Rolling Stone 100 Best Songs of the Decade
Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade was a feature in US music magazine Rolling Stone, charting the 100 best songs from the 2000s (2000–2009) according to a panel of 100 music writers, critics, artists and industry insiders. The list was compiled and published in June 2009. Two years later, on 17 June 2011, the list was published online in full for the first time, with new write-ups. The list itself, however, remained the same.
According to Rolling Stone, the list "reflects the eclectic spirit of the decade with tracks from garage rock revivalists, dance-happy indie acts, hip-hop superstars, modern R&B hit-makers, arena rockers, boundary-shattering pop hybrids and a few familiar icons from previous eras".[1]
Top 100 Songs[]
| # | Song | Genre | Musician |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | "Crazy" (from St. Elsewhere) | R&B | Gnarls Barkley |
| 002 | "99 Problems" (from The Black Album) | Hip Hop | Jay-Z |
| 003 | "Crazy in Love" (from Dangerously in Love) | R&B | Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z |
| 004 | "Hey Ya!" (from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below) | Hip Hop | Outkast |
| 005 | "Paper Planes" (from Kala) | Hip Hop | M.I.A. |
| 006 | "Seven Nation Army" (from Elephant) | Alternative | The White Stripes |
| 007 | "Maps" (from Fever to Tell) | Alternative | Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| 008 | "Rehab" (from Back to Black) | R&B | Amy Winehouse |
| 009 | "Beautiful Day" (from All That You Can't Leave Behind) | Rock | U2 |
| 010 | "Stan" (from The Marshall Mathers LP) | Hip Hop | Eminem featuring Dido |
| 011 | "Time to Pretend" (from Oracular Spectacular) | Alternative | MGMT |
| 012 | "Lose Yourself" (from 8 Mile: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture) | Hip Hop | Eminem |
| 013 | "In da Club" (from Get Rich or Die Tryin') | Hip Hop | 50 Cent |
| 014 | "Get Ur Freak On" (from Miss E... So Addictive) | Hip Hop | Missy Elliott |
| 015 | "Hurt" (from American IV: The Man Comes Around) | Folk | Johnny Cash |
| 016 | "Last Nite" (from Is This It) | Alternative | The Strokes |
| 017 | "Mississippi" (from Love and Theft) | Folk | Bob Dylan |
| 018 | "Since U Been Gone" (from Breakaway) | Pop | Kelly Clarkson |
| 019 | "Jesus Walks" (from The College Dropout) | Hip Hop | Kanye West |
| 020 | "Cry Me a River" (from Justified) | R&B | Justin Timberlake |
| 021 | "B.O.B" (from Stankonia) | Hip Hop | Outkast |
| 022 | "1 Thing" (from Touch) | R&B | Ameriie |
| 023 | "Umbrella" (from Good Girl Gone Bad) | R&B | Rihanna featuring Jay-Z |
| 024 | "Everything in Its Right Place" (from Kid A) | Alternative | Radiohead |
| 025 | "Work It" (from Under Construction) | Hip Hop | Missy Elliott |
| 026 | "Clocks" (from A Rush of Blood to the Head) | Alternative | Coldplay |
| 027 | "Such Great Heights" (from Give Up) | Electronic | The Postal Service |
| 028 | "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" (from Harps and Angels) | Pop | Randy Newman |
| 029 | "Gold Digger" (from Late Registration) | Hip Hop | Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx |
| 030 | "Ignition (Remix)" (from Chocolate Factory) | R&B | R. Kelly |
| 031 | "Do You Realize??" (from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots) | Alternative | The Flaming Lips |
| 032 | "Take Me Out" (from Franz Ferdinand) | Alternative | Franz Ferdinand |
| 033 | "One More Time" (from Discovery) | Electronic | Daft Punk featuring Romanthony |
| 034 | "Yellow" (from Parachutes) | Alternative | Coldplay |
| 035 | "The Rising" (from The Rising) | Rock | Bruce Springsteen |
| 036 | "Moment of Surrender" (from No Line on the Horizon) | Rock | U2 |
| 037 | "Losing My Edge" (from LCD Soundsystem) | Electronic | LCD Soundsystem |
| 038 | "Clint Eastwood" (from Gorillaz) | Alternative | Gorillaz featuring Del the Funky Homosapien |
| 039 | "Float On" (from Good News for People Who Love Bad News) | Alternative | Modest Mouse |
| 040 | "Milkshake" (from Tasty) | R&B | Kelis |
| 041 | "All My Friends" (from Sound of Silver) | Electronic | LCD Soundsystem |
| 042 | "Wake Up" (from Funeral) | Alternative | Arcade Fire |
| 043 | "The Seed (2.0)" (from Phrenology) | Hip Hop | The Roots featuring Cody Chesnutt |
