Chet Faker ‘Talk Is Cheap’ was the number one song on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2014.
Triple J’s Music Director Richard Kingsmill says of the song, “Talk Is Cheap dropped right at the start of 2014. By year’s end, it was still sounding as fresh as the first day we played it. Chet played and produced the whole album himself (bar one guitar solo). The way the sax starts the song is just magical and sucks you right in. The song sounds simple, until you hear all the instruments and voices at work. You’re kept there right until the end, when Chet Faker’s layered vocals bring the song to a fitting close.”
Melbourne’s Chet Faker had three songs in the Top 10 along with ‘Gold’ at no 7. and ‘1998’ at no 8.
Adelaide was also represented twice in the Top 10 with Hilltop Hoods ‘Cosby Sweater’ at no. 3 and Sia ‘Chandelier’ at no. 9.
Peking Duk also gave Canberra wto Top 10 appearances with ‘High’ at no. 2 and ‘Take Me Over’ at no. 5.
Triple J has officially acknowledged that Taylor Swift will not be included in the Hottest 100 and with good reason. They don’t play Swift.
Media site Buzzfeed attempted to ambush to Triple J Hottest 100 by manufacturing a social media campaign to have the country popstar included in the countdown but the campaign.
Swift fans were into social media combat mode accusing Triple J of snubbed the country-tinged popstar from its annual countdown. Triple J has stood firm on only including artists they play and Swift is definitely not a Triple J artist.
As the countdown got underway Triple J advised that Swift was disqualified from being included as to cave in to the Buzzfeed campaign would open the floodgate in future years from popstar street teams to sabotage the countdown.
Triple J Hottest 100 complete list
1. Chet Faker – Talk Is Cheap
2. Peking Duk feat. Nicole Millar – High
3. Hilltop Hoods – Cosby Sweater
4. Milky Chance – Stolen Dance
5. Peking Duk feat. Safia – Take Me Over
6. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
7. Chet Faker – Gold
8. Chet Faker – 1998
9. Sia – Chandelier
10. Asgeir – King and Cross
11. ZHU – Faded
12. Glass Animals – Gooey
13. Vance Joy – Mess Is Mine
14. alt-j – Every Other Freckle
15. The Kite String Tangle – Arcadia
16. alt-j – Left Hand Free
17. Illy – Tightrope (Feat. Scarlett Stevens)
18. Lorde – Yellow Flicker Beat
19. Ball Park Music – She Only Loves Me When I’m There
20. Sticky Fingers – Gold Snafu
21. Chet Faker – (Lover) You Don’t Treat Me No Good (Like A Version 2014)
22. The Amity Affliction – Pittsburgh
23. Future Islands – Seasons
24. Meg Mac – Roll Up your Sleeves
25. Bluejuice – I’ll Go Crazy
26. alt-j – Hunger Of The Pine
27. BANKS – Beggin For Thread
28. The Griswolds – Beware The Dog
29. The Preatures – Somebody’s Talking
30. Thundamentals – Something I Said (Feat. Thom Crawford)
31. Childish Gambino – Sober
32. Lana Del Rey – West Coast
33. San Cisco – Run
34. SBTRKT – NEW DORP. NEW YORK (Feat. Ezra Koenig)
35. Allday – You Always Know The DJ
36. Hilltop Hoods – Won’t Let You Down (Feat. Maverick Sabre)
37. Alison Wonderland – I Want U
38. First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining
39. Flight Facilities – Two Bodies (Feat. Emma Louise)
40. Broods – Mother & Father
41. Carmada – Maybe
42. Kim Churchill – Window To The Sky
43. Jamie T – Zombie
44. Milky Chance – Flashed Junk Mind
45. FKA twigs – Two Weeks
46. Meg Mac- Grandma’s Hands
47. Lorde – Tennis Court (Flume Remix)
48. DMA’s – Delete
49. TV On The Radio – Happy Idiot
50. Vance Joy – First Time
51. Courtney Barnett – Pickles From The Jar
52. Flight Facilities – Sunshine (Feat. Reggie Watts)
53. Kendrick Lamar – i
54. CHVRCHES – Do I Wanna Know? (Like A Version 2014)
55. Caribou – Can’t do Without You
56. Kingswood – I Can Feel That You Don’t Love Me
57. Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars
58. Ball Park Music – Everything Is Shit
59. Röyksopp – Monument
60. Childish Gambino – Sweatpants
61. Andy Bull – Talk Too Much
62. Angus & Julia Stone – Heart Beats Slow
63. The War On Drugs – Red Eyes
64. The Amity Affliction – Don’t Lean On Me
65. Allday – Right Now
66. clipping. – Work Work (Feat. Cocc Pistol Cree)
67. Jungle – Busy Earnin’
68. Bring Me The Horizon – Drown
69. The Smith Street Band – Surrender
70. ODD MOB – Is It A Banger?
71. The Amity Affliction – The Weigh Down
72. Run The Jewels – Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck) (Feat. Zack De La Rocha)
73. Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again
74. Duke Dumont – I Got U (Feat. Jax Jones)
75. 360 – Live It Up
76. Kingswood – Micro Wars
77. Highasakite – Since Last Wednesday
78. Thundamentals – Quit Your Job
79. Jack White – Lazaretto
80. Rise Against – I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore
81. The Avener – Fade Out Lines
82. Hopium – Dreamers (Feat. Phoebe Lou)
83. British India – Wrong Direction
84. Foo Fighters – Something From Nothing
85. CHVRCHES – Get Away
86. Sticky Fingers – Just For You
87. Briggs – Bad Apples
88. DZ Deathrays – Gina Works At Hearts
89. Cold War Kids – First
90. Thundamentals – Got Love (Feat. Solo)
91. Meg Mac – Bridges (Like A Version 2014)
92. One Day – Love Me Less
93. Vance Joy – Georgia
94. Sticky Fingers – Liquorlip Loaded Gun
95. Thelma Plum – How Much Does Your Love Cost?
96. SAFIA – Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds
97. Japanese Wallpaper – Between Friends (Feat. Jesse Davidson)
98. Bombay Bicycle Club – Luna
99. Ball Park Music – Trippin’ The Light Fantastic
100. Tkay Maidza – Switch Lanes (Prod. Paces)
