Triple J Hottest 100, 2005

The 2005 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on January 26, 2006. It was the thirteenth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J.

The broadcast began at 10am AEDT and finished a little before 7pm when the top song was announced. Broadcast live from the Sydney Big Day Out from 12pm AEDT, it regularly crossed to winning artists and listeners around Australia, with many listening to the broadcast as part of their Australia Day celebrations.

Voters were limited to 20 votes each - 10 via SMS (charged at 30c each) and 10 via the Internet (no charge).

Full list

50 of the 100 tracks are by Australian artists (marked with a green background).

Artists with multiple entries

6 tracks each:
*Wolfmother (84, 39, 37, 16, 9, 6)

4 tracks each:
*Bloc Party (88, 45, 40, 23)
*The Cat Empire (100, 54, 38, 25)

3 tracks each:
*Ben Lee (86, 53, 2)
*Gorillaz (41, 5, 3)
*The White Stripes (67, 17, 7)
*Franz Ferdinand (93, 90, 10)
*System of a Down (76, 57, 27)
*Missy Higgins (74, 47, 31)

2 tracks each:
*Bernard Fanning (14, 1)
*Foo Fighters (20, 4)
*Butterfingers (69, 11)
*Sarah Blasko (65, 15)
*The Herd (87, 18)
*Kisschasy (95, 22)
*Coldplay (36, 26)
*Kaiser Chiefs (34, 28)
*Gyroscope (62, 29)
*After The Fall (78, 30)
*Cog (71, 32)
*Beck (75, 35)
*Emiliana Torrini (91, 44)
*Ben Folds (89, 55)
*The Dandy Warhols (82, 60)
*Clare Bowditch (94, 63)
*Jack Johnson (73, 64)

Trivia

*Wolfmother broke a record by having an unprecedented six songs by one artist in one year's countdown (excluding countdowns not limited to a single year): "White Unicorn" (#84), "Colossal" (#39), "Dimension" (#37), "Apple Tree" (#16), "The Joker And The Thief" (#9) and "Mind's Eye" (#6). The record previously was shared by Powderfinger, Queens of the Stone Age, The White Stripes and Silverchair, each with five songs in one year (although they have yet to top an unofficial record set by Dave Grohl in 2002, who co-wrote/played in 10 of the songs on the countdown, with Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters and a previously unreleased song by Nirvana, or the record of 9 songs set by The Cure in the 1991 hottest 100).
*The 2005 countdown included the longest song yet to feature in the Hottest 100, Green Day's "Jesus of Suburbia" (#61), at 9:08. The record was previously held by Quindon Tarver/Lee Perry - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) (#16, 1997) at 7:02 (excluding countdowns not limited to a single year).
*With "What's On Your Radio" at #49, The Living End have been in the Hottest 100 for nine years in a row since 1997.
*Coming in at #1 this year as a solo artist, Bernard Fanning has appeared three times at the top of the list, the other two top placings with his band Powderfinger, in 1999 and 2000.
*The 2005 list has the lowest amount of variety of artists, with only 60 artists represented in the list.

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/history/2005.htm Triple J Hottest 100]