And the winner of the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2008 is ... Kings of Leon with `Sex On Fire`. (a round of applause please).
Kings Of Leon must love Australia. Their ‘Only By The Night’ album has sold more in Australia than America. That is not bad for a country with a population less than 10% of the United States’.KOL had the biggest selling album in Australia in 2008, have been number one every week of 2009 so far, and now with a Triple J Hottest 100 nod they have won the trifecta.
But wait, there’s more...
Not only was ‘Sex On Fire’ the number one song, ‘Use Somebody’ was number 3, ‘Closer’ was 24 and ‘Crawl’ was at 70.
Kings Of Leon battled out the Hottest 100 with MGMT who had the number 2 spot with ‘Electric Feel’, number 5 with ‘Kids’ and 18 with ‘Time To Pretend’.
This year’s Top 10 was:
1. Kings of Leon : Sex On Fire
2. MGMT : Electric Feel
3. Kings Of Leon : Use Somebody
4. Empire Of The Sun : Walking On A Dream
5. MGMT : Kids
6. The Presets : Talk Like That
7. Pez : The Festival Song
8. The Presets : This Boy’s In Love
9. The Ting Tings : That’s Not My Name
10. Darpht : Jimmy Recard
