet Faker joins Denis Leary (1993), Alex Lloyd (2001), Bernard Fanning (2005) and Vance Joy (2013) as the only outright solo countdown winners.
  • Chet Faker became the second artist to chart three times in the top 10 places after Powderfinger achieved the feat in 2003.
• Royal Blood became the fourth band after Doves in 2000, Bloc Party in 2008 and Cut Copy in 2011 to make the albums poll but not feature in the Hottest 100. It was later revealed by Triple J that the band had come 102nd, 105th and 117th.
• Vance Joy is the first artist since Franz Ferdinand in 2005 to feature in the Hottest 100 the year after winning the countdown.
• The song "Do I Wanna Know?" by the Arctic Monkeys charted in the countdown for the second year in a row after a cover by Chvrches featured at No. 54. Similarly "Tennis Court" by Lorde which came second in the previous years countdown, came in at No. 47 with a remix by Flume.
• Illy made his sixth consecutive appearance in the Hottest 100, having appeared in every annual countdown since 2009. Similarly, Flight Facilities made their fifth consecutive appearance, having appeared since 2010.
• This year marked the end of the annual Hottest 100 DVD releases.

CD release

The Triple J Hottest 100 CD for 2014 is the twenty second edition of the series. The track list was revealed on Triple J's Facebook page on 2 February 2015; ^[5] the double-CD was released on 27 February 2015. ^[6]

No.	Title	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Talk Is Cheap" (#1)	Chet Faker	3:39
2.	"High" (#2)	Peking Duk featuring Nicole Millar	3:52
3.	"Cosby Sweater" (#3)	Hilltop Hoods	3:36
4.	"Stolen Dance" (#4)	Milky Chance	5:14
5.	"King And Cross" (#10)	Ásgeir	3:30
6.	"Faded" (#11)	ZHU	3:42
7.	"I Want U" (#37)	Alison Wonderland	3:37
8.	"Pittsburgh" (#22)	The Amity Affliction	3:41
9.	"Every Other Freckle" (#14)	alt-J	3:36
10.	"Something I Said" (#30)	Thundamentals featuring Thom Crawford	3:58
11.	"Happy Idiot" (#49)	TV On The Radio	3:03
12.	"Window To The Sky" (#42)	Kim Churchill	4:10
13.	"Roll Up Your Sleeves" (#24)	Meg Mac	3:02
14.	"Maybe" (#41)	Carmada	3:32
15.	"Run" (#33)	San Cisco	2:51
16.	"Pickles From The Jar" (#51)	Courtney Barnett	2:55
17.	"Beggin For Thread" (#27)	Banks	4:10
18.	"Arcadia" (#15)	The Kite String Tangle	3:50
19.	"She Only Loves Me When I'm There" (#19)	Ball Park Music	4:24
20.	"Sober" (#31)	Childish Gambino	4:12
21.	"West Coast" (#32)	Lana Del Rey	4:17

Disc 2

No.	Title	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Uptown Funk" (#6)	Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars	4:30
2.	"Chandelier" (#9)	Sia	3:36
3.	"Mess Is Mine" (#13)	Vance Joy	3:44
4.	"Gooey" (#12)	Glass Animals	4:49
5.	"Somebody's Talking" (#29)	The Preatures	3:20
6.	"Seasons (Waiting On You)" (#23)	Future Islands	3:47
7.	"Tightrope" (#17)	Illy featuring Scarlett Stevens	4:00
8.	"Gold Snafu" (#20)	Sticky Fingers	3:54
9.	"I'll Go Crazy" (#25)	Bluejuice	3:23
10.	"Beware The Dog" (#28)	The Griswolds	3:14
11.	"New Dorp, New York" (#34)	SBTRKT featuring Ezra Koenig	3:50
12.	"Two Weeks" (#45)	FKA Twigs	4:08
13.	"My Silver Lining" (#38)	First Aid Kit	3:35
14.	"Delete" (#48)	DMA's	3:26
15.	"I Can Feel That You Don't Love Me" (#56)	Kingswood	4:17
16.	"You Always Know The DJ" (#35)	Allday	3:11
17.	"Two Bodies" (#39)	Flight Facilities featuring Emma Louise	4:43
18.	"Mother & Father" (#40)	Broods	3:30
19.	"Zombie" (#43)	Jamie T	3:10
20.	"Surrender" (#69)	The Smith Street Band	3:42
21.	"Can't Do Without You" (#55)	Caribou	3:56

Top 10 Albums of 2014

A smaller poll of Triple J listeners' favourite albums of the year was held in December 2014. ^{[7] [8]}

Note: Australian artists

#	Artist	Album	Country of origin	Hottest 100 Entries
1	Chet Faker	Built on Glass	Australia	1, 7, 8, (65 in 2013)
2	Ball Park Music	Puddinghead	Australia	19, 58
3	alt-J	This Is All Yours	United Kingdom	14, 16, 26
4	Hilltop Hoods	Walking Under Stars	Australia	3, 36, 57
5	Sticky Fingers	Land of Pleasure	Australia	20, 86, 94
6	Flight Facilities	Down to Earth	Australia	39, 52, (19 in 2010), (17 in 2012), (48 in 2013), (83, 85 in 2015)
7	Royal Blood	Royal Blood	United Kingdom	DNC (102, 105, 117 in Hottest 200)
8	Vance Joy	Dream Your Life Away	Australia	13, 50, 93, (1 in 2013), (16 in 2015)
9	Thundamentals	So We Can Remember	Australia	30, 78, 90, (32 in 2013)
10	The Preatures	Blue Planet Eyes	Australia	29, (9 in 2013)

References

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