Billboard Hot 100 - The Number One Hits of the Decade

Jay-Z and Alicia Keys close the book on the 2000s, remaining #1 for a fifth week with "Empire State of Mind" for the chart that is the last of 2009 and the last of the decade. 2009 closes with 12 #1 hits. Because it's kind of another boring week on the Hot 100 (Ludacris debuts at #13 with "How Low," and Timbaland and Justin Timberlake move into the top 40 at #31 with "Carry On"), I decided instead to devote this week's chart analysis to summing up the #1 Hot 100 hits of the decade.

Here's a (relatively) quick rundown of all the decade's #1 hits:

2000

1. What a Girl Wants - Christina Aguilera (2 wks)
2. I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden (4 wks)
3. Thank God I Found You - Mariah Carey feat. 98 Degrees and Joe (1 wk)
4. Amazed - Lonestar (2 wks)
5. Say My Name - Destiny's Child (3 wks)
6. Maria Maria - Santana feat. the Product G&B (10 wks)
7. Try Again - Aaliyah (1 wk)
8. Be With You - Enrique Iglesias (3 wks)
9. Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon (1 wk)
10. Bent - Matchbox Twenty (1 wk)
11. It's Gonna Be Me - NSYNC (2 wks)
12. Incomplete - Sisqo (2 wks)
13. Doesn't Really Matter - Janet Jackson (3 wks)
14. Music - Madonna (4 wks)
15. Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You) - Christina Aguilera (4 wks)
16. With Arms Wide Open - Creed (1 wk)
17. Independent Women Part 1 - Destiny's Child (11 wks)

2001

1. It Wasn't Me - Shaggy feat. Ricardo "Rikrok" Ducent (2 wks)
2. Ms. Jackson - Outkast (1 wk)
3. Stutter - Joe feat. Mystikal (4 wks)
4. Butterfly - Crazy Town (2 wks)
5. Angel - Shaggy feat. Rayvon (1 wk)
6. All for You - Janet Jackson (7 wks)
7. Lady Marmalade - Pink, Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim and Mya (5 wks)
8. U Remind Me - Usher (4 wks)
9. Bootylicious - Destiny's Child (2 wks)
10. Fallin' - Alicia Keys (6 wks)
11. I'm Real - Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule (5 wks)
12. Family Affair - Mary J. Blige (6 wks)
13. U Got It Bad - Usher (6 wks)
14. How You Remind Me - Nickelback (4 wks)

2002

1. Always on Time - Ja Rule feat. Ashanti (2 wks)
2. Ain't It Funny - Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule (6 wks)
3. Foolish - Ashanti (10 wks)
4. Hot in Herre - Nelly (7 wks)
5. Dilemma - Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland (10 wks)
6. A Moment Like This - Kelly Clarkson (2 wks)
7. Lose Yourself - Eminem (12 wks)

2003

1. Bump Bump Bump - B2K feat. P. Diddy (1 wk)
2. All I Have - Jennifer Lopez feat. LL Cool J (4 wks)
3. In Da Club - 50 Cent (9 wks)
4. Get Busy - Sean Paul (3 wks)
5. 21 Questions - 50 Cent (4 wks)
6. This Is The Night - Clay Aiken (2 wks)
7. Crazy in Love - Beyonce feat. Jay-Z (8 wks)
8. Shake Ya Tailfeather - Nelly, P. Diddy and Murphy Lee (4 wks)
9. Baby Boy - Beyonce (9 wks)
10. Stand Up - Ludacris feat. Shawna (1 wk)
11. Hey Ya! - Outkast (9 wks)

2004

1. The Way You Move - Outkast (1 wk)
2. Slow Jamz - Twista feat. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx (1 wk)
3. Yeah! - Usher feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris (12 wks)
4. Burn - Usher (8 wks)
5. I Believe - Fantasia (1 wk)
6. Confessions Part II - Usher (2 wks)
7. Slow Motion - Juvenile feat. Soulja Slim (2 wks)
8. Lean Back - Terror Squad feat. Fat Joe & Remy Martin (3 wks)
9. Goodies - Ciara feat. Petey Pablo (7 wks)
10. My Boo - Usher feat. Alicia Keys (6 wks)
11. Drop It Like It's Hot - Snoop Dogg (3)

2005

1. Let Me Love You - Mario (9 wks)
2. Candy Shop - 50 Cent feat. Olivia (9 wks)
3. Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani (4 wks)
4. We Belong Together - Mariah Carey (14 wks)
5. Inside Your Heaven - Carrie Underwood (1 wk)
6. Gold Digger - Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx (10 wks)
7. Run It! - Chris Brown (5 wks)
8. Don't Forget About Us - Mariah Carey (2 wks)

2006

1. Laffy Taffy - D4L ( 1 wk)
2. Grillz - Nelly feat. Pall Wall, Ali and Gipp (2 wks)
3. Check On It - Beyonce (5 wks)
4. You're Beautiful - James Blunt (1 wk)
5. So Sick - Ne-Yo (2 wks)
6. Temperature - Sean Paul (1 wk)
7. Bad Day - Daniel Powter (5 wks)
8. SOS - Rihanna (3 wks)
9. Ridin' - Chamillionaire feat. Krayzie Bone (2 wks)
10. Hips Don't Lie - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean (2 wks)
11. Do I Make Your Proud - Taylor Hicks (1 wk)
12. Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland (6 wks)
13. London Bridge - Fergie (3 wks)
14. Sexyback - Justin Timberlake (7 wks)
15. Money Maker - Ludacris feat. Pharrell (2 wks)
16. My Love - Justin Timberlake feat. T.I. (3 wks)
17. I Wanna Love You - Akon feat. Snoop Dogg (2 wks)
18. Irreplaceable - Beyonce (10 wks)

