Triple j Hottest 100 of the 2010s
# Triple j Hottest 100 of the 2010s

The triple j Hottest 100 of the 2010s was held on the 14 March 2020. It is a countdown of the most popular songs of the 2010s as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station triple j. 1.8 million votes were cast by listeners choosing their top ten songs of the decade.

Tame Impala's "The Less I Know the Better" was voted into first place.

## Background

The triple j Hottest 100 of the 2010s allowed members of the public to vote online for their top ten songs of the decade, which were then used to calculate the decade's 100 most popular songs. Any song initially released between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019 was eligible for the decade's Hottest 100.

On 23 January 2020, triple j first announced that a 2010s countdown would take place. Voting opened on 11 February 2020, and closed on 9 March 2020. Between 10 and 13 March, triple j presenters Lucy Smith, Lewis Hobba, and Michael Hing progressively announced the songs that ranked between #200 and #101 in the countdown. Voting in recent countdowns has been restricted to the preceding year. There have been some exceptions, namely the Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time in 2011, and the Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years in 2013. This is the first countdown that charts the best songs of a decade.

### Projections

Based on media reports following the announcement of the existence of the countdown, some of the most frequently mentioned contenders are Frank Ocean, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Flume, and Beyoncé. Once voting closed, bookmakers' three most likely songs to take #1 were Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" (featuring Kimbra), Arctic Monkeys' "Do I Wanna Know?" and Rüfüs' "Innerbloom", both behind Gotye.

## Full list

* Note: Australian artists

Full list, with placing, title, artist(s), country of origin, year released, and original position shown :

| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin | Year | Annual Hottest 100 position |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | The Less I Know the Better | Tame Impala | Australia | 2015 | 4 |
| 2 | Somebody That I Used to Know | Gotye featuring Kimbra | Australia/New Zealand | 2011 | 1 |
| 3 | Do I Wanna Know? | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom | 2013 | 4 |
| 4 | Covered in Chrome | Violent Soho | Australia | 2013 | 14 |
| 5 | Innerbloom | Rüfüs Du Sol | Australia | 2015 | — |
| 6 | Magnolia | Gang of Youths | Australia | 2015 | 21 |
| 7 | Pumped Up Kicks | Foster the People | United States | 2010 | 32 |
| 8 | Never Be like You | Flume featuring Kai | Australia/Canada | 2016 | 1 |
| 9 | Big Jet Plane | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia | 2010 | 1 |
| 10 | Brother | Matt Corby | Australia | 2011 | 3 |
| 11 | Talk Is Cheap | Chet Faker | Australia | 2014 | 1 |
| 12 | Breezeblocks | Alt-J | United Kingdom | 2012 | 3 |
| 13 | Riptide | Vance Joy | Australia | 2013 | 1 |
| 14 | Runaway | Kanye West featuring Pusha T | United States | 2010 | 14 |
| 15 | Australia Street | Sticky Fingers | Australia | 2013 | 70 |
| 16 | Royals | Lorde | New Zealand | 2013 | 2 |
| 17 | It's Nice to Be Alive | Ball Park Music | Australia | 2011 | 31 |
| 18 | Holdin On | Flume | Australia | 2012 | 4 |
| 19 | Let Me Down Easy | Gang of Youths | Australia | 2017 | 2 |
| 20 | Cosby Sweater | Hilltop Hoods | Australia | 2014 | 3 |
| 21 | Delete | DMA's | Australia | 2014 | 48 |
| 22 | Midnight City | M83 | France | 2011 | 5 |
| 23 | King Kunta | Kendrick Lamar | United States | 2015 | 2 |
| 24 | Niggas in Paris | Kanye West and Jay-Z | United States | 2011 | 98 |
| 25 | Clair de Lune | Flight Facilities featuring Christine Hoberg | Australia/United States | 2012 | 17 |
| 26 | Let It Happen | Tame Impala | Australia | 2015 | 5 |
| 27 | 3005 | Childish Gambino | United States | 2013 | 43 |
| 28 | Redbone | Childish Gambino | United States | 2016 | 5 |
| 29 | Video Games | Lana Del Rey | United States | 2011 | 6 |
| 30 | Little Talks | Of Monsters and Men | Icealand | 2012 | 2 |
| 31 | Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) | The Wombats | United Kingdom | 2010 | 8 |
| 32 | High | Peking Duk featuring Nicole Millar | Australia | 2014 | 2 |
| 33 | Rum Rage | Sticky Fingers | Australia | 2014 | — |
| 34 | Lost | Frank Ocean | United States | 2012 | 8 |
| 35 | Confidence | Ocean Alley | Australia | 2018 | 1 |
| 36 | 1955 | Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Tom Thum | Australia | 2016 | 4 |
| 37 | Stolen Dance | Milky Chance | Germany | 2014 | 4 |
| 38 | Levels | Avicii | Sweden | 2011 | — |
| 39 | Crave You | Flight Facilities featuring Giselle Rosselli | Australia | 2010 | 19 |
| 40 | Latch | Disclosure featuring Sam Smith | United Kingdom | 2012 | 21 |
| 41 | Believe (Like a Version) | DMA's | Australia | 2016 | 6 |
| 42 | R U Mine? | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom | 2012 | 40 |
| 43 | Chateau | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia | 2017 | 3 |
| 44 | Shake It Out | Florence and the Machine | United Kingdom | 2011 | 13 |
| 45 | Lonely Boy | The Black Keys | United States | 2011 | 2 |
| 46 | Hoops | The Rubens | Australia | 2015 | 1 |
| 47 | I Will Wait | Mumford & Sons | United Kingdom | 2012 | 5 |
| 48 | HyperParadise (Flume Remix) | Hermitude | Australia | 2012 | 18 |
| 49 | Jungle | Tash Sultana | Australia | 2016 | 3 |
| 50 | Get Lucky | Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams | France/United States | 2013 | 3 |
| 51 | Adore | Amy Shark | Australia | 2016 | 2 |
| 52 | The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows | Gang of Youths | Australia | 2017 | 5 |
| 53 | Chandelier | Sia | Australia | 2014 | 9 |
| 54 | Tongue Tied | Grouplove | United States | 2011 | 16 |
| 55 | Bangarang | Skrillex featuring Sirah | United States | 2012 | 25 |
| 56 | Thrift Shop | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz | United States | 2012 | 1 |
| 57 | Humble | Kendrick Lamar | United States | 2017 | 1 |
| 58 | Gold Snafu | Sticky Fingers | Australia | 2014 | 20 |
| 59 | Teenage Crime | Adrian Lux | Sweden | 2010 | 6 |
| 60 | Swimming Pools (Drank) | Kendrick Lamar | United States | 2012 | 71 |
| 61 | Green Light | Lorde | New Zealand | 2017 | 6 |
| 62 | Thinkin Bout You | Frank Ocean | United States | 2012 | 56 |
| 63 | The Buzz | Hermitude featuring Mataya and Young Tapz | Australia | 2015 | 8 |
| 64 | Innerbloom (What So Not remix) | Rüfüs Du Sol | Australia | 2016 | 30 |
| 65 | Feels Like We Only Go Backwards | Tame Impala | Australia | 2012 | 9 |
| 66 | Elephant | Tame Impala | Australia | 2012 | 7 |
| 67 | I Love It | Hilltop Hoods featuring Sia | Australia | 2011 | 10 |
| 68 | 212 | Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay | United States/Belgium | 2011 | — |
| 69 | Drop the Game | Flume and Chet Faker | Australia | 2013 | 5 |
| 70 | 7 | Catfish and the Bottlemen | United Kingdom | 2016 | 19 |
| 71 | Bad Guy | Billie Eilish | United States | 2019 | 1 |
| 72 | Monster | Kanye West featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver | United States | 2010 | 88 |
| 73 | Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom | 2013 | 6 |
| 74 | Dancing on My Own | Robyn | Sweden | 2010 | — |
| 75 | Feel So Close | Calvin Harris | United Kingdom | 2011 | 11 |
| 76 | Sicko Mode | Travis Scott | United States | 2018 | 3 |
| 77 | Black Skinhead | Kanye West | United States | 2013 | 20 |
| 78 | Awkward | San Cisco | Australia | 2011 | 7 |
| 79 | Charlie | Mallrat | Australia | 2019 | 3 |
| 80 | Ultralight Beam | Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price and Kirk Franklin | United States | 2016 | 22 |
| 81 | Come On Mess Me Up | Cub Sport | Australia | 2016 | 24 |
| 82 | On Top | Flume featuring T.Shirt | Australia | 2012 | 67 |
| 83 | Painkiller | Ruel | Australia | 2019 | 22 |
| 84 | Dinosaurs | Ruby Fields | Australia | 2018 | 9 |
| 85 | No Role Modelz | J. Cole | United States | 2015 | — |
| 86 | Greek Tragedy | The Wombats | United Kingdom | 2015 | 29 |
| 87 | Resolution | Matt Corby | Australia | 2013 | 8 |
| 88 | Gooey | Glass Animals | United Kingdom | 2014 | 12 |
| 89 | Undercover Martyn | Two Door Cinema Club | United Kingdom | 2010 | 21 |
| 90 | This Is America | Childish Gambino | United States | 2018 | 4 |
| 91 | Loving Is Easy | Rex Orange County featuring Benny Sings | United Kingdom/Netherlands | 2017 | — |
| 92 | M.A.A.D City | Kendrick Lamar featuring MC Eiht | United States | 2012 | — |
| 93 | Sleepless | Flume featuring Jezzabell Doran | Australia | 2012 | 12 |
| 94 | Is This How You Feel? | The Preatures | Australia | 2013 | 9 |
| 95 | Losing It | Fisher | Australia | 2018 | 2 |
| 96 | Get Free | Major Lazer featuring Amber Coffman | United States | 2012 | 6 |
| 97 | Rolling in the Deep | Adele | United Kingdom | 2010 | — |
| 98 | You & Me (Flume Remix) | Disclosure featuring Eliza Doolittle | United Kingdom/Australia | 2013 | 63 |
| 99 | Dazed & Confused | Ruel | Australia | 2018 | 89 |
| 100 | Holocene | Bon Iver | United States | 2011 | 53 |

