Looking back, 2001 seems like one of the last years before pop music shattered into a million little niches. Despite the continuing fallout of Napster, there were still plenty of big, undeniable blockbusters: the Dave Matthews Band and Britney Spears sold 750,000 copies of their new albums within their first week of release, a situation that was the rule, not the exception. The teen-pop wave that Britney personified may have crested, but there were still plenty of great Top 40 singles that year,...
Allmusic Blog — Looking back, 2001 seems like one of the last years before pop music shattered into a million little niches. Despite the continuing fallout of Napster, there were still p... more info