Hottest 100 of Australian Songs

“It is clear that this countdown was a rare, unifying event — and an even rarer occasion when Australian music was leading the national conversation.” - AFR

The campaign I am most proud of during my tenure at triple j and a fitting tribute to a beloved cultural institution marking 50 years in 2025.

To pull a campaign like this together is a truly massive team effort - artists, developers, engineers, producers, presenters, labels, managers, external partners, plus many more - and it is an absolute testament to the incredible people working across the ABC that it had the impact that it did.

Some key stats:

• 2.655m votes cast making this our 4th biggest Hottest 100 ever

• 18-29 year olds were the biggest voting block

• 3.13 million live stream starts on triple j and Double J's digital streams on Saturday, in addition to an untold number listening on broadcast

• 39 million+ views across socials on the countdown weekend

• 17.2k texts sent to triple j & Double J text lines on Saturday

• #1 Australian google search on the day of the countdown and 4th most searched topic for the week at over 200k searches

• Over 500k visits to the ABC News H100 live blog with an avg 3min 28s read time