8 minutes ago, Big Fat Sue said:

All Saints - Black Coffee

All Saints - Pure Shores

Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again

Fragma - Toca's Miracle

Gabrielle - Rise

LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight

Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby

Madonna - Music

Melanie C - I Turn To You

Melanie C feat Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes - Never Be The Same Again

Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True

Sonique - It Feels So Good

I was gonna say this would be my top 10 of the last ones standing, till I realised there were 13!! Soo Rise,Don't Call Me Baby and S Club out. Madonna's Music is a soue one. I like it, bur all I can think id VB would have had such a better career eeleasing one week later vs Madonna!!

And conquering Madonna's lead single would have been really good press for Posh too. If only she'd known how big Groovejet would be.

5 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

And conquering Madonna's lead single would have been really good press for Posh too. If only she'd known how big Groovejet would be.

She should have taken a long look at the release weeks prior to even premiering the song and had faith in hrr an bop. Then she would have seen things clearer snd gone for A1 or even Madonna for a harder fight for no.1, bur getting a lot more press... and more reward.

Same Old Brand New You is A1's best original song. Certainly not forgotten here. I listened to it only about a week ago.

Spinning Around did so much to get Kylie's career back on track, but I've never been that keen.

Stomp is probably the worst of Steps' uptempo singles.

So much to say about those last few tracks but it's all been a trip down memory lane for me. Plus @Scene pay attention to @gooddelta's descriptive of Cheiron-sounding songs and send us your best version for the next BJSC so I can award big points! 😄

Born to Make You Happy - definitely remember replaying the hell out of this back in the day. Not one I really return to much now so can’t argue with your ranking.

Stomp - never been a fan of this compared to their other singles.

Rock DJ - again, much prefer some of his other singles over this but it was fun at the time.

Independent Women - probably my least favourite single from their Survivor album. Happy this scored them their first UK #1 though!

I love Beautiful Day, I think it's them at their anthemic best before it became cliched. The Masses Against The Classes was an iconic first new number 1 of the century, but I don't return to it as much as the rest of their discography.

Honestly the number 2s of 2000 are way better than the number 1s, One More Time, Freestyler. Flowers and On a Night Like This (wrong one of hers got to number 1!) are real favourites of mine.

'The Masses Against The Classes' (omg I totally hear the Bob the Builder intro as well) and 'Rock DJ' are my favourites to drop out since I last commented. Not sure if you've seen Better Man but I ended up watching it with my family and the 'Rock DJ' scene was easily the most impressive of the movie for me.

Particularly rooting for All Saints, Eminem ('Stan'), Fragma, Sonique and Spiller from what is left *.*

Your rating scores are so high, I gave 7/10 for Against All Odds and it's enough for 7th place.

I had been wondering when 'The Masses Against The Classes' would come up in this, and 24th isn't bad - it came and went very quickly at the time, but I returned to it a few years ago, it was rare to hear The Manics sound so urgent. That and 'Beautiful Day' are my favourites so far - I liked the latter more at the time, though it's the album's 4th single 'Walk On' that's my favourite from it these days.

Some great songs still to come, including three I bought on the week they went to #1!

14 hours ago, Chez Wombat said:

I love Beautiful Day, I think it's them at their anthemic best before it became cliched. The Masses Against The Classes was an iconic first new number 1 of the century, but I don't return to it as much as the rest of their discography.

Honestly the number 2s of 2000 are way better than the number 1s, One More Time, Freestyler. Flowers and On a Night Like This (wrong one of hers got to number 1!) are real favourites of mine.

Yeah I know what you mean, although Vertigo I think passes that test too but after that I can't think of much of note.

I was thinking exactly the same about that No.2s list, so many really brilliant classics songs, especially dance, among those. On A Night Like This is an interesting case as I'm not sure it would have been a comeback No.1 for Kylie if released first, as it's more of a 'normal' pop song than a 'statement' pop song (despite being much better imo).

14 hours ago, Jade said:

'The Masses Against The Classes' (omg I totally hear the Bob the Builder intro as well) and 'Rock DJ' are my favourites to drop out since I last commented. Not sure if you've seen Better Man but I ended up watching it with my family and the 'Rock DJ' scene was easily the most impressive of the movie for me.

