{"id":281143,"date":"2026-01-12T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281143\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:21:08","slug":"sneak-a-peek-at-these-early-stats-from-the-hottest-100-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281143\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak a peek at these early stats from the Hottest 100 of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re mere days away from voting closing in the Hottest 100 of 2025 and we&#8217;ve got some spicy stats to share with you.<\/p>\n<p>As is tradition, we&#8217;ve taken a sneaky peek at the list as it stands and sniffed out a few key things about the polling that made our jaws collectively drop.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>The Hottest 100 of 2025 is coming in as a very close race this year, with back to backs, ties and neck-and-necks right across the list.<\/p>\n<p>Things are moving fast in the list too \u2013 some of these stats have changed from when we first looked at the list this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Voting officially closes at 5pm AEDT on Thursday 15 January, so get your votes in because it could change everything between now and countdown day on January 24.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your early peek at how the votes are starting to shake out.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">#97 and #96 are currently tied in votes<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">four songs are separated by one vote<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">one artist has a back-to-back<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">five votes split #101 and #100<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">three artists are tied with the most entries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So we&#8217;re not joking when we say that every vote counts! Pull your finger out and lock your list in before Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/triplej\/countdown\/hottest100\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">VOTE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re mere days away from voting closing in the Hottest 100 of 2025 and we&#8217;ve got some spicy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,141775,141776,141772,141774,19,17,337,29525,38281,141773],"class_list":{"0":"post-281143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hottest-100-how-to-vote","11":"tag-hottest-100-list","12":"tag-hottest-100-of-2025","13":"tag-hottest-100-voting","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-the_latest","18":"tag-triple-j","19":"tag-triple-j-hottest-100"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115883284164690945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}