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Hottest 100 for 2011

26 January 2012

Another year, another Australia Day. Another Australia Day, another Triple J Hottest 100. And that, of course, means an excellent excuse to  set R to work on the chart data. For those outside Australia, the Hottest 100 is a chart of the most popular songs of the previous year, as voted by the listeners of […]

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Rolling Stone vs Triple J

2 June 2010

How does the Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of all time compare to Triple J’s Hottest 100 songs of all time?

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Visualizing the Hottest 100

12 July 2009

Today radio station Triple J finished broadcasting their Hottest 100 tracks of all time, the first all-time vote since 1998. For those outside Australia and not familiar with the tradition of the Hottest 100, it began back in 1989 and results are determined by listener votes. After two more years the format changed and votes […]

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