VH1 has a weeklong special on the top 100 songs of the 2000's(2000-2009) and the #1 song was Crazy In Love by Beyonce. I don't agree with that. My pick would be Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z. What's yours?

It was a very, very, very weak decade in music.
Songs that will probably remember people 10, 20 ... years later.

Beyonce - Single Ladies
Britney Spears - Everytime
Destiny's Child - Independent Vomen
Eminem - Lose Yourself
outkast - Hey Ya!
Usher - Yeah!
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around ... Comes Around
Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind

In addition to these, I can not remember anything very well-known and potentially popular for many years.

LiLi1992 said:

It was a very, very, very weak decade in music.
Songs that will probably remember people 10, 20 ... years later.

Beyonce - Single Ladies
Britney Spears - Everytime
Destiny's Child - Independent Vomen
Eminem - Lose Yourself
outkast - Hey Ya!
Usher - Yeah!
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around ... Comes Around
Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind

In addition to these, I can not remember anything very well-known and potentially popular for many years.

That list is downright pathetic. Absolutely terrible.

Believe it or not, I wish the labels still held the cards.

[Edited 10/9/11 8:20am]

breese said:

LiLi1992 said:

It was a very, very, very weak decade in music.
Songs that will probably remember people 10, 20 ... years later.

Beyonce - Single Ladies
Britney Spears - Everytime
Destiny's Child - Independent Vomen
Eminem - Lose Yourself
outkast - Hey Ya!
Usher - Yeah!
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around ... Comes Around
Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind

In addition to these, I can not remember anything very well-known and potentially popular for many years.

That list is downright pathetic. Absolutely terrible.

Believe it or not, I wish the labels still held the cards.

[Edited 10/9/11 8:20am]

I just looked over the charts chose the most famous and succesful songs, no personal bias.
The Decade was frankly weak, it is obvious.
Full degradation of the pop and rock music. Perhaps that is why I love retro!

Where is your list, wise guy?

Buckcherry - Too Drunk

Terrib3Towel said:

The 2000s don't have that many great songs

There's thousands of albums released each year, and if you've never heard them, how do you know if they're good or not? If some people are depending on the radio or music video programs for music, then that's their fault.

MickyDolenz said:

Terrib3Towel said:

The 2000s don't have that many great songs

There's thousands of albums released each year, and if you've never heard them, how do you know if they're good or not? If some people are depending on the radio or music video programs for music, then that's their fault.

That was the way it was done for the better part of the last century. It was streamlined and it made sense. I miss it.

Where are we supposed to go to find good stuff nowadays? Seriously, tell me. I don't really know.

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[Edited 5/8/18 16:12pm]

That list was messed up. Crazy In Love wasn't even the most popular song when it was out, how could it be the biggest of the entire decade? And Hey Ya for number 2, don't get me wrong, I love that song and Outkast, and it's cool to see a song I like be high on the list, but let's be realistic, number 2 is too high of a position for that song. And no offense, but Empire State Of Mind would have been another bad choice for number 1.

I'm not much of an Eminem fan, he's okay I guess, but I'm not too into him. But for him to only have one song on there is just idiotic.

That list was full of songs that were either not the most popular of the time when they were out, or WERE the most popular, but didn't have a position on that list that makes sense.

Lists are shit but not recognizing at least one Pink song ("Get the Party Started" at least) is ridiculous!

I was suprised no Lil Wayne Lollipop.

breese said:

MickyDolenz said:

There's thousands of albums released each year, and if you've never heard them, how do you know if they're good or not? If some people are depending on the radio or music video programs for music, then that's their fault.

That was the way it was done for the better part of the last century. It was streamlined and it made sense. I miss it.

Where are we supposed to go to find good stuff nowadays? Seriously, tell me. I don't really know.

I don't think blues, classical, jazz, and other non-top 40 music listeners depended on the radio for music, because these types of music got little if any mainstream airplay. They manage to find the music they enjoy, because they seek it out.

Well like with all lists... this list is full of biasedness and is only geared toward popularity. This was the most suckiest era for music and its funny cause this era consisted of most of my young childhood LOL

I think the only song with good merit on the list is Hey Ya for that decade that was popular... and like Timmy84 said I dont know how Pink didnt make the list. Pink is very underrated in general.

DiscoFunkChick said:

LiLi1992 said:

It was a very, very, very weak decade in music.
Songs that will probably remember people 10, 20 ... years later.

Beyonce - Single Ladies
Britney Spears - Everytime
Destiny's Child - Independent Vomen
Eminem - Lose Yourself
outkast - Hey Ya!
Usher - Yeah!
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around ... Comes Around
Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind

In addition to these, I can not remember anything very well-known and potentially popular for many years.

The ones in bold I agree with, along with:

Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back

Amy Winehouse - Rehab

Lady Gaga - Poker Face

Alicia Keys - No One

R. Kelly - Step In The Name of Love

Jay-Z - Show Me What You Got

Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started

Those are some pretty popular songs (they would have to be for me to actually know them) and I even like a good half dozen of them but.....

Wow that is amazingly bad!!!! Those should MAYBE be contenders for best song of a single YEAR. THere is barely a single song that is even a serious song.

I don't see how the industry could survive with that shit. Maybe the next decade will be better for music.

breese said:

MickyDolenz said:

There's thousands of albums released each year, and if you've never heard them, how do you know if they're good or not? If some people are depending on the radio or music video programs for music, then that's their fault.

That was the way it was done for the better part of the last century. It was streamlined and it made sense. I miss it.

Where are we supposed to go to find good stuff nowadays? Seriously, tell me. I don't really know.

I read music publications and websites that I know cater to my tastes. Word of mouth from friends or even right here on the org helps too. I've found A LOT of great music since 2000 this way--Goldfrapp, The Horrors, Dum Dum Girls, etc.

LiLi1992 said:

It was a very, very, very weak decade in music.
Songs that will probably remember people 10, 20 ... years later.

Beyonce - Single Ladies
Britney Spears - Everytime
Destiny's Child - Independent Vomen
Eminem - Lose Yourself
outkast - Hey Ya!
Usher - Yeah!
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around ... Comes Around
Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind

In addition to these, I can not remember anything very well-known and potentially popular for many years.

Besides Mimi's "We Belong Together", I don't know the lyrics to any of those other songs.

What a shit decade, unbelievably shit infact! WAY too many R&B songs, what an embarrasment to be alive during this period of time, glad to say i'm a child of the 90's music instead

LiLi1992 said:

It was a very, very, very weak decade in music.
Songs that will probably remember people 10, 20 ... years later.

Beyonce - Single Ladies
Britney Spears - Everytime
Destiny's Child - Independent Vomen
Eminem - Lose Yourself
outkast - Hey Ya!
Usher - Yeah!
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around ... Comes Around
Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind

In addition to these, I can not remember anything very well-known and potentially popular for many years.

I agree but the weakness weighs heavier in the 2nd half, 2005 - 2010.

A couple of ideas that focus on R&B/Hip Hop Soul.

Angie Stone - "I Wanna Thank You"

Erica Badu - "Back In the Day"

Donnell Jones "You Know I Love You"

Beyonce "Naughty Girl"

Timbaland "Give it To Me"