title: Triple J Hottest 100, 2007
text: # Triple J Hottest 100, 2007
  
  The 2007 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on Australia Day, 26 January 2008. It was the fifteenth countdown of the most popular songs of the year, as chosen by the listeners of Australian radio station Triple J.
  
  Voting began on 1 January 2008, and closed on 20 January 2008. More than 700,000 votes were counted in the poll. The broadcast began at 10 a.m. AEST, and for the first time was broadcast live to all time zones (as opposed to being on a delayed broadcast). Triple J hosted two live sites, one at The Domain, Sydney and one at Melbourne Docklands.
  
  The 2007 poll was the closest in Hottest 100 history with only 13 votes separating the number 1 and 2 songs. The 2007 Hottest 100 contained 52 works by Australian artists. This equals the results in the 1999 poll.
  
  ## Full list
  
  Note: Australian artists
  
  | # | Song | Artist | Country of Origin |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Knights of Cydonia | Muse | United Kingdom |
  | 2 | Straight Lines | Silverchair | Australia |
  | 3 | On Call | Kings of Leon | United States |
  | 4 | Better Than | John Butler Trio | Australia |
  | 5 | This Heart Attack | Faker | Australia |
  | 6 | The Pretender | Foo Fighters | United States |
  | 7 | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Alive 2007) | Daft Punk | France |
  | 8 | Hang Me Up to Dry | Cold War Kids | United States |
  | 9 | I'll Kill Her | Soko | France |
  | 10 | Don't Fight It | The Panics | Australia |
  | 11 | Vitriol | Bluejuice | Australia |
  | 12 | Let's Dance to Joy Division | The Wombats | United Kingdom |
  | 13 | Ruby | Kaiser Chiefs | United Kingdom |
  | 14 | Ice Cream | Muscles | Australia |
  | 15 | Lost and Running | Powderfinger | Australia |
  | 16 | Snakeskin | Gyroscope | Australia |
  | 17 | Paper Planes | M.I.A. | United Kingdom |
  | 18 | My People | The Presets | Australia |
  | 19 | Heart It Races | Architecture in Helsinki | Australia |
  | 20 | Stronger | Kanye West | United States |
  | 21 | The Salmon Dance | The Chemical Brothers | United Kingdom |
  | 22 | Used to Get High | John Butler Trio | Australia |
  | 23 | Icky Thump | The White Stripes | United States |
  | 24 | Hunting for Witches | Bloc Party | United Kingdom |
  | 25 | We Get Around | Urthboy | Australia |
  | 26 | Recapturing the Vibe (Restrung) | Hilltop Hoods | Australia |
  | 27 | Just a Song About Ping Pong | Operator Please | Australia |
  | 28 | Lazy Eye | Silversun Pickups | United States |
  | 29 | Real Love (Like a Version) | Regina Spektor | United States |
  | 30 | If You Keep Losing Sleep | Silverchair | Australia |
  | 31 | Wasted | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia |
  | 32 | Opinions Won't Keep You Warm at Night | Kisschasy | Australia |
  | 33 | Fans | Kings of Leon | United States |
  | 34 | 1234 | Feist | Canada |
  | 35 | D.A.N.C.E. | Justice | France |
  | 36 | Hold Music | Architecture in Helsinki | Australia |
  | 37 | Hospital Beds | Cold War Kids | United States |
  | 38 | I Thought About You | The Beautiful Girls | Australia |
  | 39 | Hearts on Fire | Cut Copy | Australia |
  | 40 | I Still Remember | Bloc Party | United Kingdom |
  | 41 | Dashboard | Modest Mouse | United States |
