This Website Reckons It Can Tell You The Next Hottest 100 Winner
Let the wild speculation begin!
It’s the start of Hottest 100 season, so you know what that means: it’s time for a whole bunch of mostly unfounded speculation about who’s going to take out the list’s top spot!
But in the deluge of unscientific methods designed to predict the winner, one site stands out. Rather than simply guess at the ranking based on hard to quantify social media chatter, 100 Warm Tunas (excellent name, by the way) collates together screenshots of votes posted to social media.
In that way, the site uses actual, already cast Hottest 100 votes, giving it a significant edge over most of the other rubbish out there. It’s transparent too — it’ll tell you exactly how many votes have been counted across how many images, meaning you’re welcome to take the prediction with however big a pinch of salt as you like. It’s been pretty accurate in the past — in 2016 the site very nearly predicted the entire top ten, although it placed Amy Shark’s ‘Adore’ above Flume’s ‘Never Be Like You’ — which went on to win.
At the moment, perhaps unsurprisingly, Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ is the song tipped to take out the Hottest 100.
To be honest, ‘This Is America’ makes a lot of sense as a winner: much like ‘HUMBLE.’, last year’s winner, Gambino’s masterpiece is both politically engaged, and an outright banger. That means whether you listen with your head or your heart, you’ll be swept away by the tune. Oh, and it has that exceptional music video going for it too.
More surprising is the song tipped to take the second spot in The Hottest 100: Ocean Alley’s ‘Confidence’. Sure, it’s lovely to imagine that a homegrown tune might take out such a high ranking, but have more people really voted for Ocean Alley than they have international heavyweights like Drake? Only time will tell.
The site is updated daily, so feel more than free to keep checking back if your favourite has climbed the chart all the way up to the unveiling of the Hottest 100, which will go down on Sunday January 27.