Chappell Roan Takes Out Triple J's Hottest 100 Of 2024

It’s been another massive year for triple j’s annual Hottest 100 countdown, with Chappell Roan emerging victorious thanks to her massive hit Good Luck, Babe!, as both Billie Eilish and Charli XCX smash a huge record.

Roan’s sleeper hit earned the most votes in Hottest 100 history for a number one track, effortlessly beating out Royel Otis’ Like A Version cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Murder On The Dancefloor to take home the gold medal.

In the process, she became the first artist to top the chart without any other songs to feature since The Wiggles’ own Like A Version cover of Tame Impala’s Elephant in 2021, and the first solo female artist to top the chart with her only eligible song.

“Good Luck, Babe! is like an anthemic synth-pop song, and I’ve always been attracted to that,” Roan told triple j last month. “So I think it gets really dangerous when you’re like ‘Ooh this is working, this is obviously what people want’ and just keep doing that over and over and over again. 

“What I did with Good Luck, Babe! was I just wrote a song that I loved. And that is going to be the blueprint for everything else. It inspires me to be like ‘Oh! I can have success with something that I love’.” 

The top five was rounded out by Billie Eilish's BIRDS OF A FEATHER at #3, Lola Young's Messy at #4, and Gracie Abrams' That's So True at #5. Meanwhile, tracks by Charli XCX, Dom Dolla, Kendrick Lamar, G Flip, and Fred again.. helped close a very eclectic top ten for 2024

This year’s edition of the countdown featured a massive 2.5 million votes cast, the highest number since 2021. It’s not the highest ever, however – that record belongs to the 2019 poll, which netted 3.21 million responses.

In the lead-up to this year’s countdown, triple j did tease us with a few spicy hints about this year’s poll – namely that two major records would fall.

Though they didn’t tell us what they were, they also revealed that very song in this year’s top four would have been in with a chance to win last year if it had received the same number of votes, which is in itself a major achievement.

The 2023 countdown featured a massive victory for Australia’s own G Flip, who managed to break the long-standing record of most tracks featured in a countdown. In 2005, Wolfmother had set a record of six tracks, with Spacey Jane matching that feat record 17 years later in 2022.

When G Flip reached new heights with seven tracks in 2023 (their highest, The Worst Person Alive, featured at #2), few thought the record would be broken so soon. However, it was the massive success of Billie Eilish’s HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, and Charli XCX’s culture-defining Brat album (and its accompanying remix record, Brat and it's completely different but also still brat) that upended that impressive feat.

Indeed, Billie Eilish would end up with a massive eight songs in the poll, with her highest – BIRDS OF A FEATHER – reaching #3, while Charlie XCX would achieve the same feat, fittingly peaking at #6 with the Guess featuring billie eilish remix.

Notably, Eilish’s bronze medal saw her ovetake the Hilltop Hoods as the artist to feature most in the countdown, with 25 appearances since 2017. For comparison, Hilltop Hoods’ appearances span 20 years, having first debuted in 2003.

Other artists who charted multiple times include Gracie Abrams with five tracks (her peak of #5 coming by way of That’s So True), and both Royel Otis and Kendrick Lamar with four (his highest was his anthemic Drake takedown Not Like Us at #8).

Of course, G Flip was also an important presence in the poll too, with last year’s silver medallist reaching #9 thanks to their Like A Version cover of Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer (more on that in a moment).

Interestingly, despite their high placings, this year was rather lean in terms of Like A Version covers. Only three covers recorded for the station’s weekly segment made it into the list, with the addition of Missy Higgins' cover of Troye Sivan’s One Of Your Girls matching last year’s showing.

One of the more notable events of this countdown was also the long-awaited presence of pop icon Taylor Swift as part of Gracie Abrams’ us. at #71. Famously, the 2014 countdown featured a BuzzFeed-powered campaign to get Swift into the poll, with the #Tay4Hottest100 ultimately capturing the attention of triple j.

However, after KFC got behind it, the station stepped in to shut it down due to massive outside influence from a corporation. As a result, Swift’s Shake It Off was disqualified from the countdown, where it would have reached #12 had it been allowed.

For years though, the absence of Swift – despite her constant popularity and prolific output – left some fans wondering if she had in fact been banned from the countdown. However, triple j had previously never issued any statement to support such a stance, and her long-awaited debut (albeit as a featured artist) is undoubtedly being seen as something of some well-deserved justice for her.

Fittingly though, G Flip did bring Swift into the top ten thanks to their Like A Version cover of 2019’s Cruel Summer, which went viral in 2023 and necessitated a long-awaited single release.

