Here Are The Songs Science Predicts Will Top The Hottest 100 Of The Decade
Surprised?
The Hottest 100 of the Decade is fast approaching, and though there’s no concrete way of knowing which songs will top the list — believe us, we tried to guess — 100 Warm Tunas does provide at least some sense of how it’ll go down.
The site aggregates votes that have been posted online, meaning that it’s using actually-cast data to predict what will come first.
Of course, that’s not an infallible method. Not everybody posts their votes online, meaning that you get a skewed and particular set of votes. The kind of person who posts their favourites on Twitter, for instance, is probably more likely to love Denzel Curry’s ‘Bulls on Parade’ than Billie Eilish’s ‘bad guy’ — we’re talking about a particular kind of voter here. In fact, that might explain why the former song did much worse in the actual 2020 countdown than 100 Warm Tunas predicted.
It also might explain the song that the list currently puts at number one for the hottest of the decade — Violent Soho’s ‘Covered in Chrome’.
Although, you’d be a fool to entirely discount the Soho boys. They’re a beloved Australian institution that have always fared well with the countdown, and with triple j more generally.
The other top ten songs on the list include ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ by the Arctic Monkeys, which will surely place; ‘Magnolia’ by Gang of Youths; ‘The Less I Know the Better’ by Tame Impala; ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ by Gotye; ‘It’s Nice To Be Alive’ by Ball Park Music; ‘Breezeblocks’ by Alt-J; the bizarrely problematic ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ by Foster The People; ‘Runaway’ by Kanye West; and ‘Let It Happen’ by Tame Impala.
How many of those songs are actually embraced by the wider public remains to be seen, of course. It’d probably be safe to guess that Tame Impala, Gang of Youths, and Gotye will all place in the top ten. But how high? Only time will tell.
The Hottest 100 of the Decade goes down on Saturday March 14.