Triple J Hottest 100, 2012
The 2012 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day 26 January 2013. It was the 20th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J.
Voting commenced on 19 December 2012, and closed at midnight on 20 January 2013.
Over 1.5 million votes were cast in this countdown, beating the record set in the 2011 list.
In the week prior to the countdown, Nick Drewe, a Brisbane statistician and marketer, analysed the votes that had been published on social media and determined the possible top 100, naming it the . The votes that had been published represented approximately 2.7% of the total vote. Ultimately, his list correctly predicted 92 of the songs in the countdown, the songs comprising the top 10, and the top 3 in the correct order. The ABC have announced that it would likely make changes to the voting system to prevent "spoiler attempts" in future countdowns.
Full list
| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
| 1 | Thrift Shop | Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz | USA |
| 2 | Little Talks | Of Monsters and Men | ISL |
| 3 | Breezeblocks | alt-J | UK |
| 4 | Holdin On | Flume | AUS |
| 5 | I Will Wait | Mumford & Sons | UK |
| 6 | Get Free | Major Lazer featuring Amber Coffman | USA |
| 7 | Elephant | Tame Impala | AUS |
| 8 | Lost | Frank Ocean | USA |
| 9 | Feels Like We Only Go Backwards | Tame Impala | AUS |
| 10 | My Gun | The Rubens | AUS |
| 11 | Sweet Nothing | Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch | UK |
| 12 | Sleepless | Flume featuring Jezzabell Doran | AUS |
| 13 | Gold on the Ceiling | The Black Keys | USA |
| 14 | I Love It | Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX | SWE and UK |
| 15 | Same Love | Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert | USA |
| 16 | Not Giving In | Rudimental featuring John Newman and Alex Clare | UK |
| 17 | Clair de Lune | Flight Facilities featuring Christine Hoberg | AUS and USA |
| 18 | HyperParadise | Hermitude | AUS |
| 19 | Angels | The xx | UK |
| 20 | Feel the Love | Rudimental featuring John Newman | UK |
| 21 | Latch | Disclosure featuring Sam Smith | UK |
| 22 | Trembling Hands | The Temper Trap | AUS |
| 23 | Coming Down | Ball Park Music | AUS |
| 24 | I'm Into You | Chet Faker | AUS |
| 25 | Bangarang | Skrillex featuring Sirah | USA |
| 26 | Dear Science | Seth Sentry | AUS |
| 27 | Surrender | Ball Park Music | AUS |
| 28 | Default | Django Django | UK |
| 29 | Cherry Lips | Loon Lake | AUS |
| 30 | Laura | Bat for Lashes | UK |
| 31 | Gasoline | Alpine | AUS |
| 32 | Spectrum | Florence and the Machine | UK |
| 33 | Can't Get Better Than This | Parachute Youth | AUS |
| 34 | Born to Die | Lana Del Rey | USA |
| 35 | Run Alone | 360 | AUS |
| 36 | Paddling Out | Miike Snow | SWE |
| 37 | Sun | Two Door Cinema Club | UK |
| 38 | Oblivion | Grimes | CAN |
| 39 | Hold On | Alabama Shakes | USA |
| 40 | R U Mine? | Arctic Monkeys | UK |
| 41 | I Can Make You Love Me | British India | AUS |
| 42 | Hurricane | MS MR | USA |
| 43 | Ho Hey | The Lumineers | USA |
| 44 | Follow the Sun | Xavier Rudd | AUS |
| 45 | Young and Dumb | Chance Waters featuring Bertie Blackman | AUS |
| 46 | Take a Walk | Passion Pit | USA |
| 47 | Mountain Sound | Of Monsters and Men | ISL |
| 48 | Fred Astaire | San Cisco | AUS |
| 49 | Brother | Thundamentals | AUS |
| 50 | My Heart Is on Fire | Asta | AUS |
| 51 | This Fire | Birds of Tokyo | AUS |
