Triple j Hottest 100 of Like a Version
# Triple j Hottest 100 of Like a Version

The Hottest 100 of Like a Version was announced by Australian youth radio station triple j on 15 July 2023. It was the broadcaster's first countdown compiling covers from their live music segment, Like a Version, which is celebrating its 20th year. Voting opened on 23 May, and closed on 10 July 2023.

Australian rock band DMA's were voted into number one with their 2016 cover of "Believe" by Cher. Meanwhile, Gang of Youths had the most tracks in the countdown, with all three of their covers on the segment polling, and tied with Tame Impala in having the most songs covered by other artists.

## Background

The Hottest 100 is an annual music poll hosted by national youth radio station triple j. The countdown has been held since 1989, and compiles the top songs of that year as voted by listeners. Several one-off special countdowns have also been announced through the years, including the Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years (2013) and of the 2010s (2020).

Every Friday morning, triple j broadcasts Like a Version, a live music segment where an artist performs an original track and covers another artist's song. The programme began in 2004.

The Hottest 100 of Like a Version was announced on 18 May 2023, when triple j uploaded over 400 classic covers from the segment on their YouTube channel. The entire voting list for the countdown contained 850 covers from over 650 artists.

## Predictions

On 14 July 2023, Australian online bookmaker Sportsbet was favouring the DMA's 2016 cover of "Believe" by Cher, followed by Denzel Curry's 2019 cover of "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine, which were voted into first and second, respectively. In the days before the event, triple j revealed some facts about the countdown: Australian artists make up 80% of the full list, 17 artists would make their Hottest 100 debut, and only three tracks are from 2008 or earlier.

