Doja Cat’s ‘Paint The Town Red’ Wins Triple J’s Hottest 100 Countdown – Billboard

Doja Cat despatched the data tumbling as her trendy basic “Paint The City Purple” leapt to No. 1 on triple j’s Hottest 100 ballot for 2023.

When her identify was known as out late Saturday, Jan. 27, the U.S. artist turned the primary feminine rapper and first lady of coloration to guide the countdown, the thirty first version.

“Paint The City Purple” beat out homegrown multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter G Flip with “The Worst Individual Alive” and Aussie EDM star Dom Dolla with “Saving Up,” respectively, to take the title.

“After we first heard ‘Paint The City Purple’ again in August, there was little doubt that we’d see it seem on the pointy finish of this yr’s countdown,” explains triple j music director Nick Findlay.

“Over an iconic pattern of Dionne Warwick’s ‘Stroll On By’, ‘Paint The City Purple’ reveals Doja Cat in her truest kind: effortlessly shaking off the haters whereas flexing her uncanny capacity at executing pure pop perfection.”

Throughout its ARIA Chart run final yr, “Paint The City Purple” clocked up 10 weeks at No. 1, and is now licensed double-platinum in these components.

The Hottest 100 ballot is an establishment Down Underneath, one which triple j, a division of the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC), has, up to now, known as the “world’s greatest musical democracy.”

Although it not coincides with Australia Day, on Jan. 26 — a controversial date within the minds of a rising variety of Australians — 2,355,870 votes had been solid for the countdown, down barely from greater than 2.4 million votes final yr (the all-time report is the three.2 million votes solid for the 2019 version). Additionally, the annual occasion raised A$500,000 ($330,000) for triple j’s charity associate, headspace.

Although G Flip got here off second-best to Doja Cat’s champ, the Australian artist established a brand new Hottest 100 report with seven titles within the countdown. That shatters the mark beforehand held by rock trio Wolfmother, which scored six entries again in 2005.

A a number of winner on the 2023 ARIA Awards and a frontrunner on the ARIA Albums Chart final yr with Drummer (Future Traditional/Common), G Flip (actual identify Georgia Claire Flipo) now vaults to 19 profession Hottest 100 entries, ok for equal third all-time with Tame Impala and Kanye West. Adelaide hip-hop favorites Hilltop Hoods are the kings, with 24 all-time entries, whereas Powderfinger and Foo Fighters are equal second with 22 every.

Australia’s personal princess of pop Kylie Minogue establishes a brand new mark, together with her U.Okay. prime 10 hit “Padam Padam” making the Hottest 100 listing. The final time she did so was in 1997, the 26-year hole between entries a brand new report.

This yr’s pool of two.335 million-plus votes had been predominantly solid by ladies (61%) and 45% of all voters hailed from triple j’s audience — 24 years of age, or below.

Additionally, in accordance with reps for triple j, 52 of these hottest 100 songs had been homegrown.

All advised, 35 artists made their triple j Hottest 100 debuts over the weekend, together with Troye Sivan, Kita Alexander, Dua Lipa, Budjerah, Outdated Mervs and Royel Otis.

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