This is a copy of a list of a YouTube video listing European songs on top of the charts at the end of the century.
1. Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper 2. Green Day - Basket Case 3. Scatman John - Scatman 4. Gompie - Alice, Who the X is Alice 5. Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On 6. The Offspring - Self Esteem 7. The Bucketheads - The Bomb 8. Corona - Baby Baby 9. The Connells - '74–'75 10. Take That - Back for Good 11. La Bouche - Be My Lover 12. Céline Dion - Pour que tu m'aimes encore 13. Bryan Adams - Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? 14. Oasis - Some Might Say 15. Björk - Army of Me 16. Green Day - When I Come Around 17. Pulp - Common People 18. Michael & Janet Jackson - Scream 19. U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me 20. Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You 21. The Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom 22. Take That - Never Forget 23. Seal - Kiss from a Rose 24. TLC - Waterfalls 25. Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone 26. The Rembrandts - I'll Be There for You 27. N-Trance - Stayin' Alive 28. Technohead - I Wanna Be a Hippy 29. Shaggy - Boombastic 30. Simply Red - Fairground 31. Coolio feat. LV - Gangsta's Paradise 32. Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow 33. Queen - Heaven for Everyone 34. Oasis - Wonderwall 35. Madonna - You'll See 36. Everything but the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Mix) 37. Luniz - I Got 5 on It 38. Michael Jackson - Earth Song 39. Boyzone - Father and Son 40. Tina Turner - Goldeneye 41. Backstreet Boys - We've Got It Goin' On 42. Captain Jack - Captain Jack 43. Babylon Zoo - Spaceman 44. Skee-Lo - I Wish 45. Joan Osborne - One of Us 46. Robert Miles - Children 47. Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree 48. Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger 49. Garbage - Stupid Girl 50. The Prodigy - Firestarter 51. Mark Snow / DJ Dado - The X-Files 52. Los del Río - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) 53. Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us 54. 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman - California Love 55. Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack 56. Eros Ramazzotti - Più bella cosa 57. George Michael - Fastlove 58. Mr. President - Coco Jamboo 59. Alanis Morissette - Ironic 60. Metallica - Until It Sleeps 61. Fugees - Fu-Gee-La 62. Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three Lions 63. Peter André - Mysterious Girl 64. Faithless - Insomnia 65. Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's 66. Fugees - Killing Me Softly 67. B.B.E. - Seven Days and One Week 68. Underworld - Born Slippy 69. Spice Girls - Wannabe 70. No Mercy - Where Do You Go 71. OMC - How Bizarre 72. Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity 73. Nas - If I Ruled the World 74. Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever 75. Backstreet Boys - Qui Playing Games 76. Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart 77. Robert Miles feat. Maria Nayler - One and One 78. Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 79. Gala - Freed from Desire 80. Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - Time to Say Goodbye 81. No Doubt - Don't Speak 82. DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima 83. White Town - Your Woman 84. En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) 85. Sash! - Encore une fois 86. NSYNC - Tearin' Up My Heart 87. R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly 88. Blue Boy - Remember Me 89. Blur - Song 2 90. Lutricia MacNeal - Ain't That Just the Way 91. Daft Punk - Around the World 92. The Cardigans - Lovefool 93. Sash! - Ecuador 94. Ricky Martin - Maria 95. Eternal feat. Bebe Winans - I Wanna Be the Only One 96. Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody 97. Hanson - MMMBop 98. Skunk Anansie - Hedonism 99. Ultra Naté - Free 100. Puff Daddy & Faith Evans feat. 112 - I'll Be Missing You 101. Bellini - Samba de Janeiro 102. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony 103. Chilli featuring Carrapicho - Tic, Tic, Tac 104. Coolio feat. 40 Thevz - C U When U Get There 105. Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back) 106. Will Smith - Men in Black 107. Meredith Brooks - Bitch 108. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 109. Elton John - Candle in the Wind 97 110. Dario G - Sunchyme 111. Aqua - Barbie Girl 112. Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 113. All Saints - Never Ever 114. Wes - Alane 115. Run D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That 116. Janet Jackson - Together Again 117. Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright 118. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 119. Aqua - Doctor Jones 120. Robbie Williams - Angels 121. Lighthouse Family - High 122. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On 123. Espen Lind - When Susannah Cries 124. Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy wit It 125. Madonna - Frozen 126. Cornershop - Brimful of Asha 127. Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply 128. Ricky Martin - The Cup of Life 129. K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life 130. The Tamperer feat. Maya - Feel It 131. Madonna - Ray of Light 132. 