With *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached, a standard-setting 2000 pop release both in its cutting-edge production and its record-breaking commercial performance, celebrating its 20th anniversary - and most of us needing no excuse to take a vacation from the world in 2020 - Billboard decided the time was right for a week’s celebration of the year 2000. And a couple ’80s stars returned with dramatically overhauled sounds that demonstrated they would be staying relevant well into their third decades. R&B was modernized not only at its poppiest but also at its rootsiest, as the growing neo-soul movement experienced its greatest year of commercial and critical success. Hip-hop’s geographical axis was thrown off by a brand new rap icon emerging from the country’s center. The 99 Greatest Songs of 1999: Critics' Picksīut the year wasn’t just about returning ’90s stars getting 2.0 updates.
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