And The Winner Of The Hottest 100 Is…
It's all over for another year.
Billie Eilish has become the first solo female artist to be crowned winner of triple j’s Hottest 100, with her track ‘bad guy’ landing at #1.
She beat out strong competition in Denzel Curry’s ‘Bulls On Parade’ cover, Thelma Plum’s ‘Better In Blak’, and Mallrat’s ‘Charlie’. Flume and Vera Blue narrowly missed out, landing at #2 with ‘Rushing Back’.
It was a strong year for solo female acts in the top ten, with Thelma Plum’s ‘Better In Blak’, Mallrat’s ‘Charlie’, and G Flip’s ‘Drink Too Much’ all featuring in the top ten. The top five tracks all featured female vocalists, and Plum has become the highest ranking Indigenous artist in Hottest 100 history.
It was the biggest year for voting on record, with a staggering 3,211,596 votes counted, a 16.4 percent increase on last year. Sixty-five songs were from Australian artists, just one notch below the record which was set in 2016. Seventeen artists made their debut this year, and nine artists completed a hat trick — having appeared in the countdown three years running.
Check out the full Hottest 100 below.
Triple J Hottest 100 2020
1. Billie Eilish — ‘bad guy’
2. Flume feat. Vera Blue — ‘Rushing Back’
3. Mallrat — ‘Charlie’
4. Tones And I — ‘Dance Monkey’
5. Denzel Curry — ‘Bulls On Parade’ (Like A Version)
6. G Flip — ‘Drink Too Much’
7. Lime Cordiale — ‘Robbery’
8. The Jungle Giants — ‘Heavy Hearted’
9. Thelma Plum — ‘Better In Blak’
10. Hilltop Hoods feat. Illy and Ecca Vandal — ‘Exit Sign’
11. Post Malone — ‘Circles’
12. FIDLAR — ‘By Myself’
13. Liame Cordiale — ‘Inappropriate Behaviour’
14. Sofi Tukker — ‘Purple Hat’
15. Tones And I — ‘Never Seen The Rain’
16. Billie Eilish — ‘everything i wanted’
17. Lime Cordiale — ‘I Touch Myself’ (Like A Version)
18. Tame Impala — ‘Borderline’
19. BENEE — ‘Glitter’
20. DMA’s — ‘Silver’
21. The Chats — ‘Pub Feed’
22. Ruel — ‘Painkiller’
23. Tyler, The Creator — ‘EARFQUAKE’
24. Ocean Alley — ‘Infinity’
25. BENEE — ‘Find An Island’
26. Tones and I — ‘Johnny Run Away’
27. Stormzy — ‘Vossi Bop’
28. Lizzo — ‘Juice’
29. Meduza feat. GOODBOYS — ‘Piece Of Your Heart’
30. Flume feat. Reo Cragun — ‘Friends’
31. Skegss — ‘Save It For The Weekend’
32. Lime Cordiale — ‘Money’
33. Dom Dolla — ‘San Frandisco’
34. Glass Animals feat. Denzel Curry — ‘Tokyo Drifting’
35. Billie Eilish — ‘Bury A Friend’
36. PNAU feat. Kira Devine and Marques Toliver — ‘Solid Gold’
37. Duke Dumont feat. Shaun Ross — ‘Red Light Green Light’
38. Ruel — ‘Face To Face’
39. Catfish and the Bottlemen — ‘Longshot’
40. Halsey — ‘Graveyard’
41. Travis Scott — ‘HIGHEST IN THE ROOM’
42. Juice WRLD — ‘Robbery’
43. Tame Impala — ‘It Might Be Time’
44. Baker Boy — ‘Cool As Hell’
45. Denzel Curry — ‘RICKY’
46. Dean Lewis — ‘7 Minutes’
47. BROCKHAMPTON — ‘SUGAR’
48. Ziggy Alberts — ‘Intentions (22)’
49. Ruel — ‘Free Time’
50. Holy Holy — ‘Teach Me About Dying’
51. BENEE — ‘Evil Spider’
52. Tame Impala — ‘Patience’
53. Fisher — ‘You Little Beauty’
54. Ocean Alley — ‘Stained Glass’
55. Khalid feat. Disclosure — ‘Talk’
56. J Cole — ‘Middle Child’
57. Slowly Slowly — ‘Jellyfish’
58. G Flip — ‘Lover’
59. Mallrat and Basenji — ‘Nobody’s Home’
60. Hockey Dad — ‘I Missed Out’
61. Holy Holy — ‘Maybe You Know’
62. Bakar — ‘Hell N Back’
63. Halsey — ‘Nightmare’
64. George Alice — ‘Circles’
65. Thelma Plum — ‘Homecoming Queen’
66. G Flip — ‘Stupid’
67. Billie Eilish – ‘wish you were gay’
68. Illy — ‘Then What’
69. Violent Soho — ‘Vacation Forever’
70. E^ST — ‘Talk Deep’
71. The Weeknd — ‘Blinding Lights’
72. Angie McMahon — ‘Pasta’
73. Cub Sport — ‘Party Pill’
74. Hayden James feat. NAATIONS — ‘Nowhere To Go’
75. Golden Features and The Presets — ‘Paradise’
76. Meg Mac — ‘Something Tells Me’
77. G Flip — ‘I Am Not Afraid’
78. Thelma Plum — ‘Not Angry Anymore’
79. Dean Lewis — ‘Stay Awake’
80. Spacey Jane — ‘Good For You’
81. Flume feat. London Grammar — ‘Let You Know’
82. Peking Duk and Jack River — ‘Sugar’
83. Alex Lahey — ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’ (Like A Version)
84. Dope Lemon — ‘Hey You’
85. Lana Del Rey — ‘Doin Time’
86. Slipknot — ‘Unsainted’
87. Kanye West — ‘Follow God’
88. Meduza, Becky Hill, and GOODBOYS — ‘Lose Control ‘
89. Sampa The Great — ‘Final Form’
90. Skegss — ‘Here Comes Your Man’
91. Billie Eilish — ‘All The Good Girls Go To Hell’
92. CLient Liaison — ‘The Real Thing’
93. Post Malone — ‘Wow’
94. Allday — ‘Protection’
95. Adrian Eagle — ‘A.O.K’
96. Bring Me The Horizon — ‘Ludens’
97. San Cisco — ‘Skin’
98. Baker Boy feat. Jess B — ‘Meditjin’
99. Cosmo’s Midnight — ‘C.U.D.I (Can U Dig It)’
100. Dune Rats — ‘No Plans’