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Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Top 100 Songs from 2000-2009

Top 100 Songs of the Decade:

2000-2009

These are the top 100 songs from the 2000s according to Dave’s Music Database. Rankings are figured by combining sales figures, chart data, radio airplay, video airplay, streaming figures, awards, and appearances on best-of lists.

Check out other “songs of the decade” lists here.

1. OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003)
2. Eminem “Lose Yourself” (2002)
3. Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (2009)
4. Beyoncé “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” (2008)
5. Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!” (2004)
6. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
7. Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love” (2003)
8. Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella” (2007)
9. The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” (2003)
10. Flo Rida with T-Pain “Low” (2007)

11. Lady Gaga “Poker Face” (2009)
12. Kanye West with Jamie Foxx “Gold Digger” (2005)
13. 50 Cent “In Da Club” (2002)
14. Coldplay “Viva La Vida” (2008)
15. Mariah Carey “We Belong Together” (2005)
16. The Killers “Mr. Brightside” (2004)
17. Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow” (2009)
18. Jason Mraz “I’m Yours” (2008)
19. Lady Gaga “Bad Romance” (2009)
20. Nickelback “How You Remind Me” (2001)

21. Nelly “Hot in Herre” (2002)
22. Ke$ha “Tik Tok” (2009)
23. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now” (2009)
24. U2 “Beautiful Day” (2000)
25. Jay-Z with Alicia Keys “Empire State of Mind” (2009)
26. Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” (2007)
27. Justin Timberlake “Sexyback” (2006)
28. Alicia Keys “No One” (2007)
29. Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (2004)
30. Lady Gaga with Colby O’Donnis “Just Dance” (2008)

31. Alicia Keys “Fallin’” (2001)
32. Eminem with Dido “Stan” (2000)
33. Amy Winehouse “Rehab” (2006)
34. Kylie Minogue “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” (2001)
35. Shakira with Wyclef Jean “Hips Don’t Lie” (2006)
36. James Blunt “You’re Beautiful” (2005)
37. One Republic with Timbaland “Apologize” (2007)
38. Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (2009)
39. Johnny Cash “Hurt” (2003)
40. Taylor Swift “Love Story” (2008)

41. Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” (2004)
42. Beyoncé “Irreplaceable” (2006)
43. Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance” (2000)
44. Coldplay “Clocks” (2002)
45. Nelly with Kelly Rowland “Dilemma” (2002)
46. Daniel Powter “Bad Day” (2005)
47. Eminem “The Real Slim Shady” (2000)
48. Missy Elliott “Get Ur Freak On” (2001)
49. Linkin Park “In the End” (2000)
50. Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone” (2004)

51. Britney Spears “Toxic” (2003)
52. Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars” (2006)
53. OutKast “Ms. Jackson” (2000)
54. Katy Perry “I Kissed a Girl” (2008)
55. Madonna “Music” (2000)
56. Fergie “Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)” (2007)
57. 3 Doors Down “Kryptonite” (2000)
58. Train “Hey, Soul Sister” (2009)
59. Evanesence with Paul McCoy “Bring Me to Life” (2003)
60. Lil Wayne with Static Major “Lollipop” (2008)

61. Avril Lavigne “Complicated” (2002)
62. Nelly Furtado with Timbaland “Promiscuous” (2006)
63. Kanye West with Daft Punk “Stronger” (2007)
64. Coldplay “Yellow” (2000)
65. Destiny’s Child “Independent Women” (2000)
66. Eminem “Without Me” (2002)
67. Train “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” (2001)
68. Norah Jones “Don’t Know Why” (2002)
69. Gwen Stefani “Hollaback Girl” (2005)
70. Kings of Leon “Use Somebody” (2008)

71. Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” (2005)
72. The Strokes “Last Nite” (2001)
73. Hoobastank “The Reason” (2003)
74. Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” (2005)
75. N Sync “Bye Bye Bye” (2000)
76. Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah” (2005)
77. M.I.A. “Paper Planes” (2007)
78. Taylor Swift “You Belong with Me” (2008)
79. Soulja Boy Tell’em “Crank That (Soulja Boy)…” (2007)
80. Black Eyed Peas with Justin Timberlake “Where Is the Love?” (2003)

