Amongst my group of friends, no one denied that INXS deserved to be in the list, everyone hated that they won and no one could agree on what should have got #1.
That was certainly an odd Top 100 list in general. The songs themselves fine, but the order was definitely a weird one.
# Artist Track Plays (Millions)
10 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know [Ft. Kimbra] 3300
13 AC/DC - Thunderstruck 2200
37 AC/DC - Back In Black 1500
48 Vance Joy - Riptide 1200
31 AC/DC - Highway To Hell 891
27 Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 838
19 Tame Impala - The Less I Know the Better 834
21 Men At Work - Down Under 806
32 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 523
5 Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over 453
24 Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream 428
18 Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning 336
80 Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People 283
26 Flume - Never Be Like You [Ft. kai] 281
16 RÜFÜS DU SOL - Innerbloom 274
1 INXS - Never Tear Us Apart 244
23 Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl 218
90 Spiderbait - Black Betty 179
11 The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition 161Unfortunately, Lemmy Markdown can’t do tables, and there’s no nice way to format this. But here’s the top-20 songs from the countdown by plays on YouTube Music. Not sure about Spotify, but the samples are big enough that I expect it’s similar there.
When sorted by the number of listens on YouTube, the list comes out looking very different. Only three tracks from the top-10 made it into the same category by number of listens.
Did not see that coming.
It was a great hottest 100 - probably my favourite so far. Loved the spread across the decades.
