This is one of the first hits to make it big thanks to the power of the internet, specifically how Scottish singer Sandi Thom uploaded this track she recorded in her bedroom to her Myspace account (remember when that was a thing?) which attracted the attention of her eventual management. It was a huge success here in Australia likely due to it being a love letter to how much she loved both punk rock and hippy culture of the 70's.
This was one of two big hits that TV rock had in their short time together, both of these songs share a similar formula of spoken word vocals which I'm guessing is meant to be sexy in a similar way to how "I'm too sexy" was in the 90's. I guess it paid off as this was one of the biggest hits of the decade in Australia, and even managed to crossover to NZ shortly after its release.
This was the only hit that the Scissor sisters managed to have here in Australia, although considering they named themselves after a sexual act often used between two women, it's impressive they had any success in the mainstream at all anywhere in the world. Then again, it seemed like it was impossible for this to fail given how it's a throwback to the 70's disco (particularly in the style of Leo Sayer) which was all the rage at the time.
We already looked at the EDM version of this track in my 1995 list, so now let's look at the most popular version of this Alphaville track in the southern hemisphere from the Australian band Youth group which took the music scene by storm thanks largely due to its music video which pays homage to the home videos people used to make throughout the twentieth century.
There were no signs of Akon slowing down even here in Australia where he was considerably less successful than the rest of the world, heck this lead single to his second album proved to be more successful here than in most parts of the world likely due to the presence of Eminem who reduced himself to the odd guest verse during his hiatus from recording a new album throughout the second half of the decade.
It really does pain me to admit that the original version of this track from Donna Summer was a complete flop here in Australia as it remains one of her best songs in her catalogue, I guess this cover from four of the more popular female contestants from Australian idol becoming one of the biggest hits of the decade was meant to be a consolation for that song being a flop.
It looked like Shakira would be a one album wonder as her second album in English failed to catch on in the English-speaking market, however this bonus track from the album released this year saved the album likely due to it being a song about Shakira's Columbian heritage complete with production and vocals from Wyclef Jean. It was a huge hit back in the day and likely would've been even bigger if it were released now.
This was a song that showcases a more sexually provocative side of Justin Timberlake given how it has lyrics alluding to BDSM which I'm surprised were unedited for the radio back in the day. It was an easy hit for the former N sync member given this was back in the day where former child stars moved into adulthood in the most sexual (and some might say tacky) was possible.
It looked like Beyonce's second solo album would be a huge flop for her worldwide given how the singles on the standard edition failed to become hits for her, she obviously had other plans as this bonus track from the deluxe edition managed to become a huge hit for her which restored the popularity of the album shortly after its release. The song is best known for the lines "to the left to the left" which she repeats throughout the track.
Following the success he had with "Love generation," Bob Sinclar released this track which heavily samples "Gonna make you sweat" from C+C Music factory which became a hit here in Australia. I will say that it was a slow rise to its success given how it lingered in and out of the top twenty at first before finally reaching the upper echelons of the charts several months after its initial release.
This is the one and only hit from the RNB duo Gnarls Barkley, a duo best known for its member Cee Lo Green who had a huge solo hit with "F U" in 2010 and for appearing as the Mummy in the Hotel Transylvania franchise (and a bunch of social media posts I won't get into here.) This feels like a throwback to the 70's which how rich the soul sound is even compared to the songs that inspired it.
This is the last hit that Jessica Simpson had in her career, mainly because this cover of the Nancy Sinatra classic serves as the theme song to the theatrical adaptation of the Dukes of hazard which was a critical failure due to its outdated depictions of the redneck culture. She happens to star in the film as Daisy Duke which earned her a Razzie for worst actress due to how bad her performance was.
It does amuse me that this guy is a one hit wonder in America given how inescapably popular he was for the remainder of the 00's internationally, this was his second hit from his debut album which proved to be as successful as hit one and only Billboard hit here in Australia. People have made jokes about how much of a wimp he is on record, however it's worth noting that he's a former Captain in the British army.
