Throughout pop music history, at the top of the Billboard charts is where you will find the greatest and worst music — often from one song to the next. You always tend to remember what song goes #1, and it’s usually too inescapable to not have an opinion on it. Most of these 129 songs from the 2000s still have a sizable audience based on Spotify streaming numbers, though a few American Idol finale songs ended up at #1 for one week and thankfully vanished forever.
Many of these songs at the top will appear on a best songs of the 2000s list coming soon.
129. Taylor Hicks – “Do I Make You Proud”
128. Clay Aiken – “This Is the Night”
127. Plain White T’s – “Hey There Delilah”
126. Savage Garden – “I Knew I Loved You”
125. James Blunt – “You’re Beautiful”
124. Owl City – “Fireflies”
123. Eminem (ft. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent) – “Crack a Bottle”
122. Daniel Powter – “Bad Day”
121. Carrie Underwood – “Inside Your Heaven”
120. Mariah Carey (ft. Joe & 98°) – “Thank God I Found You”
119. P!nk – “So What”
118. Jay Sean (ft. Lil Wayne) – “Down”
117. Kelly Clarkson – “My Life Would Suck Without You”
116. Sean Kingston – “Beautiful Girls”
115. Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya & P!nk – “Lady Marmalade”
114. Kelly Clarkson – “A Moment Like This”
113. Crazy Town – “Butterfly”
112. Sisqo – “Incomplete”
111. Jason Derulo – “Whatcha Say”
110. 50 Cent (ft. Olivia) – “Candy Shop”
109. Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling”
108. Britney Spears – “3”
107. Katy Perry – “I Kissed a Girl”
106. Fantasia – “I Believe”
105. Shaggy (ft. Rayvon) – “Angel”
104. Matchbox Twenty – “Bent”
103. Creed – “With Arms Wide Open”
102. Leona Lewis – “Bleeding Love”
101. Lil Wayne (ft. Static Major) – “Lollipop”
100. Vertical Horizon – “Everything You Want”
99. Flo Rida (ft. Ke$ha) – “Right Round”
98. Christina Aguilera – “What a Girl Wants”
97. Avril Lavigne – “Girlfriend”
96. Jennifer Lopez (ft. LL Cool J) – “All I Have”
95. Black Eyed Peas – “Boom Boom Pow”
94. Janet Jackson – “Doesn’t Really Matter”
93. MiMS – “This Is Why I’m Hot”
92. Joe (ft. Mystikal) – “Stutter (Double Take Remix)”
91. Akon – “Don’t Matter”
Bitter Melodies 