  | 42 | Back in Your Head | Tegan and Sara | Canada |
  | 43 | Superstar | Lupe Fiasco | United States |
  | 44 | Teenagers | My Chemical Romance | United States |
  | 45 | The Beast | Angus & Julia Stone | Australia |
  | 46 | Tie Up My Hands | British India | Australia |
  | 47 | What If | Cog | Australia |
  | 48 | Flux | Bloc Party | United Kingdom |
  | 49 | Fluorescent Adolescent | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom |
  | 50 | So Many Nights | The Cat Empire | Australia |
  | 51 | Peachy | Missy Higgins | Australia |
  | 52 | Spray on Pants | Kisschasy | Australia |
  | 53 | Steer | Missy Higgins | Australia |
  | 54 | Golden Skans | Klaxons | United Kingdom |
  | 55 | Good Excuse | John Butler Trio | Australia |
  | 56 | Better People | Xavier Rudd | Australia |
  | 57 | Into the Galaxy | Midnight Juggernauts | Australia |
  | 58 | Invincible | Muse | United Kingdom |
  | 59 | Chelsea Dagger | The Fratellis | United Kingdom |
  | 60 | Charmer | Kings of Leon | United States |
  | 61 | Wayside | Birds of Tokyo | Australia |
  | 62 | No Longer There | The Cat Empire | Australia |
  | 63 | The Only Way | Karnivool | Australia |
  | 64 | Australia | The Shins | United States |
  | 65 | Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors | Editors | United Kingdom |
  | 66 | I Don't Remember | Powderfinger | Australia |
  | 67 | Rehab (Remix) | Amy Winehouse featuring Jay-Z | United Kingdom and United States |
  | 68 | Penny on the Train Track | Ben Kweller | United States |
  | 69 | Pogo | Digitalism | Germany |
  | 70 | The Con | Tegan and Sara | Canada |
  | 71 | Reach | The Butterfly Effect | Australia |
  | 72 | Down the Line | José González | Sweden |
  | 73 | Black Tattoo | Grinspoon | Australia |
  | 74 | Run the Red Light | British India | Australia |
  | 75 | Shoot the Runner | Kasabian | United Kingdom |
  | 76 | Sweaty | Muscles | Australia |
  | 77 | Get What You Want | Operator Please | Australia |
  | 78 | Brianstorm | Arctic Monkeys | United Kingdom |
  | 79 | Lines on Palms | Josh Pyke | Australia |
  | 80 | Reflections of a Sound | Silverchair | Australia |
  | 81 | No Cars Go | Arcade Fire | Canada |
  | 82 | Long Road to Ruin | Foo Fighters | United States |
  | 83 | Pleased to Meet You | Wolfmother | Australia |
  | 84 | Do It Again | The Chemical Brothers | United Kingdom |
  | 85 | Down Boy | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | United States |
  | 86 | Tombstone | Midnight Juggernauts | Australia |
  | 87 | Eliza | Jackson Jackson | Australia |
  | 88 | The Message | The Cops | Australia |
  | 89 | Sick, Sick, Sick | Queens of the Stone Age | United States |
  | 90 | When the Lights Went Down | Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set | Australia |
  | 91 | Sew My Name | Josh Pyke | Australia |
  | 92 | Sun Dirt Water | The Waifs | Australia |
  | 93 | Dr. Love | The Bumblebeez | Australia |
  | 94 | Jigsaw Falling into Place | Radiohead | United Kingdom |
  | 95 | Samson | Regina Spektor | United States |
  | 96 | Love Me Like the World Is Ending | Ben Lee | Australia |
  | 97 | Forever Song | Josh Pyke | Australia |
  | 98 | The Heinrich Maneuver | Interpol | United States |
  | 99 | Tick Tick Boom | The Hives | Sweden |
  | 100 | Wild Strawberries | Pnau | Australia |
  
