Hits of Australia and NZ: Hits in Australia 00's VIII

Well time for me to round out these lists based on how long a song charted here in Australia, although this time I’m only going as far as early 2009 and will be using the physical charts from 2006 onwards given how entries from that year onward lasted indefinitely on the charts and that ARIA reduced their physical charts to a top fifty in mid-2009 (that and David Kent only produced a top twenty chart for his books following the discontinuation of the AMR charts in 1999.) If I didn’t do this, then the top half of this list would be dominated with entries from 2006 onwards which I feel isn’t fair for the first half of the decade.

#72 for 2002

#80 for 2001

#87 for 2006

#73 for 2002

#88 for 2005

#89 for 2005

This feels more in line with Jewel's 90's material following the bizarre turn she made with "Intuition" from earlier on this list, although we Aussies were on board with her venture towards pop music at least with the album's singles as this too managed to linger around for quite some time on our charts due to strong radio play. Sadly, this would be the final hit she had anywhere in the world due to alienating her fanbase.

#81 for 2003

#80 for 2004

Oh look, another song that debuted high on our charts but only became a success due to lingering on the lower half of our charts for quite some time. This time it's the first of two songs Kylie released from her greatest hits package from 2004 which remains the final project she's released to date to find any sort of success, although this does feel like a missing track from her (then) most recent album Body language.

#85 for 2000

17 weeks

#88 for 2007

#81 for 2001

#82 for 2003

#90 for 2005

#74 for 2002

#91 for 2005

#86 for 2000

#81 for 2004

#83 for 2003

#75 for 2002

#82 for 2001

#84 for 2003

#87 for 2000

#83 for 2001

#82 for 2004

This was the final hit that U2 had here in Australia, at least one I wouldn't consider a "fan hit" as "The saints are coming" with Green day quickly dropped off our charts here that I consider that to be as such. In any case, this was the lead single to their grammy winning album How to dismantle an atomic bomb which proved how well loved they were both critically and commercially in the mid 00's.

#76 for 2002

#77 for 2002

#88 for 2006

#85 for 2003

#78 for 2002

#79 for 2002

#86 for 2003

#87 for 2003

#83 for 2004

#88 for 2000

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.

#84 for 2004

#88 for 2003

16 weeks

#80 for 2002

#84 for 2001

#81 for 2002

#85 for 2001

#86 for 2001

#85 for 2004

#89 for 2000

#86 for 2004

#82 for 2002

#87 for 2004

#83 for 2002

#89 for 2006

#87 for 2001

#89 for 2003

#92 for 2005

#90 for 2003

#90 for 2000

#91 for 2003

#92 for 2003

15 weeks

#93 for 2003

#88 for 2004

#91 for 2000

#93 for 2005

#89 for 2004

#90 for 2004

#94 for 2003

#84 for 2002

#95 for 2003

#91 for 2004

#85 for 2002

#96 for 2003

#97 for 2003

#88 for 2001

#89 for 2001

#98 for 2003

14 weeks

#89 for 2007

#73 for 2008

#92 for 2000

#92 for 2004

#94 for 2005

#95 for 2005

#86 for 2002

#96 for 2005

#87 for 2002

#90 for 2001

#91 for 2001

#93 for 2000

#88 for 2002

#92 for 2001

#89 for 2002

13 weeks

#93 for 2001

#93 for 2004

#97 for 2005

#94 for 2000

#90 for 2002

#94 for 2004

12 weeks

#95 for 2004

We have our first new entry on this list, yeah, I've decided to include songs that nearly made the cut on my official lists here but didn't due to all of the "fan singles" that pushed them aside on both ARIA and AMR back in the day. Anyways we have this single from the 2000 Olympics that the 12th man released which went over really well with his fellow Aussies upon its initial release.