Triple J Hottest 100, 2016
The 2016 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2017. It is the 24th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J.
2016's countdown [|broke several Hottest 100 records], including number of votes, [|number of songs by Australian acts] both in the whole list and at its top, and longest absence between countdowns. With the first-place win of Australian producer Flume for "Never Be like You", 2016 marks a record-breaking fourth consecutive annual countdown in which the number-one track was by an Australian act, after Vance Joy in 2013, Chet Faker in 2014, and The Rubens in 2015. Flume became the first electronic dance music producer to top the countdown.
Background
Triple J's Hottest 100 lets members of the public vote online for their top ten songs of the year, with these votes used to identify the year's 100 most popular songs. Any song that premiered between December 2015 and November 2016 was eligible for 2016's Hottest 100. Triple J published a list of 1,909 eligible songs on their 2016 Voting List. Voting commenced on 12 December 2016, as announced by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki in a nature mockumentary depicting a live music event. The short film featured cameo appearances from many musicians, along with Dr Karl doing a shoey.Several artists and presenters made their Hottest 100 votes public. The artists most often voted for by Triple J presenters were: D.D Dumbo; Kanye West; Julia Jacklin, who was not ultimately featured in the countdown; and A.B. Original, who are vocal critics of Australia Day. On 12 December, bookmakers Sportsbet.com.au and William Hill placed Flume's "Never Be like You" as the song most likely to take out first place by a significant margin, with a Sportsbet representative stating that they have "never seen such a short favourite at this stage".
Voting closed on 23 January 2017. By 25 January, the day before the countdown, bookmakers and media reports identified Flume's "Never Be like You" and Amy Shark's "Adore" as the clear frontrunners for first place.
Full list
| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
| 1 | Never Be like You | Flume featuring Kai | AUS/CAN |
| 2 | Adore | Amy Shark | AUS |
| 3 | Jungle | Tash Sultana | AUS |
| 4 | 1955 | Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Tom Thum | AUS |
| 5 | Redbone | Childish Gambino | US |
| 6 | Believe | DMA's | AUS |
| 7 | Papercuts | Illy featuring Vera Blue | AUS |
| 8 | Say It | Flume featuring Tove Lo | AUS/SWE |
| 9 | Stranger | Peking Duk featuring Elliphant | AUS/SWE |
| 10 | Starboy | The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk | CAN/FRA |
| 11 | Chameleon | Pnau | AUS |
| 12 | Cocoon | Milky Chance | GER |
| 13 | Love$ick | Mura Masa featuring ASAP Rocky | Guernsey/US |
| 14 | Viceroy | Violent Soho | AUS |
| 15 | Genghis Khan | Miike Snow | SWE |
| 16 | January 26 | A.B. Original featuring Dan Sultan | AUS |
| 17 | The Opposite of Us | Big Scary | AUS |
| 18 | All Night | Chance the Rapper featuring Knox Fortune | US |
| 19 | 7 | Catfish and the Bottlemen | UK |
| 20 | On Hold | The xx | UK |
| 21 | Death to the Lads | The Smith Street Band | AUS |
| 22 | Ultralight Beam | Kanye West | US |
| 23 | Catch 22 | Illy featuring Anne-Marie | AUS/UK |
| 24 | Come On Mess Me Up | Cub Sport | AUS |
| 25 | Because I Love You | Montaigne | AUS |
| 26 | Make Them Wheels Roll | Safia | AUS |
| 27 | Drive | Gretta Ray | AUS |
| 28 | Frankie Sinatra | The Avalanches | AUS |
| 29 | Our Town | Sticky Fingers | AUS |
| 30 | Innerbloom | Rüfüs | AUS |
| 31 | One Dance | Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla | CAN/NGA/UK |
| 32 | Notion | Tash Sultana | AUS |
| 33 | Bullshit | Dune Rats | AUS |
| 34 | Scott Green | Dune Rats | AUS |
| 35 | World of Our Love | Client Liaison | AUS |
| 36 | Sad Songs | Sticky Fingers | AUS |
| 37 | Smoke & Retribution | Flume featuring Vince Staples and Kučka | AUS/US |
| 38 | Youth | Glass Animals | UK |
| 39 | Step Up the Morphine | DMA's | AUS |
