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Post by MIKEB on Mar 8, 2017 23:02:29 GMT -5
Before I get to the Top 20, I'm going to count down the Top 30 artists of the entire decade!
#30 Blue October They first made my chart in 2003 with Calling You from the American Wedding soundtrack. I got the soundtrack because it had a 'new' Avril Lavigne song on it (which I loved) and discovered a lot of other good songs on there, this being the best discovery. A few years later, they'd smash into my chart with Hate Me and then they had a string of hits from Foiled and Approaching Normal. All 7 of their chart appearances in the 2000s made the Top 10.
#29 Sarah Harmer Sarah Harmer had more of a lowkey presence on my chart. She had two big hits from her You Were Here album and then two more from its followup All Of Our Names a few years later, and a few more from her bluegrass record I'm A Mountain. All told, she had 8 hits in the 2000s, all were #1s and three peaked at #3.
#28 Foo Fighters The Foo Fighters are probably an unlikely act to appear among my Top 30 artists of the decade, especially considering their biggest song was Best Of You at #99, but they were kind of a big deal on my chart with their In Your Honor album, which gave them five Top 40 hits, three of which went to the Top 10. Outside of that, they had other hits from other albums, giving them 11 hits in total during the decade, six of which hit the Top 10.
#27 Serena Ryder Serena is the only artist from the second half of the decade to make this Top 30. That's heavily thanks two her two #1s which spent a total of 23 weeks on top of the chart and her additional three big Top 10s.
#26 Michelle Branch Nearly all of Michelle's impact came in the first half of the decade. Everywhere, her first hit, just missed the Top 10 peaking at #12 but after that, she had five Top 10s in a row (counting The Game of Love) until Til I Get Over You topped out at #18. This Way and Sooner Or Later were both post-Hotel Paper hits (the former earning her 3rd #2).
#25 Alicia Keys Alicia can probably thank her abundance of chart hits for her high placement. Counting only songs where she was the lead artist, she had 14 hits in the 2000s. Five of those reached the Top 10 with No One as her only no. one.
#24 Coldplay Like Alicia, Coldplay also had a lot of songs make the chart. They had five (?) albums in the 2000s and from those, 16 songs made the chart. 11 of those made the Top 40 and 4 reached the Top 10, including two #1s.
#23 Tegan And Sara If this artists chart combined both of my weekly charts and my album chart, it's very likely Tegan and Sara would be my #1 artist of the decade. I'm realizing now that I think I've always unofficially considered them as such. They first hit my chart in late 2002 and had a nearly constant presence across my charts since then. Because The Max 100 allowed only official singles to chart, that limited T&S' impact by quite a bit but they still managed nine chart appearances, which included two #1s and eight Top 10s.
#22 Kathleen Edwards Kathleen is another artist whose position on this artist chart is lower than it should be considering how significant she was across the decade for me. She first charted in 2003 with Six O'Clock News but her 8 hits within the decade were enough to place her among the top artists of the decade.
#21 Kelly Clarkson It took me a bit to warm up to Kelly Clarkson. Her first hit, A Moment Like This, spent a single week at #100. Miss Independent only peaked at #60. Low was her first Top 40 hit at #30. She didn't reach the Top 10 until Since U Been Gone and even that only peaked at #6 but by the end of the decade, she'd earn herself six Top 10s out of 13 Top 40s and 16 chart hits.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Mar 8, 2017 23:17:33 GMT -5
40 David Usher - Alone In The Universe - #1 39 KT Tunstall - Saving My Face - #1 38 Chantal Kreviazuk - Dear Life - #1 37 Chantal Kreviazuk - In This Life - #1 35 Fat Joe - What's Luv? f/Ashanti - #1 34 Dave Matthews Band - Funny The Way It Is - #1 33 Missy Higgins - Scar - #11 32 Chantal Kreviazuk - Before You - #1 (damn the decade split!) 30 Nelly Furtado - Try - #1 29 Chantal Kreviazuk - Time - #3 28 Melissa McClelland - Jaded - #1 26 Dragonette - I Get Around - #8 25 Sarah McLachlan - U Want Me 2 - #1 (I believe One Dream came AFTER this) 24 Blue October - Hate Me - #1 23 Kid Rock - Picture w/Sheryl Crow - #1 22 Amy Winehouse - Rehab - #3 21 Nelly - Ride Wit Me f/City Spud - #3 This is where we get to the true cores for you
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Mar 8, 2017 23:22:51 GMT -5
And in the top artists, I am so obviously going to say Michelle Branch and Kelly Clarkson are my favourites there, both were in my top 10 artists of the 2000's as well. But I do like some stuff from all of them, though I feel the Foo Fighters (as great as their 00's stuff is) and Tegan & Sara have gotten even better in the 10's, while Coldplay has still stayed strong for me though I do enjoy their 00's stuff more.
