Triple J Hottest 100, 1999
# Triple J Hottest 100, 1999

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 | These Days | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 2 | Weir | Killing Heidi | Australia |
| 3 | You Shit Me to Tears | The Tenants | Australia |
| 4 | Praise You | Fatboy Slim | United Kingdom |
| 5 | Every You Every Me | Placebo | United Kingdom |
| 6 | The Bad Touch | Bloodhound Gang | United States |
| 7 | Guerrilla Radio | Rage Against the Machine | United States |
| 8 | Nookie | Limp Bizkit | United States |
| 9 | Last Kiss | Pearl Jam | United States |
| 10 | Scar Tissue | Red Hot Chili Peppers | United States |
| 11 | Learn to Fly | Foo Fighters | United States |
| 12 | When I Grow Up | Garbage | United States |
| 13 | What's My Age Again? | Blink-182 | United States |
| 14 | Mascara | Killing Heidi | Australia |
| 15 | Ana's Song (Open Fire) | Silverchair | Australia |
| 16 | Freak on a Leash | Korn | United States |
| 17 | Falling Away from Me | Korn | United States |
| 18 | Theophilus Thistler (An Exercise in Vowels) | Sonic Animation | Australia |
| 19 | Animal | Jebediah | Australia |
| 20 | Exerciser | Rhubarb | Australia |
| 21 | Lucky Star | Alex Lloyd | Australia |
| 22 | Don't Call Me Baby | Madison Avenue | Australia |
| 23 | Right Here, Right Now | Fatboy Slim | United Kingdom |
| 24 | I Try | Macy Gray | United States |
| 25 | Already Gone | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 26 | Never Had So Much Fun | Frenzal Rhomb | Australia |
| 27 | Hey Boy Hey Girl | The Chemical Brothers | United Kingdom |
| 28 | Feet Touch the Ground | Jebediah | Australia |
| 29 | Anthem for the Year 2000 | Silverchair | Australia |
| 30 | Miss You Love | Silverchair | Australia |
| 31 | All the Small Things | Blink-182 | United States |
| 32 | Heaven Coming Down | The Tea Party | Canada |
| 33 | Ready 1 | Grinspoon | Australia |
| 34 | You Are Not My Friend | Frenzal Rhomb | Australia |
| 35 | Beven: The Musical | Peter Helliar and Tripod | Australia |
| 36 | A Hazy Shade of Winter | Bodyjar | Australia |
| 37 | Around the World | Red Hot Chili Peppers | United States |
| 38 | Chunky Chunky Air Guitar | The Whitlams | Australia |
| 39 | Turn Up Your Stereo | Eskimo Joe | Australia |
| 40 | Shazam! | Spiderbait | Australia |
| 41 | All Torn Down | The Living End | Australia |
| 42 | Ringo (I Feel Like) | Custard | Australia |
| 43 | Emotion Sickness | Silverchair | Australia |
| 44 | Electricity | Something for Kate | Australia |
| 45 | Enter, Space Capsule | Gerling | Australia |
| 46 | The Chemicals Between Us | Bush | United Kingdom |
| 47 | Coffee & TV | Blur | United Kingdom |
| 48 | West End Riot | The Living End | Australia |
| 49 | Second Class Citizen | Area-7 | Australia |
| 50 | Bigger Than Tina | The Fauves | Australia |
| 51 | Army | Ben Folds Five | United States |
| 52 | It Won't Last | The Cruel Sea | Australia |
| 53 | Sexx Laws | Beck | United States |
| 54 | Thank You (for Loving Me at My Worst) | The Whitlams | Australia |
| 55 | Perfect Family | Diana Ah Naid | Australia |
| 56 | No Leaf Clover | Metallica | United States |
| 57 | Tender | Blur | United Kingdom |
| 58 | I Wanna Be a Nudist | Regurgitator | Australia |
| 59 | Mutha Fukka on a Motorcycle | Machine Gun Fellatio | Australia |
| 60 | Touched | VAST | United States |
| 61 | Asleep in Perfection | Augie March | Australia |
| 62 | Happiness (Rotting My Brain) | Regurgitator | Australia |
| 63 | Canned Heat | Jamiroquai | United Kingdom |
| 64 | We're Going Out Tonight | Frenzal Rhomb | Australia |
| 65 | Burn to Shine | Ben Harper | United States |
| 66 | Turn That Shit Up | Testeagles | Australia |
| 67 | Beautiful Stranger | Madonna | United States |
| 68 | Good-Day Ray | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 69 | Starfuckers, Inc. | Nine Inch Nails | United States |
| 70 | Whatever You Want | Something for Kate | Australia |
| 71 | Pulled Along by Love | The Mutton Birds | New Zealand |
| 72 | Hallways | Something for Kate | Australia |
| 73 | Pumping on Your Stereo | Supergrass | United Kingdom |
| 74 | Deeper Water | deadstar | Australia |
| 75 | Some Kind of Love Song | Friendly | Australia |
| 76 | What It's Like | Everlast | United States |
| 77 | Sun Is Shining | Bob Marley and Funkstar De Luxe | Jamaica/Denmark |
| 78 | My Favourite Game | The Cardigans | Sweden |
| 79 | Bodyrock | Moby | United States |
| 80 | Sing It Back | Moloko | United Kingdom |
| 81 | Nothing Much Happens | Ben Lee | Australia |
| 82 | Home | Skunkhour | Australia |
| 83 | Hit Song | Custard | Australia |
| 84 | Stevie | Spiderbait | Australia |
| 85 | Steal My Kisses | Ben Harper | United States |
| 86 | Blue Monday | Orgy | United States |
| 87 | You Don't Care About Us | Placebo | United Kingdom |
| 88 | Run On | Moby | United States |
| 89 | Nice Guys Finish Last | Green Day | United States |
| 90 | Stripped | Rammstein | Germany |
| 91 | Down Under | Pennywise | United States |
| 92 | Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak | Macy Gray | United States |
| 93 | Waltz #2 (XO) | Elliott Smith | United States |
| 94 | Spray Water on the Stereo | Turnstyle | Australia |
| 95 | The Order of Death (Blair Witch Mix) | Public Image Ltd | United Kingdom |
| 96 | Plastic | Spiderbait | Australia |
| 97 | The Kids Aren't Alright | The Offspring | United States |
| 98 | Every Morning | Sugar Ray | United States |
| 99 | Ruby Wednesday | Eskimo Joe | Australia |
| 100 | Passenger | Powderfinger | Australia |

