Triple j Hottest 100, 2019
# Triple j Hottest 100, 2019

The 2019 triple j Hottest 100 was announced on 25 January 2020. It is the 27th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station triple j. A record-breaking number of votes (3.21 million) were cast by listeners choosing their top ten songs of 2019. This was the first Hottest 100 countdown to reach 3 million votes.

American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish was voted into first place with her single "Bad Guy". In doing so, she became the first female solo artist, and the youngest act (at 18 years old) to top a Hottest 100. Eilish also achieved the second most entries in the countdown, at five, second only to Wolfmother who had 6 in 2005. Australian artists G Flip and Lime Cordiale achieved four entires each.

A number of Hottest 100 records were also broken. Denzel Curry's cover of "Bulls on Parade" became the highest ranking Like a Version in any Hottest 100. Slipknot's single "Unsainted" broke the record for the longest absence between countdowns, having last appeared 19 years prior with "Wait and Bleed" in the 2000 countdown.

## Background

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. Any song initially released between 1 December 2018 and 30 November 2019 was eligible for 2019's Hottest 100.

Voting opened on 16 December 2019. Many artists and presenters made their votes public—out of 23 triple j presenters, the artists they voted for most often were Julia Jacklin, Sampa the Great, and Thelma Plum.

### Projections

Prior to the countdown, three favourites had emerged by a significant margin. Bookmaker Beteasy and social media analysis project 100 Warm Tunas placed "Dance Monkey" by Australian musician Tones and I, "Bad Guy" by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, and American rapper Denzel Curry's cover of "Bulls on Parade" for Like a Version as the three songs most likely to take out first place.

