On her new Apple Music radio show, Pop Hits Radio, host Brooke Reese takes listeners on a trip way back in time–all the way to the 2000s and 2010s. Reese is also the host of Apple Music’s The Chart ...

Popular music experienced a massive upheaval during the ‘00s, when the high record sales of the Nineties crash-landed, record-store chains closed en masse, and tech companies started beckoning ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on May 14, 2025. Find that audio here. You can’t talk about the sounds of the 2000s without talking about Missy Elliot. With hits from “1, 2 Step” to “Get ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a sort of renaissance happened in country music. Tons of songs from that era blended together pop elements with not-so-traditional country sounds, and some of those ...

When Martina McBride released “This One’s For The Girls” in 2003, she had already had two hits at pop radio, with “I Love You” and “There You Are”. But “This One’s For The Girls”, on her Martina album ...

What are the second best songs of the 2000s so-called "one-hit wonders"? They may be one-hit wonders in the eyes of some, but their music is deserving of a deeper dive. So we're taking a closer look ...

Do you remember these nu-metal era rock radio hits? Odds are, it's probably been a while since they've been on your radar. The late 1990s and early 2000s gave us a lot of great music and, over the ...

You can’t talk about the sounds of the 2000s without talking about Missy Elliot. With hits from “1, 2 Step” to “Get Ur Freak On,” the rapper, singer and songwriter’s cultural impact is undeniable. She ...