Country Australia Network Triple J | Most entries Chet Faker (4) | |
Date January 26, 2015 (2015-01-26) Winner Chet Faker
("Talk Is Cheap") Official website www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/14/ | ||
The 2014 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2015. It was the 22nd countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J. It was won by "Talk Is Cheap", one of three songs that Chet Faker had in the top 10 (the others being "1998" and "Gold").
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Voting commenced in mid-December 2014, and closed on 18 January 2015. Voters nominated ten songs that were released between December 2013 and November 2014 and submitted them through the Triple J website. In total, over 2 million votes were cast, a record for the Hottest 100. The year's countdown was notable for having seven Australian artists in the top ten and the top three positions being awarded to Australians, the first year for both to have occurred.
A social media campaign to vote for Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off" was started on BuzzFeed and continued on Twitter with the hashtag #Tay4Hottest100. The campaign originated as a protest against Triple J's exclusion of the song from their shortlist of songs. The rules and voting system allowed any song released in 2014 to be manually added, despite the track not being played on Triple J during 2014. The song became one of the favourites according to betting agencies. The song was eventually disqualified from the countdown; however, according to Triple J, "Shake It Off" would have made it to No. 12 on the countdown.
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Countries represented
CD release
The Triple J Hottest 100 CD for 2014 is the twenty second edition of the series. The track list was revealed on Triple J's Facebook page on 2 February 2015; the double-CD was released on 27 February 2015.
(The number in brackets is the song position in the Hottest 100.)
Top 10 Albums of 2014
A smaller poll of Triple J listeners' favourite albums of the year was held in December 2014.