Billboard Best Of The 2000s: Artists Of The Decade
They strutted, they rocked and they grooved on the charts all decade; these are the 20 music stars with the best performance on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Hot 100 over the last ten years. Here are Billboards Artists of the Decade.
1. Eminem
2. Usher
3. Nelly
4. Beyonce
Billboard’s Top Female Artist of the 2000s has cultivated a catalog of hits that transcend chart achievements. “Crazy in Love,” “Irreplaceable,” and “Single Ladies” all topped the Hot 100, but they also helped Beyonce become the queen of this decade’s pop-culture pantheon. “I’ve always tried to pick songs and singles that were … a part of things that people are passionate about and want to talk about and debate,” Beyonce said in October. “‘Single Ladies’ is an uptempo song that’s fun. But it’s also something women go through every day.”
5. Alicia Keys
6. 50 Cent
7. Nickleback
8. Britney Spears
9. Destiny’s Child
“The best thing (about being in Destiny’s Child) is that I’ve gained two sisters who have my back,” Michelle Williams told us in 2006. “I learned about love and loyalty through good and bad, thick and thin.” We’re sure the string of multi-platinum albums and five No.1 singles this decade didn’t hurt either.
10. Jay-Z
Even though Jay-Z has appeared on 14 top 10s singles this decade, it took him until 2009 to take a song from one of his own albums to No. 1 on the Hot 100. But the artist with the empire state of mind has more things on his plate than crafting hit singles. “I’m an entrepreneur, that’s what I’ve been all my life,” he told us in July. “I can’t just sit here and make records and not do anything else.”
Top female and top group…B has done us proud!!
yeah!!.. you'll always shine B. Keep on doing the thing. I can't wait for your next album in 2010