The Results Are In: This Is The Hottest 100 Of The Decade

14 March 2020 | 8:40 pm | Staff Writer

#100-#1!

Pic by Katherine Brickman, triple j

Pic by Katherine Brickman, triple j

The Hottest 100 Of The Decade has been decided!

After over 1.8 million votes and an over eight-hour countdown, Tame Impala's The Less I Know The Better was revealed as the #1 song on the countdown.

Released in November 2015, the track originally charted at #4 on that year's Hottest 100 list.

"It’s hard to deny that one of the main players who shaped the sound of the decade is our own Kevin Parker," triple j Music Director, Nick Findlay, said.

"Midway through the decade, Kevin and his band Tame Impala unleashed their stunning third album Currents and The Less I Know The Better instantly stood out as one of the record’s highlights. Its slinky, synth heavy, bass-driven psychedelic sound immediately hooks you in, and its tale of lost love (and general distain for Trevor) was universally relatable for anyone who has ever gone through heartbreak.

"Congratulations to Kevin Parker – The Less I Know The Better is an incredibly deserved #1 for the Hottest 100 of the 2010s, and we’re sure to see him continue to shape the sound of the decade to come.”

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Check out the full countdown from #1-#100 below.

The Hottest 200 Of The Decade

1.Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better

2. Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (featuring Kimbra)

3. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

4. Violent Soho - Covered In Chrome

5.  RÜFÜS DU SOL - Innerbloom

6. Gang Of Youths - Magnolia

7. Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

8. Flume - Never Be Like You (featuring Kai)

9. Angus & Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane

10. Matt Corby - Brother

11. Chet Faker - Talk Is Cheap

12. alt-J - Breezeblocks

13. Vance Joy - Riptide

14. Kanye West - Runaway (featuring Pusha T)

15. Sticky Fingers - Australia Street

16. Lorde – Royals

17. Ball Park Music – It’s Nice To Be Alive

18. Flume – Holdin On

19. Gang of Youths – Let Me Down Easy

20. Hilltop Hoods – Cosby Sweater

21. DMA’S – Delete

22. M83 – Midnight City

23. Kendrick Lamar – King Kunta

24. JAY-Z & Kanye West – Ni**as In Paris

25. Flight Facilities – Clair De Lune (featuring Christine Hoberg)

26. Tame Impala – Let It Happen

27. Childish Gambino – 3005

28. Childish Gambino – Redbone

29. Lana Del Rey – Video Games

30. Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks

31. The Wombats – Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)

32. Peking Duk – High (featuring Nicole Millar)

33. Sticky Fingers – Rum Rage

34. Frank Ocean – Lost

35. Ocean Alley – Confidence

36. Hilltop Hoods – 1955 (featuring Montaigne & Tom Thum)

37. Milky Chance – Stolen Dance

38. Avicii – Levels

39. Flight Facilities – Crave You (featuring Giselle)

40. Disclosure – Latch (featuring Sam Smith)

41. DMA’S – Believe (triple j Like A Version 2016)

42. Arctic Monkeys – R U Mine?

43. Angus & Julia Stone – Chateau

44. Florence + The Machine – Shake It Out

45. The Black Keys – Lonely Boy

46. The Rubens – Hoops

47. Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait

48. Hermitude – HyperParadise (Flume remix)

49. Tash Sultana – Jungle

50. Daft Punk – Get Lucky (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)

51. Amy Shark – Adore

52. Gang of Youths – The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows

53. Sia – Chandelier

54. Grouplove – Tongue Tied

55. Skrillex – Bangarang (featuring Sirah)

56. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Wanz – Thrift Shop (featuring Wanz)

57. Kendrick Lamar – HUMBLE.

58. Sticky Fingers – Gold Snafu

59. Adrian Lux – Teenage Crime

60. Kendrick Lamar – Swimming Pools (Drank)

61. Lorde – Green Light

62. Frank Ocean – Thinkin Bout You

63. Hermitude – The Buzz (featuring Mataya and Young Tapz)

64. RÜFÜS DU SOL – Innerbloom (What So Not remix)

65. Tame Impala – Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

66. Tame Impala – Elephant

67. Hilltop Hoods – I Love It (featuring Sia)

68. Azealia Banks – 212 (featuring Lazy Jay)

69. Flume & Nick Murphy / Chet Faker – Drop The Game

70. Catfish and the Bottlemen – 7

71. Billie Eilish – bad guy

72. Kanye West – Monster (featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver)

73. Arctic Monkeys – Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?

74. Robyn – Dancing On My Own

75. Calvin Harris – Feel So Close

76. Travis Scott – SICKO MODE

77. Kanye West – Black Skinhead

78. San Cisco – Awkward

79. Mallrat – Charlie

80. Kanye West – Ultralight Beam (featuring Chance The Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price and Kirk Franklin)

81. Cub Sport – Come On Mess Me Up

82. Flume – On Top (featuring T-Shirt)

83. Ruel – Painkiller

84. Ruby Fields – Dinosaurs

85. J. Cole – No Role Modelz

86. The Wombats – Greek Tragedy

87. Matt Corby – Resolution

88. Glass Animals – Gooey

89. Two Door Cinema Club – Undercover Martyn

90. Childish Gambino – This Is America

91. Rex Orange County – Loving Is Easy (featuring Benny Sings)

92. Kendrick Lamar – m.A.A.d city (featuring MC Eiht)

93. Flume – Sleepless (featuring Jezzabell Doran)

94. The Preatures – Is This How You Feel?

95. FISHER – Losing It

96. Major Lazer – Get Free (featuring Amber Coffman)

97. Adele – Rolling In The Deep

98. Disclosure – You & Me (featuring Eliza Doolittle) {Flume remix}

99. Ruel – Dazed & Confused

100. Bon Iver – Holocene