Pick of the Year: 2001

2001

Dad’s ‘Pick of the Year’ tapes were always a firm family favourite where he would make a compilation cassette of his favourite songs form that year. He stopped in 1992 however, when music got a bit too modern for him. It’s something over the years I’ve tried to carry on, and did for a while but, no one listens to CDs anymore and they don’t have the same impact as mp3 playlists. I’ve often thought about restarting it all from 1982 on my blog though just so I have somewhere to put them all for prosperity sake.

The first rule of POTY is DON’T TALK ABOUT PICK OF THE YEAR, sorry, that’s the illegal underground fight club i’m part of.

The first rule of POTY is that you can only pick songs that charted in the top 75 in the UK. The second rule of POTY is that you can only pick enough songs that would fit onto an old C120 cassette (between 30-40 tracks). The final rule, one which I’ve imposed myself, is that you must include that year’s Christmas number 1 (highlighted in green)

  1. Papa Roach – Last Resort
  2. Dr Dre – The Next Episode
  3. Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya & Pink – Lady Marmalade
  4. City High – What Would You Do
  5. Faithless – We Come 1
  6. Blue – All Rise
  7. Wyclef Jean – Perfect Gentleman
  8. Outkast – Ms Jackson
  9. Dream – He Loves U Not
  10. Texas – Inner Smile
  11. Crazy Town – Butterfly
  12. Janet Jackson – All For You
  13. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out of My Head
  14. Mary J Blige – Family Affair
  15. O-Town – Liquid Dreams
  16. Eve feat. Gwen Stefani – Let Me Blow Your Mind
  17. Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
  18. Joe – Stutter
  19. Britney Spears – I’m a Slave 4 U
  20. Blue – Too Close
  21. Uncle Kracker – Follow Me
  22. Louise – Stuck In The Middle
  23. Jennifer Lopez – Play
  24. Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag
  25. Matchbox 20 – Mad Season
  26. Faith Hill – There You’ll Be
  27. Alicia Keys – Fallin
  28. Backstreet Boys – The Call
  29. S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Movin
  30. Mis-Teeq – One Night Stand
  31. Usher – U Remind Me
  32. Dido – Here With Me
  33. Travis – Sing
  34. Shaggy – It Wasn’t Me
  35. Destiny’s Child – Survivor
  36. Missy Elliott – Get UR Freak On
  37. MOP – Cold As Ice
  38. Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman – Something Stupid

1 Comment

  1. Sam | North East Family Fun Blog
    June 1, 2017 / 9:34 am

    What a year! I was 17/18 in 2001 and it’s the year I met Steve. Happy memories!

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