Triple J Hottest 100, 2022 Explained

Year:	2022
Date Of Countdown:	28 January 2023
Charity Partner:	Australian Conservation Foundation
Winning Song:	Flume featuring May-a ("Say Nothing")
Most Entries:	Spacey Jane (6)
Prev:	2021
Next:	Like a Version (2023)

The 2022 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 28 January 2023.^[1] It was the 30th annual countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as voted for by listeners of Australian radio station triple j. The day before, the Hottest 200 played, counting down songs 200–101. Merchandise sales from the event supported the Australian Conservation Foundation.^[2]

Australian musician Flume's song "Say Nothing" featuring May-a was voted into first place.^[1] Australian band Spacey Jane had the most entries, with six, including three in the top 10. Over 2.4 million votes were submitted, and 57 entries in the countdown originated from Australian artists.

Background

Any song initially released between 1 December 2021 and 30 November 2022 was eligible for the triple j Hottest 100 of 2022. The triple j Hottest 100 allows members of the public to vote online for their top ten songs of the year, which are then used to calculate the year's 100 most popular songs. Voting opened on 13 December 2022, and closed on 23 January 2023.^[3]

The 2021 triple j Hottest 100 culminated with the Wiggles' Like a Version cover of Tame Impala's "Elephant" reaching number one.^[4] Over $1.2 million was raised for crisis support organisation Lifeline, the countdown's partner.^[5]

Projections

On 10 January 2023, triple j announced there were fewer than 125 votes separating the top two songs.^[6] Online database 100 Warm Tunas, "the internet's most accurate prediction" of Hottest 100 results, was favouring "In the Wake of Your Leave" by Australian alternative rock band Gang of Youths to take the top spot, followed by "Hardlight" by Fremantle-based rock band Spacey Jane and "Stars in My Eyes" by Brisbane-based pop rock band Ball Park Music. The former two bands also had major wins in the triple j Album Poll and the 2022 J Awards respectively.^[7] On the day of the countdown, Sportsbet had English DJs Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal's "B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All)" and Australian producer Flume's "Say Nothing" as the most likely to win outright.^[8]

Full list

Note: Australian artists

	Song	Artist	Country of origin
1			Australia
2		Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal	United Kingdom
3			Australia
4			United States
5	It's Been a Long Day	Spacey Jane	Australia
6	Sitting Up	Spacey Jane	Australia
7			United States
8	Stars in My Eyes		Australia
9			Australia
10			Japan
11	Gay 4 Me		Australia/United States
12			United States
13			United Kingdom/Australia/United States
14	Delilah (Pull Me Out of This)		United Kingdom
15	Facts of Life		Australia
16	God Is a Freak		Australia
17	Get Inspired		Ghana/Australia
18			United Kingdom/Sweden/United States
19	Stranger Days		Australia
20			United States
21	Backseat of My Mind		Australia
22			United States
23	Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again (Like a Version)		Australia
24			United States
25	Pulling Through	Spacey Jane	Australia
26		Fred Again	United Kingdom
27	Camp Dog		Australia
28			Australia/United Kingdom
29			Australia
30	Shooting Stars (Like a Version)		Australia/United States
31			Australia
32			United States
33			Australia
34	Colin	Lime Cordiale	Australia
35	Let's Go	King Stingray	Australia
36		Lizzo	United States
37	Miracle Maker	Dom Dolla featuring Clementine Douglas	Australia/United Kingdom
38			United Kingdom
39			United Kingdom
40	Yet	Spacey Jane	Australia
41			United States
42		Beyoncé	United States
43	Yellow (Like a Version)	King Stingray	Australia
44			Canada/United Kingdom
45			United States
46	Ripple	Sycco featuring Flume and Chrome Sparks	Australia/United States
47			United Kingdom/Australia
48	It's a Killa		Australia/Netherlands
49			United States
50	Slugger 1.4 (2014 Export.WAV)	Flume	Australia
51		Post Malone featuring Doja Cat	United States
52	Burn Dem Bridges	Skin on Skin	Australia
53	6L GTR		Australia
54	A Whole Day's Night	Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Tom Thum	Australia
55	Girl Sports		Australia
56	Deepest Darkness		Australia
57	Leaving for London		Australia
58	I'm in Love with You		United Kingdom
59	Double Vision	Ocean Alley	Australia
60	Country Club	Lime Cordiale	Australia
61		Venbee and Goddard	United Kingdom
62	Home	Ocean Alley	Australia
63	Teddy		Australia
64	Anakin		Australia
65	Forever Drunk	Peach PRC	Australia
66	The Brown Snake	Thelma Plum	Australia
67			United Kingdom/United States
68	Yeah the Girls	Fisher featuring Meryll	Australia/Netherlands
69		Machine Gun Kelly featuring Bring Me the Horizon	United States/United Kingdom
70			Australia
71	Show Business		Australia/United States
72	Static	Steve Lacy	United States
73	No Choice	Tame Impala	Australia
74			Canada
75	Bothers Me	Spacey Jane	Australia
76		Drake featuring 21 Savage	Canada/United Kingdom
77			United Kingdom
78	Kamikaze		Australia
79		Arctic Monkeys	United Kingdom
80			United States
81	Beach Boy		New Zealand
82	Is This What It Feels Like to Feel Like This?		United Kingdom
83	Handful		Australia
84	The 30th	Billie Eilish	United States
85	Everybody's Saying Thursday's the Weekend		Australia
86	Glitch		Australia
87	GTFO	Genesis Owusu	Ghana/Australia
88	Oh Caroline	The 1975	United Kingdom
89	Show Me Your God		Australia
90	I Don't Wanna Do Nothing Forever		Australia
91			United Kingdom
92	Alright		United Kingdom
93	Holy Moley		Australia/United Kingdom
94	Lupa	King Stingray	Australia
95			United States
96	Waste of Space	G Flip	Australia
97			United States
98		Meduza and James Carter featuring Elley Duhé and Fast Boy	Italy/United Kingdom/United States/Germany
99	Sidelines		United States
100	Danielle (Smile on My Face)	Fred Again	United Kingdom

