# Best #1 single of the year retrospective: 2000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868 "2014-11-17T17:41:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/21 "2014-11-18T04:01:13Z")
For anyone who doesn’t know how badass Scott Stapp (of Creed) is, [Check this out](http://youtu.be/fof40yqaW1U). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/22 "2014-11-18T04:03:36Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > For anyone who doesn’t know how badass Scott Stapp (of Creed) is, [Check this out](http://youtu.be/fof40yqaW1U). That’s… wow. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/23 "2014-11-18T07:06:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Just remember, kids - _this is what the grunge revolution got you._ All your complaining in the '90s polls about how there wasn’t any Nirvana or Pearl Jam or Soundgarden to vote for. > > Well, here’s your #1 grunge song. > > **Are you not entertained?** I was gonna whine that I didn’t ask for any of that, and thought better of it. But then **adaher** says: > [@adaher](#): > > Ooh, close one for 2000. I picked Creed. I hate grunge, but Creed was the first band to make it not suck. > > BTW, notice that Lonestar finally broke the country drought? Which kind of shows just how grunge creed were, which is pretty much not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/24 "2014-11-18T09:34:06Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > BTW, notice that Lonestar finally broke the country drought? Don’t get used to it - to date, it’s the _last_ country song to make #1. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/25 "2014-11-18T19:11:30Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Which kind of shows just how grunge creed were, which is pretty much not at all. Heh. If it’s any consolation, I went back and listened to some of the better grunge when Creed got big, thinking maybe the sound had just grown on me. Nope, most of it still sucks.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/26 "2014-11-18T20:20:56Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Don’t get used to it - to date, it’s the _last_ country song to make #1. Really? I thought someone like Carrie Underwood would have made it. I know that country is more likely to be in the top 10 now than before 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/27 "2014-11-18T20:43:20Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Really? I thought someone like Carrie Underwood would have made it. I know that country is more likely to be in the top 10 now than before 2000. Country makes it into the top ten just fine - Florida-Georgia Line peaked at #4 last year with “Cruise”, and Taylor Swift had a number of top ten hits before she went pop. (Billboard counts “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, which made #1 in 2012, as a country song, but I wouldn’t call it country by any stretch.) It just hasn’t clinched the number-one spot in recent years. As for Carrie Underwood, she _did_ have a #1 in 2005 with her American Idol single “Inside Your Heaven”, which did not get airplay on country music radio and which I would barely call country myself (it’s more Mariah Carey-ish soft-R&B with a wee bit of Faith Hill-ish twang to it). Other than that, the closest she came was “Before He Cheats” at #8. (On the country chart, for comparison’s sake, Underwood has had _twelve_ number-ones; “Before He Cheats”, “Jesus Take the Wheel”, “Wasted”, “So Small”, “All-American Girl”, “Last Name”, “Just a Dream”, “Cowboy Cassanova”, “Temporary Home”, “Undo It”, “Good Girl”, and “Something in the Water”, the current #1. I suspect that this is because the country music world in general is smaller than it used to be.) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/28 "2014-11-18T22:57:34Z")
For the people who abstain from voting because they don’t recognize the songs by name: [This guy does a medley of every year’s #1 songs](http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/number-one-songs-by-year/?y=2000). It’s an easy way to re-acquaint yourself with the songs, and (at least in my case) prove that you know a lot more of them than you think. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/29 "2014-11-19T00:34:59Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Heh. If it’s any consolation, I went back and listened to some of the better grunge when Creed got big, thinking maybe the sound had just grown on me. Nope, most of it still sucks.🙂 Seee! See! Creed didn’t fool anyone, not even the people who didn’t like grunge. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/30 "2014-11-19T01:31:16Z")
Creed isn’t grunge. Creed is crap. 1990s Alice in Chains, now \*that \*is some fine grunge. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/31 "2014-11-19T01:58:27Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Madonna, “Music”. One of my favorite songs from her. Oh jeez…can I change my answer? This wasn’t the song I thought it was. I was confusing it with “Ray of Light”. This song sucks. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/32 "2014-11-19T02:35:42Z")
Hee. Music isn’t bad, but yeah, Ray of Light is a lot better. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/33 "2014-11-19T03:21:27Z")
Judging by the song listed above, a band named “Savage Garden” should neither sound nor look like that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/34 "2014-11-19T09:14:56Z")
Ah, another nice year. 🙂 I voted for Vertical Horizon, but a lot of the choices are good. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/35 "2014-11-19T14:17:31Z")
We had Amazed by Lonestar as the first dance at our wedding - I had never even heard it before until my then-fiancee suggested it (principally I think because the band we wanted to hire did it rather well) - so I had to vote for that. And it is a good song. I had no idea it was considered “country” though! I actually liked “With Arms Wide Open” and would have voted for that had Amazed not been an option. But then, I like soft-rock and don’t much like grunge, so that explains it. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/36 "2014-11-19T21:50:34Z")
Creed and Matchbox 20 are two parts of a three-way tie for first place. That is just not right. ---
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868/37 "2014-11-20T01:17:46Z")
I don’t care how uncool it makes me sound, I’m voting for Savage Garden, _man_! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-single-of-the-year-retrospective-2000/704868.md?page=1)