Live gigs and festivals are being cancelled around the world, so to help support artists, triple j is holding a special edition of their annual Ausmusic T-Shirt Day on Friday 17 April.
 
Plus, they’ll be playing Australian music all day across the ABC’s networks including triple j, Double J, triple j Unearthed, ABC Radio, ABC Country, ABC Classic and ABC Jazz.
 

After crunching the numbers, triple j can reveal that 2012 was the hottest year of the decade for listeners.
 
That means that songs from 2012 will pop up in the Hottest Songs of the Decade countdowns more than songs from any other year.
 
Here’s who the 1,869,659 votes came from: 

On International Women’s Day, Sunday March 8, triple j is celebrating with music programmed and presented by women and featuring some of the best female music from the last decade.

Voting for triple j’s Hottest 100 of the Decade begins on Tuesday with the countdown on Saturday 14 March.
 

Following the announcement from triple j Drive host Veronica Milsom that she is leaving, Michael Hing has been announced as her replacement.
 
On leaving triple j, Veronica said “I’ll really miss triple j, but I’m excited about the advertising opportunities once I leave. Sometimes I wonder if collaborating with a major sporting brand will feel disgusting and shameless, but my gut says Just Do It.”
 

Veronica has decided to break up the successful triple j Drive partnership of Veronica & Lewis.

She says it's so she can care for her own babies and not Lewis. "It’s the end of an era, my friends. Veronica, Big Ron Dog, Hot Ron, is headed off on maternity leave from Triple J soon, and this time she’s not coming back. Yep, she’s leaving us – and her eldest dependent Lewis – for good, and this is truly the crappiest end to a hell of a week."

In an historic year when the 2019 Hottest 100 broke the voting record and Billie Eilish became the youngest and first female artist to top the poll, more than 4,800 triple j listeners donated over $250,000 to Greening Australia. 
 

The ABC will focus on the communities most affected by the ongoing bushfires as part of its 2020 Australia Day coverage while emergency broadcasting will remain at the core of its service for those communities still under threat from bushfires. 

triple j listeners have once again broken the voting record by placing 3,211,596 votes in the 2019 Hottest 100, beating last year’s vote tally by 16.4%.
 
That’s a lot of young people who are very passionate about what they consider the hottest songs of the year.
 
Here’s who the votes came from, which could very well influence the content of the countdown:
 
•            3,211,596 total votes, up 16.4% from last year