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The Wiggles make history by topping Australia’s triple j Hottest 100 of 2021 countdown with Tame Impala cover
The Wiggles have made history by topping Australia’s triple j Hottest 100 of 2021 countdown with their Like A Version cover of Tame Impala’s ‘Elephant’.The beloved children’s entertainers were the hot favourites to take out the youth broadcaster’s annual listener-voted poll by algorithmic predictor 100 Warm Tunas. It marks the first time a cover has ever landed in the top spot.The Wiggles made their debut on triple j’s Like A Version cover series in March with the cover, which interpolated lyrics from The Wiggles’ own ‘Fruit Salad’. Coming in at number two was The Kid LAROI with his global smash hit with Justin Bieber, ‘Stay’, which marks the highest position an Indigenous Australian artist – The Kid LAROI is of Gamilaroi heritage – has taken in the countdown.