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Triple J Hottest 100: clear favourite emerges

A uni student with “too much time on his hands” has predicted what he says is the winner and the full order of the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown.

Ed Pitt’s Tepid 100 list has predicted that Kendrick Lamar’s ‘King Kunta’ will top the countdown, followed by The Rubens’ ‘Hoops’ and Tame Impala’s ‘The Less I Know The Better’.

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“The Tepid 100 is a prediction of Triple J’s Hottest 100, generated by collating over 2000 ballots (totalling over 20,000 individual votes) made publicly available through the Hottest 100 hashtag on Instagram,” Mr Pitt wrote on the Tepid 100 website. 

“Over 20,000 individual votes were manually added to a spreadsheet to allow the Tepid 100 to see how frequently occurring songs/artists were.

“Why should Richard Kingsmill [head of music at Triple J] have all the fun?”

Several betting websites also have Lamar’s song as the favourite for the number one position.

In 2016, a record number of voters cast their ballots across 172 countries.

“We received about 2,094,000 votes from 298,851 people,” Triple J’s content director Ollie Wards said.

“That’s the most amount of people who have ever voted in the Hottest 100.”

It was revealed by Triple J that 54 per cent of the songs in the 2016 countdown are from Australian artists.

There are 26 Hottest 100 debutantes on the list.

There are also 2089 Hottest 100 parties registered in more than 70 countries across the globe.

“There’s a long list of very faithful people who have parties every year, in places like Burkina Faso,” Mr Wards said.

Controversy over women’s place in the Hottest 100

There has never been a number one song by a sole female artist. In 2015, just over 20 per cent of artists had a “prominent female member”.

Triple J station manager Chris Scadden did some analysis in 2013, and made the point that the station plays significantly more female artists than feature in these polls.

As a listener-voted countdown the station has its hands tied in influencing the count.

Here’s the Top 20 according to the Tepid 100:

 20dj SnakeMiddle {ft. bipolar sunshine}
 19DrakeHotline Bling
 18FoalsMountain At My Gates
 17RüfüsYou Were Right
 16The WeekndCan’t Feel My Face
 15Vallis AlpsYoung
 14The WeekndThe Hills
 13Jarryd JamesDo You Remember
 12Duke DumontOcean Drive
 11Gang of YouthsMagnolia
 10Meg MacNever Be
 9DisclosureMagnets {ft. Lorde}
 8Marcus Marr & Chet FakerThe Trouble With Us
 7HermitudeThe Buzz {ft. Mataya & Young Tapz}
 6Major Lazer & dj SnakeLean On {ft. MØ}
 5Tame ImapalaLet It Happen
 4Violent SohoLike Soda
 3Tame ImpalaThe Less I Know The Better
 2The RubensHoops
 1Kendrick LamarKing Kunta

See the full Tepid 100 here.

– with ABC

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