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 8, 2017 23:50:17 GMT -5
#20 Maroon 5 I think I've mentioned this before but it's weird to think of Harder To Breathe as a Maroon 5 hit, let alone their first because it was so faceless at the time. The only other situation similar to it to me was Train's Meet Virginia. I feel like most people think of Drops of Jupiter as their first. Likewise, it wasn't until This Love that Maroon 5 became known. In any case, they quickly became a chart staple for me with five hits from their first album Songs About Jane (four of which made the Top 3 - Harder To Breathe peaked at #25). By decade-end, they'd have 10 hits.
#19 Sarah McLachlan Sarah's peak was in the 90s. It's strange to think of her as a 2000s artist, and stranger still that she's as high as this. When I think of Sarah McLachlan in the 2000s, I think of the Afterglow era and U Want Me 2. Yet, in the 2000s, she had 11 hits, 7 of which were Top 10s and 3 #1s. (Ice Cream was her first #1 for me, not Fallen as I mentioned a few posts back). Sarah also had a lot of one-off singles like Blackbird, River, Ordinary Miracle plus her two Greatest Hits singles.
#18 Nelly Nelly isn't an artist I'd consider to be a chart staple by any means but when you have a Top 100 and you chart predominately pop hits, when an artist releases a lot of singles, they're bound to have a lot of chart appearances. Counting only songs he's lead on, Nelly had 21 Top 100 hits in the 2000s + songs he was featured on. Only 11 of those hit the Top 40 and six reached the Top 10.
#17 Tori Amos Most people associate Tori with the 90s but I associate her with this decade. I didn't really get into her until 2002 and from then onward, she was a regular for my chart. Her first chart appearance was a single week at #100 with Strange Little Girls in 2000. After that, it was Top 10 after Top 10 straight through until 2009 when 500 Miles stopped at #21. That's 10 Top 10s.
#16 Sarah Slean Much like Tegan and Sara and Kathleen Edwards, Sarah Slean would be much higher if albums were counted into the mix. (for general interest, I do plan on redoing this chart next year when my chart celebrates 20 years to include album chart info). Sarah only had 8 appearances in the 2000s but they all hit the Top 10 and three of those hit #1.
#15 Sheryl Crow Sheryl had a consistent presence on the chart for much of the decade. So much so that she had 16 chart hits (as a lead, which means Picture isn't among these) from 2000-2008 or so. 9 of those hit the top 10. (ten counting Picture)
#14 Britney Spears Britney was a force in the 2000s. Through her ups and downs, she had a lot of hits. 24 within this decade, in fact, yet despite the number of hits she's had, only five reached the Top 10 - but 18 hit the Top 40. Her biggest was the #2 peaking Oops I Did It Again (which wound up the #313th biggest hit of the decade). Her two lowest peaking songs were Radar (#76) and Radar '09 (#71). There is strength in numbers.
#13 Eminem Eminem was huge in the 2000s. Definitely one of the biggest acts of the decade in real life. On my chart, he's the 13th biggest. He had 21 hits as a lead act, 12 Top 10s and 2 #1s, Superman and Encore.
#12 Madonna If I ever for some reason made a similar artist chart for the 80s, Madonna would likely be near the top. If I made one for the 90s, she'd again likely be in the Top 10. In the 2000s, she's still pretty high at #12. That's what happens with 22 chart appearances as a lead act, all but 6 made the Top 40 and three hit #1.
#11 Jewel Jewel's star power in the 2000s faded before the halfway mark but she had great success with her This Way album, scoring 4 hits in a row. Her next two albums had modest success but enough was done that she hit the chart with 15 hits across the decade, six of which hit top ten including two #1s.
Who's in the Top 10? Find out tomorrow or in a few days. Feel free to make guesses!
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 8, 2017 23:51:17 GMT -5
25 Sarah McLachlan - U Want Me 2 - #1 (I believe One Dream came AFTER this) You're right. It came in 2009 to U Want Me 2's 2007. Hmmmm, my point still stands, just in reverse.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Mar 8, 2017 23:54:34 GMT -5
No surprise at most of those, but I didn't expect Britney THAT high up, but then again, she did release a lot. I do prefer Sheryl, Tori, Sarah and Jewel in the 90's but all still had good stuff in the 00's.
