Triple J Hottest 100, 2014

2014 Triple J Hottest 100

Countdown details
Date of countdown| 26 January 2015
Countdown highlights
Winning song| Chet Faker
("Talk Is Cheap")
Most entries| Chet Faker (4)
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The 2014 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2015. It was the 22nd countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. It was won by "Talk Is Cheap", one of three songs that Chet Faker had in the top 10 (the others being "1998" and "Gold").[1]

Voting commenced in mid-December 2014, and closed on 18 January 2015. Voters nominated ten songs that were released between December 2013 and November 2014 and submitted them through the Triple J website.[2] In total, over 2 million votes were cast, breaking the previous record set in 2012. The year's countdown was notable for having seven Australian artists in the top ten and the top three positions being awarded to Australians, the first year for both to have occurred.

BuzzFeed campaigned for Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off"[3] but the track was eventually disqualified.[4]

## Full list[edit]

| Note: Australian artists

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No.  | Song  | Artist  | Country of origin

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1  | Talk Is Cheap | Chet Faker |  Australia
2  | High | Peking Duk featuring Nicole Millar |  Australia
3  | Cosby Sweater | Hilltop Hoods |  Australia
4  | Stolen Dance | Milky Chance |  Germany
5  | Take Me Over | Peking Duk featuring SAFIA |  Australia
6  | Uptown Funk | Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars |  United Kingdom/ United States
7  | Gold | Chet Faker  |  Australia
8  | 1998 | Chet Faker  |  Australia
9  | Chandelier | Sia |  Australia
10  | King and Cross  | Ásgeir |  Iceland
11  | Faded | Zhu |  United States
12  | Gooey | Glass Animals |  United Kingdom
13  | Mess Is Mine | Vance Joy |  Australia
14  | Every Other Freckle | alt-J |  United Kingdom
15  | Arcadia  | The Kite String Tangle |  Australia
16  | Left Hand Free | alt-J  |  United Kingdom
17  | Tightrope | Illy featuring Scarlett Stevens |  Australia
18  | Yellow Flicker Beat | Lorde |  New Zealand
19  | She Only Loves Me When I'm There | Ball Park Music |  Australia
20  | Gold Snafu  | Sticky Fingers |  Australia
21  | (Lover) You Don't Treat Me No Good (Like a Version)  | Chet Faker  |  Australia
22  | Pittsburgh  | The Amity Affliction |  Australia
23  | Seasons (Waiting on You) | Future Islands |  United States
24  | Roll Up Your Sleeves | Meg Mac |  Australia
25  | I'll Go Crazy  | Bluejuice |  Australia
26  | Hunger of the Pine | alt-J  |  United Kingdom
27  | Beggin for Thread | Banks |  United States
28  | Beware the Dog  | The Griswolds |  Australia
29  | Somebody's Talking  | The Preatures |  Australia
30  | Something I Said | Thundamentals featuring Thom Crawford |  Australia
31  | Sober | Childish Gambino |  United States
32  | West Coast | Lana Del Rey |  United States
33  | RUN  | San Cisco |  Australia
34  | New Dorp. New York  | SBTRKT featuring Ezra Koenig |  United Kingdom/ United States
35  | You Always Know the DJ  | Allday |  Australia
36  | Won't Let You Down | Hilltop Hoods featuring Maverick Sabre |  Australia/ United Kingdom
37  | I Want U  | Alison Wonderland |  Australia
38  | My Silver Lining | First Aid Kit |  Sweden
39  | Two Bodies | Flight Facilities featuring Emma Louise |  Australia
40  | Mother & Father | Broods |  New Zealand
41  | Maybe | Carmada |  Australia
42  | Window to the Sky  | Kim Churchill |  Australia
43  | Zombie  | Jamie T |  United Kingdom
44  | Flashed Junk Mind | Milky Chance  |  Germany
45  | Two Weeks | FKA twigs |  United Kingdom
46  | Grandma's Hands | Meg Mac |  Australia
47  | Tennis Court (Flume Remix)  | Lorde  |  New Zealand/ Australia
48  | Delete  | DMA's |  Australia
49  | Happy Idiot | TV on the Radio |  United States
50  | First Time | Vance Joy  |  Australia
51  | Pickles from the Jar  | Courtney Barnett |  Australia
52  | Sunshine  | Flight Facilities featuring Reggie Watts |  Australia/ United States
53  | i | Kendrick Lamar |  United States
54  | Do I Wanna Know? (Like a Version)  | Chvrches |  United Kingdom
55  | Can't Do Without You  | Caribou |  Canada
56  | ICFTYDLM  | Kingswood |  Australia
57  | Walking Under Stars  | Hilltop Hoods  |  Australia
58  | Everything Is Shit Except My Friendship with You  | Ball Park Music  |  Australia
59  | Monument (The Inevitable End Version)  | Röyksopp and Robyn |  Norway/ Sweden
60  | Sweatpants | Childish Gambino  |  United States
61  | Talk Too Much  | Andy Bull |  Australia
62  | Heart Beats Slow  | Angus & Julia Stone |  Australia
63  | Red Eyes  | The War on Drugs |  United States
64  | Don't Lean on Me  | The Amity Affliction  |  Australia
65  | Right Now  | Allday  |  Australia
66  | Work Work  | clipping. featuring Cocc Pistol Cree  |  United States
67  | Busy Earnin' | Jungle |  United Kingdom
68  | Drown | Bring Me the Horizon |  United Kingdom
69  | Surrender  | The Smith Street Band |  Australia
70  | Is It a Banger?  | Odd Mob |  Australia
71  | The Weigh Down  | The Amity Affliction  |  Australia
72  | Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) | Run the Jewels featuring Zack de la Rocha |  United States
73  | Do It Again | Röyksopp and Robyn  |  Norway/ Sweden
74  | I Got U | Duke Dumont featuring Jax Jones |  United Kingdom
75  | Live It Up | 360 featuring Pez |  Australia
76  | Micro Wars  | Kingswood  |  Australia
77  | Since Last Wednesday  | Highasakite |  Norway
78  | Quit Your Job  | Thundamentals  |  Australia
79  | Lazaretto | Jack White |  United States
80  | I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore | Rise Against |  United States
81  | Fade Out Lines | The Avener |  France
82  | Dreamers  | Hopium featuring Phoebe Lou |  Australia
83  | Wrong Direction  | British India |  Australia
84  | Something from Nothing | Foo Fighters |  United States
85  | Get Away  | Chvrches  |  United Kingdom
86  | Just for You  | Sticky Fingers  |  Australia
87  | Bad Apples  | Briggs |  Australia
88  | Gina Works at Hearts  | DZ Deathrays |  Australia
89  | First | Cold War Kids |  United States
90  | Got Love  | Thundamentals featuring Solo |  Australia
91  | Bridges (Like a Version)  | Meg Mac  |  Australia
92  | Love Me Less  | One Day |  Australia
93  | Georgia | Vance Joy  |  Australia
94  | Liquorlip Loaded Gun  | Sticky Fingers  |  Australia
95  | How Much Does Your Love Cost?  | Thelma Plum |  Australia
96  | Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds | SAFIA  |  Australia
97  | Between Friends  | Japanese Wallpaper featuring Jesse Davidson  |  Australia
98  | Luna  | Bombay Bicycle Club |  United Kingdom
99  | Trippin' The Light Fantastic  | Ball Park Music  |  Australia
100  | Switch Lanes  | Tkay Maidza |  Australia

