The Best-Selling Albums and Songs of 2000
Teen pop at its commercial peak: NSYNC had the year’s biggest album and Britney Spears led the albums artists, while country star Faith Hill took the No. 1 song.
Artists of the Year
Top 10 Albums of 2000 Billboard 200
- 1No Strings AttachedNSYNC
- 2SupernaturalSantana
- 3The Marshall Mathers LPEminem
- 4Oops!... I Did It AgainBritney Spears
- 52001Dr. Dre
- 6Human ClayCreed
- 7All the Way... A Decade of SongCeline Dion
- 8Christina AguileraChristina Aguilera
- 9MillenniumBackstreet Boys
- 10...And Then There Was XDMX
Top 10 Songs of 2000 Hot 100
- 1BreatheFaith Hill
- 2SmoothSantana ft. Rob Thomas
- 3Maria MariaSantana ft. The Product G&B
- 4I Wanna KnowJoe
- 5Everything You WantVertical Horizon
- 6Say My NameDestiny’s Child
- 7I Knew I Loved YouSavage Garden
- 8AmazedLonestar
- 9BentMatchbox Twenty
- 10He Wasn’t Man EnoughToni Braxton
What the 2000 Charts Show
- The year split: Britney Spears led on albums while Destiny’s Child led on singles.
How the 2000 charts were compiled
Every position here is a chart placement — measured sales, radio airplay and, in the years Billboard counted it, streaming across its tracking year — not an editorial ranking. Albums come from the year-end Billboard 200, songs from the year-end Hot 100.
Billboard’s tracking year runs from roughly late October to mid-October rather than January to December, which is why a late-autumn release can win the following year and why a song can appear on two consecutive year-end lists.
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