That’s a wrap!
The Hottest 100 of 2020 is now locked into the countdown history books. But is it really all over if we haven’t pored over all the weird facts and figures from your fave songs from The Very Weird, No Good Year that was?
Glass Animals took out the #1 spot and there’s a neat inforgraphic but as is annual tradition, it’s time to pick over all the statistics and trivia in detail. Let’s do it!
66 songs in the countdown came from Australian artists. That’s tied with 2016 as the biggest year for Aussie artists in the Hottest 100! The last three years, it’s been 65 Aussie songs, so it’s nice to finally pip that figure.
Just like last week, it’s a one-two entry to the ARIA Albums Chart this week, with the sixth studio album for local rapper Illy called “The Space Between” entering at No.1, becoming his second successive chart-topper locally.
“The Space Between” by Illy becomes the 903rd No.1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2021), plus the 753rd for ARIA (1983 to 2021), and the 540th to debut in the top spot (since 1976), while it’s now the second (new) No.1 album of 2021 and the second for Illy, whose last album “Two Degrees” spent a single week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart on November 21st, 2016.
Published January 23, 2021
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Glass Animals have done it!
Heat Waves has taken out Triple J’s Hottest 100 top spot for 2020.
The band from the UK have quite literally been making waves this year with the release of the album ‘Dreamland’. The album was released in August last year, and gave us other hot tracks like
Following right behind in fifth spot was Tame Impala s hit Lost In Yesterday.
In sixth was Cardi B s WAP, featuring Megan Thee Stallion, followed by G Flip with Hyperfine in seventh, and The Jungle Giants with Sending Me Ur Loving in eighth.
What the fans want: Saturday s countdown, voted by the public, finished with the song from the group s third studio album, Dreamland, released in June
Frontman: Glass Animals lead singer is Dave Bayley. Dave is pictured in 2018
The Jungle Giants actually finished in eighth spot for Triple J s Hottest 100 in 2019, with their hit Heavy Hearted.
Hilltop Hoods with I m Good? was voted in at ninth, while Billie Eilish rounded out the top ten with Therefore I Am.