December 2000:

1 - Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It

2 - S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True

3 - Eminem - Stan

4 - Destiny’s Child - Independent Women Part 1

5 - Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out

6 - LeAnn Rimes - Can’t Fight The Moonlight

7 - Public Domain - Operation Blade (Bass In The Place)

8 - Tweenies - Number 1

9 - Madonna - Don’t Tell Me

10 - Westlife - What Makes A Man

11 - Craig David - Walking Away

12 - Britney Spears - Stronger

13 - Robbie Williams - Supreme

14 - Wyclef featuring Mary J Blige - 911

15 - Da Muttz - Wassuup

16 - Sonique - I Put A Spell On You

17 - Oxide & Neutrino featuring Megaman - No Good 4 Me

18 - Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit

19 - Warp Brothers vs Aquagen - Phatt Bass

20 - Daft Punk - One More Time

21 - Ronan Keating - The Way You Make Me Feel

22 - Sisqo - Incomplete

23 - Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight

24 - Westlife - My Love

25 - Kylie Minogue - Please Stay

26 - Artful Dodger featuring Lifford - Please Don’t Turn Me On

27 - Darude - Feel The Beat

28 - Bon Jovi - Thank You For Loving Me

29 - Bomfunk MC’s - Up Rocking Beats

30 - Ricky Martin - She Bangs

31 - Sugababes - New Year

32 - Craig - At This Time Of Year

33 - Jay-Z - I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)

34 - Kandi - Don’t Think I’m Not

35 - A1 - Same Old Brand New You

36 - Melanie C - If That Were Me

37 - Storm - Storm Animal

38 - True Party - Whazzup

39 - Billie Piper - Walk Of Life

40 - Green Day - Warning

 

December 2001:

1 - Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This

2 - Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman - Somethin’ Stupid

3 - S Club 7 - Have You Ever

4 - Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

5 - Stereophonics - Handbags And Gladrags

6 - PPK - ResuRection

7 - Kate Winslet - What If

8 - Gordon Haskell - How Wonderful You Are

9 - Ian Van Dahl - Will I

10 - Hermes House Band - Country Roads

11 - Riva featuring Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now (Stringer)

12 - Tweenies - I Believe In Christmas

13 - Hear’Say - Everybody

14 - Samantha Mumba - Lately

15 - Steps - Words Are Not Enough / I Know Him So Well

16 - Blue - If You Come Back

17 - Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

18 - DJ Otzi - Hey Baby

19 - Afroman - Because I Got High

20 - Westlife - Queen Of My Heart

21 - Sum 41 - In Too Deep

22 - Geri Halliwell - Calling

23 - Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque

24 - Cliff Richard - Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World

25 - Feeder - Just A Day EP

26 - Basement Jaxx - Where’s Your Head At

27 - DJ Otzi - Do Wah Diddy

28 - Oxide & Neutrino - Rap Dis / Only Wanna Know U Cos Ure Famous

29 - Destiny’s Child - Emotion

30 - Alicia Keys - Fallin’

31 - Janet Jackson featuring Carly Simon - Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song)

32 - Jennifer Lopez - I’m Real

33 - Kosheen - Catch

34 - iio - Rapture

35 - Liberty - Doin’ It

36 - Anastacia - Paid My Dues

37 - Emma Bunton - We’re Not Gonna Sleep Tonight

38 - City High - What Would You Do

39 - Lighthouse Family - (I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be) Free / One

40 - Dreem Team vs Artful Dodger - It Ain’t Enough

 

December 2002:

1 - Daniel Bedingfield - If You’re Not The One

2 - Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)

3 - Eminem - Lose Yourself

4 - Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground

5 - Blue featuring Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

6 - Atomic Kitten - Last Goodbye / Be With You

7 - Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereje)

8 - Ronan Keating featuring Lulu - We’ve Got Tonight

9 - Christina Aguilera featuring Redman - Dirrty

10 - One True Voice - Sacred Trust / After You’re Gone

11 - Robbie Williams - Feel

12 - Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland - Dilemma

13 - Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From The Block

14 - Liberty X - Holding On For You

15 - S Club Juniors - Puppy Love / Sleigh Ride

16 - Liam Lynch - United States Of Whatever

17 - Darius - Rushes

18 - DJ Sammy & Yanou featuring Do - Heaven

19 - Gareth Gates - What My Heart Wants To Say

20 - Love Inc - You’re A Superstar

21 - Will Young - Don’t Let Me Down / You And I

22 - Sugababes - Stronger / Angels With Dirty Faces

23 - Pink - Family Portrait

24 - Big Brovaz - Nu Flow

25 - Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi

26 - Enrique Iglesias - Maybe

27 - Madonna - Die Another Day

28 - Justin Timberlake - Like I Love You

29 - Ja Rule featuring Bobby Brown - Thug Lovin’