| 044 | "Toxic" (from In the Zone) | Dance | Britney Spears |
| 045 | "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (from Fever) | Dance | Kylie Minogue |
| 046 | "Kids" (from Oracular Spectacular) | Alternative | MGMT |
| 047 | "American Idiot" (from American Idiot) | Alternative | Green Day |
| 048 | "Mr. Brightside" (from Hot Fuss) | Alternative | The Killers |
| 049 | "The Rat" (from Bows + Arrows) | Alternative | The Walkmen |
| 050 | "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (from I Am... Sasha Fierce) | R&B | Beyoncé |
| 051 | "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" (from Voodoo) | R&B | D'Angelo |
| 052 | "Beautiful" (from Stripped) | R&B | Christina Aguilera |
| 053 | "House of Jealous Lovers" (from Echoes) | Alternative | The Rapture |
| 054 | "The Scientist" (from A Rush of Blood to the Head) | Alternative | Coldplay |
| 055 | "Ms. Jackson" (from Stankonia) | Hip Hop | Outkast |
| 056 | "Idioteque" (from Kid A) | Alternative | Radiohead |
| 057 | "New Slang" (from Oh, Inverted World) | Alternative | The Shins |
| 058 | "Fell in Love with a Girl" (from White Blood Cells) | Alternative | The White Stripes |
| 059 | "Hard to Explain" (from Is This It) | Alternative | The Strokes |
| 060 | "Irreplaceable" (from B'Day) | R&B | Beyoncé |
| 061 | "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" (from Get Born) | Alternative | Jet |
| 062 | "Fallin'" (from Songs in A Minor) | R&B | Alicia Keys |
| 063 | "A Milli" (from Tha Carter III) | Hip Hop | Lil Wayne |
| 064 | "Vertigo" (from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb) | Rock | U2 |
| 065 | "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (from American Idiot) | Alternative | Green Day |
| 066 | "Music" (from Music) | Dance | Madonna |
| 067 | "Jesus, Etc." (from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) | Alternative | Wilco |
| 068 | "Viva la Vida" (from Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends) | Alternative | Coldplay |
| 069 | "L.E.S. Artistes" (from Santogold) | Electronic | Santigold |
| 070 | "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" (from Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not) | Alternative | Arctic Monkeys |
| 071 | "D.A.N.C.E." (from Cross) | Electronic | Justice |
| 072 | "Use Somebody" (from Only by the Night) | Alternative | Kings of Leon |
| 073 | "No One Knows" (from Songs for the Deaf) | Alternative | Queens of the Stone Age |
| 074 | "Wolf Like Me" (from Return to Cookie Mountain) | Alternative | TV on the Radio |
| 075 | "Rebellion (Lies)" (from Funeral) | Alternative | Arcade Fire |
| 076 | "Hung Up" (from Confessions on a Dance Floor) | Dance | Madonna |
| 077 | "Not Ready to Make Nice" (from Taking the Long Way) | Country | Dixie Chicks |
| 078 | "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" (from LCD Soundsystem) | Electronic | LCD Soundsystem |
| 079 | "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" (from Raising Sand) | Folk | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss |
| 080 | "1901" (from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix) | Alternative | Phoenix |
| 081 | "Get the Party Started" (from Missundaztood) | Pop | Pink |
| 082 | "Dirt off Your Shoulder" (from The Black Album) | Hip Hop | Jay-Z |
| 083 | "Standing in the Way of Control" (from Standing in the Way of Control) | Alternative | Gossip |
| 084 | "Grindin'" (from Lord Willin') | Hip Hop | Clipse |
| 085 | "Stillness Is the Move" (from Bitte Orca) | Alternative | Dirty Projectors |
| 086 | "Try Again" (from Romeo Must Die) | R&B | Aaliyah featuring Timbaland |
| 087 | "Heartbeats" (from Deep Cuts) | Electronic | The Knife |
| 088 | "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"(from The Blueprint) | Hip Hop | Jay-Z |
| 089 | "Lua" (from I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning) | Folk | Bright Eyes |
| 090 | "Roscoe" (from The Trials of Van Occupanther) | Folk | Midlake |
| 091 | "My City of Ruins" (from The Rising) | Rock | Bruce Springsteen |
| 092 | "Alcohol" (from Time Well Wasted) | Country | Brad Paisley |
| 093 | "Drop It Like It's Hot" (from R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece) | Hip Hop | Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell Williams |
| 094 | "Pyramid Song" (from Amnesiac) | Alternative | Radiohead |
