Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, 2013
The Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years was a poll conducted by Triple J to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hottest 100's current format. Voters were allowed to vote for 20 songs that were released from 1 January 1993 until 31 December 2012. Voting was open for 20 days from 14 May to 2 June. #100–51 was broadcast on 8 June and #50–1 was broadcast the following day.
Full list
- Bold: Previous winner of an annual Hottest 100
- Green background: Australian artists
| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin | Year of release | Previous position | Previous position |
| 1 | Wonderwall | Oasis | UK | 1995 | 1 | 12 |
| 2 | Seven Nation Army | The White Stripes | USA | 2003 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | Last Goodbye | Jeff Buckley | USA | 1994 | 14 | 4, 7 |
| 4 | The Nosebleed Section | Hilltop Hoods | AUS | 2003 | 9 | 17 |
| 5 | Bitter Sweet Symphony | The Verve | UK | 1997 | 4 | 99, 14 |
| 6 | Everlong | Foo Fighters | USA | 1997 | 61 | 9 |
| 7 | Mr. Brightside | The Killers | USA | 2003 | 13 | 38 |
| 8 | These Days | Powderfinger | AUS | 2000 | 1 | 21 |
| 9 | Somebody That I Used to Know | Gotye featuring Kimbra | AUS/NZ | 2011 | 1 | |
| 10 | My Happiness | Powderfinger | AUS | 2000 | 1 | 27 |
| 11 | No One Knows | Queens of the Stone Age | USA | 2002 | 1 | 45 |
| 12 | Hearts a Mess | Gotye | AUS | 2006 | 8 | 77 |
| 13 | Paranoid Android | Radiohead | UK | 1997 | 5 | 13, 5 |
| 14 | Little Lion Man | Mumford & Sons | UK | 2009 | 1 | |
| 15 | Breathe | The Prodigy | UK | 1996 | 7 | 95, 70 |
| 16 | Skinny Love | Bon Iver | USA | 2007 | 21 | 92 |
| 17 | Tomorrow | Silverchair | AUS | 1994 | 5 | 59, 33 |
| 18 | Hey Ya! | OutKast | USA | 2003 | 2 | |
| 19 | Dammit | Blink-182 | USA | 1997 | 6 | 20, 68 |
| 20 | Prisoner of Society | The Living End | AUS | 1997 | 15 | 18, 34 |
| 21 | 1979 | The Smashing Pumpkins | USA | 1995 | 13 | 71, 35 |
| 22 | Song 2 | Blur | UK | 1997 | 2 | 46, 61 |
| 23 | Knights of Cydonia | Muse | UK | 2006 | 1 | 18 |
| 24 | One Crowded Hour | Augie March | AUS | 2006 | 1 | 59 |
| 25 | Bullet with Butterfly Wings | The Smashing Pumpkins | USA | 1995 | 2 | 33, 51 |
| 26 | Chop Suey! | System of a Down | USA | 2001 | 3 | 82 |
| 27 | Frontier Psychiatrist | The Avalanches | AUS | 2000 | 6 | |
| 28 | Scar Tissue | Red Hot Chili Peppers | USA | 1999 | 10 | |
| 29 | Take Me Out | Franz Ferdinand | UK | 2004 | 1 | 100 |
| 30 | Californication | Red Hot Chili Peppers | USA | 1999 | 7 | |
| 31 | Teardrop | Massive Attack featuring Elizabeth Fraser | UK | 1998 | 23 | 22 |
| 32 | Stinkfist | Tool | USA | 1996 | 2 | 24, 37 |
| 33 | Zombie | The Cranberries | Ireland | 1994 | 1 | |
| 34 | Brick | Ben Folds Five | USA | 1997 | 12 | 32, 67 |
| 35 | Karma Police | Radiohead | UK | 1997 | 9 | 54, 15 |
| 36 | Hallelujah | Jeff Buckley | USA | 1994 | 3 | |
| 37 | Sabotage | Beastie Boys | USA | 1994 | 16 | 44, 48 |
| 38 | Sweet Disposition | The Temper Trap | AUS | 2008 | ||
| 39 | Heart-Shaped Box | Nirvana | USA | 1993 | 20 | 101 |
| 40 | Closer | Nine Inch Nails | USA | 1994 | 2 | 14, 62 |
| 41 | Yellow | Coldplay | UK | 2000 | 5 | 87 |
| 42 | Brother | Matt Corby | AUS | 2011 | 3 | |
| 43 | Betterman | John Butler Trio | AUS | 2001 | 5 | 47 |
| 44 | One More Time | Daft Punk | France | 2000 | 61 | 96 |
| 45 | Float On | Modest Mouse | USA | 2004 | 11 | 94 |
| 46 | Into My Arms | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | AUS | 1997 | 18 | 84, 36 |
| 47 | Self Esteem | The Offspring | USA | 1994 | 3 | 80 |
