TRIPLE J: HOTTEST 100 VOL. 9

Triple J Hottest 100 is the biggest selling Australian compilation series with sales exceeding 1, 875, 000. Each year up to half a million listeners vote for their favourite 100 tracks for the year and from this a track list is decided by Triple J. Now in its ninth year, the Hottest 100 brand is set to break into the 2 million sales mark.

Triple J Hottest 100 Vol. 9 features the who's who of the music industry including the cream of the Australian music industry.

Get your hand on a copy of this album for some wicked listening from some of your fave artists!




TRACKLISTING

DISC 1

1. Alex Lloyd – Amazing
2. Basement Jaxx – Where's Your Head At
3. Something for Kate – Monsters
4. Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
5. Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
6. Jebediah – Fall Down
7. Machine Gun Fellatio – The Girl Of My Dreams (Is Giving Me Nightmares)
8. Groove Armada – Superstylin'
9. R.E.M. – Imitation
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – 15 Feet of Pure White Snow
11. Gerling – Dust Me Selecta
12. Blink 182 – The Rock Show
13. Endorphin – Sex & Violence
14. At The Drive In – Pattern Against User
15. James – Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)
16. Superheist – Step Back
17. Chemical Brothers – It Began In Afrika

DISC 2

1. U2 – Elevation
2. 28 Days & Apollo 440 – Say What?
3. Daft Punk – One More Time
4. New Order – Crystal
5. The Cruel Sea – Cocaine
6. John Butter Trio – Betterman
7. Pennywise – F**k Authority
8. Weezer – Island In The Sun
9. Blueline Medic – Making the Nouveau Riche
10. The Strokes – Hard To Explain
11. Eskimo Joe – Planet Earth
12. Unwritten Law – Up All Night
13. Spiderbait – Outta My Head
14. Placebo – Special K
15. George – Special Ones
16. Radiohead – Pyramid Song
17. Regurgitator – Fat Cop

*** HOTTEST 100 UPDATE ***

Back in 1989, when then Triple J announcer Laurie Zion kicked off the idea of a Hottest 100, he could never have imagined that a dozen years later, we'd be seeing the release of the ninth volume of the Triple J Hottest 100. He could never have fathomed the idea that the release of Volume Nine would also see some lucky music lover winning a stack of prizes worth more than $20,000 just for purchasing the two millionth copy pressed in the series. But that's what's about to happen!

While Zion started things off with the idea of getting Triple J listeners to vote their Hottest 100 songs of all time, by 1993, when the first volume of the now annual and hotly anticipated Triple J Hottest 100 series was released, the format had settled on the listener-voted Top 100 releases of that year.

Each year since, up to half a million listeners have been involved in the song selection by registering their votes and those votes are then tallied to make up the track listing. The most impressive change over the years is the increasing number of Australian acts making it not just onto the Hottest 100 but figuring significantly in the top 10. In fact, Australia's own Alex Lloyd topped the Hottest 100 Volume 9 with his song, Amazing. Now, with the sales already exceeding 1,989,000 copies and counting, making the Triple J Hottest 100 the biggest selling Australian compilation series, the excitement is about to reach fever pitch with the imminent approach of the sale of the two millionth CD.

One copy of Triple J Hottest 100 Vol 9 will carry a secret and the lucky purchaser will win a home stereo system worth $20,000 plus every available album that ever spawned a track that featured on all of the Hottest 100 albums. That is a one heck of a record collection!

Of course, they forgot to mention that they need to calm down first!!! So who shall it be? Stay tuned....