⇦ 1999

2001 ⇨

The Best Music of 2000

Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 2000. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.

For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 2000, check out this list.

Albums (?)		Wikipedia
3 Doors Down	The Better Life	☆
A Perfect Circle	Mer de Noms	☆
Air	The Virgin Suicides	☆
Animal Collective	Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished	☆
At the Drive-In	Relationship of Command	☆
B.B. King and Eric Clapton	Riding with the King	☆
Bon Jovi	Crush	☆
Bright Eyes	Fevers and Mirrors	☆
Britney Spears	Oops!… I Did It Again	☆
Coldplay	Parachutes	☆
Common	Like Water For Chocolate	☆
D'Angelo	Voodoo	☆
Deftones	White Pony	☆
Disturbed	The Sickness	☆
Electric Wizard	Dopethrone	☆
Elliott Smith	Figure 8	☆
Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP	☆
Emmylou Harris	Red Dirt Girl	☆
Enya	A Day Without Rain	☆
Erykah Badu	Mama's Gun	☆
Fatboy Slim	Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars	☆
Gas	Pop	☆
Ghostface Killah	Supreme Clientele	☆
Godspeed You! Black Emperor	Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	☆
Green Day	Warning	☆
Iron Maiden	Brave New World	☆
Lil' Kim	The Notorious K.I.M.	☆
Limp Bizkit	Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water	☆
Linkin Park	Hybrid Theory	☆
Ludacris	Back For The First Time	☆
Madonna	Music	☆
Matchbox Twenty	Mad Season	☆
Modest Mouse	The Moon & Antarctica	☆
Nelly	Country Grammar	☆
Nelly Furtado	Whoa, Nelly	☆
No Doubt	Return of Saturn	☆
NSYNC	No Strings Attached	☆
Oasis	Standing on the Shoulders of Giants	☆
OutKast	Stankonia	☆
Papa Roach	Infest	☆
Phish	Farmhouse	☆
Pink	Can't Take Me Home	☆
PJ Harvey	Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea	☆
Porcupine Tree	Lightbulb Sun	☆
Queens of the Stone Age	Rated R	☆
Radiohead	Kid A	☆
Rage Against the Machine	Renegades	☆
Robbie Williams	Sing When You're Winning	☆
Ryan Adams	Heartbreaker	☆
Sade	Lovers Rock	☆
Shaggy	Hot Shot	☆
Sleater-Kinney	All Hands on the Bad One	☆
Smashing Pumpkins	Machina/The Machines of God	☆
The Avalanches	Since I Left You	☆
The Hives	Veni Vidi Vicious	☆
The New Pornographers	Mass Romantic	☆
The White Stripes	De Stijl	☆
Thievery Corporation	The Mirror Conspiracy	☆
Toni Braxton	The Heat	☆
Trans-Siberian Orchestra	Beethoven's Last Night	☆
U2	All That You Can't Leave Behind	☆
Various Artists	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	☆
Warren Zevon	Life'll Kill Ya	☆
Within Temptation	Mother Earth	☆
Wu-Tang Clan	The W	☆
Yo La Tengo	And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out	☆

