VH1′s latest entry in The Greatest series is one that’s sure to stir up plenty of debate. Starting next Monday night at 10 p.m. ET/PT and running through Friday, we’ll be counting down The 100 Greatest Songs of the ’00s. Each night, host Pete Wentz (whose own “Sugar, We’re Going Down” comes in at #40 on the list!) and a murderer’s row of your favorite comedians and musicians will provide their expert analysis (and a few jokes along the way) about a block of 20 songs that made the aughts such a memorable decade, musically speaking.
We can’t wait for you to see the show, but as a bit of a teaser, we wanted to share with you the entire list of songs, from #100 all the way down to #1, with you today (if you’re on Spotify, you can listen to VH1′s Greatest Songs Of The ’00s there). That way, you can begin debating and discussing the rankings among your friends (and in the comments!) right away, and you’ll be able to tune-in in next week every night at 10 p.m. to dig the rationale. Now, if you’ll do us the favor of imagining a drum roll in your mind, we’ll begin counting down the list…
100. Sisqó / Thong Song
99. Carrie Underwood / Before He Cheats
98. 3 Doors Down / Kryptonite
97. Shaggy / It Wasn’t Me
96. Pussycat Dolls ft Busta Rhymes / Don’t Cha
95. James Blunt / You’re Beautiful
94. Daughtry / It’s Not Over
93. OK Go / Here It Goes Again
92. Flo Rida ft T-Pain / Low
91. Creed / With Arms Wide Open
90. Mystikal / Shake Ya Ass
89. M.I.A. / Paper Planes
88. Fountains of Wayne / Stacy’s Mom
87. The Darkness / I Believe in a Thing Called Love
86. Aerosmith / Jaded
85. Macy Gray / I Try
84. Linkin Park / In the End
83. D’Angelo / Untitled (How Does It Feel)
82. Matchbox Twenty / Unwell
81. Bruce Springsteen / The Rising
80. Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz ft Ying Yang Twins / Get Low
79. Enrique Iglesias / Hero
78. Plain White T’s / Hey There Delilah
77. Nickelback / How You Remind Me
76. T.I. ft Rihanna / Live Your Life
75. Gavin DeGraw / I Don’t Want to Be
74. Chamillionaire ft Krayzie Bone / Ridin’
73. Nelly Furtado ft Timbaland / Promiscuous
72. Jet / Are You Gonna Be My Girl
71. Colbie Caillat / Bubbly
70. Chris Brown ft Juelz Santana / Run It!
69. Evanescence / Bring Me to Life
68. Ludacris ft Shawnna / Stand Up
67. Leona Lewis / Bleeding Love
66. Snoop Dogg ft Pharrell / Drop It Like It’s Hot
65. Aaliyah / Try Again
64. Jennifer Lopez ft Ja Rule / I’m Real (Murder Remix)
63. Andrew W.K. / Party Hard
62. Avril Lavigne / Complicated
61. Kelis / Milkshake
60. Ke$ha / Tik Tok
59. Justin Timberlake / Cry Me a River
58. Jason Mraz / I’m Yours
57. Mary J. Blige / Family Affair
56. DMX / Party Up (Up In Here)
55. The Killers / Mr. Brightside
54. Norah Jones / Don’t Know Why
53. Blink-182 / All the Small Things
52. Shakira ft Wyclef / Hips Don’t Lie
51. Natasha Bedingfield / Pocketful of Sunshine
50. Taylor Swift / You Belong With Me
49. Lady Gaga / Bad Romance
48. Kings Of Leon / Sex On Fire
47. Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya, Pink / Lady Marmalade
46. Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow / Picture
45. Eve ft Gwen Stefani / Let Me Blow Ya Mind
44. Red Hot Chili Peppers / Californication
43. Katy Perry / I Kissed A Girl
42. Train / Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)
41. R. Kelly / Trapped In The Closet
40. Fall Out Boy / Sugar, We’re Goin Down
39. Adele / Chasing Pavements
38. Miley Cyrus / Party In The U.S.A.
37. Britney Spears / Oops! …I Did It Again
36. *NSYNC / Bye Bye Bye
35. John Mayer / Daughters
34. Janet Jackson / All For You
33. Johnny Cash / Hurt
32. Maroon 5 / This Love
31. Amy Winehouse / Rehab
30. Gwen Stefani / Hollaback Girl
29. Foo Fighters / Best Of You
28. Madonna / Music
27. Usher ft Lil Jon and Ludacris / Yeah!
26. The White Stripes / Seven Nation Army
25. Nelly / Hot in Herre
24. Missy Elliott / Get Ur Freak On
23. Pink / Get the Party Started
22. Alicia Keys / Fallin’
21. Jay-Z / 99 Problems
20. Britney Spears / Toxic
19. Destiny’s Child / Bootylicious
18. Christina Aguilera / Beautiful
17. Coldplay / Clocks
16. Beyoncé / Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
15. U2 / Beautiful Day
14. Gnarls Barkley / Crazy
13. Green Day / American Idiot
12. Black Eyed Peas / I Gotta Feeling
11. Rihanna ft Jay-Z / Umbrella
10. 50 Cent / In Da Club
9. Mariah Carey / We Belong Together
8. Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys / Empire State Of Mind
7. Justin Timberlake ft Timbaland / SexyBack
6. Kanye West ft Jamie Foxx / Gold Digger
5. Kelly Clarkson / Since U Been Gone
4. Eminem / Lose Yourself
3. Lady Gaga / Poker Face
2. OutKast / Hey Ya!
1. Beyoncé ft Jay-Z / Crazy In Love
Remember, tune-in next Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT to catch the first hour of VH1′s 100 Greatest Songs of the ’00s, where we’ll be counting down from #100 to #81. And if you’re on Spotify, you can listen to the whole list here: VH1′s 100 Greatest Songs of the ’00s
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The list is AWESOME, except these two; = Toxic should have been in top 3 and Bad Romance should have been higher, It’s better than Poker Face.
Since U Been Gone should be #1. :)
and what about “i write sins not tragedies” by Panic! at the disco :(
Because of You by KC deserves to be on the list too.
There are so few Rock songs on here i want to vomit.
Where’s Oops and I think JLo has much better songs than I’m real :S
Bah… LEFT OUTSIDE ALONE by ANASTACIA!!!!
Dónde está Hung Up de Madonna??? Ese fue el tema más exitoso del 2005 a nivel mundial!!!
esta lista es una MIERDA!
Britney is not God, dear James, deal with that.
I agree Pat. Most top music lists seem biased towards hip hop and pop. With 4 stellar albums in that decade alone, it’s amazing Muse isn’t on here at all.
this list makes me sad for the generations after us who will have things like these to document what the “greatest” music of the 00′s was. thanks for including some worthy musicians (adele, rhcp), but serious VH1? this reads like an extended track listing of “Now That’s What I Call Entertainment-Noise”, not music.
lol a greatest list Ke$ha and Nickelback. Never thought I’d see the day.
This can’t be real. This has to be a joke or something.
No My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte, Simple Paln, or Avenged Sevenfold. Have you guys forgot the music that actually made the ’00s.
Wow, If that is the best of the decade what a crap decade for music.
Lil Wayne should have been on that list at least twice….Fireman, Lollilop, A Millie??? Come on
Were the F is 30 seconds to marrs on that list or were is system of a down chop suey one of the first videos that got allot of views on youtube!!!!! common the thong song!!!!!! just and insult
ja rule- put it on me, always on time, between me and you? akon-locked up? lil wayne- lollipop? destiny’s child- say my name? nelly dilemna, my place, air force ones? lil flip- sunshine, game over? fabolous- breathe, so into you, can’t let you go? kanye- all falls down, stronger, jesus walks? just a few songs to throw out there. many more that could be named.
Vanessa Carlton–A Thousand Miles? Definitely one of the most iconic songs of the 00′s.
No Flaming Lips ‘Do You Realize?’ Your little list is a complete failure.
What? No Dethklok?
the list is understandable but i highly believe muse, pearl jam, mgmt, vampire weekend or arctic monkeys shouldve been listed. any great indie/alternative song from the latter half of the decade couldve made it better. am i right? if u disagree i take it that u unfortunately havent heard any of their songs.
well im highly disappointed there isn’t a single Breaking Benjamin song on here. Several qualify, such as: Diary of Jane, I Will Not Bow, Dear Agony, Firefly, Rain, Breath, and many more… come vh1…. =(
how does over my head by the fray, apologize by onerublic not make the TOP 100, wow
This is more like The 100 MORE COMMERCIAL Songs of ‘00s
Words cannot describe how horrible this list is
This list is terrible. Yeah, some of the songs on here were really big and deserve to be on the countdown because they shaped some of the future music. But most of this list is only pop and mainstream music. Personally I think that there should be more rock/alternative/indie bands on here too. There’s more music besides what plays on the radio. What about 30 Seconds to Mars? Or Muse?
