Vh1 100 Greatest Songs Of The 2000s Upd | 2025-2027 |

(Scene: A rapid-fire editing sequence of various pop culture commentators and musicians arguing.)

HALLE BERRY (Actress): You cannot talk about the 2000s without that opening guitar riff. You just hear it, and you’re instantly in a club.

TREY SONGS (Singer): "Crazy in Love" wasn’t just a song. It was a takeover. It was the moment we all realized Beyoncé wasn’t just leaving the group... she was leaving the planet.

(Cut to: A clip of the "Crazy in Love" music video. Jay-Z hopping out of the car.) vh1 100 greatest songs of the 2000s upd

MICHELLE WILLIAMS (Destiny's Child): I remember hearing it and thinking, "Okay, she’s doing the rap? She’s dancing like that? We’re all in trouble." And I was in the group! (Laughs).

(Dissolve to a somber, purple-hued graphic.)

NARRATOR (V.O.): But the 2000s weren’t just about the party. They were about the soul. In a landscape dominated by Max Martin pop, one voice from London stripped it all back to the bone. (Scene: A rapid-fire editing sequence of various pop

(Cut to: MARK RONSON (Producer).)

MARK RONSON: When Amy [Winehouse] walked in, the room changed. "Back to Black" sounded like a lost 60s record, but the pain in it? That was 2006. It was timeless because it was so perfectly broken.

(Cut to: BRANDI CARLILE (Singer-Songwriter).) The 2000s were a musical watershed — an

BRANDI CARLILE: "Rehab" was a rebel yell. It was a woman saying, "I’m not going to fix myself to fit your radio format." And it won. It won everything.

The 2000s were a musical watershed — an era where file-sharing and iTunes reshaped listening, hip-hop broadened mainstream vocabulary, emo and indie found mass footholds, and popstars engineered global brands. VH1’s "100 Greatest Songs of the 2000s" (a list that attempted to capture that decade’s earworms and anthems) reads like a crash course in how popular music redefined itself between 2000 and 2009.

Original Rank: #12 The Oscar-winning rap epic. "Lose Yourself" transcended hip-hop to become a motivational sports standard. In the updated list, it leapfrogs "Stan" (which is a better narrative, but less of a banger) because of sheer cultural velocity.