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Daily Mail
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Triple J kicks off new Aussie-themed poll - after Chappell Roan and Doja Cat's Hottest 100 wins copped public backlash
Triple J has extended an almighty olive branch to the Australian public, after back-to-back Hottest 100 wins by American artists sounded the death knell of the song contest's popularity. On Tuesday, June 17 voting officially opened for the new poll, 'The Hottest 100 of Australian songs'. The new countdown will take place on July 26 and has strict rules in place to ensure it honours Triple J's 50 years on-air milestone, and the 'support local' ethos of the national song contest which began in 1989. Eligible songs must have been released by January 19, 2025 and they must feature at least 50 per cent Australian artists. For example 'Rhyme Dust' by Dom Dolla and MK and 'Fancy' by Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX pass, but no song by Split Enz will be considered. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'Because they are from New Zealand,' the voting page explains. Triple J's presenters have already weighed in with their favourites on social media, and so have a raft of Aussie artists. 'Hey guys Jimmy Barnes here,' the iconic rock singer said in a video posted on the voting page. 'I'm voting for Jett - Are You Gonna Be My Girl? Just because it's such a great recording, they are such a tight band, and he is such an awesome singer. I just thought that song jumped out of the radio when I heard it and it still does 'til this day,' Barnes said. Are You Gonna Be My Girl? won the hottest 100 in the 2003 year of its release. Missy Higgins will also be putting a 2003 track in her No.1 spot - London Still by The Waifs. 'I did so much touring with the Waifs back in the day when I was a wee little 17-year-old,' Higgins said. 'That band just took me on the road. They took me under their wing. I was such fan, it was like a dream come true. 'This song encapsulates that experience and that memory for me. It's such an Australian rite of passage going away to London for a bit and coming back.' Tash Sultana will be voting for Miracle by Matt Corby. 'Matt is a mate of mine. We've done a lot of work together and I think he is an underrated musician - who is so talented and works with so many people - that I don't really think that he's gotten the flowers that he deserves.' While some of our famous musicians are emphatically backing their colleagues and mentors, others are shamelessly campaigning for the win. The Veronicas' official account commented '*violins start playing*,' on the post in reference to their self-dubbed 'national anthem' Untouched. 'Literally come on,' Aussie pop group Cub Sport commented, as they encouraged people to vote for Mess Me Up. In 1994, Triple J rebooted the Hottest 100 concept so that only songs released in the previous calendar year are eligible. This format has seen Flume and Powderfinger top the charts on multiple occasions, with Angus & Julia Stone, Vance Joy, Chet Faker, The Wiggles, Ocean Alley, and Spiderbait also claiming the title in the contest's long history. Meanwhile, international acts like Oasis, Billie Eilish, The Cranberries, Gotye, and Kendrick Lamar have also taken out the top honour. Voting for the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs will close on July 17 at 5pm AEST. Notably, no tracks recorded for triple J's long-running Like A Version cover series will be considered. Listeners were highly critical of the Triple J presenters' top picks, as passionate music fans flooded the comments However, if an Australian song has been significantly re-record or remixed, it can be eligible for two separate entries. One particularly passionate Flume fan kept the caps lock on as he waded into the comments with this rallying cry: 'INNERBLOOM AND DON'T SPLIT THE VOTE WITH THE REMIX FFS.' As thousands of suggestions flooded the comments section, younger listeners encouraged people to get their 'parents and grandparents' to vote to ensure no Aussie 'classics' are missed. The announcement comes after US singer Chappell Roan claimed the win in 2025 with her Sapphic earworm 'Good Luck Babe!'. Listeners were less than impressed with overseas acts ruling the chart for the second year in a row, after Doja Cat's 'Paint The Town Red' won in 2024. Just 29 songs of the top 100 came from Australian acts in 2025, with Melbourne DJ Dom Dolla charting highly and Amyl and the Sniffers gaining multiple entries
ABC News
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
The Hottest 100 of Australian Songs is coming – here's how to vote
