These Were The Songs Almost Popular Enough For The Hottest 100

Like a birthday party for a least-favourite child, triple j's Hottest 101-200 playlist hit the airwaves this weekend past to relatively little fanfare — at least compared with its more high-profile progenitor — quietly chronicling the songs of the past year that the station's listeners deemed as being almost good enough to warrant a mention on Australia Day.

Masked Australian muso Golden Features only just missed the cut, with Tell Me (featuring Nicole Millar) coming in at #101, international favourites Royal Blood and Calvin Harris entering at #102 and #103 for Little Monster and Pray To God (featuring Haim) respectively. More Aussie love follows with Tom Iansek's #1 Dads moniker grabbing #104 for So Soldier (featuring Ainslie Wills), though Royal Blood proves a popular outfit for the second countdown, also picking up #105 (Figure It Out) and #117 (Ten Tonne Skeleton).

Icelandic prodigy Asgeir also earns a hat trick, with Torrent, Going Home and his Like A Version cover of Milky Chance's Stolen Dance dotting the man down the list respectively at #106, #108 and #167. However, neither can beat the efforts of enfant terrible rockers Sticky Fingers, who make the list four times, for Rum Rage (#124), Land Of Pleasure (#140), If You Go (#156) and Dreamland (#189).

Plenty of other Aussie names beef out the list — The Smith Street Band (I Don't Wanna Die Anymore, #112), Ball Park Music (Cocaine Lion, #113), The Preatures (Ordinary, #120; Better Than It Ever Could Be, #143), George Maple (Talk Talk, #122), Dustin Tebbutt (Bones, #123), The Peep Tempel (Carol, #128) and The Jezabels (Look Of Love, #130) all make the top 30, with further appearances from local acts including Art Vs Science, Husky, One Day, Dan Sultan, Megan Washington, John Butler Trio, 360, Saskwatch, Japanese Wallpaper and, yes, a couple of times, Chet Faker.

Internationally, there's a wide array as well, with everything from emo-pop to EDM getting a look-in as artists like Modern Baseball, Deadmau5, Mark Ronson, Foster The People, Kasabian, Interpol, Catfish & The Bottlemen and Bon Iver fill the remaining slots to deliver the definitive list of little songs that could.

You can get across the full Hottest 101-200 playlist here.