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2009. The year that wraps up the decade that kicked off a new millenium in a big way. We got to see the rise, and fall, and rise again of Britney Spears. Beyoncé became a huge solo success after her global fame with Destiny's Child. Rihanna & Lady GaGa hit our radar as well. For the males, Justin Timberlake was hands-down the male of the decade. Usher ruled the radio in the mid-2000s, shortly followed by Kanye West and Chris Brown.. until we realized what they were capable of. We saw the death of many celebs, especially this year. Anna Nicole Smith was a tragic death, and just this year, the death of Michael Jackson blew our minds away.
Although this decade and this year alone were known for many tragic events, there were great memories as well. You can't deny that some of the best music came out of this year & decade, so let's bring on the year-end charts! This decade has been full of suspense, and these charts will just add to it all. 
Top 50 Singles of 2009
01 Lady GaGa - Poker Face
02 Flo Rida & Ke$ha - Right Round
03 Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
04 Lady GaGa & Colby O'Donis - Just Dance
05 Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
06 Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
07 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
08 All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
09 Miley Cyrus - Party In the USA
10 Britney Spears - 3
11 Lady GaGa - Paparazzi
12 Keri Hilson, Kanye West, & Ne-Yo - Knock You Down
13 The Fray - Never Say Never
14 Kristinia DeBarge - Goodbye
15 Jay Sean & Lil' Wayne - Down
16 David Guetta & Akon - Sexy Bitch
17 Katy Perry - Waking Up in Vegas
18 Beyoncé - Halo
19 P!nk - Sober
20 The Fray - You Found Me
21 Shakira - She Wolf
22 Jamie Foxx & T-Pain - Blame It
23 Taylor Swift - Love Story
24 Sean Kingston - Fire Burning
25 David Guetta & Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over
26 Britney Spears - Radar
27 Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
28 Ciara & Justin Timberlake - Love, Sex, Magic
29 Cobra Starship & Leighton Meester - Good Girls Go Bad
30 Lady GaGa - LoveGame
31 Drake - Best I Ever Had
32 Rihanna - Russian Roulette
33 Jason Derulo - Whatcha Say
34 Jordin Sparks - Battlefield
35 Ke$ha - TiK ToK
36 Lady GaGa - Bad Romance
37 Soulja Boy Tell 'Em & Sammie - Kiss Me Thru the Phone
38 Pitbull - Hotel Room Service
39 Kid Cudi - Day N Nite
40 Flo Rida & Wynter Gordon - Sugar
41 3OH!3 - Don't Trust Me
42 Miley Cyrus - The Climb
43 Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
44 Jay-Z, Rihanna, & Kanye West - Run This Town
45 Shinedown - Second Chance
46 Iyaz - Replay
47 Mariah Carey - Obsessed
48 Eminem - We Made You
49 Asher Roth - I Love College
50 Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up
Top 10 Albums of 2009
01 Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster
02 Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
03 Rihanna - Rated R
04 Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
05 Ciara - Fantasy Ride
06 David Guetta - One Love
07 The Fray - The Fray
08 Cascada - Evacuate the Dancefloor
09 OneRepublic - Waking Up
10 Shakira - She Wolf
Album of the Year
-The Fame Monster: Obviously you got that from coming in #1 on the list, Lady GaGa's The Fame Monster includes all the hits from the original album, plus the new singles "Bad Romance" & "Telephone", featuring Beyonce. The CD is a hit from start to finish; not a surprise, after hearing the original album. "Alejandro" is one of the greatest songs thus far in her career, "Speechless" was a great ballad; a great change for her image, and "Monster" is a certified hit in 2010. Lady GaGa has become "The Fame" icon; everybody wants to be like her, and this album proves it.
Artist of the Year
-Lady GaGa: Newcomer Lady GaGa quickly evolved from her late-blooming 2008 hit "Just Dance" with Colby O'Donis, which continued with major success in early winter 2009. Right on its heels was the second single and arguably the top single of 2009, "Poker Face", which screamed massive hit from the first listen. Her popularity and fanbase quickly blossomed, and she spent many weeks topping iTunes, AT40, Billboard Hot 100, and many other charts that artists would die to be on. This spring was her third single, on the heels of "Poker Face", which was "LoveGame", a quickly addicting song which made the line "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick," the most infamous lyric of the year. "Paparazzi" smashed as single number four and lead to the astonishing VMA performance. Not long after, her first single off The Fame Monster, "Bad Romance", absorbed radio attention and blasted the song to #2 on the Hot 100 chart & #1 on iTunes. Her newest smash, "Telephone", featuring Beyonce, is still rising to fame, and the video wasn't even released! From her music, to her fashion; from her stage performances, to her artsy music videos, newcomer Lady GaGa tops all of your faves as 2009 Artist of the Year.
