# Best #1 single of the decade: The 2000s

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**Created:** [December 19, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-decade-the-2000s/707670 "2014-12-19T15:37:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-decade-the-2000s/707670/21 "2014-12-20T17:33:30Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> That’s a lot more Outkast songs than I knew even existed.

It’s either a testament to OutKast’s skill as musicians, or a sad statement about how small the pool of mainstream pop music was in the early 2000s, that they’re the only band to win three of our year-by-year polls. Even the Beatles only won one outright and tied on a second.

Oddly enough, the song of theirs that I recall getting the most airplay back then, “The Whole World”, never made #1 and seems to have been largely forgotten today.

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