ABC rejects Hottest 100 was manipulated

The ABC has rejected suggestions that Triple J's Hottest 100 poll was manipulated or
that it tried to censor a story on the countdown.
A report in The Australian says insiders at the public broadcaster expected a story
about the iconic countdown to go to air on radio show Hack on Monday night, but it
was pulled at the last minute.
The reporters allegedly analysed the voting, and found a different outcome to the
final list.
The story reportedly questioned whether voting had been manipulated by CD sales,
after this year's list contained no female artists and the absence of big names like
Bob Dylan.
ABC's head of radio Kate Dundas rejected the accusations, saying the story fell
apart because the reporters were using an algorithm based on data which was missing
more than 10 per cent of the votes.
"The management of triple J and ABC Radio fully stand behind the integrity of the
Hottest 100 of All Time countdown," Dundas said in a statement to AAP.
"Hack initially pursued a story because they had obtained raw data of the vote which
looked like some of the songs in the Hottest 100 of All Time were wrongly included
and others missed out.
"Unfortunately the data they used consisted of only 487,820 votes, whereas there
were more than 545,000 votes in the Hottest 100 of All Time."
A source backed up Dundas, saying they thought there was no way the list had been
tampered with.