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4ZZZ Hot 100
Logo used in 2025
Awarded forThe year's top 100 songs as voted by listeners
Date1 January
CountryAustralia
Presented by4ZZZ
First award1 January 1977; 49 years ago (1977-01-01)
Currently held byMitch, Please – "All the Rage" (2025)
Most winsThe Flangipanis (5 wins)
Website4zzz.org.au/hot100

The Hot 100 is an annual music poll presented by Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ since 1977. Listeners vote on their favourite songs of the year online, and tune into the countdown on New Year's Day. "All the Rage" by Brisbane band Mitch, Please is the latest song to top the countdown.

History

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4ZZZ broadcast the first Hot 100 in 1977.[1] The idea was raised in the station's subscriber magazine Radio Times, which outlined that whoever submitted a list of 100 songs closest to the station's chosen list of its favourite 100 songs would win a prize of five records.[2]

The 4ZZZ Hot 100 partially inspired the Australian national youth broadcaster Triple J to begin its own Hottest 100 countdown from 1989.[3][4] When former 4ZZZ presenter Andy Nehl moved to Triple J, he pitched the idea of an annual countdown to the station, which had not yet expanded to Brisbane.[5] When Triple J expanded nationally and started running its own Hot 100, 4ZZZ accused Triple J of copying its intellectual property.[5] The national broadcaster eventually renamed its countdown to the Hottest 100.[5]

To celebrate 50 years of 4ZZZ, the 2025 Hot 100 was held on 7 December instead of New Year's Day, as this was the broadcast date of the first Hot 100.[6]

Voting

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Each year the 4ZZZ counts down songs from the previous year. The station usually provides a shortlist on 1 December, but listeners can vote for any song released in the eligible timeframe.[2]

List of winners

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Adapted from the 4ZZZ Hot 100 Archive.[7]

List of songs voted number one in the 4ZZZ Hot 100
Year Artist Song
1976 The Beach Boys Good Vibrations
1980 Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK
1982 The Clash London Calling
1983 Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart
1984 President's XI Summer Vacation
1985 Echo & The Bunnymen The Cutter
1986 The Cult She Sells Sanctuary
1987 Painters and Dockers Die Yuppie Die
1988 The Primitives Crash
1989 Dinosaur Jr. Freak Scene
1990 Sonic Youth Kool Thing
1991 Chopper Division Chill Out America
1992 Ministry Jesus Built My Hotrod
1993 The Breeders Cannonball
1994 Beastie Boys Sabotage
1995 Wishing Chair Dreaming
1996 Escape From Toytown Fish n Chip Bitch From Ipswich
1997 Blur Song 2
1998 Not from There Sich Offnen
1999 Regurgitator I Wanna Be a Nudist
2000 The Dandy Warhols Bohemian Like You
2001 Gazoonga Attack Cinderella
2002 The White Stripes Fell in Love with a Girl
2003 Dollar Bar Cute Gurls Have the Best Diseases
2004 Dick Nasty I'm More Australian Than A Book of Bush Poetry by Russell Crowe
2005 The Disables ASIO
2006 Texas Tea Macy and Me
2007 Texas Tea Whiskey and Wine
2008 The Emu Smugglers Born and Bred (On Triple Zed)
2009 I Heart Hiroshima Shakeytown
2010 Transvaal Diamond Syndicate HomeAlbums
2011 Gotye featuring Kimbra Somebody That I Used to Know
2012 Velociraptor Cynthia
2013 The Flangipanis I'm Drunk, So What, Fuck You
2014 Violent Soho Saramona Said
2015 The Flangipanis Getting Shit For Free
2016 The Flangipanis Double Standards
2017 The Flangipanis Sportsball
2018 Waax Labrador
2019 Goatzilla Dropbear (The Legend of)
2020 The Flangipanis Asshole Aunt
2021 Waax Most Hated Girl
2022 Square Tugs featuring Polly Cooke I Don't Like It
2023 Square Tugs One Minute Love Song
2024 Amyl and the Sniffers U Should Not Be Doing That
2025 Mitch, Please All The Rage
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References

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Books

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  • Anderson, Heather (2025). People Powered Radio: Fifty Years of Australian Community Radio Station 4ZZZ. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783032056887.

Citations

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  1. ↑ Hillier, Rueben (23 October 2025). "4ZZZ: 50 years of people-powered radio". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
  2. 1 2 Anderson 2025, p. 183.
  3. ↑ Varvaris, Mary (2 January 2024). "4ZZZ Crowns #1 In Hot 100 of 2023". The Music. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
  4. ↑ Newstead, Al (6 December 2025). "Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ celebrates 50 years against all odds". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 3 June 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 Anderson 2025, p. 184.
  6. ↑ Dent, Nick (6 December 2025). "'Where's our transmitter?' How the Whitlam dismissal nearly silenced radio 4ZZZ". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "Hot 100 Archive". 4ZZZ. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
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