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 9, 2017 23:09:32 GMT -5
#10 Alanis Morissette The 90s had Alanis' first two albums but the rest of her output (save for one album) came in the 2000s. So the majority of Alanis' music is 2000s. I personally associate her with the 2000s as much as the 90s, but 2000s Alanis is still quite different from 90s Alanis, which in itself is VERY different from early 90s Alanis, lol. She had 16 chart appearances over the decade from four albums (plus a few tracks from soundtracks and other) and all hit the Top 40. 9 songs reached the Top 10 within the 2000s and three were #1s. #9 Christina Aguilera In the early days of Britney vs. Christina, I was team Christina all the way. She hit #1 with her second single What A Girl Wants and would go on to have five #1s that also included I Turn To You, Come On Over Baby, Lady Marmalade and Beautiful. Plus two #2s with Dirrty and Can't Hold Us Down, and a #3 with The Voice Within. When Christina hit, she really hit. But when she didn't, she missed hard as well. There's a distinct line between her songs that did well and the ones that didn't with very little inbetween. And that might explain why after Stripped, Christina's presence on my chart really dropped off. Her only Top 10 after that album was the #4 peaking Hurt. Otherwise, her singles had short chart runs and low peaks. #8 Jason Mraz After David Usher had chart domination in 2001, there was finally room for male artists. Gender equality was possible! Jason Mraz stormed my chart in 2003 with The Remedy, which hit #1, then followed it up with two more huge hits from that album, which would go on to be one of the biggest of the decade for me. (I've been saying this a lot so I should post my favourite albums of the decade list again). His second album took some warming up but more or less continued his popularity. His third album waned a bit with only two top 10s but no top 3s, compared to all the singles from his first two reaching the top 3. In all, Jason had 12 chart hits across the decade with 8 of those making the Top 10 (7 top 4) and three hitting #1. #7 KT Tunstall KT Tunstall is the only other artist besides Serena Ryder (back at #27) to not have had her first chart appearance in 2003 or earlier. She had her first chart appearance in late 2005 and actually took the chart by storm. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree debuted at #1 and was immediately followed by the #1 debut of Under The Weather. Suddenly I See debuted at #12 but quickly hit #1, sticking around for 9 weeks there. Then Other Side of the World hit #1 later in 2006. By the end of the decade, KT had six songs hit the top of the chart, which is the second most of any artist in the 2000s. In addition to those six #1s, KT charted with three other songs, with the lowest peaking of those reaching only #15. #6 Pink As an artist, I didn't like Pink much for pretty much 75% of the 2000s. So it's kind of weird to see her as high as #7 on this list. Chalk it up to a lot of chart appearances and the fact that, despite not liking her much, there were some songs I did like. It wasn't until I actually received I'm Not Dead as an Xmas gift (one I DID question why I got it) some months after that it started to come together for me. From 2000 to 2006, Pink had 13 songs make the chart but only 3 reached the Top 10 (Most Girls hit #3, Lady Marmalade #1 and Don't Let Me Get Me #1). After getting into I'm Not Dead, every song that made the chart made the Top 40 and she got five more Top 10s including another #1. In total, Pink charted with 23 hits as a lead artist. #5 Dixie Chicks I got into the Dixie Chicks from the beginning. Their first hit came out around the start of my chart and reached #1 back in 1998. In 2000, their second album came out and continued their string of hits to include 18 songs, of which 13 hit the Top 40, 9 the Top 10 and 4 reached #1. Their last album, Taking The Long Way, was easily their biggest as their four top performing songs of the decade all come from it. #4 David Usher David is the biggest solo male act of the decade and his chart output is actually quite impressive when I'm looking at it now. He charted with 15 songs starting in 2001 and all but one reached the Top 10 (See You Fall peaked at #12 in the fill-in charts of the 2005 hiatus). Of those, only two missed the Top 5. His first six hits reached the Top 2 and his seventh peaked at #3. Over on the album chart, all 8 of his albums have hit #1. #3 Nelly Furtado I'm quite surprised Nelly Furtado is way up here at #3. She didn't have the core-artist power that most of the acts in this particular list had, even though her singles performed as if she did. Nelly was lucky in that her singles almost always performed really well and a handful of them had unusually long chart lives. In the 2000s, she had 15 songs make the chart as a lead artist, all but one made the Top 40 and she had 11 Top 10s. Her three #1s were all pretty huge hits spending a combined 17 weeks on top of the chart. #2 Avril Lavigne Let Go is an essential pop album from the 2000s, even though Sk8or Boi was Avril's poorest performing single of the decade on my chart and only song of hers to miss the Top 40. But it was Under My Skin that really did it for her, with four huge #1s. Not even just four #1s, they were all huge. My Happy Ending was the smallest of those and it still spent 5 weeks on top. The other three all spent 10 weeks or more there (note: Fall To Pieces' total weeks at #1 was adjusted due to the chart hiatus gap that was filled). In total, Avril spent 43 weeks at #1 with songs from that album alone - and in total, because she didn't have any other #1s before or after. 