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Double J Is Playing The Hottest 100 Of 1996 Today If You’re Up For A Trip Down Memory Lane

With the Hottest 100 of 2016 done and dusted for another year, Double J is now hitting the nostalgia button, announcing that it will play the Hottest 100 of 1996 in full today.

For those of you who wondered how a shark and a sultana made it in to the 2016 countdown, this one may be more familiar for you.

From midday today (12pm AEDT), Double J will start at 100 and countdown to number one, pretending like it’s 1996 all over again. And what a year it was too.

Without spoiling the number one spot, the 1996 countdown included some of the most iconic names in music. Powderfinger picked up three spots, as did The Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam while The Prodigy, Garbage and You Am I all faired well with two each.

Interestingly, not one of the acts in the countdown made the Hottest 100 of 2017 although a number of the artists did release music in 2016. Metallica, Underworld and Garbage all released records last year.

Tomorrow, triple j will roll out the songs that placed 101-200 in the countdown but if the ’90s are more your thing, tune into Double J today.



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