Here’s Who’s Predicted To Win The Hottest 100 Of The Decade, According To Science
Violent Soho fans, you'll be pleased.
Voting for the Hottest 100 of the Decade has finally closed, so you know what that means — time to rampantly speculate as to which songs will take out the top honour!
Well, maybe not quite so rampantly this year. See, 100 Warm Tunas, a vote-aggregating site, is once again on our side, injecting some science and statistics into the guessing game.
For those not in the know, 100 Warm Tunas predicts the winner of triple j polls by scanning votes publicly posted on Twitter. That means that the site uses real-life voter data. It’s not just some wild stab in the dark, it’s a tally of votes that have actually been cast, so that means there’s a lot going for it as a predictive measure.
That said, it’s still fallible, of course: 100 Warm Tunas incorrectly predicted that Denzel Curry and ‘Bulls on Parade’ would take out this year’s Hottest 100, a plaudit that was eventually won by Billie Eilish. But still, when it comes time to start guessing, it’s the best tool we have. And hell, the top 10 that the site has settled on is pretty bloody interesting.
According to the site, the top spot will be taken out by Violent Soho’s ‘Covered In Chrome’. That’s a wild pick that almost certainly won’t be the actual winner — it’s too much of a left-of-field pick to be celebrated by Australia as a whole. Still, nice to imagine!
In the second spot is Gang of Youth’s ‘Magnolia’, followed by ‘Do I Wanna Know’ by The Arctic Monkeys, ‘Innerbloom’ by RÜFÜS DU SOL, ‘The Less I Know The Better’ by Tame Impala, ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ by Gotye, ‘It’s Nice To Be Alive’ by Ball Park Music, ‘Breezeblocks’ by Alt-J, ‘Midnight City’ by M83, and ‘Runaway’ by Kanye West.
There’s a couple there that will undoubtedly drop out of the top 10 when the actual countdown is released — don’t expect to see Ball Park Music, Alt-J, M83 or Kanye that high when it comes down to it.
But Gotye, The Arctic Monkeys and Tame Impala will all be there, no doubt about it. The question is: at what spot?
Start guessing now.