# Triple J Hottest 100, 2017

The 2017 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 27 January 2018. It was the 25th countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by listeners of Australian radio station triple j. A record-breaking number of votes were cast (2.386 million).
Kendrick Lamar's "Humble" was voted into first place, making him the first person of colour ever to top a Hottest 100. It was also the first track by a non-Australian artist, and the first hip hop song, to win since 2012's "Thrift Shop". Lamar achieved four tracks in the countdown, as did Gang of Youths (a record-equaling three of which were in the top 10), Lorde, and The Jungle Giants.
Historically, the countdown has been announced on Australia Day (26 January), but the 2017 countdown occurred on the fourth Saturday of January (27 January), due to opposition to Australia Day's celebratory commemoration of British settlement. This is the first Hottest 100 countdown to occur on a different day since the 2003 countdown.

## Background

The triple j 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 2016 and November 2017 was eligible for 2017's Hottest 100. Voting opened 12 December 2017, shortly after the end of the eligibility period.
Several presenters made their votes public. The artists most often voted for by triple j presenters were: Kendrick Lamar, Lorde, Gang of Youths, and Baker Boy. On 12 December bookmakers Sportsbet, Ladbrokes and CrownBet placed Kendrick Lamar's "Humble" as the most likely song to take out first place, followed by Lorde's "Green Light" and Gang of Youths' "The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows". Social media measurement projects 100 Warm Tunas and The Bean Counter's 100 also predicted that "Humble" will be voted No. 1 by a significant margin. The previous highest appearance in a Hottest 100 for both Lamar and Lorde is No. 2, with "King Kunta" in 2015 and "Royals" in 2013 respectively.
The station reported that 1.5 million votes had been cast five days before voting closed (17 January 2018), more than any other year at that point in the voting period. Once voting closed, they announced on 23 January that a total of 2,386,133 votes had been cast, breaking the prior year's record for most votes in a Hottest 100 by 5.8%.

### Announcement date

In mid-2016, support grew for a campaign calling on triple j to change the date of the Hottest 100. Calls were led by Indigenous Australian activists and supporters, many of whom regard Australia Day as "Invasion Day". Australian hip hop duo A.B. Original and their anti-Australia Day single "January 26" were instrumental in drawing support to the cause. Responding to the campaign in September 2016, triple j established a review over whether the date of the Hottest 100 should be changed.
The review of the date continued into 2017, including consultation with Reconciliation Australia, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, and the National Australia Day Council, while 2016's Hottest 100 was held on Australia Day without change. In August 2017, triple j launched a survey asking for public opinion on whether the date should be changed. Shortly after the survey began, former triple j presenters Matt Okine and Kyran Wheatley came out in support of a date change.
On 27 November 2017, triple j announced plans to move the Hottest 100 to the fourth weekend of January. This followed analysis led by Rebecca Huntley of the aforementioned survey, which attracted 64,990 responses, indicating that 60% of listeners supported moving the date.

### Reactions

The announcement was welcomed by many musicians and the Australian Greens. Within the Liberal Party, however, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield was reportedly "bewildered" by the choice, one that MP Alex Hawke described as "disappointing" and "pathetic". As the minister responsible for the government-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which triple j is part of, Fifield wrote to the ABC's board of directors on 28 November asking them to return the Hottest 100 to Australia Day.
Some organisations offered alternatives to triple j's Hottest 100 in response to the date change. These include nationwide rock radio station Triple M broadcasting an Ozzest 100 countdown of only Australian songs on 26 January, and Senator Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives publishing an AC100 playlist of Australian music on Spotify.

