As we are into 2026 now let's gloss back over the year that was 2006 and reflect on songs, albums, tv shows, movies, books, games, toys etc that are 20 years old and how they have held up for you (or not on the opposite end)!

Some that come to mind for me are :

Big Brother 7 with Nikki and Pete. One or the best series in BB'S history. Still remember the shock when Nikki left super early and then she came back into it ultimately to finish 4th!

The Holiday which admittedly I didn't really watch properly until the last decade but is ultimately on the essential list of christmas movies or films in general.

Then of course the main one is here on Buzzjack which we will celebrating it's 20 year anniversary in a couple of months. Who knew we'd still be posting here now compared to other forums that haven't had quite this longevity!

22 minutes ago, Roba. said:

Then of course the main one is here on Buzzjack which we will celebrating it's 20 year anniversary in a couple of months. Who knew we'd still be posting here now compared to other forums that haven't had quite this longevity!

Indeed! Please bring back the shoutbox to celebrate this important anniversary!

The first thing to come into my head was the premiere of Disney Channel phenomena Hannah Montana and High School Musical 😱

absolutely huge with my age group as an 8/9-year-old at the time

Also this

For most people I feel it was younger but I think 2006, aged 12, was when I became, like conscious to pop culture? I really don't know what I did earlier than my childhood but I don't remember watching too much TV of my own choosing/playing video games/choosing my own music to listen to before then/being able to browse the noughties internet on my family computer independently. So yeah my pop culture conscience turns 20 this year.

And part of that conscience is very much watching Big Brother 7! All part of the New Labour reality tv nastiness/humilation era in TV and coincided with tabloids being very powerful. Lots of trash like What Not To Wear, The Biggest Loser, Jeremy Kyle, How Clean Is Your House and punching down comedy like Little Britain too.

UK landfill indie peaked in or around 2006 for sure. The Kooks, Razorlight, The Automatic, The View, The Enemy, The Ordinary Boys, The Fratellis. Lots of The bands, big variations in how well or badly they have aged.

It was a peak year for 00s electro house too and I feel like the below is the most emblematic of that, along with Fedde Le Grand.

Also this is maybe a very niche memory but I feel like this was the peak year for raunchy dance music videos that had started a couple years earlier with Eric Prydz's Call On Me. Some songs are actually quite iconic ('Perfect (Exceeder)' but a lot of the more forgotten ones are extremely cheap. This was one of the most notorious (and it appears it was a barely modified re-release from a couple of years earlier which was another trend at the time):

That's just a small part of the 2006 musical landscape though!

Edited January 3Jan 3 by Harve

20 years since Daz Sampson scored points from 10 different countries at Eurovision with his back of the bus Bluetooth Sony Ericsson Walkman anthem

Not really sure the optics of the performance would wash in 2026 though.

Musically 2006 was my second favourite ever after 1998, and without doubt the year this century where the top of my charts most aligned to my tastes, so many amazing top three hits.

It's also the year I was probably the happiest I ever was? I was midway through uni and having an amazing time and didn't mind my part-time job at the time as I had some good friends there at that point.

Edited January 3Jan 3 by gooddelta

A few things come to mind for me:

Within Australia:

• 20 years since Melbourne hosted the 2006 Commonwealth Games

• 20 years since the Beaconsfield mine collapse in Tasmania killed one man and let another two trapped one kilometer underground for two weeks before being rescued.

• 20 years since the sixth series of Big Brother Australia made headlines for all the wrong reasons after two males housemates were ejected from the house for performing a lewd sexual act on a female housemate.

• 20 years since Shane Warne became the first test bowler to take 700 test match wickets.

Edited January 4Jan 4 by Paddington James

• Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii were launched

• Orson's 'No Tomorrow' recorded the all-time lowest selling UK number one single in one week

• Leona Lewis won X Factor UK and arguably still the greatest success story among the winners of the show

I’m Not Dead being 20 years old feels real and unreal at the same time.

25% of the T shirts in my wardrobe turn at least 20. It's only of cultural relevance to me as I was still clubbing it and I was going for a slightly rougher more mature look 😄I havent the heart to throw them away just yet....😇

The big Timbaland comeback started this year w the Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake albums, both of which lead to the electro-R&B/electropop boom of the following years and then big-name EDM in 4-5 years. So I’d probably pin 06 as the start of the transition period to 2010s pop!

And on a personal note it’s also been 20 years since I first immersed myself in “online culture”, starting with my runescape account (which I made around Christmas 05 so a little over 20 years I guess) and really kickstarting with my Newgrounds account in December of 06. Even a year ago I would’ve called myself “extremely online” but I have been actively nauseated by and just straight up disinterested in what you could call “online culture” in the past year so I guess 20 years is the perfect time to “disconnect” lol

Edited January 5Jan 5 by dhwe

On 04/01/2026 at 08:30, AllStarBySmashMouth said:

• Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii were launched

• Orson's 'No Tomorrow' recorded the all-time lowest selling UK number one single in one week

• Leona Lewis won X Factor UK and arguably still the greatest success story among the winners of the show

Ohh yes, the Wii. I think it was one of the few consoles I got on launch, loved it.

27 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Ohh yes, the Wii. I think it was one of the few consoles I got on launch, loved it.

Wii Sports was an absolute phenomenon! What a time!

And the Mario Galaxy games! Also there was a tennis game called EA Grand Slam Tennis which I had hours of fun with playing against people online, the Motion Plus addition made it the best handled tennis game I can remember playing.

I also used to love Excite Truck because you could add your own MP3s as backing music via an SD card, so now Eurovision songs from 2007 remind me of that game as that's what was on my SD card.

My favourite Melodifestivalen entry and of course YVA - Katytes album (Grožio Fabrikas ❤️).

Edited January 5Jan 5 by Last Dreamer

• Downloads changing the singles chart drastically

• The most iconic series of Big Brother EVER with Nikki, Pete, Glynn, Lea, Grace, Susie, Aisleyne... compulsive viewing nightly / the US version also saw icon Janelle reach third place two years on the trot

• Leona's X Factor win

• Ugly Betty

• Paris Hilton actually having a good hit single with Stars Are Blind

• Twitter

• Spotify

This particular moment from the Winter Olympics: