00's: The Hit of the Decade

so, only six months left. I can think of 'Toxic', 'Umbrella', 'Rehab', 'Crazy in Love', Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy', 'Hey Ya', maybe 'Last Nite', Animal Collective's Brothesp..., err, sorry not this one, as potential candidates. What have I forgotten?

"Since U Been Gone"

Best of the 2000's so far (Top whatever)

wrong thread ha ha

no, man, I'm not talking about 'the best'.

What are you talking about then?

Groovejet, Get Ur Freak On, Can't Get You Out of My Head, Another Chance, Hung Up, Young Folks, Paper Planes, American Boy, In For The Kill.

'hit' doesn't equal 'best of', right?

pretty tough.
but it would be for any decade, I guess.
the most massive hit of the decade that everyone knows and that would rock a dancefloor anywhere... maybe yeah, "crazy in love", "hey ya", "can't get you out of my head" or Justin's "my love", snoop's "drop it like it's hot"...

James Blunt - You're Beautiful

Will Young - Evergreen

Shaggy - It Wasn't Me

Yeah what are the most pukealicious hits of the decade?

get 'young folks' the fuck out of this thread

Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Shakira - Hips Don't Lie

100 Reasons Why "Ignition - Remix" Is So Damned Great

Limp Bizkit - Rollin'

Get Ur Freak On

5 years ago i would've pegged this as a really major decade-defining hit but it feels so distant and relatively minor now

For reference, the 40 biggest selling singles in the UK in the 2000s thus far:

1. 1,789,919 Will Young - Evergreen
2. 1,329,740 Gareth Gates - Unchained Melody
3. 1,180,700 Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
4. 1,126,433 Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah
5. 1,100,233 Tony Christie - Is This The Way To Amarillo
6. 1,094,000 Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas
7. 1,078,400 Hear'Say - Pure And Simple
8. 1,037,235 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
9. 939,000 Atomic Kitten - Whole Again
10. 931,652 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
11. 874,444 Shayne Ward - That's My Goal
12. 853,151 Bob the Builder - Can We Fix It
13. 820,053 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
14. 751,243 X Factor Finalists - Hero
15. 747,000 DJ Otzi - Hey Baby
16. 745,000 Westlife - Uptown Girl
17. 742,472 Enrique Iglesias - Hero
18. 710,000 S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'
19. 700,069 Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This
20. 685,343 All Saints - Pure Shores
21. 659,662 Nelly / Kelly Rowland - Dillema
22. 654,304 Lady GaGa - Just Dance
23. 652,861 Lady GaGa - Poker Face
24. 642,001 Sonique - It Feel So Good
25. 634,380 Eminem - Stan
26. 634,000 Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love?
27. 621,700 Rihanna - Umbrella
28. 618,576 Baha Man - Who Let The Dogs Out?
29. 585,000 Shaggy - Angel
30. 578,092 Robbie Williams - Rock DJ
31. 573,125 Gareth Gates - Anyone Of Us
32. 554,756 Shakira - Whenever, Wherever
33. 552,407 Eamon - I Don't Want You Back
34. 551,527 Gareth Gates - Spirit In The Sky
35. 550,000 R Kelly - Ignition
36. 538,591 Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song
37. 535,664 Duffy - Mercy
38. 530,742 Fragma - Toca's Miracle
39. 526,740 Crazy Frog - Axel F
40. 523,242 Spiller - Groovejet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWSQ9YQa_6w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA

12. 853,151 Bob the Builder - Can We Fix It

Can't wait for the Scoop solo record.

In America, in terms of omnipresence and cultural impact, it's Hey Ya.

disagree

Also, Stan

there are at least a dozen songs already mentioned in this thread that i think have had longer legs (in terms of recurrent airplay, influence on later hits, whatever) and more sustained appeal than "Hey Ya"

although i could be just saying that cause i fuckin hate "Hey Ya"

So the lesson here is nothing from the 2000s sounds that decade-defining five years down the road.

'Hey Ya" will play at every work party and wedding party for the next 10 years.

Justin Timberlake- Cry Me a River

So the lesson here is nothing from the 2000s sounds that decade-defining five years down the road.

well, what would it be for, say, the 90s ?

22. 654,304 Lady GaGa - Just Dance
23. 652,861 Lady GaGa - Poker Face

and people complain about sales decline ffs

So the lesson here is nothing from the 2000s sounds that decade-defining five years down the road.

nah - i agree w/al abt 'get ur freak on' and 'hey ya' but there are even older tracks which were def ubiquitous at the time which hold up really strongly - 'got your money' (was this '99 or '00?), 'try again' etc.

anyway my answer will always & 4eva be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3044_KkguY

for the UK anyway

"got your money" was '90

anytime someone is talking about previous decades, it's pretty easy to flash, say, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as shorthand for the 90s, or "Thriller" for the 80s, etc. i guess we're trying to name an equivalent here, but i'm not sure what it would be.

xp

Yeah, when was "Try Again"? That should def be on the list if applicable.

I think it's 99, no ?

and as for the shorthand for 00s I think "crazy in love" or "hey ya" work pretty well.

"Try Again" was 2000 but no way is that a good one for the 00s...or at least nowhere near as decade-defining as "One In A Million" or "Are You That Somebody" would be for the 90s.

