893 Essential Songs Since the Year 2000
We hope you had as much fun listening as we did putting the countdown together. If you want to relive the countdown, we're sending you the official 893 Essential Songs Since the Year 2000 playlist on Spotify, as well as the spreadsheet of all the songs and artists. It's also worth pointing out some of the great listener-created lists that were generated during the countdown — check out this community spreadsheet as well as this gorgeous chart by Tom Coyer!
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Gangnam Style
Gangnam Style (2012)PSY701
19-2000
Gorillaz (2001)Gorillaz702
After You
Back Road Highways (2012)Chastity Brown703
Hell Yes
Guero (2005)Beck704
Bloodless
My Finest Work Yet (2019)Andrew Bird705
Black Skinhead
Yeezus (2013)Kanye West706
In The End
Hybrid Theory (2000)Linkin Park707
Caring Is Creepy
Oh, Inverted World (2001)The Shins708
Stay With Me
In the Lonely Hour (2014)Sam Smith709
Laydown
20Ten (2010)Prince710
Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
Lungs (2009)Florence + the Machine711
Mr. Tillman
God's Favorite Customer (2018)Father John Misty712
Your Hand in Mine
The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place (2003)Explosions in the Sky713
1X1X1
Love (2013)Cloud Cult714
Capsized
Are You Serious? (2016)Andrew Bird715
Big Decisions
The Waterfall (2015)My Morning Jacket716
Bad As Me
Bad As Me (2011)Tom Waits717
Walking on a Dream
Walking on a Dream (2008)Empire of the Sun718
Daylight
Daylight (2009)Matt and Kim719
Trashcan
Ode to Sunshine (2008)Delta Spirit720
Space Song
Depression Cherry (2015)Beach House721
Mississippi
Love and Theft (2001)Bob Dylan722
The Train From Kansas City
The Tigers Have Spoken (2004)Neko Case723
Tourniquet
Heart Murmurs (2014)jeremy messersmith724
The Electric Version
Electric Version (2003)The New Pornographers725
Anna Sun
Walk the Moon (2012)Walk The Moon726
My Skin
Big Grrrl Small World (2015)Lizzo727
Slow Burn
Golden Hour (2018)Kacey Musgraves728
Atlas
Mirrored (2007)Battles729
Acid Tongue
Acid Tongue (2008)Jenny Lewis730
Ooh La La
Supernature (2005)Goldfrapp731
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
AM (2013)Arctic Monkeys732
Written In Reverse
Transference (2009)Spoon733
Come Away With Me
Come Away With Me (2002)Norah Jones734
D.A.N.C.E.
Justice (2007)Justice735
The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)Clap Your Hands Say Yeah736
Since I Left You
Since I Left You (2000)The Avalanches737
Turtles All the Way Down
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (2014)Sturgill Simpson738
Heavy Cross
Music for Men (2009)Gossip739
You Only Live Once
First Impressions of Earth (2006)The Strokes740
Down
ACT ONE (2016)Marian Hill741
Milkman
Feels Like (2015)Bully742
I Was Born a Unicorn
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (2003)The Unicorns743
Jolene
Trouble Will Find Me (2004)Ray Lamontagne744
The Gold
A Black Mile to the Surface (2017)Manchester Orchestra745
Southern Sun
Harlequin Dream (2013)Boy and Bear746
Your Ex Lover is Dead
Set Yourself On Fire (2004)Stars747
Adore
Love Monster (2017)Amy Shark748
Addictions
HistorianLucy Dacus749
Creature Comfort
Everything Now (2017)Arcade Fire750
GMF (Greatest Living Creature)
Pale Green Ghosts (2013)John Grant751
Some Nights
Some Nights (2012)fun.752
Carry Me Ohio
Ghosts of the Great Highway (2003)Sun Kil Moon753
Synthetica
Synthetica (2012)Metric754
Cause I'm A Man
Currents (2015)Tame Impala755
The Blues Are Still Blue
The Life Pursuit (2006)Belle and Sebastian756
Revolution Rock N Roll
Dirty Pictures (Part 1) (2017)Low Cut Connie757
People Got A Lotta Nerve
Middle Cyclone (2009)Neko Case758
Legend Has It
Run the Jewels 3 (2017)Run The Jewels759
We Used To Vacation
Robbers and Cowards (2006)Cold War Kids760
Shadow People
Shame, Shame (2010)Dr. Dog761
Two Fingers
Jake Bugg (2012)Jake Bugg762
Imitation of Life
Reveal (2001)R.E.M.763
Ain't No Man
True Sadness (2016)The Avett Brothers764
Party Hard
I Get Wet (2001)Andrew W.K.765
Walking Far From Home
Kiss Each Other Clean (2010)Iron and Wine766
American Dream
American Dream (2017)LCD Soundsystem767
Pay Gap
All American Made (2018)Margo Price768
Emotions And Math
Emotions And Math (2016)Margaret Glaspy769
Smart Went Crazy
You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having (2005)Atmosphere770
Prince Johnny
St. Vincent (2014)St. Vincent771
While You Wait For The Others
Veckatimest (2009)Grizzly Bear772
No Comprende
Ones and Sixes (2015)Low773
Wake Me Up When September Ends
American Idiot (2004)Green Day774
Jackie and Wilson
Hozier (2014)Hozier775
My God Is The Sun
...Like Clockwork (2013)Queens of the Stone Age776
Harmony Hall
Father of the Bride (2019)Vampire Weekend777
No One's Gonna Love You
Cease to Begin (2007)Band of Horses778
Shake Me Down
Thank You, Happy Birthday (2011)Cage The Elephant779
Blue Jeans
Born to Die (2012)Lana Del Rey780
Wordless Chorus
Z (2005)My Morning Jacket781
Always Love
The Weight is a Gift (2005)Nada Surf782
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)
At War with the Mystics (2006)The Flaming Lips783
Don't Swallow The Cap
Trouble Will Find Me (2013)The National784
All We Got feat. Kanye West
Coloring Book (2016)Chance The Rapper785
Heartbeats
Veneer (2003)Jose Gonzalez786
Surrender Under Protest
American Band (2016)Drive-By Truckers787
The Voyager
The Voyager (2014)Jenny Lewis788
Kissing The Lipless
Chutes Too Narrow (2003)The Shins789
Dear Life
Colors (2017)Beck790
Mountain At My Gates
What Went Down (2015)Foals791
Born Again Teen
Good Grief (2016)Lucius792
Life Wasted
Pearl Jam (2006)Pearl Jam793
I Follow Rivers
Wounded Rhymes (2011)Lykke Li794
Honey in the Sun
My Maudlin Career (2009)Camera Obscura795
Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)Courtney Barnett796
Ready For The Floor
Made In the Dark (2008)Hot Chip797
Older And Taller
Remember Us to Life (2016)Regina Spektor798
Sound & Color
Sound & Color (2015)Alabama Shakes799
You! Me! Dancing!
Hold On Now, Youngster (2007)Los Campesinos!