Top2000 list 2024

Top2000 - 2024 (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 2024

  Artist Song Year
1 Prince & The Revolution When Doves Cry 1984
2 Kendrick Lamar The Heart Part 5 2022
3 D’Angelo Untitled (How Does It Feel) 1999
4 Sufjan Stevens Casimir Pulaski Day 2005
5 LCD Soundsystem All My Friends 2007
6 Fela Kuti Shakara 1972
7 Underworld Jumbo 2000
8 Zapp Dance Floor 1982
9 The Cure All Cats Are Grey 1981
10 Róisín Murphy Incapabale 2019
11 Eric B. & Rakim I Know You Got Soul 1987
12 Mazzy Star Fade Into You 1993
13 The Specials Do Nothing 1980
14 Parliament Unfunky UFO 1975
15 Bruce Springsteen My City Of Ruins 2002
16 Bob Marley & The Wailers No Woman No Cry 1974
17 Japan Swing 1980
18 The Smiths This Charming Man 1983
19 Kate Bush Sat In Your Lap 1982
20 Marvin Gaye Inner City Blues 1971
21 Public Enemy Give It Up 1994
22 Linton Kwesi Johnson Street 66 1980
23 Pavement And Then (The Hexx) 1997
24 Nilüfer Yanya Like I Say (I Runaway) 2024
25 Joni Mitchell River 1971
26 Neil Young Only Love Can Break You Heart 1970
27 Sugar The Slim 1992
28 Smashing Pumpkins Cherub Rock 1993
29 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds O Children 2004
30 Antony And The Johnsons Aeon 2009
31 Van Halen Hot For Teacher 1984
32 The Rolling Stones Too Much Blood 1983
33 Joy Division The Only Mistake 1981
34 Sly & The Family Stone Thank You For Talkin’ To Me Africa 1972
35 The Police Reggatta De Blanc 1979

Compliments/remarks? Yes, please!