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Hottest 100 voting open

As we look back at the best albums and biggest controversies of 2010, triple j has declared the phone lines officially open for Hottest 100 voting.

Over its 20 year history the Hottest 100 has become the soundtrack to many an Australia day BBQ, and is always quick to stir up a bit of controversy in the FL forums. Last year the internet was all a-twitter when the winner was leaked a month early, and in previous year winners such as King OF Leon and Muse have caused their fair share of debate as well.

You have until January 16th to have your say and just for voting could go into the draw to win a Golden Ticket that will give you access to every gig jjj presents in 2011.

Who do you think is next year’s number one contender? Place your bets in FasterLouder’s Hottest 100 tipping competition

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RustyinBondi said on the 25th Jan, 2011

whilst i love that also, i think a good percentage of the votes for that would've been from fans of the original song instead as well though when you look at the other top 10 songs of that year. even though clocks made the hottest 100 the year before (in the 60's from memory), it had only just come out the song's popularity, particularly as a single didn't really occur until dec-march and well into 2003, so a lot of people would've just voted for that as it was the only option they had for the song.

i'm sure there was another similar case in recent years of a remix/cover that did better than the original for the same reasons, but it's not coming to mind, and i can't be bothered flicking through the results atm. a similar example though would be that of 'sweet disposition' which was released late in 2008, didn't take off till the summer, and then got much bigger the next year. didn't make the 100 for 2008 because of it though, and wasn't eligble for 2009, but it it had of been it would've been a certainty for top 2 based on how voting goes these days.

Good Point

Remember that Adam Spencer was cranking it on his show. So it did get a bootload of Airplay as the remix. If I remember correctly that remix wasn't commercially available and was on a white label Vinyl that Adam Spencer gave away as part of a competition.

On your logic (which is sound) the big song that missed out was Presets - My People in 2008. As it was released in late 2007, it only got ridiculous radio traction in 2008 and was excluded because of it's feature the previous year.


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