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]
2014 Triple J Hottest 100 | |
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Countdown details | |
Date of countdown | 26 January 2015 |
Countdown highlights | |
Winning song | ![]() "Talk Is Cheap" |
Most entries | ![]() (4 tracks) |
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
editNote: Australian artists |
No. | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
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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 | Live It Up | 360 featuring Pez | Australia |
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 | Bad Apples | Briggs | Australia |
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 | Love Me Less | One Day | Australia |
93 | Georgia | Vance Joy | Australia |
94 | Liquorlip Loaded Gun | Sticky Fingers | Australia |
95 | How Much Does Your Love Cost? | Thelma Plum | Australia |
96 | Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds | Safia | Australia |
97 | Between Friends | Japanese Wallpaper featuring Jesse Davidson | Australia |
98 | Luna | Bombay Bicycle Club | United Kingdom |
99 | Trippin' The Light Fantastic | Ball Park Music | Australia |
100 | Switch Lanes | Tkay Maidza | Australia |
#101–#200 List
editOn 1 February 2015, Triple J announced the songs placed 101–200th in the poll.[5][6][7]
# | Song | Artist | Country of Origin |
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101 | Tell Me | Golden Features featuring Nicole Millar | Australia |
102 | Little Monster | Royal Blood | United Kingdom |
103 | Pray to God | Calvin Harris featuring Haim | United Kingdom/United States |
104 | So Soldier | #1 Dads featuring Ainslie Wills | Australia |
105 | Figure It Out | Royal Blood | United Kingdom |
106 | Torrent | Ásgeir | Iceland |
107 | L.A.F | Broods | New Zealand |
108 | Going Home | Ásgeir | Iceland |
109 | Arrows | Fences featuring Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | United States |
110 | Coming of Age | Foster the People | United States |
111 | Cocoon | Catfish and the Bottlemen | United Kingdom |
112 | I Don't Wanna Die | The Smith Street Band | Australia |
113 | Cocaine Lion | Ball Park Music | Australia |
114 | Stunner | Milky Chance | Germany |
115 | Tell Me | RL Grime & What So Not | United States/Australia |
116 | Heavenly Father | Bon Iver | United States |
117 | Ten Tonne Skeleton | Royal Blood | United Kingdom |
118 | Bullit | Watermät | France |
119 | Down on My Luck | Vic Mensa | United States |
120 | Ordinary | The Preatures | Australia |
121 | Fever | The Black Keys | United States |
122 | Talk Talk | George Maple | Australia |
123 | Bones | Dustin Tebbutt | Australia |
124 | Rum Rage | Sticky Fingers | Australia |
125 | All This Could Be Yours | Cold War Kids | United States |
126 | Forgive & Forget | The Kooks | United Kingdom |
127 | Inspector Norse | Todd Terje | Norway |
128 | Carol | The Peep Tempel | Australia |
129 | Ultraviolence | Lana Del Rey | United States |
130 | Look of Love | The Jezabels | Australia |
131 | Create/Destroy | Art vs. Science | Australia |
132 | All the Rage Back Home | Interpol | United States |
133 | I’m Not Coming Back | Husky | Australia |
134 | Leave Your Windows Open | One Day | Australia |
135 | Break tHe Bank | ScHoolboy Q | United States |
136 | The Same Man | Dan Sultan | Australia |
137 | Merewif | Willow Beats | Australia |
138 | My Heart is a Wheel | Megan Washington | Australia |
139 | Paradise Awaits | Zhu | United States |
140 | Land of Pleasure | Sticky Fingers featuring Jesse Davidson | Australia |
141 | Happy (Like a Version) | John Butler Trio | Australia |
142 | Price of Fame | 360 featuring Gossling | Australia |
143 | Better Than It Ever Could Be | The Preatures | Australia |
144 | Flicker | Porter Robinson | United States |
145 | Born to Break Your Heart | Saskwatch | Australia |
146 | Breathe In | Japanese Wallpaper | Australia |
147 | Pool | Glass Animals | United Kingdom |
148 | Aerosol Can | Major Lazer featuring Pharrell Williams | United States |
149 | Brain | Banks | United States |
150 | Cigarettes & Loneliness | Chet Faker | Australia |
151 | Daffodils | Mark Ronson featuring Kevin Parker | United Kingdom/Australia |
152 | Hey Now (Like a Version) | Karnivool | Australia |
153 | Your Graduation | Modern Baseball | United States |
154 | Are You What You Want to Be? | Foster the People | United States |
155 | Bugatti | Tiga featuring Pusha T | Canada/United States |
156 | If You Go | Sticky Fingers | Australia |
157 | The Art of the Handshake | Hilltop Hoods | Australia |
158 | Death’s Hand | The Amity Affliction | Australia |
159 | Seeya | Deadmau5 featuring Colleen D'Agostino | Canada/United States |
160 | Hold Me Down | Mansionair | Australia |
161 | To Me | Chat Faker | Australia |
162 | Eez-eh | Kasabian | United Kingdom |
163 | Get Home | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia |
164 | Best Friend | Foster the People | United States |
165 | Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Like a Version) | Alex Turner | United Kingdom |
166 | Give It All | The Amity Affliction | Australia |
