Noughties Nostalgia: A Mission Statement

Hello and welcome to my first attempt at blogging. The purpose of this blog is quite simple. As a twenty-three year old in 2009 I am roughly the perfect age to be able to claim the first decade of the new millenium as the encapsulation of my formative years. I entered the decade as a new teenager and will end it staring into the harsh glare of my mid-twenties and final, irrefutable adulthood.

Throughout this decade pop music and the UK pop charts have been a primary focal point of my life. For much of this decade I bought at least one CD single every week. As we exit the decade the inexorable rise of Itunes and illegal downloading has rendered the plucky little CD single a dead format, apologetically stocked in a dark corner of the few remaining HMV stores hoping to make a profit from the hardcore fanboys and the hopelessly technologically inept. This has not been an overnight process. Some say we are living in the final death throes of the entire music industry as we know it. Certainly, the dearth of quality music television for pop fans since the demise of Top Of The Pops and CD:UK means that fewer people than ever could actually tell you what the number one single is at the moment, let alone recite the entire top ten in order, as I was capable of doing in any given week for the majority of this decade.

So if this is the end of the charts as we know it, let me at least attempt to preserve my own little obituary of the decade of my youth. In this blog I am going to review every number one single from January 2000 until December 2009. From X Factor to Oasis, Bob The Builder to Blu Cantrell, all will be given a nice little write up and my own personal mark out of ten. None of this is definitive, just the meaningless opinion of a dying breed of pop geek.

Hope you're interested. Please do feel free to comment.