| 40 | Surfin' | Kid Cudi featuring Pharrell | US |
| 41 | I Feel It Coming | The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk | CAN/FRA |
| 42 | Heartlines | Broods | NZ |
| 43 | Final Song | MØ | DEN |
| 44 | Satan | D.D Dumbo | AUS |
| 45 | Dumb Things | A.B. Original featuring Paul Kelly and Dan Sultan | AUS |
| 46 | Dang! | Mac Miller featuring Anderson.Paak | US |
| 47 | Walrus | D.D Dumbo | AUS |
| 48 | Creepin | Kingswood | AUS |
| 49 | Higher | Hilltop Hoods featuring James Chatburn | AUS |
| 50 | Strange Diseases | Gang of Youths | AUS |
| 51 | Outcast at Last | Sticky Fingers | AUS |
| 52 | Love Yourself | Halsey | US |
| 53 | Blanket | Violent Soho | AUS |
| 54 | Bored to Death | Blink-182 | US |
| 55 | Say a Prayer for Me | Rüfüs | AUS |
| 56 | Keeping Score | Paces featuring Guy Sebastian | AUS |
| 57 | Twice | Catfish and the Bottlemen | UK |
| 58 | Girlie Bits | Ali Barter | AUS |
| 59 | Solo | Frank Ocean | US |
| 60 | Drinkee | Sofi Tukker | GER/US |
| 61 | Gamma Knife | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | AUS |
| 62 | Marinade | Dope Lemon | AUS |
| 63 | Life Itself | Glass Animals | UK |
| 64 | Alaska | Maggie Rogers | US |
| 65 | All Fucked Up | The Amity Affliction | AUS |
| 66 | Hold Up | Beyoncé | US |
| 67 | I Bring the Weather with Me | The Amity Affliction | AUS |
| 68 | Next to You | L D R U featuring Savoi | AUS |
| 69 | So Sentimental | Violent Soho | AUS |
| 70 | Wolfie | Golden Features featuring Julia Stone | AUS |
| 71 | Free | Broods | NZ |
| 72 | Famous | Kanye West | US |
| 73 | No Shade | Violent Soho | AUS |
| 74 | Lost: Season One | Camp Cope | AUS |
| 75 | Because I'm Me | The Avalanches | AUS |
| 76 | This Could Be Heartbreak | The Amity Affliction | AUS |
| 77 | Soundcheck | Catfish and the Bottlemen | UK |
| 78 | Settle | Vera Blue | AUS |
| 79 | Burn the Witch | Radiohead | UK |
| 80 | Gemini Feed | Banks | US |
| 81 | Panda | Desiigner | US |
| 82 | Think About It | Thundamentals featuring Peta & the Wolves | AUS |
| 83 | Simulation | Tkay Maidza | AUS |
| 84 | Pink + White | Frank Ocean | US |
| 85 | My Love Is Gone | Safia | AUS |
| 86 | Dopamine | Bliss n Eso featuring Thief | AUS |
| 87 | Uptown Folks | Dope Lemon | AUS |
| 88 | Me and Your Mama | Childish Gambino | US |
| 89 | Over You | Safia | AUS |
| 90 | Anything Near Conviction | Luca Brasi | AUS |
| 91 | Subways | The Avalanches | AUS |
| 92 | How to Taste | Violent Soho | AUS |
| 93 | High and Low | Empire of the Sun | AUS |
| 94 | Fading | Vallis Alps | AUS |
| 95 | Lose It | Flume featuring Vic Mensa | AUS/US |
| 96 | Hanging by a Thread | Elk Road featuring Natalie Foster | AUS |
| 97 | You Don't Think You Like People Like Me | Alex Lahey | AUS |
| 98 | Season 2 Episode 3 | Glass Animals | UK |
| 99 | Too Good | Drake featuring Rihanna | CAN/BAR |
| 100 | Brace | Birds of Tokyo | AUS |
Artists with multiple entries
Five entries
- Violent Soho
Four entries
- Flume
Three entries
- Catfish and the Bottlemen
- Safia
- The Avalanches
- Sticky Fingers
- Glass Animals
- The Amity Affliction
Two entries
- Tash Sultana
- Hilltop Hoods
- Montaigne
- Childish Gambino
- DMA's
- Illy
- Vera Blue
- The Weeknd
- Daft Punk
- Nick Littlemore
- A.B. Original
- Dan Sultan
- Kanye West
- Rüfüs
- Drake
- Dune Rats
- Broods
- D.D Dumbo
- Frank Ocean
- Dope Lemon
Countries represented
- – 66
- – 21
- – 12
- – 5
- – 3
- – 2
- – 2
- – 2
- – 1
- – 1
- – 1
Top 10 Albums of 2016
Bold indicates winner.
| # | Artist | Album | Country of origin | Tracks in the Hottest 100 |
| 1 | Violent Soho | Waco | AUS | 14, 53, 69, 73, 92, |
| 2 | Flume | Skin | AUS | 1, 8, 37, 95 |
| 3 | The Avalanches | Wildflower | AUS | 28, 75, 91 |
| 4 | Rüfüs | Bloom | AUS | 30, 55 |
| 5 | Ball Park Music | Every Night the Same Dream | AUS | DNC |
| 6 | Sticky Fingers | Westway | AUS | 29, 36, 51 |
| 7 | DMA's | Hills End | AUS | 39,, |
| 8 | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool | UK | 79 |
| 9 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Nonagon Infinity | Australia | 61 |
| 10 | Frank Ocean | Blonde | US | 59, 84 |