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Post by MIKEB on Feb 19, 2017 12:18:37 GMT -5
At this point no one has cared about any of my special charts other than FreakyFlyBry so I'll continue for him and then that'll probably be it 100 Melanie Doane - Still Desire You - #3 Melanie's biggest era on my chart with her Adam's Rib album in 98-99 but she had a sizable hit from the followup album in Still Desire You, definitely a CanCon classic of the 2000s. 99 Foo Fighters - Best Of You - #8 In my updated chart records accounting for the missing weeks of 2005, Best Of You is now part of the 52-week-club with something like 73 weeks total on the chart. So needless to say, a revised version of this chart would have this song much higher. 98 Sarah Slean - Lucky Me - #1 Lucky Me kicked off the Day One era for Sarah Slean in 2004 and while she had two pretty big hits before this one, it wasn't until the 1-2-3 of Lucky Me, Day One and Mary that Sarah became a core artist for my chart. Easily one of my favourite album eras of the 2000s. 97 Dixie Chicks - The Long Way Around - #1 Another key era of the decade came from the Dixie Chicks. After being wronged for voicing an opinion, they came back in full force with a string of hits and a Grammy-winning album. 96 Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why - #1 It's odd that Kid Rock has long been one of the most successful solo male performers on my chart prior to the Invasion of the Men in 2012. He had 3 #1s on my chart, which was a record at one point. I still love those three songs despite not caring much for Kid Rock or most of his other music. Cowboy, Picture and this one, Only God Knows Why, were big hits. 95 Evanescence - My Immortal - #3 Bring Me To Life had enough of an impact on my chart but My Immortal was definitely more up my alley as a piano rock ballad. It spent 36 weeks total on my chart. 94 Sarah Slean - Weight - #1 Weight was Sarah Slean's second hit after Sweet Ones. Where Sweet Ones was a #2 hit in 2002, Weight was her hit in 2003 and became her first #1 pretty quickly. It spent 3 weeks on top. 93 Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia - #1 This song spent 4 weeks at #1 and is probably the most successful 'long' song to make my chart. The regular version is over 9 minutes while the edited version is over 6 minutes. I love both versions, and the video. 92 Killers - Mr. Brightside - #1 Another song that would benefit if I had done this chart AFTER filling in the missing weeks of 2005. I did award Mr. Brightside bonus points prior to compiling this list but truth be told, I don't think I gave enough. This song was huge for me back in 2005, even more than its 4 weeks at #1 would suggest. 91 Nelly Furtado - I'm Like A Bird - #5 Back in 2001, it was still somewhat uncommon for a Canadian artist to do really well on the US charts, especially with their first attempt. I'm Like A Bird was a hit in Canada first but crossed over relatively quickly to the US. It peaked at #5 on my chart but had enough of a run to end the decade this high.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Feb 19, 2017 12:29:24 GMT -5
100 Melanie Doane - Still Desire You - #3 99 Foo Fighters - Best Of You - #8 98 Sarah Slean - Lucky Me - #1 97 Dixie Chicks - The Long Way Around - #1 96 Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why - #1 95 Evanescence - My Immortal - #3 93 Green Day - Jesus Of Suburbia - #1 92 Killers - Mr. Brightside - #1 91 Nelly Furtado - I'm Like A Bird - #5 2 of those (Evanescence and the Killers) were #1's for me while the Nelly Furtado one was a very long-running #2 for me. The Melanie Doane and Sarah Slean ones remind me of you, must be the CanCon female style
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Post by MIKEB on Feb 19, 2017 20:56:52 GMT -5
90 Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale - #3 Tori's breakthrough hit on my chart. I'm actually not sure what compelled me to get Tori's album and/or even check out this song. Tori was around for years before I finally checked her out. Once she was 'discovered', she had a run of strings across four albums in the 2000s.
89 Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 AM) - #3 Anna was one of the top artists of the year in 2005 and this was her first hit.
88 M.I.A. - Paper Planes - #3 I'm surprised this song is as high as it is. While I love it, it's not really a song I associate as having a super run on my chart but it did spend 49 weeks on the chart.
87 Serena Ryder - Good Morning Starshine - #4 This song debuted the week Serena also debuted at #1 with her first hit Weak In The Knees. While that one rode near the top of the chart for longer, this one had a more subtle run but still spent 43 weeks on the chart.
