Musical Monday: Triple J Hottest 100 2013 Recap

Hottest 100 Songs of 2013

Playlist on Youtube (Songs 100-1)

What a weekend! The Grammy's, a new Sherlock Episode, and of course the Triple J Hottest 100 Countdown! (Sidenote, 2012's top artists Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won the Best New Artist Grammy  and they along others on this countdown, like Lorde performed last night, so that's an indicator of how this musical survey predicts the next big things in music)



Now I know it's supposed to be a countDOWN, but I figured rather than have everyone scroll real fast to the bottom to see the top songs, and since there's no chance of spoiling it (cause it already happened and if you're reading this close enough to the date of posting theres a chance you can still stream it on the Triple J Website), but mainly because this was the order my computer uploaded the pictures and I don't have time to flip everything, Here are the Hottest 100 Songs of 2013, as voted by 1.49 people worldwide:

 

#1 Vance Joy - 'Riptide'

#2 Lorde - 'Royals'

#3 Daft Punk - 'Get Lucky' {ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers}

#4 Arctic Monkeys - 'Do I Wanna Know?'

#5 Flume & Chet Faker - 'Drop The Game'

#6 Arctic Monkeys - 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?'

#7 Lana Del Rey - 'Young And Beautiful'

#8 Matt Corby - 'Resolution'

#9 The Preatures - 'Is This How You Feel?'

#10 London Grammar - 'Strong'

#11 HAIM - 'The Wire'

#12 Lorde - 'Tennis Court'

#13 James Blake - 'Retrograde'

#14 Violent Soho - 'Covered In Chrome'

#15 Lorde - 'Team'

#16 Arcade Fire - 'Reflektor'

#17 Daft Punk - 'Lose Yourself To Dance' {ft. Pharrell Williams}

#18 Arctic Monkeys - 'Arabella'

#19 The Kite String Tangle - 'Given The Chance'

#20 Kanye West - 'Black Skinhead'

#30 Empire Of The Sun - 'Alive'
#29 Foals - 'My Number'
#28 Chvrches - 'Recover'
#27 HAIM - 'Falling'...
#26 Vampire Weekend - 'Step'
#25 The Wombats - 'Your Body Is A Weapon'
#24 Rudimental - 'Waiting All Night' {ft. Ella Eyre}
#23 Disclosure - 'When A Fire Starts To Burn'
#22 Birds Of Tokyo - 'Lanterns' #21 RÜFÜS - 'Take Me'See 

 #40 The Amity Affliction - 'Born To Die'
#39 San Cisco - 'Get Lucky' {Like A Version}
#38 Touch Sensitive - 'Pizza Guy'
#37 Chvrches - 'Gun'...
#36 Bloc Party - 'Ratchet'
#35 London Grammar - 'Hey Now'
#34 RÜFÜS - 'Desert Night'
#33 Grouplove - 'Ways To Go'
#32 Thundamentals - 'Smiles Don't Lie'
#31 Vampire Weekend - 'Diane Young'

 #50 John Newman - 'Love Me Again'
#49 Daft Punk - 'Doin' It Right' {ft. Panda Bear}
#48 Flight Facilities - 'Stand Still' {ft. Micky Green}
#47 Rudimental - 'Free' {ft. Emeli Sande}...
#46 Queens Of The Stone Age - 'If I Had A Tail'
#45 Robert Delong - 'Global Concepts'
#44 Dustin Tebbutt - 'The Breach'
#43 Childish Gambino - '3005'
#42 Max Frost - 'White Lies'
#41 Boy & Bear - 'Southern Sun'

#60 Chvrches - 'Lies'
#59 Kanye West - 'Bound 2'
#58 Daft Punk - 'Instant Crush' {ft. Julian Casablancas}
#57 Andy Bull - 'Keep On Running'...
#56 HAIM - 'If I Could Change Your Mind'
#55 Boy & Bear - 'Harlequin Dream'
#54 Arcade Fire - 'Afterlife'
#53 Kingswood - 'Ohio'
#52 Cloud Control - 'Scar'
#51 Fatboy Slim & Riva Starr - 'Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat'

 #70 Sticky Fingers - 'Australia Street'
#69 Disclosure - 'White Noise' {ft. AlunaGeorge}
#68 Something For Kate - 'Sweet Nothing' {Like A Version}
#67 Bliss N Eso - 'Act Your Age'...
#66 Illy - 'Ausmusic Month Medley' {Like A Version}
#65 Chet Faker - 'Melt' {ft. Kilo Kish}
#64 The National - 'Graceless'
#63 Disclosure - 'You & Me ()' {Flume Remix}
#62 Goldroom - 'Embrace'
#61 London Grammar - 'Wasting My Young Years'

