Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s
The Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s was announced on 14 March 2020. It is a countdown of the most popular songs of the 2010s as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. 1.8 million votes were cast by listeners choosing their top ten songs of the decade.
Tame Impala's "The Less I Know the Better" was voted into first place.
Background
Triple J's Hottest 100 of the 2010s allowed members of the public to vote online for their top ten songs of the decade, which were then used to calculate the decade's 100 most popular songs. Any song initially released between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019 was eligible for the decade's Hottest 100.On 23 January 2020, Triple J first announced that a 2010s countdown will take place. Voting opened on 11 February 2020, and closed on 9 March 2020. Between 10 and 13 March, Triple J presenters Lucy Smith, Lewis Hobba, and Michael Hing progressively announced the songs that ranked between #200 and #101 in the countdown. Voting in recent countdowns has been restricted to the preceding year. There have been some exceptions, namely the Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time in 2011, and the Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years in 2013. This is the first countdown that charts the best songs of a decade.
Projections
Based on media reports following the announcement of the existence of the countdown, some of the most frequently mentioned contenders are Frank Ocean, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Flume, and Beyoncé. Once voting closed, bookmakers' three most likely songs to take #1 were Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know", Arctic Monkeys' "Do I Wanna Know?" and Rüfüs' "Innerbloom", both behind Gotye.Full list
| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin | Year | Annual Hottest 100 position |
| 1 | The Less I Know the Better | Tame Impala | AUS | 2015 | 4 |
| 2 | Somebody That I Used to Know | Gotye featuring Kimbra | AUS/NZL | 2011 | 1 |
| 3 | Do I Wanna Know? | Arctic Monkeys | UK | 2013 | 4 |
| 4 | Covered in Chrome | Violent Soho | AUS | 2013 | 14 |
| 5 | Innerbloom | Rüfüs Du Sol | AUS | 2015 | — |
| 6 | Magnolia | Gang of Youths | AUS | 2015 | 21 |
| 7 | Pumped Up Kicks | Foster the People | US | 2010 | 32 |
| 8 | Never Be like You | Flume featuring Kai | AUS/CAN | 2016 | 1 |
| 9 | Big Jet Plane | Angus & Julia Stone | AUS | 2010 | 1 |
| 10 | Brother | Matt Corby | AUS | 2011 | 3 |
| 11 | Talk Is Cheap | Chet Faker | AUS | 2014 | 1 |
| 12 | Breezeblocks | Alt-J | UK | 2012 | 3 |
| 13 | Riptide | Vance Joy | AUS | 2013 | 1 |
| 14 | Runaway | Kanye West featuring Pusha T | US | 2010 | 14 |
| 15 | Australia Street | Sticky Fingers | AUS | 2013 | 70 |
| 16 | Royals | Lorde | NZL | 2013 | 2 |
| 17 | It's Nice to Be Alive | Ball Park Music | AUS | 2011 | 31 |
| 18 | Holdin On | Flume | AUS | 2012 | 4 |
| 19 | Let Me Down Easy | Gang of Youths | AUS | 2017 | 2 |
| 20 | Cosby Sweater | Hilltop Hoods | AUS | 2014 | 3 |
| 21 | Delete | DMA's | AUS | 2014 | 48 |
| 22 | Midnight City | M83 | FRA | 2011 | 5 |
| 23 | King Kunta | Kendrick Lamar | US | 2015 | 2 |
| 24 | Niggas in Paris | Kanye West and Jay-Z | US | 2011 | 98 |
| 25 | Clair de Lune | Flight Facilities featuring Christine Hoberg | AUS/US | 2012 | 17 |
| 26 | Let It Happen | Tame Impala | AUS | 2015 | 5 |
| 27 | 3005 | Childish Gambino | US | 2013 | 43 |
| 28 | Redbone | Childish Gambino | US | 2016 | 5 |
| 29 | Video Games | Lana Del Rey | US | 2011 | 6 |
| 30 | Little Talks | Of Monsters and Men | ISL | 2012 | 2 |
| 31 | Tokyo | The Wombats | UK | 2010 | 8 |
| 32 | High | Peking Duk featuring Nicole Millar | AUS | 2014 | 2 |
| 33 | Rum Rage | Sticky Fingers | AUS | 2014 | — |
| 34 | Lost | Frank Ocean | US | 2012 | 8 |
| 35 | Confidence | Ocean Alley | AUS | 2018 | 1 |
| 36 | 1955 | Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Tom Thum | AUS | 2016 | 4 |
| 37 | Stolen Dance | Milky Chance | GER | 2014 | 4 |
| 38 | Levels | Avicii | SWE | 2011 | — |
| 39 | Crave You | Flight Facilities featuring Giselle Rosselli | AUS | 2010 | 19 |
| 40 | Latch | Disclosure featuring Sam Smith | UK | 2012 | 21 |
