Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2013

The 2013 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 26 January 2014. It is the 21st countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners to Australian radio station Triple J. The countdown received 1.49 million votes.

Voting commenced on 20 December 2013, and closed on 20 January 2014.

Full list

#101–#200 List

On 27 January 2014, Triple J broadcast the second 100 songs of the countdown.

Statistics

Artists with multiple entries

Countries represented

Records

• Vance Joy joins Denis Leary (1993), Alex Lloyd (2001) and Bernard Fanning (2005) as the only outright solo countdown winners.
• Vance Joy is also the first Triple J Unearthed artist to place first in the Hottest 100. Beating the second place finishes by Killing Heidi (1999), Grinspoon (2002), Missy Higgins (2004), Art vs. Science (2009) and Little Red (2010).
• This is the first known instance where the total number of votes tallied was less than the previous year, tallying in at 1.49 million votes (2012 tallied over 1.5 million).
• Illy's "Ausmusic Month Medley" featured four songs that previously made it into the Hottest 100: "Tomorrow" by Silverchair (#5 in 1994), "The Nosebleed Section" by Hilltop Hoods (#9 in 2003), "My Happiness" by Powderfinger (#1 in 2000) and "On Top" by Flume (#67 in 2012). The song also featured numerous references from various other songs.
• This is the fifth consecutive countdown that Illy has appeared in, having first featured in the 2009 Hottest 100.
• The songs "Born to Die" by Lana Del Rey and "Sweet Nothing" by Calvin Harris featured in the countdown for the second year in a row after a covers by The Amity Affliction and Something for Kate featured at #40 and #68 respectively.
• Two versions of "Get Lucky" appeared in the countdown, the original by Daft Punk at number 3 and San Cisco's cover at number 39; this is the first time it has happened since 2004.
• St. Lucia is the first artist from South Africa to feature in the Hottest 100.
• Bliss n Eso's song "Act Your Age" (#67) samples Bluejuice's "Act Yr Age", which came in at #20 in 2011.

Top 10 Albums of 2013

A smaller poll of Triple J listeners' favorite albums of the year was held in December 2013.

CD release

The Triple J Hottest 100 CD for 2013 is the twenty first edition of the series. The double-CD was released on 28 February 2014.

DVD Release

1. Vance Joy – "Riptide" (#1)
2. Lorde – "Royals" (#2)
3. Arctic Monkeys – "Do I Wanna Know?" (#4)
4. Lana Del Rey – "Young and Beautiful" (#7)
5. Flume & Chet Faker – "Drop the Game" (#5)
6. Matt Corby – "Resolution" (#8)
7. The Preatures – "Is This How You Feel?" (#9)
8. Haim – "The Wire" (#11)
9. London Grammar – "Strong" (#10)
10. James Blake – "Retrograde" (#13)
11. Kanye West – "Black Skinhead" (#20)
12. Violent Soho – "Covered in Chrome" (#14)
13. Arcade Fire – "Reflektor" (#16)
14. The Kite String Tangle – "Given the Chance" (#19)
15. RÜFÜS – "Take Me" (#21)
16. Birds of Tokyo – "Lanterns" (#22)
17. Disclosure – "When a Fire Starts to Burn" (#23)
18. Rudimental featuring Ella Eyre – "Waiting All Night" (#24)
19. The Wombats – "Your Body Is a Weapon" (#25)
20. Chvrches – "Recover" (#28)
21. Illy featuring Ahren Stringer – "Youngbloods" (#77)
22. Foals – "My Number" (#29)
23. Empire of the Sun – "Alive" (#30)
24. Vampire Weekend – "Diane Young" (#31)
25. Thundamentals – "Smiles Don't Lie" (#32)
26. Grouplove – "Ways to Go" (#33)
27. Bloc Party – "Ratchet" (#36)
28. Touch Sensitive – "Pizza Guy" (#38)
29. Boy & Bear – "Southern Sun" (#41)
30. Max Frost – "White Lies" (#42)
31. Childish Gambino – "3005" (#43)
32. Robert DeLong – "Global Concepts" (#45)
33. Flight Facilities featuring Micky Green – "Stand Still" (#48)
34. John Newman – "Love Me Again" (#50)
35. Fatboy Slim & Riva Starr featuring Beardyman – "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat" (#51)
36. Cloud Control – "Scar" (#52)
37. Kingswood – "Ohio" (#53)
38. Andy Bull – "Keep On Running" (#57)
39. The National – "Graceless" (#64)
40. Bliss n Eso – "Act Your Age" (#67)
41. Sticky Fingers – "Australia Street" (#70)
42. Two Door Cinema Club – "Changing of the Seasons" (#71)
43. Queens of the Stone Age – "My God is the Sun" (#97)
44. Bring Me the Horizon – "Sleepwalking" (#86)
45. Busta Rhymes featuring Q-Tip, Kanye West and Lil Wayne – "Thank You" (#73)
46. Mikhael Paskalev – "I Spy" (#75)
47. SAFIA – "Listen to Soul, Listen to Blues" (#76)
48. Panama – "Always" (#80)
49. Dillon Francis featuring Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – "Without You" (#99)
50. The Jezabels – "The End" (#83)

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