17 songs hit the chart by Avril from 2000-2009 with 11 hitting the Top 10. #1 Chantal Kreviazuk I'm sure you saw this coming FreakyFlyBry. Chantal WAS my chart at the start of the decade. She dominated 1999 with Feels Like Home and Before You and that domination carried over into 2000 when she'd hit #1 three more times from her second album that year, twice from her third album in 2002-03, and one time each from her fourth and fifth albums. In total, Chantal had the most #1s of any artist this decade with 8. Beyond that, she had two #2s, two #3s and two #5s. In fact, her only other song beyond that was a soundtrack album track that peaked at #18. Everything else was a pretty big hit.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Mar 9, 2017 23:42:32 GMT -5
For some reason, I expected Alanis and David Usher higher. No surprise at Chantal #1, I knew she'd be In a way, I do agree with your assessment of Pink... I've never really considered her a core artist of mine but she generally had a lot of stuff I liked. And in my top 10 artists of the 2000's, 9/10 of them started 2002 or earlier. The other one, of course, is Kate Voegele, who tends to be the exception to rules in cases like that.
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 15, 2017 21:51:09 GMT -5
Let's take this ship home! The Top 20 Biggest Hits on my chart of the 2000s!
#20. OutKast - Hey Ya - #2
I remember first listening to Hey Ya in late August of 2003 and thought little of it. Outkast had a few hits a couple years prior with Ms. Jackson and So Fresh So Clean but I didn't imagine they'd take all the charts by storm with this one. A few months later, Hey Ya was blasting up the charts, including my own. It ended up peaking at #2 and sticking around there for 7 weeks. What's more, it spent 57 weeks total inside the Top 100!
19. Brandi Carlile - The Story - #1
Brandi was one of the top artists to emerge in the 2000s and hit #1 with her first hit, this song. I first heard Brandi on the soundtrack to the movie Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (which I got because it had two new Chantal Kreviazuk songs). Unbeknownst to me, Brandi would impact my chart a couple years later through Paste Magazine's monthly compilation CD. The Story was featured on one and while I typically skimmed through the CD, that song in particular jumped out at me. It had an initially slow start, hanging in my North Bound list (just below the Top 100) for three weeks before finally entering. A few months later, it would spend 4 weeks at #1 and stick around the Top 100 for a full year.
18. Sarah Slean - Get Home - #1
I consider Sarah's biggest era on my chart the one for her 2004 album Day One but it was the first single from that album's followup four years later that had the biggest impact on my chart. I wouldn't necessarily consider Get Home to be my favourite song by her but I think it was a case of absence makes the heart grow fonder. She was a chart staple and then had nothing for a few years so when she finally released a new single, I was all over it. It helped that Get Home came out at the right time. It peaked at #1 for 7 weeks and spent more than half of its 60 chart weeks in the Top 40.
17. Serena Ryder - Weak In The Knees - #1
Serena had probably one of the biggest starts in my chart's history. She debuted at #1 on the singles chart and album chart in the same week in her very first appearance on any of my charts. That had only been done one other time a few years later when MGMT did it. Serena's record was even more impressive because in addition to debuting at #1, she also debuted at #40 that same week with Good Morning Starshine. Weak In The Knees spent 11 weeks at #1 and still holds the record for longest running #1 for a debut hit by a female solo act.
16. Coldplay - Clocks - #1
This song was audio gold. I was never really a big Coldplay fan but they have had a few gems in a sea full of just-okay songs. Clocks is at the top of that. 5 weeks at #1 and a full year on the chart.
15. KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See - #1
There was a point before Suddenly I See was made an official single that my chart briefly allowed album tracks in late 2005 immediately following my chart's hiatus. At that time, KT was queen of the chart and one week, she held three of the Top 4 songs. Suddenly I See was one of those tracks. It came back to the chart once released as the album's next single and spent 7 weeks at #1. Its overall chart run was 54 weeks on.
