Triple J Hottest 100, 2016

2016 Triple J Hottest 100
Countdown details
Date of countdown	26 January 2017
Countdown highlights
Winning song	Flume featuring Kai ("Never Be like You")
Most entries	Violent Soho (5)
Chronology
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The 2016 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2017. It is the 24th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J.

2016's countdown broke several Hottest 100 records, including number of votes (over 2.25 million), number of songs by Australian acts both in the whole list (66 out of the 100) and at its top (all of the top four), ^[1] and longest absence between countdowns (16 years for Paul Kelly). With the first-place win of Australian producer Flume for "Never Be like You", 2016 marks a record-breaking fourth consecutive annual countdown in which the number-one track was by an Australian act, after Vance Joy in 2013, Chet Faker in 2014, and The Rubens in 2015. Flume became the first electronic dance music producer to top the 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 2015 and November 2016 was eligible for 2016's Hottest 100. Triple J published a list of 1,909 eligible songs on their 2016 Voting List. ^[2] Voting commenced on 12 December 2016, as announced by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki in a nature mockumentary depicting a live music event. The short film featured cameo appearances from many musicians, ^[3] along with Dr Karl doing a shoey. ^{[4] [5]}

Several artists and presenters made their Hottest 100 votes public. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]} The artists most often voted for by Triple J presenters were: D.D Dumbo; Kanye West; Julia Jacklin, who was not ultimately featured in the countdown; and A.B. Original, who are vocal critics of Australia Day (in 2016, Triple J announced a review of the countdown's date in response to criticism from the group and others). ^{[10] [11]} On 12 December, bookmakers Sportsbet.com.au and William Hill placed Flume's "Never Be like You" as the song most likely to take out first place by a significant margin, with a Sportsbet representative stating that they have "never seen such a short favourite at this stage".

Voting closed on 23 January 2017. By 25 January, the day before the countdown, bookmakers and media reports identified Flume's "Never Be like You" and Amy Shark's "Adore" as the clear frontrunners for first place. ^{[12] [13] [14]}

