Least remembered No. 1 hit of 2000

[tekkenguy]

What is the least remembered No. 1 Hot 100 hit of 2000?

[Deleted]

Had to Google to remember whose song was Be With You, then spent 10 minutes singing Hero to myself before realizing 'wait, wrong Enrique song,' trying again and still finding myself singing Hero, and finally accepting that I could not hum a note of it if you held a gun to my head and looking it up on Youtube...so on a personal note, I voted that. Ironically the song's wiki page says it's Enrique's biggest US hit to date but I feel like Bailamos and Hero far eclipse it.

Objectively though, the answer is probably Incomplete. I don't even think Incomplete is completely un-remembered as a song, but it was more or less an r&b/urban hit; it didn't chart well on the top 40 and peaked just outside the top ten at rhythmic. So pop fans would not recall it much. IIRC the chart points were really weak when Incomplete peaked (well, they were weak that whole summer I think). Thong Song OTOH had the unfortunate luck of peaking in the spring when Maria Maria and Breathe were the top 2.

[ClevelandRox]

I thought Be With You was 3 Doors Down till I read the comments.

I remember Incomplete being Sisqo, but definitely haven't thought about that song in almost twenty years. 😂

I also don't remember Thank God I Found You at all so I'd say the correct two songs are winning?

Everything You Want is STILL a jam.

[Lost In Musical Reverie]

Didn't "Incomplete" only hit #1 because its physical single was being sold with "Thong Song" as the B-side? I remember reading something among those lines.

But yeah, it's by far the most forgotten, though "Be With You", "Thank God I Found You", "What A Girl Wants", "Doesn't Really Matter", and "Bent" are other contenders - sadly, since I adore the latter four.

"I Knew I Loved You" remains an AC staple to this day, "It's Gonna Be May" speaks for itself, and "Try Again" + "Say My Name" are beloved classics, while the rest are remembered by varying degrees depending on the demographics.

[Ling-Ling]

I had to Google three of these. "Be With You," "Everything You Wanted" and "Amazed." I definitely recognized BWY, the other two? No idea, lol. I went with "Amazed" because it's genuinely awful.

[PREDS PRIDE]

I know a lot of music from 2000 but I completely forgot incomplete existed until now lmao not like it’s a good song but still

[The Music Man]

Yeah, every time I attempt to recall "Incomplete," I hear the Backstreet Boys' similarly-titled song (also thoroughly forgotten) instead. It's the pretty clear leader here.

With that said, I think "Thank God I Found You" is also pretty well lost to time outside of Mariah stan circles. While I definitely haven't thought about "Be With You" since the early 2000s, the chorus melody came back to me quickly (LOL at ClevelandRox thinking it was "Here Without You") - I would honestly say "Doesn't Really Matter" is more forgotten.

"Everything You Want" had an enduring afterlife in adult pop circles, but I can't say the same for "Bent," despite my soft spot for MB20. I think the rest are pretty well-remembered.

[jred]

This is probably between “Incomplete” and “Thank God I Found You”. I went with the latter because it’s the only one on this list I’ve literally never heard, but I could see an argument for either.

“Bent” certainly hasn’t experienced the afterlife that a lot of other Matchbox Twenty singles did (namely “3am” and “Unwell”), but I still hear it once in a while. It’s definitely forgotten, but I don’t think it’s on the level of the first two I mentioned.

[Au$tin]

I saw Incomplete and thought it was the Backstreet Boys. Saw Be with You and immediately thought Mary J. Blige despite that not even being the title of the MJB song. Thank God I Found You left zero impression on what that song even might possibly be. So it's between those three for me personally.

All the other songs I can either hum at least one line (like "Bent"), is infamous (like "With Arms Wide Open"), is a hit still relevant on playlists today (like "Everything You Want"/"Amazed"), is absolutely iconic (like "What a Girl Wants"/"Say My Name"), or is so ingrained into meme culture there's no way it could be forgotten ("It's Gonna Be MayMe").

Edit: omg TGIFY is Mariah. Welp. Still don't know it. YouTubed the three I didn't know offhand and the results?
Thank God I Found You - yup, never heard this one before
Incomplete - okay, I think I have heard this, it's vaguely familiar
Be with You - zero recollection of this, but "Hero" and "Escape" get caught in my head all the time lol
So I guess I can take out "Incomplete," leaving just the other two as completely unknown by myself.

[Au$tin]

Also, here's a look at some available data for these songs on two platforms that came into existence long after these songs' initial runs.