| 095 | "Family Affair" (from No More Drama) | R&B | Mary J. Blige |
| 096 | "Poker Face" (from The Fame) | Dance | Lady Gaga |
| 097 | "White Winter Hymnal" (from Fleet Foxes) | Folk | Fleet Foxes |
| 098 | "Back to Black" (from Back to Black) | R&B | Amy Winehouse |
| 099 | "Feel Good Inc." (from Demon Days) | Alternative | Gorillaz featuring De La Soul |
| 100 | "Welcome to Jamrock" (from Welcome to Jamrock) | R&B | Damian Marley |
Statistics[]
| # | Song |
|---|---|
| 4 | Coldplay - "Clocks" (026), "Yellow" (034), "The Scientist" (054), "Viva la Vida" (068) |
| 3 | Jay-Z - "99 Problems" (002), "Dirt off Your Shoulder" (082), "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" (088) |
| 3 | Beyoncé - "Crazy in Love" (003), "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (050), "Irreplaceable" (060) |
| 3 | Outkast - "Hey Ya!" (004), "B.O.B" (021), "Ms. Jackson" (055) |
| 3 | U2 - "Beautiful Day" (009), "Moment of Surrender" (036), "Vertigo" (064) |
| 3 | Radiohead - "Everything in Its Right Place" (024), "Idioteque" (056), "Pyramid Song" (094) |
| 3 | LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge" (037), "All My Friends" (041), "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" (078) |
| 2 | The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army" (006), "Fell in Love with a Girl" (058) |
| 2 | Amy Winehouse - "Rehab" (008), "Back to Black" (098) |
| 2 | Eminem - "Stan" (010), "Lose Yourself" (012) |
| 2 | MGMT - "Time to Pretend" (011), "Kids" (046) |
| 2 | Missy Elliott - "Get Ur Freak On" (014), "Work It" (025) |
| 2 | The Strokes - "Last Nite" (016), "Hard to Explain" (059) |
| 2 | Kanye West - "Jesus Walks" (019), "Gold Digger" (029) |
| 2 | Bruce Springsteen - "The Rising" (035), "My City of Ruins" (091) |
| 2 | Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood" (038), "Feel Good Inc." (099) |
| 2 | Arcade Fire - "Wake Up" (042), "Rebellion (Lies)" (075) |
| 2 | Green Day - "American Idiot" (047), "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (065) |
| 2 | Madonna - "Music" (066), "Hung Up" (076) |
With four songs in the top 100, Coldplay was the act with most appearances in the list: "Viva la Vida" (no. 68), "The Scientist" (no. 54), "Yellow" (no. 34) and "Clocks" (no. 26). Beyoncé, LCD Soundsystem, Outkast, Radiohead, U2 and Jay-Z all featured three times on the list. Jay-Z also appeared as "featured artist" on Rihanna's "Umbrella" and Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love, bringing his total to five. The list had an albums-related companion, the Rolling Stone 100 Best Albums of the Decade.
Top 100 Albums[]
Rolling Stone 100 Best Albums of the Decade.
| # | Album | Genre | Musician |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Kid A | Alternative | Radiohead |
| 002 | Is This It | Alternative | The Strokes |
| 003 | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | Alternative | Wilco |
| 004 | The Blueprint | Hip Hop | Jay-Z |
| 005 | Elephant | Alternative | The White Stripes |
| 006 | Funeral | Alternative | Arcade Fire |
| 007 | The Marshall Mathers LP | Hip Hop | Eminem |
| 008 | Modern Times | Folk | Bob Dylan |
| 009 | Kala | Hip Hop | M.I.A. |
| 010 | The College Dropout | Hip Hop | Kanye West |
| 011 | Love and Theft | Folk | Bob Dylan |
| 012 | Sound of Silver | Electronic | LCD Soundsystem |
| 013 | All That You Can't Leave Behind | Rock | U2 |
| 014 | The Black Album | Hip Hop | Jay-Z |
| 015 | The Rising | Rock | Bruce Springsteen |
| 016 | Stankonia | Hip Hop | Outkast |
| 017 | Sea Change | Alternative | Beck |
| 018 | Oracular Spectacular | Alternative | MGMT |
| 019 | Back to Black | R&B | Amy Winehouse |
| 020 | White Blood Cells | Alternative | The White Stripes |
| 021 | A Rush of Blood to the Head | Alternative | Coldplay |
| 022 | American Idiot | Alternative | Green Day |
| 023 | Voodoo | R&B | D'Angelo |
| 024 | Magic | Rock | Bruce Springsteen |
| 025 | Amnesiac | Alternative | Radiohead |
| 026 | The Greatest | Alternative | Cat Power |
| 027 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | Alternative | The Flaming Lips |
| 028 | Fever to Tell | Alternative | Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| 029 | Ágætis byrjun | Alternative | Sigur Rós |
| 030 | In Rainbows | Alternative | Radiohead |