86 David Usher - Black Black Heart - #2 I didn't care for the album version (and radio mix of that) of this song, but the rock version I loved, enough to bring it to #2.
85 Avril Lavigne - I'm With You - #2 This song was Avril's biggest hit up to this point. While I was all about the Let Go album, the singles performed modestly. This is a classic!
84 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl - #2 This song kind of came out of nowhere as the third single from the album and followup to two Top 10 hits. This would go on to be her biggest hit for me.
83 Eve f/Gwen - Let Me Blow Ya Mind - #1 Biggest SOLO hit. Let Me Blow Ya Mind was a big #1! 7 weeks on top.
82 Lee Ann Womack f/Sons Of The Dessert - I Hope You Dance - #4 While this one didn't spend a long time in the Top 10, it did last 50 weeks on the chart, one of the longest running country hits on my chart.
81 Avril Lavigne - Fall To Pieces - #1 Now that the hiatus has been filled in, this song now has an official total of 10 weeks at #1 - the third longest run for a #1 song from this album.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Feb 19, 2017 21:36:25 GMT -5
90 Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale - #3 89 Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 AM) - #3 86 David Usher - Black Black Heart - #2 85 Avril Lavigne - I'm With You - #2 84 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl - #2 83 Eve f/Gwen - Let Me Blow Ya Mind - #1 82 Lee Ann Womack f/Sons Of The Dessert - I Hope You Dance - #4 81 Avril Lavigne - Fall To Pieces - #1
My favourites there are Avril and Gwen (both of each).
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Post by MIKEB on Feb 19, 2017 22:38:22 GMT -5
80 Martha Wainwright - You Cheated Me - #1 This was a kind of random out-of-nowhere #1 that also managed 40 weeks on my chart. Martha was never really a chart staple and while she hit #1 with Snow Patrol as well, these two were her only notable hits on my chart. (though her cover of Love Is A Stranger did hit #5)
79 Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean - #1 A 7-week at #1 from Alanis. This was the lead single from her third album and was the start of another epic era for her. The album only had three singles but the 1-2 punch of Hands Clean and Precious Illusions was enough to continue Alanis' reign on my chart.
78 Aaliyah - More Than A Woman - #12 This is one of the few non-top 10 singles on this countdown but with 45 weeks on the chart, it made it! More That A Woman was Aaliyah's big posthumous hit on my chart.
77 Timbaland f/OneRepublic - Apologize - #1 When this song came out, it was a breath of fresh air. Sometimes, a new single from a new act does that and while it's old hat now, it was a pretty big deal. It was kind of the same type of thing with Smooth and Hanging By A Moment. Those instant-type songs that go on to be massive and then you kind of get over it - but you never quite forget that for a time, they were fresh and great.
76 Coldplay f/Jay-Z - Lost - #5 Lost benefitted from an extended chart run thanks to the remix from Jay-Z, which helped it reach the Top 10 and eventually peak at #5. Its total weeks on was 49.
75 Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire - #2 Sarah McLachlan kind of sat on the back burner in 2003-04 but she still quietly succeeded with a string of hits from Afterglow, which itself did quite well.
74 Avril Lavigne - Losing Grip - #16 Whenever I make these lists, Losing Grip always sticks out like a sore thumb because of its low peak but incredibly high number of chart weeks. Across two runs, it spent 58 weeks on my chart. That typically results in an uncomfortably high placement on yearend lists - using only inverse points. Luckily, I use a combination of formulas so its placement isn't so strange to me now.
73 Jem - They - #6 They was one week shy of breaking one full year on the chart. Jem was one of the top newcomers in 2004 and it was mostly thanks to this song.
72 Sarah Harmer - I Am Aglow - #4 Sarah released a bluegrass album out of the blue in late 2005 and it took me a year to even give it a second chance. Only two songs had my attention on the first listen, and those were the first two singles. I Am Aglow did well with 45 weeks on the chart.
71 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right - #1 After Maneater and Promiscuous, Nelly knocked it out of the part with this #1 smash, making Loose her third album in a row with a #1 single after Turn Off The Light and Try. Say It Right is still a classic. Has such perfect atmosphere to it.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Feb 19, 2017 22:56:18 GMT -5
79 Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean - #1 78 Aaliyah - More Than A Woman - #12 77 Timbaland f/OneRepublic - Apologize - #1 76 Coldplay f/Jay-Z - Lost - #5 75 Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire - #2 74 Avril Lavigne - Losing Grip - #16 73 Jem - They - #6 71 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right - #1 My favourites there were the Canadian women.
