Triple J Hottest 100, 1998

The 1998 Triple J Hottest 100, announced in January, 1999, was the sixth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 36 of the songs was released.

Full list

42 of the 100 songs were by Australian artists (marked with a green background).

Artists with multiple entries

*Regurgitator - 4 tracks (6, 26, 27, 32)
*Jebediah - 3 tracks (7, 42, 91)
*The Living End - 3 tracks (10, 15, 17)
*Grinspoon - 3 tracks (18, 22, 79)
*The Whitlams - 3 tracks (37, 43, 56)
*Pearl Jam - 3 tracks (47, 51, 88)
*Garbage - 3 tracks (57, 87, 89)
*The Offspring - 2 tracks (1, 62)
*Custard - 2 tracks (3, 24)
*Hole - 2 tracks (4, 49)
*Powderfinger - 2 tracks (8, 46)
*You Am I - 2 tracks (9, 65)
*Ben Folds Five - 2 tracks (12, 40)
*Chef - 2 tracks (20, 90)
*Marcy Playground - 2 tracks (21, 76)
*Happyland - 2 tracks (28, 71)
*The Smashing Pumpkins - 2 tracks (45, 94)
*Green Day - 2 tracks (52, 84)
*Frenzal Rhomb - 2 tracks (54, 72)
*Metallica - 2 tracks (67, 77)
*Foo Fighters - 2 tracks (74, 98)
*The Superjesus - 2 tracks (83, 99)

In addition, the song "Harpoon" featured twice (7, 85) by Jebediah and Something for Kate respectively.

CD release

Hottest 100 of all time

In August 1998 another poll was held which did not limit choices to a particular year. Hence the name "Hottest 100 of all time". It was the fourth poll of its kind (previously held in 1989, 1990 and 1991) and the first in seven years and the first since the introduction of the year-specific format. It is also the last one to be held to date. It was marked with a comical moment when Robbie Buck played the wrong Led Zeppelin songFact|date=February 2007.

Full List

# Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
# Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me
# Pearl Jam - Alive
# Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
# Radiohead - Creep
# Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
# Metallica - One
# Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
# Metallica - Enter Sandman
# Pearl Jam - Black
# U2 - One
# Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
# Radiohead - Paranoid Android
# Nine Inch Nails - Closer
# Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
# Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
# Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
# The Living End - Prisoner of Society
# Faith No More - Epic
# blink-182 - Dammit
# Live - Lightning Crashes
# Pearl Jam - Better Man
# U2 - With or Without You
# Tool - Stinkfist
# Soft Cell - Tainted Love
# Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
# Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
# The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
# Jeff Buckley - Grace
# New Order - Blue Monday
# Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
# Ben Folds Five - Brick
# Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
# Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
# Faith No More - Ashes to Ashes
# The Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac
# B-52's - Love Shack
# Beastie Boys - Fight for Your Right
# The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
# Smashing Pumpkins - Today
# Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
# Andy Prieboy - Tomorrow Wendy
# The Whitlams - You Sound Like Louis Burdett
# Beastie Boys - Sabotage
# Nirvana - Lithium
# Blur - Song 2
# Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
# Tool - Sober
# The Beatles - A Day in the Life
# Jebediah - Leaving Home
# R.E.M - Everybody Hurts
# Ben Folds Five - Underground
# Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
# Radiohead - Karma Police
# The Offspring - Come Out & Play
# Pearl Jam - rearviewmirror
# Tool - Forty-Six & 2
# Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
# Silverchair - Tomorrow
# New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
# You Am I - Berlin Chair
# Nirvana - Come As You Are
# Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
# Cake - I Will Survive
# The Eagles - Hotel California
# The Cure - The Lovecats
# Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
# Hunters & Collectors - Holy Grail
# Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
# Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
# Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
# Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
# R.E.M - Losing My Religion
# The Cure - A Forest
# Portishead - Glory Box
# Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
# Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine
# They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul
# The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
# The Offspring - Self Esteem
# Blind Melon - No Rain
# Jebediah - Jerks Of Attention
# Silverchair - Abuse Me
# Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
# The Cure - Just Like Heaven
# Spiderbait - Buy Me A Pony
# Nirvana - Aneurysm
# Grinspoon - Just Ace
# The Cure - Close To Me
# Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
# Metallica - The Unforgiven
# Pauline Pantsdown - Back Door Man
# U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
# Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
# Prodigy - Breathe
# Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
# Beck - Loser
# The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
# The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
# David Bowie - Heroes

ee also

*1998 in music

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/history/1998.htm#1998b| Triple J Hottest 100 History]