Triple J Hottest 100, 1997
The 1997 Triple J Hottest 100, was a countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J, and was broadcast on Australia Day 1998. A CD featuring 31 of the songs was released. A countdown of the videos of most of the songs was also shown on the ABC music series Rage.
The most popular song was announced by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the namesake of the winning group.
Full list
| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
| 1 | No Aphrodisiac | The Whitlams | AUS |
| 2 | Song 2 | Blur | UK |
| 3 | Tubthumping | Chumbawamba | UK |
| 4 | Bitter Sweet Symphony | The Verve | UK |
| 5 | Back Door Man | Pauline Pantsdown | AUS |
| 6 | Dammit | Blink-182 | US |
| 7 | Paranoid Android | Radiohead | UK |
| 8 | The Beautiful People | Marilyn Manson | US |
| 9 | Karma Police | Radiohead | UK |
| 10 | Leaving Home | Jebediah | AUS |
| 11 | Walkin' on the Sun | Smash Mouth | US |
| 12 | One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces | Ben Folds Five | US |
| 13 | Freak | Silverchair | AUS |
| 14 | Down Again | The Superjesus | AUS |
| 15 | Prisoner of Society | The Living End | AUS |
| 16 | Everybody's Free | Quindon Tarver | US |
| 17 | Crazy | Cordrazine | AUS |
| 18 | Into My Arms | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | AUS |
| 19 | Everyday Formula | Regurgitator | AUS |
| 20 | I Will Survive | Cake | US |
| 21 | Monkey Wrench | Foo Fighters | US |
| 22 | The Drugs Don't Work | The Verve | UK |
| 23 | Calypso | Spiderbait | AUS |
| 24 | A.D.I.D.A.S. | Korn | US |
| 25 | Hitchin' a Ride | Green Day | US |
| 26 | The Perfect Drug | Nine Inch Nails | US |
| 27 | The Door | Silverchair | AUS |
| 28 | Cows with Guns | Dana Lyons | US |
| 29 | Semi-Charmed Life | Third Eye Blind | US |
| 30 | Forty Six & 2 | Tool | US |
| 31 | Ashes to Ashes | Faith No More | US |
| 32 | Coma | Pendulum | AUS |
| 33 | Military Strongmen | Jebediah | AUS |
| 34 | DC×3 | Grinspoon | AUS |
| 35 | Summertime | The Sundays | UK |
| 36 | Mutilated Lips | Ween | US |
| 37 | Naughty Boy | The Mavis's | AUS |
| 38 | The Memory Remains | Metallica | US |
| 39 | Captain | Something for Kate | AUS |
| 40 | Why's Everybody Always Pickin' on Me? | Bloodhound Gang | US |
| 41 | Deadweight | Beck | US |
| 42 | Brimful of Asha | Cornershop | UK |
| 43 | You're Not the Only One Who Feels This Way | Ammonia | AUS |
| 44 | Temptation | The Tea Party | CAN |
| 45 | Wrong Number | The Cure | UK |
| 46 | Fire Water Burn | Bloodhound Gang | US |
| 47 | Trip Like I Do | Filter and The Crystal Method | US |
| 48 | Anatomically Correct | Custard | AUS |
| 49 | From Here on In | The Living End | AUS |
| 50 | Eat Me | Arkarna | UK |
| 51 | So Much for the Afterglow | Everclear | US |
| 52 | #1 Crush | Garbage | US |
| 53 | You Sound Like Louis Burdett | The Whitlams | AUS |
| 54 | Everything to Everyone | Everclear | US |
| 55 | Love Rollercoaster | Red Hot Chili Peppers | US |
| 56 | Funky Shit | The Prodigy | UK |
| 57 | Girl at the Bus Stop | My Drug Hell | UK |
| 58 | I Go Off | Diana Ah Naid | AUS |
| 59 | Your Woman | White Town | UK |
| 60 | New York City | They Might Be Giants | US |
| 61 | Block Rockin' Beats | The Chemical Brothers | UK |
| 62 | The End Is the Beginning Is the End | The Smashing Pumpkins | US |
| 63 | Repeat | Grinspoon | AUS |
| 64 | Stripsearch | Faith No More | US |
| 65 | Outdoor Type | The Lemonheads | US |
| 66 | JC | Powderfinger | AUS |
| 67 | I Choose | The Offspring | US |
| 68 | Cosmic Girl | Jamiroquai | UK |
| 69 | Waving My Dick in the Wind | Ween | US |
| 70 | Place Your Hands | Reef | UK |
| 71 | Sick with Love | Robyn Loau | AUS |
| 72 | Pulse | Front End Loader | AUS |
| 73 | Lakini's Juice | Live | US |
| 74 | The Ghost of Tom Joad | Rage Against the Machine | US |
| 75 | Female of the Species | Space | UK |
| 76 | Legend of a Cowgirl | Imani Coppola | US |
| 77 | Lovefool | The Cardigans | SWE |
| 78 | Degenerate Boy | The Mark of Cain | AUS |
| 79 | All Mine | Portishead | UK |
| 80 | Faded | Ben Harper | US |
| 81 | Did It Again | Kylie Minogue | AUS |
| 82 | Shake Hands with Beef | Primus | US |
| 83 | I Wanna Be a Drug-Sniffing Dog | Lard | US |
| 84 | Feelin' Kinda Sporty | Dave Graney | AUS |
| 85 | Nightmare | Brainbug | UK |
| 86 | Smokin' Johnny Cash | The Blackeyed Susans | AUS |
| 87 | 6 Underground | Sneaker Pimps | UK |
| 88 | Nothing | Beaverloop | AUS |
| 89 | Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth | The Dandy Warhols | US |
| 90 | Society | Pennywise | US |
| 91 | Remember Me | Blue Boy | UK |
| 92 | Titanic Days | Sidewinder | AUS |
| 93 | Weightlessness | Skunkhour | AUS |
| 94 | Way of All Things | Rebecca's Empire | AUS |
| 95 | Don't Leave | Faithless | UK |
| 96 | Bound for the Floor | Local H | US |
| 97 | The Futures Overrated | Arkarna | UK |
| 98 | Da Funk | Daft Punk | FRA |
| 99 | Naked Eye | Luscious Jackson | US |
| 100 | I Give In | Effigy | AUS |
34 of the 100 songs were by Australian artists.
Artists with multiple entries
Two entries- The Whitlams
- The Verve
- Radiohead
- Jebediah
- Silverchair
- The Living End
- Faith No More
- Grinspoon
- Ween
- The Bloodhound Gang
- Arkarna
- Everclear
CD release
A later version, released under the Warner label, omitted "The Beautiful People", "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces", "Lakini's Juice, and "The Perfect Drug", but included "Cows with Guns" by Dana Lyons on the first disc and "Cosmic Girl" by Jamiroquai on the second disc.