## Full list

* Note: Australian artists
| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
| 1 | Humble | Kendrick Lamar | United States |
| 2 | Let Me Down Easy | Gang of Youths | Australia |
| 3 | Chateau | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia |
| 4 | Ubu | Methyl Ethel | Australia |
| 5 | The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows | Gang of Youths | Australia |
| 6 | Green Light | Lorde | New Zealand |
| 7 | Go Bang | Pnau | Australia |
| 8 | Sally | Thundamentals featuring Mataya | Australia |
| 9 | Lay It on Me | Vance Joy | Australia |
| 10 | What Can I Do If the Fire Goes Out? | Gang of Youths | Australia |
| 11 | Sweet | Brockhampton | United States |
| 12 | Fake Magic | Peking Duk & AlunaGeorge | Australia/United Kingdom |
| 13 | Young Dumb & Broke | Khalid | United States |
| 14 | Homemade Dynamite | Lorde | New Zealand |
| 15 | Regular Touch | Vera Blue | Australia |
| 16 | Feel the Way I Do | The Jungle Giants | Australia |
| 17 | Marryuna | Baker Boy featuring Yirrmal | Australia |
| 18 | Exactly How You Are | Ball Park Music | Australia |
| 19 | The Man | The Killers | United States |
| 20 | Let You Down | Peking Duk featuring Icona Pop | Australia/Sweden |
| 21 | Birthdays | The Smith Street Band | Australia |
| 22 | Lemon to a Knife Fight | The Wombats | United Kingdom |
| 23 | Not Worth Hiding | Alex the Astronaut | Australia |
| 24 | Rockstar | Post Malone featuring 21 Savage | United States |
| 25 | Weekends | Amy Shark | Australia |
| 26 | Feel It Still | Portugal. The Man | United States |
| 27 | Be About You | Winston Surfshirt | Australia |
| 28 | Mystik | Tash Sultana | Australia |
| 29 | Mended | Vera Blue | Australia |
| 30 | Low Blows | Meg Mac | Australia |
| 31 | Lay Down | Touch Sensitive | Australia |
| 32 | Numb | Hayden James featuring Graace | Australia |
| 33 | Slow Mover | Angie McMahon | Australia |
| 34 | DNA | Kendrick Lamar | United States |
| 35 | Passionfruit | Drake | Canada |
| 36 | I Haven't Been Taking Care of Myself | Alex Lahey | Australia |
| 37 | Slide | Calvin Harris featuring Frank Ocean & Migos | United Kingdom/United States |
| 38 | Bellyache | Billie Eilish | United States |
| 39 | Got on My Skateboard | Skegss | Australia |
| 40 | True Lovers | Holy Holy | Australia |
| 41 | Blood (Like a Version) | Gang of Youths | Australia |
| 42 | Cola | CamelPhat and Elderbrook | United Kingdom |
| 43 | Murder to the Mind | Tash Sultana | Australia |
| 44 | In Motion | Allday featuring Japanese Wallpaper | Australia |
| 45 | Every Day's the Weekend | Alex Lahey | Australia |
| 46 | Better | Mallrat | Australia |
| 47 | Want You Back | Haim | United States |
| 48 | The Comedown | Ocean Alley | Australia |
| 49 | Passiona | The Smith Street Band | Australia |
| 50 | On Your Way Down | The Jungle Giants | Australia |
| 51 | Man's Not Hot | Big Shaq | United Kingdom |
| 52 | Glorious | Macklemore featuring Skylar Grey | United States |
| 53 | Moments | Bliss n Eso featuring Gavin James | Australia/Ireland |
| 54 | Homely Feeling | Hockey Dad | Australia |
| 55 | 6 Pack | Dune Rats | Australia |
| 56 | Watch Me Read You | Odette | Australia |
| 57 | Bad Dream | The Jungle Giants | Australia |
| 58 | The Opener | Camp Cope | Australia |
| 59 | Used to Be in Love | The Jungle Giants | Australia |
| 60 | Boys | Charli XCX | United Kingdom |
| 61 | 21 Grams | Thundamentals featuring Hilltop Hoods | Australia |
| 62 | Saved | Khalid | United States |
| 63 | Life Goes On | E^ST | Australia |
| 64 | Fool's Gold | Jack River | Australia |
| 65 | Everything Now | Arcade Fire | Canada |
| 66 | Lemon | N.E.R.D & Rihanna | United States/Barbados |
| 67 | Shred for Summer | DZ Deathrays | Australia |
| 68 | Golden | Kingswood | Australia |
| 69 | I Love You, Will You Marry Me | Yungblud | United Kingdom |
| 70 | Amsterdam | Nothing But Thieves | United Kingdom |
| 71 | Perfect Places | Lorde | New Zealand |
| 72 | In Cold Blood | alt-J | United Kingdom |
| 73 | Nuclear Fusion | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Australia |
| 74 | XO Tour Llif3 | Lil Uzi Vert | United States |
| 75 | Braindead | Dune Rats | Australia |
| 76 | Cloud 9 | Baker Boy featuring Kian | Australia |
| 77 | Million Man | The Rubens | Australia |
| 78 | Electric Feel (Like a Version) | Tash Sultana | Australia |
| 79 | Hey, Did I Do You Wrong? | San Cisco | Australia |
| 80 | Say Something Loving | The xx | United Kingdom |
| 81 | Liability | Lorde | New Zealand |
| 82 | 1-800-273-8255 | Logic featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid | United States/Canada |
| 83 | Blood Brothers | Amy Shark | Australia |
| 84 | Oceans | Vallis Alps | Australia |
| 85 | Does This Last | Boo Seeka | Australia |
| 86 | Maybe It's My First Time | Meg Mac | Australia |
| 87 | The Way You Used to Do | Queens of the Stone Age | United States |
| 88 | Edge of Town (Like a Version) | Paul Dempsey | Australia |
| 89 | Dawning | DMA's | Australia |
| 90 | Hyperreal | Flume featuring Kučka | Australia |
| 91 | Big for Your Boots | Stormzy | United Kingdom |
| 92 | Love | Kendrick Lamar featuring Zacari | United States |
| 93 | Do What You Want | The Presets | Australia |
| 94 | Second Hand Car | Kim Churchill | Australia |
| 95 | Mask Off | Future | United States |
| 96 | Chasin' | Cub Sport | Australia |
| 97 | Loyalty | Kendrick Lamar featuring Rihanna | United States/Barbados |
| 98 | Snow | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia |
| 99 | Arty Boy | Flight Facilities featuring Emma Louise | Australia |
| 100 | Don't Leave | Snakehips & MØ | United Kingdom/Denmark |