In keeping with tradition of having a theme song to the FIFA world cup, French producer Bob Sinclar released this track which was sung in the persona of the mascot of the games Goleo IV (even though the cartoon lion is nowhere to be found in the video.) It was a massive worldwide success for him and led to his earlier entry on this list being an even bigger success here in Australia.
Well, this might've been the duet to sink the reputation of both artists involved, bear in mind that the original from Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush was a huge hit in Australia exactly twenty years prior to when Shannon Noll and Rogue trader's frontwoman Natalie Bassingthwaighte took their stab at the ballad to massive commercial success. I bring this up because fans of the original were not thrilled with this remake.
Well, this is certainly a surprise, mainly because this was the first single that Westlife released without the presence of Brian McFadden and yet it remains their biggest hit here in Australia. Considering that Brian would go on to have more success on his own than what the band ever achieved, I would've thought his absence would sink the group.
Although "Stupid girls" was indeed a big hit from P!nk's fourth album I'm not dead (it's still to come on this list) it was this second single from the album that made her a household name here in Australia above anywhere else in the world due to it being a massive success here upon its initial release. This and "U + ur hand" (also still to come) only became a hit in her homeland the following year for some reason.
So, Nelly Furtado's second album was a huge critical and commercial disaster from 2003, so much so that she felt the need to go in a completely new direction with her third album by enlisting the help of Timbaland to be its executive producer. The results were an album which had her shifting towards an early prototype of the club boom starting with this lead single which had the producer/rapper provide a guest verse for her.
This was the sequel to "My humps" that apparently everyone was asking for back in the day as it once again has Fergie brag about how hot she is and Will I am validating her ego with his own verse, I guess she at least has more of a presence on here which justifies this being a solo single from her.
Given the discourse that "Milkshake" by Kelis has had since its release in America, I'd hate to think of how the internet would react to this track from the Sugababes given how it's also built around a sexual innuendo that I doubt most of it would understand (here's a hint, the button in question isn't to an elevator like the video suggests.) They would only have one more hit in Australia after this before they faded into obscurity.
Now I know I should hate this song for sampling "Tainted love" from Soft Cell, however that song is so good with its instrumentation that I don't mind that it was used so egregiously by JR Rottem even if it did lead to a career of sampling other oldies for (then) modern songs to diminishing returns. I think this works mostly for Rihanna who has a lot of presence on here to make the sample work in her favour.
It looked like Madonna's career was done for when she released her ill-fated concept album American life in 2003, however she was able to brush over that disaster with her next album which was a throwback album to the disco era starting with this lead single that samples "Gimme gimme gimme" by Abba. It was a massive hit everywhere in the world except her native America where it was only a modest success.
This was the second hit from JT's second solo album Futuresex/Lovesounds, an album that seemed to want to make JT into a sex symbol which it arguably succeeded in doing given how successful it and the singles were in addition to him being considered one of the sexiest men of the decade. This was also the song which made T.I a household name here in Australia due to his guest verse being memorable.
This had a bit of a slow rise to its peak in popularity here in Australia, I'm guessing this was due to it being huge in the indie sphere which had exploded in popularity around this time due to most of the digital downloads coming from that sector of the music industry down under. Once it did find its way to the mainstream, this proved to be one of the biggest hits of the decade for the NZ band.
This was originally a solo track from the Pussycat dolls on their album, I'm guessing because they felt this track was sexy enough on their own and felt they didn't need a rapper of colour to validate their attractiveness. Their label obviously disagreed as they pulled in Snoop Dogg to put in a feature for them which is perhaps why this managed to be a slightly bigger hit than the second and third singles on the album.
This was one of only two hits that Ne-Yo had in Australia throughout the 00's, the other was "Closer" from two years later which was more upbeat than this track which is a slow RNB ballad about his complicated feelings he has in a relationship he's in. He was much more popular in NZ and especially his native America where he scored multiple other hits in both countries in addition to these two.