Justin Timberlake's SexyBack, maybe?

For me, it's hard to think of three songs more well-known than "Crazy In Love," "Hey Ya," and "Since U Been Gone" across all demographics.

Oh and "Crazy."

"smells like teen spirit"

"get low" is so obviously the most influential song of the 00s, at least in the US

^^ can get on board with that, good call

It clearly must be, because I'm going to have to google it.

why more than, say, 'country grammar'

It clearly must be, because I'm going to have to google it.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:10 PM (24 seconds ago)

ha same here...it probably isnt if i don't know what it is offhand

"Without Me" was big but was overshadowed months later by "Lose Yourself" which made it onto far more "best of 2002" lists..

Without Me is def superior to The Real Slim Shady, though, in every way.

70s: Player "Baby Come Back"
80s: Calloway "I Wanna Be Rich"
90s: Deep Blue Something "Breakfast At Tiffanys"
00s: 98 Degrees "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)"

I'm actually among the minority who enjoys "Without Me" more than "Lose Yourself." It might be my favorite Eminem single.. no wait, it's "My Name Is." But 2nd favorite.

No mention yet of Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You"? Biggest R&B hit in history, both in weeks at #1 and weeks on chart; #1 pop as well.

Oops, peaked at #3 Pop, sorry.

70s: runaways 'cherry bomb'
80s: animotion 'obsession'
90s: puff daddy 'all about the benjamins (rock remix)'
00s: ???
10s: PROFIT

'Family Affair' must be the big 00s Mary J hit

on reflection for the 90s i'd say that mariah & odb 'fantasy' really can't be beaten - so game-changing

Paula Abdul already pioneered the rnb girl + gruff cartoonish MC dynamic years earlier tho

on a wu tip, 'fantasy' came after method man/mjb's 'you're all i need to get by'.

busted - crashed the wedding

I Hope You Dance is a 2000 album from Lee Ann Womack, released on MCA Nashville Records. Its title track was a crossover hit in 2000, peaking at #1 on both the Country and Adult Contemporary charts and reaching #14 on the Billboard Hot 100.

80s: animotion 'obsession'

This is the first song I think of when I even begin contemplating the 80s. I don't even know if it was really a hit, but it encapsulates at least the middle of the decade in just 4 minutes.

Did we ever sort this out?

yep it was crazy frog

Sounds fair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9grWoCEZHFI

I don't think this one was mentioned yet, but it was pretty inescapable at clubs in the mid-00s.

Tuomas OTM

To be honest, if I'm still here in my 80s, and I've essentially lost my mind, and I can't remember who even my own children are, the one thing they might be able to play me to bring back for a second what life was like in the 00s, and by extension my 20s... it might actually be the opening bars of Drop The Pressure.

Can someone explain to me why Paper Planes is amazing and good and awesome and not a load of tedious crap?

I sure can't.

I like Paper Planes because it's catchy and fun. I never found it tedious. But overrated? You bet.

To answer the question I'm going back with my gut instinct: "Like I Love You." fuck it.

louis do you like any other MIA?

(it would be harder to explain Paper Planes goodness if you did)

I haven't heard an MIA song I've liked, just yet.

wonder if Paper Planes actually won anyone over to MIA who didn't like her already (as opposed to not having heard her before) - seems unlikely

Shaggy - It Wasn't Me

― Matt DC, Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:23 AM (2 months ago)

^ This is the right answer.

I heard it once on NPR. Reminded me of Sublime.

It Wasn't Me makes me throw up in my mouth.

Why!

wonder if Paper Planes actually won anyone over to MIA who didn't like her already (as opposed to not having heard her before) - seems unlikely

― unban dictionary (blueski), Monday, August 24, 2009 7:54 AM Bookmark

considering it was a top 5 hit in the US that sold 2 mil copies when none of her other singles had charted, probably a lot of people

oh sorry, missed part in ()

I will blame it on tiredness

It Wasn't Me makes me throw up in my mouth.

^This, so hard.

I had to ctrl+F to confirm, to my astonishment, that Blue October was nowhere to be found. "Hate Me" = "Smells Like Teen Spirit 2006", basically.

Has no one mentioned the epochal The Vines - Get Free yet?

YAH OR THE CAESARS - JERK IT OUT

MOAR COMEDY ANSWERS, THEY SO FUNNY

I once fell asleep watching the Caesars play live. Good day, was that.

didnt realize his was a comedy answer tbh

Mordy's kind of an enigma, maybe you're right

lol, i'm not that much of an enigma.

OK how do u really feel about the Vines dogg are they really epochal 2 u?

YES TOTALLY.

I don't know how qualified I am to post a non-joek answer (seeing as how I couldn't place either "Yeah!" or "Paper Planes" until I actually listened to them today) but I'd be hard-pressed to argue against "Hey Ya!".

I can easily argue against "Hey Ya!" because that shit is annoying as hell

Well, there are probably half a dozen songs mentioned above that I personally prefer, but that's not really what this thread's about.

Hey Ya!'s influence is minimal at best

I wasn't looking at it in terms of influence, and the suggestions posited above for the hit songs of decades past don't really hold up from that perspective. I can definitely think of more influential songs than "Stayin' Alive" and "Thriller".