### #101–#200 List

On 28 January 2018, Triple J broadcast the second 100 songs of the countdown.
| # | Song | Artist | Country of Origin |
| 101 | Chanel | Frank Ocean | United States |
| 102 | Boys Will Be Boys | Stella Donnelly | Australia |
| 103 | Lose My Mind | Dean Lewis | Australia |
| 104 | List of People (To Try and Forget About) | Tame Impala | Australia |
| 105 | Fracture | Slumberjack featuring Vera Blue | Australia |
| 106 | Astronaut (Something About Your Love) | Mansionair | Australia |
| 107 | Loving Is Easy | Rex Orange County featuring Benny Sings | United Kingdom/Netherlands |
| 108 | Sky Walker | Miguel featuring Travis Scott | United States |
| 109 | Total Meltdown | DZ Deathrays | Australia |
| 110 | Shine | The Smith Street Band | Australia |
| 111 | Aunty Tracey's Cookies | Joyride | Australia |
| 112 | Run for Cover | The Killers | United States |
| 113 | Bad at Love | Halsey | United States |
| 114 | My Happiness (Like a Version) | Ball Park Music | Australia |
| 115 | East | Vallis Alps | Australia |
| 116 | Big Fish | Vince Staples | United States |
| 117 | You're in Love with a Psycho | Kasabian | United Kingdom |
| 118 | Lady Powers | Vera Blue featuring Kodie Shane | Australia/United States |
| 119 | Play It Safe | Seth Sentry | Australia |
| 120 | Temptation | Joey Bada$$ | United States |
| 121 | Cellar Door | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia |
| 122 | Underdog | Banks | United States |
| 123 | Raingurl | Yaeji | United States |
| 124 | Stranded | Flight Facilities featuring Reggie Watts, Broods & Saro | Australia/United States/New Zealand/United States |
| 125 | Lights Out | Royal Blood | United Kingdom |
| 126 | The Heart Is a Muscle | Gang of Youths | Australia |
| 127 | Never Start | Middle Kids | Australia |
| 128 | On Hold (Jamie xx Remix) | The xx | United Kingdom |
| 129 | Rockstar City | Alex the Astronaut | Australia |
| 130 | Blossom | Milky Chance | Germany |
| 131 | That Don't Impress Me Much (Like a Version) | Haim | United States |
| 132 | Watch | Billie Eilish | United States |
| 133 | My Boo (Like a Version) | Flume featuring Kučka, Vera Blue, Ngaiire & Vince Staples | Australia/Papua New Guinea/United States |
| 134 | Love Galore | SZA featuring Travis Scott | United States |
| 135 | Hurt | Trophy Eyes | Australia |
| 136 | Same Same | Winston Surfshirt | Australia |
| 137 | I Want | Ruby Fields | Australia |
| 138 | Let It Happen (Like a Version) | Meg Mac | Australia |
| 139 | Doomsday | Architects | United Kingdom |
| 140 | History | Cosmo's Midnight | Australia |
| 141 | Bodies | Wafia | Australia |
| 142 | The Remedy | Polaris | Australia |
| 143 | Grace Glold | Meg Mac | Australia |
| 144 | Hero | George Maple | Australia |
| 145 | Better | What So Not & LPX | Australia/United States |
| 146 | On the Level | Mac DeMarco | Canada |
| 147 | Something For Your M.I.N.D. | Superorganism | United Kingdom |
| 148 | Love | Lana Del Rey | United States |
| 149 | Beautifully Unconventional | Wolf Alice | United Kingdom |
| 150 | Cinderella Dracula | Tired Lion | Australia |
| 151 | California | Childish Gambino | United States |
| 152 | P Plates | Ruby Fields | Australia |
| 153 | Home Soon | Dope Lemon | Australia |
| 154 | Yanada | The Preatures | Australia |
