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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Bodysnatchers
In Rainbows (2007)Radiohead301
Toxic
In the Zone (2003)Britney Spears302
There's So Much Energy In Us
Light Chasers (2010)Cloud Cult303
A Little Bit Of Everything
Nothing is Wrong (2011)Dawes304
The Field
Blood of Man (2009)Mason Jennings305
Save it for a Rainy Day
Rainy Day Music (2003)The Jayhawks306
Under The Pressure
Lost in the Dream (2014)The War on Drugs307
Dirty Harry
Demon Days (2005)Gorillaz308
This Mess We're In feat. Thom Yorke
Stores from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)PJ Harvey309
Ya Hey
Modern Vampires of the City (2013)Vampire Weekend310
8 (circle)
22, A Million (2016)Bon Iver311
Reflektor
Reflektor (2013)Arcade Fire312
Gimme Sympathy
Fantasies (2009)Metric313
Falling Slowly
Once: Original Soundtrack (2007)Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova314
On The Radio
Begin to Hope (2006)Regina Spektor315
100 Days, 100 Nights
100 Days, 100 Nights (2007)Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings316
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)Spoon317
Lisztomania
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)Phoenix318
Here It Goes Again
Oh No (2005)OK Go319
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Separation Sunday (2005)The Hold Steady320
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
White Blood Cells (2001)The White Stripes321
Ghost
Heart Murmurs (2014)jeremy messersmith322
History Eraser
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (2013)Courtney Barnett323
I'm Writing A Novel
Fear Fun (2012)Father John Misty324
The Crane Wife, Pt. 3
The Crane Wife (2006)The Decemberists325
You Should See Me In A Crown
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019)Billie Eilish326
Clearest Blue
Every Open Eye (2015)CHVRCHES327
Such Great Heights
Garden State Original Soundtrack (2004)Iron and Wine328
All My Life
One by One (2002)Foo Fighters329
Go With The Flow
Songs for the Deaf (2003)Queens of the Stone Age330
Dreams
Colors (2017)Beck331
You Are The Best Thing
Gossip in the Grain (2008)Ray LaMontagne332
Portland Oregon
Van Lear Rose (2004)Loretta Lynn333
Formed a Band
Bang Bang Rock and Roll (2005)Art Brut334
Star Witness
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006)Neko Case335
Fire Drills
Chime (2018)Dessa336
True Love Waits
A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)Radiohead337
Everything Now
Everything Now (2017)Arcade Fire338
Sons and Daughters
The Crane Wife (2006)The Decemberists339
Welcome To The Black Parade
The Black Parade (2006)My Chemical Romance340
I Predict A Riot
Employment (2005)Kaiser Chiefs341
Your Touch
Magic Potion (2006)The Black Keys342
Flathead
Costello Music (2006)The Fratellis343
Untitled (How Does It Feel)
Voodoo (2000)D'Angelo344
Lost
Channel Orange (2012)Frank Ocean345
Y Control
Fever to Tell (2003)Yeah Yeah Yeahs346
Alright
To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)Kendrick Lamar347
Fitzpleasure
An Awesome Wave (2012)Alt-J348
The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
Rated R (2000)Queens of the Stone Age349
E-Pro
Guero (2005)Beck350
Trying
Feels Like (2015)Bully351
Cigarette Daydreams
Melophobia (2013)Cage The Elephant352
Hang Me Up To Dry
Robbers and Cowards (2006)Cold War Kids353
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Funeral (2004)Arcade Fire354
Sunday Candy
Surf (2015)Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment355
Wake Up
Silhouette of Sirens (2017)Chastity Brown356
I Feel It All
The Reminder (2007)Feist357
Hotel Yorba
White Blood Cells (2001)The White Stripes358
Howlin' for You
Brothers (2010)The Black Keys359
You'll Be Bright
Light Chasers (2010)Cloud Cult360
Apocalypse Dreams
Lonerism (2012)Tame Impala361
The Wire
Days Are Gone (2013)HAIM362
May I Have This Dance (Remix) feat. Chance The Rapper
May I Have This Dance (Single, 2017)Francis and the Lights363
When You Were Young
Sam's Town (2006)The Killers364
White Man's World
The Nashville Sound (2017)Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit365
Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu
The Electric Lady (2013)Janelle Monae366
Cleopatra
Cleopatra (2016)The Lumineers367
SexyBack
FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)Justin Timberlake368
Crooked Teeth
Plans (2005)Death Cab for Cutie369
How You Like Me Now?
The House That Dirt Built (2009)The Heavy370
The Pretender
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)Foo Fighters371
15 Step
In Rainbows (2007)Radiohead372
We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monae)
Some Nights (2012)fun.373
On Melancholy Hill
Plastic Beach (2010)Gorillaz374
She's Not Me
The Voyager (2014)Jenny Lewis375
Uprising
The Resistance (2009)Muse376
You Don't Get Me High Anymore
Three (2016)Phantogram377
Should Have Known Better
Carrie and Lowell (2015)Sufjan Stevens378
Giant Peach
My Love is Cool (2015)Wolf Alice379
Summertime Clothes
Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)Animal Collective380
Paradise
Mylo Xyloto (2011)Coldplay381
Fallin'
Songs in A Minor (2001)Alicia Keys382
Hoppipolla
Takk... (2005)Sigur Ros383
England
High Violet (2010)The National384
Over The Red Cedar
Stumpjumper (2015)Charlie Parr385
Towers
Bon Iver (2011)Bon Iver386
Suicide Saturday
Bashful Creatures EP (2015)Hippo Campus387
Dare
Demon Days (2005)Gorillaz388
The Way You Move
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)Outkast389
Frontier Psychiatrist
Since I Left You (2000)The Avalanches390
Flashing Lights feat. Dwele
Graduation (2007)Kanye West391
Wherever Is Your Heart
The Firewatcher's Daughter (2015)Brandi Carlile392
Tonite
American Dream (2017)LCD Soundsystem393
Keep the Car Running
Neon Bible (2007)Arcade Fire394
Tessellate
An Awesome Wave (2012)Alt-J395
Title and Registration
Transatlanticism (2003)Death Cab for Cutie396
Fireworks
Ruins (2018)First Aid Kit397
Walk
Wasting Light (2011)Foo Fighters398
PDA
Turn On the Bright Lights (2002)Interpol399
Use Somebody
Only By the Night (2008)Kings of Leon