Michael's Top 40

DATE WEEKS February 17, 2001 2 You never know where you're going to find your favorite songs. Of course, it wasn't as easy in 2001 to discover unknown artists as it is today. For teenagers in the early 2000s, if file sharing services weren't an option, that generally left the radio or music video channels, at least the ones that were still showing music videos. In my case, I had an ace in the hole. In addition to MTV2 and VH1, another channel on my parents' DIRECTV subscr

DATE WEEKS February 10, 2001 1 By 2001, Aerosmith really had nothing left to prove. They had been a cautionary tale about the excesses of rock and roll, until an unlikely comeback brought them to even greater success. They got their only #1 on the Hot 100 with an out-of-character ballad that's one of my least favorite songs of the 90s. When they released their 13th studio album Just Push Play in 2001, they were taking a victory lap around the music industry, as they playe

DATE WEEKS January 27, 2001 2 Greatest hits albums were supposed to be victory laps. An artist put the work in releasing album after album, hopefully accruing a few hit songs along the way. Then when they wanted to take a break from recording, or just needed to fulfill a label obligation, they'd put all their biggest hits on one record, sometimes adding one or two new or unreleased songs on there as a bone for fans to buy the album. Those new songs rarely become hits in th