| 48 | Last Nite | The Strokes | USA | 2001 | 12 | |
| 49 | Dog Days Are Over | Florence and the Machine | UK | 2009 | 10 | |
| 50 | Better Man | Pearl Jam | USA | 1994 | 44 | 22, 39 |
| 51 | Bohemian Like You | The Dandy Warhols | USA | 2000 | 10 | 85 |
| 52 | Feel Good Inc. | Gorillaz featuring De La Soul | UK/USA | 2005 | 3 | |
| 53 | Every You Every Me | Placebo | UK | 1999 | 5 | 83 |
| 54 | Sex on Fire | Kings of Leon | USA | 2008 | 1 | 90 |
| 55 | Praise You | Fatboy Slim | UK | 1999 | 4 | |
| 56 | Born Slippy.NUXX | Underworld | UK | 1995 | 12 | 65 |
| 57 | Banquet | Bloc Party | UK | 2005 | 42 | |
| 58 | No Aphrodisiac | The Whitlams | AUS | 1997 | 1 | 36 |
| 59 | Around the World | Daft Punk | France | 1997 | 58 | |
| 60 | Glycerine | Bush | UK | 1995 | 5 | |
| 61 | Lonely Boy | The Black Keys | USA | 2011 | 2 | |
| 62 | Buy Me a Pony | Spiderbait | AUS | 1996 | 1 | 86 |
| 63 | Chemical Heart | Grinspoon | AUS | 2002 | 2 | |
| 64 | Kids | MGMT | USA | 2008 | 5 | |
| 65 | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | Daft Punk | France | 2001 | 7 | |
| 66 | Berlin Chair | You Am I | AUS | 1994 | 23 | 61, 52 |
| 67 | Breezeblocks | alt-J | UK | 2012 | 3 | |
| 68 | Are You Gonna Be My Girl | Jet | AUS | 2003 | 1 | |
| 69 | Lose Yourself | Eminem | USA | 2002 | 7 | |
| 70 | ! | Regurgitator | AUS | 1997 | 6 | |
| 71 | Clint Eastwood | Gorillaz featuring Del Tha Funky Homosapien | UK | 2001 | 9 | |
| 72 | Joker & the Thief | Wolfmother | AUS | 2005 | 9 | |
| 73 | Home | Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros | USA | 2009 | 15 | |
| 74 | Let's Dance to Joy Division | The Wombats | UK | 2007 | 12 | |
| 75 | Somebody Told Me | The Killers | USA | 2004 | 4 | |
| 76 | Electric Feel | MGMT | USA | 2008 | 2 | |
| 77 | My People | The Presets | AUS | 2007 | 18 | |
| 78 | Freak | Silverchair | AUS | 1997 | 13 | |
| 79 | I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor | Arctic Monkeys | UK | 2005 | 50 | |
| 80 | Bulls on Parade | Rage Against the Machine | USA | 1996 | 46 | 89 |
| 81 | Big Jet Plane | Angus & Julia Stone | AUS | 2010 | 1 | |
| 82 | Teenage Dirtbag | Wheatus | USA | 2000 | 4 | |
| 83 | Common People | Pulp | UK | 1995 | 38 | 81 |
| 84 | Gold Digger | Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx | USA | 2005 | 13 | |
| 85 | Gangsta's Paradise | Coolio | USA | 1995 | 3 | |
| 86 | When You Were Young | The Killers | USA | 2006 | 4 | |
| 87 | Naïve | The Kooks | UK | 2006 | ||
| 88 | Monsters | Something for Kate | AUS | 2001 | 2 | |
| 89 | Wolf Like Me | TV on the Radio | USA | 2006 | 63 | 99 |
| 90 | Straight Lines | Silverchair | AUS | 2007 | 2 | |
| 91 | Harpoon | Jebediah | AUS | 1997 | 7 | |
| 92 | Little Talks | Of Monsters and Men | Iceland | 2011 | 2 | |
| 93 | Black Hole Sun | Soundgarden | USA | 1994 | 22 | 58 |
| 94 | Pumped Up Kicks | Foster the People | USA | 2010 | 32 | |
| 95 | Cigarettes Will Kill You | Ben Lee | AUS | 1998 | 2 | |
| 96 | Hello | The Cat Empire | AUS | 2003 | 6 | |
| 97 | Paper Planes | M.I.A. | UK | 2007 | 17 | |
| 98 | Leaving Home | Jebediah | AUS | 1997 | 10 | 50 |
| 99 | Video Games | Lana Del Rey | USA | 2011 | 6 | |
| 100 | Intergalactic | Beastie Boys | USA | 1998 | 25 |
Artists with multiple entries
Three tracks
- The Killers
- Silverchair
- Daft Punk
Two tracks
- Jeff Buckley
- Powderfinger
- Gotye
- Radiohead
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Beastie Boys
- Gorillaz
- MGMT
- Jebediah
Nations represented
- - 42
- - 29
- - 25
- - 3
- - 1
- - 1
- - 1
Songs by decade
- 1990s - 44
- 2000s - 48
- 2010s - 8