When the Triple J Hottest 100 is announced on Saturday it will make history no matter who wins: it’s the last Hottest 100 of the Richard Kingsmill era.
The influential broadcaster – who, fairly or otherwise, had a rep for making and breaking young artists’ careers with an iron thumb – left the station in a rumoured redundancy in December, after 35 years at the ABC’s youth station. He joined in 1988, the same year the countdown was born.