167 | Stolen Dance (Like a Version) | Ásgeir | Iceland |
168 | Wasted Pilots | Airling | Australia |
169 | Down | The Kooks | United Kingdom |
170 | West Coast (Like a Version) | James Vincent McMorrow | Ireland |
171 | Go | Grimes featuring Blood Diamonds | Canada/United States |
172 | I Blame Myself | Sky Ferreira | United States |
173 | Memories That You Call | Odesza featuring Monsoonsiren | United States/India |
174 | Never Gonna Change | Broods | New Zealand |
175 | Divine | In Hearts Wake | Australia |
176 | Never Tear Us Apart (Like a Version) | Allday | Australia |
177 | Lost & Fading | The Amity Affliction | Australia |
178 | Burn the Pages | Sia | Australia |
179 | You Are the One | Safia | Australia |
180 | Good Mistake | Mr Little Jeans | Norway |
181 | Long Way Down | Robert DeLong | United States |
182 | Earthwalker | In Hearts Wake featuring Joel Birch | Australia |
183 | Telegraph Ave. | Childish Gambino | United States |
184 | What the Devil Has Made | Matt Corby | Australia |
185 | Attak | Rustie featuring Danny Brown | United Kingdom/United States |
186 | F.M.L. | The Amity Affliction | Australia |
187 | Rot | Northlane | Australia |
188 | Goodbye Future | The Presets | Australia |
189 | Dreamland | Sticky Fingers | Australia |
190 | A Heartbreak | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia |
191 | Recess | Skrillex & Kill the Noise featuring Fatman Scoop & Michael Angelakos | United States |
192 | Laced | DMA's | Australia |
193 | U-Huh | Tkay Maidza | Australia |
194 | Down by the River | Milky Chance | Germany |
195 | The Haunted | Northeast Party House | Australia |
196 | Dalai Lama, Big Banana, Marijuana | Dune Rats | Australia |
197 | Survive | L-FRESH the Lion featuring MK-1 | Australia/United States |
198 | Satisfy | Nero | United Kingdom |
199 | Cuckoo | Raleigh Ritchie | United States |
200 | Weekend | Priory | United States |
Artists with multiple entries
edit# | Artist | Entries |
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4 | Chet Faker | 1, 7, 8, 21 |
3 | Hilltop Hoods | 3, 36, 57 |
Vance Joy | 13, 50, 93 | |
alt-J | 14, 16, 26 | |
Ball Park Music | 19, 58, 99 | |
Sticky Fingers | 20, 86, 94 | |
The Amity Affliction | 22, 64, 71 | |
Meg Mac | 24, 46, 91 | |
Thundamentals | 30, 78, 90 | |
2 | Peking Duk | 2, 5 |
Milky Chance | 4, 44 | |
Safia[note 1] | 5, 96 | |
Scarlett Stevens[note 2] | 17, 33 | |
Lorde | 18, 47 | |
Childish Gambino | 31, 60 | |
Allday | 35, 65 | |
Flight Facilities | 39, 52 | |
Chvrches | 54, 85 | |
Kingswood | 56, 76 | |
Röyksopp[note 3] | 59, 73 | |
Robyn[note 4] | 59, 73 |
Countries represented
editCountry | Total |
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Australia | 60 |
United States | 18 |
United Kingdom | 15 |
New Zealand | 3 |
Sweden | 3 |
Norway | 3 |
Germany | 2 |
Canada | 1 |
France | 1 |
Iceland | 1 |
Notes
edit- 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 number 54. Similarly "Tennis Court" by Lorde which came second in the previous years countdown, came in at number 47 with a remix by Flume.
CD release
editThe 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;[8] the double-CD was released on 27 February 2015.[9]
No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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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 |
No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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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
editA smaller poll of Triple J listeners' favourite albums of the year was held in December 2014.[10][11]
Note: Australian artists |
# | Artist | Album | Country of origin | Hottest 100 Entries |
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1 | Chet Faker | Built on Glass | Australia | 1, 7, 8, (65 in 2013) |
2 | Ball Park Music | Puddinghead | Australia | 19, 58, 99 |
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
edit- ^ Willis, Charlotte (27 January 2015). "Chet Faker takes out Triple J Hottest 100 2014".
- ^ "triple j kick off voting for Hottest 100". Radio Today. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ^ Di Stefano, Mark (13 January 2015). "Why Isn't Everyone Voting For "Shake It Off" In The Hottest 100?".
- ^ "Triple j bans Taylor Swift from Hottest 100". ABC News. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
- ^ Baroni, Nastassia (31 January 2015). "Triple J's Second Hottest 100, The Hottest 200 2014: Live Updates". Music Feeds. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ "101-200 List | Hottest 100 2014 | triple j". www.abc.net.au. 11 January 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ "These songs just missed out on a Hottest 100 placing". 1 February 2015.
- ^ "timeline Photos – Triple J Hottest 100". Facebook. ABC. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ "triple j's Hottest 100 – Volume 22 (Deluxe)". ABC Shop. ABC. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ^ "Aussies dominate triple j listeners' Top 10 Albums of 2014". 8 December 2014.
- ^ "2014 - Albums of the Year". triple j. 30 December 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2024.