Particularly rooting for All Saints, Eminem ('Stan'), Fragma, Sonique and Spiller from what is left *.*

Haha, glad it's not just me, when I was listening back to The Masses Against The Classes for the first time in a while it really made my head turn. So I have actually bought the Better Man Blu-ray based on the great reviews but not got around to watching it yet, I must do that!

13 hours ago, Last Dreamer said:

Your rating scores are so high, I gave 7/10 for Against All Odds and it's enough for 7th place.

Maybe I'm easily pleased although 8/10 is a score I generally give to a song I enjoy that I still regularly actively seek out to listen to now. 7/10 is something I like and appreciate but don't love. 6/10 is fine, 5/10 is average (halfway point), and below that is probably getting into not keen territory.

13 hours ago, jimwatts said:

I had been wondering when 'The Masses Against The Classes' would come up in this, and 24th isn't bad - it came and went very quickly at the time, but I returned to it a few years ago, it was rare to hear The Manics sound so urgent. That and 'Beautiful Day' are my favourites so far - I liked the latter more at the time, though it's the album's 4th single 'Walk On' that's my favourite from it these days.

Some great songs still to come, including three I bought on the week they went to #1!

Yeah it's a good song - quite different to all of the singles from the previous album that were more radio friendly, while stil being very good, I do like the Manics and have their Forever Delayed compilation, although none of the studio albums. Everything from that 2000 album has aged quite well for U2 I think, especially when you compare it to their last top 20 single, from 2009, Get On Your Boots.

20. Craig David - Fill Me In

Rate: 8/10

Reason: I think anybody that heard Re-Rewind, released with Artful Dodger in late 1999, could see that its soulful young singer Craig David had a lot of potential and was destined for bigger things. And it didn't take long for him to break out on his own with Fill Me In, released in April 2000 (and produced by Mark Hill from... Artful Dodger). Probably a little overshadowed these days by its follow-up, it's easy to forget that Fill Me In went in at No.1 with huge hype as his debut solo single and even made the top 15 in the US, which was very impressive for a song so British in sound, essentially a garage track albeit with more of an R&B vibe to it than Re-Rewind. A very smooth production with quite unusual lyrics really about parents trying to find out about and stymie a budding tryst, but it was a pivotal moment in Craig's career and the real arrival of a great new British star who still has relevance 25 years on.

19. Madonna - Music

Rank: 8/10

Reason: Ray Of Light was such a great, seminal album that it was difficult to see how Madonna would ever follow it as she set about releasing her first album of the new decade. And while Music doesn't top that masterpiece, it's still a fascinating album where you can see the logical progression from its predecessor. She bridged the two eras with William Orbit produced tracks Beautiful Stranger and American Pie, and he turned up again as a producer on two songs on this album, but French producer Mirwais had the dominant production influence in this era. Music made a massive splash with its video featuring Ali G, who was really huge at the time, and it was just an incredibly fun song to come off the back of a sublime but mostly quite serious era of music in Ray Of Light. The 'Do you want to boogie woogie' processed vocal is so clever as a hook, as is 'Hey Mr DJ...' and it was a brilliant choice of lead single, although I do probably prefer Don't Tell Me on a personal level.

18. Gabrielle - Rise

Rank: 8/10

Reason: I think the return to No.1 of Gabrielle was one of my favourite chart stories of 2000. With such a distinct and soulful voice, Gabrielle definitely was able to stick around towards the top end of the charts after her unforgettable debut with Dreams in 1993, but never hit quite those same heights again commerically in the 90s (although songs like Give Me A Little More Time were just as deserving). She returned in 1999 with Sunshine, which I thought was a beautiful single and one I wished had done a little better, although it later became a garage classic thanks to a popular Wookie remix. Rise though was the moment she rose again to the top of the pile; built around an inspired sample of Bob Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door, the song builds its own great song around that and doesn't completely rely on it to be good. It's just one of those effortless songs that still sounds good, and was one of the rare songs on this countdown to manage a second week at No.1!

“Fill Me In” about right - think the other two would be a bit higher for me, especially “Music” which I think would be Top 10. That riff is still so distinctive and it’s effortlessly original.