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Post by MIKEB on Feb 19, 2017 22:59:11 GMT -5
70 Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending - #1 Of the four big hits from Under My Skin, My Happy Ending was my least favourite - but it was still a #1. 5 weeks there, in fact.
69 Enya - Only Time - #3 2001 was a big year for me and chart watching, particularly for many of us because we talked so much about the charts on MSN Messenger and the R&R boards and it was the start of PeopleBase, etc, etc. Only Time was a standout song from that year because it was a new age song that was a big crossover hit so of course it got a ton of attention. On my chart it lasted 43 weeks.
68 KT Tunstall - Little Favours - #1 After scoring 4 #1s from her first album, KT Tunstall's grasp on the top spot loosened a bit for her second album, with the lead single peaking at #2, but the second single, this one, did reach #1 and hung out there for 7 weeks.
67 Christina Aguilera - I Turn To You - #1 The second of three #1s from Christina's first album (and second of 5 overall), I Turn To You was a pop ballad I just loved.
66 Kate Nash - Foundations - #1 This song came out of nowhere for me. Not sure why I checked it out or how I discovered it but it became a quick #1 and the album it came from became an instant favourite of mine. Makes me nostalgic for 2008...
65 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars - #2 This song makes me nostalgic for my last year of university for my first degree. I remember listening to it while walking to class in the fall with light snow falling and then the guitars kicked in for the second chorus and it was just so epic.
64 Sarah Slean - Mary - #4 I'm a bit surprised Mary only reached #4 on my chart considering it was the big hit from this album on radio in Canada. With only 20 weeks on the chart, I know it suffered from my chart hiatus but I think it was already on the way down so its peak is still #4.
63 Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good - #11 A song I love now possibly more than I did when it was out, but I apparently loved it then too because despite peaking at #11, it spent 53 weeks on my chart with 29 of those in the Top 40.
62 Jason Mraz - I'm Yours f/Jah Cure and Lil'Wayne - #4 I kind of have a love-hate relationship with this song. It was initially released in early 2008 either through iTunes or his website or something and I downloaded it, listened to it and didn't particularly care for it but charted it anyway. It entered in February 2008. It peaked at #4 in June, by which point the album was out and I wasn't really feeling that either - which was disappointing since I did quite enjoy his first two albums and he had a string of #1s on my chart. The week after it hit #4 (in its 17th week), it tumbled to #14 and I was pretty much over it. It entered the pop radio chart in SEPTEMBER, over half a year after its release and with that, it literally went from #100 back up to repeak at #52 before falling again. Its first chart run was 55 weeks. Already pretty long. Then in August of 2009, half a year after it entered my chart, a remix was released with Jah Cure and Lil'Wayne, bringing the song back to my chart where it peaked again at #28 and spent an additional 14 weeks on - bringing its total to 69 weeks. Not bad for a song I only kind of liked. I've been mostly sick of it ever since though.
61 Jason Mraz - The Remedy (I Won't Worry) - #1 Here's the Jason Mraz I know and love. The Remedy was his first single. I remember hearing it in the spring of 2003. I first heard of him because I heard he opened for Chantal Kreviazuk at stops on her Canadian tour and she opened for him in the US. So really, I discovered Jason through a Chantal connection before he broke through later that year. His album kind of defines 2003 for me as well so definitely fond memories all around. The Remedy spent 5 weeks at #1.
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Post by MIKEB on Feb 19, 2017 23:04:04 GMT -5
Let's do some fun stats! (note all of these stats are kind of outdated because of the filled-in hiatus charts of 2005 but I won't count those for now...)
In the 2000s:
- 2,949 songs made my chart from 2000-2009.
- 1,679 made the top 40.
- 684 made the top 10.
- 137 songs hit #1.
