T-Pain’s catalog includes both solo hits and unforgettable collaborations that defined an era. His use of auto-tune and storytelling helped shape the sound of 2000s and 2010s Hip Hop and R&B.

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on May 14, 2025. Find that audio here. You can’t talk about the sounds of the 2000s without talking about Missy Elliot. With hits from “1, 2 Step” to “Get ...

The mainstream music world often has amnesia. A song could top the charts for weeks, only to completely disappear from airwaves in just a few years. These four country songs from the 2000s have ...

Do you remember these nu-metal era rock radio hits? Odds are, it's probably been a while since they've been on your radar. The late 1990s and early 2000s gave us a lot of great music and, over the ...

When Martina McBride released “This One’s For The Girls” in 2003, she had already had two hits at pop radio, with “I Love You” and “There You Are”. But “This One’s For The Girls”, on her Martina album ...

What are the second best songs of the 2000s so-called "one-hit wonders"? They may be one-hit wonders in the eyes of some, but their music is deserving of a deeper dive. So we're taking a closer look ...

Several of these forgotten 2000s country songs are needed today more than ever. It was a less divisive time in country music, and even though we bickered about what is and isn’t “real country,” the ...

You can’t talk about the sounds of the 2000s without talking about Missy Elliot. With hits from “1, 2 Step” to “Get Ur Freak On,” the rapper, singer and songwriter’s cultural impact is undeniable. She ...