Top2000 list 2023

Top2000 - 2023 (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.

From 2020 onwards me and some colleagues organize our own localized version of the Top2000. From then on out I have sent in my list as well. My list differs every year, with the exception of the number 1 position.

Year 2023

  Artiest Nummer Jaartal
1 Prince & The Revolution When Doves Cry 1984
2 Róisín Murphy Flash Of Light 2023
3 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds By The Time I Get To Phoenix 1986
4 Iggy Pop Lust For Life 1977
5 Joy Division Dead Souls 1980
6 Kendrick Lamar The Heart Part 5 2022
7 The Smiths This Charming Man 1983
8 Public Enemy Fight The Power 1989
9 Cameo Word Up 1986
10 Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution 1978
11 Japan Canton 1981
12 Sezen Aksu Son Bakis 1989
13 Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus 1977
14 Parliament Flash Light 1977
15 R.E.M. Fall On Me 1986
16 New Order The Perfect Kiss 1985
17 Marvin Gaye What’s Going On 1971
18 Public Image Ltd. Rise 1986
19 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 The Message 1982
20 Roxy Music Both Ends Burning 1976
21 Dead Kennedys California Über Alles 1980
22 Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) 1982
23 Ibrahim Maalouf Beirut 2011
24 The Sex Pistols Anarchy In The UK 1977
25 Bruce Springsteen Racing In The Street 1978
26 Leonard Cohen Suzanne 1968
27 Fleetwood Mac Sarah 1979
28 Smashing Pumpkins Bullet With Butterfly Wings 1995
29 Peter Gabriel Biko 1980
30 David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto Bamboo Houses 1982
31 Frank Zappa Muffin Man 1975
32 Kate Bush Wuthering Heights 1978
33 Fela Kuti Zombie 1977
34 Deee-lite Groove Is In The Heart 1990
35 Foxy Brown Hot Spot 1999

Compliments/remarks? Yes, please!