Triple J Hottest 100, 2003

2003 Triple J Hottest 100
Album artwork for the CD compilation
Countdown details
Date of countdown25 January 2004
Countdown highlights
Winning songAustralia Jet
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
Most entriesUnited States The White Stripes
Australia Powderfinger
(5 tracks)
Chronology
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The 2003 Triple J Hottest 100, announced on 25 January 2004, was the eleventh 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 40 (not necessarily the top 40) songs was released. A DVD, containing film clips of songs from the Hottest 100 was also released. A countdown of the videos of each song was shown on the ABC music series Rage in March.

Full list

Note: Australian artists

# Song[1] Artist Country of Origin
1 Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet Australia
2 Hey Ya! Outkast United States
3 Seven Nation Army The White Stripes United States
4 (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind Powderfinger Australia
5 Clocks (Röyksopp Remix) Coldplay United Kingdom/Norway
6 Hello The Cat Empire Australia
7 Sunsets Powderfinger Australia
8 Zebra John Butler Trio Australia
9 The Nosebleed Section Hilltop Hoods Australia
10 Love Your Way Powderfinger Australia
11 Déjà Vu Something for Kate Australia
12 Lighthouse The Waifs Australia
13 We Used to Be Friends The Dandy Warhols United States
14 The Hardest Button to Button The White Stripes United States
15 I Love Work Butterfingers Australia
16 Relapse Little Birdy Australia
17 Taylor Jack Johnson United States
18 Diamonds On the Inside Ben Harper United States
19 Rollover DJ Jet Australia
20 Feeler Pete Murray Australia
21 Armies Against Me Epicure Australia
22 Fortune Faded Red Hot Chili Peppers United States
23 Who's Gonna Save Us? The Living End Australia
24 The Horizon Has Been Defeated Jack Johnson United States
25 Baby Blue Little Birdy Australia
26 Russell Crowe's Band Frenzal Rhomb Australia
27 There's Always Someone Cooler Than You Ben Folds United States
28 Danger! High Voltage Electric Six United States
29 With My Own Two Hands Ben Harper United States
30 The Bitter End Placebo United Kingdom
31 Time Is Running Out Muse United Kingdom
32 You Were the Last High The Dandy Warhols United States
33 Gay Bar Electric Six United States
34 Everyone Deserves Music Michael Franti and Spearhead United States
35 Plastic Loveless Letter Magic Dirt Australia
36 Just Because Jane's Addiction United States
37 Days Like These The Cat Empire Australia
38 Everytime Butterfingers Australia
39 Coming Home Alex Lloyd Australia
40 Times Like These Jack Johnson United States
41 Black Bird The Beautiful Girls Australia
42 Stockholm Syndrome Muse United Kingdom
43 12:51 The Strokes United States
44 Dumb Enough Hilltop Hoods Australia
45 Weak and Powerless A Perfect Circle United States
46 77% The Herd Australia
47 Bomb the World Michael Franti and Spearhead United States
48 There There Radiohead United Kingdom
49 2 + 2 = 5 Radiohead United Kingdom
50 Fisherman's Daughter The Waifs Australia
51 Sista (Live) John Butler Trio Australia
52 Just Pretend The Bens United States
53 Feeling This Blink-182 United States
54 Let Me Be Xavier Rudd Australia
55 Greed for Your Love Missy Higgins Australia
56 Franco Un-American NOFX United States
57 Work It Missy Elliott United States
58 The Leaving Song Pt. II AFI United States
59 So Entertaining Gus and Frank Australia
60 Watch Out Boys Magic Dirt Australia
61 St. Anger Metallica United States
62 Music The Beautiful Girls Australia
63 Song for a Sleepwalker Something for Kate Australia
64 Step into My Office, Baby Belle and Sebastian United Kingdom
65 Something White and Sigmund Andromeda Australia
66 Tabloid Magazine The Living End Australia
67 Lovesong Amiel Australia
68 1 Second of Insanity The Butterfly Effect Australia
69 Hysteria Muse United Kingdom
70 The Outsider A Perfect Circle United States
71 Girl's Not Grey AFI United States
72 Running Up That Hill Placebo United Kingdom
73 Life Sentence Epicure Australia
74 Look Good in Leather Cody Chesnutt United States
75 The Seed (2.0) The Roots featuring Cody Chesnutt United States
76 Rockin' Rocks Powderfinger Australia
77 Stumblin' Powderfinger Australia
78 Who's Ya Daddy? Gerling Australia
79 Milkshake Kelis United States
80 Satisfaction Benny Benassi Italy
81 The Golden Path The Chemical Brothers featuring The Flaming Lips United Kingdom/United States
82 Good Luck Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula United Kingdom/United States
83 Reptilia The Strokes United States
84 We Don't Play Guitars Chicks on Speed featuring Peaches Germany/Canada
85 Pass That Dutch Missy Elliott United States
86 Lines Pete Murray Australia
87 Move Your Feet Junior Senior Denmark
88 Voices in My Head Machine Gun Fellatio Australia
89 Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine The White Stripes United States
90 Break It Down (James Brown) Offcutts Australia
91 Vampire Racecourse The Sleepy Jackson Australia
92 Doctor Doctor Gyroscope Australia
93 I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself The White Stripes United States
94 In the Cold, Cold Night The White Stripes United States
95 Special Needs Placebo United Kingdom
96 Man of Constant Sorrow Skeewiff United Kingdom
97 Growing on Me The Darkness United Kingdom
98 Out of Time Blur United Kingdom
99 Inertiatic ESP The Mars Volta United States
100 The Chariot The Cat Empire Australia

