The Hottest 100 is nearly upon us.

We're almost there, which means it's the perfect time to take a look at countdowns past.

On Sunday nights, The Hottest 100 Tally Room has been dipping into the archives to pull out some interesting bits and pieces from previous years, thanks to triple j's stats guru Patrick Avenell.

In the more than two decades of the Hottest 100, some pretty cool trends have emerged. Keep these in your back pocket to claim bragging rights at your party.

Most common song title

A song called 'Run' has appeared in the Hottest 100 five times in the last 15 years.

George were first with their 2001 single, followed by Snow Patrol in 2004, Cog the following year, San Cisco in 2014 and Alison Wonderland in 2015.

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Doubling up

There have been a few instances where an original and a cover have both appeared in the same Hottest 100.

The first was in the original 1989 countdown, when Prince's 'Kiss' clocked in at #34, trumped by the cover version from Art of Noise featuring Tom Jones, coming in at #24.

In 1998, 'Harpoon' appeared twice with Jebediah's original cracking the Top 10 while Something For Kate's cover popped up at #85. Then in 2004, Scissor Sisters' loungey, honky take on Franz Ferdinand's 'Take Me Out' was voted in at #44 while the Scots' angular original famously claimed the #1 spot that year.

The feat wouldn't be repeated until 2013 when Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' hit #3 with San Cisco's bongo-happy Like A Version rendition ranking at #39.

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Shortest song title

This award is shared between Kendrick Lamar, who made his second-ever appearance in the 2014 Countdown with 'i', and Catfish and The Bottlemen, whose track '7' came in at #19 last year.

Pity Regurgitator didn't drop the parentheses from '! (The Song Formerly Known As)', which hit the Top 10 of 1998, or we might have had a three-way tie.

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Longest song title

The honour of having the lengthiest name in Hottest 100 history falls to Panic! At The Disco, who charted at #91 in 2006 with their song 'The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage'.

That's pretty full on.

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Longest song

Some real epics have appeared in the countdown over the years.

At just over six minutes, Muse's 2006 rhapsody 'Knights Of Cydonia' is the longest song to top the Hottest 100 but there's been longer tunes to chart from Tool ('Vicarious' in 2006 at 7:06), Tame Impala ('Let It Happen' in 2015 at 7:48), Blur ('Tender' in 1999 at 7:41), and Flight Facilities (the nearly 8-min 'Claire De Lune' in 2012), to name a few.

But the longest song is actually a tie between Green Day's 'Jesus Of Suburbia' (#61 in 2005) and Kanye West's 'Runaway' (at #14 in 2010) — both clocking in at 9:02 minutes.

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Shortest song

On the other end of the spectrum, there's plenty of tracks that have clocked in under radio's 3-minute benchmark. Well under, in fact, and most provided by homegrown artists.

Spiderbait became the first Australian band to top the Hottest 100 in 1996 with their 1:41 minute sprint 'Buy Me A Pony', returning in 1997 with the 1:51 long 'Calypso' (at #23).

Eskimo Joe and The Vines each provided a very successful 90 seconds of music: 'Ruby Wednesday' at #99 in 1999 from the former and 'Highly Evolved' at #19 in 2002 from the latter.

But Frenzal Rhomb are the masters of the succinct with 'Russell Crowe's Band' — charting at #26 in 2003 — clocking in at just a minute and 12 seconds.

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Biggest Unearthed success

There's been a tonne of Hottest 100 hits over the years from artists that we first discovered on triple j Unearthed, but some of the more memorable include San Cisco, who reached #7 in the 2011 countdown with 'Awkward', just months after uploading the song to their triplejunearthed.com profile.

Amy Shark's breakout single 'Adore' was also on her Unearthed page in 2016 - the same year it reached #2 in the Hottest 100. (The song has since been removed due to label licensing.)

The biggest and best position for an Unearthed affiliated artist? That'd be #1 song 'Riptide' by Vance Joy, which was uploaded on his Unearthed page in 2012 before it was re-released the next year and shot straight to the top of the 2013 Hottest 100.

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Something a lil' spooky

Here's an odd lil' bit of trivia. In 1997, The Verve's 'The Drugs Don't Work' charted at #22. It re-appeared in the exact same position four years later, courtesy of Ben Harper's version.

The Living End also had a spooky little Hottest 100 moment, thanks to their double-A side single 'Second Solution/Prisoner Of Society' in the late '90s.

We'll let Patrick explain: "At the time, it broke the record for the longest running single in the ARIA Top 50 charts. It crossed over a year. In 1997, we voted the A-side, 'Prisoner of Society', #15. And in 1998, we voted the B-side, 'Second Solution', #15."

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Back to back

It's actually pretty common for an artist to have one song place right after another. It's happened in 15 of the 24 countdowns.

"The very first time it happened was 1994, and Counting Crows, would you believe, came in #48 ('Mr Jones') and #47 ('Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman)'')," Patrick said.

"Later in the countdown at #3 and #4 were The Offspring, with 'Self Esteem' at #3 and 'Come Out And Play' at #4."

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Back to back to back?

No act has ever gone three in a row. But we've come close — twice.

"In 1998, Quan Yeomans had three songs in a row. He had a song with Happyland at #28 ('Don't You Know Who I Am'), then he had two songs with Regurgitator at #27 ('I Like Your Old Remix Better Than Your New Remix') and #26 ('Polyester Girl')."

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Dave Grohl did it, too. In 2002, he had Foo Fighters at #13 ('All My Life'), Nirvana at #12 ('You Know You're Right'), and then Foo Fighters at #11 ('The One').