Independent Melbourne musician Chet Faker’s track ‘Talk Is Cheap’ has topped the triple j Hottest 100 for 2014.
On Australia Day triple j counted down their best songs of 2014 as voted by their listeners. 2,099,707 non-Swift-only votes were cast by 258,762 music fans from 188 different countries, with a near equal split between male (52%) and female (48%) voters, as well as over 3,829 Hottest 100 parties held in 80 countries around the world, making triple j’s Hottest 100 the world’s biggest music poll.
The station's Music Director Richard Kingsmill said “Talk Is Cheap dropped right at the start of 2014, but 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.”
After pulling up 5th in 2013 with his collab with Flume, and also taking 65th in his own right, Chet Faker, a.k.a. Nicholas Murphy, scored 3 of the Top 10 spots in 2014 — and also nabbed a fourth guernsy at #21 for good measure. Chet Faker is only the second ever artist to get 3 songs in the Top 10 (Powderfinger were the first, in 2003). Aside from ‘Talk Is Cheap’, his song ‘Gold’ came in at #7, with ‘1998’ right behind it at #8.
Breaking down the list further, this countdown saw the most number of Aussies ever make it in to the countdown – a whopping 59 tracks were by Australian artists, smashing our previous record of 52 Australian artists in 1999 and 2007. A further 15 songs came from the US, with UK artists hot on their heels with 14 songs. The rest of the Hottest 100 saw representations from New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Iceland, France and Canada.
There were plenty of fresh faces in there too, with 35 artists making their debut in the Hottest 100, including Meg Mac, Peking Duk, DMA’s, FKA twigs, Milky Chance, Banks, Future Islands, ZHU, Glass Animals and Asgeir. 41 tracks in the list came from solo artists, including Vance Joy, Lorde, Thelma Plum, Tkay Maidza and Briggs.
The race was not to the Swift this year, with the station announcing at the top of the countdown that Swift songs had been disqualified for reasons set out in a [now defunct] parody of the Buzzfeed page which started the #Tay4Hottest100 frenzy.
| 1 | Talk Is Cheap | Chet Faker |
| 2 | High | Peking Duk feat. Nicole Millar |
| 3 | Cosby Sweater | Hilltop Hoods |
| 4 | Stolen Dance | Milky Chance |
| 5 | Take Me Over | Peking Duk feat. SAFIA |
| 6 | Uptown Funk | Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars |
| 7 | Gold | Chet Faker |
| 8 | 1998 | Chet Faker |
| 9 | Chandelier | Sia |
| 10 | King and Cross | Ásgeir |
| 11 | Faded | Zhu |
| 12 | Gooey | Glass Animals |
| 13 | Mess Is Mine | Vance Joy |
| 14 | Every Other Freckle | alt-J |
| 15 | Arcadia | The Kite String Tangle |
| 16 | Left Hand Free | alt-J |
| 17 | Tightrope | Illy featuring Scarlett Stevens |
| 18 | Yellow Flicker Beat | Lorde |
| 19 | She Only Loves Me When I'm There | Ball Park Music |
| 20 | Gold Snafu | Sticky Fingers |
| 21 | (Lover) You Don't Treat Me No Good | Chet Faker |
| 22 | Pittsburgh | The Amity Affliction |
| 23 | Seasons (Waiting on You) | Future Islands |
| 24 | Roll Up Your Sleeves | Meg Mac |
| 25 | I'll Go Crazy | Bluejuice |
| 26 | Hunger of the Pine | alt-J |
| 27 | Beggin for Thread | Banks |
| 28 | Beware the Dog | The Griswolds |
| 29 | Somebody's Talking | The Preatures |
| 30 | Something I Said | Thundamentals feat. Thom Crawford |
| 31 | Sober | Childish Gambino |
| 32 | West Coast | Lana Del Rey |
| 33 | Run | San Cisco |
| 34 | New Dorp. New York | SBTRKT feat. Ezra Koenig |
| 35 | You Always Know the DJ | Allday |
| 36 | Won't Let You Down | Hilltop Hoods feat. Maverick Sabre |
| 37 | I Want U | Alison Wonderland |
| 38 | My Silver Lining | First Aid Kit |
| 39 | Two Bodies | Flight Facilities feat. Emma Louise |
| 40 | Mother & Father | Broods |
| 41 | Maybe | Carmada |
| 42 | Window to the Sky | Kim Churchill |
| 43 | Zombie | Jamie T |
| 44 | Flashed Junk Mind | Milky Chance |
| 45 | Two Weeks | FKA twigs |
| 46 | Grandma's Hands | Meg Mac |
| 47 | Tennis Court (Flume Remix) | Lorde |
| 48 | Delete | DMA's |
| 49 | Happy Idiot | TV on the Radio |
| 50 | First Time | Vance Joy |
| 51 | Pickles from the Jar | Courtney Barnett |
| 52 | Sunshine | Flight Facilities feat. Reggie Watts |
| 53 | i | Kendrick Lamar |
| 54 | Do I Wanna Know? (Like a Version) | Chvrches |
| 55 | Can't Do Without You | Caribou |
| 56 | ICFTYDLM (I Can Feel That You Don't Love Me) | Kingswood |
| 57 | Walking Under Stars | Hilltop Hoods |
| 58 | Everything Is Shit Except My Friendship with You | Ball Park Music |
| 59 | Monument (The Inevitable End Version) | Röyksopp and Robyn |
| 60 | Sweatpants | Childish Gambino |
| 61 | Talk Too Much | Andy Bull |
| 62 | Heart Beats Slow | Angus & Julia Stone |
| 63 | Red Eyes | The War on Drugs |
| 64 | Don't Lean on Me | The Amity Affliction |
| 65 | Right Now | Allday |
| 66 | Work Work | clipping. feat Cocc Pistol Cree |
| 67 | Busy Earnin' | Jungle |
| 68 | Drown | Bring Me the Horizon |
| 69 | Surrender | The Smith Street Band |
| 70 | Is It a Banger? | Odd Mob |
| 71 | The Weigh Down | The Amity Affliction |
| 72 | Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) | Run the Jewels featuring Zack de la Rocha |
| 73 | Do It Again | Röyksopp and Robyn |
| 74 | I Got U | Duke Dumont featuring Jax Jones |
| 75 | Live It Up | 360 featuring Pez |
| 76 | Micro Wars | Kingswood |
| 77 | Since Last Wednesday | Highasakite |
| 78 | Quit Your Job | Thundamentals |
| 79 | Lazaretto | Jack White |
| 80 | I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore | Rise Against |
| 81 | Fade Out Lines | The Avener |
| 82 | Dreamers | Hopium feat Phoebe Lou |
| 83 | Wrong Direction | British India |
| 84 | Something from Nothing | Foo Fighters |
| 85 | Get Away | Chvrches |
| 86 | Just for You | Sticky Fingers |
| 87 | Bad Apples | Briggs |
| 88 | Gina Works at Hearts | DZ Deathrays |
| 89 | First | Cold War Kids |
| 90 | Got Love | Thundamentals feat Solo |
| 91 | Bridges (Like a Version) | Meg Mac |
| 92 | Love Me Less | One Day |
| 93 | Georgia | Vance Joy |
| 94 | Liquorlip Loaded Gun | Sticky Fingers |
| 95 | How Much Does Your Love Cost? | Thelma Plum |
| 96 | Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds | SAFIA |
| 97 | Between Friends | Japanese Wallpaper feat. Jesse Davidson |
| 98 | Luna | Bombay Bicycle Club |
| 99 | Trippin' the Light Fantastic | Ball Park Music |
| 100 | Switch Lanes | Tkay Maidza |
