"4 million copies worldwide. The song was named the Best Song of 2000 at the MTV Europe Music Awards and Best Single and Best Video at the Brits 2001. UK CD single UK DVD single Rock DJ ""Rock DJ"" is a song by English singer and songwriter Robbie Williams, featured on his third studio album, ""Sing When You're Winning"" (2000). The song was released on 31 July 2000 as the lead single from the album. It samples the strings from Barry White's song ""It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me"" and also contains a sample of ""Can I"
"""Jellycream""<br> 1999 - Richie Kotzen - ""Break It All Down""<br> 1999 - Marty Grebb - ""Smooth Sailin""'<br> 1999 - Meshell Ndegéocello - ""Bitter""<br> 2000 - B.B. King & Eric Clapton - ""Riding with the King""<br> 2000 - Roger Waters - ""In the Flesh – Live""<br> 2000 - Indigenous - ""Circle""<br> 2001 - Eric Clapton - ""Reptile""<br> 2001 - Double Trouble - ""Been A Long Time""<br> 2001 - Doyle Bramhall II - ""Welcome""<br> 2001 - Neil Finn - ""One Nil""<br> 2001 - Jennifer Warnes - ""The Well""<br> 2002 - Sheryl Crow - ""C'mon C'mon""<br> 2002 - Lisa Marie Presley - ""To"
"surprised many. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s. Dr. Dre remained an important figure, and in the year 2000, he produced ""The Marshall Mathers LP"" by Eminem. Dre also produced 50 Cent's 2003 album ""Get Rich or Die Tryin'"", which debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 charts. Hip hop influences also found their way increasingly into mainstream pop during this period, mainly during the mid-2000s, as the Los Angeles style of the 1990s lost power. Nelly's debut LP, ""Country Grammar"", sold over nine million copies. In the 2000s, crunk music, a derivative of"
"was listed No. 5 on Entertainment Weekly's Top 12 Entertainers of the Year. In 2000, on an Access Hollywood's prime-time special, The Rock was ranked number six in the Top 10 Celebrities Of 2000. Rock was also listed in Forbes Celebrity 100 that year and People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People. The Rock made a surprise appearance at the official Xbox unveiling during Bill Gates's keynote speech at the ongoing Computer Electronics Show in 2001. Rock was also listed on E!'s 20 Top Entertainers and Entertainment Weekly's 101 Most Influential People that year and the previous year (2000). In 2002,"
"Jeff Beck, Santana, Montel Jordan, Boyz II Men, Tony Bennett, Brooks and Dunn 1996: Travis Tritt, Goo Goo Dolls, Gin Blossoms, Michael Bolton, Brooks and Dunn, Wynonna, Crosby, Stills, and Nash 1997: Jon Secada, The Steve Miller Band, Boston, ZZ Top, Bryan White, Vince Gill 1998: Alan Jackson, The Backstreet Boys, Frank Sinatra Jr 1999: Britney Spears, 98 Degrees, Tim McGraw, Def Leppard 2000: Martina McBride (Replaced LeAnn Rimes), Destiny's Child, Goo Goo Dolls, Def Leppard, BBmak 2001: Blink 182, New Found Glory, Styx, Reo Speedwagon, Vertical Horizon, Peter Frampton 2002: Journey, Alabama, Alica Keys, Jimmy Eat World, The Juliana"
"This Ain't Love)"" and Modjo's ""Lady (Hear Me Tonight)"", both songs sampling older disco songs and both reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in 2000. Robbie Williams' disco single ""Rock DJ"" was the UK's fourth best-selling single the same year. Rock band Manic Street Preachers released a disco song, ""Miss Europa Disco Dancer"", in 2001. The song's disco influence, which appears on ""Know Your Enemy"", was described as being ""much-discussed"". In 2005, Madonna immersed herself in the disco music of the 1970s, and released her album ""Confessions on a Dance Floor"" to rave reviews. In addition to that,"
"Kingdom as well as the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland. ""Rock DJ"" was the fourth best-selling song of 2000 in the United Kingdom. The music video features Williams trying to impress a female DJ by stripping naked and eventually resorting to removing his skin and muscles, ending up as a skeleton. The song won British Single of the Year, and the video won British Video of the Year at the 2001 Brit Awards. The accompanying music video for ""Rock DJ"" was directed by Vaughan Arnell. It begins with Williams dancing on a roller disco"
"1 figurehead artist. While Jay-Z remained the label's prominent image—with the acclaimed release of ""The Blueprint"" and the closing of his trial for the 1999 stabbing of producer Lance Rivera—other Roc artists began to gain popularity and acceptance. In 2000, Beanie Sigel released ""The Truth"" and reached #5 on the Billboard charts, DJ Clue released ""The Professional 2"", and Memphis Bleek released ""The Understanding"". While Clue and Beans's albums hit the Top 5 on the Billboard charts, Bleek's album was in the Top 20. Nonetheless, all 3 albums were certified Gold by the RIAA for selling over 500, 000 copies"
