Triple J Hottest 100, 2012
# Triple J Hottest 100, 2012

The 2012 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day 26 January 2013. It was the 20th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J.

Voting commenced on 19 December 2012, and closed at midnight on 20 January 2013.

Over 1.5 million votes were cast in this countdown, beating the record set in the 2011 list.

In the week prior to the countdown, Nick Drewe, a Brisbane statistician and marketer, analysed the votes that had been published on social media and determined the possible top 100, naming it the Warmest 100. The votes that had been published represented approximately 2.7% of the total vote. Ultimately, his list correctly predicted 92 of the songs in the countdown, the songs comprising the top 10, and the top 3 in the correct order. The ABC have announced that it would likely make changes to the voting system to prevent "spoiler attempts" in future countdowns.

## Full list

* Note: Australian artists

| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Thrift Shop | Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz | United States |
| 2 | Little Talks | Of Monsters and Men | Iceland |
| 3 | Breezeblocks | alt-J | United Kingdom |
| 4 | Holdin On | Flume | Australia |
| 5 | I Will Wait | Mumford & Sons | United Kingdom |
| 6 | Get Free | Major Lazer featuring Amber Coffman | United States |
| 7 | Elephant | Tame Impala | Australia |
| 8 | Lost | Frank Ocean | United States |
| 9 | Feels Like We Only Go Backwards | Tame Impala | Australia |
| 10 | My Gun | The Rubens | Australia |
| 11 | Sweet Nothing | Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch | United Kingdom |
| 12 | Sleepless | Flume featuring Jezzabell Doran | Australia |
| 13 | Gold on the Ceiling | The Black Keys | United States |
| 14 | I Love It | Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX | Sweden and United Kingdom |
| 15 | Same Love | Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert | United States |
| 16 | Not Giving In | Rudimental featuring John Newman and Alex Clare | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Clair de Lune | Flight Facilities featuring Christine Hoberg | Australia and United States |
| 18 | HyperParadise (Flume Remix) | Hermitude | Australia |
| 19 | Angels | The xx | United Kingdom |
| 20 | Feel the Love | Rudimental featuring John Newman | United Kingdom |
| 21 | Latch | Disclosure featuring Sam Smith | United Kingdom |
| 22 | Trembling Hands | The Temper Trap | Australia |
| 23 | Coming Down | Ball Park Music | Australia |
| 24 | I'm Into You | Chet Faker | Australia |
| 25 | Bangarang | Skrillex featuring Sirah | United States |
| 26 | Dear Science | Seth Sentry | Australia |
| 27 | Surrender | Ball Park Music | Australia |
| 28 | Default | Django Django | United Kingdom |
| 29 | Cherry Lips | Loon Lake | Australia |
| 30 | Laura | Bat for Lashes | United Kingdom |
| 31 | Gasoline | Alpine | Australia |
| 32 | Spectrum (Say My Name) (Calvin Harris Remix) | Florence and the Machine | United Kingdom |
| 33 | Can't Get Better Than This | Parachute Youth | Australia |
| 34 | Born to Die | Lana Del Rey | United States |
| 35 | Run Alone | 360 | Australia |
| 36 | Paddling Out | Miike Snow | Sweden |
| 37 | Sun | Two Door Cinema Club | United Kingdom |
| 38 | Oblivion | Grimes | Canada |
| 39 | Hold On | Alabama Shakes | United States |
| 40 | R U Mine? | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom |
| 41 | I Can Make You Love Me | British India | Australia |
| 42 | Hurricane | MS MR | United States |
| 43 | Ho Hey | The Lumineers | United States |
| 44 | Follow the Sun | Xavier Rudd | Australia |
| 45 | Young and Dumb | Chance Waters featuring Bertie Blackman | Australia |
| 46 | Take a Walk | Passion Pit | United States |
| 47 | Mountain Sound | Of Monsters and Men | Iceland |
| 48 | Fred Astaire | San Cisco | Australia |
| 49 | Brother (Like a Version) | Thundamentals | Australia |
| 50 | My Heart Is on Fire | Asta | Australia |
| 51 | This Fire | Birds of Tokyo | Australia |
| 52 | Ghosts | The Presets | Australia |
| 53 | Wild Things | San Cisco | Australia |
| 54 | I Got Burned | The Bamboos featuring Tim Rogers | Australia |
| 55 | Internet Friends | Knife Party | Australia |
| 56 | Thinkin Bout You | Frank Ocean | United States |
| 57 | Float Away | Seth Sentry | Australia |
| 58 | Babel | Mumford & Sons | United Kingdom |
| 59 | Love This | Cosmo Jarvis | United Kingdom |
| 60 | Love Interruption | Jack White | United States |
| 61 | Caress Your Soul | Sticky Fingers | Australia |
| 62 | Just What I Am | Kid Cudi featuring King Chip | United States |
| 63 | Wolf | First Aid Kit | Sweden |
| 64 | Tessellate | alt-J | United Kingdom |
| 65 | Genesis | Grimes | Canada |
| 66 | The Best We Got | The Rubens | Australia |
| 67 | On Top | Flume featuring T.Shirt | Australia and United States |
| 68 | Silhouettes | Avicii | Sweden |
| 69 | Lonely Boy (Like a Version) | Matt Corby | Australia |
| 70 | Promises | The Presets | Australia |
| 71 | Swimming Pools (Drank) | Kendrick Lamar | United States |
| 72 | All the Rowboats | Regina Spektor | United States |
| 73 | Draw a Crowd | Ben Folds Five | United States |
| 74 | Simple Song | The Shins | United States |
| 75 | Madness | Muse | United Kingdom |
| 76 | Heard It All | Illy | Australia |
| 77 | Love Is All I Got | Feed Me and Crystal Fighters | United Kingdom |
| 78 | Household Goods | Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs | United Kingdom |
| 79 | Little Black Submarines | The Black Keys | United States |
| 80 | Super Rich Kids | Frank Ocean featuring Earl Sweatshirt | United States |
| 81 | Something Good | alt-J | United Kingdom |
| 82 | Disparate Youth | Santigold | United States |
| 83 | She's a Riot | The Jungle Giants | Australia |
| 84 | Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom | Hilltop Hoods | Australia |
| 85 | Fineshrine | Purity Ring | Canada |
| 86 | Summertime Sadness | Lana Del Rey | United States |
| 87 | Chronicles of a Fallen Love | The Bloody Beetroots featuring Greta Svabo Bech | Italy and Faroe Islands |
| 88 | Down the Road | C2C | France |
| 89 | Maybe Tomorrow | Chance Waters featuring Lilian Blue | Australia |
| 90 | Sleep Alone | Two Door Cinema Club | United Kingdom |
| 91 | So Good | Allday | Australia |
| 92 | Spiritus | Lisa Mitchell | Australia |
| 93 | Dance Bear | Snakadaktal | Australia |
| 94 | 45 | The Gaslight Anthem | United States |
| 95 | Andy | Last Dinosaurs | Australia |
| 96 | Clique | Kanye West featuring Big Sean and Jay Z | United States |
| 97 | I'm Shakin' | Jack White | United States |
| 98 | Warrior | Kimbra featuring Mark Foster and A-Trak | New Zealand, United States and Canada |
| 99 | Bad Girls | M.I.A. | United Kingdom |
| 100 | Cough Cough | Everything Everything | United Kingdom |

