# 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. The first half of the countdown was broadcast on 8 June and the second half was broadcast the following day. Approximately 940,000 votes were received.

## Full list

* Bold: Previous winner of an annual Hottest 100
* Green background: Australian artists
| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin | Year of release | Previous position (annual countdown) | Previous position (all-time countdown) |
| 1 | Wonderwall | Oasis | United Kingdom | 1995 | 1 | 12 (2009) |
| 2 | Seven Nation Army | The White Stripes | United States | 2003 | 3 | 20 (2009) |
| 3 | Last Goodbye | Jeff Buckley | United States | 1994 | 14 (1995) | 4 (1998), 7 (2009) |
| 4 | The Nosebleed Section | Hilltop Hoods | Australia | 2003 | 9 | 17 (2009) |
| 5 | Bitter Sweet Symphony | The Verve | United Kingdom | 1997 | 4 | 99 (1998), 14 (2009) |
| 6 | Everlong | Foo Fighters | United States | 1997 | 61 (2006) | 9 (2009) |
| 7 | Mr. Brightside | The Killers | United States | 2003 | 13 (2004) | 38 (2009) |
| 8 | These Days | Powderfinger | Australia | 2000 | 1 (1999) | 21 (2009) |
| 9 | Somebody That I Used to Know | Gotye featuring Kimbra | Australia/New Zealand | 2011 | 1 | |
| 10 | My Happiness | Powderfinger | Australia | 2000 | 1 | 27 (2009) |
| 11 | No One Knows | Queens of the Stone Age | United States | 2002 | 1 | 45 (2009) |
| 12 | Hearts a Mess | Gotye | Australia | 2006 | 8 | 77 (2009) |
| 13 | Paranoid Android | Radiohead | United Kingdom | 1997 | 5 | 13 (1998), 5 (2009) |
| 14 | Little Lion Man | Mumford & Sons | United Kingdom | 2009 | 1 | |
| 15 | Breathe | The Prodigy | United Kingdom | 1996 | 7 | 95 (1998), 70 (2009) |
| 16 | Skinny Love | Bon Iver | United States | 2007 | 21 (2008) | 92 (2009) |
| 17 | Tomorrow | Silverchair | Australia | 1994 | 5 | 59 (1998), 33 (2009) |
| 18 | Hey Ya! | OutKast | United States | 2003 | 2 | |
| 19 | Dammit (Growing Up) | Blink-182 | United States | 1997 | 6 | 20 (1998), 68 (2009) |
| 20 | Prisoner of Society | The Living End | Australia | 1997 | 15 | 18 (1998), 34 (2009) |
| 21 | 1979 | The Smashing Pumpkins | United States | 1995 | 13 (1996) | 71 (1998), 35 (2009) |
| 22 | Song 2 | Blur | United Kingdom | 1997 | 2 | 46 (1998), 61 (2009) |
| 23 | Knights of Cydonia | Muse | United Kingdom | 2006 | 1 (2007) | 18 (2009) |
| 24 | One Crowded Hour | Augie March | Australia | 2006 | 1 | 59 (2009) |
| 25 | Bullet with Butterfly Wings | The Smashing Pumpkins | United States | 1995 | 2 | 33 (1998), 51 (2009) |
| 26 | Chop Suey! | System of a Down | United States | 2001 | 3 | 82 (2009) |
| 27 | Frontier Psychiatrist | The Avalanches | Australia | 2000 | 6 | |
| 28 | Scar Tissue | Red Hot Chili Peppers | United States | 1999 | 10 | |
| 29 | Take Me Out | Franz Ferdinand | United Kingdom | 2004 | 1 | 100 (2009) |
| 30 | Californication | Red Hot Chili Peppers | United States | 1999 | 7 (2000) | |
| 31 | Teardrop | Massive Attack featuring Elizabeth Fraser | United Kingdom | 1998 | 23 | 22 (2009) |
| 32 | Stinkfist | Tool | United States | 1996 | 2 | 24 (1998), 37 (2009) |
| 33 | Zombie | The Cranberries | Ireland | 1994 | 1 | |
| 34 | Brick | Ben Folds Five | United States | 1997 | 12 (1998) | 32 (1998), 67 (2009) |
| 35 | Karma Police | Radiohead | United Kingdom | 1997 | 9 | 54 (1998), 15 (2009) |
| 36 | Hallelujah | Jeff Buckley | United States | 1994 | | 3 (2009) |
| 37 | Sabotage | Beastie Boys | United States | 1994 | 16 | 44 (1998), 48 (2009) |
| 38 | Sweet Disposition | The Temper Trap | Australia | 2008 | 102 | |
| 39 | Heart-Shaped Box | Nirvana | United States | 1993 | 20 | 101 (2009) |
| 40 | Closer | Nine Inch Nails | United States | 1994 | 2 | 14 (1998), 62 (2009) |
| 41 | Yellow | Coldplay | United Kingdom | 2000 | 5 | 87 (2009) |
| 42 | Brother | Matt Corby | Australia | 2011 | 3 | |
| 43 | Betterman | John Butler Trio | Australia | 2001 | 5 | 47 (2009) |
| 44 | One More Time | Daft Punk | France | 2000 | 61 (2001) | 96 (2009) |
| 45 | Float On | Modest Mouse | United States | 2004 | 11 | 94 (2009) |
| 46 | Into My Arms | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Australia | 1997 | 18 | 84 (1998), 36 (2009) |
| 47 | Self Esteem | The Offspring | United States | 1994 | 3 | 80 (1998) |
| 48 | Last Nite | The Strokes | United States | 2001 | 12 | |
| 49 | Dog Days Are Over | Florence and the Machine | United Kingdom | 2009 | 10 | |
| 50 | Better Man | Pearl Jam | United States | 1994 | 44 (1995) | 22 (1998), 39 (2009) |
| 51 | Bohemian Like You | The Dandy Warhols | United States | 2000 | 10 | 85 (2009) |
| 52 | Feel Good Inc. | Gorillaz featuring De La Soul | United Kingdom/United States | 2005 | 3 | |
| 53 | Every You Every Me | Placebo | United Kingdom | 1999 | 5 | 83 (2009) |
| 54 | Sex on Fire | Kings of Leon | United States | 2008 | 1 | 90 (2009) |
| 55 | Praise You | Fatboy Slim | United Kingdom | 1999 | 4 | |
| 56 | Born Slippy .NUXX | Underworld | United Kingdom | 1995 | 12 (1996) | 65 (2009) |
| 57 | Banquet | Bloc Party | United Kingdom | 2005 | | 42 (2009) |
| 58 | No Aphrodisiac | The Whitlams | Australia | 1997 | 1 | 36 (1998) |
| 59 | Around the World | Daft Punk | France | 1997 | | 58 (2009) |
| 60 | Glycerine | Bush | United Kingdom | 1995 | 5 (1996) | |
| 61 | Lonely Boy | The Black Keys | United States | 2011 | 2 | |
| 62 | Buy Me a Pony | Spiderbait | Australia | 1996 | 1 | 86 (1998) |
| 63 | Chemical Heart | Grinspoon | Australia | 2002 | 2 | |
| 64 | Kids | MGMT | United States | 2008 | 5 | |
| 65 | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | Daft Punk | France | 2001 | 7 (2007) | |
| 66 | Berlin Chair | You Am I | Australia | 1994 | 23 | 61 (1998), 52 (2009) |
| 67 | Breezeblocks | alt-J | United Kingdom | 2012 | 3 | |
| 68 | Are You Gonna Be My Girl | Jet | Australia | 2003 | 1 | |
| 69 | Lose Yourself | Eminem | United States | 2002 | 7 | |
| 70 | ! (The Song Formerly Known As) | Regurgitator | Australia | 1997 | 6 (1998) | |
