i surprisingly love their song Keith, especially as someone who is stuck in the world of 90’s dance music
and Barry Hall playing Keith is the cherry on top lol
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Really enjoyed the Hottest 100 of 2005 on Double J.
Double J will also be replaying the 1995 Hottest 100 at various times from Tuesday to Friday this week. I only really listen to the station for these sort of countdowns so they have hooked me in for another few days!
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I agree, but IMO they should be replaying old Hottest 100s on a Triple J substation on DAB, and not Double J. That’s actually my problem with Double J, it sounds exactly like Triple J. They are basically the same station and I think they could do so much more with Double J
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Whereas I’d argue it should sound like triple j of 20-30 years ago and be playing the music it did, plus a bit of interesting new stuff as well. So I think rehashing the old countdowns is a perfect use of Double J.
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They kind of still do this, the problem is there’s near no local artists anymore plus on top of that the ones that are coming through are from overseas. Then to add the mainstream songs are already out there so there on all the major radio stations. I think it’s more to do with the way things are these days. I really don’t see it going back to how it was unless they suddenly started playing only up and coming artists only from Aus and overseas, but who knows how that would turn out.
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It’s called Unearthed I’m pretty sure.
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That’s the thing though. What’s the sense in even having Unearthed if there just going to play artists that are already well known or from overseas? Unearthed is great but really, they could be using it a lot more.
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It’s not on DAB+, and they’re not counting down, but triple j does run a 24/7 online station with a playlist of songs from every Hottest 100.
Direct stream URL: https://streaming.abc-cdn.net.au/audio/ice/triplejhottest.pls
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I wish it was on DAB
Are you asking what the point of having Unearthed is if the main JJJ station only plays mainstream? Because JJJ does get behind artists who have broken out from Unearthed? They just need to break out in the first place. I think it’s been harder to do with the perfect storm of numerous artists and albums over the past few years that have captured the cultural zeitgeist in a way I don’t think we’ve really seen in a while. The Hottest 100 this year was majority Australian music which I think was assisted by the fact international music was generally quieter than it has been the past few years. A lot of the Aussie music represented were from so-called “JJJ/Unearthed Darlings” too.
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The good turnout of Australian songs in the 2025 countdown might’ve also been helped by an ‘Australian music’ filter in the song list on the voting form.
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Forgot they had that!
A fair few Like A Version’s this year too which was interesting.
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I did the math - 47% of the countdown was made of artists discovered through unearthed with 53% of the countdown made up of international artists/bands + Parcels & Fisher. Almost every Australian song in the countdown came from a band or artist discovered through Triple J Unearthed - with the exception being Fisher and Parcels, who still had the help of Triple J giving both artists high rotation at the early stages of their success.
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I’ve only just caught up with the H100 results - it surprised me how much closer to the mainstream Triple J has shifted
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I wish it was - it’d cut out a lot of speculation between now and next January!
Will be interesting if #101 will be played either today or you’ll have to tune in tomorrow as they are counting down all day from #200.
At 8am and 4pm, triple j will count down 10 tracks, taking you through numbers 200 to 121.
Then, on Saturday, January 31, you can hear it all again as triple j runs through the whole 200 list, bringing you right up to the one that just got away — number 101.
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