What song held the number one spot for the longest in the year 2000?
“Let’s all meet up in the year 2000, won’t it be strange when we’re all fully grown?” Jarvis Cocker sang, in 1995, staring down the barrel of the 20th century’s end. The millennium hung over that generation like a futuristic UFO, offering the promise of renewed change and a clean slate upon which we could make new history.
Sadly, 25 years into this millennium, we’ve learnt that this has not in fact been true. The technology we thought might save us in this brave new future is growing into something more sinister, and as a society, we’re hellbent on creating as hostile a geo-political climate as we can. Sadly, growing old is no longer the weirdest part of this scary new chapter.
But retrospect has sadly ruined what was in the present day, an exciting milestone. Tony Blair’s Cool Britannia was running on full steam and our country’s pop culture was booming with kaleidoscopic colour. Sure, Oasis was on the coke-addled wind down and alternative music was being shoulder-barged by an insatiable appetite for unfiltered pop, but the reception of all this was laced with excitement.
In fact, we were all so excited by this supposed sense of liberation that we allowed Robbie Williams to release a music video where he progressively undressed to a point where he actually began to shed his skin. Maybe our overzealous use of CGI on one of the most insufferable musicians the 1990s ever produced should have been the moment where we made wiser decisions in the millennium.
Nonetheless, we continued on, and you could argue that Williams himself became symbolic of this era. Heck, he even released a track called ‘Millennium’ in a bid to become the mascot of his new hopeful era. But despite all of his transparent attempts to be the standalone star of the century, he in fact wasn’t and neither ‘Millennium’ or the scantily clad ‘Rock DJ’ held the top spot for the longest in the year 2000.
What song held the number one spot for the longest in the year 2000?
Despite Jarvis Cocker doing all he could to manifest some involvement in the year 2000, it’s safe to say that the beginning of this new millennium was truly the start of pop’s heyday. A few years later, Simon Cowell would corrupt it with the endless pursuit of talent show stardom, and it’s likely he got the genesis of the idea from these two pop behemoths.
In the US, Destiny’s Child were dominating the charts and their track ‘Independent Women Part 1’ held the top spot for the longest, sitting on the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 consecutive weeks in 2000. In the UK, a similar group ruled the roost, but their reign was less dominant, largely due to the widespread selection of pop groups to choose from that year. But it was S Club 7 who came out on top, holding the number one spot for just a week with their track ‘Never Had a Dream Come True’.
