Music of the United Kingdom (2000s)

2000s in music in the UK
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Events 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Charts 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
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Top 10 singles 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
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Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 2000s continued to expand and develop new subgenres and fusions. While talent show contestants were one of the major forces in pop music, British soul maintained and even extended its high profile with figures like Joss Stone, Estelle, Duffy and Adele, while a new group of singer/songwriters led by Amy Winehouse achieved international success. New forms of dance music emerged, including grime and dubstep. There was also a revival of garage rock and post punk, which when mixed with electronic music produced new rave.

Post-Britpop bands such as The Verve, Radiohead, Catatonia and Travis were followed in the 2000s by acts including Snow Patrol, from Northern Ireland and Elbow, Embrace, Starsailor, Doves and Keane from England, with music that was often more melodic and introspective. The most commercially successful band in the milieu were Coldplay, whose début album Parachutes (2000) went multi-platinum and helped make them one of the most popular acts in the world by the time of their second album A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002).

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