Over the space of 6 weeks, 100 Warm Tunas collected a large sum of data and chugged away at it to make some predictions about what the Hottest 100 of 2018 would look like.

In summary,

  • We collected 6,234 entries (13.6% decrease since 2017 🔻).
  • We tallied 58,463 votes across these entries (12.9% decrease since 2017 🔻).
  • 3.00% of votes were collected via Instagram direct message.
  • Triple J counted 2,758,584 votes.
  • Therefore, we collected a sample of 2.12%.
  • We successfully predicted #1
  • We predicted 7 out of the top 10 songs.
  • We predicted 15 out of the top 20 songs.
  • We predicted 83 out of the 100 songs played in the countdown.
  • Throughout December and January, 100warmtunas.com was loaded over 105,000 times by over 28,000 users.

You can read the full technical prediction analysis over at the 100 Warm Tunas news site.