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The album that made dance music unavoidable in mainstream culture—and the only one that came with a full-length anime film. "One More Time" was everywhere, filtered into oblivion but instantly recognizable. Every kid with a burned CD knew this album.
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Kid Rock's turntablist stepped out solo with a breezy acoustic sleeper that hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and owned the radio in summer 2001. Under the sunny singalong hook lurked something darker—Uncle Kracker himself called it "a dirty picture painted with a pretty brush." It went to No. 1 in eight countries and never really left American radio.
After a decade fronting No Doubt, Gwen Stefani reinvented herself as a solo pop force in 2004 — dropping "Hollaback Girl," parading her Harajuku Girls, and launching a fashion empire. It was maximalist, brand-savvy 2000s pop at its peak.
The Los Angeles radio-rock band behind "Hanging by a Moment" — a famous Billboard chart anomaly. Frontman Jason Wade's five-minute songwriting session produced a single that never hit weekly No. 1 yet finished as Billboard's No. 1 song of 2001. Earnest, huge-chorused, everywhere.
"This is the story of a girl, who cried a river and drowned the whole world" — the hook that owned the radio in summer 2000, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Singer John Hampson wrote it about his then-girlfriend (later his wife) after an argument before a concert. The follow-ups never matched it, but the hook never left.