Best New Artist
-Keri Hilson: A prodigy of Timbaland, Keri was love at first sight on his track "The Way I Are" in 2008. Keri arrived with her debut album, In a Perfect World. Keri smashed radio with "Return the Favor," "Turnin' Me On," and one of the hottest tracks of the year, "Knock You Down", featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo. Keri has made it known that she is here to stay, and I can't wait to see her style evolve in the next few years.
Group of the Year
-Black Eyed Peas: Their last album, Monkey Business, gave us the addicting "Pump It", "My Humps," "Don't Phunk With My Heart", and "Don't Lie". They took a short hiatus as Fergie experimented with her solo career, which gave us "Fergalicious" and "Big Girl's Dont Cry". This year, BEP made a comeback larger than life. "Boom Boom Pow" quickly smashed and spent a lovely run at #1 on Billboard Hot 100, followed consecutively by "I Gotta Feeling", which tied Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" at 15 weeks. Both are the longest topping songs of the decade. Those two singles combined give BEP the most weeks at #1 of the year, and they obviously ruled this year's charts. The third and smaller single, "Meet Me Halfway" smashed as well, making it into BBH100's Top 10 and iTunes Top 10. Still evolving, the newer fourth single, "Imma Be" is bound to shake up the start of 2010.
Most Successful Male Artist
-Lil' Wayne: Just from his own tracks, such as "Lollipop", this rapper quickly became one of this year's most popular musicians. He is featured on nearly half of the hottest songs this year. (Such as "Down", "Give It Up to Me", etc.) Eminem better watch out, because Lil' Wayne is taking over.
Most Successful Female Artist
-Britney Spears: Ten years in the game, and Britney is still bringing the fire. The second single from Circus, "Circus", smashed earlier this year, followed by the naughty & infamous "If U Seek Amy". The summer smash was "Radar", which survived through two eras! Her latest single, "3" (The Singles Collection) gave her her first #1 on Hot 100 since "Womanizer" last fall. Her 2009 Circus Tour sold out concerts across the globe and recieved high ratings and reviews. It was the highest grossing tour of the year! Teen Choice Awards awarded Britney with the "Ultimate Choice Award" this year for all of her work in the past decade. This year, she showed everyone that she's the ringleader in charge of the whole circus.
Breakthrough Artist
-David Guetta: European DJ and producer David Guetta scored many European hits, such as "Love Don't Let Me Go" and "F Me I'm Famous", and he made his US crossover last year with "Love Is Gone" featuring Chris Willis. After a year's hiatus, Guetta returned with his new studio album, One Love, featuring Kelly Rowland, Ne-Yo, Akon, Chris Willis, will.i.am, and more. He gave us this summer's smash, "When Love Takes Over" featuring Kelly Rowland, which took over the top spot on American dance charts and pushed Kelly alongside Beyonce into the limelight for the first time since Destiny's Child was still together. Right on the heels of one of the summer's top hits was the unstoppable "Sexy Bitch" featuring Akon. This dance song fits Akon's vocals perfectly as he says "Damn you'se a sexy bitch." The song is still on radio power rotation and skyrocketing up the charts. Thus far, it topped the dance charts, peaked at #11 on the iTunes Top 200, and peaked at #6 on Billboard Hot 100! I'd say this is pretty impressive for the European DJ who just recently crossed into American territory. Let's watch him keep up the work in 2010; we might even see him give Kelly Rowland her big break.
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All charts fot Best of Decade will be edited into this post, so it's easily accessed from page 1. Same goes to the Best of 2009 charts, which will be edited into the post above.
02. Beyonce & Jay-Z - Crazy In Love
03. Rihanna & Jay-Z - Umbrella
04. Britney Spears - Toxic
05. Shakira & Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie
06. Usher & Lil' Jon - Yeah!
07. Lady GaGa - Poker Face
08. Flo Rida - Low
09. Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
10. Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
11. Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
12. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
13. P!nk - Get the Party Started
14. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
15. Alicia Keys - No One
---Justin Timberlake is hands-down the Pop King for the 2000s, and he is very likely to inherit MJ's throne in the upcoming years. He started out with our Queen on the Mickey Mouse Club in the 90s, and he skyrocketed to worldwide fame with the most popular boy band of the time, *NSYNC, famous for songs such as "Bye Bye Bye". He later strengthened his fame as a solo artist, with his album Justified. This album brought us the tearjerker "Cry Me a River", related to his relationship with our Queen. It also gave us the hit pop/dance song, "Rock Your Body". His next album FutureSex/LoveSounds spawned many hits, including "SexyBack", "My Love", "Summer Love", "LoveStoned", and "Til the End of Time". Since then, he's been working behind the scenes with other artists and has collaborated with Timbaland on "Give It to Me" and "Carry Out" and with T.I. on "Dead and Gone". Now it's time to wait for his next album and see if he can continue his reign into the next decade.
