The 1994 Triple J Hottest 100, counted down in January 1995, was the second annual countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. A compilation featuring 32 of the songs was released on cassette and CD. A countdown of the music videos of most of the songs was also shown on the ABC music program Rage.

Listeners could vote for one song at a time by phone (charged at 50 cents per call) and were allowed to vote as many times as they wanted. Listeners could select songs from a voting list provided by Triple J, or nominate a song of their choosing if it was not on the shortlist.

Full list Note: Australian artists # Song Artist Country of origin 1 Zombie The Cranberries Ireland 2 Closer Nine Inch Nails United States 3 Self Esteem The Offspring United States 4 Come Out and Play The Offspring United States 5 Tomorrow Silverchair Australia 6 Seether Veruca Salt United States 7 About a Girl (MTV Unplugged) Nirvana United States 8 Coma Max Sharam Australia 9 If I Only Knew Tom Jones United Kingdom 10 Dead Eyes Opened (Remix) Severed Heads Australia 11 Do You Love Me? Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Australia 12 Laid James United Kingdom 13 Bug Powder Dust Bomb the Bass featuring Justin Warfield United Kingdom/United States 14 Better Get a Lawyer The Cruel Sea Australia 15 All I Wanna Do Sheryl Crow United States 16 Sabotage Beastie Boys United States 17 Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots United States 18 Longview Green Day United States 19 Losin' It Underground Lovers Australia 20 Time Bomb Barker Australia 21 Sweetness and Light Itch-E & Scratch-E Australia 22 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden United States 23 Berlin Chair You Am I Australia 24 Basket Case Green Day United States 25 Today The Smashing Pumpkins United States 26 7 Seconds Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry Senegal/Sweden 27 I Alone Live United States 28 Doll Parts Hole United States 29 Beercan Beck United States 30 Confide in Me Kylie Minogue Australia 31 Fall Single Gun Theory Australia 32 Fade into You Mazzy Star United States 33 Supernova Liz Phair United States 34 Miss World Hole United States 35 Cornflake Girl Tori Amos United States 36 Spin the Black Circle Pearl Jam United States 37 Voodoo People The Prodigy United Kingdom 38 Atomic Electric Rebecca's Empire Australia 39 Mathar Dave Pike Set United States 40 Undone – The Sweater Song Weezer United States 41 Your Ghost Kristin Hersh United States 42 Absolutely Fabulous Pet Shop Boys United Kingdom 43 Monkey and the Turtle Christine Anu Australia 44 Swamp Thing The Grid United Kingdom 45 Loser Beck United States 46 My Wave Soundgarden United States 47 Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman) Counting Crows United States 48 Mr. Jones Counting Crows United States 49 Amen (Testament remix) Falling Joys Australia 50 Daddy Long Legs Tumbleweed Australia 51 Spoonman Soundgarden United States 52 Lap It Up Penny Flanagan & the New Moon Australia 53 Fell on Black Days Soundgarden United States 54 Vasoline Stone Temple Pilots United States 55 La Di Doh Ed Kuepper Australia 56 Bizarre Love Triangle Frente! Australia 57 Burn The Cure United Kingdom 58 Everything's Cool Pop Will Eat Itself United Kingdom 59 Sometimes Always The Jesus and Mary Chain United Kingdom 60 Cut Your Hair Pavement United States 61 Hey Jealousy Gin Blossoms United States 62 Lemon Sparked Pale Australia 63 Parklife Blur featuring Phil Daniels United Kingdom 64 A Conspiracy The Black Crowes United States 65 Bull in the Heather Sonic Youth United States 66 Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe Whale Sweden 67 Andres L7 United States 68 Feel the Pain Dinosaur Jr. United States 69 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Crash Test Dummies Canada 70 What's the Frequency, Kenneth? R.E.M. United States 71 Dropout Urge Overkill United States 72 Lucas with the Lid Off Lucas Denmark 73 Alone Like Me The Sharp Australia 74 Neighbourhood Freak Swoop Australia 75 You Got Me Floatin' P.M. Dawn United States 76 American Life in the Summertime Francis Dunnery United Kingdom 77 Jaimme's Got a Gal You Am I Australia 78 Low Cracker United States 79 I'm Gonna Release Your Soul Dave Graney 'n' the Coral Snakes Australia 80 No Excuses Alice in Chains United States 81 In the Neighbourhood Sisters Underground New Zealand 82 Piece of Crap Neil Young and Crazy Horse Canada/United States 83 Am I Wrong Love Spit Love United States 84 Saints The Breeders United States 85 Blues Music G. Love & Special Sauce United States 86 Thirsty Dog Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Australia 87 The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get Morrissey United Kingdom 88 Purple Haze The Cure United Kingdom 89 Regulate Warren G and Nate Dogg United States 90 Dancing in the Moonlight The Smashing Pumpkins United States 91 Round Here Counting Crows United States 92 Shine Collective Soul United States 93 Wildflowers Things of Stone and Wood Australia 94 Gallows Pole Page and Plant United Kingdom 95 Masses Like Asses Def FX Australia 96 Girls & Boys (Pet Shop Boys Remix) Blur United Kingdom 97 Here Comes the Hotstepper Ini Kamoze Jamaica 98 A Certain Slant of Light The Tea Party Canada 99 Agolo Angélique Kidjo Benin 100 Stay (I Missed You) Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories United States