As part of this year's celebration of 50 years of the triple j family, we're pulling out a big one: the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs. We love Australian music and we know that you do as well. So it felt like a big Hottest 100 party would be the most fitting way to celebrate 50 years of bringing you the best in what our cherished artists have delivered over the years. On Saturday 26 July, the entire triple j network – triple j, Double J, triple j Unearthed and triple j Hottest – will count down the 100 best Australian songs, as voted by all of you. When can I vote in the Hottest 100 of Australian songs? Votes are open right now, just hit the Hottest 100 voting page, jog your memory with the huge long list we've gathered and start picking what you're gonna vote for. Whether it's iconic tracks from your past, or current day favourites you can't stop spinning, we wanna hear which Aussie tracks you think are the best of the best. There's only rule: they must have been released before triple j's official 50th birthday - January 19, 2025. My favourite song isn't on the voting list! We can't list every single song ever released by an Aussie artist in our longlist. It would look ridiculous. If you can't find a track that you want to vote for, you can manually add it to your shortlist using the form on the search page. What prize can I win for voting? If you can tell us in 50 words or less which Australian act you'd take an alien who showed up in your backyard to see (and why) then you'll be in the running to win a . You'll go in the draw to win tickets to every triple j and Double J presented tour between July 2025 and July 2026. Plus, we'll chuck in VIP tickets to Spilt Milk too! The Hottest 100 of Australian Songs
ABC News
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
We're counting down the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs - here's everything you need to know
Are you ready to give your favourite Australian artists their well-deserved flowers? To celebrate 50 years of triple j, we're cracking open the countdown box for the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs! It's a big year for the triple j family, so what better way to toast our deep history than by doing our favourite thing: wringing our hands over trying to pick only 10 of our favourite songs released by Australian artists and bands. Nah, it'll be a breeze, right? On Saturday 26 July, we're taking over the entire triple j network – triple j, Double J, triple j Unearthed and triple j Hottest – to count down the 100 best Australian songs, as voted by all of you. They've been the playlist to our lives, defined the sound of the nation and echoed across generations, and now we get to champion all the tracks that have lasted a lifetime (or more). When can I vote? You can start your votes right now (surprise!) so head on over to the Hottest 100 voting page, jog your memory with the huge long list we've gathered and start working on your votes. Whether it's iconic, nostalgia-drenched bangers or current day anthems you can't stop spinning, we wanna hear which Aussie tracks you think are the best of the best. The only catch: they must have been released before triple j's official 50th birthday - January 19 2025. Why can't I find my favourite song? Look, we'll be honest, we can't list every single song ever released by an Aussie artist in our longlist. But if you can't find a track that you want to vote for, you can manually add it to your shortlist using the form on the search page. What if I start a list but forget to submit? Your votes aren't lost if you don't hit submit because we're bringing back our auto vote option again! If you're all cool with it, we'll submit your top 10 votes (or whatever is in your voting list) if you haven't submitted before 5pm on Thursday 17 July. Is there a Hottest Ticket with this countdown too? There absolutely is! It wouldn't be a Hottest 100 without a ripper of a prize to win, would it? This time, you've got 50 words or less to tell us what Australian act you'd take an alien (who showed up in your backyard) to see and why. You'll go in the draw to win tickets to every triple j and Double J presented tour between July 2025 and July 2026. Plus, we'll chuck in VIP tickets to Spilt Milk too! Be as weird and wild with your answers as you like – the more creative the better! Here's all the T&C's on the Hottest Ticket competition, if you want to get into the nitty gritty. Check out all the important dates and info below, and get ready to shout out ya faves in time for July 26. triple j's Hottest 100 of Australian Songs Voting opens: Tuesday 17 June, 8am AEST Tuesday 17 June, 8am AEST Voting closes: Thursday 17 July, 5pm AEST Thursday 17 July, 5pm AEST Hottest 100 countdown day: Saturday 26 July from 10am AEST VOTE NOW
ABC News
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Gippsland exhibition explores Joseph Turner's impact on Australian landscape art