It seems weird that BEP wouldn't have any success with their first two albums without Fergie considering that everything they released while she was part of the group was a massive success, this is the latest example which was the fourth and final single from Monkey business which was likely a hit due to the sample of that scene from Pulp fiction (later parodied in Space jam) they used to open the track.
Well, this is a song that's sparked a bunch of controversy since its initial release, mainly because it details Rihanna in what appears to be a perfect relationship with someone and yet she still feels the need to cheat on him and yet realises that her admitting this to him would be devastating to him which leaves her conflicted in what she needs to do. I guess this dilemma connected with audiences back in the day to make it a hit.
This is a song that feels like it was meant for BEP but Will I am instead gave to the Pussycat dolls given how it sounded too similar to "My humps" (at least conceptually) to be included on Monkey business, that would explain why he provides a guest verse on here and why there's that refrain that sounds like a prototype to "Boom boom pow" from later in the decade. It was another easy hit for the girls, proving they were on a roll this year.
There were no signs of these girls slowing down in the music industry as their second single managed to become a massive worldwide hit for them, this time it's with one of their ballads which showcases a more restrained side of them which I'm sure also titillated their audiences the same was as their other songs did.
This is often considered as one of the worst songs of the decade, mainly for how repetitive it is as well as how awful the lyrics are. Basically, it's a song that serves more as a warmup to Fergie's solo album as it can be considered the predecessor for that album's single "Fergalicious" which also has her and Will I am gawking at how attractive she is.
This was the third big hit in a row that P!nk was able to score here in Australia, this time it's with a song that's about how she's out with her friends and is getting hit on by a guy that she's clearly not interested in and how she handles the situation. If this sounds familiar to anyone, that's because this very premise was used by Meghan Trainor a decade later with her hit single "No" and was widely ridiculed for how poorly she copied this track.
This was the only other hit that Sean Paul had here in Australia, likely because it also managed to top the Billboard charts just like "Get busy" did three years prior. He interestingly did very well over in the UK considering that the Brits didn't seem to have much love for reggae until he came alone this decade.
As far as I'm aware, this is the last hit to launch the career of a cast member from Neighbours, although I get the feeling this was always going to be a hit considering A: this sounds exactly like something the Veronicas would've had a hit with around this time and B: Stephanie McIntosh is the much younger sister of Jason Donovan who kickstarted this trend in the late 80's.
I guess there was a tradition for the runner up of a season of Australian idol to have the bigger hit than the winner, although in this case Lee Harding cheated as he released a two for one deal as he has an original song he wrote for the competition as well as cover on here. Don't feel too bad for the winner Kate as she had more success than him both solo and as a member of the Young divas.
While it was a little late to the party in the southern hemisphere, this debut single from Chris Brown was a massive success in Australia and NZ and ushered in one of the most divisive RNB singers of all time. This was even prior to his string of controversies as a person as even from the beginning, people felt he was little more than an Usher wannabe and later on would refer to him as a Justin Bieber of colour.
This song may seem low on this list due to how successful it was on the Australian digital charts; however, I've ranked these songs based on how well they did with their physical sales given how the digital charts were in their infancy when they launched this year and thus, had songs overstay their welcome on those charts. In any case, we have this lead single from Eskimo Joe's third album which finally broke them through to a mainstream audience.
An interesting fact about Nelly Furtado's third album Loose was that the album cycle was different depending on where in the world you're from, as such this was the lead single to her album in the UK as opposed to her earlier entry which was the lead single in most other parts of the world including here in Australia and NZ. I'm guessing the Brits wanted to hear a female perspective of the Hall and Oates track of the same name.
This was the solo debut for Fergie, it's a song that's infamous due to how abrasive it is as well as the "oh shits" played throughout the track which of course was censored to "oh snap" for the radio. If you can believe this, it was her first Billboard chart topper as none of her songs with BEP made it to number one in her native America prior to this coming out, although at least she scored three chart toppers with them after this.
