Top2000 list 2025

Top2000 - 2025 (apoplife.nl)

Each year Dutch radio listeners compile a list known as the Top2000, a list of 2000 songs that the listeners see as the best ever. On average, some 6 or 7 million lists are compiled and sent in. There are no real rules: all songs are welcome, the number of songs per artists is no issue, just as long as the same song doesn’t enter the same list more than once. The max number of songs that can be entered is 35.

I compile a list every year (which I don’t send in). My list differs every year, with the exception of the number 1 position.

Year 2025

  Artist Song Year
1 Prince & The Revolution When Doves Cry 1984
2 St. Vincent Broken Man 2024
3 Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime 1980
4 D’Angelo Untitled (How Dioes It Feel) 1999
5 Kendrick Lamar The Heart Part 5 2022
6 Sly & The Family Stone Family Affair 1971
7 David Bowie Heroes 1977
8 LCD Soundsystem All My Friends 2007
9 Róisín Murphy Flash Of Light 2023
10 Kanye West Monster 2010
11 New Order The Perfect Kiss 1985
12 The Specials Do Nothing 1980
13 Bee Gees Night Fever 1978
14 Public Enemy Fight The Power 1989
15 Split Enz Message To My Girl 1983
16 Alanis Morissette Thank U 1998
17 Eric B. & Rakim I Know You Got Soul 1987
18 TLC Waterfalls 1995
19 Underworld Jumbo 2000
20 George Clinton Double Oh-Oh 1985
21 Iggy Pop Lust For Life 1977
22 Smashing Pumpkins 1979 1995
23 Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution 1978
24 Kate Bush Wuthering Heights 1978
25 Joni Mitchell River 1971
26 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Racing In The Street 1978
27 Linton Kwesi Johnson Street 66 1980
28 Pavement And Then (The Hexx) 1997
29 Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-92-93-84) 1982
30 Fleetwood Mac Sara 1979
31 Outkast Rosa Parks 1998
32 Nilüfer Yanya Like I Say (Runaway) 2024
33 Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus 1977
34 Neil Young Oh Lonesome Me 1971
35 Grace Jones Pull Up To The Bumper 1981

Compliments/remarks? Yes, please!