## Countries represented

* Australia – 50
* United States – 28
* United Kingdom – 15
* New Zealand – 3
* Sweden – 3
* France – 2
* Belgium – 1
* Canada – 1
* Germany – 1
* Israel – 1
* Netherlands – 1

## Artists with multiple entries

### Seven entries

* Flume (four times solo, once with Chet Faker and two remixes; 8, 18, 48, 69, 82, 93, 98)

### Five entries

* Kanye West (14, 24, 72, 77, 80)

### Four entries

* Tame Impala (1, 26, 65, 66)
* Kendrick Lamar (23, 57, 60, 92)

### Three entries

* Arctic Monkeys (3, 42, 73)
* Gang of Youths (6, 19, 52)
* Sticky Fingers (15, 33, 58)
* Hilltop Hoods (20, 36, 67)
* Childish Gambino (27, 28, 90)

### Two entries

* Rüfüs Du Sol (5, 64)
* Angus & Julia Stone (9, 43)
* Matt Corby (10, 87)
* Chet Faker (once solo and once with Flume; 11, 69)
* Lorde (16, 61)
* DMA's (21, 41)
* Jay-Z (once as a lead artist and once with Kanye West; 24, 72)
* Flight Facilities (25, 39)
* The Wombats (31, 86)
* Frank Ocean (34, 62)
* Disclosure (40, 98)
* Hermitude (48, 63)
* Sia (once solo and once with Hilltop Hoods; 53, 67)
* Bon Iver (once solo and once with Kanye West; 72, 100)
* Ruel (83, 99)

## Songs by year

| Year | Number of songs |
| - | - |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 19 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 3 |
