Triple J's Hottest 100 of Australian Songs: I Tried to Pick My Top 10 Aussie Songs… and Failed Gloriously
Every few years, Triple J throws out the ultimate challenge-slash-emotional-spiral: name your top ten Australian songs of all time . Like, ever. In June 2025 , they reopened voting for the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs , and just like that, I was in. No choice really. The countdown airs on 26 July 2025 and if you’ve ever tried to pick just ten songs that define your life? Good luck. You can read the full explainer on what it is and how it works here. I love a list. But this? This was chaos. Absolute beautiful, nostalgic chaos. I could’ve picked ten songs per decade . Actually, per genre per decade. INXS or Midnight Oil? How do you choose between Kylie and The Church? Australian Crawl or Icehouse? That’s just the 80s and I haven’t even gotten to the Big Day Out era. Why It Was So Hard I started out all very logical and curated. You know... songs that shaped the culture, meant something nationally. But then it turned into a game of memories. The first car. The first heartbreak. The f...