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[Littlefang]

Does Jordin Sparks count? The last I saw of her was in..... I think Shampoo commercials? Or was it skin care commercials?

Actually, nearly most American Idol winners/runner ups. Some are either successful on Youtube (Andrew Garcia and Tori Kelly to name a couple) or moved on to other things, right? Kelly Bootyson is still popular.

Adam Lambert's albums have been successful/popular and he also does a collaboration with Queen.

 

[LionPride]

hell no, 2000 is way better.

Ehhh I dunno bout way better. I'd be more likely to say it's even than to say one is supremely better than the other

 

[Rran]

Ja Rule?

Came to post this

 

[funkystudent]

James Blunt

I think he just chills and tweets jokes now

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

I think he just chills and tweets jokes now

Holy shit, haha. That's actually pretty awesome he has a sense of humour about it. Honestly, I respect when people find success but are perfectly fine with settling down and having a nice, humble life. Sounds like he's enjoying himself.

 

[Breaking Normal]

Nickel back- Papa Roach

 

[BLOODED_hands]

Adam Lambert's albums have been successful/popular and he also does a collaboration with Queen.

Yeah. That I just remembered thanks to you. He's also delved into the EDM world working with Tritonal and I think, Steve Aoki.

 

[LionPride]

Nickel back- Papa Roach

Both are still releasing albums

 

[mreddie]

Shop Boyz
MIMS
Lil Scrappy
Chingy
Daddy Yankee
T-Pain
The Vines
Petey Pablo
David Banner
3LW
The Bravery
Fabulous
and of course, Soulja Boy

Chances are, most are still doing music.

 

[Mass Effect]

Young Dro had a big song "We In Da City" two years ago that you can't avoid to this day in Atlanta. It's the unofficial theme song of the Atlanta Falcons.

Juicy J of Three Six Mafia is everywhere.

Didn't know about Dro having a newish song.

And yeah I know Juicy J is still huge, but 3-6-M as a whole isn't really relevant these days.

 

[Rembrandt]

Shop Boyz
MIMS
Lil Scrappy
Chingy
Daddy Yankee
T-Pain
The Vines
Petey Pablo
David Banner
3LW
The Bravery
Fabulous
and of course, Soulja Boy

Chances are, most are still doing music.

Soulja Boy drops shit in between beefs. Fabulous dropped a mixtape or two last year. T-Pain seemed like he was gearing up for a comeback like last year but idk what happened to that.

T-Pain had too many hits.

 

[Kickz]

remember Sean Paul? lol

He just recently featured in a pop hit, I wanna say with Sia

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Aaron Carter.

 

[zeemumu]

Clay Aiken

Cascada

 

[ThisGuy]

I was gonna say Nelly. But hot damn if I didn't completely forget Sean Paul. And now I'm thinking about Paul wall.

Damn mims. Why I'm hot remix was soooooooo good.

 

[Laieon]

Does Jordin Sparks count? The last I saw of her was in..... I think Shampoo commercials? Or was it skin care commercials?

Actually, nearly most American Idol winners/runner ups. Some are either successful on Youtube (Andrew Garcia and Tori Kelly to name a couple) or moved on to other things, right? Kelly Bootyson is still popular.

Carrie Underwood seems to be doing pretty well.

 

[Monocle]

Douche overload.

 

[zeemumu]

Ashlee and Jessica Simpson, but especially Ashlee Simpson.

 

[Kickz]

You and your love for JoJo (I think it's always been you). When is she going to collab with Kanye?

Anyone remember M2M? 98 Degrees? 2gether????

I discovered 2gether in college looking up calculus tutorials on YouTube lol

Sad what happend to the kid with cancer

 

[Zen Aku]

Feist

Poor woman made an iPod commercial and the world hasn't heard from her since.

omg i remember this. what happened?

 

[BLOODED_hands]

Carrie Underwood seems to be doing pretty well.

I'm not surprised. I'm in a state where Country is probably the top genre - Minnesota. Almost everything concert-wise features Carrie and other highly famous Country stars.