Artist	Title	WW Spotify	WW YouTube
Christina Aguilera	What a Girl Wants	64,171,659	37,074,181
Savage Garden	I Knew I Loved You	131,519,348	156,261,001
Mariah Carey	Thank God I Found You	29,376,126	21,737,817
Lonestar	Amazed	130,398,333	46,915,442
Destiny's Child	Say My Name	485,281,783	286,886,449
Santana	Maria Maria	151,893,467	364,787,197
Aaliyah	Try Again	x	45,830,719
Enrique Iglesias	Be with You	37,564,340	8,501,038
Vertical Horizon	Everything You Want	66,265,381	13,966,406
Matchbox Twenty	Bent	23,062,160	17,465,981
NSYNC	It's Gonna Be Me	139,680,374	137,418,550
Sisqó	Incomplete	35,273,580	32,478,275
Janet Jackson	Doesn't Really Matter	10,628,998	2,998,713
Madonna	Music	45,286,708	28,889,554
Christina Aguilera	Come on Over Baby	52,496,269	42,298,387
Creed	With Arms Wide Open	90,897,552	141,539,914
Destiny's Child	Independent Women	166,046,303	59,569,750

There is a clear winner here for most remembered. Go "Say My Name"! But, uh, ouch as Janet's stats. FYI, all songs use only their officially uploaded video or whatever is the highest main version on Spotify is with one exception: "Doesn't Really Matter." That 10.6 million figure combined both the original version from The Klumps soundtrack and the single version. The numbers were really close to each other, so I figured why not. Definitely didn't boost it much. I am also surprised at "Amazed"'s numbers considering I expected it to be very US-centric, like "Incomplete." And Aaliyah is hard to compare to any of them for obvious reasons.

[narp]

I’ll never understand how “Incomplete” was the Sisqo song that went #1. That would be my answer.

“Doesn’t Really Matter” is eclipsed by the absolutely iconic “All For You” so that would be a contender for 2nd place.

“Bent” is their sole #1 which feels absolutely bizarre. It honestly feels like this went #1 only because it came after the hype of their debut. It’d be rare to hear this one on the radio, on any format. Maybe on one of those Hot AC stations with a bigger playlist variety, but otherwise probably not. 3rd place.

I’m sure “Amazed” is an answer for many people, but I bet it still gets decent recurrent airplay on Country and AC.

[Ernesto]

I voted for "Be with You" by Enrique.

Sadly, I'm not surprised that "Bent" doesn't get much love these days. "If You're Gone" seems to be the most remembered single from their second album regardless of chart positions.

"Amazed" scored an 8-week run at No.1 on the Country chart 6 months before it hit No.1 on the Hot 100, it also reached No.2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It makes sense that people still go back to that record.

[Private Dancer]

May 24, 2021 11:27:37 GMT -5 Ernesto said:

I voted for "Be with You" by Enrique.

Sadly, I'm not surprised that "Bent" doesn't get much love these days. "If You're Gone" seems to be the most remembered single from their second album regardless of chart positions.

"Amazed" scored an 8-week run at No.1 on the Country chart 6 months before it hit No.1 on the Hot 100, it also reached No.2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It makes sense that people still go back to that record.

That's crazy because Bent gets a lot of airplay on the local adult contemporary station.

[kcdawg13]

I feel like "Doesn't Really Matter" is pretty forgotten, especially since "All For You" came out not too long after and stole all the shine.

[Private Dancer]

I'd go with Doesn't Really Matter because it does not get any recurrent airplay as much as the other ones and if Janet's career had not been blackballed im sure Doesn't Really Matter would've gotten more recurrent airplay and would've been more remember

[House Lannister]

I think there's four contenders:

I Knew I Loved You, Thank God I Found You, Be With You and Incomplete.

At least I can place Sisqo with Incomplete so I can eliminate that one. And I think I remember that Mariah did TGIFY, so that's out.

It's tough, but I never would have guessed Savage Garden got a number one with I Knew I Loved You. So that one.

[Deleted]

“Incomplete”

It didn’t make much of an impact outside of Urban radio (peaked in the 30s at Pop radio), but it had “The Thong Song” which was a cultural phenomenon as its b-side and was the first time that song was available to purchase without buying Sisqo’s album. I don’t think people associate Sisqo as a solo artist with anything other than “The Thong Song” at this point. I don’t think I ever even heard “Incomplete” on Urban radio after 2000.

Some of these other ones.. if you listened to pop radio, watched TRL, etc. at the time, you’d know the songs even if they haven’t really endured or found fans in future generations.

[elementd5]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Everything You Want or Bent before. Went with EYW since it was listed first and was the Airplay Year #1, which means I must really not recall it at all.

Edit: Changed to Bent, because I remember EYW now.

[irice22]

I forget about "Incomplete" three seconds after hearing it. So that.

[Caviar]

I used to jam to "Incomplete" a lot back then. But those old late 90s ballads were so old fashion by that point.