Triple J Hottest 100, 2022

2022 Triple J Hottest 100
Countdown details
Date of countdown	28 January 2023
Charity partner	Australian Conservation Foundation
Countdown highlights
Winning song	Flume featuring May-a "Say Nothing"
Most entries	Spacey Jane (6 tracks)
Chronology
← Previous 2021 Next → 2023 (Like a Version)

The 2022 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 28 January 2023.^[1] It was the 30th annual countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as voted for by listeners of Australian radio station triple j. The day before, the Hottest 200 played, counting down songs 200–101. Merchandise sales from the event supported the Australian Conservation Foundation.^[2]

Australian musician Flume's song "Say Nothing" featuring May-a was voted into first place.^[1] Australian band Spacey Jane had the most entries, with six, including three in the top 10. Over 2.4 million votes were submitted, and 57 entries in the countdown originated from Australian artists.

Any song initially released between 1 December 2021 and 30 November 2022 was eligible for the triple j Hottest 100 of 2022. 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. Voting opened on 13 December 2022, and closed on 23 January 2023.^[3]

The 2021 triple j Hottest 100 culminated with the Wiggles' Like a Version cover of Tame Impala's "Elephant" reaching number one.^[4] Over $1.2 million was raised for crisis support organisation Lifeline, the countdown's partner.^[5]

On 10 January 2023, triple j announced there were fewer than 125 votes separating the top two songs.^[6] Online database 100 Warm Tunas, "the internet's most accurate prediction" of Hottest 100 results, was favouring "In the Wake of Your Leave" by Australian alternative rock band Gang of Youths to take the top spot, followed by "Hardlight" by Fremantle-based rock band Spacey Jane and "Stars in My Eyes" by Brisbane-based pop rock band Ball Park Music.^[6] The former two bands also had major wins in the triple j Album Poll and the 2022 J Awards respectively.^[7] On the day of the countdown, Sportsbet had English DJs Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal's "B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All)" and Australian producer Flume's "Say Nothing" as the most likely to win outright.^[8]

On 27 January, 2024, Triple J announced the songs that made the #101-200 positions. ^[9]

Voting for the triple j Album Poll was held across November and December and was announced on 11 December 2022.^[11] Indie rock band Spacey Jane topped the poll for the second time, following their win with debut album Sunlight in 2020.^[12] Weirder & Weirder at second place and The Car at ninth mark both Ball Park Music's and Arctic Monkeys' seventh appearances each in the annual poll, with every prior studio album from both bands making an appearance in past polls.

For the first time in a Triple J album poll, two albums were tired in a single position, with Steve Lacy and The 1975 sharing the #13 position.^[13]

Bold indicates winner of the Hottest 100. Gang of Youths won the J Award for Angel in Realtime.^[14]

• Flume is the second artist behind Powderfinger to win the Hottest 100 for a second time.
• With Hilltop Hoods being voted into the countdown twice, this marks their 22nd and 23rd appearances in a Hottest 100, overtaking Powderfinger and Foo Fighters' 22 appearances each to become the most featured artist in Hottest 100 history.
• With Spacey Jane having six tracks voted into the countdown, they match an annual record set by Wolfmother in the 2005 poll. The band becomes the fourth artist to place thrice in the top 10, following Powderfinger in 2003, Chet Faker in 2014, and Gang of Youths in 2017; and the eighth artist in the countdown's history to have two songs poll in the top 5.^[15]
• For the second year in a row, Spacey Jane finish third in the Hottest 100. Furthermore, Spacey Jane are the first artist to feature in the top 3 of a countdown for the third consecutive year. The previous record was two consecutive years held by The Cranberries (1993–94), Powderfinger (1999–2000), Kings of Leon (2007–08) and Flume (2019–20)
• Ten songs in the countdown were from First Nations artists, beating the previous record of six songs in the 2020 countdown.
• For the first time since 2017, Billie Eilish did not feature in the top 10.
• Six previous winners of the Hottest 100 appeared in this years countdown – Bernard Fanning (2005) Vance Joy (2013), The Rubens (2015), Flume (2016), Kendrick Lamar (2017), Ocean Alley (2018) & Billie Eilish (2019). Equaling the record set in the previous years countdown.