his year's CD rocked! Simple, loud, and fast defined this mix. Reflecting the growing prevalence of downloading music, we also began to incorporate non-single album tracks, or music from previous but still recent years. Whereas before, we would only consider including tracks released as singles during that particular calendar year on our annual survey. We also stopped indicating which songs reached number one on the UK chart, as we're becoming lesser chart whores.

In celebration of modernism, the front cover features a cropped detail of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed Farnsworth house in Plano, Illinois. The back cover sports a photograph taken by Andreas Gursky of those apartment blocks south of Gare Montparnasse, a place we passed through a few times late in the year.

Track listing:

1. BUSTED - Air hostess (03.57)
2. Courtney LOVE - Mono (03.39)
3. The OFFSPRING - Hit that (02.48)
4. McFLY - That girl (03.14)
5. GREEN DAY - American idiot (02.58)
6. P!NK - Save my life (03.16)
7. BUSTED - Year 3000 (03.19)
8. The STREETS - Fit but you know it (04.14)
9. The CHARLATANS - Try again today (03.42)
10. TRAVIS - Walking in the sun (02.58)
11. The STREETS - Could well be in (04.23)
12. ATOMIC KITTEN - Someone like me (02.07)
13. PET SHOP BOYS - Flamboyant (03.49)
14. SCISSOR SISTERS - Comfortably numb (04.25)
15. U2 - Vertigo (03.14)
16. GREEN DAY - Boulevard of broken dreams (04.20)
17. BEASTIE BOYS - Rhyme the rhyme well (02.47)
18. BJÖRK - Who is it (03.57)
19. George MICHAEL - Amazing (04.22)
20. Gwen STEFANI - What you waiting for (03.41)
21. EMINEM - Just lose it (04.08)
22. LMC vs U2 - Take me to the clouds above (03.33)

ou can now explore other years' pop survey compilations and their respective liner notes and artwork by hovering over the artwork displayed to the left-- this will identify the year of the compilation of each corresponding image. Clicking on each image will take you to that year's dedicated page.

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