| 031 | Z | Alternative | My Morning Jacket |
| 032 | Tha Carter III | Hip Hop | Lil Wayne |
| 033 | Discovery | Electronic | Daft Punk |
| 034 | Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | Hip Hop | Outkast |
| 035 | Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea | Alternative | PJ Harvey |
| 036 | No Line on the Horizon | Rock | U2 |
| 037 | Get Rich or Die Tryin' | Hip Hop | 50 Cent |
| 038 | Heartbreaker | Alternative | Ryan Adams |
| 039 | Aha Shake Heartbreak | Alternative | Kings of Leon |
| 040 | Late Registration | Hip Hop | Kanye West |
| 041 | Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | Alternative | Arctic Monkeys |
| 042 | Figure 8 | Folk | Elliott Smith |
| 043 | Hot Fuss | Alternative | The Killers |
| 044 | Toxicity | Alternative | System of a Down |
| 045 | Graduation | Hip Hop | Kanye West |
| 046 | FutureSex/LoveSounds | R&B | Justin Timberlake |
| 047 | Fleet Foxes | Folk | Fleet Foxes |
| 048 | Dear Science | Alternative | TV on the Radio |
| 049 | Extraordinary Machine | Alternative | Fiona Apple |
| 050 | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | Alternative | Bright Eyes |
| 051 | Kill the Moonlight | Alternative | Spoon |
| 052 | Arular | Hip Hop | M.I.A. |
| 053 | Only by the Night | Alternative | Kings of Leon |
| 054 | Come Away with Me | Pop | Norah Jones |
| 055 | Raising Sand | Folk | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss |
| 056 | Vampire Weekend | Alternative | Vampire Weekend |
| 057 | Transatlanticism | Alternative | Death Cab for Cutie |
| 058 | The Grey Album | Hip Hop | Danger Mouse |
| 059 | Turn on the Bright Lights | Alternative | Interpol |
| 060 | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | Alternative | Phoenix |
| 061 | Oh, Inverted World | Alternative | The Shins |
| 062 | American III: Solitary Man | Country | Johnny Cash |
| 063 | 808s & Heartbreak | Hip Hop | Kanye West |
| 064 | Time (The Revelator) | Country | Gillian Welch |
| 065 | Próxima Estación: Esperanza | Latin | Manu Chao |
| 066 | I Am a Bird Now | Alternative | Antony and the Johnsons |
| 067 | Vespertine | Electronic | Björk |
| 068 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | Rock | U2 |
| 069 | Under Construction | Hip Hop | Missy Elliott |
| 070 | The Woods | Alternative | Sleater-Kinney |
| 071 | Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | Alternative | Bright Eyes |
| 072 | Franz Ferdinand | Alternative | Franz Ferdinand |
| 073 | Parachutes | Alternative | Coldplay |
| 074 | Stadium Arcadium | Alternative | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| 075 | Neon Bible | Alternative | Arcade Fire |
| 076 | ( ) | Alternative | Sigur Rós |
| 077 | And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out | Alternative | Yo La Tengo |
| 078 | Illinois | Alternative | Sufjan Stevens |
| 079 | Electric Version | Alternative | The New Pornographers |
| 080 | Youth & Young Manhood | Alternative | Kings of Leon |
| 081 | Gold | Alternative | Ryan Adams |
| 082 | Rated R | Alternative | Queens of the Stone Age |
| 083 | Attack & Release | Alternative | The Black Keys |
| 084 | The Eminem Show | Hip Hop | Eminem |
| 085 | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | Alternative | Coldplay |
| 086 | Give Up | Electronic | The Postal Service |
| 087 | St. Elsewhere | R&B | Gnarls Barkley |
| 088 | Brian Wilson Presents Smile | Rock | Brian Wilson |
| 089 | Hail to the Thief | Alternative | Radiohead |
| 090 | Dimanche à Bamako | R&B | Amadou & Mariam |
| 091 | Veni Vidi Vicious | Alternative | The Hives |
| 092 | For Emma, Forever Ago | Alternative | Bon Iver |
| 093 | Unearthed | Country | Johnny Cash |
| 094 | Up the Bracket | Alternative | The Libertines |
| 095 | Songs in A Minor | R&B | Alicia Keys |
| 096 | Original Pirate Material | Hip Hop | The Streets |
| 097 | Sky Blue Sky | Alternative | Wilco |
| 098 | Return to Cookie Mountain | Alternative | TV on the Radio |
| 099 | Almost Killed Me | Alternative | The Hold Steady |
| 100 | Ten New Songs | Folk | Leonard Cohen |
References[]
- ^ Rolling Stone.com: "Introducing Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the '00s" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/introducing-rolling-stones-100-best-songs-of-the-00s-20110617
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