OFF: Top 100 selling albums of 2000

[starfield]

Nope, not one.

Julio Bloody Iglesias? Enya? A'Ha?????????? I

Is this a wind up?

Sounds more like a list of the top 100 artists who should be struck down by
lightning.

If they haven't already been.

Captain Bl at ck

----- Original Message -----
From: K Henderson <henderson.120 at OSU.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 7:10 PM
Subject: OFF: Top 100 selling albums of 2000


> Hi Folks...
>
> Christ!  Is it *this* bad?  I've always told people who insist that my
> musical tastes are just weird-'cause-I-like-to-be-weird that I do buy
plenty
> of highly popular stuff also.  Perhaps I just can't say that anymore.
Cause
> I'm sure I bought about 100 new albums this year, and I didn't buy a
single
> one of these.  In fact, there are plenty of albums here by familiar bands
> that I have never heard of.  Like Bon Jovi.  He's really popular again?
> You're kidding me, when did that happen?  And I didn't even know about the
> live Floyd album!  Or Iron Maiden (they still exist?), or U2 and Metallica
> for chrissakes!  AC/DC too.  And Pearl Jam (they still exist?).  And
> a-ha...c'mon, how the hell did they resurface?!  No way!  George Michael?
> He's out of jail?  :)
>
> Man, something's happened in the last two years, 'cause I'm totally out of
> it I guess.  But then I have bought zillions of discs by all sorts of very
> modern groups in the 'post-rock' and avant-garde genres, some of which are
> even 'hip' to the college alternative crowd.  Not enough I guess, 'cause
> none of them are here.
>
> I bet that I have at least *one* of the top 100 from any other year from
> 1968 up to the mid-90s at least.  Anyway, is there *anybody* here who
bought
> any of this rubbish?  Perhaps I'm not the only one, and popular music has
> truly reached a nadir.
>
> Grakkl (FAA)
>
> 1.Santana, "Supernatural"
> 2.Britney Spears, "Oops! ... I Did It Again"
> 3.Eminem, "The Marshall Mathers LP"
> 4.Corrs, "In Blue"
> 5.Moby, "Play"
> 6.Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Californication"
> 7.Bon Jovi, "Crush"
> 8.Celine Dion, "All The Way - A Decade Of Song"
> 9.Madonna, "Music"
> 10.Macy Gray, "On How Life Is"
> 11.Whitney Houston, "The Greatest Hits"
> 12.Craig David, "Born To Do It"
> 13.U2, "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
> 14.Shania Twain, "Come On Over"
> 15.Anastacia, "Not That Kind"
> 16.Vengaboys, "The Platinum"
> 17.'N Sync, "No Strings Attached"
> 18.Mark Knopfler, "Sailing To Philadelphia"
> 19.B. B. King & Eric Clapton, "Riding With The King"
> 20.Lenny Kravitz, "Greatest Hits"
> 21.Tom Jones, "Reload"
> 22.Limp Bizkit, "Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavored Water"
> 23.Ronan Keating, "Ronan"
> 24.Original Soundtrack, "Mission: Impossible 2"
> 25.Beatles, "1"
> 26.Robbie Williams, "Sing When You're Winning"
> 27.Aqua, "Aquarius"
> 28.Metallica, "S&M"
> 29.Sting, "Brand New Day"
> 30.Westlife, "Westlife"
> 31.Enrique Iglesias, "Enrique"
> 32.AC/DC, "Stiff Upper Lip"
> 33.Dr. Dre," Dr. Dre -- 2001"
> 34.Melanie C, "Northern Star"
> 35.Radiohead, "Kid A"
> 36.David Gray, "White Ladder"
> 37.Toni Braxton, "The Heat"
> 38.Britney Spears, "... Baby One More Time"
> 39.Creed, "Human Clay"
> 40.Barry White, "The Ultimate Collection"
> 41.Backstreet Boys, "Black And Blue"
> 42.Savage Garden, "Affirmation"
> 43.Cher, "The Greatest Hits"
> 44.Blink 182, "Enema Of The State"
> 45.Coldplay, "Parachutes"
> 46.Texas, "The Greatest Hits"
> 47.Destiny's Child, "The Writing's On The Wall"
> 48.Olsen Brothers, "Wings Of Love"
> 49.Pearl Jam, "Binaural"
> 50.Him, "Razorblade Romance"
> 51.Smashing Pumpkins, "Machina/The Machines Of God"
> 52.Era, "Era II"
> 53.Alanis Morissette, "Unplugged"
> 54.Corrs, "MTV Unplugged"
> 55.Iron Maiden, "Brave New World"
> 56.Eros Ramazzotti, "Stilelibero"
> 57.Backstreet Boys, "Millennium"
> 58.Christina Aguilera, "Christina Aguilera"
> 59.Sade, "Lovers Rock"
> 60.Oasis, "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants"
> 61.Enigma, "The Screen Behind The Mirror"
> 62.Travis, "The Man Who"
> 63.a-ha, "Minor Earth, Major Sky"
> 64.Eiffel 65, "Europop"
> 65.George Michael, "Songs From The Last Century"
> 66.Julio Iglesias, "Noche De Cuatro Lunas"
> 67.Ricky Martin, "Sound Loaded"
> 68.Pink Floyd, "Is There Anybody Out There? -- Live"
> 69.Enya, "A Day Without Rain"
> 70.Matchbox Twenty, "Season By Matchbox Twenty"
> 71.Cypress Hill, "Skull And Bones"
> 72.Andrea Bocelli, "Sacred Arias"
> 73.Westlife, "Coast To Coast"
> 74.Krezip, Nothing Less"
> 75.Offspring, "Conspiracy Of One"
> 76.Marc Anthony, "Marc Anthony"
> 77.Alejandro Sanz, "El Alma Al Aire"
> 78.Bryan Adams, "The Best Of Me"
> 79.Queen, "Greatest Hits III"
> 80.Morcheeba, "Fragments Of Freedom"
> 81.Natalia Oreiro," Natalia Oreiro"
> 82.Guano Apes, "Don't Give Me Names"
> 83.Nelly, "Country Grammar"
> 84.Sisqo, "Unleash The Dragon"
> 85.Spice Girls, "Forever"
> 86.Green Day, "Warning"
> 87.Kid Rock, "History Of Rock"
> 88.Helmut Lotti, "The Latino Classics"
> 89.Live," The Distance To Here"
> 90.Gregorian, "Masters Of Chant"
> 91.No Doubt, "The Return Of Saturn"
> 92.Original Soundtrack, "Coyote Ugly"
> 93.Sarah Brightman, "La Luna"
> 94.S Club 7, "S Club 7"
> 95.Laura Pausini, "Entre Tu Y Mil Mares"
> 96.Placebo, "Black Market Music"
> 97.R. Kelly, "TP-2.com"
> 98.All Saints, "Saints And Sinners"
> 99.Kylie Minogue, "Light Years"
> 100.Cure, "Bloodflowers"