## Full list

| # | Song | Cover artist | Covered artist | Cover artist country | Year | Annual Hottest 100 position |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | "Believe" | DMA's | Cher | Australia | 2016 | 6 |
| 2 | "Bulls on Parade" | Denzel Curry | Rage Against the Machine | United States | 2019 | 5 |
| 3 | "Baby Come Back" | Ocean Alley | Player | Australia | 2018 | 16 |
| 4 | "I Touch Myself" | Lime Cordiale | Divinyls | Australia | 2019 | 17 |
| 5 | "Dumb Things" | A.B. Original featuring Paul Kelly and Dan Sultan | Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls | Australia | 2016 | 45 |
| 6 | "Blood" | Gang of Youths | The Middle East | Australia | 2017 | 41 |
| 7 | "Yellow" | King Stingray | Coldplay | Australia | 2022 | 43 |
| 8 | "Brother" | Thundamentals | Matt Corby | Australia | 2012 | 49 |
| 9 | "(Lover) You Don't Treat Me No Good" | Chet Faker | Sonia Dada | Australia | 2014 | 21 |
| 10 | "Elephant" | The Wiggles | Tame Impala | Australia | 2021 | 1 |
| 11 | "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again" | Dune Rats | The Angels | Australia | 2022 | 23 |
| 12 | "Ausmusic Month Medley" | Illy | Silverchair/Hilltop Hoods/Powderfinger/Paul Kelly/Flume | Australia | 2013 | 66 |
| 13 | "Welcome to the Black Parade" | Alex Lahey | My Chemical Romance | Australia | 2019 | 83 |
| 14 | "Here Comes the Sun" | Spacey Jane | The Beatles | Australia | 2021 | 30 |
| 15 | "Keeping Score" | Paces featuring Guy Sebastian | L D R U | Australia | 2016 | 56 |
| 16 | "Shooting Stars" | Flume and Toro y Moi | Bag Raiders | Australia/United States | 2022 | 30 |
| 17 | "Better in Blak" | Beddy Rays | Thelma Plum | Australia | 2021 | |
| 18 | "I Was Only 19" | The Herd | Redgum | Australia | 2005 | 18 |
| 19 | "Here Comes Your Man" | Skegss | Pixies | Australia | 2019 | 90 |
| 20 | "I Will Follow You into the Dark" | Yungblud and Halsey | Death Cab for Cutie | United Kingdom/United States | 2019 | |
| 21 | "How to Make Gravy" | Luca Brasi | Paul Kelly | Australia | 2016 | |
| 22 | "Lady Marmalade" | G Flip | Labelle (via Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink) | Australia | 2020 | 78 |
| 23 | "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" | Arctic Monkeys | Tame Impala | United Kingdom | 2014 | |
| 24 | "Breathe (In the Air)"/"Comfortably Numb"/"Money" | Ocean Alley | Pink Floyd | Australia | 2021 | 54 |
| 25 | "Charlie" | Bugs | Mallrat | Australia | 2020 | 91 |
| 26 | "So Into You" | Childish Gambino | Tamia | United States | 2015 | |
| 27 | "Delete" | Sticky Fingers | DMA's | Australia | 2015 | 84 |
| 28 | "Time After Time" | Triple One | Cyndi Lauper | Australia | 2021 | |
| 29 | "Do I Wanna Know?" | Chvrches | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom | 2014 | 54 |
| 30 | "The Special Two" | Dear Seattle | Missy Higgins | Australia | 2019 | |
| 31 | "Edge of Town" | Paul Dempsey | Middle Kids | Australia | 2017 | 88 |
| 32 | "Hey, Ma" | The Vanns | Bon Iver | Australia | 2020 | |
| 33 | "What Can I Do If the Fire Goes Out?" | Nothing but Thieves | Gang of Youths | United Kingdom | 2018 | 72 |
| 34 | "Read My Mind" | Catfish and the Bottlemen | The Killers | United Kingdom | 2015 | |
| 35 | "Get Lucky" | San Cisco | Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers | Australia | 2013 | 39 |
| 36 | "when the party's over" | Cub Sport | Billie Eilish | Australia | 2019 | |
| 37 | "Catch My Disease" | The Terrys | Ben Lee | Australia | 2022 | |
| 38 | "Seventeen Going Under" | Camp Cope | Sam Fender | Australia | 2022 | |
| 39 | "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" | Gang of Youths | Travis | Australia | 2022 | |
| 40 | "Magnolia" | Odette | Gang of Youths | Australia | 2018 | |
| 41 | "Electric Feel" | Tash Sultana | MGMT | Australia | 2017 | 78 |
| 42 | "Big Yellow Taxi" | Allday featuring the Veronicas | Joni Mitchell | Australia | 2019 | |
| 43 | "Hearts a Mess" | Missy Higgins | Gotye | Australia | 2012 | |
| 44 | "That Don't Impress Me Much" | Haim | Shania Twain | United States | 2017 | |
| 45 | "Sweet Nothing" | Something for Kate | Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch | Australia | 2013 | 68 |
| 46 | "Running Up That Hill" | The Wombats | Kate Bush | United Kingdom | 2022 | |
| 47 | "Song 2" | Baker Boy | Blur | Australia | 2022 | |
| 48 | "Lonely Boy" | Matt Corby | The Black Keys | Australia | 2012 | 69 |
| 49 | "The Scientist" | Sly Withers | Coldplay | Australia | 2021 | |
| 50 | "Paranoid Android" | Ball Park Music | Radiohead | Australia | 2020 | |
| 51 | "Africa" | Dave Winnel | Toto | Australia | 2022 | |
| 52 | "4ever" | San Cisco | Clairo | Australia | 2018 | |