"in 2000 to Revival in 2018). Other Detroit musicians with a #1 album on the Billboard 200 include Kid Rock with ""Rock n Roll Jesus"" in 2007, Jack White with 3 albums (""Blunderbuss"" and ""Lazaretto""), Big Sean with 2 albums like ""Dark Sky Paradise"" in 2015, and NF (rapper) from northern MI with a #1 album in 2018. Eminem's groups D12 and Bad Meets Evil have also had #1 albums. Dej Loaf is the latest Hip-Hop/Singer to make national waves.Alice Cooper ""The Godfather of Shock Rock"" had a #1 Billboard 200 album with the hard rock ""Billion Dollar Babies"" in"
"for the genre. Rap proved to be a successful genre in 2000; something that would continue well into the decade. Dr. Dre made the Top 10 of the UK charts with ""Still D.R.E."" for the first time since his chart debut in 1994. By far the most successful rapper of the year was Eminem. He accumulated his first two of many chart toppers with singles ""The Real Slim Shady"" and ""Stan"". The latter – telling the story of an obsessive fan who ends up committing suicide – featured female singer Dido and brought around so much interest in her that"
"(Top 20 Australia), Suzanna Dee (#3 Dance UK), Mirah (Top 10 Denmark, Top 20 Germany), Scandal'Us (Top 10 Australia), ICE (#2 Norway), TikTak (Top 10 Finland), Di-Mico (Top 10 Norway), Soda (Top 10 Norway), Guri Schanke (Norway), Toril Sivertsen (Norway), UEFA Euro 2000, Linnea Handberg (Denmark), Red Divaz (Norway), Roni Duani (Israel), Amanda (Finland), Seduced (Belgium), BamBee (Norway), C.B. Milton (Belgium), Splash (Norway), B.I.C. (Norway), Wanted (Belgium), Satomi (Japan), NRK MP3, Yeffrii (Colombia). Remixes: Ludacris, Young Jeezy ft. Akon, Lady GaGa, Stevie Wonder, Tone Damli, Maria Haukaas, Venke Knutson, Philco Fiction, Wonder Girls, Loreen DeepFrost production team The DeepFrost guys"
"the year 2000 with the success of Blink-182's song ""All the Small Things"" and Nine Days's song ""Absolutely (Story of a Girl)"", both of which peaked at #6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The trend kicked off the brief musical careers of Ryan Cabrera, Ashley Parker Angel, Teddy Geiger, Evan and Jaron, The Click Five, Jet, and Snow Patrol throughout the early and mid-2000s. This also paved the way for a second wave of pop punk bands such as Good Charlotte, New Found Glory, and Sum 41, who made use of humor in their videos and had a radio-friendly tone"
"The Roots, Fatboy Slim, Happy Mondays, Garbage, Marilyn Manson, Blur, Massive Attack, The Cardigans, Skunk Anansie 2000: Sonic Youth, Oasis, Leftfield, Moby, Death in Vegas, Morten Abel, Madrugada, Nine Inch Nails, Counting Crows, Macy Gray 2001: Manic Street Preachers, Deftones, Beck, Alanis Morissette, PJ Harvey, The Dandy Warhols, Motörhead, Coldplay, Wyclef Jean, Mayhem 2002: David Bowie, Travis, Rammstein, No Doubt, Morten Abel, Belle and Sebastian, Turbonegro, Kent, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Kaizers Orchestra, Muse, White Stripes 2003: Massive Attack, Nas, Coldplay, The Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, Röyksopp,"
"the 2000s. Beyoncé, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland, better known as Destiny's Child is the most successful female R&B group of all time, selling over 50 million records worldwide during the 2000s. The group has many chart topping singles worldwide, such as ""Survivor"", ""Say My Name"", ""Bootylicious"", ""Independent Women Part 1"" and ""Jumpin' Jumpin'"". Usher was named the number-one Hot 100 artist of the 2000s decade and the 2nd most successful artist of the 2000s decade. He released the album ""Confessions"" which went on to become the best-selling album of 2004 and the second best-selling album of the 2000s. He"
"Song)"" has been streamed over 130 million times to date and certified double platinum in Ireland, Sweden, Norway and Holland. He formally served as a radio DJ and Head of Music at RTE 2fm and now serves as a radio DJ at iRadio. Mark McCabe Mark McCabe (born 22 May 1978) is an Irish music producer, remixer, radio DJ and club DJ, from Dublin, Ireland. In 2000, he released ""Maniac 2000"" and it went to number one, as the second biggest-selling record ever in Ireland. In 2017, McCabe teamed up with the Sunset Bros, to release the record ""Im Feelin"
"Spinners, B15 Project, Aurora, Lonyo, Architechs, Public Domain, Joey Negro, Storm, Delerium, Element Four, Fatboy Slim, Moby, and others. Chart critics have complained that after the 1990s, a very successful decade in music for sales and chart records, the early 2000s decimated the music industry due to illegal downloads with the birth of Napster, especially the singles chart. Singles spent less time at the summit with the turn of the new millennium and sales also began to considerably drop. 2000 was an excellent example of this, being the year that still holds the record for most No. 1 singles in"
"Rock/New Wave band Blondie and their number one single ""Maria"". The teenage pop singer Britney Spears' ""...Baby One More Time"" was the highest selling single of the year. One of the first number one singles of the year came from music producer, Fatboy Slim who topped the charts for one week with his single ""Praise You"". January became a very successful month for the DJ, real name Norman Cook, a former member of Hull-based band The Housemartins, his new album ""You've Come A Long Way Baby"" topped the charts for 4 weeks. The album produced many other hit singles, the"
