Greatest Songs of the 2000s

Criteria: As all songs in this list are less than 10 years old, attributing significant influence to any of those songs is imprecise and difficult; in this first version, the songs are being ranked equaly for their popularity, musical impact, cultural impact and critical acclaim.

Editor: A. Skhikkhi (SkullKiD)
Last updated: December 23, 2009

1. Hey Ya - OutKast
2. Lose Yourself - Eminem
3. Crazy in Love - Beyoncé feat. Jay Z
4. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
5. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
6. Clocks - Coldplay
7. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
8. Last Nite - The Strokes
9. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
10. Jesus Walks - Kanye West
11. Get Ur Freak On - Missy Elliot
12. Umbrella - Rihanna feat. Jay Z
13. Yeah! - Usher feat. Lil' Jon and Ludacris
14. Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) - Beyoncé
15. Idioteque - Radiohead
16. In tha Club - 50 Cent
17. Fallin' - Alicia Keys
18. Rehab - Amy Winehouse
19. Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
20. Yellow - Coldplay
21. Gold Digger - Kanye West
22. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
23. Beautiful Day - U2
24. All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
25. Viva la Vida - Coldplay
26. SexyBack - Justin Timberlake
27. Toxic - Britney Spears
28. Ms. Jackson - OutKast
29. 99 Problems - Jay Z
30. What You Know - T.I.
31. Low - Flo Rida feat. T. Pain
32. One More Time - Daft Punk
33. Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
34. Stan - Eminem
35. Losing My Edge - LCD Soundsystem
36. Fell in Love with a Girl - The White Stripes
37. I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
38. No One - Alicia Keys
39. Try Again - Aaliyah
40. B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) - OutKast
41. Can’t Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
42. Irreplaceble - Beyoncé
43. Mr. Brightside - The Killers
44. Just Dance - Lady Gaga
45. Poker Face - Lady Gaga
46. Family Affair - Mary J. Blige
47. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
48. Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
49. I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry
50. I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
51. How You Remind Me - Nickelback
52. In the End - Linkin Park
53. Stronger - Kanye West
54. Harder Better Faster Stronger - Daft Punk
55. Hot N' Cold - Katy Perry
56. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
57. House of Jealous Lovers - The Rapture
58. Survivor - Destiny’s Child
59. Sex On Fire - Kings of Leon
60. Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
61. The Seed (2.0) - The Roots
62. Work It - Missy Elliot
63. My Love - Justin Timberlake
64. 1 Thing - Amerie
65. Disturbia - Rihanna
66. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire
67. Live Your Life - T.I. feat. Rihanna
68. Without Me - Eminem
69. Hips Don't Lie - Shakira
70. Ignition - R. Kelly
71. Music - Madonna
72. No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
73. Starlight - Muse
74. D.A.N.C.E. - Justice
75. Float On - Modest Mouse
76. Made You Look - Nas
77. Izzo (H.O.V.A.) - Jay Z
78. Empire State of Mind - Jay Z feat. Alicia Keys
79. My Girls - Animal Collective
80. We Belong Together - Mariah Carey
81. Dilema - Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland
82. Love in this Club - Usher feat. Young Jeezy
83. Young Folks - Peter Bjorn & John
84. Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell
85. A Milli - Lil Wayne
86. Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
87. Hard to Explain - The Strokes
88. Heartbeat - Annie
89. The Scientist - Coldplay
90. Like a Stone - Audioslave
91. Chop Suey! - System of a Down
92. Pyramid Song - Radiohead
93. Cry Me a River - Justin Timberlake
94. Where is the Love - Black Eyed Peas
95. The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
96. Kids - MGMT
97. Slow Hands - Interpol
98. Good Life - Kanye West feat. T. Pain
99. The Way You Move - OutKast
100. Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
101. Galang – M.I.A.
102. Independent Woman Part I - Destiny's Child
103. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
104. Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
105. Hate It or Love It – The Game feat 50 Cent
106. Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
107. Everything in it’s Right Place - Radiohead
108. Banquet - Bloc Party
109. Vertigo - U2
110. Can't Stand Me Now – The Libertines
111. Mosh - Eminem
112. Roses - OutKast
113. If I Were a Boy - Beyoncé
114. The Way We Get By - Spoon
115. Time to Pretend - MGMT
116. When We Were Young - The Killers
117. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
118. This Love - Maroon 5
119. Speed of Sound - Coldplay
120. Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
121. Crank That - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
122. American Idiot - Green Day
123. Smile - Lily Allen
124. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
125. Steady as She Goes - The Racounters
126. The Rat - The Walkmen
127. Heartbeats - The Knife
128. Slow Jamz - Twista
129. While You Wait for the Others - Grizzly Bear
130. Ain't No Other Man - Christina Aguilera
131. 12:51 - The Strokes
132. Someday - The Strokes
133. Hollaback Girl - Gewn Stefani
134. Promiscous - Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland
135. Get this Party Started - Pink
136. Stay Fly - Three 6 Mafia
137. Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
138. Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
139. Milkshake - Kelis
140. Digital Love - Daft Punk
141. Grindin' - Clipse
142. Poor Places - Wilco
143. What Goes Around.../...Comes Around - Justin Timberlake
144. Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives
145. Obstacle 1 - Interpol
146. New Slang - The Shins
147. Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's
148. Foolish - Ashanti
149. Wolf Like Me - TV On the Radio
150. The Real Slim Shady - Eminem
151. Somebody Told Me - The Killers
152. White & Nerdy - "Weird Al" Yankovic
153. Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead
154. Bring Me to Life - Evanescence
155. Check On It - Beyoncé feat. Slim Thug
156. My Doorbell - The White Stripes
157. Hot in Herre - Nelly
158. 1234 - Feist
159. The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
160. Brainstorm - Arctic Monkeys
161. Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
162. Island in the Sun - Weezer
163. I Luv U - Dizzee Rascal
164. Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós
165. View from the Afternoon - Arctic Monkeys
166. Blind - Hercules and Love Affair
167. Where's Your Head At - Basement Jaxx
168. 2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead
169. Heartless - Kanye West
170. Show ((Hey Oh)) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
171. La Rock 01 - Vitalic
172. Schism - Tool
173. Pork and Beans - Weezer
174. Jesus, etc. - Wilco
175. Sexy Bitch - David Guetta feat. Akon
176. Over and Over - Hot Chip
177. By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
178. Beautiful Girls - Sean Kingston
179. Diamonds from Serra Leone - Kanye West
180. Fireworks - Animal Collective
181. Peacebone - Animal Collective
182. Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
183. Whatever You Like - T.I.
184. Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs
185. S.O.S. - Rihanna
186. Mississippi – Bob Dylan
187. Dry Your Eyes - The Streets
188. Out of Time - Blur
189. First of the Gang to Die - Morrissey
190. Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard (A True Story) - !!!
191. Lost Cause - Beck
192. Int'l Player's Anthem - UGK feat. OutKast
193. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
194. 1901 - Phoenix
195. Machine Gun - Portishead
196. Atlas - Battles
197. Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars
198. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
199. Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
200. Technologic - Daft Punk

