Triple J Hottest 100, 2020

2020 Triple J Hottest 100
2020 Triple J Hottest 100
	Album artwork for the CD compilation
Countdown details
Date of countdown	23 January 2021
Charity partner	Lifeline
Countdown highlights
Winning song	Glass Animals ("Heat Waves")
Most entries	Lime Cordiale (5)
Chronology
← Previous; 2010s	Next →; 2021

The 2020 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 23 January 2021.^[1] It is the 28th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station triple j. The countdown was announced on the fourth weekend of January.

English band Glass Animals was voted into first place with their single "Heat Waves", becoming the first British act to top the annual list in 11 years, with the previous case being when Mumford & Sons won the 2009 countdown with "Little Lion Man". Australian band Lime Cordiale achieved the most entries in the countdown, at five.

Background

The triple j Hottest 100 allows members of the public to vote online for their top ten songs of the year, which are then used to calculate the year's 100 most popular songs. Any song initially released between 1 December 2019 and 30 November 2020 was eligible for 2020's Hottest 100.

Voting opened on 8 December 2020. Several artists and presenters made their votes public, including Billie Eilish, Flume, and Glass Animals. The artists most often voted for by these artists were Tkay Maidza, Tame Impala, Spacey Jane, and The Strokes.^[2]

Projections

Prior to the countdown, two favourites had emerged. Various music blogs and bookmakers placed "Heat Waves" by English psych-pop band Glass Animals and "Booster Seat" by Australian indie-rock band Spacey Jane as the two songs most likely to take first place.^[3] Glass Animals previously placed 12th in 2014, also ranking in the top 40 in 2016 and 2019; while Spacey Jane debuted at 80th in 2019. Both songs respectively placed in first and second on the countdown.

