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Pete on September 1st, 2005

Music memes seem to be all the rage lately, so here’s a new one…

  1. Go to musicoutfitters.com
  2. Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year
  3. Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don’t remember (or don’t care about).

Here’s the list.

  1. Believe, Cher
  2. No Scrubs, TLC (Incubus version, anyway)
  3. Angel Of Mine, Monica
  4. Heartbreak Hotel, Whitney Houston
  5. …Baby One More Time, Britney Spears
  6. Kiss Me, Sixpence None The Richer
  7. Genie In A Bottle, Christina Aguilera
  8. Every Morning, Sugar Ray
  9. Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here, Deborah Cox
  10. Livin’ La Vida Loca, Ricky Martin
  11. Where My Girls At?, 702
  12. If You Had My Love, Jennifer Lopez
  13. Slide, Goo Goo Dolls
  14. Have You Ever?, Brandy
  15. I Want It That Way, Backstreet Boys
  16. I’m Your Angel, R. Kelly and Celine Dion
  17. All Star, Smash Mouth
  18. Angel, Sarah McLachlan
  19. Smooth, Santana Featuring Rob Thomas
  20. Unpretty, TLC
  21. Bills, Bills, Bills, Destiny’s Child
  22. Save Tonight, Eagle-Eye Cherry
  23. Last Kiss, Pearl Jam
  24. Fortunate, Maxwell
  25. All I Have To Give, Backstreet Boys
  26. Bailamos, Enrique Iglesias
  27. What’s It Gonna Be?!, Busta Rhymes Featuring Janet
  28. What It’s Like, Everlast
  29. Fly Away, Lenny Kravitz
  30. Someday, Sugar Ray
  31. Lately, Divine
  32. That Don’t Impress Me Much, Shania Twain
  33. Wild Wild West, Will Smith Featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee
  34. Scar Tissue, Red Hot Chili Peppers
  35. Heartbreaker, Mariah Carey Featuring Jay-Z
  36. I Still Believe, Mariah Carey
  37. The Hardest Thing, 98 Degrees
  38. Summer Girls, LFO
  39. Can I Get A…, Jay-Z Featuring Amil (Of Major Coinz)
  40. Jumper, Third Eye Blind
  41. Doo Wop (That Thing), Lauryn Hill
  42. Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…), Lou Bega
  43. Sweet Lady, Tyrese
  44. It’s Not Right But It’s Okay, Whitney Houston
  45. (God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You, ‘N Sync
  46. Lullaby, Shawn Mullins
  47. Anywhere, 112 Featuring Lil’Z
  48. Tell Me It’s Real, K-Ci and JoJo
  49. Back 2 Good, Matchbox 20
  50. 808, Blaque
  51. She’s So High, Tal Bachman
  52. She’s All I Ever Had, Ricky Martin
  53. Miami, Will Smith
  54. Hands, Jewel
  55. Who Dat, JT Money Featuring Sole
  56. Please Remember Me, Tim McGraw
  57. From This Moment On, Shania Twain
  58. Love Like This, Faith Evans
  59. You, Jesse Powell
  60. Trippin’, Total Featuring Missy Elliott
  61. If You (Lovin’ Me), Silk
  62. Ex-Factor, Lauryn Hill
  63. Give It To You, Jordan Knight
  64. Black Balloon, Goo Goo Dolls
  65. Spend My Life With You, Eric Benet Featuring Tamia
  66. These Are The Times, Dru Hill
  67. I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing, Mark Chesnutt
  68. I Do (Cherish You), 98 Degrees
  69. Because Of You, 98 Degrees
  70. I Will Remember You (Live), Sarah McLachlan
  71. Chante’s Got A Man, Chante Moore
  72. Happily Ever After, Case
  73. My Love Is Your Love, Whitney Houston
  74. All Night Long, Faith Evans Featuring Puff Daddy
  75. Back That Thang Up, Juvenile Featuring Mannie Fresh and Lil’ Wayne
  76. Almost Doesn’t Count, Brandy
  77. Man! I Feel Like A Woman!, Shania Twain (for it’s pure ability to get stuck in my head)
  78. Steal My Sunshine, Len
  79. I Need To Know, Marc Anthony
  80. So Anxious, Ginuwine
  81. Faded Pictures, Case and Joe
  82. Back At One, Brian McKnight
  83. When A Woman’s Fed Up, R. Kelly
  84. How Forever Feels, Kenny Chesney
  85. Amazed, Lonestar
  86. Sometimes, Britney Spears
  87. Ghetto Cowboy, Mo Thugs Family Featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
  88. Out Of My Head, Fastball
  89. Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem), Jay-Z
  90. Jamboree, Naughty By Nature Featuring Zhane
  91. Take Me There, BLACKstreet and Mya Featuring Mase and Blinky Blink
  92. Stay The Same, Joey McIntyre
  93. Lesson In Leavin’, Jo Dee Messina
  94. Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
  95. Satisfy You, Puff Daddy Featuring R. Kelly
  96. Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out), Citizen King
  97. Music Of My Heart, ‘N Sync and Gloria Estefan
  98. Write This Down, George Strait
  99. When You Believe, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey
  100. God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You, Alabama Featuring ‘N Sync

I really went more with what I thought of them then, but whatever.

[Via Jack Vinson]

2 Responses to “Top Songs”

  1. Valerie says:

    “I’ll take every one you bolded, plus a few, Alex…”

  2. Ali says:

    I think I like the songs from your grad year better than my grad year.