"Disco 2000 (song) ""Disco 2000"" is a hit single by British band Pulp, released in 1995. The song tells the story of a narrator falling for a childhood friend called Deborah, who is more popular than he is and wondering what it would be like to meet again when they are older. Deborah was based on a real life childhood friend of Cocker's, Deborah Bone, who moved away from Sheffield to Letchworth when she was 10. As the lyrics suggest, she did marry and have children. Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker said ""the only bit that isn't true is the woodchip"
"Joy Division, Wire, and Gang of Four. Other prominent independent in the 2000s include: Editors, The Fratellis, Razorlight, Keane, Kaiser Chiefs, Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys, the last the most prominent act to owe their success to the use of internet social networking. After Soul II Soul's breakthrough R&B hits ""Keep on Movin'"" and ""Back to Life"" in 1989, existing black soul acts, including Omar and acid jazz bands Incognito and Brand New Heavies, were now able to pursue mainstream recording careers. Particularly noticeable was the proliferation of British female black singers including Mica Paris, Caron Wheeler, Gabrielle and Heather Small."
"on course to becoming one of the most successful rock bands in the new millennium worldwide. Boybands continued to be successful in the UK during 2000, just like the previous year. A1 increase their success from the previous year with their first release hitting No. 6 and scoring 2 chart toppers – ""Take On Me"", a cover of the 1985 No. 2 hit from Norwegian band A-ha and ""Same Old Brand New You"" – by the end of the year. 'N Sync's success grew over the year; after reaching a disappointing No. 34 in January, they were able to redeem"
"such as merengue and reggaeton with hip hop and rap music became popular from the middle of the decade onwards. The Internet allowed unprecedented access to music and allowed artists to distribute music freely without label backing. Innumerable online outlets and sheer volume of music also offers musicians more musical influences to draw from. Hip hop dominated popular music in the early 2000s. Artists such as Eminem, OutKast, The Black Eyed Peas, T.I., 50 Cent, Kanye West, Nelly, Nas, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott, M.I.A., Lil Kim, Gorillaz, Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, The Game and Ludacris were among the dominant"
"the primetime hour, followed by studio segments (again hosted by Wayne Brady) featuring performances by Blink-182, Bush, Busta Rhymes, Jessica Simpson, LFO, The O'Jays, and Pink. The primetime hour of ""New Year's Rockin' Eve 2002"" was also preceded by ""ABC 2002"", a follow-up to the ""ABC 2000"" special, hosted by Peter Jennings from the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The two-hour special featured a ""meaningful and reflective"" view on New Year's celebrations from around the world, and also included performances by Arlo Guthrie, Sting, and U2. Clark personally felt that 2002, since it was the first in the wake"
"charts and featured, amongst other singles, ""Room at the Top"". On April 28, 1999, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their contributions to the recording industry, located at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002, the group released ""The Last DJ"". Many of the tracks' lyrics contain stinging attacks on the music industry and major record companies. The album reached number 9 in the U.S. charts. Ron Blair played on two of the tracks. He also replaced the man who had previously been his replacement, Howie Epstein on the band's 2002 tour as"
"Austin and The Rock in the rivalry of the two most prominent and popular stars of The Attitude Era. WrestleMania 2000 featured the first ever Triangle Ladder match for the WWF Tag Team Championship, involving The Hardy Boyz, The Dudley Boyz and Edge and Christian. The main event featured the WWF Champion Triple H successfully defending his title in a fatal four-way match against three challengers: The Rock, Big Show and Mick Foley. This match was billed as having 'a McMahon in every corner' as Triple H was accompanied by Stephanie McMahon, The Rock by Vince McMahon, Big Show by"
"2000s, along with Greg Dodgson, John Mackie, Caroline Evens and Richie Anderson. The band gained national attention after recording two 'Peel Sessions' with legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel in 1999 and 2000. Following the demise of Khaya in 2001, Mutch, Harvey and Mackie formed ""Desc"", being joined by Alun Thomas and Helena MacGlip. Desc released one album, ""Up Here In The Heat"", before disbanding in 2005. After the break-up of Desc, Mutch, Harvey and Thomas continued as The Leg. Their first release was '8 Songs by the Leg: A musical tribute to the Forest of Dean', self-released in"