81. Alan Jackson “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning” (2001)
82. Jay-Z “99 Problems” (2003)
83. Christina Aguilera with Lil’ Kim, Mya, & Pink “Lady Marmalade” (2001)
84. Flo Rida & Ke$ha “Right Round” (2009)
85. The Fray “How to Save a Life” (2005)
86. The White Stripes “Fell in Love with a Girl” (2001)
87. Mario “Let Me Love You” (2004)
88. Snoop Dogg with Pharrell Williams “Drop It Like It’s Hot” (2004)
89. Linkin Park “Numb” (2003)
90. Kid Rock “All Summer Long” (2007)

91. Gorillaz with De La Soul “Feel Good Inc.” (2005)
92. Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying” (2004)
93. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California” (2006)
94. Avril Lavigne “Girlfriend” (2007)
95. Staind “It’s Been Awhile” (2001)
96. Rihanna “Disturbia” (2008)
97. T.I. with Rihanna “Live Your Life” (2008)
98. 50 Cent with Olivia “Candy Shop” (2005)
99. Owl City “Fireflies” (2009)
100. Green Day “American Idiot” (2004)

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “‘Songs of the Decade’ lists”
Dave’s Music Database: “‘Albums of the Decade’ lists”
Dave’s Music Database: “The 2000s: The Top 909 at 90.9 The Bridge”

First posted 6/11/2015; last updated 1/26/2026.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Taylor Swift hit #1 on the AC charts with “You Belong with Me”

You Belong with Me

Taylor Swift

Writer(s): Taylor Swift, Liz Rose (see lyrics here)

Released: April 18, 2009

First Charted: November 22, 2008

Peak: 2 US, 1¹ RR, 1¹⁴ AC, 2 A40, 1² CW, 30 UK, 3 CN, 4 AU, 10 DF (Click for codes to singles charts.)

Sales (in millions): 7.0 US, 0.6 UK, 8.35 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 0.7 radio, 1201.24 video, -- streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Taylor Swift took the world by storm in 2008-2009. Her second album, Fearless, pulled off the astonishing feat of sending twelve of its 13 songs into the Billboard Hot 100. Four went top ten, with “You Belong with Me” being the biggest. The song also gave her a fourth trip to the top of the country charts and marked her second ascension to the pinnacle of the adult contemporary chart (following “Love Story”). It was also the first song in nearly a decade (the last being Faith Hill’s “Breathe” in 2000) to simultaneously chart in the top 5 of the Hot 100 and country charts. ^WK and the first country song to top the Billboard Hot 100 radio airplay chart ^AB’00

Swift somehow “made teen love, angst, and romance sound incredibly fresh again.” ^AB’00 She explained that she overheard a friend’s conversation and wrote the song’s first line, “You’re on the phone with your girlfriend/ She’s upset, going off about something that you said.” ^SF The song hit on the idea that, as she told MTV News, “somehow the popular girl gets the guy every time” even though she “doesn’t appreciate him at all.” ^WK She extended the idea “that I’m in love with him and he should be with me instead of her,” ^SF and highlighted the differences between the two women with lines like “She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts.” ^SF

The video for the song was shot at the high school in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where her brother went. ^SF Lucas Till, from Hannah Montana: The Movie, starred as her love interest and in case of life imitating art, the two dated for a short time after doing the video. ^SF The video’s director, Roman White, said the sparks between the two were evident to everyone on set. He joked, “How many kisses did we go through? I stopped counting at, like, 45.” ^SF

Swift became the first country artist to win an MTV Video Music Award, landing the prize for Best Female Video at the 2009 Awards. Her win was overshadowed when rapper Kanye West interrupted her acceptance speech to proclaim his opinion that Beyoncé should have won the award. When Beyoncé won Video of the Year for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” she graciously invited Swift back on stage to finish her speech.

Resources:

DMDB encyclopedia entry for Taylor Swift
^SF Songfacts
^WK Wikipedia

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Jason Mraz spent record-setting 70th week on Hot 100 with “I’m Yours”