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The Defining Artists of the 2000s

The following artists released some of the best music of the 2000s. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.

Black Eyed Peas   Missy Elliott   Arcade Fire   Dave Matthews Band   U2   Dream Theater   Moby   TV on the Radio   T.I.   Amy Winehouse   Bright Eyes   Rihanna   Muse   Weezer   Ludacris   Sleater-Kinney   Alison Krauss   Kanye West   The Libertines   My Chemical Romance   Bob Dylan   Lil Wayne   The White Stripes   Avril Lavigne   Jennifer Lopez   Basement Jaxx   Aaliyah   Katy Perry   Feist   Mary J. Blige   Ryan Adams   Yeah Yeah Yeahs   Pearl Jam   Nelly   Taylor Swift   The Black Keys   Madonna   M.I.A.   Tool   Matchbox Twenty   Audioslave   Wilco   MGMT   Foo Fighters   Jay-Z   Daft Punk   The Roots   Counting Crows   Fall Out Boy   System of a Down   The Flaming Lips   Nine Inch Nails   Coldplay   Beck   Robyn   Interpol   My Morning Jacket   Blink-182   Justin Timberlake   Phoenix   Panic At The Disco   Britney Spears   D'Angelo   Norah Jones   Nelly Furtado   Adele   Janet Jackson   Franz Ferdinand   Mariah Carey   NSYNC   The xx   Jack Johnson   Modest Mouse   Pink   Beyoncé   Radiohead   Drive-By Truckers   Lenny Kravitz   Destiny's Child   The Chicks   Eminem   Kelly Clarkson   Arctic Monkeys   Lily Allen   The Chemical Brothers   Shakira   Gorillaz   Kings of Leon   Green Day   Warren Zevon   The Shins   LCD Soundsystem   50 Cent   Wu-Tang Clan   Animal Collective   Johnny Cash   Sheryl Crow   PJ Harvey   Miranda Lambert   Björk   Lady Gaga   Alice In Chains   Oasis   Carrie Underwood   Alicia Keys   Death Cab for Cutie   Garbage   Linkin Park   The Killers   Maroon 5   Sufjan Stevens   Red Hot Chili Peppers   Air   Brandi Carlile   The Strokes   Usher   Nas   Florence and The Machine   Christina Aguilera   No Doubt   Gwen Stefani   Queens of the Stone Age   Spoon   Mastodon   John Mayer   Iron Maiden   Outkast   Kylie Minogue  

Of the 128 artists listed above, 18% have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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The Defining Albums of the 2000s

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000)

Patsy Cline - The Ultimate Collection (2000)

The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000)

NSYNC - No Strings Attached (2000)

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (2000)

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (2000)

PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (2000)

OutKast - Stankonia (2000)

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (2000)

Radiohead - Kid A (2000)

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (2000)

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)

Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)

Common - Like Water For Chocolate (2000)

D'Angelo - Voodoo (2000)

Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (2000)

Madonna - Music (2000)

Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun (2000)

Deftones - White Pony (2000)

System of a Down - Toxicity (2001)

Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)

ABBA - The Definitive Collection (2001)

Pink - Missundaztood (2001)

Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor (2001)

The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)

Bob Dylan - Love And Theft (2001)

Shakira - Laundry Service (2001)

Muddy Waters - The Anthology: 1947-1972 (2001)

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (2001)

Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)

Aaliyah - Aaliyah (2001)

Destiny's Child - Survivor (2001)

The Strokes - Is This It (2001)

Björk - Vespertine (2001)

Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (2001)

Manu Chao - Próxima Estación: Esperanza (2001)

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)

Basement Jaxx - Rooty (2001)

Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (2001)

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)

Missy Elliott - Miss E... So Addictive (2001)

Jay-Z - The Blueprint (2001)

The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (2002)

Neko Case - Blacklisted (2002)

Beck - Sea Change (2002)

The Libertines - Up The Bracket (2002)

Missy Elliott - Under Construction (2002)

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (2002)

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (2002)

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)

Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (2002)

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising (2002)

Avril Lavigne - Let Go (2002)

50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (2003)

OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)

The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)

Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend: 1951-1964 (2003)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (2003)

Alicia Keys - The Diary Of Alicia Keys (2003)

The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)

Jay-Z - The Black Album (2003)

Four Tet - Rounds (2003)

Brian Wilson - SMiLE (2004)

Mastodon - Leviathan (2004)

My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)

Usher - Confessions (2004)

Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)

Daddy Yankee - Barrio fino (2004)

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)

Green Day - American Idiot (2004)

Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)

The Killers - Hot Fuss (2004)

Feist - Let It Die (2004)

Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (2004)

Kanye West - The College Dropout (2004)

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)

M.I.A. - Arular (2005)

Gorillaz - Demon Days (2005)

Kanye West - Late Registration (2005)

The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (2005)

Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree (2005)

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II (2005)

Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi (2005)

Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (2005)

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (2005)

My Morning Jacket - Z (2005)

Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005)

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (2006)

Beyoncé - B'Day (2006)

Mastodon - Blood Mountain (2006)

Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)

Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (2006)

John Mayer - Continuum (2006)

Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)

J Dilla - Donuts (2006)

Bob Dylan - Modern Times (2006)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (2006)

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2006)

Burial - Untrue (2007)

Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007)

LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (2007)

M.I.A. - Kala (2007)

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (2007)

Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)

Kanye West - Graduation (2007)

Paramore - Riot! (2007)

Britney Spears - Blackout (2007)

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)

The National - Boxer (2007)

Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 (2007)

TV on the Radio - Dear Science (2008)

The Roots - Rising Down (2008)

Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (2008)

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (2008)

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)

Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak (2008)

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)

The xx - xx (2009)

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day (2009)

Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (2009)

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (2009)

Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night (2009)

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The Defining Songs of the 2000s

Missy Elliott - Work It (2000)

Coldplay - Yellow (2000)

Eminem - Stan (2000)

OutKast - Ms. Jackson (2000)

D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does it Feel) (2000)

Radiohead - Idioteque (2000)

The Strokes - Last Nite (2001)

Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - Get Ur Freak On (2001)

Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer (2001)

50 Cent - In Da Club (2002)

Eminem - Lose Yourself (2002)

Jay-Z - 99 Problems (2003)

The Killers - Mr. Brightside (2003)

OutKast - Hey Ya! (2003)

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (2003)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (2003)

Britney Spears - Toxic (2003)

Beyoncé - Crazy in Love (2003)

Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (2004)

Coldplay - Fix You (2005)

My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (2006)

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (2006)

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2006)

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (2007)

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (2007)

The Veronicas - Untouched (2007)

Kanye West - Stronger (2007)

Rihanna - Umbrella (2007)

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (2009)

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