Artists with multiple entries

# Artist Entries
5 The White Stripes 3, 14, 89, 93, 94)
Powderfinger 4, 7, 10, 76, 77
3 The Cat Empire 6, 37, 100
Jack Johnson 17, 24, 40
Placebo 30, 72, 95
Muse 31, 42, 69
2 Jet 1, 19
John Butler Trio 8, 51
Hilltop Hoods 9, 44
Something for Kate 11, 62
The Waifs 12, 50
The Dandy Warhols 13, 32
Butterfingers 15, 38
Little Birdy 16, 25
Ben Harper 18, 29
Pete Murray 20, 86
Epicure 21, 73
Flea[note 1] 22, 99
The Living End 23, 66
Ben Folds[note 2] 27, 52
Electric Six 28, 33
Michael Franti and Spearhead 34, 47
Magic Dirt 35, 60
The Beautiful Girls 41, 62
The Strokes 43, 83
A Perfect Circle 45, 70
Radiohead 48, 49
Missy Elliott 57, 85
AFI 58, 71
Cody ChesnuTT[note 3] 74, 75

Countries Represented

Country Entries
Australia 47
United States 38
United Kingdom 14
Norway 1
Italy 1
Germany 1
Canada 1
Denmark 1

Trivia

  • Powderfinger are the first band ever to get three songs in the Top 10.
  • Frenzal Rhomb holds the record of having the shortest song in the Hottest 100, with "Russell Crowe's Band" at 1:12.
  • The song "Clocks" by Coldplay charted in the countdown for the second year in a row after a remix by Röyksopp featured at No. 5
  • The Living End and Something for Kate made their seventh consecutive appearance in the Hottest 100, with both bands having at least one track featured in every annual countdown since 1997. Similarly, Machine Gun Fellatio made their fifth consecutive appearance, having appeared in every annual countdown since 1999.

Top 10 Albums of 2003

Bold indicates winner of the Hottest 100.

# Artist Album Country of Origin Tracks in the Hottest 100
1 Powderfinger Vulture Street Australia 4, 7, 10, 76, 77
2 The White Stripes Elephant United States 3, 14, 89, 93, 94
3 Radiohead Hail to the Thief United Kingdom 48, 49
4 Jet Get Born Australia 1, 19 (24, 89 in 2004)
5 Jack Johnson On & On United States 17, 24, 40
6 Something for Kate The Official Fiction Australia 11, 62
7 Ben Harper Diamonds On the Inside United States 18, 29
8 John Butler Trio Living 2001–2002 Australia 51
9 Muse Absolution United Kingdom 31, 42, 69
10 The Living End Modern ARTillery Australia 23, 66 (52 in 2002)