14. Matchbox Twenty - Bright Lights - #1
Matchbox Twenty had a series of hits from their first two albums, including #1s in 3am (one of the first #1s on my chart), If You're Gone and Mad Season, but it wasn't until Bright Lights that they really dominated. When this song spent its 12th week at #1 in the summer of 2003, it broken the record held by Jewel for just over a year when Standing Still held the top for 11 weeks. Bright Lights went on to a 13th and final week at #1, the biggest hit of their career, and one of the biggest hits ever on The Max and Shuffleplay!
13. Chantal Kreviazuk - Souls - #1
Chantal's biggest hit of the decade wasn't Before You, In This Life or Time. It was actually the third single from Colour Moving and Still and oddly, the one song left off of her 2007 Best Of compilation album. Souls spent 7 big weeks at #1 but it was perhaps its longevity beyond that helped make it such a big hit. 23 weeks spent inside the Top 10, 34 in the Top 40 and 44 in the Top 100. Not bad for a single without a video.
12. Tegan And Sara - The Con - #1
By the time The Con (both the album and single) came out in 2007, I was smitten with Tegan and Sara. I had seen them perform live two or three times already, So Jealous was one of my favourite albums of the decade so far and they had established themselves as a fully reliable act. Every song they put out I loved. The Con continued that tradition and the single especially so. It catapulted them from regular chart hit earners to blockbuster hit status. The Con debuted at #1, stuck around there for 11 weeks and ended up with 63 weeks on the chart.
11. Avril Lavigne - Nobody's Home - #1
Avril Lavigne had a massive era with Under My Skin. I still love Let Go so much but the singles from its followup were spot on! 4 huge #1s and the biggest was so huge, it shattered records! Bright Lights had held the record for longest #1 for just over a year when Avril tied it in January 2005. Then she broke it with her 14th consecutive week. Then spent another, and another, and another. In the end, Nobody's Home stuck around the #1 spot for 17 weeks. Something I never thought could be possible - and it wasn't possible again for nearly ten years when the record was finally broken in 2004.
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Post by MIKEB on Mar 15, 2017 22:24:33 GMT -5
May as well finish this up!
10. Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek - #2
Imogen had a huge impact on how I viewed music, especially music production. Believe it or not, I used to subscribe to the idea that music with real instruments = good, music with computers = not good. After Imogen, I concluded that music could be good no matter how it was made, and music could even be impressive when an artist could think outside the norm and come up with something good. Imogen did that with hers. Hide And Seek has no music. Only vocals and vocoders and effects, yet it's one of the most impressive and beautiful recordings to come out of this decade. The power of the producer cannot be and shouldn't be passed over easily and Imogen helped me appreciate that there's more to music than just the people playing it. It disappoints me a bit now that Hide and Seek didn't hit #1 on my chart but it peaked at #2 for three weeks and had great longevity. 25 weeks in the Top 10 and 56 weeks total on the chart.
9. Jewel - Standing Still - #1
Before Jewel went full-on country with a pair of albums later in the decade, she simply incorporate country into her pop/folk songs. Standing Still had a great hint of southern rock and country in it that helped make it such a perfect pop song. There was a point I couldn't get enough of this song and subsequently her album. Standing Still held the record for longest running #1 for a bit until Bright Lights took it away, when it spent 11 weeks on top.
8. KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree - #1
I might have told this story already but it bares repeating. I had heard OF KT Tunstall but knew nothing about her so when I saw her CD in a used music store in late 2005, I bought it because why not? Judging by the cover, it looked like I would enjoy the music. Such a good choice! This album would go on to have four #1 hits, the first of which was this song, which went on to spent 74 weeks on the chart (or more since the hiatus-gap was filled).
7. Martina Sorbara - Bonnie And Clyde II - #1
This music video would air on MuchMoreMusic in the mornings before I'd get up for school. I'd set my TV to wake me up and the station was set to MMM. I kept seeing a video for a song that didn't really click with me much, but I was still intrigued by it. Martina Sorbara, to me, felt like an artist I should love and I REALLY wanted to recreate the magic I felt when I discovered Chantal Kreviazuk for the first time. So in time I would eventually fall in love with this song and Martina's album. Goal achieved. The Cure For Bad Deeds dominated my ears for at least two years and while Bonnie And Clyde was its only official single, songs from her album would own my other chart. B&CII spent 10 weeks at #1 and 51 weeks on the chart and its placement at #7 on this chart makes it the biggest debut single of the decade!