This is the lead single to Gwen Stefani's second album the Sweet escape, it was a massive hit upon its initial release despite it instantly garnering criticism for a wide range of reasons from the music video which depicted her as a sexually provocative nun to the sample of "The lonely goatherd" from the Sound of music. These criticisms led to the song not being as successful as the title track from the album.
This was the final hit that JoJo managed to achieve in her career, this was due to legal troubles with her label who refused to allow her to release new music due to her second album underperforming and also refusing to let her out of their contract for whatever reason (she was only thirteen when she signed to her label, which it turns out is illegal as she was a minor.) At least she's finally been able to release new music since.
It's worth noting that "4ever" was pulled from shelves in order to encourage the success of the duo's second single as well as their album here in Australia, otherwise that would've easily been an even bigger success than it already was back in the day. Here we have said second single which was also a massive success for them back in the day and confirmed them as one of the hot new acts in the pop rock genre.
This victory single came from by far the most controversial winner of Australian idol as Damien Leith wasn't even an Australian citizen when he won the fourth season of the series, not helped is that his victory came at the expense of Jessica Mauboy who would've been the only aboriginal contestant to win the show.
This was the lead single to P!nk's fourth album I'm not dead, an album that reassured her fans that she wasn't out of ideas and that she had new life in her music which seemed to be the case as she's still going strong even to this day (as of this writing.) Here she has a message to girls to not follow the trends of the moment and that it's a good thing if they consider themselves as outcasts.
This was the third big hit to come from the Veronicas debut album, it continues the trend of the duo singing in unison to create the illusion they were singing as one person which I and their many fans appreciate for its uniqueness as well as us connecting with the song regardless of how it's presented. They would release two more singles from the album which both flopped due to the album sales eating up their success.
We've featured several tracks from his ex-wife Jessica Simpson on this site so far, so I guess it was only a matter of time before we got a hit from Nick Lachey here in Australia which came in the form of this lead single from his second solo album. Nick of course was previously known for being a member of the boy band 98° who also didn't have any success here in Australia, that would explain why this was his only hit here.
This is one of two hits that the Rogue traders had from their debut album that wasn't based off a sample from an older track (their first single was based off an Elvis Costello sample) the other was "We're coming home" which was too much of a sleeper hit to make it on this site. This was a huge hit for the band as it was the song they released once they dropped their album which was a massive success.
This was the last hit to come from Evanescence, mainly because it serves as the lead single for an album that many people will tell you was more of the same from their debut album three years prior. Indeed, while the album was a massive success, it was panned by critics for failing to innovate their sound which resulted in their subsequent material failing to find much of an audience.
This was written for this year's opening ceremony for the Commonwealth games in Melbourne by Delta Goodrem and her (then) fiancé Brian McFadden, it was an instant success due to how inescapably popular she was following the success of her first two albums throughout the decade.
This was the fifth hit in a row that the Pussycat dolls had here in Australia, it was a massive success here due to it being a female empowerment anthem about how they don't need the satisfaction of a man to have their lives fulfilled. I guess you can say it's hypocritical for them to have a song like this given their other entries on this site, however I and many others do agree that it's their best song by a mile.
This was the third victory single to come out of Australian idol, although at least this time, the winner in question had more of a career than her predecessor as Kate scored a second solo hit after this as well as a ton of success as one of the members of Young divas.
This was the third hit in a row that the Rogue traders managed to have here in Australia, this time they interpolate "My Sharona" by the Knack which perhaps reminded audiences of the original enough to make this a hit for them. The song has gotten flak over the years for its lyrics, specifically the chorus where Natalie admits to watching someone who was in turn watching her, only to find out she was watching them to begin with.