"the iconic red, white and blue Union Jack mini-dress, which became an enduring image of the Cool Britannia era. In 2009, British artists topped the decade end ranking, with ""Chasing Cars"" by Snow Patrol announced as the most widely played song of the decade in the UK, and ""Back to Bedlam"" by James Blunt the best selling album of the 2000s in the UK. Other successful 2000s UK acts include Dido, Arctic Monkeys, Mika, Bullet for My Valentine and Bring Me the Horizon. Since the early-2000s, British hip hop and grime has become increasingly popular, mainly within the youth of"
"vocalists have achieved popularity with a mix of traditional jazz and pop/rock forms, such as Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Kurt Elling, and Jamie Cullum. Norah Jones and Diana Krall, due to their massive international success during the 2000s are considered the first and second most successful female jazz singers of the decade, respectively. Diana Krall has topped the Music Billboards multiple times in the year 2000. The week of April 15, 2000, Krall's album ""When I Look in Your Eyes"" reached number one, followed by Al Jarreau's ""Tomorrow Today"" and Kenny G's ""Classics in the Key of G."""
"artist of the 2000s and the third-best rapper (behind Eminem and Nelly) by Billboard. ""Rolling Stone"" consider ""Get Rich or Die Tryin'"" and ""In da Club"" to be in their lists of ""100 Best albums of the 2000s"" and ""100 Best songs of the 2000s"" at numbers 37 and 13 respectively. Jackson was born in the borough of Queens, New York City, and raised in its South Jamaica neighborhood by his mother, Sabrina. A drug dealer, Sabrina raised Jackson until she died in a mysterious fire when Jackson was 8. After his mother's death and his father's departure Jackson was"
"as the best Artist of the Decade for the 2000s. He joins the list with Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Elton John, Michael Jackson, and Mariah Carey, who have also been awarded this honor in their respective decades. Following after the success of Radiohead and The Verve in the 1990s, Post-Britpop act Coldplay saw major success in European album charts during the decade. British Indie rock and indie pop returned to popularity in the mid-late 2000s with artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Belle and Sebastian, Amy Winehouse, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, The Libertines, Editors, Lily Allen, Kate Nash, Florence And"
"his head and refuses to believe the story. At the 2001 BRIT Awards, the video was nominated for the Award for Best Music Video, but lost out to the video for ""Rock DJ"" by Robbie Williams. UK CD: 1 UK CD: 2 On 30 July 2000, the song debuted at number one the UK Singles Chart after selling more than 100,000 copies in its first week, giving David his second consecutive UK number-one single. spending fifteen weeks inside the UK top 75. It became David's only top ten single on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100, where it reached number ten."
"the jazz Classic ""Drop Me Off in Harlem"" for the movie ""Life"". Later that same year, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl. The group released their self-titled debut album Lucy Pearl in May 2000 on EMI Records, which sold over a million copies worldwide. The album's lead single ""Dance Tonight"" charted at number five on the R&B singles chart as well as at number thirty-five on the Billboard Hot 100. Following the release of their album, Lucy Pearl toured in the United States and internationally making several television appearances on shows that including ""The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"", ""The Chris Rock"
"2001, alongside Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, and other pop stars. The band had been uncertain whether to play the show due to scheduling conflicts, and made the decision almost at the last minute. They took the stage in the afternoon, played four songs, then flew to Indianapolis for a concert that same night. In January 2002, the band played ""The Joint"", a 2,000 seat venue within the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. This show was recorded and parts of it were released as the band's fifth live album, a Dual Disc CD/DVD entitled ""Rockin' the Joint"", released in 2005. Just"
"Thomas, Mandy Moore, and Jessica Simpson. Airplay of rock, electronica, and alternative acts was reduced. Hip-hop music continued in heavy rotation, through the likes of Puff Daddy, Jermaine Dupri, Master P, DMX, Busta Rhymes, Lil' Kim, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Eminem, Foxy Brown, Ja Rule, Nas, Timbaland, and their associates. R&B was also heavily represented with acts such as Aaliyah, Janet Jackson, Destiny's Child, 702, Monica, and Brandy. Beginning in late 1997, MTV progressively reduced its airing of rock music videos, leading to the slogan among skeptics, ""Rock is dead."" The facts that at the time rock music fans"