Full list

Note: Australian artists

#	Song	Artist	Country of origin
1	Never Be like You	Flume featuring Kai	Australia/Canada
2	Adore	Amy Shark	Australia
3	Jungle	Tash Sultana	Australia
4	1955	Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Tom Thum	Australia
5	Redbone	Childish Gambino	United States
6	Believe (Like a Version)	DMA's	Australia
7	Papercuts	Illy featuring Vera Blue	Australia
8	Say It	Flume featuring Tove Lo	Australia/Sweden
9	Stranger	Peking Duk featuring Elliphant	Australia/Sweden
10	Starboy	The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk	Canada/France
11	Chameleon	Pnau	Australia
12	Cocoon	Milky Chance	Germany
13	Love$ick	Mura Masa featuring ASAP Rocky	Guernsey/United States
14	Viceroy	Violent Soho	Australia
15	Genghis Khan	Miike Snow	Sweden
16	January 26	A.B. Original featuring Dan Sultan	Australia
17	The Opposite of Us	Big Scary	Australia
18	All Night	Chance the Rapper featuring Knox Fortune	United States
19	7	Catfish and the Bottlemen	United Kingdom
20	On Hold	The xx	United Kingdom
21	Death to the Lads	The Smith Street Band	Australia
22	Ultralight Beam	Kanye West	United States
23	Catch 22	Illy featuring Anne-Marie	Australia/United Kingdom
24	Come On Mess Me Up	Cub Sport	Australia
25	Because I Love You	Montaigne	Australia
26	Make Them Wheels Roll	Safia	Australia
27	Drive	Gretta Ray	Australia
28	Frankie Sinatra	The Avalanches	Australia
29	Our Town	Sticky Fingers	Australia
30	Innerbloom (What So Not Remix)	Rüfüs	Australia
31	One Dance	Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla	Canada/Nigeria/United Kingdom
32	Notion	Tash Sultana	Australia
33	Bullshit	Dune Rats	Australia
34	Scott Green	Dune Rats	Australia
35	World of Our Love	Client Liaison	Australia
36	Sad Songs	Sticky Fingers	Australia
37	Smoke & Retribution	Flume featuring Vince Staples and Kučka	Australia/United States
38	Youth	Glass Animals	United Kingdom
39	Step Up the Morphine	DMA's	Australia
40	Surfin'	Kid Cudi featuring Pharrell	United States
41	I Feel It Coming	The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk	Canada/France
42	Heartlines	Broods	New Zealand
43	Final Song	MØ	Denmark
44	Satan	D.D Dumbo	Australia
45	Dumb Things (Like a Version)	A.B. Original featuring Paul Kelly and Dan Sultan	Australia
46	Dang!	Mac Miller featuring Anderson .Paak	United States
47	Walrus	D.D Dumbo	Australia
48	Creepin	Kingswood	Australia
49	Higher	Hilltop Hoods featuring James Chatburn	Australia
50	Strange Diseases	Gang of Youths	Australia
51	Outcast at Last	Sticky Fingers	Australia
52	Love Yourself (Like a Version)	Halsey	United States
53	Blanket	Violent Soho	Australia
54	Bored to Death	Blink-182	United States
55	Say a Prayer for Me	Rüfüs	Australia
56	Keeping Score (Like a Version)	Paces featuring Guy Sebastian	Australia
57	Twice	Catfish and the Bottlemen	United Kingdom
58	Girlie Bits	Ali Barter	Australia
59	Solo	Frank Ocean	United States
60	Drinkee	Sofi Tukker	Germany/United States
61	Gamma Knife	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Australia
62	Marinade	Dope Lemon	Australia
63	Life Itself	Glass Animals	United Kingdom
64	Alaska	Maggie Rogers	United States
65	All Fucked Up	The Amity Affliction	Australia
66	Hold Up	Beyoncé	United States
67	I Bring the Weather with Me	The Amity Affliction	Australia
68	Next to You	L D R U featuring Savoi	Australia
69	So Sentimental	Violent Soho	Australia
70	Wolfie	Golden Features featuring Julia Stone	Australia
71	Free	Broods	New Zealand
72	Famous	Kanye West	United States
73	No Shade	Violent Soho	Australia
74	Lost: Season One	Camp Cope	Australia
75	Because I'm Me	The Avalanches	Australia
76	This Could Be Heartbreak	The Amity Affliction	Australia
77	Soundcheck	Catfish and the Bottlemen	United Kingdom
78	Settle	Vera Blue	Australia
79	Burn the Witch	Radiohead	United Kingdom
80	Gemini Feed	Banks	United States
81	Panda	Desiigner	United States
82	Think About It	Thundamentals featuring Peta & the Wolves	Australia
83	Simulation	Tkay Maidza	Australia
84	Pink + White	Frank Ocean	United States
85	My Love Is Gone	Safia	Australia
86	Dopamine	Bliss n Eso featuring Thief	Australia
87	Uptown Folks	Dope Lemon	Australia
88	Me and Your Mama	Childish Gambino	United States
89	Over You	Safia	Australia
90	Anything Near Conviction	Luca Brasi	Australia
91	Subways	The Avalanches	Australia
92	How to Taste	Violent Soho	Australia
93	High and Low	Empire of the Sun	Australia
94	Fading	Vallis Alps	Australia
95	Lose It	Flume featuring Vic Mensa	Australia/United States
96	Hanging by a Thread	Elk Road featuring Natalie Foster	Australia
97	You Don't Think You Like People Like Me	Alex Lahey	Australia
98	Season 2 Episode 3	Glass Animals	United Kingdom
99	Too Good	Drake featuring Rihanna	Canada/Barbados
100	Brace	Birds of Tokyo	Australia

Artists with multiple entries

Five entries

• Violent Soho (14, 53, 69, 73, 92)

Four entries

• Flume (1, 8, 37, 95)

Three entries

• Catfish and the Bottlemen (19, 57, 77)
• Safia (26, 85, 89)
• The Avalanches (28, 75, 91)
• Sticky Fingers (29, 36, 51)
• Glass Animals (38, 63, 98)
• The Amity Affliction (65, 67, 76)

