thumb|Pop singer [[Christina Aguilera gained her second and third number one singles "What a Girl Wants and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" in the U.S. totalling six weeks.]]
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales, and airplay. There were 18 number-one singles in 2000. The first of these, Santana's "Smooth", spent two weeks at the top in January, concluding a 12-week run that had begun in October 1999.
During the year, 10 acts each achieved a first U.S. number-one single, either as a lead artist or featured guest: Joe, 98 Degrees, Lonestar, The Product G&B, Aaliyah, Vertical Horizon, Matchbox Twenty, NSYNC, Sisqó, and Creed. Destiny's Child and Christina Aguilera were the only acts to have earned two number-one singles in this year. There were two collaboration singles that reached number-one on the chart: "Maria Maria" by Santana featuring The Product G&B, and "Thank God I Found You" by Mariah Carey featuring Joe and 98 Degrees. With the latter single, Carey set the record for most consecutive years charting a number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 with 11 years from 1990 (beginning with "Vision of Love") through 2000, and became her 15th number-one single on the chart.
Destiny's Child's "Independent Women" is the second-longest-running single of 2000, topping the chart for 7 consecutive weeks, with another four consecutive weeks in the 2001 chart year. Santana's "Maria Maria" is the longest-running single, staying at number one for 10 straight weeks. Other singles with extended chart run include pop singer Madonna's "Music" and Christina Aguilera's "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)", each of which topped the chart for four weeks.
Chart history
thumb|[[Santana (band)|Santana and The Product G&B's "Maria Maria" was the longest-running single of 2000, topping the chart for 10 consecutive weeks.]]
thumb|The [[girl group Destiny's Child gained their second and third number one singles "Say My Name" and their best charting single "Independent Women" which stayed at No.1 for eleven consecutive weeks.]]
thumb|Singer [[Madonna gained her twelfth number one single "Music," which stayed at the top of the U.S. charts for four consecutive weeks.]]
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|style="background-color:#FFFF99"|The #1 song of 2000, "Breathe" by Faith Hill, never reached #1 on the weekly charts.
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{| class="wikitable"
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!align="center"|Issue date
!align="center"|Song
!align="center"|Artist(s)
!align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|850
|align="left"|January 1
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"Smooth"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|Santana featuring Rob Thomas
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|January 8
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|851
|align="left"|January 15
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"What a Girl Wants"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|Christina Aguilera
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|January 22
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=3|852
|align="left"|January 29
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"I Knew I Loved You"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|Savage Garden
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|February 5
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|February 12
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|853
|align="left"|February 19
|align="center"|"Thank God I Found You"
|align="center"|Mariah Carey featuring Joe and 98 Degrees
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|re
|align="left"|February 26
|align="center"|"I Knew I Loved You"
|align="center"|Savage Garden
|align="center"|
|-
| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|854
|align="left"|March 4
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"Amazed"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|Lonestar
|align="center"|
|-
|align="left"|March 11
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=3|855
|align="left"|March 18
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"Say My Name"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|Destiny's Child
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|March 25
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|April 1
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=10|856
|align="left"|April 8
|align="center" rowspan="10"|"Maria Maria"
|align="center" rowspan="10"|Santana featuring The Product G&B
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|April 15
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|April 22
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|April 29
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|May 6
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|May 13
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|May 20
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|May 27
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|June 3
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|June 10
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|857
|align="left"|June 17
|align="center"|"Try Again"
|align="center"|Aaliyah
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=3|858
|align="left"|June 24
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"Be with You"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|Enrique Iglesias
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|July 1
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|July 8
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|859
|align="left"|July 15
|align="center"|"Everything You Want"
|align="center"|Vertical Horizon
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|860
|align="left"|July 22
|align="center"|"Bent"
|align="center"|Matchbox Twenty
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|861
|align="left"|July 29
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"It's Gonna Be Me"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|NSYNC
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|August 5
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|862
|align="left"|August 12
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"Incomplete"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|Sisqó
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|August 19
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=3|863
|align="left"|August 26
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"Doesn't Really Matter"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|Janet
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|September 2
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|September 9
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=4|864
|align="left"|September 16
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"Music"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|Madonna
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|September 23
|align="center"|<br />
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|align="left"|September 30
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|October 7
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=4|865
|align="left"|October 14
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|Christina Aguilera
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|October 21
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|October 28
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|November 4
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|866
|align="left"|November 11
|align="center"|"With Arms Wide Open"
|align="center"|Creed
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=7|867
|align="left"|November 18
|align="center" rowspan="7"|"Independent Women"
|align="center" rowspan="7"|Destiny's Child
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|November 25
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|December 2
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|December 9
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|December 16
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|December 23
|align="center"|
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|align="left"|December 30
|align="center"|
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Number-one artists
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
! Position
! Artist
! Weeks at No. 1
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| 1
| Santana
| 12
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| rowspan=2| 2
| Destiny's Child
| rowspan=2| 10
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| The Product G&B
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| 4
| Christina Aguilera
| 6
|-
| rowspan=2| 5
| Savage Garden
| rowspan=2| 4
|-
| Madonna
|-
| rowspan=2| 7
| Enrique Iglesias
| rowspan=2| 3
|-
| Janet
|-
| rowspan=4| 9
| Rob Thomas
| rowspan=4| 2
|-
| Lonestar
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| NSYNC
|-
| Sisqó
|-
| rowspan=7| 13
| Mariah Carey
| rowspan=7| 1
|-
| Joe
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| 98 Degrees
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| Aaliyah
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| Vertical Horizon
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| Matchbox Twenty
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| Creed
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See also
- 2000 in music
- List of Billboard number-one singles
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2000s
References
Additional sources
- Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition ()
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition ()
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The 2000s ()
- Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.