## Artists with multiple entries[edit]

### Four tracks[edit]

* Chet Faker (1, 7, 8, 21)

### Three tracks[edit]

* Hilltop Hoods (3, 36, 57)
* Vance Joy (13, 50, 93)
* alt-J (14, 16, 26)
* Ball Park Music (19, 58, 99)
* Sticky Fingers (20, 86, 94)
* The Amity Affliction (22, 64, 71)
* Meg Mac (24, 46, 91)
* Thundamentals (30, 78, 90)

### Two tracks[edit]

* Peking Duk (2, 5)
* Milky Chance (4, 44)
* Safia (Once with Peking Duk and once solo) (5, 96)
* Scarlett Stevens (Once with Illy and once with San Cisco) (17, 33)
* Lorde (18, 47)
* Childish Gambino (31, 60)
* Allday (35, 65)
* Flight Facilities (39, 52)
* Chvrches (54, 85)
* Kingswood (56, 76)
* Röyksopp and Robyn (59, 73)

## Countries represented[edit]

* Australia – 60
* United States – 18
* United Kingdom – 15
* New Zealand – 3
* Sweden – 3
* Norway – 3
* Germany – 2
* Canada – 1
* France – 1
* Iceland – 1

## Notes[edit]

* The 2014 Hottest 100 marks only the third time all Top 3 songs have been from Australian artists, following the countdowns for 1999 and 2006.
* 78 unique musical acts appeared on this countdown, 15 of which featured additional artists collaborating.
* This year's Hottest 100 gathered over 2 million votes, the first to break the 2 million vote mark and the holds the record for the highest number of votes in a single countdown.
* Chet Faker is the first artist to win the Hottest 100, Triple J Album Poll, the J Award and achieve the most tracks in a countdown in a single year.
* Chet Faker joins Denis Leary (1993), Alex Lloyd (2001), Bernard Fanning (2005) and Vance Joy (2013) as the only outright solo countdown winners.
* Chet Faker became the second artist to chart three times in the top 10 places after Powderfinger achieved the feat in 2003.
* A week after the Hottest 100 was announced, the songs placed 101–200th in the poll were announced, with "Tell Me" by Golden Features featuring Nicole Millar taking 101st position.[5]
* Royal Blood became the fourth band after Doves in 2000, Bloc Party in 2008 and Cut Copy in 2011 to make the albums poll but not feature in the Hottest 100. It was later revealed by Triple J that the band had come 102nd, 105th and 117th.

