⇦ 1998

2000 ⇨

The Best Music of 1999

Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 1999. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.

For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 1999, check out this list.

Albums (?)		Wikipedia
Aimee Mann and Various Artists	Magnolia Soundtrack	☆
Akira Yamaoka	Silent Hill OST	☆
Angie Stone	Black Diamond	☆
Backstreet Boys	Millennium	☆
Basement Jaxx	Remedy	☆
Beck	Midnite Vultures	☆
Blink-182	Enema of the State	☆
Blur	13	☆
Britney Spears	…Baby One More Time	☆
Chris Cornell	Euphoria Morning	☆
Chris Rock	Bigger And Blacker	☆
Christina Aguilera	Christina Aguilera	☆
Counting Crows	This Desert Life	☆
Creed	Human Clay	☆
Destiny's Child	The Writing's on the Wall	☆
Diana Krall	When I Look in Your Eyes	☆
Dido	No Angel	☆
Dixie Chicks	Fly	☆
DMX	And Then There Was X	☆
Dr. Dre	2001	☆
Dream Theater	Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory	☆
Eminem	The Slim Shady LP	☆
Faith Hill	Breathe	☆
Fiona Apple	When the Pawn...	☆
George Carlin	You Are All Diseased	☆
Incubus	Make Yourself	☆
Jennifer Lopez	On the 6	☆
Jimmy Eat World	Clarity	☆
Kelis	Kaleidoscope	☆
Korn	Issues	☆
Macy Gray	On How Life Is	☆
Maná	Maná MTV Unplugged	☆
Mariah Carey	Rainbow	☆
Metallica & The San Francisco Symphony	S&M	☆
MF Doom	Operation: Doomsday	☆
Missy Elliott	Da Real World	☆
Moby	Play	☆
Mogwai	Come On Die Young	☆
Mos Def	Black On Both Sides	☆
Muse	Showbiz	☆
Nine Inch Nails	The Fragile	☆
Opeth	Still Life	☆
Porcupine Tree	Stupid Dream	☆
Rage Against The Machine	The Battle Of Los Angeles	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Californication	☆
Santana	Supernatural	☆
Sarah McLachlan	Mirrorball	☆
Sigur Rós	Ágætis byrjun	☆
Smash Mouth	Astro Lounge	☆
Snoop Dogg	No Limit Top Dogg	☆
Stereolab	Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Way Night	☆
Sting	Brand New Day	☆
Testament	The Gathering	☆
The Chemical Brothers	Surrender	☆
The Flaming Lips	The Soft Bulletin	☆
The Magnetic Fields	69 Love Songs	☆
The Roots	Things Fall Apart	☆
The White Stripes	The White Stripes	☆
Third Eye Blind	Blue	☆
TLC	FanMail	☆
Tom Waits	Mule Variations	☆
Travis	The Man Who	☆
Weird Al Yankovic	Running with Scissors	☆
Wilco	Summerteeth	☆

