00:00Triple M reveals its most played songs ever, and yep, it's extraordinary.
00:05Extremely Aussie.
00:07If you've ever flicked on Triple M and immediately been hit with a song,
00:10that feels like it's lived in your bloodstream forever,
00:13there's now hard data to back that.
00:15To mark 45 years on air, Triple M has crunched...
00:20...the numbers across its entire broadcast history,
00:23and unveiled its most played songs of all time.
00:25Measured purely by airplay, not votes, hype, or recency bias.
00:30Just the songs Aussies have heard, requested, replayed, and never forgotten.
00:35Taking out the top spot, none other than Genggajang's...
00:39...Sounds of Them.
00:40Six of the top ten songs are Australian, including pub rock and radio...
00:45...staples like INXS's Don't Change, Paul Kelly, and The Messenger's Dumb Thing.
00:50ACDC's You Shook Me All Night Long, Choir Boy's Run to Paradise...
00:55...and The Screaming Jets better.
00:57Rounding out the top tier are global juggernauts like...
01:00...Van Halen's Jump, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, Lenny Kravitz's Are You Gonna...
01:05...Go My Way, and Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer.
01:09The station says...
01:10...The Countdown is less about ranking and more about documenting cultural muscle memory.
01:15These songs raised us.
01:17The Triple M team shared on socials.
01:19They built the city.
01:20The Station.
01:21Unlike a traditional countdown, this list isn't designed for debate.
01:25It's simply a statistical reflection of what's endured.
01:29Across nearly half...
01:30...of the century, millions of songs were played.
01:32And for the first time, all of them were counted.
01:35The result is a 600-song monster list spanning generations, genres, and even...
01:40...in the last few years.
01:41From cold chisels, kiai-san, and midnight oils, beds are burning.
01:45Through to Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Fleetwood Mac.
01:50Powder Finger, Crowded House, The Cure, Blink 182, John...
01:55...Farnham, and more.
01:56It's a living archive of Aussie rock radio faves.
02:00Even Ganga-jong frontman Mark Cal Callahan sounded stunned by the result, telling the station
02:05What the heck?
02:06That's amazing!
02:07It was a song that just came out of the ether somewhere.
02:10In a poetic twist, Callahan revealed he's currently house-sitting in Kiribili,
02:15staring out at the same block of flats where he recorded the original demo of Sounds of
02:20Then...
02:20...back in 1982 on an 8-track recorder.
02:23And 40-plus years later...
02:25...it's still playing.
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