CD release

CD 1
  1. Jet – "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
  2. Hilltop Hoods – "The Nosebleed Section"
  3. Jane's Addiction – "Just Because"
  4. The Dandy Warhols – "We Used to Be Friends"
  5. Something for Kate – "Déjà Vu"
  6. Cody ChesnuTT – "Look Good in Leather"
  7. Little Birdy – "Baby Blue"
  8. The Sleepy Jackson – "Vampire Racecourse"
  9. The Herd – "77%"
  10. John Butler Trio – "Zebra"
  11. Placebo – "The Bitter End"
  12. Radiohead – "There There"
  13. Basement Jaxx – "Good Luck"
  14. Electric Six – "Gay Bar"
  15. The Waifs – "Lighthouse"
  16. Magic Dirt – "Plastic Loveless Letter"
  17. AFI – "The Leaving Song Pt. II"
  18. The Beautiful Girls – "Black Bird"
  19. Pete Murray – "Feeler"
  20. Skeewiff – "Man of Constant Sorrow"
 CD 2
  1. The Mars Volta – "Inertiatic ESP"
  2. The Living End – "Who's Gonna Save Us?"
  3. The Cat Empire – "Hello"
  4. Chicks on Speed – "We Don't Play Guitars"
  5. Ben Harper – "Diamonds on the Inside"
  6. Butterfingers – "I Love Work"
  7. Missy Higgins – "Greed For Your Love"
  8. Chemical Brothers – "The Golden Path"
  9. Offcuts – "Break It Down James Brown"
  10. Machine Gun Fellatio – "Voices in My Head"
  11. Nofx – "Franco Un-American"
  12. The Butterfly Effect – "One Second of Insanity"
  13. Michael Franti and Spearhead – "Everyone Deserves Music"
  14. Epicure – "Life Sentence"
  15. Belle and Sebastian – "Step into My Office Baby"
  16. Junior Senior – "Move Your Feet"
  17. Missy Elliott – "Pass That Dutch"
  18. Gyroscope – "Doctor, Doctor"
  19. Xavier Rudd – "Let Me Be"
  20. Powderfinger – "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind"

DVD release

Volume 11 DVD Cover

The Hottest 100 DVD was the second such DVD, after the 2002 release.

  1. Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
  2. Jane's Addiction – Just Because
  3. The Dandy Warhols – We Used To Be Friends
  4. Something for Kate – Déjà Vu (Radio Edit)
  5. Cody ChesnuTT – Look Good in Leather
  6. Little Birdy – Baby Blue
  7. The Sleepy Jackson – Vampire Racecourse
  8. The Herd – 77%
  9. The John Butler Trio – Zebra
  10. Placebo – The Bitter End
  11. Radiohead – There There
  12. Basement Jaxx – Good Luck (featuring Lisa Kekaula)
  13. Electric Six – Gay Bar
  14. The Waifs – Lighthouse
  15. Magic Dirt – Plastic Loveless Letter
  16. AFI – The Leaving Song Pt. II
  17. Pete Murray – Feeler
  18. The Mars Volta – Inertiatic ESP (Album Version)
  19. The Living End – Who's Gonna Save Us
  20. The Cat Empire – Hello
  21. Chicks on Speed (featuring Peaches) – We Don't Play Guitars
  22. Ben Harper – Diamonds On the Inside
  23. Butterfingers – I Love Work
  24. Missy Higgins – Greed For Your Love
  25. Chemical Brothers – The Golden Path
  26. Offcutts – Break It Down, James Brown
  27. Machine Gun Fellatio – Voices in My Head
  28. NOFX – Franco Un-American
  29. The Butterfly Effect – One Second of Insanity
  30. Michael Franti and Spearhead – Everyone Deserves Music
  31. Belle and Sebastian – Step into My Office, Baby
  32. Junior Senior – Move Your Feet (Radio Edit)
  33. Missy Elliott – Pass That Dutch
  34. Powderfinger – (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Once with the Red Hot Chili Peppers (22), once with The Mars Volta (99)
  2. ^ Once solo (27), once with The Bens (52)
  3. ^ Once solo (74), once with The Roots (75)
  1. ^ "Hottest 100 2003". Triple J. Retrieved 11 June 2007.