40 From 40: 2002

At the time, 2002 was portrayed as a nadir for popular music. Alongside Westlife's peak of popularity, a decline in British interest in the Billboard Hot 100 and much hand-wringing about the effect of filesharing as the pop charts turned fifty years old, Pop Idol happened and Will Young's single sold in figures only Candle In The Wind '97 had glimpsed before. This was of course all seen as the harbinger of the end of it all, reducing everything to a Cowellocracy, not so much like pun...

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