2007

1. Say It Right - Nelly Furtado ( 1 wk)
2. What Goes Around...Comes Around - Justin Timberlake (1 wks)
3. This Is Why I'm Hot - Mims (2 wks)
4. Glamorous - Fergie feat. Ludacris (2 wks)
5. Don't Matter - Akon (2 wks)
6. Give It to Me - Timbaland Feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake (2 wks)
7. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne (1 wk)
8. Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5 (3 wks)
9. Umbrella - Rihanna feat. Jay-Z (7 wks)
10. Hey There Delilah - Plain White Ts (2 wks)
11. Beautiful Girls - Sean Kingston (4 wks)
12. Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie (1 wk)
13. Crank That (Soulja Boy) - Soulja Boy Tell Em (7 wks)
14. Stronger - Kanye West (1 wk)
15. Kiss Kiss - Chris Brown feat. T-Pain (3 wks)
16. No One - Alicia Keys (5 wks)

2008

1. Low - Flo Rida feat. T-Pain (10 wks)
2. Love in This Club - Usher feat. Young Jeezy (3 wks)
3. Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis (4 wks)
4. Touch My Body - Mariah Carey (2 wks)
5. Lollipop - Lil Wayne (5 wks)
6. Take a Bow - Rihanna (1 wk)
7. Viva La Vida - Coldplay (1 wk)
8. I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry (7 wks)
9. Disturbia - Rihanna (2 wks)
10. Whatever You Like - T.I. (7 wks)
11. So What - Pink (1 wk)
12. Live Your Life - T.I. feat. Rihanna (6 wks)
13. Womanizer - Britney Spears (1 wk)
14. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) - Beyonce (4 wks)

2009

1. Just Dance - Lady GaGa feat. Colby O'Donis (3 wks)
2. My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson (2 wks)
3. Crack a Bottle - Eminem feat. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent (1 wks)
4. Right Round - Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha (6 wks)
5. Poker Face - Lady GaGa (1 wk)
6. Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas (12 wks)
7. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas (14 wks)
8. Down - Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne (2 wks)
9. 3 - Britney Spears (1 wk)
10. Fireflies - Owl City (2 wks)
11. Whatcha Say - Jason DeRulo (1 wk)
12. Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys (5 wks)

Most #1 Hits:
Usher (7)
Beyonce (5)
Rihanna (5)
50 Cent (4)
Alicia Keys (4)
Justin Timberlake (4)
Ludacris (4)
Mariah Carey (4)
Nelly (4)

Most week at #1:
Usher (41)
Beyonce (36)
Black Eyed Peas (26)
50 Cent (23)
Nelly (23)
Alicia Keys (22)
Jay-Z (20)
Rihanna (19)
Ludacris (17)
Destiny's Child (16)
Flo Rida (16)
T.I. (16)
Jennifer Lopez (15)
Eminem (13)
Ja Rule (13)
Justin Timberlake (13)
T-Pain (13)*
Ashanti (12)
Kanye West (12)
Lil Jon (12)*
Christina Aguilera (11)
Jamie Foxx (11)*
Outkast (11)
Janet Jackson (10)
Kelly Rowland (10)*
Nelly Furtado (10)
Santana (10)

(* denotes artists whos totals rely solely on featured appearances)

Any doubts now that Usher and Beyonce are the decade's biggest hitmakers? They, along with Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Nelly, and 50 Cent ruled the Hot 100 this decade. Except for Usher, and Justin and Beyonce's pre-solo work, none of these artists made any impression during the '90s, representing a more significant turnover this decade in the biggest names in music than between the '80s and '90s where several big names ruled in both decades (Madonna, Whitney Houston, and Janet Jackson, for example).

Some trivia:

• In sum there were 128 #1 hits this decade, slightly fewer than the 140 in the '90s, and far fewer than the 231 in the '80s.
  
• 2006 was the year with the most #1's (18) and 2002 the year with the least (7)
• A former Mouseketeer, Christina Aguilera, had the #1 hit with the longest title: "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is Over)."
• Another former Mouseketeer, Britney Spears, had the #1 hit with the shortest: "3" (which is, in fact, the shortest title ever for a #1 hit)
• One-hit wonders: Daniel Powter, James Blunt, Terror Squad, Crazy Town, D4L, and Mims all had one #1 hit each and never had another top 40 single.
  
• The only #1 remake was of "Lady Marmalade," itself a #1 hit for LaBelle in 1975.
  
• One song was remade and became a UK #1 hit, Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This," remade by Leona Lewis.
  
• Several #1 hits sampled other songs so extensively that they almost amounted to reconstructions: "Angel" from "Angel of the Morning," "SOS" from Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" and "Beautiful Girls" from Ben E. King's "Stand By Me." "Stronger" from Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."
  
• "I'm Real" and "Ain't It Funny" by Jennifer Lopez belong in a hazy zone somewhere between being remixes and reconstructions--while they purport to be remixes of tracks from J.Lo, they really bare little if any resemblance to the original album tracks.
• While the vast majority of #1's were by American artists, other nationalities represented include Australia (Savage Garden), Spain (Enrique Iglesias), Canada (Nickelback, Daniel Powter, Nelly Furtado, and Avril Lavigne), Jamaica (Sean Paul), Britain (James Blunt, Leona Lewis, Coldplay and Jay Sean), Barbados (Rihanna), and Colombia (Shakira).
• 20 #1 hits were nominated for the Grammy Record of the Year; so far, none of them have won ("I Gotta Feeling" and "Poker Face" are up for it this year).