However, this year’s countdown was also notable for less than stellar reasons too, with the poll featuring the lowest amount of local tracks since the 1996 countdown. In fact, only the 1994 and 1993 countdowns have less Aussie tracks, with 26 and 24, respectively.

triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2024

100. Future, Metro Boomin, Travis Scott & Playboi Carti – Type Shit
99. Effy & Mall Grab – iluv
98. Bring Me The Horizon – Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd
97. Kendrick Lamar – tv off (feat. lefty gunplay)
96. Doechii – NISSAN ALTIMA
95. 21 Savage – redrum
94. FISHER & AR/CO – Ocean
93. Charli XCX – Club classics
92. Billie Eilish – BLUE
91. Central Cee – BAND4BAND (feat. Lil Baby)

90. Kendrick Lamar – euphoria
89. Lime Cordiale – Enough Of The Sweet Talk
88. FISHER x Flowdan – Boost Up
87. RÜFÜS DU SOL – Lately
86. Royel Otis – If Our Love Is Dead
85. The Weeknd – Timeless
84. Tyler, The Creator – St. Chroma (feat. Daniel Caesar)
83. Sam Fender – People Watching
82. BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy – RATATATA
81. Tyler, The Creator – Darling, I (feat. Teezo Touchdown)

80. RÜFÜS DU SOL – Break My Love
79. The Rubens – Black Balloon
78. The Last Dinner Party – The Feminine Urge
77. Tate McRae – run for the hills
76. Pacific Avenue – Lucy
75. Wallows – Calling After Me
74. bbno$ – it boy
73. Glass Animals – Creatures In Heaven
72. Glass Animals – A Tear In Space (Airlock)
71. Gracie Abrams – us. (feat. Taylor Swift)

70. Disclosure – She's Gone, Dance On
69. Jungle – Let's Go Back
68. Fontaines D.C. – Favourite
67. Diffrent – A Little Closer
66. Missy Higgins – One Of Your Girls
65. Childish Gambino – Lithonia
64. Dua Lipa – Training Season
63. Beyoncé – TEXAS HOLD 'EM
62. nimino – I Only Smoke When I Drink
61. The Rions – Passionfruit

60. Lime Cordiale – Cold Treatment
59. Billie Eilish – THE GREATEST
58. RÜFÜS DU SOL – Music Is Better
57. Noah Kahan – Homesick
56. Kendrick Lamar – luther
55. Billie Eilish – L'AMOUR DE MA VIE
54. Clairo – Juna
53. Bring Me The Horizon – Kool-Aid
52. Good Neighbours – Home
51. Clairo – Sexy To Someone

50. The Kid LAROI – BABY I’M BACK
49. Gracie Abrams – Risk
48. Fontaines D.C. – Starburster
47. Tate McRae – 2 hands
46. The Rions – Physical Medicine
45. Gracie Abrams – Close To You
44. Royel Otis – Foam
43. Ball Park Music – Like Love
42. Doechii – DENIAL IS A RIVER
41. Tate McRae – It's ok I'm ok

40. Tommy Richman – MILLION DOLLAR BABY
39. Royel Otis – Heading For The Door
38. Old Mervs – What You've Lost
37. Olivia Rodrigo – obsessed
36. Charli XCX – Von dutch
35. Charli XCX – 360
34. Amyl And The Sniffers – U Should Not Be Doing That
33. Billie Eilish – CHIHIRO
32. Amyl And The Sniffers – Jerkin'
31. Charli XCX & Troye Sivan – Talk talk featuring troye sivan

30. Tyler, The Creator – Sticky (feat. GloRilla, Sexyy Red, & Lil Wayne)
29. SZA – Saturn
28. Charli XCX – 365
27. Billie Eilish – WILDFLOWER
26. Charli XCX & Lorde – The girl, so confusing version with lorde
25. Post Malone – I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen)
24. Dominic Fike – misses
23. The Kid LAROI – GIRLS
22. Gracie Abrams – I Love You, I'm Sorry
21. Artemas – i like the way you kiss me

20. Charli XCX – Apple
19. Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
18. Spacey Jane – One Bad Day
17. Billie Eilish – LUNCH
16. Gigi Perez – Sailor Song
15. Ocean Alley – Tangerine
14. Dom Dolla & Tove Lo – CAVE
13. Chase & Status x Stormzy – BACKBONE
12. Fred again.., Anderson .Paak & CHIKA – places to be
11. Addison Rae – Diet Pepsi

10. Fred again.. & Baby Keem – leavemealone
9. G Flip – Cruel Summer (Like A Version)
8. Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
7. Dom Dolla – girl$
6. Charli XCX & Billie Eilish – Guess featuring billie eilish
5. Gracie Abrams – That's So True
4. Lola Young – Messy
3. Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER
2. Royel Otis – Murder On The Dancefloor (Like A Version)
1. Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!