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The top mainstream rock song of the decade, "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down, [2] peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 and was a No. 1 pop hit. The top mainstream rock artist of the decade was Nickelback, [2] who had the second biggest song on the Mainstream Rock chart during the 2000s with "How You Remind Me" and led all other artists with seven number ...
Throughout the decade, a total of 129 singles claimed the top spot of the Hot 100. While Santana 's "Smooth" featuring Rob Thomas topped the chart in the first two weeks of 2000, it was not counted as a number-one single of the 2000s decade by Billboard because it had topped the chart in October 1999, and thus was counted as a number-one single ...
Popular music. This article is an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 2000s. In American culture, various styles of the late 20th century remained popular, such as rock, pop, metal, hip hop, R&B, EDM, country and indie. As the technology of computers and internet sharing developed, a variety of those genres started ...
The Pretender" by American rock band Foo Fighters spent the most weeks at number one on the Alternative Songs chart for any song during the 2000s. Alternative Airplay is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most-played songs on American modern rock radio stations.
Latin rock band Santana had a strong showing, taking positions two and three with "Smooth" and "Maria Maria" from the Supernatural album. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 2000. [1]
Band Backstreet Boys ' Black & Blue sold 1.6 million units in its debut week, besting their album Millennium ' s figure of 1.13 million. [5] 2000 had the fewest Billboard 200 leaders among women since 1996, with only Britney Spears, Celine Dion and Madonna having a number one album this year. [6]
Franz Ferdinand in concert in 2004. Like many American alternative rock bands, during the late 1990s and early 2000s, several British indie bands emerged, including Franz Ferdinand, the Libertines and Bloc Party, that drew primary inspiration from new wave and post-punk groups such as Joy Division, Wire, and Gang of Four, establishing the post-punk revival movement. [5]
Schwartz, Missy (December 17, 2004), "Sioux City; New-wave goddess Siouxsie Sioux led the way for kick-ass frontwomen with bold style. And the Queen Banshee is still wailing", Entertainment Weekly, "Cities in Dust" (1985) was the first of a handful of alt-rock radio hits in the U.S.