Top 50 singles of 2001

51 onwards

As you can tell, I'm really starting to busk it now (although still not quite enough for me to disqualify those that shouldn't have been there - I mean, U2's Beautiful Day???, that is so 2000), but these are all the other songs that didn't quite make it into the 50...

 
 

No of votes

Score

Highest vote

51

Badly Drawn Boy - Spitting In The Wind

4

24

2nd

52

Ash - Shining Light

4

23

3rd

53

Elbow - Powder Blue

4

21

1st

54

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Take Me Home

4

21

2nd

55

Blue - Too Close

4

20

2nd

56

Nelly Furtado - I'm Like A Bird

4

20

2nd

57

5ive - Let's Dance

4

19

1st

58

Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved

4

19

3rd

59

Mercury Rev - Nite N Fog

4

19

4th

60

Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice

4

16

1st

61

Starsailor - Good Souls

4

15

6th

62

Afroman - 'Cos I Got High

4

14

1st

63

Ronan Keating - Lovin' Each Day

4

9

7th

64

Wyclef Jean - Perfect Gentleman

4

8

8th

65

M&S Presents The Girl Next Door - Salsoul Nugget

3

27

2nd

66

D12 - Purple Hills

3

24

1st

67

Destiny's Child - Survivor

3

22

1st

68

REM - Imitation Of Life

3

20

2nd

69

Charlatans - Love Is The Key

3

19

3rd

70

Elbow - Newborn

3

17

1st

71

Wheatus - A Little Respect

3

15

5th

72

The Ones - Flawless

3

14

3rd

73

Jamiroquai - Little L

3

14

3rd

74

Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World

3

13

6th

75

Ian Brown - F.E.A.R.

3

12

5th

76

Neil Finn - Wherever You Are

3

11

4th

77

Eve Featuring Gwen Stefani - Blow Your Mind

3

10

5th

78

Robbie Williams / Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid

3

10

6th

79

Fatboy Slim - Yo' Mama

3

10

7th

80

Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long

3

9

5th

81

Usher - U Remind Me

3

7

7th

82

Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Through This

2

16

1st

83

Ryan Adams - New York, New York

2

16

3rd

84

Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake

2

15

1st

85

Roots Manuva - Dreamy Days

2

15

1st

86

Goldfrapp - Utopia

2

15

3rd

87

OPM - Heaven Is A Half Pipe

2

14

1st

88

Linkin Park - Crawlin'

2

13

3rd

89

Sum 41 - In Too Deep

2

13

4th

90

Andrew WK - Party Hard

2

12

1st

91

IIO - Rapture

2

12

1st

92

Turin Brakes - Mind Over Money

2

12

2nd

93

Daft Punk - Aerodynamic

2

12

4th

94

Blink 182 - The Rock Show

2

11

1st

95

Feeder - Just A Day

2

11

1st

96

Westlife - Queen Of My Heart

2

11

1st

97

Turin Brakes - The Underdog (Save Me)

2

11

2nd

98

Nelly - Ride Wit Me

2

11

5th

99

I Monster - Daydream In Blue

2

10

2nd

100

Train - Drops Of Jupiter

2

10

3rd

101

Craig David - Rendezvous

2

10

4th

102

Limp Bizkit - Rollin'

2

10

4th

103

City High - What Would You Do

2

10

5th

104

Weezer - Hash Pipe

2

10

6th

105

Steps - Chain Reaction / One For Sorrow

2

9

5th

106

Faithless - Mohammed Ali

2

8

6th

107

Liberty - Thinking It Over

2

7

5th

108

Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs

2

7

6th

109

Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky

2

7

6th

110

Seafood - Splinter

2

7

6th

111

Dr. Dre Feat. Snoop Dogg - Next Episode

2

7

7th

112

Papa Roach - Last Resort

2

6

6th

113

DJ Otzi - Hey Baby

2

6

7th

114

Geri Halliwell - It's Raining Men

2

6

7th

115

Mark B And Blade - Ya Don't See The Signs

2

4

8th

116

Spooks - Karma Hotel

2

4

8th

117

A-ha - Velvet

1

10

1st

118

Bjork - Hidden Place

1

10

1st

119

Faith Hill - Breath

1

10

1st

120

Feeder - Seven Days In The Sun

1

10

1st

121

Glenn Tilbrook - This Is Where You Ain't

1

10

1st

122

Superchunk - Late Century Dream

1

10

1st

123

Zero 7 - I Have Seen

1

10

1st

124

Cinerama - Health And Efficiency

1

9

2nd

125

Delerium - Underwater

1

9

2nd

126

Five For Fighting - Superman

1

9

2nd

127

Glenn Tilbrook - Parallel World

1

9

2nd

128

Macy Gray - Sexual Revolution

1

9

2nd

129

Mis-Teeq - All I Want

1

9

2nd

130

Silicone Soul - Right On

1

9

2nd

131

Blue - All Rise

1

8

3rd

132

D12 - Fight Music

1

8

3rd

133

Demon vs Heartbreaker - UR My High

1

8

3rd

134

Dido - Hunter

1

8

3rd

135

Eels - Souljacker (Part One)