| 155 | Now or Never | Halsey | United States |
| 156 | Jude | Didirri | Australia |
| 157 | The Future | Motez featuring Antony & Cleopatra | Australia/United Kingdom |
| 158 | Private | Vera Blue | Australia |
| 159 | I Dare You | The xx | United Kingdom |
| 160 | Sit Next to Me | Foster the People | United States |
| 161 | Deadcrush | alt-J | United Kingdom |
| 162 | Creature Comfort | Arcade Fire | Canada |
| 163 | 3WW | alt-J | United Kingdom |
| 164 | Nights with You | MØ | Denmark |
| 165 | Dream | Bishop Briggs | United Kingdom |
| 166 | Line of Sight | Odesza featuring Wynne & Mansionair | United States/Australia |
| 167 | Don't Delete the Kisses | Wolf Alice | United Kingdom |
| 168 | That Far | 6lack | United States |
| 169 | Stay for It | RL Grime featuring Miguel | Australia/United States |
| 170 | Turn Up Your Light | Boo Seeka | Australia |
| 171 | Sober | Lorde | New Zealand |
| 172 | Drive You Mad | Amy Shark | Australia |
| 173 | Rainbow City | Cloud Control | Australia |
| 174 | Cigarette | Ali Barter | Australia |
| 175 | Say Yes to Life | Gang of Youths | Australia |
| 176 | Fear and Trembling | Gang of Youths | Australia |
| 177 | I Only Lie When I Love You | Royal Blood | United Kingdom |
| 178 | Destiny's | Arno Faraji | Australia |
| 179 | Fresh | Tired Lion | Australia |
| 180 | Element | Kendrick Lamar | United States |
| 181 | Garbage Bin | Tiny Little Houses | Australia |
| 182 | High Enough | K.Flay | United States |
| 183 | 911 / Mr. Lonely | Tyler, the Creator featuring Frank Ocean, Steve Lacy & Anna of the North | United States/Norway |
| 184 | Friend Like You | Bliss n Eso featuring Lee Fields | Australia/United States |
| 185 | Dumb Days | Tired Lion | Australia |
| 186 | Flow | Crooked Colours | Australia |
| 187 | The Louvre | Lorde | New Zealand |
| 188 | Happy Place | Alison Wonderland | Australia |
| 189 | Butterfly Effect | Travis Scott | United States |
| 190 | On + Off | Maggie Rogers | United States |
| 191 | Temple | Tonight Alive | Australia |
| 192 | Legend Has It | Run the Jewels | United States |
| 193 | I Hope You Get It | Crooked Colours featuring Ivan Ooze | Australia |
| 194 | Supercut | Lorde | New Zealand |
| 195 | Need You Now | Dean Lewis | Australia |
| 196 | Hotel | Kita Alexander | Australia |
| 197 | Rooting for You | London Grammar | United Kingdom |
| 198 | Treetops | Cloud Control | Australia |
| 199 | Late Nights | Carmouflage Rose | Australia |
| 200 | To Be Free | L D R U | Australia |

## Artists with multiple entries

| # | Artist | Entries |
| 4 | Kendrick Lamar | 1, 34, 92, 97 |
| 4 | Gang of Youths | 2, 5, 10, 41 |
| 4 | Lorde | 6, 14, 71, 81 |
| 4 | The Jungle Giants | 16, 50, 57, 59 |
| 3 | Khalid | 13, 62, 82 |
| 3 | Tash Sultana | 28, 43, 78 |
| 2 | Angus & Julia Stone | 3, 98 |
| 2 | Thundamentals | 8, 61 |
| 2 | Peking Duk | 12, 20 |
| 2 | Vera Blue | 15, 29 |
| 2 | Baker Boy | 17, 76 |
| 2 | The Smith Street Band | 21, 49 |
| 2 | Amy Shark | 25, 83 |
| 2 | Meg Mac | 30, 86 |
| 2 | Alex Lahey | 36, 45 |
| 2 | Dune Rats | 55, 75 |
| 2 | Rihanna | 66, 97 |

## Countries represented

| Country | Entries |
| Australia | 65 |
| United States | 19 |
| United Kingdom | 12 |
| New Zealand | 4 |
| Canada | 3 |
| Barbados | 2 |
| Denmark | 1 |
| Sweden | 1 |