Reserved for possible future revision

I don't know what happened to Skullkid, but me and him were working on this list despite dinss continuously forcing generic mainstream pop songs whose only major importance was that they charted high in one country and were quickly forgotten, or artists from Latin America whose worldwide importance was negligible at best and are obscure outside of their own country. Also, like most of our lists he wanted them to become complete copies of what acclaimedmusic.com had.

So Skullkid made a list for the forum to appease dinss so he would stop bothering us, and sent the one on the site to Lew with the help of other users who legitimately wanted to work on it instead of it becoming a copy of acclaimedmusic's list plus dinss' personal favorites.

Anyway, if Skullkid doesn't come back in a few months, can I - or preferably someone else who is also here all the time - take over maintenance of this list?

Everything is rock, now?

Hey Ya is the greatest ROCK song of the past decade? Seriously?

Read the announcement at the top for crying out loud guys.

I don't even know why there's any discussion regarding Hey Ya being a rock song.

I've got ears. This is not rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm8PH4xAss

You cut that out, you'll have to cut out an awful lot of stuff, from this list and others.

Ya think?

Crazy for 1.......

Yup

No, imagine Chandler saying that to Joey.

Of course it would mean a lot of other songs being removed, which they should because they don't belong.

Ok, let me clarify - you'd have to cut out a lot of stuff, not just rap, which I'm sure you wouldn't want cut out.

For instance, 50 Cent is far closer to the roots of rock than say King Crimson.

In my opinion "Paper Planes", "Crazy" and "Seven Nation Army" should be the 1,2,3 in any order.

But King Crimson play Rock instruments Georgi.

/turd impersonation