  * The #101 spot belonged to "Foundations" by Kate Nash
  
  ## Artists with multiple entries
  
  Three tracks:
  
  * Silverchair (2, 30, 80)
  * Kings of Leon (3, 33, 60)
  * John Butler Trio (4, 22, 55)
  * Bloc Party (24, 40, 48)
  * Josh Pyke (79, 91, 97)
  * Harry Angus (Twice with The Cat Empire and once with Jackson Jackson) (50, 62, 87)
  
  Two tracks:
  
  * Muse (1, 58)
  * Foo Fighters (6, 82)
  * Cold War Kids (8, 37)
  * Muscles (14, 76)
  * Powderfinger (15, 66)
  * Architecture in Helsinki (19, 36)
  * The Chemical Brothers (21, 84)
  * Operator Please (27, 77)
  * Regina Spektor (29, 95)
  * Angus and Julia Stone (31, 45)
  * Kisschasy (32, 52)
  * Tegan and Sara (42, 70)
  * British India (46, 74)
  * Arctic Monkeys (49, 78)
  * The Cat Empire (50, 62)
  * Missy Higgins (51, 53)
  * Midnight Juggernauts (57, 86)
  * Ian Kenny (Once with Birds of Tokyo and once with Karnivool) (61, 63)
  
  ## Countries represented
  
  * Australia - 52 songs
  * United States - 20 songs
  * United Kingdom - 18 songs
  * Canada - 4 songs
  * France - 3 songs
  * Sweden - 2 songs
  * Germany - 1 song
  
  ## Top 10 Albums of 2007
  
  | # | Artist | Album | Country of Origin | Tracks in the Hottest 100 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | John Butler Trio | Grand National | Australia | 4, 22, 55 (12 in 2006) |
  | 2 | Radiohead | In Rainbows | United Kingdom | 94 |
  | 3 | Kings of Leon | Because of the Times | United States | 3, 33, 60 |
  | 4 | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible | Canada | 81 |
  | 5 | Silverchair | Young Modern | Australia | 2, 30, 80 |
  | 6 | Josh Pyke | Memories & Dust | Australia | 79, 91, 97 (38 in 2006) |
  | 7 | The White Stripes | Icky Thump | United States | 23 |
  | 8 | Bloc Party | A Weekend in the City | United Kingdom | 24, 40, 48 (65 in 2006) |
  | 9 | Midnight Juggernauts | Dystopia | Australia | 57, 86 |
  | 10 | Arctic Monkeys | Favourite Worst Nightmare | United Kingdom | 49, 78 |
  
  ## Trivia
  
  * This is the first time in over ten years that The Living End did not feature in The Hottest 100.
  * Muse's Knights of Cydonia was actually released July 2006, making the song over 18 months old when it was awarded the number 1 spot.
  * Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger made an appearance twice in the top twenty, in a live version, number 7, and remixed in Kanye West's Stronger, at number 20.
  
  ## CD release
  
  Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 15 is the compilation featuring the best of the Top 100 voted tracks on two CDs. It went on sale 8 March 2008.
  
  | CD 1 Muse - "Knights of Cydonia" (#1) Daft Punk - "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" (Alive 2007 Radio Version) (#7) John Butler Trio - "Better Than" (#4) Kings of Leon - "On Call" (#3) Soko - "I'll Kill Her" (#9) Faker - "This Heart Attack" (#5) Bluejuice - "Vitriol" (#11) Bloc Party - "Hunting for Witches" (#24) Gyroscope - "Snakeskin" (#16) Kaiser Chiefs - "Ruby" (#13) Architecture in Helsinki - "Heart It Races" (#19) The Chemical Brothers - "The Salmon Dance" (#21) Modest Mouse - "Dashboard" (#41) The Beautiful Girls - "I Thought About You" (#38) Midnight Juggernauts - "Into the Galaxy" (#57) M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (#17) Angus & Julia Stone - "Wasted" (#31) Cold War Kids - "Hang Me Up to Dry" (#8) The Fratellis - "Chelsea Dagger" (#59) Digitalism - "Pogo" (#69) Foo Fighters - "The Pretender" (#6) | CD 2 Silverchair - "Straight Lines" (#2) The Presets - "My People" (#18) Urthboy - "We Get Around" (#25) The Wombats - "Let's Dance to Joy Division" (#12) Operator Please - "Just a Song About Ping Pong" (#27) The Panics - "Don't Fight It" (#10) Arcade Fire - "Cars Go" (#81) Klaxons - "Golden Skans" (#54) British India - "Tie Up My Hands" (#46) Tegan And Sara - "Back in Your Head" (#42) Muscles - "Ice Cream" (#14) The Cat Empire - "So Many Nights" (#50) Kisschasy - "Opinions Won't Keep You Warm at Night" (#32) Justice - "D.A.N.C.E." (#35) Lupe Fiasco - "Superstar" (Featuring Matthew Santos) (#43) Radiohead - "Jigsaw Falling into Place" (#94) Missy Higgins - "Peachy" (#51) Josh Pyke - "Lines on Palms" (#79) Cut Copy - "Hearts on Fire" (#39) Hilltop Hoods - "Recapturing the Vibe" (Restrung) (#26) Cog - "What If" (#47) Pnau - "Wild Strawberries" (#100) |
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