I might also try to do up a countdown of the biggest artists of the decade too using cumulative points. Later though.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Feb 19, 2017 23:22:29 GMT -5
70 Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending - #1 69 Enya - Only Time - #3 (tagging Courage for this one) 67 Christina Aguilera - I Turn To You - #1 65 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars - #2 63 Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good - #11 61 Jason Mraz - The Remedy (I Won't Worry) - #1 I've already said my thoughts about "I'm Yours" enough times that I'll just sum it up in 3 words: No. Just no. But my favourites in that set are the ones I quoted, all of which at least made my top 10 with Avril and Snow Patrol hitting #1 for me.
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 2, 2017 20:53:49 GMT -5
60 City High Caramel f/Eve - #5 While What Would You Do was a #1 hit, Caramel had a longer chart life with 39 weeks in total on the chart. Not really sure how since I think What Would You Do had less than 20.
59 Joel Plaskett - Through And Through And Through - #2 This was probably the biggest iTunes Free Song of the Week ever on my chart. From Dartmouth (Halifax' Shelbyville), Joel Plaskett had a huge hit with this one.
58 Christina Aguilera - Beautiful - #1 After Dirrty's shock, Christina went tamer with Beautiful, but there was still a rawness to this recording that made it fit better next to Dirrty than anything from her first album.
57 KT Tunstall - Other Side Of The World - #1 This was the fourth #1 from Eye To The Telescope, topping off one of the biggest album eras of the 2000s on my chart. It spent 42 weeks on the chart and contributes to KT's total of 9 career #1s, 6 of which happened in the 2000s.
56 Maroon 5 - This Love - #1 Harder To Breathe did well enough for a then-faceless band who looked like they'd be a one-hit-wonder when suddenly This Love came out and totally put them on the map. It also spent 45 weeks on the chart.
55 Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me - #1 I fell in love with Kathleen's music with her first album Failer. Back To Me was the first single from her second album and impacted fast off the momentum of her first record. With 4 weeks at #1, it became her biggest hit of the decade.
54 Jason Mraz - Curbside Prophet - #1 2003-04 was Jason's year on the chart with 3 big #1s. This was the third of them, a AAA-only single. I forget how it did on those charts but it spent 3 weeks at #1 on this one, and 49 total on the chart.
53 Chantal Kreviazuk - Far Away - #1 Colour Moving and Still remains the longest-running #1 album on my album chart with over 30 weeks total on top. Four of its singles were #1s on my Top 100, quite possibly making it the most successful and prominent album ever in my chart's history. Far Away was the fourth chart topper, with 5 weeks at #1 and a chart run that went well into 2001.
52 Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You - #1 Samantha was essentially a one-album wonder. I don't have her album anymore but I remember it being an excellent pop album. This was the lead single and remains one of the best pop songs of the decade. I'm proud to say this was a #1!
51 Alicia Keys - No One - #1 I always liked Alicia Keys well enough but there was something about No One that made it sound so good. The bass+piano combo was just so nice. This spent 6 weeks at #1 and remains her only #1 on my chart.
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 2, 2017 21:09:35 GMT -5
50 Sara Bareilles - Love Song - #7 Sara Bareilles has all the qualities of a core Max artist - yet she isn't really. Her songs are usually reliably Top 10 hitters but generally tire out just as they reach the Top 10. Love Song was the start of that trend for Sara, peaking at #7, but it did hang around for quite some time, 46 weeks with 29 of those in the Top 40.
49 Sondre Lerche - Two-Way Monologue - #2 2004 was a special time for music for me, and probably the time when my chart was separated most from the mainstream pop charts. Sondre Lerche represented the indie-pop sound that kind of dominated for a few years until Gaga grabbed me back to the pop side again. Two-Way Monologue spent almost a year on my chart and peaked at #2 for 3 weeks.
48 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny - #6 This song benefitted from being released internationally before I'm Real and as such, its chart run lasted 39 weeks. (The Ja Rule song of the same title didn't do as well, peaking at #12). This was a song I never really got sick of and despite peaking at #6, it spent 19 weeks in the Top 10.
47 Katy Perry - Hot 'N Cold - #3 I had Katy pegged as a one-hit-wonder with I Kissed A Girl so when Hot 'N Cold came out, she was looking likely to becoming a one-album-wonder a la what Meaghan Trainer ended up being. Boy was I wrong. Hot 'N Cold was still a big hit for me with 54 weeks on my chart.
46 Faith Hill - The Way You Love Me - #11 This is one of the highest non-Top 10 hits on this countdown. It spent 36 weeks in the Top 40 alone (and 43 in the Top 100).
