Billboard Decade-End Awards Overview

by Gordon Clark | December 15, 2009 at 02:54 pm

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The 2000s were packed with great artists who often each had multiple song reach number 1 on the famous Billboard Hot 100, including: Eminem, Beyonce, Nickelback, Rihanna, Coldplay, and many more.

This decade there were about twice as many categories as in previous years to account for computer based music purchases and streaming in addition to the tradition album sales and radio play.

Here is a list of the top artists and their awards:

Artist of the Decade: Eminem
Hot 100 Artist: Usher
Hot 100 Songs: Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
Billboard 200 Albums: 'N Sync - No Strings Attached
Billboard 200 Artists: Eminem
Radio Song Artist: Beyonce
Radio Song: Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
Digital Song Artist: Rihanna
Digital Song: Flo Rida Feat. T-Pain - Low
Ringtone Artist: T-Pain
Ringtone: Lil Wayne Feat. Static Major - Lollipop
Digital Album: Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Digital Album Artist: Coldplay

Also available are music catagories split up by their genre.

The 2000s had a split up of artists. Music from the second half of the decade is largely featured in the digital and ringtone categories while the radio and purchased music titles go to artists that were active in the first half of the decade:

In the first half of the 2000s, the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, on average, sold 399,947 copies in a week. On the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart-which tracked physical singles-the average at No. 1 was just 43,895. Move forward to the second half of the decade, and the No. 1 on the Billboard 200 averaged 286,540, while the No. 1 on Hot Digital Songs averaged 154,445.

So what happened in the late '00s? The collision of supernova-bright pop stars in the early 2000s with the limited availability of commercial singles yielded tremendous album sales achievements and Billboard 200 triumphs. However, by the middle of the decade, those wild and crazy days were mostly a thing of the past, thanks to the single biggest thing to change the music industry and Billboard's charts in 2000s: the Internet.