The Top Pop Artists of the Decade - 2000s

Popular music is tough to define, besides the obvious qualifications: Does the song have mass appeal? Are people talking about it? Is the track glossy and polished? Does your mom tap her feet to it? Answer "yes" to at least three of these and you've got yourself a pop song. As the 00's winds down, we're in a nostalgic mood and looking back at the decade's best pop artists, from Britney to Beyonce. When it came to the Top 40 set, this here was a great time to love music. Though we know you'll have serious problems with it, here now are our picks for the Best Pop Artists of the '00s

I <3 Lansten

Lance made a surprise appearance on The Jay Leno show on Tuesday because the girl from "Precious" (really, really sorry but her name is hard to read/pronounce so I'm not even gonna try to spell it) is a huge *NSYNC fan. Leno has a segment "Earn Your Plug" where celebrities have to do certain things before plugging whatever they're there for. And being a huge *NSYNC fan, she said that she'd be really good at *NSYNC trivia.

She missed 1 question, about Lance's weird superstition, which I guessed correctly. She said she's such a dork knowing all these "useless *NSYNC trivia" but for some reason I knew all the answers from the top of my head (except for that one, I guessed) and I got them all right! I have A LOT of useless *NSYNC knowledge that's eating the space in my brain!

Some MTV Vids

So while I was on MTV.com for my last post, I thought I'd just take a little look on Justin's page there. Found some vids from him back in his *NSYNC days:

Timbaland Says Justin Timberlake's 'Carry Out' Is His Favorite Shock Value II Track

Got this from here.

Justin Timberlake is featured on a track called "Carry Out" on Timbaland's new LP, Timbaland Presents Shock Value II, out Tuesday (December 8). And considering the magic the two have made in the past (particularly on Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds LP), it's no surprise that even alongside collabos with Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry, the JT track stands out as a potential radio blockbuster.

Rolling Stone's All Time Greats

100 Best Songs of the Decade

100 Best Albums of the Decade

The most important music of the '00s as chosen by more than 100 artists, critics and industry insiders