![]() Of course, those terms aren’t mutually exclusive, as plenty of artists I knew from the days when I listened almost exclusively to Christian music either broke out into the mainstream, or went indie in search of more creative freedom. Later in the decade, my interest in indie music started to become a lot more pronounced because I was hearing about a lot of it through word of mouth on the internet, so that takes up the remaining third of the list. ![]() About a third of the list is mainstream pop/rock, and another third falls into the category of “Contemporary Christian music” – this is basically a consequence of my having listening almost exclusively to Christian music in the 90s, and then suddenly gaining access to all of the music I could ever think to try, so long as it was well-known enough for someone else on a file sharing service to have the mp3s, which led me to try out the full albums from a lot of artists I was hearing on the radio back when I could still stand to listen to it. I tried to do the same exercise I did when writing up my 2010s list last year, breaking down all of my 2000s favorites by genre to see which ones came out on top, but honestly it turned out to be rather arbitrary, with a ton of overlap between several broadly-defined genres. ![]() Since I’m going with monthly streams as measured in the present day, this obviously isn’t indicative of how popular these artists were back when these albums were new (and when Spotify had yet to come into existence), but it’s still interesting to see how many artists I was into who have had the staying power to still be enjoyed by millions of people, and even how some of the least-known ones have thousands (or in a few cases, mere hundreds) of people still streaming their music. But there were some new contenders that gave ’em some fierce competition – including one album that landed in the Top 5, and that only didn’t make the cut last time around because I slept on it until midway through 2010! Silly me.īefore I complete the countdown, I wanted to play the “how hipster am I?” game by looking up how popular the artists on this list are on Spotify, and seeing who comes out in top and who is the most obscure. The top albums on my decade-end list from back in 2010 were pretty darn stubborn, most of ’em still amaze me to this day, and as a consequence they haven’t moved around on the list too much.
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