How do they even make this list? is it based on how mainstream it was? Or maybe someone’s favorite list? It feels a bit bias to me.
There are two songs that I was sure would make the list:
“1985″ by Bowling For Soup
“Bad Day” by Daniel Powter
I don’t really care for either song (especially “Bad Day”), but they were impossible to escape from when they came out. Hell, The Chimpmunks covered Powter.
i write sins not tragedieS
CHOP SUEY
This must be the greatest pop songs ever. No Incubus? As far as I’m concerned the entire Morning View album could have been on here. Most of this list are the songs that I hated when I first heard them (especially #1 Crazy in Love) but found myself singing along to because the radio crammed it down my throat on 4 minute rotations! Somehow that makes them the best songs of the 00s.
Where the hell is My Chemical Romance? I would assume I’m Not Okay or Helena would atleast be on there.. -___-
This list makes me sick. I can admit that there are some good choices of songs on here but you didn’t take into consideration of all the diffrent music genres. Here are a songs I think you should of added. Marilyn Manson- Beautiful People, Disturbed- Down with the Sickness, Korn- Freak on A Leash, Eminem-Stan-The Real Slim Shady, Papa Roach- Last Resort, TLC-No Scrubs, I could go on but I’ll stop. Take our feedback into thought VH1.
Where’s Mumford and Sons??!
this list is based off how long a song was number 1 on the billboard top 100… it doesnt matter how good it was… i mean i wish it was but nope it was all popularity
Where the hell are all the rock songs?!?!?
THIS LIST SUCKS! WHERE ARE THE SMASH HITS HUNG UP (MADONNA), CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (KYLIE MINOGUE), HOT N’ COLD (KATY PERRY) WHEN LOVE TAKES OVER (DAVID GUETTA & KELLY ROWLAND) SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW (KEANE) AND SO MANY MORE GREATEST 00´S HITS THAT SHOULD BE ON THE LIST INSTEAD MILEY CIRUS, OK GO, AND OTHERS
This was a really bad decade for music.
the list for 11′s.. number 1 is party rock athem!!
how could lil wayne not be in the greatest of the 00′s? did someone forget about a little song called lollipop? ridiculous
I like see tv and vh1 100 Greatest Songs of 00′s.
actually, this list isn’t that bad. i expected plenty of cheesy pop garbage and one-hit wonder songs that people would never listen to now, like VH1 did with the awful “best songs of the 90s” list, but they put some legitimately good songs that people will actually still listen to in 10 years on here. and for the people complaining that there wasn’t enough rock on here, they need to realize that a lot of rock didn’t reach the pop charts in the 2000s. and all of these lists have to be based on what was big on pop radio, or else people would complain that they hadn’t heard of any of the songs.
Hoobastank- The Reason
what happened to the blackeyed peas!!?? Ive got a feeling andmeet me halfway?!!
where is all of the rock songs? this is a garbage list.
and Kylie Minogue ?? ??
judging by the fact that the 2000s had a lot of terrible, unmemorable pop music, i think they did pretty well with the list. the top 20 is actually pretty good, much better than VH1′s best of the 90s list’s top 20, which had crap like Backstreet Boys, Sir Mix-a-Lot, MC Hammer, and Hanson. and there were plenty of good 90s rock and pop songs left off of that entire list. so, compared to the 90s list, this list is a pleasant surprise. i know some people are upset by the list, but come on people, they’re not going to include songs that weren’t singles or pop hits, artists that weren’t big enough, rock songs that weren’t on pop radio, or heavy rock or metal songs from bands like Korn. this is VH1, people!
I’m surprised The Strokes didn’t make the list, considering their first album, “Is This It” was one of the most influential rock albums of the 2000′s. One of their songs should’ve made the list. Incubus – Wish You Were Here should have made it too.
UMMMM! some of the people that have posted these comments needs to look up some year!!! AKA… Adele, yes did begin in 2009, but was not popular until the album “21″, which came out in 2011!!! TLC- “No Scrubs” was released in November of 1999, although popular in the 00′s, the song must be released in 00′s!!! So we do need to look up your information before posting. As well i agree that this list is not the best, but eveyone is subject to there own views, if you look deeper into the list though the are majority pop albums, while means that the list is a direct offspring to the Billboard top 100s!!!
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