Countries represented

• Australia – 57^[9]
• United States – 28
• United Kingdom – 25
• Canada – 3
• Ghana – 2
• Netherlands – 2
• Japan – 1
• Sweden – 1
• New Zealand – 1
• Germany – 1
• Italy – 1

Artists with multiple entries

Six entries

• Spacey Jane (3, 5, 6, 25, 40, 75)

Four entries

• Flume – three as primary artist and once as a featured artist (1, 30, 46, 50)
• Fred Again (14, 18, 26, 100)
• Lime Cordiale (15, 34, 60, 93)
• King Stingray (27, 35, 43, 94)

Three entries

• Ocean Alley (56, 59, 62)

Two entries

• Steve Lacy (4, 72)
• Lizzo (7, 36)
• G Flip (11, 96)
• Tame Impala – once solo and once as a featured artist (13, 73)
• Peach PRC (16, 65)
• Genesis Owusu (17, 87)
• Thelma Plum (21, 66)
• Doja Cat – once solo and once as a featured artist (22, 51)
• Beyoncé (24, 42)
• Billie Eilish (32, 84)
• Bring Me the Horizon – once solo and once as a featured artist (38, 69)
• Drake (44, 76)
• 21 Savage – once as a co-lead artist and once as a featured artist (44, 76)
• Fisher (48, 68)
• Hilltop Hoods (54, 71)
• The 1975 (58, 88)
• Arctic Monkeys (77, 79)

2022 Triple J Album Poll

The triple j Album Poll was held across November and December and was announced on 11 December 2022.^[10] Indie rock band Spacey Jane topped the poll for the second time, following their win with debut album Sunlight in 2020.^[11] Weirder & Weirder at second place and The Car at ninth mark both Ball Park Music's and Arctic Monkeys' seventh appearances each in the annual poll, with every prior studio album from both bands making an appearance in past polls.

For the first time in a Triple J album poll, two albums were tired in a single position, with Steve Lacy and The Wombats sharing the #13 position.^[12]

Note: Australian artists

Bold indicates winner of the Hottest 100. Gang of Youths won the J Award for Angel in Realtime.^[13]