17. S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True

Rank: 8/10

Reason: After their debut with Bring It All Back in June 1999, S Club 7 had become a pretty big but not giant prospect, stringing together four more top three hits of varying stature before finally returning to No.1. But Reach in the summer was a pivotal moment, one of those 'should have been No.1' classic pop singles that was blocked by something even bigger, but probably big enough to convince Children In Need to look their way and offer them the opportunity to release the year's charity single. A lot of charity singles are poor covers, but Children In Need from time to time did throw up good original songs and such was the case with Never Had A Dream Come True. A song with a suitably winter-themed video, it's become almost a psuedo Christmas song like 2 Become 1 and Heartbeat, that you tend to hear around that time of year. Co-written by the brilliant Cathy Dennis (and Simon Ellis), it's really just a lovely ballad with nice backing vocals from the band but powerful lead vocals by Jo O'Meara being the star attraction. This single definitely moved them up a gear too as they followed this with probably their best ever single, yet this was their only song to make a splash in the US, charting inside the top 10 there in 2001!

3 minutes ago, Julian_ said:

“Fill Me In” about right - think the other two would be a bit higher for me, especially “Music” which I think would be Top 10. That riff is still so distinctive and it’s effortlessly original.

Yeah I think there's a couple of songs at least later that probably objectively should be lower but that are all-time favourites of mine that are perhaps pushing others out of the top ten here.

16. Ronan Keating - Life Is A Rollercoaster

Rate: 8/10

Reason: I've always been a fan of Boyzone's original mid to uptempos, like Picture Of You, All That I Need, and Love You Anyway. Ronan's vocal growl much better suits having some life in the production underneath it than the ballad covers the band became better known for. His first solo single, in 1999, was of course When You Say Nothing At All from the Notting Hill soundtrack, but Life Is A Rollercoaster was really his first proper big solo release from his own project, and it really was a great choice of single. Sounding for all the world like the follow up to You Get What You Give that The New Radicals never made, that's because the song was co-written by lead singer Gregg Alexander alongside the brilliant Rick Nowels. But Ronan really put his own stamp on it too to make it sound distinctly his, and he was at the top of his game here, with feelgood lyrics I think were perfect for a summer single. It should have been one of our two-week No.1s, but for one of the CD singles being disqualified, meaning that Five and Queen snuck in a week the week after.

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15. Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

Rate: 8/10

Reason: This is definitely a very cool dance song and No.1 hit. French house had at this point faltered a bit at getting quite to the top of the UK charts with some of the genre's classics before from the likes of Stardust, Daft Punk and Cassius, although Mr Oizo managed it. Lady (Hear Me Tonight) had no such issue for Modjo, who spent two weeks at No.1 with this track that sample's Chic's Soup For One. I haven't actually got a great deal to say about the song - it's just one of those tracks that sounded great on radio, with a video that brings back a lot of carefree nostalgia. I adore the instrumental and the only thing that stops me rating it higher is that I was never a super huge fan of the guy's vocal personally, although clearly it does suit the track well.

Modjo and Ronan about right (easily Ronan’s best song). S Club would be quite a bit lower in mine - “Reach” and “Don’t Stop Moving” are their only 2 great contributions to music for me!

14. Craig David - 7 Days

Rank: 8/10

Reason: Three months after Fill Me In, Craig David was ready with his next single and debut album Born To Do It, and somehow he managed to even better his predecessor to release another classic single - the third in a row if you count Re-Rewind. Ensuring we wouldn't forget his name in a hurry, he pulled the very 2000 trick of singing his own name at the start of the track, which is just an absolutely effortless number. Quoted ever since its release thanks to his diary recalling antics, who else could pull of a song about a three-day love-making session before a chilled Sunday without it sounding ridiculous? 7 Days has brilliant melodic flow in the verses before that chorus which is so undeniable and hooky that you feel it could still go viral again now at any given point. With 380m streams on Spotify, this slick R&B pop production is by far Craig David's biggest and most remembered single, and went top 10 in the US to boot. I also have to give props to that clever breaking the fourth wall moment in the video where he climbs out of the frame to pull a re-rewind of the scene.