Bernard Fanning Tops TripleJ's Hottest 100 Poll

Fri 27th Jan, 2006 in Local News

Triple J’s Hottest 100 list was broadcasted live at Sydney’s Big Day Out with Bernard Fanning’s first single, Wish You Well, off his solo album, Tea & Sympathy coming in at number one. Sydney’s Wolfmother scored two in the Top 10 (Mind’s Eye and Joker & The Thief) and six other tracks off their debut self-titled album featuring throughout the list.

As a further indication the Australian music scene is burgeoning with talent, The 2005 Hottest 100 list for broadcaster Triple J features over 50% of local artists with the broadcaster receiving over 600,000 votes for the annual poll – a 20% increase over last year’s.

Music Director, Richard Kingsmill commented, “This was another exciting year musically for Triple J. There is a wave of excitement for a lot of the new bands coming through, and much of that excitement surrounds the up and coming Australian bands.”

Other Australian artists such as Karnivool, Josh Pyke, Faker, Beautiful Girls, Cog, Sarah Blasko, Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set and Grinspoon also featured in the list. Check out the complete list here.

Check out what the FasterLouder community thinks about the results here.