Queen of the Decade ::: Britney Spears
---Britney Spears was the unstoppable Pop Queen this decade, and her work shows it. She launched on the scene with Justin, thanks to the Mickey Mouse Club, and her solo career began in the late 90s with "...Baby One More Time". She launched this decade with "Oops! I Did It Again" and "(You Drive Me) Crazy", which made her the "it" girl of the decade. She continued her reign and showed her fame when she collaborated with Madonna on "Me Against the Music". Their VMA kiss has become the legend of this decade. Her single "Toxic" blew up the radiowaves. She went through a rough struggle with relationships; one with Justin Timberlake early on in her career, and later with... Kevin Federline. After their divorce, her life fell apart. Remember the photos of her shaving her head? Her life spiraled out of control, but she made some of her best music ever. In 2007, she released Blackout. Although her VMA performance showed she was still struggling, her music was improving. "Gimme More", "Piece of Me", and "Break the Ice" were the hottest songs back in the day, and "Radar" shined through in the Circus era. She left behind many hidden gems as she moved on to Circus, which spawned the #1 hit "Womanizer", followed by the irresistible "Circus" and "If U Seek Amy". In 2009, she launched her worldwide Circus Tour, which became the highest selling tour of the year. She closed the decade with her single "3" for The Singles Collection, which celebrated 10 years of Britney music and a great decade filled with her talent. This debuted straight at #1. What a great way to close a decade! She is now working on her first album of the new decade, which will hopefully show her strength and continue her leading success.
Top 10 Male Artists of 2000s
01. Justin Timberlake
02. Usher
03. Kanye West
04. Ne-Yo
05. Jason Mraz
06. Jay-Z
07. Eminem
08. Chris Brown
09. Akon
10. Jesse McCartney
Top 10 Female Artists of 2000s
01. Britney Spears
02. Beyoncé
03. Rihanna
04. P!nk
05. Kelly Clarkson
06. Christina Aguilera
07. Shakira
08. Ciara
09. Gwen Stefani
10. Alicia Keys
Top 15 Albums of 2000s
01. Britney Spears - Blackout (2007)
02. Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi (2005)
03. Green Day - American Idiot (2004)
04. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)
05. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
06. No Doubt - Rock Steady (2002)
07. Ciara - Goodies (2004)
08. Lady GaGa - The Fame (2008)
09. Beyonce - I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008)
10. Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004)
11. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. (2009)
12. Usher - Confessions (2004)
13. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (2004)
14. Shakira - Oral Fixation (2006)
15. Kanye West - Graduation (2007)
Top 5 Groups of 2000s
01. Black Eyed Peas [Bridging the Gap; Elephunk; Monkey Business; The E.N.D.]
02. Green Day [Warning; Shenanigans; American Idiot; Bullet In a Bible (Live); 21st Century Breakdown]
03. No Doubt [Return of Saturn, Rock Steady, The Singles 1992-2003, Everything in Time B-Sides]
04. Destiny's Child [Survivior; 8 Days of Christmas; This is the Remix; Destiny Fulfilled]
05. Blink-182 [Take Off Your Pants and Jacket; blink-182; Blink-182 Greatest Hits]
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ok, esperaremos.
vote in my countdown,
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bring it on! 
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can't wait to see your lists.
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Looking forward to seeing your lists!!! 
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Looking forward
Check mine please
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Thanks guys 
& the David Guetta font is Levi Brush. dafont.com feel free to use it, ive seen it used on someone's avatar.
(And let me know to check out your charts too. Post links, or I'll forget; this time of year is crazy. PM me if i forget)
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whoa what font is that? gimme the link of that font!
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*checks post above*
thanks 
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welcome, took me months to find  a great find though.
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can't wait
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bring it boiiiiii 
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Quote:
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=80611
If you wanna see mine, beatfreak. ^^^
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Stop advertising, I don't want you here. Please, stop ruining ATRL for me. You're already ruining it for everyone participating in BB.
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Now Posted: Top 40 Singles of 2009 #50-26, with the top 25 to be added tomorrow! Please rate, and post links to your charts.
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18/25
You know you can just put each part of the countdown in a new post.
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^ I know, but I want everything to be together at the end, so it's easier to look back on in say... 3 months.
But maybe I'll do both; post everything on page 1 and make separate posts when the time comes.
Thanks so much btw 
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