6. Missy Higgins - Where I Stood - #2
On one hand, I'm surprised this song is as high as it is because, unlike pretty much every other song in the Top 20 of this chart, I'd never been fully obsessed with Where I Stood at any given point in time, but I highly enjoyed it over a long period of time. It spent 61 weeks on my chart, 23 of those in the Top 10, but it was always such a pleasant song to listen to, and also kind of poignant for me at the time too, and perhaps that's why it ultimately did so well.
5. Nelly Furtado - Turn Off The Light - #1
This song was famously the #1 song of the year for me in 2001. I'm not sure why I feel like it was famously but I do kind of remember hyping this song up a lot. It spent 7 weeks at #1 and hearing it did excite me. It was just so fun! I've mostly over it now and much prefer to put on Try or Say It Right when I want from Nelly F, but I'll always remember that this song was pretty much summer of 2001.
4. Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice - #1
This song was power when it came out. Their first recording and statement following the incident of 2004 and when the odds were stacked against them, they went ahead and fought back with this song. To me, Not Ready To Make Nice was brave and badass. It kicked so many asses. I think my absolute favourite moment in concert was hearing them perform this song during their 2007 Canadian tour. It was SO powerful and the applause was SO huge! I nearly floated away I was so proud and happy. Sometimes I put on the song now and turn it up really loud and the second verse still blows me away. This spent 6 weeks at #1 in 2006 and a total of 76 weeks on the chart.
3. Pink - Who Knew - #4
I'm legit surprised Who Knew is as high as it is. Compared to the rest of the ten biggest hits of the decade, it spent the fewest weeks in the Top 10 with just 12 and it only peaked at #4 (for four weeks). But it spent 70 weeks in total on the chart across two chart runs, with 49 of those inside the Top 40 alone - almost a record. Who Knew was a song I never tired of and Pink really gives it her all on it.
2. Avril Lavigne - Don't Tell Me - #1
Another surprise for me was that Don't Tell Me not only beat Nobody's Home, but also winds up as the second biggest hit of the decade. I would have expected Nobody's Home in the Top 3 at least and Don't Tell Me maybe #5, but nope. It's #2. This was Avril's first single from her second album and it was a different sound for her following the brat-pop she delivered from Let Go. Not everyone was in tune with it but it was perfect to me. Right from the get go, Don't Tell Me was exactly what I wanted both from her, and from pop music in general at that time. Don't Tell Me got me hyped for her album and was pretty much my go-to song for months in the spring of 2004. Listening to it now takes me back to that time and it was an all-around exciting time personally for me. This spent 11 weeks at #1 and lasted just over a year, 54 weeks on the chart. It also has the record for longest Top 10 run with 29 weeks.
1. Jason Mraz - You And I Both - #2
My biggest hit of the entire decade is a #2 hit from Jason Mraz. This song was HUGE for me. Despite not reaching #1 (on this chart), it did spent 6 weeks at #2 and 20 weeks in the Top 20. Thanks a late-discovered radio remix, it maintained a chart run of 70 big weeks, and a few trips to the Top 40 where it holds the record for most weeks within the Top 40 at 50. That's 50 weeks INSIDE the Top 40!
You And I Both was the second single from Jason's first album, an album that was a favourite of mine for a couple years starting in 2003. Being the first track on the album and an easy song to listen to and like, it was a go-to track for me for a long time and like others in the top 10 on this chart, one I never really burnt out on. You And I Both is such an excellent representation of the good music from 2003. Kind of folky, kind of poppy, acoustic-based but still upbeat and catchy. It was what I was digging at the time and You And I Both was at the centre of all that. I'm satisfied to call this the top song of the decade!
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Mar 16, 2017 1:52:06 GMT -5
#20. OutKast - Hey Ya - #2 19. Brandi Carlile - The Story - #1 17. Serena Ryder - Weak In The Knees - #1 16. Coldplay - Clocks - #1 15. KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See - #1 14. Matchbox Twenty - Bright Lights - #1 13. Chantal Kreviazuk - Souls - #1 11. Avril Lavigne - Nobody's Home - #1 9. Jewel - Standing Still - #1 8. KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree - #1 7. Martina Sorbara - Bonnie And Clyde II - #1 5. Nelly Furtado - Turn Off The Light - #1 4. Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice - #1 3. Pink - Who Knew - #4 2. Avril Lavigne - Don't Tell Me - #1 1. Jason Mraz - You And I Both - #2 Most of those aren't a surprise to see that high, they really sum up your taste over the 2000's A bit surprised a non-#1 came out on top though!
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