# Triple J Hottest 100, 2003

The 2003 Triple J Hottest 100, announced on 25 January 2004, was the eleventh such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 40 (not necessarily the top 40) songs was released. A DVD, containing film clips of songs from the Hottest 100 was also released. A countdown of the videos of each song was shown on the ABC music series Rage in March.

## Full list

Note: Australian artists
| # | Song | Artist | Country of Origin |
| 1 | Are You Gonna Be My Girl | Jet | Australia |
| 2 | Hey Ya! | Outkast | United States |
| 3 | Seven Nation Army | The White Stripes | United States |
| 4 | (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 5 | Clocks (Röyksopp Remix) | Coldplay | United Kingdom/Norway |
| 6 | Hello | The Cat Empire | Australia |
| 7 | Sunsets | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 8 | Zebra | John Butler Trio | Australia |
| 9 | The Nosebleed Section | Hilltop Hoods | Australia |
| 10 | Love Your Way | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 11 | Déjà Vu | Something for Kate | Australia |
| 12 | Lighthouse | The Waifs | Australia |
| 13 | We Used to Be Friends | The Dandy Warhols | United States |
| 14 | The Hardest Button to Button | The White Stripes | United States |
| 15 | I Love Work | Butterfingers | Australia |
| 16 | Relapse | Little Birdy | Australia |
| 17 | Taylor | Jack Johnson | United States |
| 18 | Diamonds On the Inside | Ben Harper | United States |
| 19 | Rollover DJ | Jet | Australia |
| 20 | Feeler | Pete Murray | Australia |
| 21 | Armies Against Me | Epicure | Australia |
| 22 | Fortune Faded | Red Hot Chili Peppers | United States |
| 23 | Who's Gonna Save Us? | The Living End | Australia |
| 24 | The Horizon Has Been Defeated | Jack Johnson | United States |
| 25 | Baby Blue | Little Birdy | Australia |
| 26 | Russell Crowe's Band | Frenzal Rhomb | Australia |
| 27 | There's Always Someone Cooler Than You | Ben Folds | United States |
| 28 | Danger! High Voltage | Electric Six | United States |
| 29 | With My Own Two Hands | Ben Harper | United States |
| 30 | The Bitter End | Placebo | United Kingdom |
| 31 | Time Is Running Out | Muse | United Kingdom |
| 32 | You Were the Last High | The Dandy Warhols | United States |
| 33 | Gay Bar | Electric Six | United States |
| 34 | Everyone Deserves Music | Michael Franti and Spearhead | United States |
| 35 | Plastic Loveless Letter | Magic Dirt | Australia |
| 36 | Just Because | Jane's Addiction | United States |
| 37 | Days Like These | The Cat Empire | Australia |
| 38 | Everytime | Butterfingers | Australia |
| 39 | Coming Home | Alex Lloyd | Australia |
| 40 | Times Like These | Jack Johnson | United States |
| 41 | Black Bird | The Beautiful Girls | Australia |
| 42 | Stockholm Syndrome | Muse | United Kingdom |
| 43 | 12:51 | The Strokes | United States |
| 44 | Dumb Enough | Hilltop Hoods | Australia |
| 45 | Weak and Powerless | A Perfect Circle | United States |
| 46 | 77% | The Herd | Australia |
| 47 | Bomb the World | Michael Franti and Spearhead | United States |
| 48 | There There | Radiohead | United Kingdom |
| 49 | 2 + 2 = 5 | Radiohead | United Kingdom |
| 50 | Fisherman's Daughter | The Waifs | Australia |
| 51 | Sista (Live) | John Butler Trio | Australia |
| 52 | Just Pretend | The Bens | United States |
| 53 | Feeling This | Blink-182 | United States |
| 54 | Let Me Be | Xavier Rudd | Australia |
| 55 | Greed for Your Love | Missy Higgins | Australia |
| 56 | Franco Un-American | NOFX | United States |
| 57 | Work It | Missy Elliott | United States |
| 58 | The Leaving Song Pt. II | AFI | United States |
| 59 | So Entertaining | Gus and Frank | Australia |
| 60 | Watch Out Boys | Magic Dirt | Australia |
| 61 | St. Anger | Metallica | United States |
| 62 | Music | The Beautiful Girls | Australia |
| 63 | Song for a Sleepwalker | Something for Kate | Australia |
| 64 | Step into My Office, Baby | Belle and Sebastian | United Kingdom |
| 65 | Something White and Sigmund | Andromeda | Australia |
| 66 | Tabloid Magazine | The Living End | Australia |
| 67 | Lovesong | Amiel | Australia |
| 68 | 1 Second of Insanity | The Butterfly Effect | Australia |
| 69 | Hysteria | Muse | United Kingdom |
| 70 | The Outsider | A Perfect Circle | United States |
| 71 | Girl's Not Grey | AFI | United States |
| 72 | Running Up That Hill | Placebo | United Kingdom |
| 73 | Life Sentence | Epicure | Australia |
| 74 | Look Good in Leather | Cody Chesnutt | United States |
| 75 | The Seed (2.0) | The Roots featuring Cody Chesnutt | United States |
| 76 | Rockin' Rocks | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 77 | Stumblin' | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 78 | Who's Ya Daddy? | Gerling | Australia |
| 79 | Milkshake | Kelis | United States |
| 80 | Satisfaction | Benny Benassi | Italy |
| 81 | The Golden Path | The Chemical Brothers featuring The Flaming Lips | United Kingdom/United States |
| 82 | Good Luck | Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula | United Kingdom/United States |
| 83 | Reptilia | The Strokes | United States |
| 84 | We Don't Play Guitars | Chicks on Speed featuring Peaches | Germany/Canada |
| 85 | Pass That Dutch | Missy Elliott | United States |
| 86 | Lines | Pete Murray | Australia |
| 87 | Move Your Feet | Junior Senior | Denmark |
| 88 | Voices in My Head | Machine Gun Fellatio | Australia |
| 89 | Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine | The White Stripes | United States |
| 90 | Break It Down (James Brown) | Offcutts | Australia |
| 91 | Vampire Racecourse | The Sleepy Jackson | Australia |
| 92 | Doctor Doctor | Gyroscope | Australia |
| 93 | I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself | The White Stripes | United States |
| 94 | In the Cold, Cold Night | The White Stripes | United States |
| 95 | Special Needs | Placebo | United Kingdom |
| 96 | Man of Constant Sorrow | Skeewiff | United Kingdom |
| 97 | Growing on Me | The Darkness | United Kingdom |
| 98 | Out of Time | Blur | United Kingdom |
| 99 | Inertiatic ESP | The Mars Volta | United States |
| 100 | The Chariot | The Cat Empire | Australia |