| 52 | Ghosts | The Presets | AUS |
| 53 | Wild Things | San Cisco | AUS |
| 54 | I Got Burned | The Bamboos featuring Tim Rogers | AUS |
| 55 | Internet Friends | Knife Party | AUS |
| 56 | Thinkin Bout You | Frank Ocean | USA |
| 57 | Float Away | Seth Sentry | AUS |
| 58 | Babel | Mumford & Sons | UK |
| 59 | Love This | Cosmo Jarvis | UK |
| 60 | Love Interruption | Jack White | USA |
| 61 | Caress Your Soul | Sticky Fingers | AUS |
| 62 | Just What I Am | Kid Cudi featuring King Chip | USA |
| 63 | Wolf | First Aid Kit | SWE |
| 64 | Tessellate | alt-J | UK |
| 65 | Genesis | Grimes | CAN |
| 66 | The Best We Got | The Rubens | AUS |
| 67 | On Top | Flume featuring T.Shirt | AUS and USA |
| 68 | Silhouettes | Avicii | SWE |
| 69 | Lonely Boy | Matt Corby | AUS |
| 70 | Promises | The Presets | AUS |
| 71 | Swimming Pools | Kendrick Lamar | USA |
| 72 | All the Rowboats | Regina Spektor | USA |
| 73 | Draw a Crowd | Ben Folds Five | USA |
| 74 | Simple Song | The Shins | USA |
| 75 | Madness | Muse | UK |
| 76 | Heard It All | Illy | AUS |
| 77 | Love Is All I Got | Feed Me and Crystal Fighters | UK |
| 78 | Household Goods | Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs | UK |
| 79 | Little Black Submarines | The Black Keys | USA |
| 80 | Super Rich Kids | Frank Ocean featuring Earl Sweatshirt | USA |
| 81 | Something Good | alt-J | UK |
| 82 | Disparate Youth | Santigold | USA |
| 83 | She's a Riot | The Jungle Giants | AUS |
| 84 | Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom | Hilltop Hoods | AUS |
| 85 | Fineshrine | Purity Ring | CAN |
| 86 | Summertime Sadness | Lana Del Rey | USA |
| 87 | Chronicles of a Fallen Love | The Bloody Beetroots featuring Greta Svabo Bech | ITA and FRO |
| 88 | Down the Road | C2C | FRA |
| 89 | Maybe Tomorrow | Chance Waters featuring Lilian Blue | AUS |
| 90 | Sleep Alone | Two Door Cinema Club | UK |
| 91 | So Good | Allday | AUS |
| 92 | Spiritus | Lisa Mitchell | AUS |
| 93 | Dance Bear | Snakadaktal | AUS |
| 94 | 45 | The Gaslight Anthem | USA |
| 95 | Andy | Last Dinosaurs | Australia |
| 96 | Clique | Kanye West featuring Big Sean and Jay Z | USA |
| 97 | I'm Shakin' | Jack White | USA |
| 98 | Warrior | Kimbra featuring Mark Foster and A-Trak | NZ, USA and CAN |
| 99 | Bad Girls | M.I.A. | UK |
| 100 | Cough Cough | Everything Everything | UK |
Artists with multiple entries
Four tracks
- Flume
Three tracks
- alt-J
- Frank Ocean
Two tracks
- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
- Of Monsters and Men
- Tame Impala
- Mumford & Sons
- The Rubens
- Florence Welch
- Calvin Harris
- The Black Keys
- Rudimental featuring John Newman
- Ball Park Music
- Seth Sentry
- Lana Del Rey
- Two Door Cinema Club
- Grimes
- Chance Waters
- San Cisco
- The Presets
- Jack White
Countries represented
- – 41
- – 29
- – 23
- – 4
- – 4
- – 2
- – 1
- – 1
- – 1
- – 1
Top 10 Albums of 2012
Bold indicates J Award winner.
| # | Artist | Album | Country of origin | Tracks in the Hottest 100 |
| 1 | Tame Impala | Lonerism | AUS | 7, 9 |
| 2 | The Black Keys | El Camino | USA | 13, 79 |
| 3 | The Rubens | The Rubens | AUS | 10, 66 |
| 4 | Mumford & Sons | Babel | UK | 5, 58 |
| 5 | Ball Park Music | Museum | AUS | 23, 27 |
| 6 | alt-J | An Awesome Wave | UK | 3, 64, 81 |
| 7 | Flume | Flume | AUS | 4, 12, 67 |
| 8 | The xx | Coexist | UK | 19 |
| 9 | Frank Ocean | Channel Orange | USA | 8, 56, 80 |
| 10 | San Cisco | San Cisco | AUS | 48, 53 |