Triple J Hottest 100, 2007
The 2007 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2008. It was the fifteenth countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J.
Voting began on 1 January 2008, and closed on 20 January 2008. More than 700,000 votes were counted in the poll. The broadcast began at 10 a.m. AEST, and for the first time was broadcast live to all time zones. Triple J hosted two live sites, one at The Domain, Sydney and one at Melbourne Docklands.
The 2007 poll was the closest in Hottest 100 history with only 13 votes separating the number 1 and 2 songs. The 2007 Hottest 100 contained 52 works by Australian artists. This equals the results in the 1999 poll.
Full list
Note: Australian artists# | Song | Artist | Country of Origin |
1 | Knights of Cydonia | Muse | United Kingdom |
2 | Straight Lines | Silverchair | Australia |
3 | On Call | Kings of Leon | United States |
4 | Better Than | John Butler Trio | Australia |
5 | This Heart Attack | Faker | Australia |
6 | The Pretender | Foo Fighters | United States |
7 | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | Daft Punk | France |
8 | Hang Me Up to Dry | Cold War Kids | United States |
9 | I'll Kill Her | Soko | France |
10 | Don't Fight It | The Panics | Australia |
11 | Vitriol | Bluejuice | Australia |
12 | Let's Dance to Joy Division | The Wombats | United Kingdom |
13 | Ruby | Kaiser Chiefs | United Kingdom |
14 | Ice Cream | Muscles | Australia |
15 | Lost and Running | Powderfinger | Australia |
16 | Snakeskin | Gyroscope | Australia |
17 | Paper Planes | M.I.A. | United Kingdom |
18 | My People | The Presets | Australia |
19 | Heart It Races | Architecture in Helsinki | Australia |
20 | Stronger | Kanye West | United States |
21 | The Salmon Dance | The Chemical Brothers | United Kingdom |
22 | Used to Get High | John Butler Trio | Australia |
23 | Icky Thump | The White Stripes | United States |
24 | Hunting for Witches | Bloc Party | United Kingdom |
25 | We Get Around | Urthboy | Australia |
26 | Recapturing the Vibe | Hilltop Hoods | Australia |
27 | Just a Song About Ping Pong | Operator Please | Australia |
28 | Lazy Eye | Silversun Pickups | United States |
29 | Real Love | Regina Spektor | United States |
30 | If You Keep Losing Sleep | Silverchair | Australia |
31 | Wasted | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia |
32 | Opinions Won't Keep You Warm at Night | Kisschasy | Australia |
33 | Fans | Kings of Leon | United States |
34 | 1234 | Feist | Canada |
35 | D.A.N.C.E. | Justice | France |
36 | Hold Music | Architecture in Helsinki | Australia |
37 | Hospital Beds | Cold War Kids | United States |
38 | I Thought About You | The Beautiful Girls | Australia |
39 | Hearts on Fire | Cut Copy | Australia |
40 | I Still Remember | Bloc Party | United Kingdom |
41 | Dashboard | Modest Mouse | United States |
42 | Back in Your Head | Tegan and Sara | Canada |
43 | Superstar | Lupe Fiasco | United States |
44 | Teenagers | My Chemical Romance | United States |
45 | The Beast | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia |
46 | Tie Up My Hands | British India | Australia |
47 | What If | Cog | Australia |
48 | Flux | Bloc Party | United Kingdom |
49 | Fluorescent Adolescent | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom |
50 | So Many Nights | The Cat Empire | Australia |
51 | Peachy | Missy Higgins | Australia |
52 | Spray on Pants | Kisschasy | Australia |
53 | Steer | Missy Higgins | Australia |
54 | Golden Skans | Klaxons | United Kingdom |
55 | Good Excuse | John Butler Trio | Australia |
56 | Better People | Xavier Rudd | Australia |
57 | Into the Galaxy | Midnight Juggernauts | Australia |
58 | Invincible | Muse | United Kingdom |
59 | Chelsea Dagger | The Fratellis | United Kingdom |
60 | Charmer | Kings of Leon | United States |
61 | Wayside | Birds of Tokyo | Australia |
62 | No Longer There | The Cat Empire | Australia |
63 | The Only Way | Karnivool | Australia |
64 | Australia | The Shins | United States |
65 | Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors | Editors | United Kingdom |
66 | I Don't Remember | Powderfinger | Australia |
67 | Rehab | Amy Winehouse featuring Jay-Z | United Kingdom and United States |
68 | Penny on the Train Track | Ben Kweller | United States |
69 | Pogo | Digitalism | Germany |
70 | The Con | Tegan and Sara | Canada |
71 | Reach | The Butterfly Effect | Australia |
72 | Down the Line | José González | Sweden |
73 | Black Tattoo | Grinspoon | Australia |
74 | Run the Red Light | British India | Australia |
75 | Shoot the Runner | Kasabian | United Kingdom |
76 | Sweaty | Muscles | Australia |
77 | Get What You Want | Operator Please | Australia |
78 | Brianstorm | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom |
79 | Lines on Palms | Josh Pyke | Australia |
80 | Reflections of a Sound | Silverchair | Australia |
81 | No Cars Go | Arcade Fire | Canada |
82 | Long Road to Ruin | Foo Fighters | United States |
83 | Pleased to Meet You | Wolfmother | Australia |
84 | Do It Again | The Chemical Brothers | United Kingdom |
85 | Down Boy | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | United States |
86 | Tombstone | Midnight Juggernauts | Australia |
87 | Eliza | Jackson Jackson | Australia |
88 | The Message | The Cops | Australia |
89 | Sick, Sick, Sick | Queens of the Stone Age | United States |
90 | When the Lights Went Down | Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set | Australia |
91 | Sew My Name | Josh Pyke | Australia |
92 | Sun Dirt Water | The Waifs | Australia |
93 | Dr. Love | The Bumblebeez | Australia |
94 | Jigsaw Falling into Place | Radiohead | United Kingdom |
95 | Samson | Regina Spektor | United States |
96 | Love Me Like the World Is Ending | Ben Lee | Australia |
97 | Forever Song | Josh Pyke | Australia |
98 | The Heinrich Maneuver | Interpol | United States |
99 | Tick Tick Boom | The Hives | Sweden |
100 | Wild Strawberries | Pnau | Australia |
- The #101 spot belonged to "Foundations" by Kate Nash
Artists with multiple entries
- Silverchair
- Kings of Leon
- John Butler Trio
- Bloc Party
- Josh Pyke
- Harry Angus
- Muse
- Foo Fighters
- Cold War Kids
- Muscles
- Powderfinger
- Architecture in Helsinki
- The Chemical Brothers
- Operator Please
- Regina Spektor
- Angus and Julia Stone
- Kisschasy
- Tegan and Sara
- British India
- Arctic Monkeys
- The Cat Empire
- Missy Higgins
- Midnight Juggernauts
- Ian Kenny
Countries represented
- Australia - 52 songs
- United States - 20 songs
- United Kingdom - 18 songs
- Canada - 4 songs
- France - 3 songs
- Sweden - 2 songs
- Germany - 1 song
Top 10 Albums of 2007
Trivia
- This is the first time in over ten years that The Living End did not feature in The Hottest 100.
- Muse's Knights of Cydonia was actually released July 2006, making the song over 18 months old when it was awarded the number 1 spot.
- Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger made an appearance twice in the top twenty, in a live version, number 7, and remixed in Kanye West's Stronger, at number 20.
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