Full list

Note: Australian artists

#	Song	Artist	Country of origin
1	Heat Waves	Glass Animals	United Kingdom
2	Booster Seat	Spacey Jane	Australia
3	The Difference	Flume and Toro y Moi	Australia/United States
4	Cherub	Ball Park Music	Australia
5	Lost in Yesterday	Tame Impala	Australia
6	WAP	Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion	United States
7	Hyperfine	G Flip	Australia
8	Sending Me Ur Loving	The Jungle Giants	Australia
9	I'm Good?	Hilltop Hoods	Australia
10	Therefore I Am	Billie Eilish	United States
11	On Our Own	Lime Cordiale	Australia
12	Get on the Beers	Mashd N Kutcher featuring Dan Andrews	Australia
13	Rockstar	Mallrat	Australia
14	Tombstone	Ocean Alley	Australia
15	Skin	Spacey Jane	Australia
16	Screw Loose	Lime Cordiale	Australia
17	Is It True	Tame Impala	Australia
18	Tangerine	Glass Animals	United Kingdom
19	You Should Be Sad	Halsey	United States
20	Addicted to the Sunshine	Lime Cordiale	Australia
21	Energy	Stace Cadet and KLP	Australia
22	Complicated	Eves Karydas	Australia
23	Good News	Mac Miller	United States
24	Blue World	Mac Miller	United States
25	Reality Check Please	Lime Cordiale	Australia
26	No Plans to Make Plans	Lime Cordiale	Australia
27	Under the Thunder	Skegss	Australia
28	Straightfaced	Spacey Jane	Australia
29	Dribble	Sycco	Australia
30	Bagi-la-m Bargan	Birdz featuring Fred Leone	Australia
31	Reasons	San Cisco	Australia
32	Criminals	DMA's	Australia
33	Breathe Deeper	Tame Impala	Australia
34	Everybody Rise	Amy Shark	Australia
35	Running Red Lights	The Avalanches featuring Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu	Australia/United States
36	Forget Me Too	Machine Gun Kelly featuring Halsey	United States
37	So Done	The Kid Laroi	Australia
38	Parasite Eve	Bring Me the Horizon	United Kingdom
39	Righteous	Juice Wrld	United States
40	Come & Go	Juice Wrld and Marshmello	United States
41	I Still Dream About You	The Smith Street Band	Australia
42	Whats Poppin	Jack Harlow	United States
43	Together	Ziggy Alberts	Australia
44	You & I	G Flip	Australia
45	As Long as You Care	Ruel	Australia
46	Pretty Lady	Tash Sultana	Australia
47	Animals	Architects	United Kingdom
48	Ain't It Different	Headie One, AJ Tracey and Stormzy	United Kingdom
49	Wishing Well	Juice Wrld	United States
50	Nothing to Love About Love	Peking Duk and The Wombats	Australia/United Kingdom
51	Your Love (Déjà Vu)	Glass Animals	United Kingdom
52	The Glow	DMA's	Australia
53	In Your Eyes	The Weeknd	Canada
54	Blue (Flume Remix)	Eiffel 65	Italy/Australia
55	I Think You're Great	Alex the Astronaut	Australia
56	On the Line	San Cisco	Australia
57	Sobercoaster	Beddy Rays	Australia
58	Fly Away	Tones and I	Australia
59	Gimme Love	Joji	Japan
60	Go	The Kid Laroi and Juice Wrld	Australia/United States
61	Pretty Grim	Ruby Fields	Australia
62	Run	Joji	Japan
63	Day & Age	Ball Park Music	Australia
64	Soak Me in Bleach	The Amity Affliction	Australia
65	C'mon	Amy Shark featuring Travis Barker	Australia/United States
66	Fantasising	Skegss	Australia
67	Boss Bitch	Doja Cat	United States
68	Lie to Me	Vera Blue	Australia
69	Second	Hope D	Australia
70	Low	Chet Faker	Australia
71	Obey	Bring Me the Horizon and Yungblud	United Kingdom
72	Way Down	Ocean Alley	Australia
73	Don't Need You	Genesis Owusu	Ghana/Australia
74	Scream Drive Faster	Laurel	United Kingdom
75	Photo ID	Remi Wolf	United States
76	Baby It's You	London Grammar	United Kingdom
77	House Arrest	Sofi Tukker and Gorgon City	United States/United Kingdom
78	Lady Marmalade (Like a Version)	G Flip	Australia
79	My Future	Billie Eilish	United States
80	Freaks	Fisher	Australia
81	Weightless	Spacey Jane	Australia
82	The Clap	The Chats	Australia
83	Down for You	Cosmo's Midnight and Ruel	Australia
84	Chicken Tenders	Dominic Fike	United States
85	Too Tough Terry	Dune Rats	Australia
86	Laugh Now Cry Later	Drake featuring Lil Durk	Canada/United States
87	Three Leaf Clover	Teenage Joans	Australia
88	Heart Attack	Bronson featuring Lau.ra	Australia/United States/United Kingdom
89	In Her Eyes	The Jungle Giants	Australia
90	No Time to Die	Billie Eilish	United States
91	Charlie (Like a Version)	Bugs	Australia
92	These Days	Thelma Plum	Australia
93	Lemonade	Internet Money and Gunna featuring Don Toliver and Nav	United States/Canada
94	Rain	Aitch and AJ Tracey featuring Tay Keith	United Kingdom/United States
95	Loose Ends	Illy featuring G Flip	Australia
96	Germaphobe	Hockey Dad	Australia
97	Audacity	Stormzy featuring Headie One	United Kingdom
98	Your Man	Joji	Japan
99	Itch	Hockey Dad	Australia
100	Kool	Benee	New Zealand

Countries represented

Australia – 66^[4]
United States – 24
United Kingdom – 14
Canada – 3
Japan – 3
Ghana – 1
Italy – 1
New Zealand – 1

Artists with multiple entries

Five entries

Lime Cordiale (11, 16, 20, 25, 26)

