Stan
2000 · From The Marshall Mathers LP
The 45 King looped Dido under four letters, and Eminem's fan character ended up in the Oxford dictionary.
★ 8.7
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Showing 40 songs from 2000
Ms. Jackson
2000 · From Stankonia
Andre 3000 apologizing to Erykah Badu's mother, who liked it enough to buy a Ms. Jackson license plate.
★ 8.7
One More Time
2000 · From Discovery
Romanthony's vocal pushed through auto-tune over a slowed Eddie Johns disco sample, filtered until the chorus explodes.
★ 8.3
B.O.B.
2000 · From Stankonia
Bombs Over Baghdad at 155 beats per minute, drum and bass colliding with a gospel choir and a guitar solo.
★ 8.2
Everything In Its Right Place
2000 · From Kid A
Radiohead opened Kid A with no guitars at all, just a Prophet-5 and Yorke's voice diced in Pro Tools.
★ 7.6
Yellow
2000 · From Parachutes
Ken Nelson pointed at the stars outside Rockfield, and Martin sang the melody in his worst Neil Young impression.
★ 7.4
The Real Slim Shady
2000 · From The Marshall Mathers LP
Iovine wanted another "My Name Is," so Eminem wrote this hours before the album was due. It hit number four.
★ 7.3
Beautiful Day
2000 · From All That You Can't Leave Behind
Eno programmed the drum machine, Lanois played the Telecaster, and the Edge won the argument for his old delay-drenched sound.
★ 6.9
Porcelain
2000
Moby nearly left it off Play; a reversed string sample from the Exodus score, cut in his Little Italy apartment.
★ 6.4
Independent Women
2000
Written for the Charlie's Angels soundtrack, eleven straight weeks at number one, and Michelle Williams's first single with the group.
★ 6.0
Down to the River to Pray
2000 · From O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
Printed as "The Good Old Way" in an 1867 collection of slave songs, and Krauss makes it sound weightless.
★ 5.9
Me Gustas Tu
2000 · From Proxima Estacion: Esperanza
Three guitar chords, spoken city names saluting Havana's Radio Reloj, and a list of small pleasures that lands on you.
★ 5.8
Bye Bye Bye
2000
Andreas Carlsson reportedly wrote the lyric during a Stockholm driving test; Cheiron's producers built pop's most decisive exit.
★ 5.8
I'll Fly Away
2000 · From O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
A 1932 hymn Brumley began while picking cotton, carried here by Krauss and Welch over mandolin and guitar.
★ 5.6
Teenage Dirtbag
2000
Number one in Australia, number two in Britain, built from Brown's memory of Long Island parents fearing metal records.
★ 5.5
Trouble
2000 · From Parachutes
Recorded four times before Ken Nelson kept one, and Martin, by his account, apologizing for behaving badly toward his band.
★ 5.4
Kryptonite
2000
Fifteen years old and stuck in a math class when Arnold wrote it; he sang it from the drum stool.
★ 5.1
Drive (Incubus)
2000
Boyd called it a song about fear, and Scott Litt's production pulls the band down to acoustic guitar.
★ 5.0
Country Grammar
2000
A children's clapping rhyme, "Down Down Baby," rebuilt into a hook by Jay E, and St. Louis had its record.
★ 5.0
One (Johnny Cash)
2000 · From American III: Solitary Man
Rick Rubin's arrangement leaves it bare, and Cash, his voice thinned by illness, turns U2's Berlin song into a reckoning.
★ 4.8
Last Resort
2000
Bassist Tobin Esperance wrote that riff on a piano, and Shaddix built a nu-metal standard about despair over it.
★ 4.8
I Hope You Dance
2000
Sanders and Sillers wrote it in 1999; five weeks at country number one, and every graduation since has borrowed it.
★ 4.6
It's Gonna Be Me
2000
Max Martin coached Timberlake into pronouncing the last word "may", and 'N Sync got their only Hot 100 number one.
★ 4.4
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Hello Operator
2000 · From De Stijl
Jack White turned a children's clapping rhyme into a complaint about the phone company, cut in his own living room.
★ 4.3
It Wasn't Me
2000
A Hawaiian DJ pulled it off an MP3 site and put it on air; Britain's biggest seller of 2001 followed.
★ 4.3
Sea of Love (Cat Power)
2000
Voice, guitar, and a 1959 Phil Phillips hit slowed to a whisper; Juno carried it to a new audience.
★ 4.1
Shiver
2000 · From Parachutes
Martin called it a blatant Jeff Buckley attempt, cut at Rockfield with Ken Nelson, and the chorus soars anyway.
★ 3.7
Bent
2000
Codependency as a love song, Serletic producing, and the only Matchbox Twenty record to reach number one.
★ 3.5
Shape of My Heart
2000
Max Martin and Rami built it with Lisa Miskovsky, and the video sat atop TRL for sixty-five days.
★ 3.5
If You're Gone
2000
Thomas wrote it after meeting his future wife, then it spent thirteen weeks atop the Adult Top 40.
★ 3.3
Pardon Me
2000
Scott Litt produced it at NRG, and Boyd wrote the lyric amid two deaths and a collapsing relationship.
★ 3.2
Again
2000
Kravitz wrote, arranged and produced it alone, cut it from an album, then won a third straight Grammy.
★ 2.9
The Way You Love Me
2000
Four weeks atop country radio in May, a Love to Infinity remix, and a pop top ten by December.
★ 2.9
Back Where I Come From
2000
Mac McAnally's 1990 original about his Mississippi hometown reached number fourteen; Chesney's cover went gold without ever being a single.
★ 2.4
Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
2000
Twelve weeks at number one on Alternative Airplay, with Brett Scallions selling every syllable of Carl Bell's chorus.
★ 2.4
Absolutely (Story of a Girl)
2000
Long Island power pop, written overnight for the girlfriend Hampson later married, cut in Atlanta with Nick DiDia.
★ 2.3
This I Promise You
2000
Richard Marx wrote it for a girl group, rewrote the harmonies for five men, and topped adult contemporary thirteen weeks.
★ 2.1
Just Another Day In Paradise
2000
Vassar and Craig Wiseman built it from household mishaps and money worries, and it became his first country number one.
★ 1.1