## Artists with multiple entries

| # | Artist | Entries |
| 5 | The White Stripes | 3, 14, 89, 93, 94) |
| 5 | Powderfinger | 4, 7, 10, 76, 77 |
| 3 | The Cat Empire | 6, 37, 100 |
| 3 | Jack Johnson | 17, 24, 40 |
| 3 | Placebo | 30, 72, 95 |
| 3 | Muse | 31, 42, 69 |
| 2 | Jet | 1, 19 |
| 2 | John Butler Trio | 8, 51 |
| 2 | Hilltop Hoods | 9, 44 |
| 2 | Something for Kate | 11, 62 |
| 2 | The Waifs | 12, 50 |
| 2 | The Dandy Warhols | 13, 32 |
| 2 | Butterfingers | 15, 38 |
| 2 | Little Birdy | 16, 25 |
| 2 | Ben Harper | 18, 29 |
| 2 | Pete Murray | 20, 86 |
| 2 | Epicure | 21, 73 |
| 2 | Flea | 22, 99 |
| 2 | The Living End | 23, 66 |
| 2 | Ben Folds | 27, 52 |
| 2 | Electric Six | 28, 33 |
| 2 | Michael Franti and Spearhead | 34, 47 |
| 2 | Magic Dirt | 35, 60 |
| 2 | The Beautiful Girls | 41, 62 |
| 2 | The Strokes | 43, 83 |
| 2 | A Perfect Circle | 45, 70 |
| 2 | Radiohead | 48, 49 |
| 2 | Missy Elliott | 57, 85 |
| 2 | AFI | 58, 71 |
| 2 | Cody ChesnuTT | 74, 75 |

## Countries Represented

| Country | Entries |
| Australia | 47 |
| United States | 38 |
| United Kingdom | 14 |
| Norway | 1 |
| Italy | 1 |
| Germany | 1 |
| Canada | 1 |
| Denmark | 1 |

## Trivia

* Powderfinger are the first band ever to get three songs in the Top 10.
* Frenzal Rhomb holds the record of having the shortest song in the Hottest 100, with "Russell Crowe's Band" at 1:12.
* The song "Clocks" by Coldplay charted in the countdown for the second year in a row after a remix by Röyksopp featured at No. 5
* The Living End and Something for Kate made their seventh consecutive appearance in the Hottest 100, with both bands having at least one track featured in every annual countdown since 1997. Similarly, Machine Gun Fellatio made their fifth consecutive appearance, having appeared in every annual countdown since 1999.