45 Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest - #1 Sheryl's singles from C'mon C'mon did well enough but they weren't really on par with what her first couple eras (would have) done (had my chart existed back then) so in 2003 she experienced her peak on my chart with a pair of #1s, one at the start of the year and one at the end. The First Cut is the Deepest stuck around at #1 for 6 weeks and remains Sheryl's biggest hit - especially with 59 weeks total charted.
44 Sarah Slean - Sweet Ones - #2 Sweet Ones jumped out at me the very first time I heard it, not unlike many of my other favs so I knew she was something special right from the beginning. It ended being a big hit and kickstarted a great chart career that is still ongoing (she's my current #1).
43 Michelle Branch - Breathe - #3 I'm actually disappointed this song peaked only at #3. It stands as my favourite Michelle song and I know I loved it at the time so I'm kind of curious to know what blocked it..... ok I just checked. It was The First Cut is the Deepest and Hey Ya, also both huge songs for me. With 49 weeks on, this still had a nice impact.
42 David Usher - Surfacing - #1 David Usher was one of the core artists for me when I moved away to university so his Hallucinations album always takes me back to that time, my second year of university. This was the second single from it and became his third #1 on my chart.
41 Holly McNarland - Beautiful Blue - #1 This song was one of the last #1s on my chart before I moved away to university so this too brings me back to the summer of 2002. Holly had a big presence for those first few months living away from home. Her album was comforting, and this song did well with 6 weeks at #1.
The next ten songs consist of all #1s except one, the biggest non-Top 10 hit of the decade.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Mar 2, 2017 22:45:38 GMT -5
60 City High Caramel f/Eve - #5 58 Christina Aguilera - Beautiful - #1 57 KT Tunstall - Other Side Of The World - #1 56 Maroon 5 - This Love - #1 55 Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me - #1 54 Jason Mraz - Curbside Prophet - #1 53 Chantal Kreviazuk - Far Away - #1 52 Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You - #1 51 Alicia Keys - No One - #1 50 Sara Bareilles - Love Song - #7 48 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny - #6 47 Katy Perry - Hot 'N Cold - #3 46 Faith Hill - The Way You Love Me - #11 45 Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest - #1 44 Sarah Slean - Sweet Ones - #2 43 Michelle Branch - Breathe - #3 41 Holly McNarland - Beautiful Blue - #1 So many good songs there Christina Aguilera, J-Lo, Katy Perry and Michelle Branch were all #1's for me and Maroon 5, Samantha Mumba and Alicia Keys were both big top 5's for me.
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 8, 2017 21:47:03 GMT -5
40 David Usher - Alone In The Universe - #1 David Usher's first hit marked a big change on my chart. Up to this point, my chart was pretty well defined by pop radio with a few exceptions but David Usher wasn't really a pop radio darling (even though this song was getting moderate airplay at the time) and he was also a male artist, which, if you knew me at all at the time, you'd know male artists weren't really a thing on my chart. Songs by male acts had hit #1 but they weren't common. David was the first male act to really become a core artist on my chart and he did it pretty quickly. Morning Orbit was one of my favourite CDs that year and he got 4 Top 2 hits from it. After this was really when my chart began to spread out a bit. 39 KT Tunstall - Saving My Face - #1 By the time KT came around, my chart was pretty familiar with non-mainstream acts dominating. While she did have 2 pretty big pop hits at this point, she's one of the few artists I got into without knowing a single song by them at the time I bought the album. Saving My Face was the second single from her second album and her 5th #1 on my chart. It spent 7 weeks there. 38 Chantal Kreviazuk - Dear Life - #1 Chantal's second #1 from her second album and the impossible followup to one of the biggest hits ever in my chart's history. 37 Chantal Kreviazuk - In This Life - #1 How do you follow up perhaps the biggest album era ever in my chart's history? In Chantal's case, she always had a string of soundtrack songs in between albums at this point but In This Life was her official followup and of course it was a huge hit. It wasn't quite as instant as Before You (that debuted at #1, this debuted at #2) but it did become a classic and spent 8 weeks at #1 following its debut. 36 Jenn Grant - Parachutes - #1 Like the Joel Plaskett song earlier, this one kind of came out of nowhere, gradually made its way up, spent a week at #1 and overall lasted 44 weeks on the chart. 