30 - S Club - Alive

31 - Shania Twain - I’m Gonna Getcha Good

32 - Rainbow (George & Zippy) - It’s A Rainbow

33 - Westlife - Unbreakable

34 - Scooter - Posse (I Need You On The Floor)

35 - Holly Valance - Naughty Girl

36 - Blue - One Love

37 - Russell Watson - Nothing Sacred - A Song For Kirsty

38 - Death In Vegas / Liam Gallagher - Scorpio Rising

39 - Blazin’ Squad - Love On The Line

40 - Mariah Carey - Through The Rain

 

December 2003:

1 - Will Young - Leave Right Now

2 - Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne - Changes

3 - Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules - Mad World

4 - Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up

5 - Shane Richie - I’m Your Man

6 - Darkness - Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)

7 - Westlife - Mandy

8 - Gareth Gates - Say It Isn’t So

9 - Bo Selecta - Proper Crimbo

10 - Girls Aloud - Jump

11 - Idols - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

12 - Katie Melua - The Closest Thing To Crazy

13 - Cliff Richard - Santa’s List

14 - Simply Red - You Make Me Feel Brand New

15 - Outkast - Hey Ya!

16 - Evanescence - My Immortal

17 - Cheeky Girls - Have A Cheeky Christmas

18 - Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On

19 - Atomic Kitten featuring Kool & The Gang - Ladies Night

20 - Dido - Life For Rent

21 - Christina Aguilera - The Voice Within

22 - UB40 featuring United Colours Of Sound - Swing Low

23 - Sugababes - Too Lost In You

24 - D-Side - Real World

25 - Busted - Crashed The Wedding

26 - Blue featuring Stevie Wonder & Angie Stone - Signed Sealed Delivered I’m Yours

27 - Ultrabeat - Feelin’ Fine

28 - Fatman Scoop featuring The Crooklyn Clan - Be Faithful

29 - Ja Rule - Clap Back / Reigns

30 - Nelly Furtado - Powerless (Say What You Want)

31 - Madonna - Love Profusion

32 - Lemar - 50 / 50 / Lullaby

33 - Big Brovaz - Ain’t What You Do

34 - Lost Brothers featuring G Tom Mac - Cry Little Sister (I Need U Now)

35 - Alicia Keys - You Don’t Know My Name

36 - Britney Spears featuring Madonna - Me Against The Music

37 - Alex Parks - Maybe That’s What It Takes

38 - Delta Goodrem - Not Me Not I

39 - Michael Jackson - One More Chance

40 - Daniel O’Donnell - You Raise Me Up

From a quick scan of the charts, 2002 strikes me as my favourite and 2003 less so out of the others just got cause the quality for me in 2003 wasn't quite as high as the first three years overall!

For me 2003 is one of the best Christmas No 1 battles of my lifetime! I went for that as best and 2002 as worst.

Probably 2003 as there were a few too many ballads for my liking (I like both Mad World and Christmas Time Don't Let The Bells End though) and barely any dance songs about but at least there was a great tune from Lost Brothers and a decent one from Ultrabeat.

Edited December 31, 20213 yr by Auld Lang Snake

I went 2001 for best and 2002 for worst but I love all four! 2001 just takes me back to a very special time, I can’t quite explain it.

2003 was my favourite due to finally having a classic new Xmas song to get behind in the Darkness and a brilliant challenger in Gary Jules!

 

2001 is special for me as it was 2000-01 when I really started beigg by a chart geek.

 

2002 was the worst just full of cheesy poor dance music (following an amazing 1998-2001 period) and loads of boy/girl groups that were just not as good as the previous graduates in the 90s!

Are these overall December charts?

 

I'm gonna pick 2001, although each of them have some special memories for me.

Are these overall December charts?

 

 

Yep. Taken from everyhit's retrochart.

I copy and pasted the lists and kept the songs that I liked enough to include in my 2000s playlist, created a couple of weeks ago, by that criteria my ranking of the years is:

 

2002 [14] > 2001 [11] > 2003 [10] > 2000 [9]

 

[number of songs included in the playlist from that top 40]