## Top 10 Albums of 2003

Bold indicates winner of the Hottest 100.
| # | Artist | Album | Country of Origin | Tracks in the Hottest 100 |
| 1 | Powderfinger | Vulture Street | Australia | 4, 7, 10, 76, 77 |
| 2 | The White Stripes | Elephant | United States | 3, 14, 89, 93, 94 |
| 3 | Radiohead | Hail to the Thief | United Kingdom | 48, 49 |
| 4 | Jet | Get Born | Australia | 1, 19 (24, 89 in 2004) |
| 5 | Jack Johnson | On & On | United States | 17, 24, 40 |
| 6 | Something for Kate | The Official Fiction | Australia | 11, 62 |
| 7 | Ben Harper | Diamonds On the Inside | United States | 18, 29 |
| 8 | John Butler Trio | Living 2001–2002 | Australia | 51 |
| 9 | Muse | Absolution | United Kingdom | 31, 42, 69 |
| 10 | The Living End | Modern ARTillery | Australia | 23, 66 (52 in 2002) |

## CD release

| CD 1 Jet – "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" Hilltop Hoods – "The Nosebleed Section" Jane's Addiction – "Just Because" The Dandy Warhols – "We Used to Be Friends" Something for Kate – "Déjà Vu" Cody ChesnuTT – "Look Good in Leather" Little Birdy – "Baby Blue" The Sleepy Jackson – "Vampire Racecourse" The Herd – "77%" John Butler Trio – "Zebra" Placebo – "The Bitter End" Radiohead – "There There" Basement Jaxx – "Good Luck" Electric Six – "Gay Bar" The Waifs – "Lighthouse" Magic Dirt – "Plastic Loveless Letter" AFI – "The Leaving Song Pt. II" The Beautiful Girls – "Black Bird" Pete Murray – "Feeler" Skeewiff – "Man of Constant Sorrow" | CD 2 The Mars Volta – "Inertiatic ESP" The Living End – "Who's Gonna Save Us?" The Cat Empire – "Hello" Chicks on Speed – "We Don't Play Guitars" Ben Harper – "Diamonds on the Inside" Butterfingers – "I Love Work" Missy Higgins – "Greed For Your Love" Chemical Brothers – "The Golden Path" Offcuts – "Break It Down James Brown" Machine Gun Fellatio – "Voices in My Head" Nofx – "Franco Un-American" The Butterfly Effect – "One Second of Insanity" Michael Franti and Spearhead – "Everyone Deserves Music" Epicure – "Life Sentence" Belle and Sebastian – "Step into My Office Baby" Junior Senior – "Move Your Feet" Missy Elliott – "Pass That Dutch" Gyroscope – "Doctor, Doctor" Xavier Rudd – "Let Me Be" Powderfinger – "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" |

## DVD release

The Hottest 100 DVD was the second such DVD, after the 2002 release.
* Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
* Jane's Addiction – Just Because
* The Dandy Warhols – We Used To Be Friends
* Something for Kate – Déjà Vu (Radio Edit)
* Cody ChesnuTT – Look Good in Leather
* Little Birdy – Baby Blue
* The Sleepy Jackson – Vampire Racecourse
* The Herd – 77%
* The John Butler Trio – Zebra
* Placebo – The Bitter End
* Radiohead – There There
* Basement Jaxx – Good Luck (featuring Lisa Kekaula)
* Electric Six – Gay Bar
* The Waifs – Lighthouse
* Magic Dirt – Plastic Loveless Letter
* AFI – The Leaving Song Pt. II
* Pete Murray – Feeler
* The Mars Volta – Inertiatic ESP (Album Version)
* The Living End – Who's Gonna Save Us
* The Cat Empire – Hello
* Chicks on Speed (featuring Peaches) – We Don't Play Guitars
* Ben Harper – Diamonds On the Inside
* Butterfingers – I Love Work
* Missy Higgins – Greed For Your Love
* Chemical Brothers – The Golden Path
* Offcutts – Break It Down, James Brown
* Machine Gun Fellatio – Voices in My Head
* NOFX – Franco Un-American
* The Butterfly Effect – One Second of Insanity
* Michael Franti and Spearhead – Everyone Deserves Music
* Belle and Sebastian – Step into My Office, Baby
* Junior Senior – Move Your Feet (Radio Edit)
* Missy Elliott – Pass That Dutch
* Powderfinger – (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind