2000… not the best pop year, but good enough to find 99 stand-out tracks.
Who made it to number 1? Not Britney Spears who finished 109th. Nor was it Moby who, with four tracks in the list, is the most featured artist on this year’s list. Also four times present: the Spencer family. No Blues Explosion, but Jon is certainly present with 3 Boss Hog songs. The fourth Spencer song comes from his sister, better known as Brassy (36).
Belle and Sebastian have three songs in the list if you count Isabel’s group the Gentle Waves along. Eminem, Moloko and Emiliana Torrini also score hattricks.
Most songs are in English, the few exceptions are Death in Vegas and Pram (instrumental), Super Furry Animals (Welsh) and Sigur Ros (Hopelandish). Which somehow brings us to the Belgians: Das Pop finish first at number 23. Between them and Thou (100) we find the likes of Mauro, Soulwax and (new to our list) Lais.
Talking about new: in 2000 the world got acquainted to Badly Drawn Boy who already made it to our list in 1998. We did it again! (And hopefully not for the last time.) But let's change from ‘new’ to ‘young’: the youngest persons in the list are Sugababes (83) with an average age of 15,5.
But enough of the chats, it’s time for the charts:

1 DEATH IN VEGAS Dirge
2 EMINEM FEATURING DIDO Stan
3 CHICKS ON SPEED Give me back my man
4 BLONDE REDHEAD En particulier
5 MOBY Porcelain
6 MOLOKO Indigo
7 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Legal man
8 EMILIANA TORRINI Telepathy
9 DAS POP The one
10 SAINT ETIENNE Heart failed (in the back of a taxi)

11 RADIOHEAD Idioteque
12 SAINT ETIENNE Boy is crying
13 MOLOKO Pure pleasure seeker
14 LEFTFIELD Swords
15 BOSS HOG Whiteout
16 EMINEM Kim
17 MOLOKO The time is now
18 BROADCAST Papercuts
19 MOBY AND GWEN STEFANI Southside
20 ST GERMAIN Rose rouge
21 EMILIANA TORRINI Unemployed in summertime
22 EMINEM The real Slim Shady
23 DAS POP Tonight
24 LAIKA Go fish
25 CHICKS ON SPEED Glamour girl
26 BADLY DRAWN BOY Disillusion
27 SHIVAREE Goodnight moon
28 OUTKAST Ms Jackson
29 THE BLOODHOUND GANG The inevitable return of the great white dope
30 THE GENTLE WAVES Sister woman
31 AIMEE MANN Wise up
32 EELS Mr E’s beautiful blues
33 MAURO AND THE INFERNOS Faint smile
34 OUTKAST B.O.B. (Bombs over Baghdad)
35 BRASSY Work it out
36 DAS POP The love program
37 EELS Flyswatter
38 GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI Poodle rockin’
39 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Family tree
40 PJ HARVEY A place called home
41 DE BOSSEN Bones bones bones
42 LEN Cryptic soul crew
43 FOLK IMPLOSION Tomorrow may be another day
44 GRANDADDY The crystal lake
45 HOOVERPHONIC Mad about you
46 THIEVERY CORPORATION Shadow of ourselves
47 GOMEZ Machismo
48 EELS The sound of fear
49 PJ HARVEY Good fortune
50 WOODBINE Neskwik
51 SIGUR ROS Svefn-g-englar
52 BLOODHOUND GANG Mope
53 SOULWAX Starfish and coffee
54 THE DELGADOS Reasons for silence (Ed’s song)
55 CALEXICO Service and repair
56 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Ymaelodi Â’r Ymylon
57 GUIDED BY VOICES Hold on hope
58 AALIYAH Try again
59 AIR Playground love
60 MUSE Muscle museum
61 BROADCAST Come on, let’s go
62 LAMBCHOP Up with people (Zero 7 Remix)
63 MODEST MOUSE Gravity writes everything
64 BLUR Music is my radar
65 MAXIM FEAT. SKIN Carmen Queasy
66 BOMFUNK MC’S Freestyler
67 DANDY WARHOLS Get off
68 THE FALL Two librans
69 BADLY DRAWN BOY Another pearl
70 MOTORPSYCHO The other fool
71 LAIKA Glory cloud
72 16 HORSEPOWER Clogger
73 PRAM Mother of pearl
74 ST GERMAIN Soul flute
75 DANDY WARHOLS Bohemian like you
76 CYPRESS HILL Rock Superstar
77 BOSS HOG Itchy & Scratchy
78 PINBACK Trainer
79 ADD N TO (X) You must create
80 ELEVATOR SUITE Backaround
81 LAIS Les douze mois
82 SUGABABES Overload
83 SHIVAREE Bossa nova
84 THE CONCRETES Teen Love
85 NO UNDERGROUND City boy
86 ADD N TO (X) Plug me in
87 PINBACK Tripoli
88 MY MORNING JACKET Picture of you
89 PINK Most girls
90 KOSHEEN Hide u
91 DETROIT GRAND PUBAHS Sandwiches
92 CLINIC Distortions
93 BREAKBEAT ERA Bulletproof
94 GROOVE ARMADA I see you baby
95 DAVID HOLMES Bow down to the exit sign
96 EMILIANA TORRINI Easy
97 LAMBCHOP The distance from her to there
98 GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI Face like summer
99 ANI DiFRANCO Swing (album version)

Their managers and mothers asked us to mention them:
100 THOU Weak lady
101 LOU REED Extacy
102 X-PRESS 2 AC/DC (Ashley’s radio edit)
103 MAGNETIC FIELDS All my little words
104 KENT Music non-stop
105 NINE DAYS Absolutely (story of a girl)
106 BOSS HOG Get it while you wait
107 SIX BY SEVEN I believe in Father Christmas
108 HEFNER Half is life
109 BRITNEY SPEARS Oops! I did it again
110 GUANO APES Big in Japan
111 KINOBE Skyscaper
112 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Feel good hit of the summer
113 BLINK 182 Adam’s song
114 SOULWAX Children of the revolution
115 ELLIOT SMITH Happiness
116 BLACK EYED PEAS Black eyed peas
117 BLOODHOUND GANG The ballad of Chasey Lain
118 ARMAND VAN HELDEN Koochy
119 ANDY VOTEL Return of the spooky driver
120 MOBY Opening credit theme (OST Cecil B. Demented)

Other editions:
Democratische 99 (2008)
Democratische 99 (2007)
Democratische 99 (2006)
Democratische 99 (2005)
Democratische 99 (2004)
Democratische 99 (2003)
Democratische 99 (2002)
Democratische 99 (2001)
Democratische 99 (1999)
Democratische 99 (1998): coming soon (Nr. 1: Solex: "Rolex by Solex")
Democratische 99 (1997)
Democratische 99 (1996)
Democratische 99 (1995): not available yet (Nr. 1: Sam Sever: "What's that sound?")
Democratische 99 (1994): not available yet (Nr. 1: Miranda Sex Garden: "Cut")

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