We’re the pop music history podcast reliving the biggest songs from every week in the 2000s. This week 20 years ago on the 2006 pop charts, one of the biggest songs of the decade quietly appeared in the middle of the chart. Little did we know that Chasing Cars would just lay here and just forget the world for week upon week.In this episode of your favourite 00s nostaglia podcast, we tell the story of the making of that track, and how its lyrics were nearly very different (and much worse), as well as telling the story of Paris Hilton’s pop career, Christina Aguilera’s “pathetic” diss track against her former producer, why Madonna’s Get Together has such a rubbish video and learn whose songs Kasabian hilariously described as “ventriloquist’s music.”Featuring the following tracks:Armand Van Helden - MyMyMy
The Automatic - Monster
Bob Sinclar feat. Steve Edwards - World Hold On (Children of the Sky)
Busta Rhymes - I Love My Chick
Christina Aguilera - Ain’t No Other Man
Chris Brown feat. Lil’ Wayne - Gimme That Remix
Feeder - Save Us
The Feeling - Fill My Little World
Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces
Infernal - From Paris to Berlin
James Morrison - You Give Me Something
Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
Kasabian - Empire
The Kooks - Naive
The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way
Lily Allen - Smile
Lostprophets - Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)
Madonna - Get Together
McFly - Don’t Stop Me Now/Please Please
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Nelly Furtado - Maneater
Ne-Yo - Sexy Love
Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind
Paolo Nutini - Last Request
Pet Shop Boys - Minimal
Pink - Who Knew
Pussycat Dolls feat. Snoop Dogg - Buttons
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Razorlight - In the Morning
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
Rihanna - Unfaithful
Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)
Sean Paul - Never Gonna Be the Same
Sergio Mendes & The Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada
Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don’t Lie
Shapeshifters and Chic - Sensitivity
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Supermode - Tell Me Why
The Zutons - Valerie
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