Apart from the Post Malone song at #10, I don’t recognise any of the Hottest 100 Top 10 by name. Even that song I only know in passing. Officially an old fogey!
Looks like hip hop is basically the dominant genre now. I know “of” Doja Cat but couldn’t identify any of her rhymes.
I knew all of them… which is scary
I only knew of “Paint The Town Red”.
A lot of the songs in the countdown actually didn’t sound too bad, but hardly any stood out for me and a lot of them sounded a bit too similar.
Edit: I really liked “Dance The Night” Dua Lipa at #28, but that’s probably it
That’s why triple j ditched being on Twitter (due to Elon Musk’s policy rules) and Facebook too.
That’s my problem with today’s music; it’s all a bit ‘samey samey’. It’s not outright bad but there’s nothing that grabs you.
The reaction to No 1 always makes me chuckle - of all of the reactions, one that stood out to me this year though is that Doja Cat shouldn’t have the number one song because she isn’t Australian.
This shows an emerging issue for Triple J, it can promote Aussie music all it likes but it doesn’t make it popular (that said, G Flip’s 7 appearances doesn’t seem to have gone down well either, despite being Australian).
The H100 performance of local music over the last few years seems to have built an expectation that the winner has to be Australian. If an Australian-only count is what the listeners want, then by all means change to it, but don’t be surprised/shocked/upset when a non-Australian act tops the charts under its current guise.
(This doesn’t even touch on other problematic issues with Doja Cat either that seem to rankle with people)
Yes. What they should be saying is Doja Cat shouldn’t have the number one song because it is not that good. 
Paint the Town Red owns
I think your spell check corrected blows. 
What I find interesting is the amount of old songs making the charts:
I am not sure exactly how ARIA does it these days but assume it’s heavily weighted towards streaming ‘plays’ as physical sales are pretty much irrelevant now.
I’d put long odds on the current JJJ crop becoming ‘classic hits’ in the decades to come.
You can say that for almost any song in the countdown… none of them are really ‘that’ good.
They probably don’t have the capacity to moderate comments and have weighed up the demographics of Instagram/Tiktok over Facebook/X. Considering Triple J presenters comments on the impact of text-line and social media toxicity, one less place to clean up.
That isn’t to stay there isn’t negativity on other platforms, but just the amount of work updating and moderating the app, website, Instagram and TikTok.
Would be great if their music shifts could sound a bit more like this. More reminiscent of BBC Radio 1 or commercial radio, gives it more energy.
I wouldn’t go that far. I can see merit in many songs in the Top 100. In the Top 10, I would rate Troye Sivan, Billie Eilish, Dom Dolla and Post Malone ahead of the rest.
I don’t rate that track by Doja Cat or Jack Harlow at all.
Despite the rumours of it being axed or going podcast only Hack is back tonight on Triple J
Yes it is live, but from today it will be Drive from 3.30 til 5.30
Hack will run from 5.30 til 6 before Drive 2.0 starts again at 6pm until 7pm
The 6pm-7pm show is only Mon-Thurs though.
Not sure if related to cutting back to standard broadcasts after the Hottest 100, but the AAC online stream is now HE-AACv2 (+PS) instead of HE-AACv1, both at 64kbps. Normally not notable, but the stream profile hadn’t been changed in say 5 years, so there was no high quality option. Small change but it makes a big difference to the top end audio at such a low bitrate.
Interestingly enough the MP3 stream has also been reduced back to 96kbps (was 128kbps during the Hottest 100).
What software do you use to identify codec and bitrate?
For simplicity, pretty much any player should allow you to view the stream info/properties. QuickTime, VLC, foobar2000 do for example.
Or ‘ffprobe’ if you’re more Command Line oriented.
I’ve been a listener & have voted every year since 1991. I’m now 48 and out of my 10 votes, 5 made the countdown with 2 in the Top 10.
For everyone crying relevance, you need to make an effort to be plugged in. Looking at it in the context of years gone by makes no sense.