This week on the pop music history podcast reliving the 40 biggest selling songs from every week of the 2000s…As Rihanna, Infernal and Fall Out Boy head up the top 40 to challenge Gnarls Barkley for number one, we got a motley crew of new entries, including Snow Patrol on a major glow-up, The Flaming Lips’ chart peak and the return to the charts of Stevie Nicks with one of the most beautiful (and petty) songs ever written.

Featuring the following songs:

A-Ha - Cosy Prisons

The Black Eyed Peas - Pump It

Blaze feat. Barbara Tucker - Most Precious Love

Chico - It’s Chico Time

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

Deep Dish feat. Stevie Nicks - Dreams

Embrace - Nature’s Law

Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance

The Feeling - Sewn

The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

Hard-Fi - Better Do Better

Infernal - From Paris to Berlin

James Blunt - Wisemen

Jamie Foxx feat. Ludacris - Unpredictable

Joey Negro - Make a Move on Me

Juanes - La Camisa Negra

Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco - Touch the Sky

Kelly Clarkson - Because of You

The Kooks - Naive

Madonna - Sorry

Mary J. Blige and U2 - One

Meck feat. Leo Sayer - Thunder in My Heart Again

Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone

Ne-Yo - So Sick

Notorious B.I.G. feat. Diddy and Nelly - Nasty Girl

Orson - No Tomorrow

Pink - Stupid Girls

The Pussycat Dolls feat. will.i.am - Beep

Richard Ashcroft - Music is Power

Rihanna - SOS

Sean Paul - Temperature

Shayne Ward - No Promises

Shayne Ward - That’s My Goal

Snow Patrol - You’re All I Have

Soundbwoy Ent - Never Wanna Say

The Streets - When You Wasn’t Famous

Sugababes - Red Dress

Trina feat. Kelly Rowland - Here We Go

The Zutons - Why Won’t You Give Me Your Love

“SOS please someone help me. It’s not healthy for me to feel this way” about a pop song. But that’s just how I feel about Rihanna’s SOS, one of the true starmaking tracks of the decade. Which of course means it’s probably going to be beat by a drippy ballad from Shayne Ward off of that X Factor. So the 2000s charts go.

Do Rihanna and Shayne Ward have what it takes to knock Gnarls Barkley off the top, or will it be the job of Gorillaz, Infernal, Fall Out Boy, Hard-Fi or Jamie Foxx. Find out as we deep dive into another week on the 2006 charts.

Which pop stars has MULTIPLE family members in prison for murder? Which Danish band is basically forced into doing an England World Cup song? And which singer had to present a TV show with Holly Willoughby where every presenter had to be barefoot. Find out as we tell another set of tales from 2000s music, in the only music history podcast that every episode counts down the top 40 singles chart from this week 20 years ago.

This week featuring the following songs:Beverley Knight - Piece of My Heart

The Black Eyed Peas - Pump It

Chico - It’s Chico Time

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

Embrace - Nature’s Law

Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance

The Feeling - Sewn

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

Gorillaz - Kids With Guns/El Manana

Hard-Fi - Better Do Better

Infernal - From Paris to Berlin

James Blunt - Wisemen

Jamie Foxx feat. Ludacris - Unpredictable

Joey Negro - Make a Move on Me

Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco - Touch the Sky

Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away

The Kooks - Naive

Lorraine - I Feel It

Madonna - Sorry

Mary J. Blige and U2 - One

Meck feat. Leo Sayer - Thunder in My Heart Again

Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

Mish Mash - Speechless

Nelly feat. Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp - Grillz

Ne-Yo - So Sick

Notorious B.I.G. feat. Diddy and Nelly - Nasty Girl

Orson - No Tomorrow

Pink - Stupid Girls

The Pussycat Dolls feat. will.i.am - Beep

Ray J - One Wish

Rihanna - SOS

Sean Paul - Temperature

Shayne Ward - No Promises

Shayne Ward - That’s My Goal

The Streets - When You Wasn’t Famous

Studio B - C’mon Get It On

Sugababes - Red Dress

Trina feat. Kelly Rowland - Here We Go

Various Artists - Tribute to Jinky

The Zutons - Why Won’t You Give Me Your Love

This week on our look at the music that came out this week in 2006, we’re going literally from the sublime to ridiculous, in a chart that takes us from one of the most emotional songs ever written in U2’s One’s to one of the stupidest tracks ever, D4L’s Laffy Taffy.

In between, we get Franz Ferdinand singing about Jesus, Morrissey discussing losing his virginity, Michael Jackson terrified by the idea of a woman’s sexuality and The Zutons’ ode to keeping women locked in your basement (do not try this at home, kids).In short, another typically weird look into the pop music of the 2000s.

This week’s episode features the following tracks:Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue

Beverley Knight - Piece of My Heart

The Black Eyed Peas - Pump It

The Charlatans - Blackened Blue Eyes

Chico - It’s Chico Time

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

Depeche Mode - Suffer Well

D4L - Laffy Taffy

Editors - All Sparks

Embrace - Nature’s Law

Fall Out Boy - Sugar We’re Going Down

The Feeling - Sewn

Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen/L Wells

Girls Aloud - Whole Lotta History

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

James Blunt - Wisemen

Joey Negro - Make a Move on Me

Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco - Touch the Sky

Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away

The Kooks - Naive

Madonna - Sorry

Mary J. Blige and U2 - One

Meck feat. Leo Sayer - Thunder in My Heart Again

Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana

Mish Mash - Speechless

Morrissey - You Have Killed Me

Nelly feat. Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp - Grillz

Ne-Yo - So Sick

Notorious B.I.G. feat. Diddy and Nelly - Nasty Girl

Orson - No Tomorrow

Pink - Stupid Girls

The Pussycat Dolls feat. will.i.am - Beep

Ray J - One Wish

Royal Ballet Sinfonia with Gavin Sutherland - The BBC Radio 4 UK Theme

Sean Paul - Temperature

The Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got the Love

The Streets - When You Wasn’t Famous

Sugababes - Red Dress

Various Artists - Tribute to Jinky

The Zutons - Why Won’t You Give Me Your Love