Top 2000

Top 2000

The Top 2000 is broadcast from a purpose-built studio and cafe, with the show's logo on the outside
Genre	listener determined mix including Classic hits, Mainstream rock, Hot adult contemporary, Rhythmic adult contemporary, Dance pop, Dance
Running time	6 days and 15 hours (25 December 9:00 - 31 December midnight) with short hourly news bulletin and commercials
Country	Netherlands
Language(s)	Dutch
Home station	Radio 2
TV adaptations	Top 2000 a Gogo
Host(s)	2014: Sander de Heer Jan-Willem Roodbeen Gijs Staverman Wouter van der Goes Bert Haandrikman Hans Schiffers Marc Adriani Jasper de Vries
Creator(s)	Kees Toering
Recording studio	Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum
Air dates	1999 to -
No. of episodes	17
Audio format	FM, cable, satellite, DAB, DTT and internet
Opening theme	Tommy Overture (The Who)
Website	NPO Radio 2 - Top 2000
Podcast	NPO Radio 2 player

The Top 2000 is an annual marathon radio program, that plays the 2000 most popular songs of all time, from Christmas through New Year's Eve.^[1][2] Hosted by Dutch national radio station Radio 2, over half of the population of the Netherlands listens to the broadcast each year.^[3][4]

Starting in 1999, the Top 2000 was intended to be a one-time event, but due to the program's popularity, Radio 2 chose to make it an annual program, traditionally broadcast from midnight on Boxing Day and continuing until midnight of New Year's Eve. However, as of 2009, the show begins broadcasting at noon on December 25, Christmas Day.^[5]

Voting

During the 6 to 7 day broadcast, the station broadcasts a set of 2000 songs that have been voted on by the show's audience via Internet voting to be the "most popular songs of all time". The first year of voting was limited to a set list of 2000 songs that the users ranked themselves, with Radio 2 changing the format in 2005 to allow voters to nominate their own choices. Radio 2 also used a different voting format for the tenth anniversary of Top 2000 in 2008, when they compiled the votes from the previous nine years to create a "jubilee list".

Other media

In 2002 Radio 2 added the television show Top 2000 a Gogo to the broadcast,^[6] which showed performances, clips of various songs on the list, as well as interviews of performers. The following year they added Top 2000 in Concert, where various Dutch artists are invited to sing one of their favorite songs along with one of their own songs.^[7] The concert is typically broadcast on New Year's Eve, right after the end of Top 2000.

Notable occurrences within the list

The song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen has traditionally been voted the most popular song on the countdown,^[8] with Boudewijn de Groot's Avond achieving the top spot in 2005 and the Eagles' Hotel California doing the same in 2010 and 2014 being the only exceptions.^[9] On the 27th of November 2015, it was announced that John Lennon with his song Imagine was voted number one of the list for the first time, in association with the piano act of Davide Martello after the November 2015 Paris attacks.

The top 10

Year / Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1999	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Deep Purple Child in Time	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	The Beatles Yesterday	John Lennon Imagine	The Rolling Stones Angie	Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water	Procol Harum A Whiter Shade of Pale
2000	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Deep Purple Child in Time	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Eagles Hotel California	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	The Beatles Hey Jude	John Lennon Imagine	The Beatles Yesterday	The Rolling Stones Angie	Guns N' Roses November Rain
2001	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Deep Purple Child in Time	Eagles Hotel California	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	The Animals House of the Rising Sun	Dire Straits Brothers in Arms	Billy Joel Goodnight Saigon	The Beatles Hey Jude	Dire Straits Sultans of Swing
2002	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Deep Purple Child in Time	Eagles Hotel California	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	The Animals House of the Rising Sun	Dire Straits Private Investigations	The Alan Parsons Project Old and Wise	Dire Straits Brothers in Arms	The Doors Riders on the Storm
2003	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Deep Purple Child in Time	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	Guns N' Roses November Rain	The Animals House of the Rising Sun	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	The Alan Parsons Project Old and Wise	The Rolling Stones Angie
2004	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Deep Purple Child in Time	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	Guns N' Roses November Rain	The Animals House of the Rising Sun	John Lennon Imagine	Coldplay Clocks
2005	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Queen Bohemian rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Deep Purple Child in Time	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	Coldplay Clocks	The Animals House of the Rising Sun	The Alan Parsons Project Old and Wise	Guns N' Roses November Rain
2006	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Eagles Hotel California	Deep Purple Child in Time	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	U2 One	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	Coldplay Clocks	Metallica Nothing Else Matters
2007	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Eagles Hotel California	Deep Purple Child in Time	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Coldplay Clocks	The Animals House of the Rising Sun	U2 One	The Alan Parsons Project Old and Wise	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light
2008	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Deep Purple Child in Time	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	The Animals House of the Rising Sun	The Alan Parsons Project Old and Wise	Guns N' Roses November Rain	U2 One
2009	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Deep Purple Child in Time	Ramses Shaffy & Liesbeth List Pastorale	Ramses Shaffy Zing, Vecht, Huil, Bid, Lach, Werk en Bewonder	Coldplay Clocks	Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	Ramses Shaffy Laat Me
2010	Eagles Hotel California	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Deep Purple Child in Time	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	Coldplay Viva la Vida	Coldplay Clocks	Meat Loaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light	The Alan Parsons Project Old and Wise
2011	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Deep Purple Child in Time	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Adele Someone Like You	Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	Coldplay Clocks	Coldplay Viva la Vida	Bruce Springsteen The River
2012	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Deep Purple Child in Time	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond	Adele Someone Like You	Coldplay Clocks	Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb
2013	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Deep Purple Child in Time	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	Bruce Springsteen The River	Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb	Metallica Nothing Else Matters	Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond
2014	Eagles Hotel California	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Deep Purple Child in Time	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	Billy Joel Piano Man	Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb	Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond	Guns N' Roses November Rain
2015	John Lennon Imagine	Queen Bohemian Rhapsody	Eagles Hotel California	Claudia de Breij Mag Ik Dan Bij Jou	Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven	Billy Joel Piano Man	Boudewijn de Groot Avond	Deep Purple Child in Time	Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	Coldplay Fix You

See also

• Serious Request — another annual Dutch radio marathon in the month of December, that reaches over half the population.

External links

• Top2000info (All numbers from the history of the Top 2000.) (Dutch)
• Top 2000 - 2014 Full list for the 2014 edition, per hourly broadcasting schedule. (Dutch)
• Radio2.nl Official website of the hosting radio station. (Dutch)

References

1. "Nederland: De Top 2000 is volop bezig". Radio Visie. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
2. van Dijck, José (2007). Mediated Memories in the Digital Age. Stanford University Press. pp. 93–97. ISBN 0804756244.
3. "Recordaantal luisteraars en kijkers Top 2000 - NU.nl" [Record number of listeners and viewers for Top 2000] (in Dutch). NU.nl. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
4. Bijsterveld, Karin (2009). Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 116–118. ISBN 9089641327.
5. "Radio 2 weer van start met Top 2000". HVNL. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
6. "Knallend einde in 'Top 2000 a gogo'". TV Visie. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
7. "Top 2000 leeft op Hollandse lied". Volkskrant. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
8. "office time waster". San Antonio Express-News. July 26, 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
9. "Nederland: Top 2000-lijst is bekend". Radio Visie. Retrieved 2 January 2013.