| 71 | Clint Eastwood | Gorillaz featuring Del Tha Funky Homosapien | United Kingdom | 2001 | 9 | |
| 72 | Joker & the Thief | Wolfmother | Australia | 2005 | 9 | |
| 73 | Home | Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros | United States | 2009 | 15 | |
| 74 | Let's Dance to Joy Division | The Wombats | United Kingdom | 2007 | 12 | |
| 75 | Somebody Told Me | The Killers | United States | 2004 | 4 | |
| 76 | Electric Feel | MGMT | United States | 2008 | 2 | |
| 77 | My People | The Presets | Australia | 2007 | 18 | |
| 78 | Freak | Silverchair | Australia | 1997 | 13 | |
| 79 | I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom | 2005 | 50 | |
| 80 | Bulls on Parade | Rage Against the Machine | United States | 1996 | 46 | 89 (2009) |
| 81 | Big Jet Plane | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia | 2010 | 1 | |
| 82 | Teenage Dirtbag | Wheatus | United States | 2000 | 4 | |
| 83 | Common People | Pulp | United Kingdom | 1995 | 38 | 81 (2009) |
| 84 | Gold Digger | Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx | United States | 2005 | 13 | |
| 85 | Gangsta's Paradise | Coolio featuring L.V. | United States | 1995 | 3 | |
| 86 | When You Were Young | The Killers | United States | 2006 | 4 | |
| 87 | Naïve | The Kooks | United Kingdom | 2006 | | |
| 88 | Monsters | Something for Kate | Australia | 2001 | 2 | |
| 89 | Wolf Like Me | TV on the Radio | United States | 2006 | 63 | 99 (2009) |
| 90 | Straight Lines | Silverchair | Australia | 2007 | 2 | |
| 91 | Harpoon | Jebediah | Australia | 1997 | 7 (1998) | |
| 92 | Little Talks | Of Monsters and Men | Iceland | 2011 | 2 (2012) | |
| 93 | Black Hole Sun | Soundgarden | United States | 1994 | 22 | 58 (1998) |
| 94 | Pumped Up Kicks | Foster the People | United States | 2010 | 32 | |
| 95 | Cigarettes Will Kill You | Ben Lee | Australia | 1998 | 2 | |
| 96 | Hello | The Cat Empire | Australia | 2003 | 6 | |
| 97 | Paper Planes | M.I.A. | United Kingdom | 2007 | 17 | |
| 98 | Leaving Home | Jebediah | Australia | 1997 | 10 | 50 (1998) |
| 99 | Video Games | Lana Del Rey | United States | 2011 | 6 | |
| 100 | Intergalactic | Beastie Boys | United States | 1998 | 25 | |

## Artists with multiple entries

| # | Artist | Tracks |
| 3 | Dave Grohl | 6, 11, 39 |
| 3 | The Killers | 7, 75, 86 |
| 3 | Silverchair | 17, 78, 90 |
| 3 | Damon Albarn | 22, 52, 71 |
| 3 | Daft Punk | 44, 59, 65 |
| 2 | Jeff Buckley | 3, 36 |
| 2 | Powderfinger | 8, 10 |
| 2 | Gotye | 9, 12 |
| 2 | Radiohead | 13, 35 |
| 2 | The Smashing Pumpkins | 21, 25 |
| 2 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | 28, 30 |
| 2 | Beastie Boys | 37, 100 |
| 2 | Gorillaz | 52, 71 |
| 2 | MGMT | 64, 76 |
| 2 | Jebediah | 91, 98 |

## Nations represented

| Country | Count |
| United States | 42 |
| Australia | 29 |
| United Kingdom | 25 |
| France | 3 |
| Iceland | 1 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| New Zealand | 1 |

## Songs by decade

| Decade | Song Count |
| 1990s | 44 |
| 2000s | 48 |
| 2010s | 8 |