| 41 | Believe | DMA's | AUS | 2016 | 6 |
| 42 | R U Mine? | Arctic Monkeys | UK | 2012 | 40 |
| 43 | Chateau | Angus & Julia Stone | AUS | 2017 | 3 |
| 44 | Shake It Out | Florence and the Machine | UK | 2011 | 13 |
| 45 | Lonely Boy | The Black Keys | US | 2011 | 2 |
| 46 | Hoops | The Rubens | AUS | 2015 | 1 |
| 47 | I Will Wait | Mumford & Sons | UK | 2012 | 5 |
| 48 | HyperParadise | Hermitude | AUS | 2012 | 18 |
| 49 | Jungle | Tash Sultana | AUS | 2016 | 3 |
| 50 | Get Lucky | Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams | FRA/US | 2013 | 3 |
| 51 | Adore | Amy Shark | AUS | 2016 | 2 |
| 52 | The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows | Gang of Youths | AUS | 2017 | 5 |
| 53 | Chandelier | Sia | AUS | 2014 | 9 |
| 54 | Tongue Tied | Grouplove | US | 2011 | 16 |
| 55 | Bangarang | Skrillex featuring Sirah | US | 2012 | 25 |
| 56 | Thrift Shop | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz | US | 2012 | 1 |
| 57 | Humble | Kendrick Lamar | US | 2017 | 1 |
| 58 | Gold Snafu | Sticky Fingers | AUS | 2014 | 20 |
| 59 | Teenage Crime | Adrian Lux | SWE | 2010 | 6 |
| 60 | Swimming Pools | Kendrick Lamar | US | 2012 | 71 |
| 61 | Green Light | Lorde | NZL | 2017 | 6 |
| 62 | Thinkin Bout You | Frank Ocean | US | 2012 | 56 |
| 63 | The Buzz | Hermitude featuring Mataya and Young Tapz | AUS | 2015 | 8 |
| 64 | Innerbloom | Rüfüs Du Sol | AUS | 2016 | 30 |
| 65 | Feels Like We Only Go Backwards | Tame Impala | AUS | 2012 | 9 |
| 66 | Elephant | Tame Impala | AUS | 2012 | 7 |
| 67 | I Love It | Hilltop Hoods featuring Sia | AUS | 2011 | 10 |
| 68 | 212 | Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay | US/BEL | 2011 | — |
| 69 | Drop the Game | Flume and Chet Faker | AUS | 2013 | 5 |
| 70 | 7 | Catfish and the Bottlemen | UK | 2016 | 19 |
| 71 | Bad Guy | Billie Eilish | US | 2019 | 1 |
| 72 | Monster | Kanye West featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver | US | 2010 | 88 |
| 73 | Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? | Arctic Monkeys | UK | 2013 | 6 |
| 74 | Dancing on My Own | Robyn | SWE | 2010 | — |
| 75 | Feel So Close | Calvin Harris | UK | 2011 | 11 |
| 76 | Sicko Mode | Travis Scott | US | 2018 | 3 |
| 77 | Black Skinhead | Kanye West | US | 2013 | 20 |
| 78 | Awkward | San Cisco | AUS | 2011 | 7 |
| 79 | Charlie | Mallrat | AUS | 2019 | 3 |
| 80 | Ultralight Beam | Kanye West featuring Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price and Kirk Franklin | US | 2016 | 22 |
| 81 | Come On Mess Me Up | Cub Sport | AUS | 2016 | 24 |
| 82 | On Top | Flume featuring T.Shirt | AUS | 2012 | 67 |
| 83 | Painkiller | Ruel | AUS | 2019 | 22 |
| 84 | Dinosaurs | Ruby Fields | AUS | 2018 | 9 |
| 85 | No Role Modelz | J. Cole | US | 2015 | — |
| 86 | Greek Tragedy | The Wombats | UK | 2015 | 29 |
| 87 | Resolution | Matt Corby | AUS | 2013 | 8 |
| 88 | Gooey | Glass Animals | UK | 2014 | 12 |
| 89 | Undercover Martyn | Two Door Cinema Club | UK | 2010 | 21 |
| 90 | This Is America | Childish Gambino | US | 2018 | 4 |
| 91 | Loving Is Easy | Rex Orange County featuring Benny Sings | UK/NLD | 2017 | — |
| 92 | M.A.A.D City | Kendrick Lamar featuring MC Eiht | US | 2012 | — |
| 93 | Sleepless | Flume featuring Jezzabell Doran | AUS | 2012 | 12 |
| 94 | Is This How You Feel? | The Preatures | AUS | 2013 | 9 |
| 95 | Losing It | Fisher | AUS | 2018 | 2 |
| 96 | Get Free | Major Lazer featuring Amber Coffman | US | 2012 | 6 |
| 97 | Rolling in the Deep | Adele | UK | 2010 | — |
| 98 | You & Me | Disclosure featuring Eliza Doolittle | UK/AUS | 2013 | 63 |
| 99 | Dazed & Confused | Ruel | AUS | 2018 | 89 |
| 100 | Holocene | Bon Iver | US | 2011 | 53 |
Countries represented
- –50
- – 28
- – 15
- – 3
- – 3
- – 2
- – 1
- – 1
- – 1
- – 1
Artists with multiple entries
Seven entries
- Flume
Five entries
- Kanye West
Four entries
- Tame Impala
- Kendrick Lamar
Three entries
- Arctic Monkeys
- Gang of Youths
- Sticky Fingers
- Hilltop Hoods
- Childish Gambino
Two entries
- Rüfüs Du Sol
- Angus & Julia Stone
- Matt Corby
- Chet Faker
- Lorde
- DMA's
- Jay-Z
- Flight Facilities
- The Wombats
- Frank Ocean
- Disclosure
- Hermitude
- Sia
- Bon Iver
- Ruel
Songs by year