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The Top 200 Tracks of the 2000s

The songs that helped change music and delight fans and connoisseurs alike during the noughties, here’s The Student Playlist’s countdown of the 200 greatest tracks of the 2000s.

The 200 Greatest Albums of the 2000s

The 2000s, or ‘the noughties’, as it quickly came to be known, was a decade of profound and paradoxical change for popular music. At the turn of the millennium, the music industry was still at the height of the CD era, with major labels posting record profits; but by December 2009, physical album sales were through the floor, HMV was close to going bust, the humble single format was all

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FEATURE: Mercury Prize 2016 – Preview

by Ollie Rankine Now having sunk into the depths of September, music fanatics across Britain are once again engulfed by the dreary beginnings of the autumn months. Although summer is at an end with the festival season having now drawn its final breath, we are somewhat comforted by the arrival of one of Britain’s most distinguished annual music awards, the Mercury Prize. Ignoring any notion of album sales or material statistics,

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