A major exhibition showcasing the work of one of Britain's greatest landscape artists, Joseph M.W Turner, is being touted as the first of its kind in Australia. The Turner & Australia exhibition at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale features 11 original works by the master of landscape and light, who profoundly influenced impressionist technique and abstract modern art. The works will be exhibited alongside 300 comparable paintings by Australian landscape artists such as John Glover, Eugene Von Gerard, Fredrick McCubbin, Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts. Gallery director Simon Gregg said the exhibition aimed to highlight Turner's profound impact on Australian art. "It's really about capturing some of that mysterious spirit of what Turner was doing, his approach to depicting the natural environment, his vision that he had two centuries ago and re-animating it in an Australian context," Mr Gregg said. Mr Gregg said Turner, who died in 1851, was a "god-like figure in Australian art". "There is an intense drama — the light and the tone that he brings into his work — and if you go backwards through time, all roads lead to Turner," Mr Gregg said. Born to a working class family in London in 1775, Joseph Mallard William Turner was a talented child prodigy with an accurate eye for detail. At the age of 14 he became an apprentice draftsman to an architect, before entering the prestigious Royal Academy Schools a year later. Turner would travel through the British countryside, sketching landscape features such as valleys, mountains and castles from different angles as the light changed throughout the day. "He'd later pick out one or two sketches and actually fill them in with the watercolours, with the memory fresh in his mind of what colours he had seen," Mr Gregg said. On return to his London studio, he would pull together the best elements of his sketches, bringing the sky of one image and the geographical features of others into hybrid compositions. By the mid-1790s, Turner began painting with oil. He studied the stormy Dutch marine paintings of the 17th century and the serene landscapes of French artists Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain. During his travels through Wales and Europe, Turner was drawn to extreme weather events and apocalyptic scenarios. Venturing into the jagged Swiss alpine region, he was one of the first artists to visually embody philosopher Edmund Burke's concept of 'the sublime'. Turner's depictions of swirling mists, sinister fogs, tumultuous seas and haze-veiled sunlight would eventually see him paint less distinctive geographical forms, instead capturing them dissolved, blurred and blown out by light. As a literary concept of the 18th century, the sublime referred to things that were beyond human comprehension; the meeting point of beauty and terror in the natural world, and the insignificance of man amid the divine, exhilarating and mysterious forces of nature. "Over the course of time he became more interested in depicting something that was less tangible, more of an experience of being in pure atmosphere," Mr Gregg said. "Claude Monet, the French impressionist, absolutely idolised Turner because Turner was painting with pure light and colour. "You could credit Turner as the first impressionist painter; he was in many ways the first pure abstract painter as well." With the arrival of the industrial revolution, Turner turned his hand to documenting the burgeoning industrialised world. While most artists were still painting pretty views of the English countryside, Turner was painting scenes of modern industry. "He was also credited as the first artist to show pollution, particularly in London," Mr Gregg said. "In 1828 he did this painting of the [River] Thames, but it's all muddy and brown and grey; that's because he was showing this thick industrial fog that was rolling over the city." By the 1830s and 40s, art critics started to turn against Turner. His violent application of paint and hazy pastel plumes would drown out his subjects to the point of being indistinguishable. It was an illusion dismissed by one critic as "soap suds and white wash". "No-one was painting anything like this," Mr Gregg said. "It wasn't really until 50 or 100 years later that people really understood what Turner has been trying to do." As one of the pioneers of painting "landscape for landscape's sake", and depicting landscape as a living, moving character with emotion and feeling, Mr Gregg said he often wondered how Turner might have responded to the savage extremes of the "beautiful and terrifying" Australian landscape. "We're an island continent with oceans, beaches, mountains, deserts. We have intense light, we have incredible storms, all these things that Turner was actually seeking out," Mr Gregg said. "So you have to wonder what he might have done if he had ever come to Australia." Turner & Australia is showing at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale until August 24, 2025.
SBS Australia
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- SBS Australia
Australian artists drowned out on music streaming platforms
Australian artists drowned out on music streaming platforms Published 13 June 2025, 5:10 am Digital technology has made it easier than ever to access music made by artists around the world. But it would appear Australian performers are being drowned out as a result. Of the top 10,000 global artists listened to by Australians - more than half are from the US. Only 8.4% are Australian.
