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The Wiggles' Tame Impala cover has taken out the countdown - so let's take a look back over the history of covers in the Hottest 100.

Beyond The Valley to go ahead as two-day inner-city event in 2021

Advertisement Legendary Australian adman Neil Lawrence was a long-time fan of the American singer-songwriter Randy Newman. One of his most treasured possessions: an autographed copy of Little Criminals, the 1977 LP that included the cheeky single Short People. So Newman’s Feels Like Home was a no-brainer when, in 2014, ideas for a new Qantas marketing campaign were percolating in Lawrence’s head. Martha Marlow, who was approved by Randy Newman to sing Feels Like Home, at Gordons Ba...

Big Brother returns to Seven tomorrow night, hosted again by Sonia Kruger. In the first week, 20 housemates will enter the house for up to 60 days, cut off from the outside world, with cameras and microphones recording their every move 24 hours a day. Housemates will compete in epic Nomination Challenges in “The Basement” and new challenge arena, “The Yard,” to win the power to nominate their fellow housemates for eviction. There’ll be an eviction every episode in which housemates wil...

That’s a wrap! The Hottest 100 of 2020 is now locked into the countdown history books. But is it really all over if we haven’t pored over all the weird facts and figures from your fave songs from The Very Weird, No Good Year that was? Glass Animals took out the #1 spot and there’s a neat inforgraphic but as is annual tradition, it’s time to pick over all the statistics and trivia in detail. Let’s do it! 66 songs in the countdown came from Australian artists. That’s tied with 2016 ...