For whatever reason, "Behind these hazel eyes" was a massive commercial disappointment here in Australia despite how well I remember hearing that song on the radio back in the day. Fortunately, the fourth single from Breakaway was a massive hit for Kelly Clarkson due to it being about her dealing with her parents' divorce and how it left her emotionally scarred growing up.
It appears that Christina Aguilera had always wanted to make a throwback album to the forties and that her collaboration with Nelly on "Tilt ya head back" wasn't a fluke in that regard, as such we have the lead single to her third album which was a good indicator of what was to come on that album as it indeed attempts to be a throwback to the music that audiences were listening to in the first half of the twentieth century.
I remember this song being way popular than its placement on this list would otherwise suggest, meaning that it's possible this second single from Nickelback's All the right reasons would've been even bigger had the digital charts been launched during the height of its popularity here in Australia. This was pushed back as one of the later singles in America from the band, likely due to it sounding different from the rest of their catalogue.
It appears that P Diddy was still trying to find the next teen idol for his label as he signed (then) teenage model Cassie Ventura to his label where she scored a massive worldwide hit with this RNB track before fading into obscurity. There were a lot of female RNB stars in this vein who were likely trying to become the next Ashanti or Ciara, although Cassie was by far the most successful in this vein.
This was meant to be the last song that Eminem released before he retired from music, of course that retirement lasted all of four years as he would return by the end of the decade with his album Relapse which was a commercial success for the rapper despite also being panned by critics like Encore was. In America, the big hit off his greatest hits album was "Shake that" which was his attempt at a strip club anthem.
This is the last big hit that RHCP had here in Australia, although internationally that honour would go to "Snow" from the same album as this served as the lead single for which either way should tell you that this was the last album that they would be superstars with before their popularity evaporated going into the 2010's. This song would've done alright with its physical sales; however, its success largely came from digital sales.
This was originally a hit for Savage in his native NZ where it didn't have Akon providing a guest verse for him, that version wasn't released here in Australia as he was able to afford the international RNB singer by the time it was released down under almost a year after its initial release. He had a ton of other hits in his homeland; however, he remains a one hit wonder with this song (OK a two-hit wonder if you count the Joel Fletcher remix.)
Considering the original version of this track wasn't among the biggest hits of the 70's anywhere in the world, it seems odd that it would be the song that British DJ Meck would decide to use it as the song to reintroduce the world to Leo Sayer decades after he last had a hit anywhere in the world. It proved to be equally as successful here in Australia as the original was likely for the video which pays homage to Xanadu of all things.
It turns out Biggie Smalls wasn't a one hit wonder here in Australia after all as he managed to achieve a second posthumous hit here with this posse cut with Diddy, Nelly and Jagged edge. I suppose if 2pac was able to keep scoring hits worldwide from beyond the grave there was no reason his main rival in his lifetime couldn't do the same.
Given how the third single from Shannon Noll's second album was a bit of a commercial disappointment here in Australia (it won't be appearing on this list) this fourth single becoming a big hit was a bit of a surprise given how its placement on here was due to how well it did with its physical sales (as are all entries on this list.) I guess this goes to show that "Now I run" was more of a weak choice for a single than anything else.
I'm surprised this collaboration didn't happen much sooner in time considering how Aerosmith have been active almost as long as Santana has, I guess it was only once the latter found success by collaborating with some of the biggest names of the 90's and 00's that he finally decided to add a rock legend to his roster of collaborations with this track. Indeed, this sounds like something from the golden age of 70's rock and roll which is likely why it was a hit.
This was the lead single to Guy Sebastian's third album, an album that seemed to have better luck with its singles as the second single will be making an appearance on the next list of mine as well.
Over a decade prior to his presence on the song which single handedly introduced the world to 2010's reggaeton "Despacito," Daddy Yankee was a one hit wonder with his own reggaeton track which became a surprise worldwide success for the Latin artist likely due to how catchy it was compared to everything else on this list. You'd think that he would've thrived during the Zumba craze of the 2010's given how his music would fit into those playlists.
