Popular Culture 2000

*****world poulation: 6,070,581,000******Time Magazine Man of the Year: George W. Bush *****The Sixth Sense cleans up at the People's Choice Awards*****Fox announces that both Party of Five and Beverly Hills, 90201 will end after the current television season*****The popular show Big Brother is broadcast on German private channel RTLH and captures worldwide media interest*****The Latest Harry Potter Book Is Published "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*****51 million viewers watch the first season finale of the reality show "Survivor"*****The last of the original Mini's rolls off the production lines

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This list of the top 10 pop songs of the summer 2000 is based on data from record industry charts from the months of June, July, and August 2000.

1. Aaliyah - Try Again

 

2. Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want

3. Joe - I Wanna Know

4. NSYNC - It's Gonna Be Me

5. Matchbox Twenty - Bent

 

6. Enrique Iglesias - Be With You

7. Creed - Higher

8. Eminem - The Real Slim Shady

9. Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough

10. Faith Hill - Breathe

 

 

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   * Bop It  
   * Camera phones
   * Cha Cha Slide 
   * Gel pens   
   * Energy drinks  
   * Hot or Not 
   * Jared the Subway Guy & the Subway Diet  
   * Napster  
   * Razor scooters   
   * Reality television boom    
   * The Sims 
   * Speed dating  
   * TiVo   
   * "Wassup"; from the Budweiser ads  
   * Yu-Gi-Oh! 
 

*****The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples.*****The use of mobile phones continues to grow as mobile phones move from the percieved "Yuppie Device" to an essential consumer product. *****The Lifespan in US is now 77.5 years*****Over 5 million acres destroyed by brush fires in Western US worst in 50 years*****Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player to win a Grand Slam in Golf *****U.S. presidential election, 2000 Republican challenger George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.