Pick of the Year: 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