"The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music listener poll hosted by the publicly-funded, national Australian youth radio station, Triple J. Members of the public are invited to vote for their favourite Australian and alternative music of the year in an online poll conducted two weeks prior to the new year.[1][2] From 1989 to 2018, the 100 most popular songs were counted down from 12 pm on Australia Day.[3] Since then the countdown has been held on the fourth weekend of January, due to increasing controversy about Australia Day regarding its marking of the colonisation of Australia and dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.[4] On the day after the Hottest 100, Triple J plays the Hottest 200 ('the songs that didn't quite make it') from 10 am.[5][6]
The poll has grown from 500,000 votes in 2004 to over 3.2 million in 2019, and has subsequently been referred to as "the world's greatest music democracy",[7][8] and inspired a retrospective podcast." - Wiki.
Slightly outdated, because they've fucked with the date again, subsequently, and this year they even scrapped the Hottest 200, which would, otherwise, have been today... :-/
Thing is dying. 3 Mill is roughly 12.5% of the Aus population (so, going by standard definitions of "da yoof", that's like 50% of young people, lol), but I very much doubt those numbers are representative of the current situation, post-woke rebranding...
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Slightly outdated, because they've fucked with the date again, subsequently, and this year they even scrapped the Hottest 200, which would, otherwise, have been today... :-/
Thing is dying. 3 Mill is roughly 12.5% of the Aus population (so, going by standard definitions of "da yoof", that's like 50% of young people, lol), but I very much doubt those numbers are representative of the current situation, post-woke rebranding...