Triple J Hottest 100, 1998

The 1998 Triple J Hottest 100, announced in January, 1999, was the sixth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 36 of the songs was released. In August 1998 a Hottest 100 of All Time was conducted separate to normal countdown.
In February 2019, Triple J's sister station Double J conducted a 're-vote' of the 1998 top 10.

Full list

#	Song	Artist	Country of origin
1	Pretty Fly	The Offspring	US
2	Cigarettes Will Kill You	Ben Lee	AUS
3	Girls Like That	Custard	AUS
4	Celebrity Skin	Hole	US
5	Got the Life	Korn	US
6	!	Regurgitator	AUS
7	Harpoon	Jebediah	AUS
8	The Day You Come	Powderfinger	AUS
9	Heavy Heart	You Am I	AUS
10	Save the Day	The Living End	AUS
11	Sweetest Thing	U2	IRE
12	Brick	Ben Folds Five	US
13	Doctor Worm	They Might Be Giants	US
14	Josie	Blink-182	US
15	Second Solution	The Living End	AUS
16	Addicted to Bass	Josh Abrahams and Amiel Daemion	AUS
17	Tainted Love	The Living End	AUS
18	Just Ace	Grinspoon	AUS
19	Bubblegoose	Wyclef Jean	US
20	Simultaneous	Chef	US
21	Sex and Candy	Marcy Playground	US
22	Black Friday	Grinspoon	AUS
23	Teardrop	Massive Attack	UK
24	Music Is Crap	Custard	AUS
25	Intergalactic	Beastie Boys	US
26	Polyester Girl	Regurgitator	AUS
27	I Like Your Old Remix Better Than Your New Remix	Regurgitator	AUS
28	Don't You Know Who I Am?	Happyland	AUS
29	Everybody Here Wants You	Jeff Buckley	US
30	Never There	Cake	US
31	Throw Your Arms Around Me	Paul McDermott	AUS
32	Black Bugs	Regurgitator	AUS
33	Sweater	Eskimo Joe	AUS
34	One Week	Barenaked Ladies	CAN
35	Flagpole Sitta	Harvey Danger	US
36	Whatareya?	TISM	AUS
37	Buy Now Pay Later	The Whitlams	AUS
38	The Impression That I Get	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	US
39	Somebody Kill Me	Adam Sandler	US
40	Song for the Dumped	Ben Folds Five	US
41	Pure Morning	Placebo	UK
42	Teflon	Jebediah	AUS
43	Melbourne	The Whitlams	AUS
44	The Dope Show	Marilyn Manson	US
45	Ava Adore	The Smashing Pumpkins	US
46	Don't Wanna Be Left Out	Powderfinger	AUS
47	Do the Evolution	Pearl Jam	US
48	Road Rage	Catatonia	UK
49	Malibu	Hole	US
50	It's Like That	Run–D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins	US
51	Given to Fly	Pearl Jam	US
52	The Grouch	Green Day	US
53	Father of Mine	Everclear	US
54	Mum Changed the Locks	Frenzal Rhomb	AUS
55	No Surprises	Radiohead	UK
56	Charlie No. 3	The Whitlams	AUS
57	I Think I'm Paranoid	Garbage	US
58	I Don't Like It	Pauline Pantsdown	AUS
59	History Repeating	Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey	UK
60	Untouchable Face	Ani DiFranco	US
61	Cry	The Mavis's	AUS
62	Gone Away	The Offspring	US
63	The Rockafeller Skank	Fatboy Slim	UK
64	Come On Spring	Antenna	AUS
65	Rumble	You Am I	AUS
66	No Shelter	Rage Against the Machine	US
67	The Unforgiven II	Metallica	US
68	Every Day Should Be a Holiday	The Dandy Warhols	US
69	Cinnamon Lip	Pollyanna	AUS
70	If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next	Manic Street Preachers	UK
71	Hello	Happyland	AUS
72	Mr. Charisma	Frenzal Rhomb	AUS
73	Music Sounds Better with You	Stardust	FRA
74	My Hero	Foo Fighters	US
75	Dragula	Rob Zombie	US
76	Saint Joe on the School Bus	Marcy Playground	US
77	Fuel	Metallica	US
78	Shimmer	Fuel	US
79	Don't Go Away	Grinspoon	AUS
80	Bad Old Man	Babybird	UK
81	Drinking in L.A.	Bran Van 3000	CAN
82	El President	Drugstore	UK
83	Now and Then	The Superjesus	AUS
84	Good Riddance	Green Day	US
85	Harpoon	Something for Kate	AUS
86	Mama's Trippin'	Ben Harper	US
87	Push It	Garbage	US
88	Wishlist	Pearl Jam	US
89	Special	Garbage	US
90	No Substitute	Chef	US
91	Benedict	Jebediah	AUS
92	The Ballad of Tom Jones	Space with Cerys Matthews	UK
93	Untitled	Silverchair	AUS
94	Perfect	The Smashing Pumpkins	US
95	Tropicalia	Beck	US
96	Redneck Wonderland	Midnight Oil	AUS
97	Black Umbrella	Even	AUS
98	Baker Street	Foo Fighters	US
99	Saturation	The Superjesus	AUS
100	Sich Offnen	Not from There	AUS

42 of the 100 songs were by Australian artists.

Artists with multiple entries

Six entries

Quan Yeomans

Four entries

Regurgitator

Three entries

Jebediah
The Living End
Grinspoon
The Whitlams
Pearl Jam
Garbage

Two entries

The Offspring
Custard
Hole
Powderfinger
You Am I
Ben Folds Five
Chef
Marcy Playground
Happyland
The Smashing Pumpkins
Green Day
Frenzal Rhomb
Metallica
Foo Fighters
The Superjesus
CD release

This was the last volume to be released on cassette.
A later release omits "Never There", "Got the Life", "Sweetest Thing", "Brick", "Don't You Know Who I Am", and "Everybody Here Wants You", while including "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" by Manic Street Preachers, "Untouchable Face" by Ani DiFranco, and Something for Kate's cover of "Harpoon".

2019 re-vote

After the year's Hottest 100 is played on Triple J, Double J plays the Hottest 100 from 20 years ago. In February 2019, after playing the Hottest 100 of 1998, Double J announced it would be giving listeners the chance to re-vote on "one of the most controversial Hottest 100 number ones ever".
Listeners were able to vote for a single song that was a part of the original 1998 Hottest 100, via a poll on the website. Over 66,000 votes were cast.
Notably, the original number one song retained its position, despite long-standing controversy, and only 2 songs of the original top 10 have made it into the new top 10.

New top 10

#	Song	Artist	Country of origin	Previous position
1	Pretty Fly	The Offspring	US	1
2	!	Regurgitator	AUS	6
3	Dragula	Rob Zombie	US	75
4	Whatareya?	TISM	AUS	36
5	I Think I'm Paranoid	Garbage	US	57
6	The Unforgiven II	Metallica	US	67
7	Intergalactic	Beastie Boys	US	25
8	Addicted to Bass	Josh Abrahams & Amiel Daemion	AUS	16
9	No Shelter	Rage Against the Machine	US	66
10	The Dope Show	Marilyn Manson	US	44

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Triple J Hottest 100, 1998

Full list

Artists with multiple entries

CD release

2019 re-vote

New top 10