The Year 2000, highlights and events included Y2K was a bust, the Olympics in Sydney were successful, John Howard was Prime Minister of Australia, it was Bill Clinton’s last full year as President of the United States and George W Bush and Al Gore fought an election battle that went all the way to court and more.

Also released in 2000 was 100% Hits – Best of 2000, and this compilation is CD2 of the 2 CD set that showcased EMI’s hit makers.

Mascara – Killing Heidi

This song is notable for being released twice, its first release in 1999 peaked at No. 3, its second release had the song double A-sided with ‘Leave Me Alone’ and this version peaked at No. 1 in Australia for three weeks.

Killing Heidi would score two Platinum awards and four Gold awards between 1999 and 2004.

Don’t Call Me Baby – Madison Avenue

Madison Avenue was comprised of Cheyne Coates and Andy Van and existed between 1999 and 2003, recording one studio album and four singles, all of them peaked in the Top 10 in Australia.

‘Don’t Call Me Baby’ was written by Cheyne Coates, Andy Van Dorsselaer (Andy Van), Duane Morrison and Giuseppe Chierchia.

The song peaked at No.1 in New Zealand and the UK, peaked at No. 2 in Australia and was a No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart.

The duo would do even better locally with their second single ‘Who The Hell Are You’ which peaked at No. 1 in Australia and gave them another No.1 hit on the Dance Club Songs chart.

This song also appeared on ‘100% Hits – Best of ’99’.

I See You Baby – Groove Amanda

British Duo Groove Amanda released this song with Gram’ma Funk on vocals in November 1999 and the song was remixed by Fatboy Slim in 2004.

The song peaked at No. 11 in Australia, No. 20 in New Zealand and No. 6 on Billboard’s Dance Singles Sales chart, as you can see a lot of people were shaking their ass in 2000.

Caught Out There – Kalis

‘Caught Out There’ was Kelis’ first single and had peaked at No. 4 in the UK, No. 26 in Australia and No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100, it charted on three of Billboard’s charts including the Hot 100.

A few years later, Kelis would made a big impact on the charts worldwide with ‘Milkshake’, a song that people still talk today some twenty-two years later.

Shake it – Kaylan

Kaylan was an Australian R&B and Dance Music trio that existed between 1995-2005 and 2010.

This song was their second single and peaked at No. 15 in Australia giving them a second consecutive Top 15 single.

They renamed themselves Disco Montego in 2001 and had their only Top 10 hit in 2002 they released ‘Beautiful’ with former Bardot member Katie Underwood.

Tragedy struck when Darren Dowlut died of a chest tumour in 2005 and the group was disbanded until 2010 when Dennis Dowlut brought it back to release ‘Hearts on Fire’ to raise awareness of the ‘United Against Malaria’ campaign.

Bye Bye Bye – NSYNC

Bye Bye Bye said Hi Hi Hi to the No. 1 position on the Australian charts and in Canada too, it peaked at No. 3 in the UK and No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, it snagged No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart.

‘Bye Bye Bye’ came from their studio album ‘No Strings Attached’ and the song was aimed at their former manager Lou Pearlman who ripped off the group and many other people in a Ponzi scheme.

Tell Me – Mel B

CD1 had Mel C and CD2 has Mel C and her solo offering ‘Tell Me’, this song did good business in the UK with a peak of No. 4 and was one of her three Top 5 charting songs, it peaked at No. 43 in Australia and was her last charting single in the country.

Oops!… I Did It Again – Britney Spears

Oops!… I Did It Again was the lead single from the album of the same name, and it was a massive success, No. 1 in Australia, Canada, Croatia, Hungary, Iceland, the UK and more.

The music video was very attention grabbing in 2000, not sure if it had any impact on sales or not, I always wondered if sexed up album covers, or music videos made anybody rush to the store to buy a copy or not.

Don’t Say You Love Me – M2M

There are two versions of this song, the Pokémon; The First Movie version has the line ‘We’re sitting there, you said you love me’ while non-Pokémon version says ‘We’re sitting there, you start kissing me’

Having owned the Pokémon soundtrack, I was not aware of the lyric change for quite a number of years.

The song peaked at No. 4 in Australia, No. 4 in New Zealand, No. 16 in the UK and No. 21 in America.

Don’t Stop! – ATB

German DJ paired up with Yolanda Rivera to release ‘Don’t Stop!’ and it was successful with a peak of No. 8 in Norway and Finland and No. 11 in Australia.

Barber’s Adagio For Strings – William Orbit

William Orbit is an electronic instrumentalist who released this song on an album in 1995 that was re-released in 2000.

Samuel Barber released ‘Adagio For Strings’ in 1936 showing that the song has been known in one form or another for 89 years now.

The song peaked at No. 23 in Australia when it entered the charted in January 2000.

One More Time (The Sunshine Song) – Groove Terminator

This song was released by Australian electronic artist ‘Groove Sunshine’, this song peaked at No. 25 in Australia and was Groove Terminator’s most successful single.

The words ‘Let the Sunshine in’ comes from the musical Hair, more specifically ‘The Flesh Failures: Let the Sunshine In’

Shalala Lala – Vengaboys

This Vengaboys song is a cover of Walkers 1973 Danish hit ‘Sha-La-La-La-La’, the original got to No. 2 before disappearing from the chart and most minds until the Vengaboys released their version.

It was a big hit with the song peaking at No. 4 in Australia and No. 5 in the UK.

Shalala Lala was Vengaboys third and last Top 5 single in Australia, they would only chart once more with ‘Uncle John from Jamaica’ which was also a 2000 release.

Dov’è l’amore – Cher

‘Dov’è l’amore’ peaked at No. 49 in Australia and was a No. 5 hit on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart.

Cher has enjoyed a long charting career in Australia; she has had a song chart in every decade since the 1960s, a record that few if any can match.

Never Let You Go – Third Eye Blind

‘Never Let You Go’ peaked at No. 63 in Australia and was the fourth and last single from the alternative rock band to chart in the country, it was their best charter since ‘Semi-Charmed Life’ in 1997.

It peaked at No. 14 in America and No. 15 in New Zealand, they would enter the Billboard Hot 100 only once more and that was also in 2000 with ‘Deep Inside of You’.

Yellow

This Coldplay song has 1.1 billion views on YouTube and peaked at No. 5 in Australia, No. 4 in the UK and No. 48 in America among many places in 2000 and 2001.

Yellow was their third single and first to be Top 5 anywhere in the world, they would have to wait until ‘Viva la Vida’ in 2008 to have a No. 1 single though they already had four UK No. 1 studio albums by that time.

C’mon People (We’re making it now) – Richard Ashcroft ft Liam Gallagher)

This song was released on September 11, 2000, and peaked at No. 21 in the UK and doesn’t appear to have made it in Australia based on online searches, an interesting development.

Breathe was a No. 2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, it topped four other Billboard charts too and peaked at No. 23 in Australia and No. 33 in the UK, it sold well enough in America that despite peaking at No. 2, it was the No. 1 single for 2000.

I Wanna Know – Joe

This song peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, was Top 5 on three other Billboard charts, it peaked at No. 6 in Canada, No. 34 in Australia and No. 37 in the UK.

The music video for ‘I Wanna Know’ has been seen an impressive 247 million times which would be higher than a lot of the singles on the compilation CD.