4 the Cause - Stand by Me 133. Nek - Laura non c'è 134. Mousse T vs. Hot'N'Juicy - Horny 135. B*Witched - C'est la Vie 136. Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine 137. Dario G - Carnaval de Paris 138. Pras Michel feat. ODB & Mya - Ghetto Supastar 139. Des'ree - Life 140. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight 141. Spice Girls - Viva Forever 142. Sash! feat. Tina Cousins - Mysterious Times 143. Vengaboys - Up and Down 144. Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing 145. Boyzone - No Matter What 146. Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You 147. The Corrs - What Can I Do 148. Faithless - God Is a DJ 149. Jennifer Paige - Crush 150. Robbie Williams - Millennium 151. Vengaboys - We Like to Party 152. U2 - Sweetest Thing 153. Cher - Believe 154. Alanis Morissette - Thank U 155. Touch and Go - Would You? 156. Sasha - If You Believe 157. Will Smith - Miami 158. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) 159. Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston - When You Believe 160. Emilia - Big Big World 161. The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) 162. TQ - Westside 163. Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom Boom 164. Armand van Helden - You Don't Know Me 165. 2Pac - Changes 166. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time 167. Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away 168. Mr Oizo - Flat Beat 169. New Radicals - You Get What You Give 170. Eminem - My Name Is 171. Phat's and Small - Turn Around 172. TLC - No Scrubs 173. Tarkan - Åımarık 174. Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way 175. Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca 176. Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 177. Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much 178. Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos 179. Shanks and Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate 180. Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me 181. Jamiroquai - Canned Heat 182. Chicane - Saltwater 183. S Club 7 - Bring It All Back 184. Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love 185. Ann Lee - 2 Times 186. Wamdue Project - King of My Castle 187. Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love 188. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) 189. Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone 190. Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All 191. Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino 192. TLC - Unpretty 193. Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle 194. Texas - Summer Son 195. Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch 196. Lene Marlin - Sitting Down Here 197. Five - Keep on Movin' 198. Jennifer Lopez - Waiting for Tonight 199. Macy Gray - I Try 200. Celine Dion - That's the Way It Is
It's not very easy to say how I feel about this music. If the world had been a better place and I would have had a happier childhood maybe I wouldn't hate these songs like I do now, but it's not even about the fact that I hate them. It's not hating, it's a long time ago, my opinion now is not what it's about, no one cares about that because it's not relevant, because the music is old. But when you have a difficult childhood like I had, and they make you like music you don't want to hear literally everywhere you go, because they played it literally everywhere, at all public places, and on the TV, after a few decades you still make a bad impression on a lot of people by criticizing this music, as if it's a bad thing to do, just to share my opinion. You know, going against the mainstream, that's asking for difficulties, and that's what I always got, in the end. The real difficulty as a kid and young adult is that you want to share your interests with other people, and music is an important issue. I grew up in the 90's and I can easily name 200 songs that are way better than these tracks from the list above, not to say fàçking great, but they are, but most people will never understand that there are people behind the system that are pulling the strings, and they will always play along, and they will always follow, not criticizing because they're too afraid to hurt some leader's point of view and afraid that it would backfire on them. And that's all there is to it, if you don't want the end of this century to be the same bs, learn how to criticize the people that are pulling the strings, because if you don't, history will repeat itself over and over again. You do realize that these songs were chosen ones! The people who did not agree with the fact that these songs were chosen, let it all happen because they just simply didn't raise their voice! Time is longer than a few decades, and it takes longer than a few decades for society to realize that they (the list above but there are exceptions) are "of the devil". So you would think I digested the fact that I can easily name 200 songs from the 90's that are fàçking great "a while ago", in the sense that my childhood belongs to the past, and in the sense that I would have grown out of my need to share my interests with other people, but that's not the case. When you miss out on something as a kid, you cannot compensate for it when you're older. It stays a hole. It's a need for attention and sharing and being understood, and it never goes away, it stays unfulfilled.
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