| 53 | "My Happiness" | Ball Park Music | Powderfinger | Australia | 2017 | |
| 54 | "Teardrop" | Aurora | Massive Attack | Norway | 2017 | |
| 55 | "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" | Polaris | Eskimo Joe | Australia | 2020 | |
| 56 | "Can't Stop"/"In the Air Tonight" | Hilltop Hoods | Red Hot Chili Peppers/Phil Collins | Australia | 2019 | |
| 57 | "Life on Mars?" | Sarah Blasko | David Bowie | Australia | 2016 | |
| 58 | "A Girl Like You" | Tame Impala | Edwyn Collins | Australia | 2021 | 66 |
| 59 | "I Try" | Hockey Dad | Macy Gray | Australia | 2019 | |
| 60 | "Chains" | Matt Corby | Tina Arena | Australia | 2016 | |
| 61 | "My Boo" | Flume featuring Kučka, Ngaiire, Vera Blue and Vince Staples | Ghost Town DJ's | Australia | 2016 | |
| 62 | "Say My Name" | Glass Animals | Destiny's Child | United Kingdom | 2022 | |
| 63 | "Knowing Me, Knowing You" | Angie McMahon | ABBA | Australia | 2019 | |
| 64 | "The Unguarded Moment" | Ruby Fields | The Church | Australia | 2019 | |
| 65 | "Rhiannon" | Sticky Fingers | Fleetwood Mac | Australia | 2012 | |
| 66 | "Cardigan" | Something for Kate | Taylor Swift | Australia | 2021 | |
| 67 | "Heaven" | Confidence Man | Bryan Adams (via DJ Sammy and Yanou featuring Do) | Australia | 2022 | |
| 68 | "Bridges" | Meg Mac | Broods | Australia | 2014 | 91 |
| 69 | "Blackfella/Whitefella" | Bad Dreems featuring Peter Garrett, Mambali and Emily Wurramara | Warumpi Band | Australia | 2019 | |
| 70 | "Enter Sandman" | Art vs. Science | Metallica | Australia | 2015 | |
| 71 | "Let It Happen" | Meg Mac | Tame Impala | Australia | 2017 | |
| 72 | "Zombie" | Cxloe | The Cranberries | Australia | 2020 | |
| 73 | "Love Is in the Air" | Stella Donnelly | John Paul Young | Australia | 2020 | |
| 74 | "Love" | Chvrches | Kendrick Lamar | United Kingdom | 2018 | |
| 75 | "All My Friends" | Gang of Youths | LCD Soundsystem | Australia | 2015 | |
| 76 | "Changes" | JK-47 | 2Pac featuring Talent | Australia | 2021 | |
| 77 | "Passionfruit" | Angus & Julia Stone | Drake | Australia | 2018 | |
| 78 | "Skinny Love" | Slowly Slowly | Bon Iver | Australia | 2019 | |
| 79 | "Someday" | Julia Jacklin | The Strokes | Australia | 2017 | |
| 80 | "Dancing On My Own" | Tove Lo | Robyn | Sweden | 2022 | |
| 81 | "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" | ASAP Rocky | Otis Redding | United States | 2018 | |
| 82 | "Bad" | Billie Eilish | Michael Jackson | United States | 2018 | |
| 83 | "Naïve" | Tyne-James Organ | The Kooks | Australia | 2021 | |
| 84 | "The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows" | Gretta Ray | Gang of Youths | Australia | 2021 | |
| 85 | "End of the Road" | Bluejuice | Boyz II Men | Australia | 2014 | |
| 86 | "Across the Universe" | Aurora | The Beatles | Norway | 2019 | |
| 87 | "Big Jet Plane" | Tuka | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia | 2015 | 81 |
| 88 | "UFO" | Ocean Grove | Sneaky Sound System | Australia | 2021 | |
| 89 | "Forever Young" | Tones and I | Alphaville (via Youth Group) | Australia | 2019 | |
| 90 | "Smoko" | Wet Leg | The Chats | United Kingdom | 2022 | |
| 91 | "Teacher's Pet" | Grentperez | Jack Black (School of Rock) | Australia | 2022 | |
| 92 | "Don't You (Forget About Me)" | Boy & Bear featuring Annie Hamilton | Simple Minds | Australia | 2021 | |
| 93 | "Roll Up Your Sleeves" | Urthboy | Meg Mac | Australia | 2015 | |
| 94 | "Righteous" | Stand Atlantic | Juice Wrld | Australia | 2020 | |
| 95 | "Lazy Eye" | Violent Soho | Silversun Pickups | Australia | 2016 | |
| 96 | "Redbone" | Northeast Party House | Childish Gambino | Australia | 2017 | |
| 97 | "Alive" | George Alice | Rüfüs Du Sol | Australia | 2022 | |
| 98 | "Be Alright" | Amy Shark | Dean Lewis | Australia | 2018 | |
| 99 | "Real Love" | Regina Spektor | John Lennon | United States | 2007 | 29 |
| 100 | "Kids" | The Kooks | MGMT | United Kingdom | 2008 | |

## Artists with multiple entries

### Three entries

* Gang of Youths (6, 39, 75)
* Paul Dempsey (Once solo and twice with Something for Kate) (31, 45, 66)

### Two entries

* Ocean Alley (3, 24)
* Flume (16, 61)
* Sticky Fingers (27, 65)
* Chvrches (29, 74)
* San Cisco (35, 52)
* Something for Kate (45, 66)
* Matt Corby (48, 60)
* Ball Park Music (50, 53)
* Aurora (54, 86)
* Meg Mac (68, 71)

## Most covered artists

### Three tracks

* Paul Kelly (5, 12, 21)
* Tame Impala (10, 23, 71)
* Gang of Youths (40, 33, 84)

### Two tracks

* Coldplay (7, 49)
* Powderfinger (12, 53)
* The Beatles (14, 86)
* Bon Iver (32, 78)
* MGMT (41, 100)

## Nations represented

* Australia – 81
* United Kingdom – 10
* United States – 8
* Norway – 2
* Sweden – 1