35 Fat Joe - What's Luv? f/Ashanti - #1 One of the biggest rap songs of the decade, this was a summer smash with 4 weeks on top. Both Ashanti and Fat Joe can claim two #1s on my chart. Ashanti also got there (somehow) with Ja Rule on Always On Time while Fat Joe got there with J-Lo on Feelin' So Good. 34 Dave Matthews Band - Funny The Way It Is - #1 It took DMB nearly 11 years to hit #1 on my chart. 15 years if you consider their first single came out in 1995 (and realistically, they wouldn't have hit #1 if my chart existed back then). Funny The Way It Is was one of the biggest songs of 2009 and made it only my Top 100 of the 2000s list of favourite songs of the decade (non-chart-tabulated). 33 Missy Higgins - Scar - #11 Scar is the only non-#1 hit in this batch of ten and also the biggest non-top 10 hit of the decade on my chart, topping out at #11 in perhaps one of the unluckiest chart situations possible. This song had two separate chart runs and in its initial run, it entered my chart in the fall of 2004 and peaked at #11 in January 2005. A remixed version was released when it was given a push in North America a year later and in April of 2006, it peaked again.... at #11. All total, Scar spent 59 weeks on my chart across two chart runs and both times it peaked at #11. So, I'd say it's deserving of its placement here. 32 Chantal Kreviazuk - Before You - #1 I heard that gasp ( FreakyFlyBry) but let me give you a second to exhale. Remember that Before You was released in September 1999. It debuted at #1 and spent 8 weeks there before the end of the year. So a nice chunk of its chart run happened outside of the time period counted by this special chart. As for this decade, it spent the first week of 2000 at #1 (and returned there for another week later in January) and lasted 56 weeks inside the Top 100 (for a total of 69 weeks including 1999). 31 Serena Ryder - All For Love - #1 This song spent a big 12 weeks at #1. It was the second single from Serena's Is It OK album and was her third #1 of the decade at this point.
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 8, 2017 22:31:10 GMT -5
30 Nelly Furtado - Try - #1 Nelly Furtado's first album had some classic hits and her third album had some classics but it's such a shame that her second album failed to produce any major hits. It's actually kind of strange. (not as strange as the utter absolute FLOP her fourth album was... wow), but at least she did well enough in Canada and I think it had five or six singles so it wasn't a total loss. Plus, probably one of my favourite songs by her came from this album and it was HUGE on my chart. I remember obsessing over this song (the radio remix, not as much the album version even if the differences are minimal but the ending of the mix was SO much better... I hate that her Best Of album still has the album version...). Try spent 5 weeks at #1.
29 Chantal Kreviazuk - Time - #3 It's strange to me sometimes that Time is a bigger hit on my chart than songs like In This Life yet here it is, consistently it makes it higher and I think I actually do like the song itself a bit more. In This Life had a stronger impact because it was the first single but Time is a classic and one of the few regrets I have by it not being a #1 song. When it #3 initially, it was behind Superman (Eminem) and Gossip Folks (Missy), fell to #4 for a bit and then returned to #3 behind Weight (Sarah Slean) and The Remedy (Jason Mraz). Admittedly, when this song came out, Chantal had been dominating my charts for over five years and 2003 was kind of a transitional period of my chart so I was experiencing all these new artists and I was okay giving Chantal the backseat I guess. All told it spent 6 weeks at #1.
28 Melissa McClelland - Jaded - #1 Sometimes an artist's first single or first hit is one that can define who they are and who you see them as. That first hit is the one that draws you in so in some ways it's magical and you want to hold onto that feeling. There are 7 first-charting hits remaining on this chart and Jaded is one of them. Melissa McClelland was an artist I discovered not on purpose - though not really by accident either. I was at HMV buying Avril's Under My Skin CD when Melissa's caught my eye. I never heard of her before, knew nothing about her and didn't know what to expect. But it was 2004. Singer/songwriter pop was in and kind of dominating. The artwork and design of the album reminds me of a cross between Sarah Slean and Sarah Harmer, two artists I was loving at the time. It was from the Nettwerk record label. I trusted Nettwerk for good CanCon music. It was a chance but I knew there was something there. It took a few months to get into it but I loved the CD and the current single at the time (albeit it received limited exposure anywhere) was Jaded. Jaded was pretty well an instant #1 and stayed there for 7 weeks.
