The mud has settled on Australian youth broadcaster triple j’s cyclone countdown, with INXS topping their Hottest 100 of Australian Songs ballot.
Unveiled on Saturday (July 26), the occasion was a variation from the station’s regular countdowns, which have been held yearly since 1993 as a solution to decide the listener base’s favourite observe of the earlier calendar yr.
Different one-off occasions have taken place through the years, with their most recent occurring in 2023 when the station counted down the listener-voted ballot of the very best performances from their common Like a Version collection.
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Nevertheless, whereas January’s 2024 countdown revealed that listeners liked Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” essentially the most, it additionally resulted within the lowest displaying for native artists in 29 years. With triple j additionally celebrating their fiftieth anniversary that very same month, it was announced in June {that a} new ballot would happen focusing solely on Australian artists.
Topping the checklist of homegrown favorites was INXS’ 1987 observe “By no means Tear Us Aside,” taken from their Kick album, which gave the Sydney group a career-best when it peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 upon its launch.
Whereas the file spawned 4 charting singles – together with “Want You Tonight,” “Satan Inside,” and “New Sensation” which hit the highest three spots on Billboard’s Scorching 100, respectively – “By no means Tear Us Aside” was the file’s least-successful, hitting a still-impressive No. 7.
The band’s look within the ballot was the primary time they appeared in a Hottest 100 countdown, finally putting twice alongside the aforementioned “Want You Tonight” at No. 59.
The rest of the highest ten featured South Australian hip-hop pioneers the Hilltop Hoods at No. 2 with “The Nosebleed Part,” and sibling duo The Veronicas at No. 3 with “Untouched,” which had beforehand peaked at No. 17 on the Scorching 100 in 2009.
Missy Higgins’ “Scar” and Crowded Home’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over” (No. 2 on the Scorching 100 in 1987) rounded out the highest 5. In the meantime Powderfinger’s “My Happiness” (which had beforehand topped the station’s annual ballot in 2000) adopted at #6, earlier than back-to-back placings by pub-rock stalwarts Chilly Chisel have been joined by Paul Kelly’s perennial seasonal anthem “Easy methods to Make Gravy.”
The highest ten was capped off by Gotye‘s 2011 chart-topper “Any individual That I Used to Know,” whereas the one different observe within the countdown to have beforehand topped the Scorching 100 was Males at Work’s 1981 single “Down Underneath,” which reached No. 21.
The ultimate tally was the results of 2.6 million votes, with the typical yr of songs featured being 1999.
triple j’s sister station, Double J, are presently within the means of counting down the songs that positioned within the 200 – 101 positions all through the approaching week, earlier than a further airing of these songs takes place on Saturday (Aug. 2).
The complete checklist of triple j’s Hottest 100 of Australian Songs might be discovered through the station’s website.