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The top 2000 was created in 1999 as part of activities surrounding the passing into the new millennium. The idea was to finish the year 1999, and enter the year 2000, with the 2000 best songs ever made. From the start of 1999, the listeners of Radio 2 were asked to select a song along with any special memories attached to the song, and send it to Radio 2 via mail or email. This way, 2000 so called "Millennium-songs" were collected throughout the year 1999. At the start of November 1999, these songs were placed on a website, and the voting was started. This led to the Top 2000. A Millennium 2000 list (similar to the Top 2000 but filled with music from the nineties and recent music) was played on the Radio station "Radio 538", which featured a much younger audience, but this was a one time happening.
The first broadcast of the Top 2000 was a huge success, probably because of the combination of nostalgia, quality and the different genres and time-periods of the songs, which all fit perfectly with the mood around the end of the millennium. Because of the success of the first broadcast, Radio 2 decided to make the program an annual happening, and each succeeding year the success of the Top 2000 has increased. Since its first broadcast, the program has been the most-listened-to program in the whole of the Netherlands. During the course of the broadcast in 2005, 6,2 million different people listened to it. This is a huge number, considering that the total population of the Netherlands is about 16,4 million. Polls taken in 2006 showed that at least 9,2 million people were planning to listen to the show.
In the years following 1999, the choice of songs for the top 2000 has been expanding rapidly through a new internet voting system where people could propose a new song to be added to the choice-list.
In 2002 a television show was added to the Top 2000, called the Top 2000 a Go-Go, which shows clips of parts of the list, along with interviews and other items. In 2005 the six parts of the show were watched by approximately 7,2 million people
Since 2003, Radio 2, along with NPS, a public TV-broadcaster, has been organizing the Top 2000 in concert, where famous Dutch artists are invited to sing one of their favorite songs, along with one of their own songs. The concert is usually broadcast on New Year's Eve, right after the top 2000 has ended. The 2005 version was watched by about 3,9 million people.
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In 2005, after 6 years, the Top 2005 received a new number 1. "Avond" by Boudewijn de Groot rose unexpectedly from the fifth place to the first place, driving the usual number 1, "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, to the second place.
Apart from the new number 1, the 2005 edition had another change: during the voting, people could now add one song that was not in the list of songs to choose from. This way, a number of new, but also old songs entered the Top 2000 at high places. Questions arose whether certain songs, like "Nine Million Bicycles" by Katie Melua (which had been released only a few months earlier, and entered the charts at 23rd place), deserved to be at such a high place, and if they could hold onto that place in following years.
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In 2005, a million votes were cast, but in 2006 this record was shattered when 1,9 million people cast their votes for the list. After the votes were counted, it was revealed that Queen had retaken their number one position, which they had lost in 2005.
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In 2008, the tenth anniversary edition of the show was broadcast. Instead of voting, all of the 7,1 million votes, which were cast over the other nine years, were added up, turning this edition into a jubilee list.[1] This placed "Bohemian Rhapsody" at the number one position.
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In the 2009 edition, for the first time one artist was listed with three different songs in the top ten: Ramses Shaffy. This could be attributed to his death in the last week of voting.
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In 2010, the twelfth edition of the list, "Hotel California" took the number one spot for the first time. It was also the first time two songs of the 2000s were in the top 10.
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In 2011, Dutch astronaut André Kuipers opened the Top 2000 from the International Space Station. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" retook the number one spot, while Adele broke the record for highest new entry, with "Someone Like You" taking the sixth spot.
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Year / Position
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
1999
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Eagles
Hotel California
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
The Beatles
Yesterday
John Lennon
Imagine
The Rolling Stones
Angie
Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Procol Harum
A Whiter Shade of Pale
2000
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Eagles
Hotel California
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
The Beatles
Hey Jude
John Lennon
Imagine
The Beatles
Yesterday
The Rolling Stones
Angie
Guns N' Roses
November Rain
2001
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Eagles
Hotel California
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
The Animals
House of the Rising Sun
Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms
Billy Joel
Goodnight Saigon
The Beatles
Hey Jude
Dire Straits
Sultans of Swing
2002
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Eagles
Hotel California
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
The Animals
House of the Rising Sun
Dire Straits
Private Investigations
The Alan Parsons Project
Old and Wise
Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms
The Doors
Riders on the Storm
2003
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Eagles
Hotel California
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Guns N' Roses
November Rain
The Animals
House of the Rising Sun
Boudewijn de Groot
Avond
The Alan Parsons Project
Old and Wise
The Rolling Stones
Angie
2004
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Eagles
Hotel California
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Boudewijn de Groot
Avond
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Guns N' Roses
November Rain
The Animals
House of the Rising Sun
John Lennon
Imagine
Coldplay
Clocks
2005
Boudewijn de Groot
Avond
Queen
Bohemian rhapsody
Eagles
Hotel California
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Coldplay
Clocks
The Animals
House of the Rising Sun
The Alan Parsons Project
Old and Wise
Guns N' Roses
November Rain
2006
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Boudewijn de Groot
Avond
Eagles
Hotel California
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
U2
One
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Coldplay
Clocks
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
2007
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Boudewijn de Groot
Avond
Eagles
Hotel California
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Coldplay
Clocks
The Animals
House of the Rising Sun
U2
One
The Alan Parsons Project
Old and Wise
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
2008
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Eagles
Hotel California
Boudewijn de Groot
Avond
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
The Animals
House of the Rising Sun
The Alan Parsons Project
Old and Wise
Guns N' Roses
November Rain
U2
One
2009
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Eagles
Hotel California
Boudewijn de Groot
Avond
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Ramses Shaffy & Liesbeth List
Pastorale
Ramses Shaffy
Zing, Vecht, Huil, Bid, Lach, Werk en Bewonder
Coldplay
Clocks
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Ramses Shaffy
Laat Me
2010
Eagles
Hotel California
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Boudewijn de Groot
Avond
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Coldplay
Viva la Vida
Coldplay
Clocks
Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
The Alan Parsons Project
Old and Wise
2011
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Eagles
Hotel California
Deep Purple
Child in Time
Boudewijn de Groot
Avond
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Adele
Someone Like You
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Coldplay
Clocks
Coldplay
Viva la Vida
Bruce Springsteen
The River
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(Dutch) Homepage of the Top 2000 in 2008
(Dutch) Top2000info (All numbers from the history of the Top 2000.)
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