George Michael, Paolo Nutini and (Maybe) the Best Dance Song of the 2000s (9-15 July 2006)

Things are splintering in the pop music charts by this point in the 2000s. Some chart icons are struggling to get top 10s, while new genres like emo bite at their heels and social media mints a new generation of stars. Men are starting to think that becoming singer-songwriters or doing acoustic guitar covers of pop songs is a good idea (it isn’t), while women dominate the upper reaches of the chart like never before.Let me tell you the story in the latest episode of The 2000s Chart Show, the pop music history podcast where every ep we’re reliving the 40 biggest selling songs of this week 20 years ago and telling the stories of all the new episodes.

This week’s episode of The 2000s Chart Show features the following songs:

All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret

Armand Van Helden - MyMyMy

The Automatic - Monster

Beatfreakz - Somebody’s Watching Me

Bob Sinclar feat. Steve Edwards - World Hold On (Children of the Sky)

Busta Rhymes - I Love My Chick

Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles…

The Feeling - Fill My Little World

George Michael - An Easier Affair

Infernal - From Paris to Berlin