Two entries

• Tash Sultana (3, 32)
• Hilltop Hoods (4, 49)
• Montaigne (once solo and once with Hilltop Hoods) (4, 25)
• Childish Gambino (5, 88)
• DMA's (6, 39)
• Illy (7, 23)
• Vera Blue (once solo and once with Illy) (7, 78)
• The Weeknd (10, 41)
• Daft Punk (twice with The Weeknd) (10, 41)
• Nick Littlemore (once with Pnau and once with Empire of the Sun) (11, 93)
• A.B. Original (16, 45)
• Dan Sultan (twice with A.B. Original) (16, 45)
• Kanye West (22, 72)
• Rüfüs (30, 55)
• Drake (31, 99)
• Dune Rats (33, 34)
• Broods (42, 71)
• D.D Dumbo (44, 47)
• Frank Ocean (59, 84)
• Dope Lemon (62, 87)

Countries represented

• Australia – 66 ^[1]
• United States – 21
• United Kingdom – 12
• Canada – 5
• Sweden – 3
• France – 2
• Germany – 2
• New Zealand – 2
• Barbados – 1
• Denmark – 1
• Nigeria – 1

Notes

• The four highest-ranked tracks in the 2016 Hottest 100 were all by Australian artists (excluding the vocal feature of Canadian singer Kai on "Never Be like You"), which marks the longest continuous streak of Australians at the countdown's top, and the first time that the top four songs were by artists from the same country.
• The 2016 list includes four covers recorded for Triple J's Like a Version: the DMA's cover of Cher; the A.B. Original cover of Paul Kelly; the Halsey cover of Justin Bieber; and the Paces cover of L D R U. This breaks the record of three Like a Version covers set by Chet Faker, Chvrches, and Meg Mac in 2014.
• Nine songs in a row were by Australian artists in 2016, between positions #97 and #89, breaking the longest run of eight consecutive Australian songs set in 1999, 2012, and 2014.
• Paul Kelly's feature on the A.B. Original cover of "Dumb Things" set the record for the longest absence between countdowns; Kelly last appeared in the 2000 countdown.
  • Earlier in the same countdown, The Avalanches' "Subways" broke the prior record of 13 years for the longest absence between countdowns; they last appeared in 2001.
• The 2016 list features 11 different nationalities, equaling the record set in 1994 and 2015.
  • Wizkid's feature on "One Dance" made him Nigeria's first artist to appear in a Hottest 100, and the Hottest 100's first artist representing an African nation since Angélique Kidjo in 1996.
  • Rihanna's feature on "Too Good" allowed for the first ever appearance of the established pop star, and of an artist from Barbados, in a Hottest 100.
• Five of Violent Soho's tracks feature in the countdown, making them the first artist with over four tracks in one countdown since Hilltop Hoods in 2006.
• The song "Keeping Score" by L D R U made the countdown for the second consecutive year with a cover by Paces and Guy Sebastian.
• This countdown marks the first time the top three tracks have featured female vocalists.
• Gretta Ray's entry in the countdown with her song "Drive" at #27 marks the best Hottest 100 performance by an Unearthed High winner.

Top 10 Albums of 2016

The annual Triple J album poll was held in December and announced on 18 December. ^[15] J Award winner D.D Dumbo missed out on the top 10, with his album Utopia Defeated coming in 11th place.

Note: Australian artists

Bold indicates winner.

#	Artist	Album	Country of origin	Tracks in the Hottest 100
1	Violent Soho	Waco	Australia	14, 53, 69, 73, 92, (15 in 2015)
2	Flume	Skin	Australia	1, 8, 37, 95
3	The Avalanches	Wildflower	Australia	28, 75, 91
4	Rüfüs	Bloom	Australia	30, 55 (12, 28 in 2015)
5	Ball Park Music	Every Night the Same Dream	Australia	DNC (141, 143, 156 in Hottest 200)
6	Sticky Fingers	Westway (The Glitter & the Slums)	Australia	29, 36, 51
7	DMA's	Hills End	Australia	39, (77 in 2015), (48 in 2014)
8	Radiohead	A Moon Shaped Pool	United Kingdom	79
9	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Nonagon Infinity	Australia	61
10	Frank Ocean	Blonde	United States	59, 84

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