Triple J Hottest 100, 1999 Explained

The 1999 Triple J Hottest 100, announced in January 2000, was the seventh such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 36 (not necessarily the top 36) songs was released.

Full list

Note: Australian artists

	Song	Artist	Country of origin
1			Australia^[1]
2			Australia
3	You Shit Me to Tears		Australia
4			United Kingdom
5			United Kingdom
6			United States
7			United States
8			United States
9			United States
10			United States
11			United States
12			United States
13			United States
14		Killing Heidi	Australia
15			Australia
16			United States
17		KoЯn	United States
18	Theophilus Thistler (An Exercise in Vowels)		Australia
19			Australia
20	Exerciser		Australia
21	Lucky Star		Australia
22			Australia
23		Fatboy Slim	United Kingdom
24			United States
25		Powderfinger	Australia
26	Never Had So Much Fun		Australia
27			United Kingdom
28		Jebediah	Australia
29		Silverchair	Australia
30		Silverchair	Australia
31		Blink-182	United States
32			Canada
33			Australia
34	You Are Not My Friend	Frenzal Rhomb	Australia
35	Beven The Musical		Australia
36			Australia
37		Red Hot Chili Peppers	United States
38	Chunky Chunky Air Guitar		Australia
39	Turn Up Your Stereo		Australia
40			Australia
41			Australia
42	Ringo (I Feel Like)		Australia
43	Emotion Sickness	Silverchair	Australia
44	Electricity		Australia
45	Enter, Space Capsule		Australia
46			United Kingdom
47			United Kingdom
48		The Living End	Australia
49	Second Class Citizen		Australia
50	Bigger Than Tina		Australia
51			United States
52	It Won't Last		Australia
53			United States
54		The Whitlams	Australia
55	Perfect Family		Australia
56			United States
57		Blur	United Kingdom
58			Australia
59	Mutha Fukka on a Motorcycle		Australia
60	Touched		United States
61	Asleep in Perfection		Australia
62		Regurgitator	Australia
63			United Kingdom
64	We're Going Out Tonight	Frenzal Rhomb	Australia
65	Burn to Shine		United States
66	Turn That Shit Up		Australia
67			United States
68		Powderfinger	Australia
69			United States
70	Whatever You Want	Something for Kate	Australia
71	Pulled Along by Love		New Zealand
72	Hallways	Something for Kate	Australia
73			United Kingdom
74	Deeper Water		Australia
75	Some Kind of Love Song		Australia
76			United States
77			Jamaica/Denmark
78			Sweden
79			United States
80			United Kingdom
81	Nothing Much Happens		Australia
82	Home		Australia
83	Hit Song	Custard	Australia
84		Spiderbait	Australia
85		Ben Harper	United States
86			United States
87		Placebo	United Kingdom
88		Moby	United States
89			United States
90			Germany
91			United States
92	Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak	Macy Gray	United States
93			United States
94	Spray Water on the Stereo		Australia
95	The Order of Death (Blair Witch Mix)		United Kingdom
96	Plastic	Spiderbait	Australia
97			United States
98			United States
99	Ruby Wednesday	Eskimo Joe	Australia
100		Powderfinger	Australia

Artists with multiple entries

	Artist	Entries
4		1, 25, 68, 100
		15, 29, 30, 43
3	Frenzal Rhomb	26, 34, 64
		40, 84, 96
	Something for Kate	44, 70, 72
2	Killing Heidi	2, 14
	Fatboy Slim	4, 23
		5, 87
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	10, 37
	Blink-182	13, 31
		16, 17
		19, 28
		24, 92
	The Whitlams	38, 54
	Eskimo Joe	39, 99
	The Living End	41, 48
		42, 83
		47, 57
		58, 62
	Ben Harper	65, 85
		79, 88

Countries Represented

Country	Total
Australia	52
United States	31
United kingdom	12
Canada	1
New Zealand	1
Jamaica	1
Denmark	1
Sweden	1
Germany	1

