Oasis #1 on Hottest 100
In what has come as a surprise to many, Wonderwall by Oasis has taken out the #1 spot in the 20 Years of triple j’s Hottest 100 poll. The song, which also topped triple j’s Hottest 100 poll in 1996, was the one that sent Oasis’s career to stratospheric heights. Noel Gallagher’s worship of the Beatles is no secret – he lifted the song’s title from George Harrison’s 1968 LP Wonderwall Music. Later covered by everyone from Jay-Z to Ryan Adams (the latter being the only version which earned Noel’s approval), Wonderwall proved a massive worldwide hit. While Oasis took the top spot, several artists managed multiple entries in the poll including Daft Punk, Silverchair and The Killers with three songs each, followed by Beastie Boys, Gorillaz, Gotye, Jebediah, Jeff Buckley, MGMT, Powderfinger, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead with two songs each. 1997 stood out as the year with the most popular songs with 11 songs from the countdown released that year. There are 49 songs from the 1990s (1993 – 1999) and 51 songs from the 2000s (2000 – 2012). Just under a million votes were cast with the average voting age being 25 (perhaps an indication why several pioneering acts were overlooked). Did the voters get it right? Tell us what you think.
20 Years of triple j’s Hottest 100 (Full List):
| No. | Artist | Song | |
| 1 | Oasis | Wonderwall | |
| 2 | The White Stripes | Seven Nation Army | |
| 3 | Jeff Buckley | Last Goodbye | |
| 4 | Hilltop Hoods | The Nosebleed Section | |
| 5 | The Verve | Bitter Sweet Symphony | |
| 6 | Foo Fighters | Everlong | |
| 7 | The Killers | Mr. Brightside | |
| 8 | Powderfinger | These Days | |
| 9 | Gotye ft Kimbra | Somebody That I Used to Know | |
| 10 | Powderfinger | My Happiness | |
| 11 | Queens of the Stone Age | No One Knows | |
| 12 | Gotye | Hearts a Mess | |
| 13 | Radiohead | Paranoid Android | |
| 14 | Mumford & Sons | Little Lion Man | |
| 15 | The Prodigy | Breathe | |
| 16 | Bon Iver | Skinny Love | |
| 17 | Silverchair | Tomorrow | |
| 18 | OutKast | Hey Ya! | |
| 19 | blink-182 | Dammit | |
| 20 | The Living End | Prisoner of Society | |
| 21 | The Smashing Pumpkins | 1979 | |
| 22 | Blur | Song 2 | |
| 23 | Muse | Knights of Cydonia | |
| 24 | Augie March | One Crowded Hour | |
| 25 | The Smashing Pumpkins | Bullet With Butterfly Wings | |
| 26 | System Of A Down | Chop Suey! | |
| 27 | The Avalanches | Frontier Psychiatrist | |
| 28 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Scar Tissue | |
| 29 | Franz Ferdinand | Take Me Out | |
| 30 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Californication | |
| 31 | Massive Attack | Teardrop | |
| 32 | Tool | Stinkfist | |
| 33 | The Cranberries | Zombie | |
| 34 | Ben Folds Five | Brick | |
| 35 | Radiohead | Karma Police | |
| 36 | Jeff Buckley | Hallelujah | |
| 37 | Beastie Boys | Sabotage | |
| 38 | The Temper Trap | Sweet Disposition | |
| 39 | Nirvana | Heart Shaped Box | |
| 40 | Nine Inch Nails | Closer | |
| 41 | Coldplay | Yellow | |
| 42 | Matt Corby | Brother | |
| 43 | John Butler Trio | Betterman | |
| 44 | Daft Punk | One More Time | |
| 45 | Modest Mouse | Float On | |
| 46 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Into My Arms | |
| 47 | The Offspring | Self Esteem | |
| 48 | The Strokes | Last Nite | |
| 49 | Florence + the Machine | Dog Days Are Over | |
| 50 | Pearl Jam | Better Man | |
| 51 | The Dandy Warhols | Bohemian Like You | |
| 52 | Gorillaz | Feel Good Inc | |
| 53 | Placebo | Every You Every Me | |
| 54 | Kings Of Leon | Sex On Fire | |
| 55 | Fatboy Slim | Praise You | |
| 56 | Underworld | Born Slippy (Nuxx) | |
| 57 | Bloc Party | Banquet | |
| 58 | The Whitlams | No Aphrodisiac | |
| 59 | Daft Punk | Around The World | |
| 60 | Bush | Glycerine | |
| 61 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy | |
| 62 | Spiderbait | Buy Me A Pony | |
| 63 | Grinspoon | Chemical Heart | |
| 64 | MGMT | Kids | |
| 65 | Daft Punk | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | |
| 66 | You Am I | Berlin Chair | |
| 67 | alt-J | Breezeblocks | |
| 68 | Jet | Are You Gonna Be My Girl | |
| 69 | Eminem | Lose Yourself | |
| 70 | Regurgitator | ! (The Song Formerly Known As) | |
| 71 | Gorillaz | Clint Eastwood | |
| 72 | Wolfmother | Joker And The Thief | |
| 73 | Edward Sharpe & The… | Home | |
| 74 | The Wombats | Let’s Dance To Joy Division | |
| 75 | The Killers | Somebody Told Me | |
| 76 | MGMT | Electric Feel | |
| 77 | The Presets | My People | |
| 78 | Silverchair | Freak | |
| 79 | Arctic Monkeys | I Bet You Look Good On… | |
| 80 | Rage Against The Machine | Bulls On Parade | |
| 81 | Angus & Julia Stone | Big Jet Plane | |
| 82 | Wheatus | Teenage Dirtbag | |
| 83 | Pulp | Common People | |
| 84 | Kanye West | Gold Digger (Ft. Jamie Foxx) | |
| 85 | Coolio | Gangsta’s Paradise | |
| 86 | The Killers | When You Were Young | |
| 87 | The Kooks | Naive | |
| 88 | Something For Kate | Monsters | |
| 89 | TV On The Radio | Wolf Like Me | |
| 90 | Silverchair | Straight Lines | |
| 91 | Jebediah | Harpoon | |
| 92 | Of Monsters And Men | Little Talks | |
| 93 | Soundgarden | Black Hole Sun | |
| 94 | Foster The People | Pumped Up Kicks | |
| 95 | Ben Lee | Cigarettes Will Kill You | |
| 96 | The Cat Empire | Hello | |
| 97 | M.I.A. | Paper Planes | |
| 98 | Jebediah | Leaving Home | |
| 99 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games | |
| 100 | Beastie Boys | Intergalactic | |