With Triple J’s annual Hottest 100 countdown fast approaching, debate is heating up as to who will nab that highly coveted number one spot, with further debate raging about who will even make this year’s poll. Things recently went into overdrive after BuzzFeed launched a campaign to see Taylor Swift make it into the countdown, despite never having been played on Triple J.
In previous years, the Warmest 100 was a useful resource for eager Triple J listeners hunting for spoilers, but this year they may just have something better. According to the creative minds behind the Social Hottest 100, their list uses a larger sample size than the Warmest 100, and their results are now available for readers to check out below.
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According to Social Hottest 100’s creators, the data used to create their countdown was taken directly from social media, primarily Twitter and Instagram posts that used the hashtag #Hottest100. The votes, of which there were 20,000 total (that’s 2,000 voters at 10 votes each), were then entered manually into a spreadsheet.
So where does Taylor Swift place in their countdown? Well, according to the creators, it’s unlikely that votes cast for ‘Shake It Off’, Swift’s 2014 single that was at the centre of the BuzzFeed campaign, will be counted by Triple J pollsters, for the purposes of the Social Hottest 100 the votes “have been factored in as if she were any other artist”.
As a result, Social Hottest 100 creators have ‘Shake It Off’ coming in at 76. The top spot, meanwhile, goes to Peking Duk for ‘High’, followed by Chet Faker’s ‘Talk Is Cheap’ and ‘1998’. The top five is rounded out by Milky Chance’s ‘Stolen Dance’ and Peking Duk’s ‘Take Me Over’, with seven of the top ten places going to Australians.
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So how much more accurate is the Social Hottest 100 than the Warmest 100? It remains to be seen, of course, but last year’s Warmest 100 used 17,800 votes from 1,779 entries (quite a few less than the Social Hottest 100) to accurately predict Vance Joy at number one, ultimately predicting 85 songs that made it into the Hottest 100, though only four matched their Warmest 100 placings.
Also interesting to note is that ‘High’ was the most played track on Triple J during 2014, followed by Sticky Fingers’ ‘Gold Snafu’, Phantogram’s ‘Fall In Love’, The Presets’ ‘Goodbye Future’, and Art Vs Science’s ‘Create / Destroy’, so it will likely have been burned onto listeners’ memories when voting time rolled around.
Social Hottest 100
100 — Röyksopp & Robyn — Do It Again
99 — Banks — Brain
98 — Thundamentals — Quit Your Job
97 — Kingswood — Micro Wars
96 — Royal Blood — Figure It Out
95 — Cold War Kids — All This Could Be Yours
94 — Smith Street Band, The — I Don’t Wanna Die Anymore
93 — Meg Mac — Bridges (L.A.V)
92 — Meg Mac — Grandma’s Hands
91 — Vance Joy — First Time
90 — Rise Against — I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore
89 — George Maple — Talk Talk
88 — Rustie — Attak (Ft. Danny Brown)
87 — Chvrches — Get Away
86 — First Aid Kit — My Silver Lining
85 — Interpol — All The Rage Back Home
84 — Sticky Fingers — Liquorlip Loaded Gun
83 — Bombay Bicycle Club — Luna
82 — #1 Dads — So Soldier (Ft. Ainslie Wills)
81 — Odd Mob — Is It A Banger?
