The Best Songs That Came Out in the 2000s

I Kissed a Girl- Katy Perry

This was Katy Perry’s breakout hit single. Even with the queer undertones of this song pressing against the notoriously conservative radio airwaves, this song played thousands of times every day for the entire Summer of 2009.

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The More You Know

  • “Happy Birthday” was the first song ever played on Mars. Mars Rover Curiosity played the song to itself on its first anniversary on the planet.
  • When Prince was a kid, his father put him on stage at a James Brown concert where he danced with the singer until security took him off the stage.
  • Mariah Carey's ex-husband, Tommy Mottola, supposedly swiped an audio sample she was planning to use for her next album. The sample then popped up in a Jennifer Lopez song which came out first.
  • Chuck Berry, the Godfather of Rock ‘n’ Roll, originally only performed music to buy photography equipment to support his aspirations of becoming a professional photographer.
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