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Songs (?)		Wikipedia
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Albuquerque	☆
Aimee Mann	Save Me	☆
Akira Yamoka	Silent Hill	☆
American Football	Never Meant	☆
Aphex Twin	Windowlicker	☆
Backstreet Boys	I Want It That Way	☆
Backstreet Boys	Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely	☆
Backstreet Boys	Larger Than Life	☆
Basement Jaxx	Red Alert	☆
Blink-182	All The Small Things	☆
Blink-182	What's My Age Again?	☆
Blink-182	Adam's Song	☆
Blondie	Maria	☆
Brian McKnight	Back at One	☆
Britney Spears	(You Drive Me) Crazy	☆
Britney Spears	Sometimes	☆
Celine Dion	That's the Way It Is	☆
Christina Aguilera	Genie in a Bottle	☆
Christina Aguilera	What a Girl Wants	☆
Christina Aguilera	Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)	☆
Counting Crows	Hanginaround	☆
Counting Crows	Mrs. Potter's Lullaby	☆
Crazy Town	Butterfly	☆
Creed	Higher	☆
Darude	Sandstorm	☆
Destiny's Child	Say My Name	☆
Destiny's Child	Bills, Bills, Bills	☆
Destiny's Child	Jumpin' Jumpin'	☆
Dido	Here with Me	☆
Dixie Chicks	Goodbye Earl	☆
Dixie Chicks	Ready to Run	☆
DMX	Party Up (Up in Here)	☆
Dr. Dre	The Next Episode	☆
Dr. Dre feat. Eminem	Forgot About Dre	☆
Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg	Still D.R.E.	☆
Eminem	My Name Is	☆
Enrique Iglesias	Bailamos	☆
Faith Hill	Breathe	☆
Faith Hill	The Way You Love Me	☆
Filter	Take a Picture	☆
Fiona Apple	Fast as You Can	☆
Fiona Apple	On the Bound	☆
Fiona Apple	Paper Bag	☆
Foo Fighters	Learn To Fly	☆
Gloria Estefan and NSYNC	Music of My Heart	☆
Godspeed You! Black Emperor	Hung Over as the Queen in the Maida Vale	☆
Incubus	Drive	☆
Jamiroquai	Canned Heat	☆
Jay-Z feat. UGK	Big Pimpin'	☆
Jennifer Lopez	Waiting for Tonight	☆
Jennifer Lopez	If You Had My Love	☆
John Prine and Iris DeMent	In Spite Of Ourselves	☆
Kelis	Caught Out There	☆
Kenny Chesney	She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy	☆
Kenny Chesney	She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy	☆
Le Tigre	Deceptacon	☆
Len	Steal My Sunshine	☆
Lenny Kravitz	American Woman	☆
LFO	Summer Girls	☆
Limp Bizkit	Nookie	☆
Lit	My Own Worst Enemy	☆
Lonestar	Amazed	☆
Los Lobos	Corazon	☆
Lou Bega	Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)	☆
Macy Gray	I Try	☆
Madonna	Beautiful Stranger	☆
Mandy Moore	Candy	☆
Marc Anthony	I Need to Know	☆
Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z	Heartbreaker	☆
Melanie C	I Turn to You	☆
Melanie C featuring Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez	Never Be the Same Again	☆
Method Man & Redman	Da Rockwilder	☆
Moby	Porcelain	☆
Moby	Natural Blues	☆
Nine Inch Nails	Into the Void	☆
Outkast	Da Art of Storytellin' (Part 1)	☆
Pearl Jam	Last Kiss	☆
Phil Collins	You'll Be in My Heart	☆
Phil Collins	Two Worlds	☆
Porcupine Tree	Piano Lessons	☆
Rage Against the Machine	Guerilla Radio	☆
Rage Against the Machine	Sleep Now in the Fire	☆
Rage Against the Machine	Testify	☆
Rage Against the Machine	Calm Like a Bomb	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Californication	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Scar Tissue	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Otherside	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Around the World	☆
Ricky Martin	Livin' La Vida Loca	☆
Santana feat. Rob Thomas	Smooth	☆
Santana featuring The Product G&B	Maria Maria	☆
Sarah McLachlan	When She Loved Me	☆
Savage Garden	I Knew I Loved You	☆
Sigur Rós	Starálfur	☆
Sisqo	Thong Song	☆
Slipknot	Wait and Bleed	☆
Smash Mouth	All Star	☆
Smash Mouth	Then The Morning Comes	☆
Snoop Dogg	G Bedtime Stories	☆
Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band	Dixieland	☆
Sting feat. Cheb Mami	Desert Rose	☆
Sugar Ray	Every Morning	☆
Sugar Ray	Someday	☆
Tal Bachman	She's So High	☆
The Bloodhound Gang	Bad Touch	☆
The Chemical Brothers	Hey Boy Hey Girl	☆
The Flaming Lips	Race for the Prize	☆
The Magnetic Fields	The Book of Love	☆
The Roots	The Next Movement	☆
The Roots (feat. Erykah Badu and Eve)	You Got Me.	☆
Third Eye Blind	Never Let You Go	☆
Tito & Tarantula	When You Cry	☆
TLC	No Scrubs	☆
TLC	Unpretty	☆
Travis	Why Does It Always Rain on Me?	☆
Vertical Horizon	Everything You Want	☆
Vitamin C	Graduation (Friends for Life	☆
Weird Al Yankovic	The Saga Begins	☆
Wilco	How to Fight Loneliness	☆

⇦ 1998

2000 ⇨