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The 2000s in rock radio in the United States saw a continued blurring of the playlists among mainstream rock and alternative rock stations. Every track that was ranked by Billboard as the number-one song of the year on its Mainstream Rock Tracks chart during the decade was also a top-five hit on the Alternative Songs chart, most of which topped both charts.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In the 2000s, each chart's "week ending" date was the Saturday of the following two weeks.
The chart was known as Modern Rock Tracks until June 2009, when it was renamed Alternative Songs in order to "better [reflect] the descriptor used among those in the [modern rock radio] format." [3] 106 songs topped the chart in the 2000s; the first was "All the Small Things" by Blink-182, [4] while the last was "Uprising" by Muse. [5] "
Olivia Rodrigo may be a teenage pop star who works for Disney and first scaled the Hot 100 with a piano-driven ballad, but her second No. 1 of 2021, "Good 4 U," is a surprisingly feisty pop-punk song.
Avril Lavigne had six number-one songs on Pop Rock General in the 2000s, including the top song of 2007, "Girlfriend". The Black Eyed Peas had eight number-one songs during the decade, twice scoring back-to-back chart toppers in 2006 and 2009.
A new book offers a raw and nostalgic look at the early-2000s, with behind-the-scenes portraits depicting musicians from Interpol to Kasabian, Peaches to PJ Harvey.
Songs that reached number one on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart during the 2000s, listed in chronological order. The top song of 2000, " Smooth ", spent a record 25 weeks at number one on the chart beginning in October 1999 and continuing through April 2000.
In the early 2000s, rock and pop artists were going country so regularly that it started to become a music industry cliché – an easy way for an aging act to reinvent themselves and reach a ...