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My name is Michael Histen. I love music, I love lists, and I love web design — so I decided to make a fun little site to showcase my favorite songs of the decade. This list covers songs released in 2000-2009 (as determined by their parent album’s release date) and is not intended to be anything other than my personal favorites. My tastes run heavily toward electronic pop music, so the list is skewed in that direction, but there are samplings of other genres as well. I’ll be rolling out 5 songs a day until December 30, when the top 5 are revealed.
I was curious how this list would be fleshed out if I had chosen 100 songs, and thought it might be interesting to share that. Here’s what 51-100 would look like, arranged in alphabetical order by artist.
“1 Thing” Amerie
“Good Luck” Basement Jaxx
“Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)” Beyonce
“Somnambulist” BT
“Hello There” Cagedbaby
“Shake It Off” Mariah Carey
“One, Two Step (feat. Missy Elliot)” Ciara
“Maybe” Kelly Clarkson
“The Rejection” Dangerous Muse
“Lose Control (feat. Ciara & Fatman Scoop)” Missy Elliot
“Work It” Missy Elliot
“Low (feat. T-Pain)” Flo Rida
“Better Off As 2″ Frankmusik
“Maneater” Nelly Furtado
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” Green Day
“This Mess We’re In (feat. Thom Yorke)” PJ Harvey
“Here (In Your Arms)” Hellogoodbye
“Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)” Jay-Z
“Stars Align” Kaskade
“4 AM (Adam K & Soha Radio Edit)” Kaskade
“Mr. Brightside” The Killers
“Somebody Told Me” The Killers
“Sex On Fire” Kings of Leon
“Until We Bleed (feat. Lykke Li)” Kleerup
“Bulletproof” La Roux
“Just Dance” Lady Gaga
“Daft Punk Is Playing at My House” LCD Soundsystem
“In The End” Linkin Park
“Can’t Get You out of My Head” Kylie Minogue
“Naive Song” Mirwais
“Forever More” Moloko
“Closer” Ne-Yo
“Hella Good” No Doubt
“Faster Kill Pussycat (feat. Brittany Murphy)” Oakenfold
“Apologize (Timbaland Version)” OneRepublic
“One Word” Kelly Osbourne
“Hey Ya” Outkast
“Ghost Trains” Erlend Oye
“House Of Cards” Radiohead
“Everything In Its Right Place” Radiohead
“Umbrella” Rihanna
“Be Mine” Robyn
“Only This Moment” Royksopp
“She Wolf” Shakira
“Wind It Up” Gwen Stefani
“LoveStoned (I Think She Knows)” Justin Timberlake
“That’s Not My Name” The Ting Tings
“Jesus Walks” Kanye West
“Stronger” Kanye West
“The Hardest Button to Button” The White Stripes
i agree with at least 80% of your list :’)