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Songs (?)		Wikipedia
3 Doors Down	Kryptonite	☆
A Perfect Circle	Judith	☆
Aaliyah	Try Again	☆
Afroman	Because I Got High	☆
Alison Krauss And Gillian Welch	I'll Fly Away	☆
All Saints	Pure Shores	☆
At The Drive-In	One Armed Scissor	☆
ATC	Around the World (La La La La La)	☆
Bob Dylan	Things Have Changed	☆
Bon Jovi	It's My Life	☆
Britney Spears	Oops!... I Did It Again	☆
Britney Spears	Stronger	☆
Britney Spears	Lucky	☆
Coldplay	Yellow	☆
Coldplay	Trouble	☆
Creed	With Arms Wide Open	☆
D'Angelo	Untitled (How Does it Feel)	☆
D'Angelo	Devil's Pie	☆
Daft Punk	One More Time	☆
Dashboard Confessional	Screaming infidelities	☆
Deftones	Change (In the House of Flies)	☆
Destiny's Child	Independent Women, Pt. 1	☆
Disturbed	Down With the Sickness	☆
Einstürzende Neubauten	Sabrina	☆
Eminem	The Real Slim Shady	☆
Eminem	The Way I Am	☆
Eminem feat. Dido	Stan	☆
Emmylou Harris	Red Dirt Girl	☆
Enya	Only Time	☆
Fatboy Slim	Weapon Of Choice	☆
Flickerstick	Beautiful	☆
Fuel	Hemorrhage (In My Hands)	☆
Green Day	Minority	☆
Green Day	Warning	☆
Iron Maiden	Brave New World	☆
Janet Jackson	Doesn't Really Matter	☆
Jennifer Lopez	Love Don't Cost a Thing	☆
Kylie Minogue	Spinning Around	☆
LeAnn Rimes	Can't Fight the Moonlight	☆
Lee Ann Womack	I Hope You Dance	☆
Lenny Kravitz	Again	☆
Lifehouse	Hanging by a Moment	☆
Limp Bizkit	Rollin'	☆
Linkin Park	In The End	☆
Linkin Park	Papercut	☆
Linkin Park	Crawling	☆
Linkin Park	One Step Closer	☆
Ludacris	Southern Hospitality	☆
Madonna	Music	☆
Madonna	Don't Tell Me	☆
Matchbox Twenty	Bent	☆
Moby feat. Gwen Stefani	South Side	☆
Modest Mouse	3rd Planet	☆
Nelly	Country Grammar	☆
Nelly featuring City Spud	Ride wit Me	☆
Nelly Furtado	I'm Like a Bird	☆
Nine Days	Absolutely (Story of a Girl)	☆
No Doubt	Ex-Girlfriend	☆
No Doubt	Simple Kind of Life	☆
NSYNC	Bye Bye Bye	☆
NSYNC	It's Gonna Be Me	☆
OutKast	B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)	☆
OutKast	Ms. Jackson	☆
OutKast	So Fresh, So Clean	☆
Papa Roach	Last Resort	☆
Paul Pena	Jet Airliner	☆
Paulina Rubio	Y Yo Sigo Aquí	☆
Peaches	F*** the Pain Away	☆
Phish	Farmhouse	☆
Pink	Most Girls	☆
PJ Harvey	Big Exit	☆
PJ Harvey	Good Fortune	☆
PJ Harvey	This Is Love	☆
PJ Harvey feat. Tom Yorke	This Mess We're In	☆
Poe	Walk The Walk	☆
Queens of the Stone Age	Feel Good Hit of the Summer	☆
Queens of the Stone Age	The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret	☆
Radiohead	Everything In Its Right Place	☆
Radiohead	Idioteque	☆
Radiohead	How to Disappear Completely	☆
Radiohead	Optimistic	☆
Radiohead	The National Anthem	☆
Rage Against the Machine	Renegades of Funk	☆
Rhapsody	Dawn of Victory	☆
Ricky Martin	She Bangs	☆
Robbie Williams	Rock DJ	☆
Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue	Kids	☆
Sade	By Your Side	☆
Shaggy feat. Rayvon	Angel	☆
Shaggy featuring RikRok	It Wasn't Me	☆
Steve Earle & Sharon Shannon	Galway Girl	☆
The Avalanches	Frontier Psychiatrist	☆
The Corrs	Breathless	☆
The Dandy Warhols	Bohemian Like You	☆
The Hives	Hate To Say I Told You So	☆
They Might Be Giants	Boss of Me	☆
Tomoyasu Hotei	Battle Without Honor or Humanity	☆
Toni Braxton	He Wasn't Man Enough	☆
U2	Beautiful Day	☆
U2	Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of	☆
U2	Elevation	☆
U2	Walk On	☆
Wheatus	Teenage Dirtbag	☆
Wu-Tang Clan	Gravel Pit	☆

⇦ 1999

2001 ⇨