Holy shit. What did happen to M2M after their hit Pokemon songs?

 

[Gaius Cassius]

I would say Smashmouth, though he still performs. He was at the most recent South by Southwest festival in Austin and played to a large crowd.

 

[JinjoUnchained]

He just recently featured in a pop hit, I wanna say with Sia

Sean Paul, lol. He's literally on a Billboard Top 10 song right now (Rockabye).

 

[Radec]

Ludacris

He doing heist and spy shit now.

 

[Mass Effect]

Paul Wall had one big chance to come back and he was in the remix with Jody Highroller's How To Be The Man. Also 2 years ago.

Is Riff Raff really big enough to restart Paul Wall's career? I mean yeah, he's somewhat popular, but I think he'd give Paul a marginal boost at best...

I would say Smashmouth, though he still performs. He was at the most recent South by Southwest festival in Austin and played to a large crowd.

He? Smash Mouth is a band. Besides, they're more of a 90s thing anyway.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Michelle Branch.

Just had a new solo album come out, her first since 2003 but yeah she kinda fell off the radar after married after her third album and starting a family at pretty much at the peak of her popularity.

Michelle branch, the shitty version of Vanessa Carlton.

Worst post in this topic and I'm not shitting on Carlton who I also like either.

Natalie Imbruglia, I had a crush on her back in the day.

Same but that was 1997/1998 at least in the U.S. She was largely forgotten about by the time White Lillies Island released here in early 2002.

Her first four albums are good, especially the third. Then she came out with some cover album a few years back which sounds horrible.

I've only listened to the covers album a couple times (even though I own it) but I agree on her first four as frustrating as some creative/production decisions that were made have been over the years, she has a lot a B-sides that are better than songs that made it on her albums and I'm still a bit salty over never getting the original version of Scars.

 

[Psyfer]

Both are still releasing albums

Nickelback I believed, but I had to google Papa Roach. They have an album releasing this year....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HS2DQrG7wE

I guess teen angst never truly dies.

 

[BLOODED_hands]

Is Riff Raff really big enough to restart Paul Wall's career? I mean yeah, he's somewhat popular, but I think he'd give Paul a marginal boost at best....

For that year (2015), yeah Riff Raff was big lol. Nearly everybody I knew was blasting Riff Raff. I believe it was the followup. Paul Wall just never followed it up with anything that year. You can't just be on one of 2015's hottest Rapper's remix and not follow it up with more remixes or some singles.

 

[2Smashed4U]

omg i remember this. what happened?

Nothing. As mentioned, she's just now releasing her second album since then anyway. She was never a pop star.

 

[OG Shaka Zulu]

Coo Coo Cal

 

[sixteen-bit]

Dream

 

[LoneTraveler]

Dream

I think they reunited and then broke up again...


Speaking of girl groups,

Danity Kane?

I heard there were rumblings of a reunion but I don't think anything came from it...

How about those High School Musical kids? Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens?

Aly And Aj (I know Aly is on iZombie and the other one is on Goldberg's, I guess they gave up on music?)

Remember when Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan attempted to be popstars?

 

[Aztechnology]

I don't hear about Mandy Moore or Christina Aguilera much anymore
And Coco Lee

Mandy Moore is doing that show "This is us". Show is up for some Daytime Emmy's I think.

 

[Chuckie]

I heard Fat Joe was performing at a strip club like last year and was blown away, I literally thought he had died.

Maybe you are thinking of Big Pun? He's dead.

Not understanding these Sean Paul mentions. He had like 6 big hits last year. It seemed like that guy was in everything I heard on the radio... him and Dua Lipa.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I thought some of the examples here were from late 90's

 

[Chuckie]

I thought some of the examples here were from late 90's

I saw Natalie Imbruglia somewhere... and while she still made albums in the 2000s, the peak of her popularity definitely was late 90s.

 

[Creamium]

Yeah. She sold out to do booty shakin' "club hitz"; her third album was a MASSIVE departure from her first and second albums.