	Artist	Album	Country of origin	Tracks in the Hottest 100
1	Spacey Jane	Here Comes Everybody	Australia	3, 5, 6, 25, 40, 75, (3, 12 in 2021)
2	Ball Park Music	Weirder & Weirder	Australia	8, (21 in 2021)
3	Gang of Youths	Angel in Realtime	Australia	9, (6, 57 in 2021)
4	Ocean Alley	Low Altitude Living	Australia	56, 59, 62, (20 in 2021)
5	King Stingray	King Stingray	Australia	27, 35, 94, (46, 56 in 2021)
6	Sly Withers	Overgrown	Australia	DNC (104 in Hottest 200)
7	Wet Leg	Wet Leg	United Kingdom	(45 in 2021) (115 in Hottest 200)
8	Daniel Johns	FutureNever	Australia	DNC (159 in Hottest 200)
9	Arctic Monkeys	The Car	United Kingdom	77, 79
10	Beddy Rays	Beddy Rays	Australia	83, (57 in 2020)
11	Flume	Palaces	Australia	1
12	The Wombats	Fix Yourself, Not the World	United Kingdom	82 (32 in 2021)
13	Steve Lacy	Gemini Rights	United States	4, 72
	The 1975	Being Funny in a Foreign Language	United Kingdom	58, 88
15	Kendrick Lamar	Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers	United States	41
16	Slowly Slowly	Daisy Chain	Australia	(92 in 2021) (128 in Hottest 200)
17	Julia Jacklin	Pre Pleasure	Australia	DNC
18	Dope Lemon	Rose Pink Cadillac	Australia	(27 in 2021)
19	Vance Joy	In Our Own Sweet Time	Australia	29 (15 in 2021)
20	The Chats	Get Fucked	Australia	53

Minor statistics

• Flume is the second artist behind Powderfinger to win the Hottest 100 for a second time.
• With Hilltop Hoods being voted into the countdown twice, this marks their 22nd and 23rd appearances in a Hottest 100, overtaking Powderfinger and Foo Fighters' 22 appearances each to become the most featured artist in Hottest 100 history.
• With Spacey Jane having six tracks voted into the countdown, they match an annual record set by Wolfmother in the 2005 poll. The band becomes the fourth artist to place thrice in the top 10, following Powderfinger in 2003, Chet Faker in 2014, and Gang of Youths in 2017; and the eighth artist in the countdown's history to have two songs poll in the top 5.^[14]
• For the second year in a row, Spacey Jane finish third in the Hottest 100. Furthermore, Spacey Jane are the first artist to feature in the top 3 of a countdown for the third consecutive year. The previous record was two consecutive years held by The Cranberries (1993–94), Powderfinger (1999–2000), Kings of Leon (2007–08) and Flume (2019–20)
• Ten songs in the countdown were from First Nations artists, beating the previous record of six songs in the 2020 countdown.
• For the first time since 2017, Billie Eilish did not feature in the top 10.
• Six previous winners of the Hottest 100 appeared in this years countdown – Bernard Fanning (2005) Vance Joy (2013), The Rubens (2015), Flume (2016), Kendrick Lamar (2017), Ocean Alley (2018) & Billie Eilish (2019). Equaling the record set in the previous years countdown.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hottest 100 2022 . 28 January 2023 . Triple J.
2. Web site: 13 December 2022 . Australian Conservation Foundation Hottest 100 2022 . 28 January 2023 . Triple J . en.
3. Web site: 8 December 2022 . triple j's Hottest 100 of 2022, here's all the dates and details . 8 December 2022 . Triple J . en-AU.
4. Web site: Gwee . Karen . 22 January 2022 . triple j Hottest 100 of 2021: here are all the songs in the countdown . 8 December 2022 . NME . en-AU.
5. Web site: 9 March 2022 . 2021 triple j Hottest 100 breaks records for the station . 12 December 2022 . Mediaweek.
6. Web site: Varvaris . Mary . 10 January 2023 . There's Two Songs Neck-And-Neck For The Hottest 100 Top Spot . 15 January 2023 . The Music . en.
7. Web site: Callan . Alex . 13 January 2023 . 20 songs predicted to take out triple j's annual Hottest 100 countdown for 2022 . 15 January 2023 . Forte Magazine . en-AU.
8. Web site: 12 December 2022 . 2022 Triple J Hottest 100 - Outrights & Multis . 28 January 2023 . Sportsbet.
9. Web site: triple j Hottest 100 of 2022: here are all the songs in the countdown. NME. 28 January 2023. 28 January 2023.
10. Web site: 22 November 2022 . Vote in the triple j 2022 Album Poll . 8 December 2022 . Triple J . en-AU.
11. Web site: Newstead . Al . 11 December 2022 . Spacey Jane tops the 2022 triple j Album Poll . 12 December 2022 . Triple J . en-AU.
12. Web site: 2022-12-11 . Spacey Jane tops the 2022 triple j Album Poll . 2023-11-24 . triple j . en-AU.
13. Web site: 2022-11-15 . Gang Of Youths lead our 2022 J Award winners! . 2023-11-24 . triple j . en-AU.
14. Web site: Newstead . Al . 28 January 2023 . Sun, sadness, tattoos: Why Spacey Jane's enduring Hottest 100 success matters . 29 January 2023 . Triple J . en-AU.