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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400
Bad Bad News
Good Thing (2018)
Leon Bridges
401
I Summon You
Gimme Fiction (2005)
Spoon
402
5 out of 6
Chime (2018)
Dessa
403
Ship to Wreck
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015)
Florence + the Machine
404
3121
3121 (2006)
Prince
405
Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
In Rainbows (2007)
Radiohead
406
Bad Romance
The Fame (2008)
Lady Gaga
407
What Part of Me
Ones and Sixes (2015)
Low
408
Just One Of The Guys
The Voyager (2014)
Jenny Lewis
409
Default
Django Django (2012)
Django Django
410
Free Life
Free Life (2007)
Dan Wilson
411
Bury A Friend
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019)
Billie Eilish
412
Blue Moon
Morning Phase (2014)
Beck
413
Through the Ages
The Seeker (2015)
Cloud Cult
414
Dissolve Me
An Awesome Wave (2012)
Alt-J
415
Lost In The World (feat. Bon Iver)
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
Kanye West
416
Stylo
Plastic Beach (2010)
Gorillaz
417
Cold War
The ArchAndroid (2010)
Janelle Monae
418
I Dare You
I See You (2017)
The XX
419
Letter From an Occupant
Mass Romantic (2000)
The New Pornographers
420
Calamity Song
The King is Dead (2010)
The Decemberists
421
Incinerate
Rather Ripped (2006)
Sonic Youth
422
To Hell With Good Intentions
Mcluskyism (2006)
Mclusky
423
Boozophilia
Sylvia (2015)
Low Cut Connie
424
Chateau Lobby #4 (In C for Two Virgins)
I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
Father John Misty
425
Come on! Feel the Illinoise!
Illinois (2005)
Sufjan Stevens
426
Hold Up
Lemonade (2016)
Beyonce
427
I Still Believe
England Keep My Bones (2011)
Frank Turner
428
Optimist (We Are Not For Them)
Never Better (2009)
P.O.S
429
Ophelia
Cleopatra (2016)
The Lumineers
430
Busy Earnin'
Jungle (2014)
Jungle
431
Jungle
Notion (2017)
Tash Sultana
432
Your Best American Girl
Puberty 2 (2016)
Mitski
433
Can't Hold Us feat. Ray Dalton
The Heist (2013)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
434
Conquest
Icky Thump (2007)
The White Stripes
435
Good Kisser
Free Yourself Up (2018)
Lake Street Dive
436
Pretty Pimpin
b'lieve i'm goin down... (2015)
Kurt Vile
437
Postcards From Italy
Gulag Orkestar (2006)
Beirut
438
Jonathan Fisk
Kill the Moonlight (2002)
Spoon
439
The Descent
Silver Age (2012)
Bob Mould
440
No Hell
The Seeker (2015)
Cloud Cult
441
That's Not My Name
We Started Nothing (2008)
The Ting Tings
442
Them Changes
The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam (2015)
Thundercat
443
Hurtin' (On The Bottle)
Midwest Farmer's Daughter (2016)
Margo Price
444
We Will Become Silhouettes
Give Up (2003)
The Postal Service
445
Call the Police
American Dream (2017)
LCD Soundsystem
446
By the Way
By the Way (2002)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
447
Island in the Sun
Weezer (2001)
Weezer
448
We Used To Be Friends
Welcome to the Monkey House (2003)
The Dandy Warhols
449
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Vampire Weekend (2008)
Vampire Weekend
450
The Way You Used To Do
Villians (2017)
Queens of the Stone Age
451
Lose Yourself To Dance feat. Pharrell Williams
Random Access Memories (2013)
Daft Punk
452
Times Like These
One by One (2002)
Foo Fighters
453
Lazaretto
Lazaretto (2014)
Jack White
454
Somebody That I Used to Know
Figure 8 (2000)
Elliott Smith
455
That Wasn't Me
Bear Creek (2012)
Brandi Carlile
456
One Armed Scissor
This Station is Non-Operational (2000)
At The Drive-In
457
Vid Spilum Endalaust
Meo suo i eyrum vid spilum endalaust (2008)
Sigur Ros
458
VCR
XX (2009)
The XX
459
North American Scum
Sound of Silver (2007)
LCD Soundsystem
460
This Too Shall Pass
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (2010)
OK Go
461
Wandering Star
Give you the Ghost (2011)
Polica
462
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
Raising Sand (2007)
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
463
Sister
El Camino (2011)
The Black Keys
464
Transdermal Celebration
Quebec (2003)
Ween
465
Chandelier
1000 Forms of Fear (2014)
Sia
466
Blessings feat. Ty Dolla Sign
Coloring Book (2016)
Chance The Rapper
467
Stay Gold
Stay Gold (2014)
First Aid Kit
468
South
South (2015)
Hippo Campus
469
Fidelity
Begin to Hope (2006)
Regina Spektor
470
16 Military Wives
Picaresque (2005)
The Decemberists
471
Cuz I Love You
Cuz I Love You (2019)
Lizzo
472
Los Ageless
MASSEDUCTION (2017)
St. Vincent
473
Terrible Love
High Violet (2010)
The National
474
L.E.S. Artistes
Santogold (2008)
Santigold
475
Galvanize
Push the Button (2005)
The Chemical Brothers
476
Lotus Flower
The King of Limbs (2011)
Radiohead
477
There She Goes, My Beautiful World
Abbatoir Blues (2004)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
478
Retrograde
Overgrown (2013)
James Blake
479
Rainbow
Golden Hour (2018)
Kacey Musgraves
480
Pynk
Dirty Computer (2018)
Janelle Monae
481
Ready to Start
The Suburbs (2010)
Arcade Fire
482
The Greatest
The Greatest (2006)
Cat Power
483
Gimme All Your Love
Sound & Color (2015)
Alabama Shakes
484
Fresh Blood
Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire (2009)
Eels
485
Furr
Furr (2008)
Blitzen Trapper
486
Tall Boy
Dark Touches (2009)
Har Mar Superstar
487
Django Jane
Dirty Computer (2018)
Janelle Monae
488
Ocean Breathes Salty
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
Modest Mouse
489
12:51
Room on Fire (2003)
The Strokes
490
Don't Delete The Kisses
Visions of a Life (2017)
Wolf Alice
491
Organ Donor
The Reluctant Graveyard (2010)
jeremy messersmith
492
Golden
It Still Moves (2003)
My Morning Jacket
493
FEEL.
DAMN. (2017)
Kendrick Lamar
494
Run
Final Straw (2004)
Snow Patrol
495
Human
Day and Age (2008)
The Killers
496
Everything Is Alright
Commit this to Memory (2005)
Motion City Soundtrack
497
Somewhere Only We Know
Hopes and Fears (2004)
Keane
498
Motion Sickness
Stranger in the Alps (2017)
Phoebe Bridgers
499
Slow Hands
Antics (2004)
Interpol