Four entries

Spacey Jane (2, 15, 28, 81)
G Flip (three times solo and once with Illy) (7, 44, 78, 95)
Juice Wrld (twice solo, once as co-lead artist, and once with the Kid Laroi) (39, 40, 49, 60)

Three entries

Glass Animals (1, 18, 51)
Tame Impala (5, 17, 33)
Billie Eilish (10, 79, 90)
Joji (59, 62, 98)

Two entries

Flume (once as lead artist and once as remixer/producer) (3, 54)
Ball Park Music (4, 63)
The Jungle Giants (8, 89)
Ocean Alley (14, 72)
Halsey (once solo and once with Machine Gun Kelly) (19, 36)
Mac Miller (23, 24)
Skegss (27, 66)
San Cisco (31, 56)
DMA's (32, 52)
Amy Shark (34, 65)
The Kid Laroi (37, 60)
Bring Me the Horizon (38, 71)
Ruel (45, 83)
AJ Tracey (48, 94)
Stormzy (48, 97)
Headie One (once solo/as co-lead artist and once with Stormzy) (48, 97)
Hockey Dad (96, 99)

Notes

With 66 tracks by Australian artists, the 2020 countdown ties 2016's record for the most Australian tracks in a single countdown.
Two artists, Peking Duk and DMA's, appeared in their seventh consecutive annual Hottest 100.^[4] In doing so, ties them for the 2nd longest consecutive streak alongside Regurgitator between 1995 and 2001, The Whitlams between 1996 and 2002 and Something For Kate between 1997 and 2003. They sit only 3 behind The Living End, whose tracks featured for ten years in a row between 1997 and 2006.
With "I'm Good?" being voted in at number 9, Hilltop Hoods marked their 22nd track to appear in an annual Hottest 100, equaling the record currently shared by Powderfinger and Foo Fighters.^[5]
This year's countdown included six songs from Indigenous Australian artists, surpassing 2019's record of five.^[6] Gamilaraay man The Kid Laroi featured twice, while there was one track each from: Torres Strait Islander woman Sycco; Butchulla/Nguburinji man Birdz; Beddy Rays, who are fronted by Wapabara man Jackson Van Issum; and Gamilaraay woman Thelma Plum.
At number 6, "WAP" became the first song by a female rapper to enter the top 10, with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion becoming the highest charting women of colour in Hottest 100 history.
At number 49 with their track "Pretty Lady", Tash Sultana is the first openly non-binary artist to feature in the countdown. Sultana has previously featured in the Hottest 100, with two songs in the 2016 countdown including the number three spot with "Jungle". Sam Smith had featured on two tracks by Disclosure prior to their coming out.
Juice Wrld, who died in December 2019, was posthumously voted into the countdown four times: at number 39 on "Righteous", at number 40 with Marshmello on "Come & Go", at number 49 with "Wishing Well", and at number 60 with the Kid Laroi on "Go".
Mac Miller, who died in September 2018, was also posthumously voted into the countdown, appearing at numbers 23 and 24 with "Good News" and "Blue World", respectively. Miller was also the first deceased artist to feature on the countdown since Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, having previously been voted in at number 60 in the 2018 countdown with "Ladders".
Tash Sultana, who identifies as non-binary^[7] (and uses the pronoun they),^[8] is the only artist who identifies as neither male nor female to feature. They came in at number 46 with "Pretty Lady". Sultana has previously featured in the countdown, with "Jungle" appearing at number 3 in the 2016 countdown. Sultana is the most successful gender-diverse artist in the history of the Hottest 100. (G Flip, who appeared in the 2018, 2019 and 2020 countdowns, came out as non-binary in 2021.^[9])
Flume became the first artist to have appeared in each of the top 5 spots of the countdown across the years. "Never Be Like You" placed first in 2016, "Rushing Back" came second in 2019, "The Difference" placed third in 2020, "Holdin' On" placed fourth in 2012 and "Drop the Game" placed fifth in 2013.

Top 10 Albums of 2020

The annual triple j album poll was held across November and December and was announced on 13 December 2020.