2000s
This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millenium starting in 2000, see the links below.
Millennia: 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium - 4th millennium
Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s
Years: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
The decade as a whole
- In keeping with naming decades (cf. 1990s "the Nineties", 1980s "the Eighties", etc.), the decade of the 2000s lacks an accepted name. A widely accepted term most likely won't come about until the decade has ended, but a few possibilities are:
- "the 0-0s", usually pronounced as "the oh-ohs". This pronunciation sounds like "uh oh", an expression of dismay; this similarity is no doubt intentional.
- "the 2Ks", a term that is rooted in the slang of the times. K is shorthand for the Greek prefix kilo meaning 1000; hence, 2K means 2000. In popular culture, the years of the decade are already being named according to this slang. For example, the year 2003 is referred to as 2K3. The "2K" term probably has its popular origins in the heavily-hyped Y2K bug that began the decade.
- "the Aughts" (or "Oughts"), keeping with the practice of the twentieth century.
- "the Nillies", derived from the term "nil", meaning nothing or zero.
- "the Noughties", referring to the nought, or zero, as the decade indicator; the word-play on "naughty" is intentional.
- "the Twenty Hundreds", though this could be confused with a name for the century.
- The United Nations General Assembly declared the (mostly overlapping) decade of 2001-2010 as the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World".
Events and trends
People
World leaders
State leaders by year: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006...
Entertainers
Sports figures
Arts and entertainment
Music
#-C
- 3 Doors Down (Away From the Sun)
- 311 (From Chaos)
- Above the Law (Forever Rich Thungs)
- AC/DC (Stiff Upper Lip)
- The Alkaline Trio (Good Mourning)
- Anthrax (We've Come For You All)
- Apollo Sunshine (Katonah)
- The Ataris (End is Forever, So Long, Astoria)
- Audioslave (Audioslave)
- Bad Religion (The New America, The Process of Belief, The Empire Strikes First)
- Badly Drawn Boy (The Hour of Bewilderbeast)
- The Beastie Boys (To the 5 Boroughs)
- Blink-182 (The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show: The Enema Strikes Back, Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, Blink-182)
- Bowling For Soup (Drunk Enough to Dance)
- Britney Spears (Oops!...I Did It Again)
- Bumblebeez 81 (The Printz)
- The Butthole Surfers (Weird Revolution)
- Chevelle (Wonder What's Next, This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In)
- Coldplay (Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head)
- Common (Like Water for Chocolate)
- The Cure (The Cure)
D-L
- Death By Stereo (Day of the Death)
- Dead Prez (Let's Get Free)
- Dixie Chicks (Home)
- DMX (The Great Depression)
- Hilary Duff (Metamorphosis, Hilary Duff)
- Dynamite Hack (Superfast)
- The Eagles of Death Metal (Peace, Love, Death Metal)
- Elastica (The Menace)
- Eminem (The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show)
- Enrique Iglesias (Escape)
- Evanescence (Fallen)
- Face to Face (Reactionary)
- Finch (250mL)
- Flaw (Endangered Spieces)
- Franz Ferdinand (Franz Ferdinand)
- Green Day (Warning:, International Superhits!, Shenanigans, American Idiot)
- Guns n' Roses (Chinese Democracy)
- The Hives (Veni Vidi Vicious, Tyrannosaurus Hives)
- Home Grown (Kings of Pop)
- Hoobastank (The Reason)
- |Incubus (Morning View, A Crow Left of the Murder)
- J. Lo (This Is Me... Then)
- Ja Rule (Pain Is Love)
- The Jerky Boys (Stop Staring at Me!, The Jerky Tapes)
- The Killers (Hot Fuss)
- Kylie Minogue (Light Years, Fever, Body Language)
- Lagwagon (Blaze)
- Avril Lavigne (Let Go, Under My Skin)
- Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory, Meteora)
M-P
R-S
T-Z
see also 2000s music groups, List of rock and roll albums in the 2000s, 2000s in India
