Vance Joy’s Riptide has been revealed as the number one song of 2013 in triple j’s 21st annual Hottest 100 countdown broadcast each Australia Day.
A total 1,492,619 votes were cast by 173,658 music fans, and over 5,700 Hottest 100 parties were held around the world, making triple j’s Hottest 100 “The world’s biggest musical democracy.”
According to triple j’s Music Director Richard Kingsmill “Vance Joy’s ‘Riptide’ is a first for the Hottest 100 in a couple of respects. We’ve never had a winning song from an artist who is so new that they’ve not even had an album to their name yet. It’s also the first #1 to have been written on a ukulele. After its first airing in March, the simple charm and endearing vulnerability of ‘Riptide’ stayed with listeners throughout the rest of 2013. But even as it did, it was still in the shadows of the world conquering ‘Royals’ and ‘Get Lucky’. Few picked it to trump either of those. But it has, and deservingly so, become our 11th Australian #1. Now we wait excitedly for that album to arrive!”
Nipping at Vance Joy’s heels was 16 year old Lorde who is the youngest solo artist ever to appear in the Hottest 100. She is also only the second artist to have three songs from a debut album place in the Top 20, the first being Wolfmother back in 2005.
Stacks more stats: www.triplej.net.au/hottest100/13/
