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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500
Jesus Walks
The College Dropout (2004)
Kanye West
501
Hummingbird
A Ghost is Born (2004)
Wilco
502
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
Smile (2000)
The Jayhawks
503
Sedona
Little Neon Limelight (2015)
Houndmouth
504
Forest Whitaker
Shadows on the Sun (2003)
Brother Ali
505
Sign of the Times
Harry Styles (2017)
Harry Styles
506
Black Mirror
Neon Bible (2007)
Arcade Fire
507
Umbrella
Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
Rihanna
508
Flesh Without Blood
Art Angels (2015)
Grimes
509
Hey Muse!
Hey Muse! (2017)
The Suburbs
510
The High Road
Broken Bells (2010)
Broken Bells
511
Velodrome
Chime (2018)
Dessa
512
Heavy Bells
Essential Tremors (2013)
J. Roddy Walston and The Business
513
When My Time Comes
North Hills (2010)
Dawes
514
Sacrilege
Mosquito (2013)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
515
Changes
Changes (2016)
Charles Bradley
516
Righteously
Wold Without Tears (2003)
Lucinda Williams
517
When I Go Deaf
The Great Destroyer (2005)
Low
518
The Blacker The Berry
To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
Kendrick Lamar
519
Shut Up and Dance
Talking Is Hard (2014)
Walk the Moon
520
The Rake's Song
The Hazards of Love (2009)
The Decemberists
521
Perth
Bon Iver (2011)
Bon Iver
522
Me and Your Mama
Awaken, My Love! (2016)
Childish Gambino
523
Strange Overtones
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008)
David Byrne and Brian Eno
524
My Silver Lining
Stay Gold (2014)
First Aid Kit
525
DNA.
DAMN. (2017)
Kendrick Lamar
526
These Days
Wasting Light (2011)
Foo Fighters
527
Optimistic
Kid A (2000)
Radiohead
528
Hands Open
Eyes Open (2006)
Snow Patrol
529
Joker and the Thief
Wolfmother (2005)
Wolfmother
530
Timebomb
Timebomb (2007)
Beck
531
The Life You Chose
Something More Than Free (2015)
Jason Isbell
532
Sister Jack
Gimme Fiction (2005)
Spoon
533
Mouthful Of Diamonds
Eyelid Movies (2010)
Phantogram
534
Supermassive Black Hole
Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
Muse
535
Hard Sun
Into the Wild soundtrack (2007)
Eddie Vedder
536
The Man Comes Around
American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
Johnny Cash
537
Leave A Trace
Every Open Eye (2015)
CHVRCHES
538
Guitar
Planet Earth (2007)
Prince
539
Juicebox
First Impressions of Earth (2006)
The Strokes
540
Everybody Here Is A Cloud
Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) (2008)
Cloud Cult
541
Norway
Teen Dream (2010)
Beach House
542
Beverly Hills
Make Believe (2005)
Weezer
543
Read My Mind
Sam's Town (2006)
The Killers
544
Closer
Heartthrob (2012)
Tegan and Sara
545
Serpents
Tramp (2012)
Sharon Van Etten
546
Sleepyhead
Chunk of Change (2008)
Passion Pit
547
All Of The Lights
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
Kanye West
548
The Woodpile
Pedestrian Verse (2013)
Frightened Rabbit
549
Want You Back
Something to Tell You (2017)
HAIM
550
Stillness Is The Move
Bitte Orca (2009)
Dirty Projectors
551
Work Out
Work Out (Single, 2018)
Chance The Rapper
552
No Roots
Mint (2016)
Alice Merton
553
Vincent
Teens of Denial
Car Seat Headrest
554
Kismet Kill
Impossible Dream (2016)
HALEY
555
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
In Rainbows (2007)
Radiohead
556
Come
Zanaka (2016)
Jain
557
Bury Our Friends
No Cities to Love (2015)
Sleater-Kinney
558
January Wedding
I and Love and You (2009)
The Avett Brothers
559
Gold Lion
Show Your Bones (2006)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
560
Bambi
Bambi (2018)
Hippo Campus
561
Delilah
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015)
Florence + The Machine
562
Truth Is
The Undisputed Truth (2007)
Brother Ali
563
By Your Side
Lovers Rock (2000)
Sade
564
Midway
Psychic Reader (2015)
Bad Bad Hats
565
Nameless, Faceless
Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018)
Courtney Barnett
566
Hand Clap
Fitz and the Tantrums (2016)
Fitz and the Tantrums
567
Panic Switch
Swoon (2009)
Silversun Pickups
568
Gardenia
Post Pop Depression (2016)
Iggy Pop
569
Stolen Dance
sadnecessary (2014)
Milky Chance
570
Masseduction
MASSEDUCTION (2017)
St. Vincent
571
Day I Die
Sleep Well Beast (2017)
The National
572
Modern Man
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
573
Sugartooth
By the Way, I Forgive You (2018)
Brandi Carlile
574
Bite The Hand
boygenius (2018)
boygenius
575
Trouble
Trouble (2004)
Ray LaMontagne
576
Zebra
Teen Dream (2010)
Beach House
577
Saint Simon
Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
The Shins
578
Gangsta
whokill (2011)
tUnE-yArDs
579
Carolina Drama
Consolers of the Lonely (2008)
The Raconteurs
580
How a Resurrection Really Feels
Separation Sunday (2005)
The Hold Steady
581
Brace For Impact (Live A Little)
A Sailor's Guide to Earth (2016)
Sturgill Simpson
582
Cranes in the Sky
A Seat at the Table (2016)
Solange
583
That Western Skyline
North Hills (2009)
Dawes
584
Random Name Generator
Star Wars (2015)
Wilco
585
In A World Possessed By The Human Mind
Man Machine Poem (2016)
The Tragically Hip
586
Budapest
Wanted on Voyage (2014)
George Ezra
587
Smooth Sailin'
Coming Home (2015)
Leon Bridges
588
10,000 Emerald Pools
Dopamine (2015)
BORNS
589
North Side Gal
Signs and Signifiers (2012)
JD McPherson
590
The Ideal Husband
I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
Father John Misty
591
MoneyGrabber
Pickin' Up the Pieces (2010)
Fitz and The Tantrums
592
French Navy
My Maudlin Career (2009)
Camera Obscura
593
Laredo
Infinite Arms (2010)
Band of Horses
594
Get Down (feat. Mike Mictlan)
We Don't Even Live Here (2012)
P.O.S
595
Highway Tune
Black Smoke Rising (2018)
Greta Van Fleet
596
You
When Life Gives You Lemons... (2008)
Atmosphere
597
Coming Home
Coming Home (2015)
Leon Bridges
598
Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
An End Has a Start (2007)
Editors
599
Deep Red Bells
Blacklisted (2002)
Neko Case