The 2006 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on 26 January 2007. It is the fourteenth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as voted by listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J.
Voting began on 1 January 2007, and closed on 21 January 2007. 671,024 votes were counted in this year's poll.
The broadcast began at 10 am, and at midday, crossed to Hyde Park in Sydney for a live broadcast of the countdown, beginning at #75. The top 10 was announced from 6 pm, by breakfast team Myf Warhurst, Jay and the Doctor, when announcing the winning song, presenters labelled Augie March's victory as a huge upset given that "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" by Eskimo Joe and "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley were the favourites to win the countdown.
The broadcast was also the first time the Hottest 100 had a live video webcast through the Triple J Website, showing film clips of each video and live footage from Hyde Park.
Full list Note: Australian artists
# Song Artist Country of origin 1 One Crowded Hour Augie March Australia 2 Black Fingernails, Red Wine Eskimo Joe Australia 3 The Hard Road Hilltop Hoods Australia 4 When You Were Young The Killers United States 5 I Don't Feel Like Dancin' Scissor Sisters United States 6 Crazy Gnarls Barkley United States 7 Chasing Cars Snow Patrol United Kingdom 8 Hearts a Mess Gotye Australia 9 Starlight Muse United Kingdom 10 19-20-20 The Grates Australia 11 Come On Come On Little Birdy Australia 12 Funky Tonight John Butler Trio Australia 13 Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance United States 14 Here It Goes Again OK Go United States 15 Smile Lily Allen United Kingdom 16 Young Folks Peter Bjorn & John featuring Victoria Bergsman Sweden 17 Science Is Golden The Grates Australia 18 Supermassive Black Hole Muse United Kingdom 19 Kick, Push Lupe Fiasco United States 20 Fidelity Regina Spektor United States 21 Forever Young Youth Group Australia 22 Vicarious Tool United States 23 Clown Prince Hilltop Hoods Australia 24 Gold Lion Yeah Yeah Yeahs United States 25 Meds Placebo featuring Alison Mosshart United Kingdom/United States 26 Ta Douleur Camille France 27 You Only Live Once The Strokes United States 28 Steady, As She Goes The Saboteurs United States 29 The Pot Tool United States 30 When the Sun Goes Down Arctic Monkeys United Kingdom 31 Bones The Killers United States 32 Gone The Butterfly Effect Australia 33 Call Me Anytime The Cops Australia 34 Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers United States 35 LDN Lily Allen United Kingdom 36 Nowhere Without You Bob Evans Australia 37 Don't You Think It's Time? Bob Evans Australia 38 Memories and Dust Josh Pyke Australia 39 A Slow Descent The Butterfly Effect Australia 40 Take Me Back to Your House Basement Jaxx United Kingdom 41 What a Great Night Hilltop Hoods Australia 42 Inside Outside The Grates Australia 43 Paper Aeroplane Angus & Julia Stone Australia 44 Love Me or Hate Me Lady Sovereign United Kingdom 45 Roquefort Karnivool featuring Empire Horns Australia 46 Miss Murder AFI United States 47 The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Is That They Die) Pony Up! Canada 48 On the Radio Regina Spektor United States 49 Fake Tales of San Francisco Arctic Monkeys United Kingdom 50 Heart in a Cage The Strokes United States 51 Cigarettes and Suitcases Something for Kate Australia 52 Unpredictable The Herd Australia 53 Wake Up The Living End Australia 54 I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News) Eagles of Death Metal United States 55 Woman (MSTRKRFT Remix) Wolfmother Australia/Canada 56 Stopping All Stations Hilltop Hoods Australia 57 Private Education Josh Pyke Australia 58 Always on This Line Sarah Blasko Australia 59 Song to Say Goodbye Placebo United Kingdom 60 Over and Over Hot Chip United Kingdom 61 Everlong (Live) Foo Fighters United States 62 We Are Your Friends Justice vs. Simian France/United Kingdom 63 Wolf Like Me TV on the Radio United States 64 Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down) Something with Numbers Australia 65 The Prayer Bloc Party United Kingdom 66 Phenomena Yeah Yeah Yeahs United States 67 Love Like Winter AFI United States 68 Happiness Is a Chemical Darren Hanlon Australia 69 Nausea Beck United States 70 Such Great Heights (Like a Version) Ben Folds United States 71 Lies Are Much More Fun The Grates Australia 72 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Jet Australia 73 King Without a Crown Matisyahu United States 74 Hands Open Snow Patrol United Kingdom 75 Sundress Ben Kweller United States 76 Rip It Up Jet Australia 77 Recapturing the Vibe Hilltop Hoods Australia 78 Infra-Red Placebo United Kingdom 79 {Explain} Sarah Blasko Australia 80 Love Train Wolfmother Australia 81 Gone Daddy Gone Gnarls Barkley