## CD release[edit]

The Triple J Hottest 100 CD for 2014 is the twenty second edition of the series. The track list was revealed on Triple J's Facebook page on 2 February 2015;[6] the double-CD was released on 27 February 2015.[7]

CD 1

1. Chet Faker – "Talk Is Cheap" (1)
2. Peking Duk feat. Nicole Millar – "High" (2)
3. Hilltop Hoods – "Cosby Sweater" (3)
4. Milky Chance – "Stolen Dance" (4)
5. Ásgeir – "King And Cross" (10)
6. ZHU – "Faded" (11)
7. Alison Wonderland – "I Want U" (37)
8. The Amity Affliction – "Pittsburgh" (22)
9. alt-J – "Every Other Freckle" (14)
10. Thundamentals feat. Thom Crawford – "Something I Said" (30)
11. TV On The Radio – "Happy Idiot" (49)
12. Kim Churchill – "Window To The Sky" (42)
13. Meg Mac – "Roll Up Your Sleeves" (24)
14. Carmada – "Maybe" (41)
15. San Cisco – "Run" (33)
16. Courtney Barnett – "Pickles From The Jar" (51)
17. Banks – "Beggin For Thread" (27)
18. The Kite String Tangle – "Arcadia" (15)
19. Ball Park Music – "She Only Loves Me When I'm There" (19)
20. Childish Gambino – "Sober" (31)
21. Lana Del Rey – "West Coast" (32)

| CD 2

1. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – "Uptown Funk" (6)
2. Sia – "Chandelier" (9)
3. Vance Joy – "Mess Is Mine" (13)
4. Glass Animals – "Gooey" (12)
5. The Preatures – "Somebody's Talking" (29)
6. Future Islands – "Seasons (Waiting On You)" (23)
7. Illy feat. Scarlett Stevens – "Tightrope" (17)
8. Sticky Fingers – "Gold Snafu" (20)
9. Bluejuice – "I'll Go Crazy" (25)
10. The Griswolds – "Beware The Dog" (28)
11. SBTRKT feat. Ezra Koenig – "New Dorp, New York" (34)
12. FKA Twigs – "Two Weeks" (45)
13. First Aid Kit – "My Silver Lining" (38)
14. DMA's – "Delete" (48)
15. Kingswood – "I Can Feel That You Don't Love Me" (56)
16. Allday – "You Always Know The DJ" (35)
17. Flight Facilities feat. Emma Louise – "Two Bodies" (39)
18. Broods – "Mother & Father" (40)
19. Jamie T – "Zombie" (43)
20. The Smith Street Band – "Surrender" (69)
21. Caribou – "Can't Do Without You" (55)

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(The number in brackets is the song position in the Hottest 100.)

## Top 10 Albums of 2014[edit]

A smaller poll of Triple J listeners' favourite albums of the year was held in December 2014.[8]

| Note: Australian artists

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#  | Artist  | Album  | Country of origin  | Ranks in the Hottest 100

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1 | Chet Faker | Built on Glass | Australia | 1, 7, 8, (65 in 2013)
2 | Ball Park Music | Puddinghead | Australia | 19, 58
3 | alt-J | This Is All Yours | United Kingdom | 14, 16, 26
4 | Hilltop Hoods | Walking Under Stars | Australia | 3, 36, 57
5 | Sticky Fingers | Land of Pleasure | Australia | 20, 86, 94
6 | Flight Facilities | Down to Earth | Australia | 39, 52, (19 in 2010), (17 in 2012), (48 in 2013), (83, 85 in 2015)
7 | Royal Blood | Royal Blood | United Kingdom | DNC (102, 105, 117 in Hottest 200)
8 | Vance Joy | Dream Your Life Away | Australia | 13, 50, 93, (1 in 2013), (16 in 2015)
9 | Thundamentals | So We Can Remember | Australia | 30, 78, 90, (32 in 2013)
10 | The Preatures | Blue Planet Eyes | Australia | 29, (9 in 2013)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Willis, Charlotte (27 January 2015). "Chet Faker takes out Triple J Hottest 100 2014".
2. ^ "triple j kick off voting for Hottest 100". Radio Today. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
3. ^ Di Stefano, Mark (13 January 2015). "Why Isn't Everyone Voting For "Shake It Off" In The Hottest 100?".
4. ^ "Triple j bans Taylor Swift from Hottest 100". ABC News. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
5. ^ "These songs just missed out on a Hottest 100 placing". 1 February 2015.
6. ^ "timeline Photos – Triple J Hottest 100". Facebook. ABC. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
7. ^ "triple j's Hottest 100 – Volume 22 (Deluxe)". ABC Shop. ABC. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
8. ^ "Aussies dominate triple j listeners' Top 10 Albums of 2014". 8 December 2014.

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