List of best-selling singles of the 2000s in Australia

The highest-selling singles in Australia are ranked in the Australian Recording Industry Association singles chart, also known as the ARIA Charts, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The data are compiled from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores and Internet sales, in other words, both digital as well as CD sales.[1]

Guy Sebastian's single "Angels Brought Me Here" is the best selling single of the 2000s.

In January 2010, the Australian Recording Industry Association released a chart with the highest selling singles of the previous decade, using data from all 520 ARIA singles charts from 1 January 2000, to 31 December 2009.[2]

The winner of the first series of Australian Idol, Guy Sebastian, had the highest selling single of the decade, "Angels Brought Me Here". Angels Brought Me Here reached number one on the ARIA singles chart on 1 December 2003, and remained there for 3 weeks. It was followed by "The Prayer" by Anthony Callea, who was the runner up of Australian Idol second season. It reached number one, and remained there for 5 weeks.

All but 23 of the 100 songs that made the end of decade chart reached number one during the decade.

Top 100

PositionSong titleArtistArtist
nationality
YearPeak
1"Angels Brought Me Here"Guy Sebastian
Australia
20031
2"The Prayer"Anthony Callea
Australia
20051
3"I Gotta Feeling"The Black Eyed Peas
USA
20091
4"Poker Face"Lady Gaga
USA
20081
5"What About Me"Shannon Noll
Australia
20041
6"So What"Pink
USA
20081
7"Lose Yourself"Eminem
USA
20021
8"Sexy Bitch"David Guetta featuring Akon
France USA
20091
9"Sex on Fire"Kings of Leon
USA
20081
10"Love Story"Taylor Swift
USA
20091
11"The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)"Las Ketchup
Spain
20021
12"Just Dance"Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis
USA
20081
13"Low"Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
USA
20081
14"Boom Boom Pow"The Black Eyed Peas
USA
20091
15"I'm Yours"Jason Mraz
USA
20083
16"Without Me"Eminem
USA
20021
17"Teenage Dirtbag"Wheatus
USA
20001
18"Right Round"Flo Rida featuring Kesha
USA
20091
19"Born to Try"Delta Goodrem
Australia
20031
20"Dilemma"Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland
USA
20021
21"Whenever, Wherever"Shakira
Colombia
20001
22"I Kissed a Girl"Katy Perry
USA
20081
23"Bleeding Love"Leona Lewis
UK
20081
24"Shut Up"The Black Eyed Peas
USA
20031
25"Apologize"Timbaland presents OneRepublic
USA
20071
26"All Summer Long"Kid Rock
USA
20081
27"Use Somebody"Kings of Leon
USA
20081
28"Sweet About Me"Gabriella Cilmi
Australia
20081
29"Like It Like That"Guy Sebastian
Australia
20091
30"Hot n Cold"Katy Perry
USA
20084
31"Don't Cha"The Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes
USA
20051
32"Halo"Beyoncé
USA
20093
33"I'm Outta Love"Anastacia
USA
20001
34"I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)"Sandi Thom
UK
20061
35"Where Is the Love?"The Black Eyed Peas
USA
20031
36"A Little Less Conversation"Elvis vs. JLX
USA Netherlands
20021
37"No Air"Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown
USA
20081
38"Shake It"Metro Station
USA
20082
39"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"Beyoncé
USA
20095
40"Meet Me Halfway"The Black Eyed Peas
USA
20091
41"Left Outside Alone"Anastacia
USA
20041
42"Tik Tok"Kesha
USA
20091
43"Predictable"Delta Goodrem
Australia
20031
44"Big Girls Don't Cry"Fergie
USA
20071
45"Hero"Enrique Iglesias
Spain
20021
46"Can't Fight the Moonlight"LeAnn Rimes
USA
20011
47"These Kids"Joel Turner and the Modern Day Poets
Australia
20041
48"Smooth Criminal"Alien Ant Farm
USA
20011
49"Lonely"Akon
USA
20051
50"Say My Name"Destiny's Child
USA
20001
51"Black Betty"Spiderbait
Australia
20041
52"Axel F"Crazy Frog
Sweden
20051
53"When I Grow Up"The Pussycat Dolls
USA
20081
54"Get Shaky"The Ian Carey Project
USA
20093
55"In da Club"50 Cent
USA
20031
56"Freestyler"Bomfunk MC's
Finland
20001
57"The Last Day on Earth"Kate Miller-Heidke
Australia
20093
58"Can't Get You Out of My Head"Kylie Minogue
Australia
20011
59"Bring Me to Life"Evanescence
USA
20031
60"Don't Stop the Music"Rihanna
Barbados
20081
61"You Found Me"The Fray
USA
20091
62"It Wasn't Me"Shaggy featuring Ricardo "RikRok" Ducent
Jamaica UK
20011
63"SexyBack"Justin Timberlake
USA
20061
64"Angel"Shaggy
Jamaica
20011
65"Over and Over"Nelly featuring Tim McGraw
USA
20051
66"Girlfriend"Avril Lavigne
Canada
20071
67"Umbrella"Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
Barbados USA
20071
68"How You Remind Me"Nickelback
Canada
20012
69"Lost Without You"Delta Goodrem
Australia
20031
70"A Thousand Miles"Vanessa Carlton
USA
20021
71"Viva la Vida"Coldplay
UK
20082
72"Forever"Chris Brown
USA
20087
73"Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)"A.R. Rahman and The Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger
India USA
20091
74"Hey Ya!"Outkast
USA
20041
75"What You Waiting For?"Gwen Stefani
USA
20041
76"Gives You Hell"The All-American Rejects
USA
20093
77"4 Minutes"Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland
USA
20081
78"Paparazzi"Lady Gaga
USA
20092
79"Untouched"The Veronicas
Australia
20082
80"Hanging by a Moment"Lifehouse
USA
20011
81"Live Your Life"T.I. featuring Rihanna
USA Barbados
20093
82"The Way I Are"Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson
USA
20071
83"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)"Spiller
Italy
20001
84"The Climb"Miley Cyrus
USA
20095
85"Not Pretty Enough"Kasey Chambers
Australia
20021
86"Straight Lines"Silverchair
Australia
20071
87"Milkshake"Kelis
USA
20042
88"You Belong with Me"Taylor Swift
USA
20095
89"Evacuate the Dancefloor"Cascada
Germany
20093
90"Flaunt It"TV Rock featuring Seany B
Australia
20061
91"Behind Blue Eyes"Limp Bizkit
USA
20044
92"Complicated"Avril Lavigne
Canada
20021
93"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"Scissor Sisters
UK
20061
94"Stan"Eminem
USA
20011
95"Bye Bye Bye"'N Sync
USA
20001
96"The Fear"Lily Allen
UK
20093
97"Dream Catch Me"Newton Faulkner
UK
20085
98"Switch"Will Smith
USA
20051
99"Never Be the Same Again"Melanie C
UK
20002
100"If I Were a Boy"Beyoncé
USA
20083

See also

References

  1. "How are the ARIA Charts prepared each week?". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 July 2009.
  2. Hart, Nicole (7 January 2010), "Guy Sebastian, Delta Goodrem & P!nk top ARIA's End of Decade Charts" (PDF), ARIA unveils the Top 100 Singles and Albums, Top 20 Music DVDs for the 2000s, Aria Charts, pp. 1–2, ISBN 0745649742, retrieved 22 February 2013.
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