#80 Panama - 'Always'
#79 A$AP Rocky - 'F**kin' Problems' {ft. Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar}
#78 MS MR - 'Fantasy'
#77 Illy - 'Youngbloods' {ft. Ahren Stringer}...
#76 SAFIA - 'Listen To Soul, Listen To Blues'
#75 Mikhael Paskalev - 'I Spy'
#74 Major Lazer - 'Jessica' {ft. Ezra Koenig}
#73 Busta Rhymes - 'Thank You' {ft. Q-Tip, Kanye West & Lil Wayne}
#72 Queens Of The Stone Age - 'I Sat By The Ocean'
#71 Two Door Cinema Club - 'Changing Of The Seasons'

 #90 Vampire Weekend - 'Unbelievers'
#89 The Cat Empire - 'Brighter Than Gold'
#88 Josh Pyke - 'Leeward Side'
#87 John Butler Trio - 'Only One'...
#86 Bring Me The Horizon - 'Sleepwalking'
#85 Remi - 'Sangria'
#84 British India - 'Summer Forgive Me'
#83 The Jezabels - 'The End'
#82 Cloud Control - 'Dojo Rising'
#81 Andy Bull - 'Baby I Am Nobody Now'

#100 Karnivool - 'We Are'
#99 Dillon Francis - 'Without You' {ft. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs}
#98 Horrorshow - 'Dead Star Shine'
#97 Queens Of The Stone Age - 'My God Is The Sun'...
#96 Big Scary - 'Luck Now'
#95 Vance Joy - 'Play With Fire'
#94 Bliss N Eso - 'House Of Dreams'
#93 St Lucia - 'Elevate'
#92 Bring Me The Horizon - 'Shadow Moses'
#91 RÜFÜS - 'Tonight'

 

Hottest 100 in Numbers

Countries Represented (artists): Seven
43% Australia
24% USA
23% UK
4% France
3% New Zealand
2% Canada
1% Norway

Average Number of Members Per Band
2.81
70 Groups
vs.
30 Solo Artists

Debut Artists
42

Cover Songs
Four

Registered Parties
5,856 in Eighty Seven Countries

Most Entries By A Single Artist
4Daft Punk

Most Songs Released In
May: 17songs

Latest Song Release Date
November 15, "Thank You" -Busta Rhymes

Votes Counted
One Point Four Nine Million

Musical Monday: My 2013 Triple J Hottest 100 Votes

It's the most wonderful time of the year!



We JUST had Christmas and New Years and right now is a magical time before all the optimism fades and you realize that it's the middle of winter, you don't see the sun anymore, and the S.A.D. sets in causing all sorts of melancholic ennui. Right now, the Triple J Hottest 100 happens.


Now what it this magnificent musical moment, you may ask?
How can I join this delightfully democratic delineation of the years best music, you want to know?
What's so special about this popular perennial poll to cause such annoyingly awesome alliterations?


Short Answer: Check out my past posts on 2012 (votes and recap) and 2011


Long Answer: Every year the Australian radio station Triple J hosts a worldwide poll of the greatest music released (in Australia) that year.  This means you not only can make sure artists you love get recognition, but you can also find great music that also puts you ahead of the pop culture curve. The top songs of years past have all gone on to be huge hits in the US the following year, yes that's right, our own musical culture is influenced by this vote and the Aussies who run it (wait, the US isn't the center of the cultural universe?!?!... well, it's still pretty close as last year Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis was one of the first #1 songs to be big in the U.S. when the poll was happening, and those Haim sisters seem to be picking up momentum in Australia at the same time (but maybe slightly faster) as in the U.S.), example: Gotye, Kings of Leon, and Mumford & Sons had the #1 songs in the Triple J Countdown the years before they exploded across the US.

You can listen to the eligible songs here through spotify (might take a few days, but oh! what days they'll be)

Once you've heard enough, you can get instructions to submit your own vote here

But HURRY, voting closes in 6 DAYS!

My Votes:

*Matt Corby- Resolution*

*Gossling- Never Expire*

*Chvrches- Gun*

*Haim- Let Me Go*

*Daughter- Youth*

*Local Natives- Heavy Feet*

*Phosphorescent- Song for Zula*

*MS MR- Fantasy*

*The Postal Service- A Tattered Line of String*

*San Cisco- Get Lucky {Like a Version}*

Voting factors/explanations:

• Exposure for some lesser-known artists
• A solid track regardless of artist infamy
• I want my vote to make a difference so rather than write-in a few favorites I stuck with songs I thought had a chance to get into the top 100, but not necessarily what I think will make top 10
• My own arbitrary selection process

Unfortunately Triple J is no longer on Pinterest which means no cool icon/graphic for each song this year =(

But here's a spotify playlist of my selection (minus Gossling and the San Cisco cover of Get Lucky, both of which are currently unavailable in the USA).