27 Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life - #1 Amy MacDonald was another artist I sort of took a shot with. Except unlike Melissa, I did preview her a little beforehand. I heard the song This Is The Life (her first North American single, released to AAA in 2009) a few times and decided, what the hell? I want her album. She sounds like I'll love her. Another good choice. This Is The Life is another debut single that was huge for me, with 5 weeks at #1. I'd actually say that Amy Macdonald is probably second to Lady Gaga as my favourite artist discovery of the last 8 or so years. (If I said the last decade, I'd have to include Serena Ryder and Brandi Carlile in that list).
26 Dragonette - I Get Around - #8 Another first-timer except only kind of. I first downloaded I Get Around from Martina Sorbara's website, which I checked regularly for updates on when her next album would be coming out. One fateful day in Fall-ish of 2005, there was finally a new update. There wasn't going to be a new album. I was crushed. Martina uploaded a new solo song, kind of in the vein of her solo album except more electric, and an electropop/dance song called I Get Around. I loved the solo song. The electro one was.... okay. I got into it a bit over the next year or so and in March 2007, it finally entered my chart at #75 as their first single. It spent only 3 weeks in the top 10 but stayed on the chart for 49 weeks.
25 Sarah McLachlan - U Want Me 2 - #1 Sarah McLachlan's output over the years has been pretty consistent but she's never been a core artist for me. Fallen was her first #1 on any of my charts but I didn't really forsee her ever doing it again. I enjoyed her songs but I didn't love them. U Want Me 2 completely proved me wrong. It followed her Olympic single One Dream, which I did really love. The melody, for whatever reason, really dug deep and when U Want Me 2 came out, the same thing happened. It was all about the melody, but I think also the vulnerability of the song. It was sad. And I felt it. The song was such a big hit for me that it stuck around at #1 for 14 big weeks.
24 Blue October - Hate Me - #1 This song seems to be a popular song to hate and while I can kind of understand that (it is a bit on the emo side), it's unfortunate. I think this song for me kind of takes on a more emotional meaning because despite being emo, to me it's such a tragic song and that tragedy peaks in the bridge. It also kind of made me realize at that time that I wasn't being a good son and not being considerate of my own mother and the music video for the song really hit because it ends with a funeral. So, I guess in a sense this song helped me get through some dark times of my own by making me realize my own faults as a person. And it did all that while spending 6 weeks at #1 and 51 weeks on the chart.
23 Kid Rock - Picture w/Sheryl Crow - #1 This is another song that's popular to hate, yet this one I understand a bit more why. It's Kid Rock. That's kind of enough. But it's also super cheesy. I remember loving it at the time (and still do tbh), because it was pretty well a country song, but more country flavoured than straight-up country. I think by this point I was realizing that I enjoyed when pop artists added a country flavour to their pop songs (rather than going full-on country). Jewel did it was much of her This Way album and Sheryl did it a lot too. Ironically I didn't care when either put out actual country albums. So yeah, country flavoured pop, not the other way around. Anyway, this was a big hit.
22 Amy Winehouse - Rehab - #3 While Rehab spent 66 weeks on my chart and had an overall excellent chart run, I actually don't remember truly appreciating it until years after its release. I obviously liked it enough for it to spend 34 weeks in the top 40 but I think it was just catchy and a well-written song, something I always knew. The genius of it didn't hit me until some time later and then it was drilled into me again when she died. This song wasn't just a catchy well-written song. It was her life. And as unfortunate as that is, it's amazing. Unfortunately tragically amazing.
21 Nelly - Ride Wit Me f/City Spud - #3 Classic early 2000s. This is a song you can't really not like. Its 49 weeks on my chart is evidence enough that I liked it.
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MIKEB
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 8, 2017 22:34:44 GMT -5
The average number of weeks on the chart for the songs in the Top 20 is 56. Average number of weeks in the Top 40: 37 Average number of weeks in the Top 10: 20 All but five of the Top 20 were #1s. Those 15 #1s spent a total of 134 weeks on top in the 2000s, with an average of 9 weeks each there.
Up next: the 20 biggest hits on The Max 100 (now the ShufflePlay chart) of the 2000s.
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