2010 Triple J Hottest 100
Album artwork for the CD compilation
Countdown details
Date of countdown	26 January 2011
Countdown highlights
Winning song	Angus & Julia Stone "Big Jet Plane"
Most entries	Birds of Tokyo Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. Pendulum Washington Bliss n Eso Gorillaz Arcade Fire Gypsy & The Cat (3 tracks)
Chronology
← Previous 2009 Next → 2011 (Australian Albums)

The 2010 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced and played on Australia Day, 26 January 2011.^[1] It is the eighteenth countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J.

Voting commenced at midnight on Monday 20 December 2010, and closed at midnight on Sunday 16 January 2011. 1.26 million votes were recorded from 152 countries, a new record number of votes.

On 10 February 2011, Richard Kingsmill revealed the #101–#200 list on his blog.^[2]

Triple J Listeners voted for their favorite album of 2010 in a similar format to the Hottest 100. Voters were allowed to vote for any album released in 2010 and were limited to ten votes.

Bold indicates the winner of the Hottest 100, while Tame Impala's Innerspeaker won the J Award.

1. Angus & Julia Stone – "Big Jet Plane"
2. Little Red – "Rock It"
3. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – "Dance the Way I Feel"
4. Birds of Tokyo – "Plans"
5. Adrian Lux – "Teenage Crime"
6. Cee-Lo Green – "Fuck You"
7. The Wombats – "Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)"
8. Art vs. Science – "Magic Fountain"
9. Mark Ronson & the Business Intl. feat. Boy George & Andrew Wyatt – "Somebody to Love Me"
10. Drapht – "Rapunzel"
11. Sia – "Clap Your Hands"
12. Duck Sauce – "Barbra Streisand"
13. The Jezabels – "Mace Spray"
14. Cloud Control – "There's Nothing in the Water We Can't Fight"
15. Flight Facilities feat. Giselle – "Crave You"
16. Washington – "Sunday Best"
17. Two Door Cinema Club – "Undercover Martyn"
18. Children Collide – "Jellylegs"
19. Bliss n Eso – "Addicted"
20. Sparkadia – "Talking Like I'm Falling Down Stairs"
21. Gotye – "Eyes Wide Open"
22. Darwin Deez – "Radar Detector"
23. Illy feat. Owl Eyes – "It Can't Wait"
24. Yeasayer – "O.N.E."
25. The National – "Bloodbuzz Ohio"
26. Tame Impala – "Solitude is Bliss"
27. The Naked and Famous – "Punching in a Dream"
28. Chiddy Bang – "Opposite of Adults"
29. Gorillaz feat. Daley – "Doncomatic"
30. John Butler Trio – "Revolution"
31. Gyroscope – "Baby, I'm Gettin' Better"
32. Yolanda Be Cool vs. DCUP – "We Speak No Americano"
33. Boy & Bear – "Rabbit Song"
34. Bag Raiders – "Way Back Home"
35. Hot Chip – "One Life Stand"
36. The John Steel Singers – "Overpass"
37. Miami Horror feat. Alan Palamo – "Holidays"
38. Vampire Weekend – "Giving Up the Gun"
39. Arcade Fire – "The Suburbs"
40. Hungry Kids of Hungary – "Coming Around"
41. Big Boi feat. Cutty – "Shutterbugg"
42. Klaxons – "Echoes"
43. Evil Eddie – "Queensland"
44. The Bedroom Philosopher – "Northcote (So Hungover)"
45. Angus & Julia Stone – "Big Jet Plane (Live)"

• Angus & Julia Stone are the first Australian band to win the Hottest 100 since Augie March in 2006. This is also the first countdown since 1994 which features female vocalist in the winning song. Julia Stone is also the first woman to win the Hottest 100 time since Janet English in 1996.
• For a second year in a row a Triple J Unearthed artist has cracked the Top 10 (Art vs. Science #2 in 2009, and Little Red #2, Boy & Bear #5 and Art vs Science #9 in 2010).
• John Butler Trio score the #39 position for the second year in a row.
• Both members of Gnarls Barkley got a respective track in the list with different bands; Danger Mouse with Broken Bells and Cee-Lo Green with a solo track.
• Ian Kenny has now appeared in the Hottest 100 every year since 2005 with both Karnivool and Birds of Tokyo.
• For the first time since 2005 no artist from France appeared in the Hottest 100.
• Chiddy Bangs track samples the song "Kids" by MGMT which came #5 in the 2008 countdown.
• "Runaway" by Kanye West becomes the equal longest song to appear in a countdown, alongside "Jesus of Suburbia" by Green Day which came in at #61 in 2005.
• Robert Smith's collaboration on the Crystal Castles cover of "Not in Love" set the record for the longest absence between countdowns (13 years); Smith last appeared in the 1997 countdown with The Cure.
• Nicki Minaj is the first artist from Trinidad and Tobago to appear in the Hottest 100.
• Following Charles Haddon's death in August 2010, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool's two appearances marks the first posthumous appearance of an artist since Jeff Buckley in the 2004 countdown.
• As of the 2023 Hottest 100, the 2010 countdown is the last Hottest 100 not to feature at least one Like a Version.