This was the second hit that the Young divas had here in Australia that was a cover of a song produced by Stock Aiken and Waterman back in the day and was a huge flop down under, this time they update the Lonnie Gordon classic from 1990 which I'm willing to bet was many people's introduction to the dance pop classic of that era given how popular this cover was.
This was the second single to come from Christina Aguilera's Back to basics, it's a standards ballad that harkens back to the days of Vera Lynn that wasn't as appealing to audiences this year as her earlier entry on this list. It was a decent success for her, however the big hit off the album wouldn't come until the third single which was more of an Andrews sisters' tribute.
This was the other big hit that Ashlee Simpson managed to score from her sophomore album, again it was only a success here in Australia which suggests that only we Aussies were able to overlook the SNL blunder she made back in 2004 when she released said album. The success she had down under likely convinced her to make a third album later in the decade, although that was a flop even here when it released.
The legends are true people, Paris Hilton did in fact have a singing career back in the day which consisted of this one and only hit from her one and only album. As I said, I promised myself that I was going to be nice to each and every entry I feature on this site, as such I will say that this is far from the worst song I've ever heard as it at least has a catchy melody and Paris doesn't actively drive me insane on the track.
Although these guys had minor success with "It's too late" two years prior, it was this song that made them a household name likely due to it greatly benefitting from being released around the time that the digital charts had finally begun to be tracked in Australia. The two songs are very similar to each other (at least in my opinion) so perhaps "It's too late" was yet another victim of digital piracy back in the day.
Even from the very beginning, Rihanna was able to achieve massive success throughout the world with her singles, it's just that she wouldn't be the household name we all know her as until later in the decade as this second single from her debut album often gets forgotten about when looking over her catalogue.
This was a hit twice here in Australia, the first time was on its initial release and the second was when the album became a success worldwide several months after its initial release. I get the feeling it was this track that finally allowed many of their contemporaries to find success such as Fall out boy and the Fray as there was a sudden rise in tracks like this finding success following its success.
This feels like an odd choice for a single because like the rest of Confessions on a dance floor, this was meant to flow in from the previous track on the album and into the following track seamlessly to give off the illusion it was one big continuous song on the album. That didn't seem to hinder its popularity here in Australia as it became a massive hit for the queen of pop even this far into her career.
There were no signs of Shannon Noll slowing down from his second album as he managed to have a huge hit with the title track from said album, in fact it looked like he had finally overtaken Guy Sebastian in the mainstream given how he would only have one hit to his name this year (which we've already looked at) from an album that wasn't anywhere near as successful as what Lift was.
You know that Nicole Scherzinger was inescapable this year when she was able to revive the popularity of Diddy after four years of him not having a hit anywhere in the world, here they are with that song which is a sex jam about how much they're both into each other which naturally titillated audiences this year.
This was the fourth hit to come from Mariah Carey's comeback album, although like the other entries from the album, it was far more successful in her native America as the rest of the world was likely still sceptical at the time that she had recovered from her erratic behaviour from earlier in the decade which she clearly had by this point in her career. It could also be that love ballads weren't doing so well in the mainstream at the time internationally.
This was a random hit that Nelly had this year about grillz, for the uninitiated, those are the fake teeth that rappers and other celebrities tended to wear throughout the decade, meaning Nelly made a song specifically about how he finds women wearing the mouthpieces to be sexy. I guess enough people also found the mouth gear to be sexy which is why it was a massive hit for him worldwide.
If you're still convinced that James Blunt is a one hit wonder with "You're beautiful," consider the fact that he scored a third hit from his debut album here in Australia which has been much better received over the years than his other two big hits from the album. All of this success led to him making a follow up album the following year that was also a massive hit everywhere in the world except for America.
This was such a commercial disappointment for Beyonce here in Australia, I'm not sure why as this lead single to her second solo album used the same formula as "Crazy in love" right down to it having her future husband Jay-Z on as a guest rapper. I guess her fans wanted her to embrace her feminist side of her music as she would find more success with her feminist (and sometimes misandrist) anthems from here on out.