United States 82 Painkiller Freestylers featuring Pendulum and SirReal United Kingdom/Australia/Canada 83 Get Up Outta the Dirt Butterfingers Australia 84 Black Swan Thom Yorke United Kingdom 85 Love Like Semtex Infadels United Kingdom 86 Touch the Sky Kanye West featuring Lupe Fiasco United States 87 Better Way Ben Harper United States 88 Tarantula Pendulum and Fresh featuring $pyda and Tenor Fly Australia/United Kingdom 89 Mardy Bum Arctic Monkeys United Kingdom 90 Work It Out Jurassic 5 featuring Dave Matthews Band United States 91 The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage Panic! at the Disco United States 92 Alfie Lily Allen United Kingdom 93 Everything's Just Wonderful Lily Allen United Kingdom 94 Learnalilgivinanlovin Gotye Australia 95 New York Eskimo Joe Australia 96 Slide in Next to Me Red Riders Australia 97 World Wide Suicide Pearl Jam United States 98 Standing in the Way of Control Gossip United States 99 Original Fire Audioslave United States 100 Come and Check Your Head Blue King Brown Australia
Statistics
Artists with multiple entries #ArtistEntries5Hilltop Hoods3, 23, 41, 56, 774The Grates10, 17, 42, 71Lily Allen15, 35, 92, 933Placebo 25, 59, 78Arctic Monkeys 30, 49, 892Eskimo Joe2, 95The Killers4, 31Gnarls Barkley6, 81Snow Patrol 7, 74Gotye 8, 94Muse9, 18Lupe Fiasco19, 86Regina Spektor 20, 48Tool 22, 29Yeah Yeah Yeahs 24, 66The Strokes 27, 50The Butterfly Effect32, 39Bob Evans36, 37Josh Pyke38, 57AFI46, 67Wolfmother 55, 80Sarah Blasko 58, 79Jet 72, 76Pendulum82, 88
Countries represented CountryEntriesAustralia43United States35United Kingdom22France2Canada3Sweden1
Records The Living End, with their song Wake Up at No. 53, made it into the countdown for the tenth year in a row, having featured in every annual countdown since 1997. Augie March are the first winning artist since Spiderbait in 1996 to only feature once in the countdown. This was the first countdown since 1999 to feature an all-Australian top 3. "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" by Panic! at the Disco is the longest song title to feature in a Hottest 100 countdown.
Top 10 Albums of 2006 Bold indicates winner of the Hottest 100 in 2006 and 2007. Hilltop Hoods won the J Award for The Hard Road.
# Artist Album Country of origin Tracks in the Hottest 100 1 Gotye Like Drawing Blood Australia 8, 94 2 My Chemical Romance The Black Parade United States 13 (44 in 2007) 3 Tool 10,000 Days United States 22, 29 4 Muse Black Holes & Revelations United Kingdom 9, 18 (1, 58 in 2007) 5 The Grates Gravity Won't Get You High Australia 10, 17, 42, 71 6 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not United Kingdom 30, 49, 89 (50 in 2005) 7 Little Birdy Hollywood Australia 11 8 Augie March Moo, You Bloody Choir Australia 1 9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones United States 24, 66 10 Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road Australia 3, 23, 41, 56, 77
CD Release
DVD Release
Augie March - "One Crowded Hour" (#1) Eskimo Joe - "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" (#2) Hilltop Hoods - "The Hard Road" (#3) The Killers - "When You Were Young" (#4) The Grates - "19-20-20" (#10) Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy" (#6) Gotye - "Hearts a Mess" (#8) Muse - "Supermassive Black Hole" (#18) Lily Allen - "Smile" (#15) Little Birdy - "Come On Come On" (#11) Scissor Sisters - "I Don't Feel Like Dancin" (#5) OK Go - "Here It Goes Again" (#14) The Butterfly Effect - "Gone" (#32) Bob Evans - "Don't You Think It's Time?" (#37) Camille - "Ta Douleur" (#26) Justice vs. Simian - "We Are Your Friends" (#62) Placebo feat. Alison Mosshart - "Meds" (#25) The Living End - "Wake Up" (#53) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Gold Lion" (#24) Something With Numbers - "Apple of the Eye (Lay Me Down)" (#64) Something for Kate - "Cigarettes and Suitcases" (#51) Hot Chip - "Over and Over" (#60) Angus & Julia Stone - "Paper Aeroplane" (#43) Peter Bjorn and John feat. Victoria Bergsman- "Young Folks" (#16) Freestylers feat. Pendulum & SirReal - "Painkiller" (#82) Infadels - "Love Like Semtex" (#85) Beck - "Nausea" (#69) Josh Pyke - "Memories & Dust" (#38) Lady Sovereign - "Love Me or Hate Me" (#44) Wolfmother - "Love Train" (#80) Sarah Blasko - "{Explain}" (#79) Lupe Fiasco - "Kick, Push" (#19) The Cops - "Call Me Anytime" (#33) Regina Spektor - "Fidelity" (#20) Basement Jaxx feat. Martina Sorbara - "Take Me Back to Your House" (#40) Darren Hanlon - "Happiness Is a Chemical" (#68) The John Butler Trio - "Funky Tonight" (#12) Butterfingers - "Get Up Outta the Dirt" (#83) Red Riders - "Slide In Next To Me" (#96) Jet - "Rip It Up" (#76) Ben Harper - "Better Way" (#87) Gossip - "Standing In The Way Of Control" (#98)
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References
External links Triple J Hottest 100 Voting List