While you’re all feverishly whittling your Triple J Hottest 100 longlists down to an agonisingly selected 10 tunes, the rest of the radio industry in Australia just released its own list of 100 biggest tracks for the year and, would you even believe, it’s been a banner year for Ed Sheeran. Who would’ve guessed?
The Commercial Radio Hottest 100 list has been released by The Music Network, crunching chart performance and airplay numbers across the major radio networks to put together a list of 2017’s 100 biggest commercial tracks.
The list takes playlist and streaming data from a number of different sources – namely, companies like KIIS FM, Triple M, Nova, Hit Network, Triple J, and streaming services Spotify, Shazam, and iTunes, as well as chart performance data, and spits out the tunes that found their way onto Australian airwaves the most frequently in the year of our good lord 2017.
While he doesn’t have the top spot overall, Sheeran’s year is something to behold, with three of the ten biggest songs this year belonging to him. Castle on the Hill and Shape of You hold spots 2 and 3 respectively, while the ever-present Galway Girl comes in at number 10 on the list.
As for the top spot overall, that dubious honour belongs to The Chainsmokers and Coldplay for their collab hit Something Just Like This, which spent a fairly remarkable seven weeks at the top of the charts, and eleven weeks overall in the top three.
Elsewhere in the top ten, Bruno Mars‘ smooth as silk That’s What I Like snared 4th spot overall, the blessed Lorde finds her way to #5 with her massive banger Green Light, and now-No Directioner Niall Horan took out the #9 spot for his hit Slow Hands.
Cop the full Commercial Radio Hottest 100 list below, and prepare to argue feverishly to your heart’s content.
2017 TMN COMMERCIAL RADIO HOTTEST 100
- The Chainsmokers & Coldplay – Something Just Like This
- Ed Sheeran – Castle on the Hill
- Ed Sheeran – Shape of You
- Bruno Mars – That’s What I Like
- Shawn Mendes – There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back
- Lorde – Green Light
- Andy Grammer – Fresh Eyes
- Julia Michaels – Issues
- Niall Horan – Slow Hands
- Ed Sheeran – Galway Girl
- Kaleo – Way Down We Go
- Zedd & Alessia Cara – Stay
- Lady Gaga – The Cure
- Jonas Blue – Mama
- The Chainsmokers – Paris
- Liam Payne – Strip That Down
- Rita Ora – Your Song
- Little Mix – Touch
- Jax Jones – You Don’t Know Me
- Alessia Cara – Scars To Your Beautiful
- Imagine Dragons – Thunder
- Charlie Puth – Attention
- Kygo & Selena Gomez – It Ain’t Me
- Sam Hunt – Body Like a Back Road
- PNAU – Chamelon
- Adele – Water Under the Bridge
- Clean Bandit – Symphony
- Frenship – Capsize
- Cheat Codes – No Promises
- Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa – Scared To Be Lonely
- ZAYN & Taylor Swift – I Don’t Wanna Live Forever
- The Weeknd – I Feel It Coming
- DJ Khaled – I’m The One
- Harry Styles – Sign Of The Times
- Calvin Harris – Feels
- Jessica Mauboy – Fallin’
- Bruno Mars – 24K Magic
- Peking Duk – Stranger
- Dean Lewis – Waves
- Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop The Feeling
- Macklemore – Glorious
- Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee – Despacito (Remix)
- Snakehips & MØ – Don’t Leave
- Starley – Call On Me
- French Montana – Unforgettable
- Kesha – Praying
- Rag’n’Bone Man – Human
- John Legend – Love Me Now
- DJ Khaled – Wild Thoughts
- Rudimental – Sun Comes Up
- James Arthur – Say You Won’t Let Go
- Jon Bellion – All Time Low
- P!NK – What About Us
- Hailee Steinfeld – Most Girls
- Demi Lovato – Sorry Not Sorry
- David Guetta – 2U
- Dua Lipa – New Rules
- Katy Perry – Chained To The Rhythm
- Clean Bandit – Rockabye
- Justin Bieber & Bloodpop – Friends
- John Gibbons – P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- Calum Scott – Dancing On My Own
- Amy Shark – Adore
- Miley Cyrus – Malibu
- Maggie Lindemann – Pretty Girl (Remix)
- Little Mix – Shout Out To My Ex
- Portugal. The Man – Feel It Still
- Childish Gambino – Redbone
- Lauv – I Like Me Better (Editor’s note: Nice)
- Calvin Harris – Slide
- Khalid – Young, Dumb & Broke
- Train – Play That Song
- The Weeknd – Starboy
- Sam Smith – Too Good At Goodbyes
- Avicii – Without You
- Hailee Steinfeld & Grey – Starving
- ZAYN – Dusk Till Dawn
- Vance Joy – Lay It On Me
- Neiked – Sexual
- Selena Gomez – Bad Liar
- Peking Duk – Fake Magic
- The Chainsmokers – Closer
- Maroon 5 – What Lovers Do
- Maroon 5 – Don’t Wanna Know
- DJ Snake – Let Me Love You
- Ed Sheeran – Perfect
- Camila Cabello – Havana
- Logic – 1-800-273-8255
- Enrique Iglesias – Subeme La Radio (Remix)
- Halsey – Now Or Never
- Macklemore – Good Old Days
- Adele – Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
- Morgan Evans – Kiss Somebody
- Drake – Passionfruit
- Taylor Swift – …Ready For It?
- Zara Larsson – I Would Like
- Niall Horan – Too Much To Ask
- Post Malone – rockstar
- J Balvin & Willy William – Mi Gente
- Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso – Let Me Go