Tune in online on January 26, 2014 to hear the whole countdown (it takes literally the whole day). Actually, scratch that, if you're in the US tune in January 25 since they're ahead of us on the whole time thing. If you're someone like me who needs sleep at night, never fear, they break it down into internet streamable chunks afterwards so you can listen to the beginning, sleep, and then wake up to finish the top 10 and then later fill yourself in with songs 80-11.

And don't worry, I'll be recapping it here after it all goes down.





Blog Every Day in May: Day Twenty-One

Day 21, Tuesday: A list of links to your favorite posts in your archives

This is a fun one, prepare for a lot of music! Basically You can go back and see the different themed Musical Mondays in my archives if these son't tickle your fancy.

Favorite Musical Mondays:
Musical Monday: April's Showering Songs (April 2013) 
I submitted this blogpost to wonderly.com for their April theme of "curate" and it was hosted on their blog (i'm pretty sure you can find it in their archives)
Musical Monday: Best of 2012
A month by month guide to my favorite songs of last year.

Other Musical Posts:
Also, in my Finals Study Session series, the Last Semester Ever Edition, was a fun break from studying and gave me a good playlist 
"State of the Art" is an Understatement: Gotye and Kimbra in Concert (I was rather witty with the puns in the beginning of this one)
My Triple J Recaps for  The 2012 Hottest 100 and The 2011 Hottest 100

Favorite Foto Fridays:
(I haven't done too many of these so here's my first and favorite):
First Foto Friday: Cherry Lane Cherry Blossoms

Favorite Miscellaneous Posts:
My first (and only?) Recipe Post: Banana Bread With Wheat and Honey
A very meta post about blogging and vlogging and my Yoga Videos

Triple J Hottest 100 2012 Follow Up

So this weekend, in case you missed it, was the

Triple J Hottest 100 Countdown! 
(and also Australia Day, Happy Belated Australia Day!)

It's one of the world's largest public music polls started in 1989, hosted by an Australian radio station. On Australia Day, they spend the whole day counting down the top 100 songs as voted by the people (check out my votes here). Usually, a lot of the top 10 songs on the poll subsequently become huge in the US the next year. This year was actually a strong year for US artists (or maybe just more US voters), and the top artist came outta the good ol' US of A (& I actually first posted about him back in May [my second Musical Monday post EVER]), so if you've been listening to the right radio stations, you've probably heard it already.
But I won't do the big reveal here... you gotta scroll all the way down through all the awesome music to find out! So without further Ado, 

The Triple J Hottest 100 Songs of 2012:

#100 Everything Everything - 'Cough Cough'      
#99 M.I.A. - 'Bad Girls'    
#98 Kimbra - 'Warrior' {ft. Mark Foster & A-Trak}
#97 Jack White - 'I'm Shakin'     
#96 Kanye West, JAY Z & Big Sean - 'Clique'     
#95 Last Dinosaurs - 'Andy'
#94 The Gaslight Anthem - '45'    
#93 Snakadaktal - 'Dance Bear'    
#92 Lisa Mitchell - 'Spiritus'    
#91 Allday x C1 - 'So Good'  
#90Two Door Cinema Club - 'Sleep Alone' 













#89 Chance Waters - 'Maybe Tomorrow' {ft. Lilian Blue}
#88 C2C - 'Down The Road'
#87 The Bloody Beetroots & Greta Svabo Bech - 'Chronicles Of A Fallen Love'
#86 Lana Del Rey - 'Summertime Sadness'
#85 Purity Ring - 'Fineshrine'
#84 Hilltop Hoods - 'Rattling The Keys To The Kingdom'
#83 The Jungle Giants - 'She's A Riot'
#82 Santigold - 'Disparate Youth'
#81 alt-J - 'Something Good'

#80 Frank Ocean - 'Super Rich Kids' {ft. Earl Sweatshirt}
#79 The Black Keys - 'Little Black Submarines'
#78 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - 'Household Goods'
#77 Feed Me & Crystal Fighters - 'Love Is All I Got'
#76 Illy - 'Heard It All'
#75 Muse - 'Madness'
#74 The Shins - 'Simple Song'
#73 Ben Folds Five - 'Draw A Crowd'
#72 Regina Spektor - 'All The Rowboats'
#71 Kendrick Lamar - 'Swimming Pools (Drank)'