Statistics

Artists with multiple entries #ArtistTracks4Soundgarden 22, 46, 51, 533Counting Crows47, 48, 912The Offspring3, 4Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds11, 86Tex Perkins11, 14Stone Temple Pilots17, 54Green Day18, 24You Am I 23, 77The Smashing Pumpkins25, 90Hole28, 34Beck29, 45Hope Sandoval32, 59Michael Stipe41, 70Pet Shop Boys42, 96The Cure57, 88Blur 63, 96

Countries represented CountryTotalUnited States50Australia26United Kingdom15Canada3Sweden2Benin1Denmark1Ireland1Jamaica1New Zealand1Senegal1

Records

Dolores O'Riordan, lead vocalist of The Cranberries, is the first woman to win the Hottest 100. As of 2024, The Cranberries are the only Irish band to have won the Hottest 100. They would remain the only artist to have won the Hottest 100 who was not from Australia, United Kingdom or the United States, until Kimbra's victory with Gotye in 2011. Soundgarden's four entries were the most by an artist in a single countdown. At No. 5 "Tomorrow" by Silverchair became the highest ranked song by an Australian artist in an annual countdown. Angélique Kidjo, Youssou N'Dour and Lucas are the first artists from Benin, Senegal and Denmark to appear in the Hottest 100. Having placed at No. 3 and 4, The Offspring set the record for the highest consecutive appearances in the Hottest 100. This would later be equalled 29 years later by Dom Dolla in 2023. Similarly Counting Crows were the first artist to have back to back entries in an annual countdown. Their songs "Mr. Jones" & "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" came in at No. 47 and 48 respectively. The Offspring are also the first artist to feature twice in the Top 5 (and Top 10) in an annual countdown. The United States contributed a record 49 entries to the 1994 countdown.

CD release

There have been three versions of this compilation album. The original version's track listing is listed below, and has been discontinued by manufacturer. The second version was a reissue by Universal released shortly after the original release. It features the same track listing as the original print. Strangely enough, the catalogue number corresponds with 2004 releases, the year when Universal began reissuing Hottest 100 CDs, despite this being released in 1995. The third version was released in 2004, this time by Warner Music. The track listing is different from the previous releases. "Closer" and "Seether" have been removed, and "A Certain Slant of Light" was moved up to track 2 on Disc 1.

Despite being released under Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Do You Love Me?" is listed as just Nick Cave.

Disc 1

Disc 2

Certifications

Notes

See also 1994 in music References

External links Voting list