Would you like to know what the most popular music of this almost finished decade is? How about a list of the top selling singles. They would represent the music that has shaped the past few years, how future generations would see this point in time, this tipping point in history where music was undergoing huge changes.
Here are the top selling singles since 2000.
1. Hips Don’t Lie (featuring Wyclef Jean) – Shakira
2. Crazy In Love (featuring Jay-Z) – Beyonce
3. My Humps – Black Eyed Peas
4. Toxic – Britney Spears
5. Womanizer – Britney Spears
6. Oops!… I Did It Again – Britney Spears
7. Stan – Eminem
8. Low – Flo Rida
9. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Green Day
10. I Kissed A Girl – Katy Perry
Well bugger me sideways. I expected it to be a bad list – but it appears music has been dominated by the lowest rent pop tripe imaginable.
Yes, I know the main buyer of singles is the teenage girl. Who are scientifically proven to buy whatever MTV tells them too. I have first hand experience of this selling CDs in Woolworths in my youth (all three almost completely redundant now.) But really? That bad?!
Two songs are about body parts. One is about blow jobs. And three are by Britney bloody Spears.
This is beginning to sound like an old man rant about kids these days so I’ll stop.
The music industry, as it is, is dying. If this is true, then that list makes me want to hit it with a hammer and finish the job.
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that picture is terrifying!
but admittedly not as terrifying as the list
My fucking Hump is in at number three (pop pickers)??
No wonder I listen to R4 a lot more now.
Jesus!
I’d actually be quite interested in a list of actual sales+download figures for these, and then a comparison with say, the 90s and 80s, it would be an interesting portrait. I’m assuming that bands that are considered ‘major’ sell far less these days, but their media profile is far higher-do pGirls Aloud really sell more albums than, say, Metallica? Highly doubtful, but they are on TV a lot more aren’t they.
Songs have always been about body parts. And shagging.
To be honest, there’s nothing wrong with any of the stuff on that list. I wouldn’t listen to it, but I’d hate the world if the stuff I liked made it to number one, because my BRANE WUD MELTED.
Metallica are total and utter guff, by the way. They were shit in the nineties too.
They’re not even funny like most metal. I’d hoped that documentary they made about their counseling sessions had finally put them away and shattered any credibility they’d had… along with the Napster nonsense. But no…
I’d choose Toxic by Britney over any Metallica song ever on any jukebox anywhere ever, ever, amen.
G’night!
Swines – You’ll get the same comment from any metalhead with any sense on Metallica – first three albums – ace. Everything after – shite.
The less said about them the better these days.
“top selling singles…would represent the music that has shaped the past few years”
I’m not sure that’s really true any more, is it? Singles now represent marketing budgets and/or video rotation and/or TV tie-ins, not really the whole spectrum of musical taste across the country. Have you got one of these for albums? It may be the same depressing read, but I’d be interested.
@ 4* Definately the earlier part of the decade. Less so now I guess. But yeah, albums would be interesting.
I’ll bet the Red Hot Chilli Peppers feature somewhere.
Guh.
To be fair, with the exception of ‘Humps’, that is a pretty good list of actual ‘pop’ songs, whether you like the genre or not. Teenage girls don’t buy much Radiohead.
Here ya go. American only I think.
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/34074/chart-watch-extra-the-top-20-album-sellers-of-the-2000s
Metallica do feature. But so do FUCKING CREED!
My single did very well. 1572 downloads. I’m not in the charts though.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for The Mercury though, yes?
Oh….
Sorry btw-Metallica were just an example. They are utter utter crap.
Vones-don’t get me started on F***king RHCP….
They didn’t feature. Which was nice.
Blast, thought I’d stir up trouble but it turned out to be a damp squib.
you obviously overestimated our love of Metallica. Incidentally, I quite like Britney, I reckon if we got together I could get her life back on track. And that Lindsey Lohan. I could work with that I reckon.
Hang on – if we got together?
A.) I’m not getting together with you.
B.) How would it help Britney anyway?
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE.
Britney knows that she’s destined to be with me. It’s really very simple…
*buys telescopic night-scope…*
This is a good list of songs. I was expecting to see nothing but Coldplay and Westlife.
Future generations might look at this and note that the vast majority is the work of female artists, be impressed by the stylistic diversity on display, and that the songs detail obsession, sexual confusion, self doubt and loss. And lovely lovely lady lumps, of course.
And Justice For All is a great album, as well.
…And Justice For All is…alright. Nothing special. They were sorely missing the Burton influence and didn’t do a thing to expand the sound, which had been a feature of there previous stuff. Master is definitely the highpoint. It was downhill all the way from there – I say just buy some Overkill albums instead, you can’t really go wrong with that!