Notes

• The 1999 countdown marks the first time Australia was the most represented nation in the Hottest 100. A record of 52 songs were by Australian artists. This record was equaled in the 2007 countdown, and broken in 2014.
  • This is also the first Hottest 100 in which the top 3 songs were from Australian artists.
• "These Days" is the first B-side to win the Hottest 100, it's 'a-side' "Passenger" came in at No 100; making Powderfinger the first artist to be voted into No. 1 and No. 100 positions of a Hottest 100.
• Killing Heidi and The Tenants are the first Unearthed artists to appear in the Top 10 of the Hottest 100, finishing second and third respectively. Killing Heidi's second place finish set the record for the highest ranking song by an Unearthed artist. This would later be equaled by Grinspoon (2002), Missy Higgins (2004), Art vs. Science (2009) and Little Red (2010), and was later broken by Vance Joy who won the 2013 countdown.
• There were eight songs in a row by Australian artists between positions #45 and #38. This is the longest run of Australian songs in a Hottest 100.
• Dave Grohl made his seventh consecutive appearance in the Hottest 100, having featured in every annual countdown to date.
  • Garbage, Janet English and Regurgitator all made their fifth consecutive appearance, having appeared since 1995.

Top 10 Albums of 1999

	Artist	Album	Country of Origin	Tracks in the Hottest 100
1		Black the Sun	Australia	21
2		Californication	United States	10, 37 (7 in 2000)
3		Beautiful Sharks	Australia	44, 70, 72 (59 in 2000)
4		Neon Ballroom	Australia	15, 29, 30, 43 (96 in 2000)
5		Without You I'm Nothing	United Kingdom	5, 87 (41 in 1998)
6		Love This City	Australia	38, 54 (37 in 2000)
7		The Fragile	United States	69
8		Play	United States	79, 88 (22 in 2000)
9		The Battle of Los Angeles	United States	7 (13, 77 in 2000)
10		Triptych	Canada	32

CD release

Disc 1 Powderfinger – "These Days" (4:15) Sonic Animation – "Theophilus Thistler" (3:56) Blink-182 – "What's My Age Again?" (2:26) Killing Heidi – "Weir" (3:38) Rhubarb – "Exerciser" (1:40) Beck – "Sexx Laws" (3:38) Moloko – "Sing It Back" (4:39) Placebo – "Every You Every Me" (3:33) Diana ah Naid – "Perfect Family" (3:29) Macy Gray – "Sex-o-matic Venus Freak" (3:57) Supergrass – "Pumping on Your Stereo" (3:20) Limp Bizkit – "Nookie" (4:27) Regurgitator – "Happiness (Rotting My Brain)" (3:56) Jamiroquai – "Canned Heat" (5:31) The Whitlams – "Thank You (for Loving Me at My Worst)" (3:50) The Tenants – "You Shit Me to Tears" (2:32) Jebediah – "Animal" (4:29) Rage Against the Machine – "Guerrilla Radio" (3:28)

Disc 2 deadstar – "Deeper Water" (4:23) The Chemical Brothers – "Hey Boy Hey Girl" (4:49) Moby – "Bodyrock" (3:36) Foo Fighters – "Learn to Fly" (3:55) Nine Inch Nails – "Starfuckers, Inc." (5:01) Silverchair – "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" (3:40) Grinspoon – "Ready 1" (2:35) Bloodhound Gang – "The Bad Touch" (4:21) Eskimo Joe – "Turn Up Your Stereo" (3:38) Madison Avenue – "Don't Call Me Baby" (3:48) Alex Lloyd – "Lucky Star" (4:00) Fatboy Slim – "Praise You" (5:23) Machine Gun Fellatio – "Mutha Fukka on a Motorcycle" (2:21) Frenzal Rhomb – "Never Had So Much Fun" (2:00) Something for Kate – "Electricity" (3:49) Skunkhour – "Home" (3:18) Testeagles – "Turn That Shit Up" (3:12) Area-7 – "Second Class Citizen" (3:40)

Certifications

See also

• 1999 in music

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hottest 100 1999 . . 9 July 2014.