## Full list

* Note: Australian artists

| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Bad Guy | Billie Eilish | United States |
| 2 | Rushing Back | Flume featuring Vera Blue | Australia |
| 3 | Charlie | Mallrat | Australia |
| 4 | Dance Monkey | Tones and I | Australia |
| 5 | Bulls on Parade (Like a Version) | Denzel Curry | United States |
| 6 | Drink Too Much | G Flip | Australia |
| 7 | Robbery | Lime Cordiale | Australia |
| 8 | Heavy Hearted | The Jungle Giants | Australia |
| 9 | Better in Blak | Thelma Plum | Australia |
| 10 | Exit Sign | Hilltop Hoods featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal | Australia |
| 11 | Circles | Post Malone | United States |
| 12 | By Myself | Fidlar | United States |
| 13 | Inappropriate Behaviour | Lime Cordiale | Australia |
| 14 | Purple Hat | Sofi Tukker | Germany/United States |
| 15 | Never Seen the Rain | Tones and I | Australia |
| 16 | Everything I Wanted | Billie Eilish | United States |
| 17 | I Touch Myself (Like a Version) | Lime Cordiale | Australia |
| 18 | Borderline | Tame Impala | Australia |
| 19 | Glitter | Benee | New Zealand |
| 20 | Silver | DMA's | Australia |
| 21 | Pub Feed | The Chats | Australia |
| 22 | Painkiller | Ruel | Australia |
| 23 | Earfquake | Tyler, the Creator | United States |
| 24 | Infinity | Ocean Alley | Australia |
| 25 | Find an Island | Benee | New Zealand |
| 26 | Johnny Run Away | Tones and I | Australia |
| 27 | Vossi Bop | Stormzy | United Kingdom |
| 28 | Juice | Lizzo | United States |
| 29 | Piece of Your Heart | Meduza featuring Goodboys | Italy/United Kingdom |
| 30 | Friends | Flume featuring Reo Cragun | Australia/United States |
| 31 | Save It for the Weekend | Skegss | Australia |
| 32 | Money | Lime Cordiale | Australia |
| 33 | San Frandisco | Dom Dolla | Australia |
| 34 | Tokyo Drifting | Glass Animals featuring Denzel Curry | United Kingdom/United States |
| 35 | Bury a Friend | Billie Eilish | United States |
| 36 | Solid Gold | Pnau featuring Kira Divine and Marques Toliver | Australia/United States |
| 37 | Red Light Green Light | Duke Dumont featuring Shaun Ross | United Kingdom/United States |
| 38 | Face to Face | Ruel | Australia |
| 39 | Longshot | Catfish and the Bottlemen | United Kingdom |
| 40 | Graveyard | Halsey | United States |
| 41 | Highest in the Room | Travis Scott | United States |
| 42 | Robbery | Juice Wrld | United States |
| 43 | It Might Be Time | Tame Impala | Australia |
| 44 | Cool as Hell | Baker Boy | Australia |
| 45 | Ricky | Denzel Curry | United States |
| 46 | 7 Minutes | Dean Lewis | Australia |
| 47 | Sugar | Brockhampton | United States |
| 48 | Intentions (22) | Ziggy Alberts | Australia |
| 49 | Free Time | Ruel | Australia |
| 50 | Teach Me About Dying | Holy Holy | Australia |
| 51 | Evil Spider | Benee | New Zealand |
| 52 | Patience | Tame Impala | Australia |
| 53 | You Little Beauty | Fisher | Australia |
| 54 | Stained Glass | Ocean Alley | Australia |
| 55 | Talk | Khalid featuring Disclosure | United States/United Kingdom |
| 56 | Middle Child | J. Cole | United States |
| 57 | Jellyfish | Slowly Slowly | Australia |
| 58 | Lover | G Flip | Australia |
| 59 | Nobody's Home | Mallrat and Basenji | Australia |
| 60 | I Missed Out | Hockey Dad | Australia |
| 61 | Maybe You Know | Holy Holy | Australia |
| 62 | Hell n Back | Bakar | United Kingdom |
| 63 | Nightmare | Halsey | United States |
| 64 | Circles | George Alice | Australia |
| 65 | Homecoming Queen | Thelma Plum | Australia |
| 66 | Stupid | G Flip | Australia |
| 67 | Wish You Were Gay | Billie Eilish | United States |
| 68 | Then What | Illy | Australia |
| 69 | Vacation Forever | Violent Soho | Australia |
| 70 | Talk Deep | E^ST | Australia |
| 71 | Blinding Lights | The Weeknd | Canada |
| 72 | Pasta | Angie McMahon | Australia |
| 73 | Party Pill | Cub Sport | Australia |
| 74 | Nowhere to Go | Hayden James featuring Naations | Australia |
| 75 | Paradise | Golden Features and The Presets | Australia |
| 76 | Something Tells Me | Meg Mac | Australia |
| 77 | I Am Not Afraid | G Flip | Australia |
| 78 | Not Angry Anymore | Thelma Plum | Australia |
| 79 | Stay Awake | Dean Lewis | Australia |
| 80 | Good for You | Spacey Jane | Australia |
| 81 | Let You Know | Flume featuring London Grammar | Australia/United Kingdom |
| 82 | Sugar | Peking Duk and Jack River | Australia |
| 83 | Welcome to the Black Parade (Like a Version) | Alex Lahey | Australia |
| 84 | Hey You | Dope Lemon | Australia |
| 85 | Doin' Time | Lana Del Rey | United States |
| 86 | Unsainted | Slipknot | United States |
| 87 | Follow God | Kanye West | United States |
| 88 | Lose Control | Meduza, Becky Hill and Goodboys | Italy/United Kingdom |
| 89 | Final Form | Sampa the Great | Zambia/Australia |
| 90 | Here Comes Your Man (Like a Version) | Skegss | Australia |
| 91 | All the Good Girls Go to Hell | Billie Eilish | United States |
| 92 | The Real Thing | Client Liaison | Australia |
| 93 | Wow | Post Malone | United States |
| 94 | Protection | Allday | Australia |
| 95 | A.O.K. | Adrian Eagle | Australia |
| 96 | Ludens | Bring Me the Horizon | United Kingdom |
| 97 | Skin | San Cisco | Australia |
| 98 | Meditjin | Baker Boy featuring JessB | Australia/New Zealand |
| 99 | C.U.D.I. (Can U Dig It) | Cosmo's Midnight | Australia |
| 100 | No Plans | Dune Rats | Australia |

## Countries represented

* Australia – 65
* United States – 27
* United Kingdom – 10
* New Zealand – 4
* Italy – 2
* Canada – 1
* Germany – 1
* Zambia – 1

## Artists with multiple entries

### Five entries

* Billie Eilish (1, 16, 35, 67, 91)

### Four entries

* G Flip (6, 58, 66, 77)
* Lime Cordiale (7, 13, 17, 32)

### Three entries

* Flume (2, 30, 81)
* Tones and I (4, 15, 26)
* Denzel Curry (twice solo and once with Glass Animals) (5, 34, 45)
* Thelma Plum (9, 65, 78)
* Tame Impala (18, 43, 52)
* Benee (19, 25, 51)
* Ruel (22, 38, 49)

### Two entries

* Mallrat (once solo and once with Basenji) (3, 59)
* Illy (once solo and once with Hilltop Hoods) (10, 68)
* Post Malone (11, 93)
* Ocean Alley (24, 54)
* Meduza (29, 88)
* Goodboys (once with Meduza and once as a co-lead artist) (29, 88)
* Skegss (31, 90)
* Halsey (40, 63)
* Baker Boy (44, 98)
* Dean Lewis (46, 79)
* Holy Holy (50, 61)
