Multiple ARIA award-winning Melbourne electronic musician Chet Faker has taken out top spot in the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown, and also scored two other songs in the top 10.

His single Talk is Cheap from debut album Built on Glass was voted most popular song for 2014 by Triple J listeners across the country.

The 26-year-old also took out seventh and eighth spots for Gold and 1998 respectively.

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To top off a stellar 2014, Chet Faker (born Nicholas James Murphy) won two ARIAs for best male artist and best independent release for Built on Glass.

On Monday, Chet Faker said he was “undoubtably excited” about having three songs make it into the top 10 on the countdown.

When asked what he was thinking when he made the album, he told Triple J: “I was certainly not thinking of the hottest 100.”

“More like, the hottest ex-girlfriend’s kind of vibe.”

Speaking to the radio station live from Japan where he was preparing for a show, Chet Faker said Built on Glass was  a two-year process, writing an epic 80 songs for the 12-track album.

“Thank you so much, and to everyone who voted for me, that means a lot to me,” Chet Faker said.

Run every year by the ABC’s youth radio station since 1993, the fan-voted Triple J Hottest 100 poll of the greatest songs of the past 12 months is more than just a list.

It provides a snapshot of the year’s music highlights, documenting the changing tastes of Australia’s youth.

Vance Joy’s Riptide topped the 2013 list, following on from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ victory in 2012 with novelty smash Thrift Shop.

Chet Faker’s 2014 Hottest 100 success makes him the 12th Australian winner to reach No.1 – and it is the fourth occasion in the past five years.

In 2012 he signed to Downtown Records in the United States and issued an extended play, Thinking in Textures.

In October that year he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Thinking in Textures won Best Independent Single/EP at the Australian Independent Records Awards.

In January 2013 the work won Best Independent Release at the Rolling Stone Australia Awards for 2012.

Canberra electronic duo Peking Duk took out second spot with High (ft. Nicole Millar) as well as fifth for Take Me Over.

Hottest 100 favourites the Hilltop Hoods came in at number three for their hip hop song Cosby Sweater.

German folk duo Milky Chance scored fourth place with Stolen Dance, while Mark Ronson came in at number six with his upbeat effort Uptown Funk (ft. Bruno Mars).

Notoriously shy South Australian Sia took out ninth place for Chandelier – a song about the ups and downs of being a party girl, while Icelandic singer Asgeir came in at 10th place with Kings and Cross.

This year’s Hottest 100 was riddled with controversy as Taylor Swift fans joined a social media campaign, using the hashtag #Tay4Hottest100, to make the American pop princess’ hit song Shake It Off number one in the countdown.

However, in a shock announcement to Swift followers across the country on Monday afternoon, Triple J disqualified the US singer from the competition for reasons listed at a website set-up by the station called triplejfeed.com.

That website crashed almost immediately.

8 Hilarious But Totally True Reasons You Won’t Hear “Shake It Off” In The #Hottest100 #TkayForHottest100 http://t.co/CIVyF23fRh

— triple j (@triplej) January 26, 2015

Who else made it into the top 10 of the 2014 Triple J Hottest 100?

2. Peking Duk, High (FT. Nicole Millar).

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3. Hilltop Hoods, Cosby Sweater.

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4. Milky Chance, Stolen Dance.

5. Peking Duk, Take Me Over (FT. Safia)

6. Mark Ronson, Uptown Funk (FT. Bruno Mars).

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7. Chet Faker, Gold.

8. Chet Faker, 1998.

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 9. Sia, Chandelier. 

10. Asgier, Kings and Cross.