1

8

3rd

136

Mull Historical Society - Animal Cannabus

1

8

3rd

137

Natalie Imbruglia - That Day

1

8

3rd

138

O-Town - All Or Nothing

1

8

3rd

139

Ricky Martin & Christina Aguilera - Nobody Wants To Be Lonely

1

8

3rd

140

The Fall - I Wake Up In The City

1

8

3rd

141

Michael Jackson - Rock My World

1

7

4th

142

Nelly - E.I.

1

7

4th

143

Shaggy - Angel

1

7

4th

144

Sunshine Anderson - Heard It All Before

1

7

4th

145

Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls

1

7

4th

146

Adam F feat MOP - Stand Clear

1

6

5th

147

Beta Band - Broke

1

6

5th

148

Delerium - Innocente

1

6

5th

149

Hear'say - Pure And Simple

1

6

5th

150

Kosheen - Hide U

1

6

5th

151

Macy Gray - Sweet Baby

1

6

5th

152

Mo*Ho*Bish*O*Pi - Drop Jaw

1

6

5th

153

O-Town - Liquid Dreams

1

6

5th

154

Par-T-One - I'm So Crazy

1

6

5th

155

Shaggy featuring Samantha Cole - Luv Me Luv Me

1

6

5th

156

Texas - Inner Smile

1

6

5th

157

Turin Brakes - Emergency 72

1

6

5th

158

Destiny's Child - Emotion

1

5

6th

159

Hear'say - Everybody

1

5

6th

160

Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover

1

5

6th

161

PJ Harvey - U Float

1

5

6th

162

Starsailor - Lullaby

1

5

6th

163

The Electric Soft Parade - There's A Silence

1

5

6th

164

Bjork - Pagan Poetry

1

4

7th

165

Jimmy Eat World - Salt Sweat Sugar

1

4

7th

166

Linkin Park - One Step Closer

1

4

7th

167

Pied Piper And The Moc - Do You Really Like It?

1

4

7th

168

Stephen Malkmus - Discretion Grove

1

4

7th

169

Stereophonics - Handbags And Gladrags

1

4

7th

170

*Nsync - Pop

1

3

8th

171

Ed Harcourt - Something In My Eye

1

3

8th

172

Geri Halliwell - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster

1

3

8th

173

Hooverphonic - Mad About You

1

3

8th

174

Janet Jackson - All For You

1

3

8th

175

Limp Bizkit - My Way

1

3

8th

176

Pepe Deluxe - Before You Leave

1

3

8th

177

Snoop Dogg - Snoop Dogg

1

3

8th

178

Zero 7 - Simple Things

1

3

8th

179

Ash - Sometimes

1

2

9th

180

Depeche Mode - Dream On

1

2

9th

181

Green Day - Minority

1

2

9th

182

Jean Jacques Smoothie - 2 People

1

2

9th

183

Linkin Park - Papercut

1

2

9th

184

Muse - Bliss

1

2

9th

185

Samantha Mumba - Always Come Back To Your Love

1

2

9th

186

Stereophonics - Mr Writer

1

2

9th

187

Atomic Kitten - Eternal Flame

1

1

10th

188

Boris Dlugosch Featuring Roisin Murphy - Never Enough

1

1

10th

189

Jakatta - American Dream

1

1

10th

190

Muse - Feeling Good

1

1

10th

191

Muse - New Born

1

1

10th

192

My Vitriol - Always

1

1

10th

193

Pharoahe Monch - Got You

1

1

10th

194

Regency Buck - Monkey Girl

1

1

10th

195

Spirtualised - Stop Your Cryin'

1

1

10th

196

Static Avenger - Happy People

1

1

10th

197

Steps - The Way U Make Me Feel

1

1

10th

198

Xzibit - X

1

1

10th

The final words

Other results: Top 50 of 2009 Top 50 of 2008 Top 50 of 2007 Top 50 of 2006 Top 50 of 2005 Top 50 of 2004 Top 50 of 2003 Top 50 of 2002 Top 50 of 2000

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