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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange“come Saturday’s countdown, with only two local acts tipped for top-10 spots – and just one original #Australian song”
Just one in the top 10. Why listen to JJJ?
#radio / #TripleJ / #JJJ / #ABCRadio / #AusMusic / #music / #straya 
<https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/23/hottest-100-2025-triple-j-winner-predictions-chappell-roan-charli-xcx-billie-eilish>
“Australian (music) #festivals are really struggling at the moment because of the strength of the #Australian dollar, and #travel costs are through the roof."
Feature more Australian bands then…
#AusMusic / #music <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-23/splendour-in-the-grass-2025-cancelled/104850614>
“A #CompleteUnknown doesn't shy away from Dylan being "kind of an asshole",”
Yep
#Cinema / #Music / #RockMusic <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-23/a-complete-unknown-review-bob-dylan-timothee-chalamet/104843028>
Watching Martin Scorsese’s “No Direction Home” the film “Complete Unknown” mirrors the archival footage and timeline.
<https://archive.org/details/no-direction-home-bob-dylan-2005-pt-2>
@peterrenshaw I’m not a JJJ listener, but isn’t the point of a top 100 that they are the best songs, not that they are Australian?
Is it entirely possible that music people like is chosen because they’re banging beats, not because they’re made by people who also shop at Colesworths? Does the fact that Aussies have not voted for Aussies mean that music coming out of other places (US, UK) is simply better?
Commercial radio has a legal quota to play a certain amount of Australian music. (JJJ, as I understand it, plays even more). But doesn’t the JJJ hottest 100 rather make the point that those Aussie artists aren’t making the cut?
@james No
“What we really wanted to do was give attention to bands who might not have made a single, who might not be played by commercial radio, they weren't successful, but they were writing successful songs," says founding presenter Chris Winter. "It's hard to believe now but Mental As Anything and Midnight Oil were two such bands. Many bands weren't ever gonna get heard on commercial radio if they weren't mimicking the sounds of overseas, they weren't particularly capable of fitting into a format," — #MidnightOil, #PeterGarrett
Australian acts front and centre, everyone else in “overseas slop” slots. Whats the point of a national #broadcaster highlighting ForeignContent before our own #homegrown? In an interconnected world you can tune into foreign music. Where do you tune in for Australian acts?
#AusMusic / #radio / #music <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G55rb-Gg6vE>
@james “#Aussie #artists aren’t making the cut?”
Lol, show your Artists not making the cut 
Tracy McNeil <https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/albums/72157719357889857>
Olympia <https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/albums/72157711618083882>
CableTies <https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/albums/72177720297459229>
SFK <https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/albums/72177720307998121/>
MidnightOil <https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/albums/72177720297700215>
Julia Jacklin <https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/albums/72177720306710324>
RVG <https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/albums/72177720311910901>
… thats just the tip of 
Aus talent that plays in Melb/Overseas
#AusMusic / #Melbourne / #Rock
Triplej has a mandated quota of 40% Australian music. It consistently plays above 50% Aussie music.
The Hottest 100 reflects the audience’s choice, not the radio station. If the audience isn’t voting for Australian acts, then it’s hardly the radio station’s fault. It’s playing them - so why is the audience not voting for them?
I fear you are shooting the messenger.
@peterrenshaw Triple J plays lots of Aussie music, but it's no longer the force it was (no radio station is) and the vast majority of voters probably do not listen to Triple J more than once a year. Having said that, don't take the Warm Tunas predictions as gospel - Australian music tends to do very well, with e.g. 52/100 songs last year including numbers 2, 3, and 4.