I could just see that record exec putting the pressure on her:

"Nelly, all these club bangers are selling like hot cakes. You can't keep to this folky pop ballad stuff when the booty shaking is what's selling. So, Nelly, how about we shake that booty and make some real money, huh?"

Edit: Even the Wikipedia article on the album "Loose" (lol) helps to illustrate all of this.

'I'm like a bird' is such a good song. I was 15 when it came out and I was just getting into alt/indie rock and it was not done to talk about mainstream pop with my friends/classmates back then. But it was a guilty pleasure and I listened to it at home She looked stunning in the video too.

I was reminded of her when Sadie of Speedy Ortiz tweeted she liked the new album

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

remember Sean Paul? lol

He's still around and relevant in the dance hall scene I believe

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

man, I was so mad that Gabe formed CS after breaking up with Midtown (his original band). I was like "you left Midtown for this??? You damn sellout" (keep in mind I was a teen at the time)

.

His original band was Humble Beginnings

 

[ultraspank]

Love that in all of these topics, they're always stan who can't accept the truth.
" But they released an album last year!!!"
Yeah, and no one cares.


I submit Tokyo motel

 

[chromatic9]

Nelly Furtado

Good shout.

Jessica Simpson comes to mind but I'm so out the loop.

I was wondering what happened to Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. You couldn't move for Timbaland, I swear he was singing in my fridge once.

 

[LionPride]

Good shout.

Jessica Simpson comes to mind but I'm so out the loop.

I was wondering what happened to Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. You couldn't move for Timbaland, I swear he was singing in my fridge once.

I mean, 20/20 experience came out in the last 5 years, JT had the biggest somg of last year, and Timbaland and JT are working on another album

 

[Chairmanchuck]

Love that in all of these topics, they're always stan who can't accept the truth.
" But they released an album last year!!!"
Yeah, and no one cares.


I submit Tokyo motel

They try to market the new album pretty heavily though.

 

[IISANDERII]

Gareth Gates.
Craig David.

Those are the two that immediately came to mind.

He's actually made many wise investments and is now richer than ever. Go watch Todd in the Shadows' episode about him.

Craig David, that's a good one. I loved some of his songs, especially 7 Days, so sexy

 

[chromatic9]

I mean, 20/20 experience came out in the last 5 years, JT had the biggest somg of last year, and Timbaland and JT are working on another album

Interesting. I feel I've seen countless 500 million viewed pop videos and the same bunch of collabs. Never heard or seen JT.

Surely something from Bruno Mars was bigger?

remember Sean Paul? lol

He's still huge and just done the Rockabye tune.

 

[womfalcs3]

Pink had a hit song on the Alice soundtrack last year that is played on the radio at least 10 times a day still.

Huh? Her last album (in 2012) opened at #1 in the US and went double platinum (and had several hit singles). She's done some other singles since thing (you have to have heard Just Like Fire, it plays everywhere) have done fine as well. Definitely not a case of being lost in 2001 for that one. Just hasn't released another album since.

Plus Ellen's intro song is by Pink.

 

[Chuckie]

Interesting. I feel I've seen countless 500 million viewed pop videos and the same bunch of collabs. Never heard or seen JT.

Surely something from Bruno Mars was bigger?

Well to be fair, his 2013 hit Mirrors only had 432 million views, so maybe that is why you never heard of it.


But seriously, there is quite a gap between: 2000's stars nobody talks about anymore and stars that have 500+ million views.

 

[linkboy]

Vitamin C

Last time I checked, she's the VP of music for Nickelodeon.

 

[Accoun]

I submit Tokyo motel

I think I remember when the last MBV album came out they were nominated to the same award and /mu/ had a good laugh about it. I think I roughly remember a snapshot of Bill's sister(or some fan using his last name in her nick?) saying she had a proof of "4chan hacking the voting" or something like that with a screenshot of a command line with something along the lines of "C:hack MTV awards" (with a "command not found" error even).

That was the last time I heard of them.

 

[creatchee]

This thread makes me want to see Michelle BranchGAF and Vanessa CarltonGAF have a street fight.