52 of the 100 songs were by Australian artists (marked with a green background).

## Artists with multiple entries

Four entries

* Powderfinger (1, 25, 68, 100)
* Silverchair (15, 29, 30, 43)

Three entries

* Frenzal Rhomb (26, 34, 64)
* Spiderbait (40, 84, 96)
* Something for Kate (44, 70, 72)

Two entries

* Killing Heidi (2, 14)
* Fatboy Slim (4, 23)
* Placebo (5, 87)
* Red Hot Chili Peppers (10, 37)
* Blink-182 (13, 31)
* KoЯn (16, 17)
* Jebediah (19, 28)
* Macy Gray (24, 92)
* The Whitlams (38, 54)
* Eskimo Joe (39, 99)
* The Living End (41, 48)
* Custard (42, 83)
* Blur (47, 57)
* Regurgitator (58, 62)
* Ben Harper (65, 85)
* Moby (79, 88)

## Top 10 Albums of 1999

| # | Artist | Album | Country of Origin | Tracks in the Hottest 100 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Alex Lloyd | Black the Sun | Australia | 21 |
| 2 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Californication | United States | 10, 37 (7 in 2000) |
| 3 | Something for Kate | Beautiful Sharks | Australia | 44, 70, 72 (59 in 2000) |
| 4 | Silverchair | Neon Ballroom | Australia | 15, 29, 30, 43 (96 in 2000) |
| 5 | Placebo | Without You I'm Nothing | United Kingdom | 5, 87 (41 in 1998) |
| 6 | The Whitlams | Love This City | Australia | 38, 54 (37 in 2000) |
| 7 | Nine Inch Nails | The Fragile | United States | 69 |
| 8 | Moby | Play | United States | 79, 88 (22 in 2000) |
| 9 | Rage Against the Machine | The Battle of Los Angeles | United States | 7 (13, 77 in 2000) |
| 10 | The Tea Party | 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) |
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### Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| - | - | - |
| Australia (ARIA) | 3× Platinum | $210,000^^$ |
| $^^$ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |||