#70 The Presets - 'Promises'
#69 Matt Corby - 'Lonely Boy' {Like A Version}
#68 Avicii - 'Silhouettes' 
#67 Flume - 'On Top' {ft. T-Shirt}
#66 The Rubens - 'The Best We Got' 
#65 Grimes - 'Genesis'
#64 alt-J - 'Tessellate'
#63 First Aid Kit - 'Wolf'
#62 Kid Cudi - 'Just What I Am' {ft. King Chip}
#61 Sticky Fingers - 'Caress Your Soul'

















#60 Jack White - 'Love Interruption'
#59 Cosmo Jarvis - 'Love This' 
#58 Mumford & Sons - 'Babel' 
#57 Seth Sentry - 'Float Away'
#56 Frank Ocean - 'Thinkin Bout You'
#55 Knife Party - 'Internet Friends'
#54 The Bamboos - 'I Got Burned' {ft. Tim Rogers}
#53 San Cisco - 'Wild Things'
#52 The Presets - 'Ghosts'
#51 Birds Of Tokyo - 'This Fire'

















#50Asta - 'My Heart Is On Fire'
#49Thundamentals - 'Brother' {Like A Version}
#48San Cisco - 'Fred Astaire'
#47Of Monsters And Men - 'Mountain Sound'
#46Passion Pit - 'Take A Walk'
#45Chance Waters - 'Young & Dumb' {ft. Bertie Blackman}
#44Xavier Rudd - 'Follow The Sun'
#43The Lumineers - 'Ho Hey'
#42MS MR - 'Hurricane'
#41British India - 'I Can Make You Love Me'




















#40 Arctic Monkeys - 'R U Mine?'
#39 Alabama Shakes - 'Hold On'
#38 Grimes - 'Oblivion'
#37 Two Door Cinema Club - 'Sun'
#36 Miike Snow - 'Paddling Out'
#35 360 - 'Run Alone'
#34 Lana Del Rey - 'Born To Die'
#33 Parachute Youth - 'Can't Get Better Than This'
#32 Florence + The Machine - 'Spectrum (Say My Name)' {Calvin Harris Remix}
#31 Alpine - 'Gasoline'
















#30 Bat For Lashes - 'Laura'
#29 Loon Lake - 'Cherry Lips'
#28 Django Django - 'Default'
#27 Ball Park Music - 'Surrender'
#26 Seth Sentry - 'Dear Science'
#25 Skrillex -' Bangarang' {ft. Sirah}
#24 Chet Faker - 'I'm Into You'
#23 Ball Park Music - 'Coming Down'
#22 The Temper Trap - 'Trembling Hands'
#21 Disclosure - 'Latch' {ft. Sam Smith}

#19 The xx - 'Angels'    

#18 Hermitude - 'HyperParadise' {Flume Remix}

#17 Flight Facilities - 'Clair De Lune' {ft. Christine Hoberg}

#16 Rudimental - 'Not Giving In' {ft. John Newman & Alex Clare}

     

#15 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - 'Same Love' {ft. Mary Lambert}

#14 Icona Pop - 'I Love It' {ft. Charli XCX}

#13 The Black Keys - 'Gold On The Ceiling'

#12 Flume - 'Sleepless' {ft. Jezzabell Doran}

#11 Calvin Harris - 'Sweet Nothing' {ft. Florence Welch} #10 The Rubens - 'My Gun'

#9 Tame Impala - 'Feels Like We Only Go Backwards'

#8 Frank Ocean - 'Lost'

#7 Tame Impala - 'Elephant' 

#6 Major Lazer - 'Get Free' {ft. Amber Coffman}

#5 Mumford & Sons - 'I Will Wait'

#4 Flume - 'Holdin On'

#3 alt-J - 'Breezeblocks'

#2 Of Monsters And Men - 'Little Talks' 

 And the Big #1... (I actually voted a different song by this artist but knew this one would make top 10):

#1 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - 'Thrift Shop' {ft. Wanz}

Wow, I'm exhausted. I listened to part of this countdown live and have spent the better part of  the last 2 days streaming it via Triple J's official website (not to mention trying to format all these pics in blogger, not the easiest thing to do).

***BREAKING NEWS*** 

Triple J announced:

"For the 1st time ever this weekend we're having the 2ND HOTTEST 100! You'll hear what songs came in at 200-101!!!"
So get online & start streaming (for us non-Aussies) late Friday night (For us ESTimers) to hear all the fabulous songs that just didn't quite make the cut!