## Artists with multiple entries

### Four tracks

* Flume (three times solo and one remix; 4, 12, 18, 67)

### Three tracks

* alt-J (3, 64, 81)
* Frank Ocean (8, 56, 80)

### Two tracks

* Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (1, 15)
* Of Monsters and Men (2, 47)
* Tame Impala (7, 9)
* Mumford & Sons (5, 58)
* The Rubens (10, 66)
* Florence Welch (once with Florence & the Machine and once with Calvin Harris; 11, 32)
* Calvin Harris (11, remixed 32)
* The Black Keys (13, 79)
* Rudimental featuring John Newman (16, 20)
* Ball Park Music (23, 27)
* Seth Sentry (26, 57)
* Lana Del Rey (34, 86)
* Two Door Cinema Club (37, 90)
* Grimes (38, 65)
* Chance Waters (45, 89)
* San Cisco (48, 53)
* The Presets (52, 70)
* Jack White (60, 97)

## Countries represented

* Australia – 41
* United States – 29
* United Kingdom – 23
* Canada – 4
* Sweden – 4
* Iceland – 2
* New Zealand – 1
* France – 1
* Italy – 1
* Faroe Islands – 1

## Top 10 Albums of 2012

A smaller poll of Triple J listeners' favourite albums of the year was held in December 2012.

* Note: Australian artists

Bold indicates J Award winner.

| # | Artist | Album | Country of origin | Tracks in the Hottest 100 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tame Impala | Lonerism | Australia | 7, 9 |
| 2 | The Black Keys | El Camino | United States | 13, 79 (2 in 2011) |
| 3 | The Rubens | The Rubens | Australia | 10, 66 (57 in 2011) |
| 4 | Mumford & Sons | Babel | United Kingdom | 5, 58 |
| 5 | Ball Park Music | Museum | Australia | 23, 27 |
| 6 | alt-J | An Awesome Wave | United Kingdom | 3, 64, 81 |
| 7 | Flume | Flume | Australia | 4, 12, 67 |
| 8 | The xx | Coexist | United Kingdom | 19 |
| 9 | Frank Ocean | Channel Orange | United States | 8, 56, 80 |
| 10 | San Cisco | San Cisco | Australia | 48, 53 |
