And a couple '80s stars returned with dramatically overhauled sounds that demonstrated they would be staying relevant well into their third decades. R&B was modernized not only at its poppiest but also at its rootsiest, as the growing neo-soul movement experienced its greatest year of commercial and critical success. Hip-hop's geographical axis was thrown off by a brand new rap icon emerging from the country's center. And of course, Max Martin raised the stakes on TRL pop, maturing his sound and proving that the genre and its greatest practitioners would not be left in the '90s with Trapper Keepers and Tamagotchis.īut the year wasn't just about returning '90s stars getting 2.0 updates. The Neptunes and Swizz Beatz brought the proverbial (and sometimes literal) bells and whistles to hip-hop, setting it on its path to top 40 domination and definition. Timbaland and Rodney 'Darkchild' Jerkins amped up the dramatic tension of R&B until it sounded like something that would play at a futuristic opera. Having some of the era's greatest super-producers on the front lines certainly helped. But they seemed energized by the changeover of millennia, and motivated to push things appropriately forward. Not that the artists that defined popular music at the end of the '90s were suddenly spirited away and replaced with an entirely new vanguard: Most of the biggest artists of 1999 - the boy bands and girl groups, the breakout rappers and rock best-sellers - were the biggest artists of 2000, too. If you entered 2000 thinking that the year would bring a totally different sound befitting the turn of a new millennium.

Hindi songs 1995 to 2000