80 — Catfish & The Bottlemen — Cocoon
79 — Avener, The — Fade Out Lines
78 — Jack White — Lazaretto
77 — Royal Blood — Little Monster
76 — Taylor Swift — Shake It Off
75 — Flight Facilities — Sunshine (Ft. Reggie Watts)
74 — British India — Wrong Direction
73 — Bring Me The Horizon — Drown
72 — Hilltop Hoods — Won’t Let You Down (Ft. Maverick Sabre)
71 — Duke Dumont — I Got U (Ft. Jax Jones)
70 — Golden Features — Tell Me (Ft. Nicole Millar)
69 — Highasakite — Since Last Wednesday
68 — Ball Park Music — Everything Is Shit Except My Friendship With You
67 — Jungle — Busy Earnin’
66 — Thundamentals — Got Love (Ft. Solo)
65 — Andy Bull — Talk Too Much
64 — Kingswood — I Can Feel That You Don’t Love Me
63 — One Day — Love Me Less
62 — Milky Chance — Flashed Junk Mind
61 — Modern Baseball — Your Graduation
60 — Lorde — Tennis Court (Flume remix)
59 — Kendrick Lamar — i
58 — Hopium — Dreamers (Ft. Phoebe Lou)
57 — Courtney Barnett — Pickles From The Jar
56 — Caribou — Can’t Do Without You
55 — Allday — Right Now
54 — RL Grime & What So Not — Tell Me
53 — Allday — You Always Know The DJ
52 — SAFIA — Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds
51 — Sticky Fingers — Just For You
50 — Childish Gambino — Sweatpants
49 — Childish Gambino — Sober
48 — Chvrches — Do I Wanna Know? (L.A.V)
47 — DZ Deathrays — Gina Works At Hearts
46 — alt-J — Hunger Of The Pine
45 — Run The Jewels — Close Your Eyes (And Count To ****) (Ft. Zack de la Rocha)
44 — TV On The Radio — Happy Idiot
43 — Kim Churchill — Window To The Sky
42 — Broods — Mother & Father
41 — clipping. — Work Work (Ft. Cocc Pistol Cree)
40 — Lana Del Rey — West Coast
39 — Preatures, The — Somebody’s Talking
38 — Sia — Chandelier
37 — War On Drugs, The — Red Eyes
36 — San Cisco — RUN
35 — Smith Street Band, The — Surrender
34 — DMA’s — Delete
33 — FKA twigs — Two Weeks
32 — Flight Facilities — Two Bodies (Ft. Emma Louise)
31 — Jamie T — Zombie
30 — Bluejuice — I’ll Go Crazy
29 — Meg Mac — Roll Up Your Sleeves
28 — Chet Faker — (Lover) You Don’t Treat Me No Good (L.A.V)
27 — Lorde — Yellow Flicker Beat
26 — Banks — Beggin For Thread
25 — SBTRKT — NEW DORP. NEW YORK (Ft. Ezra Koenig)
24 — Carmada — Maybe
23 — alt-J — Left Hand Free
22 — Amity Affliction, The — Pittsburgh
21 — Thundamentals — Something I Said (Ft. Thom Crawford)
20 — Future Islands — Seasons (Waiting On You)
19 — Alison Wonderland — I Want U
18 — Vance Joy — Mess Is Mine
17 — Ball Park Music — She Only Loves Me When I’m There
16 — Illy — Tightrope (Ft. Scarlett Stevens)
15 — Glass Animals — Gooey
14 — Sticky Fingers — Gold Snafu
13 — Chet Faker — Gold
12 — alt-J — Every Other Freckle
11 — Asgeir — King & Cross
10 — Mark Ronson — Uptown Funk (Ft. Bruno Mars)
9 — Kite String Tangle, The — Arcadia
8 — ZHU — Faded
7 — Hilltop Hoods — Cosby Sweater
6 — Griswolds, The — Beware The Dog
5 — Peking Duk — Take Me Over (Ft. SAFIA)
4 — Milky Chance — Stolen Dance
3 — Chet Faker — 1998
2 — Chet Faker — Talk Is Cheap
1 — Peking Duk — High (Ft. Nicole Millar)
@j_delaurentiis correct
— Social Hottest 100 (@socialhottest) January 19, 2015
@will_ock Tallying of votes was completely manual, entered into a spreadsheet.
— Social Hottest 100 (@socialhottest) January 20, 2015
@will_ock The data was taken from those sharing votes on social media, predominantly Instagram and Twitter users using #hottest100
— Social Hottest 100 (@socialhottest) January 20, 2015
@andykiddmusic while we agree the votes for her have been factored in as if she were any other artist
— Social Hottest 100 (@socialhottest) January 19, 2015