I guess this was the song that confirmed that Chris Brown wasn't going to be a flash in the pan as it managed to become a worldwide hit for the RNB singer, it wasn't exactly the biggest hit anywhere in the world, however it did promise him a ton of success that he would of course achieve later in the decade.
While it was more of a sleeper hit this year, fans of Brendan Urie will be relieved to know that the debut single from his band Panic! at the disco was a huge success here in Australia which no doubt led to the success of My chemical romance's hit from earlier on this list. They would have a second minor hit with "But it's better if you do" (which won't be appearing on this site) and wouldn't score another for at least a decade.
I think this was meant to be the "Lose yourself" of 50 cent's autobiographical film Get rich or die trying, it was a hit worldwide likely due to the film being a box office success (even though it was panned by critics for being a rip-off of his mentor's film) but it didn't receive any accolades to my knowledge nor did it reach the dizzying heights of Eminem's Oscar winning ballad from earlier in the decade.
This was the other big hit that Lindsay Lohan had here in Australia, with this being a song she wrote about her estranged relationship with her father who had been exploiting her fame since she joined Disney almost a decade prior to this coming out. Even though she was panned by critics for not being a good vocalist in their eyes (I personally disagree with that assessment) it still resonates with fans to this day thanks to its honest lyrics.
I guess Kate Dearaugo managed to achieve what Guy Sebastian achieved and none of the other winners of Australian idol had by scoring a second hit soon after winning the show, although this is more of a track from the Veronicas as it was originally meant for their debut album but was cut from the album and donated to her instead. Even though she achieved huge success on her own, she still ended up joining Young divas later in the year.
This section will cover songs that would've flopped on our charts were it not for how well they sold on the digital charts in Australia, it goes to show how necessary it was to allow these charts to integrate to the mainstream given how these next few entries were very popular here back in the day.
There was a rise in emo culture beginning from this year, so much so that the longtime band AFI who had been active for fifteen years at this point managed to finally score a hit here and in their native America (although it wasn't nearly as successful on Billboard as it was here in Australia.) They would be a one hit wonder with this track that I'm guessing was meant to be an homage to Meat loaf based on the video.
Here we have a less controversial James from the UK scoring a massive worldwide hit with a folk ballad, in this case it's James Morrison who made it big with this ballad that would've appeared on the list proper had I allowed the stats from our digital charts to factor in the rankings for this list. It was one of the first songs to make it big down under thanks to the help of legal digital downloads.
This was the third and final hit that the Sugababes had here in Australia, it was a song about how you shouldn't care about what people look like as its their actions that make a person what they are and not their physical appearance. It's a song that was absolutely necessary for the time given how people had become so caught up in their appearances that they didn't realise who they were hurting in the long run.
This was one of the first songs to greatly benefit from being released when the digital charts were incorporated onto the main charts as Wolfmother otherwise wouldn't have had any success with their singles despite having one of the biggest albums of the decade with their self-titled debut. I've heard these guys described as a throwback band to the 70's, I guess that's why they had so much love from older audiences at the time.
This was a massive hit on the digital charts this year, although its success didn't translate to physical sales which means this second single from Eskimo Joe's breakthrough album likely would've been a flop back in the day had it been released even six months earlier to when it came out. It goes to show you which demographic was the first to gravitate towards digital downloads.
Well at least I've been able to feature one track from the Killers on this site, you better believe that these guys would've had at least one appearance from their debut album had digital sales existed when it dropped two years prior. Here we have the second single from their sophomore album which managed to benefit from the digital charts existing when it was released as a single.
This was commissioned for the fifi world cup this year; it combines the works of Queen with the popularity of the Crazy frog which explains its success even if I know many Queen fans are screaming at this entry as they read it. If it's any consolation for those people, this was the song which killed the Crazy frog phenomenon as it didn't have any more hits after this.
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