I have ranked the top 68 television shows of the '00s, and will be presenting them, one-by-one, starting with 68 and working down. The rankings are more or less based on the show's popularity, it's cult status, it's critical acclaim, and my personal liking of it, with a heavy dose of arbitrariness added in. If a show was a big enough phenomena, I'll keep it on the list - but if I don't like it, I may drop it some spots. One other caveat - these are primetime shows (I apologize if I put a cable show that wasn't, I thought they were all primetime shows - the main point of this is just that no talk shows, no Colbert and Daily Show that would be on otherwise).

13: American Idol

Perhaps it's unfair to stow the best rated program of the last decade here at number thirteen. Call it a bit of discretion for a show I genuinely extremely dislike. I admit I've had trouble exactly explaining very well what it is I so dislike about the show, and I'm not always sure I can to myself. In addition, I hold no animus towards contestants post-Idol, I've liked plenty of their music that has come afterwards (well, mostly Kelly Clarkson and a couple of other songs by people here and there). I just really don't like it. Oh, sure, there are a couple of reasons I can pinpoint, and they explain maybe why I don't watch it, but not really why I don't like it so much - two hours of show a week means they contain a ton of absolute fluff and the songs that got released at the end of every year as Idol songs tended to be lousy as a general course -A Moment Like This or Inside Your Heaven, for example. And part of it, certainly is because it's so popular, if nobody watched it, I probably would feel the same way about it as I feel about, I don't know, According to Jim. But it is that popular, so it stares me in the face every time a great controversy is there about which David to vote for, Cook or Archuleta (okay, that only happened once, but you get the idea).

I don't watch it, but that doesn't mean I haven't seen it, for better or worse. It's hard to avoid it ever, with it being so big and talked about. I know all the winners, and just about all of the runners up (I don't want to say for sure that I might not forget about a Diana deGarmo) because they're usually worth knowing, most of them have had at least some semblance of at least one hit (Taylor Hicks really pushing it with just the American Idol done "Do You Make Me Proud?"

It's everywhere. So many things about it have been cultural touchstones over the last decade - Simon Cowell raving, From Justin to Kelly, Clay Aiken claiming he's not gay and then finally coming out, Paula Abdul's scandal and alleged affair with a contestant, the great run of Sanjaya, Adam Lambert not winning probably because he's just gay or because he's flamboyantly gay - there are almost too many to count (there's so many that after writing this I just remembered William Hung - with almost any other show, that would be the biggest random sensation to happen to it). Although it has still been the #1 and #2 programs for the past five years (and no, I'm not giving separate entries to the performance show and the results show), I feel like while tons of people still watch, it's been less talked about everywhere the past couple of seasons (could just be wishful thinking).

Two of the winners have become unqualified stars - Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, and Jordin Starks has had her share of success. Two non winners have also become stars - Chris Daughtry, and oscar-winning Jennifer Hudson (there's a section of the American Idol wikipedia page devoted to award winners - hilariously there's an "Academy Awards" column - which looks like a binary column - it's basically a whole bunch of zeros and a one by Hudson's name).

Someday, someone's going to write a book about American Idol. As we move into a new generation of Idoldom, we have two new judges - really important decisions for the producers, who were worried that Simon Cowell leaving might cause droves of viewers to leave as well - and allegedly Steven Tyler has a knack for it (possibly making other new judge Jennifer Lopez jealous?). Still, we may well be reaching a point where American Idol is relevant in television, but not so much in music anymore.

I'll continue to follow it in as much as I need to know - acts that might actually become popular outside of Idol, and any major scandal news story, but no more. Thankfully, at least the days are gone where any American Idol songs released at the end would instantly shoot super high in the charts (the weirdest for me is going through my old year end top 100s realizing how high a version of God Bless the USA by "American Idol finalists" went - thankfully quickly forgotten - another distasteful byproduct of post-9/11super patriotic fever).

I have ranked the top 68 television shows of the '00s, and will be presenting them, one-by-one, starting with 68 and working down. The rankings are more or less based on the show's popularity, it's cult status, it's critical acclaim, and my personal liking of it, with a heavy dose of arbitrariness added in. If a show was a big enough phenomena, I'll keep it on the list - but if I don't like it, I may drop it some spots. One other caveat - these are primetime shows (I apologize if I put a cable show that wasn't, I thought they were all primetime shows - the main point of this is just that no talk shows, no Colbert and Daily show that would be on otherwise).

14: Entourage

You know, a while ago, whenever I wrote this list up, this seemed to make sense here, and now it kind of looks like a strange outlier. And maybe that's just right. Maybe Entourage is a perfect type of program which had its little moment in the sun but was forgotten about quickly, even before it really officially ended (which it will this summer - and then maybe movie?). It was supposed to be HBO's next big breakout half hour hit, it's next Sex and the City, and it pulled off kind of a Vinny Testaverde type of career - never quite did become a star but was a very productive player for years and years.

And while I admit this is high, these type of careers are deserving of notice and Entourage was an important player on a big time team (HBO?) for many years. At its heart it's a male fantasy show, and I've often tried to put it off as the male equivalent of Sex and the City, though some women have said they enjoy Entourage and claim that my analogy is forced for that reason - women enjoy Entourage in general more than men enjoy Sex and the City (not that men can't, or shouldn't, of course). But it's like the bubblegum pop of shows, it's short, it bounces up and down but generally up at the end, and part of the reason you enjoy the ride is because, overall, you like to see them do well, and make money and sleep with hot chicks.

Vinny Chase has the rare fortune to play one of those characters who is more famous in the fictional universe than the actor Adrian Grenier in our universe, something that, even with Entourage ending soon will be relatively difficult to change (Vinny Chase did star in Aquaman, and The Great Gatsby after all). Entourage has wonderful fictional movies, particularly my favorite which is the scene of the Vinny Chase in the black-and-white art film Queens Boulevard saying "I Am Queens Boulevard" (I know it doesn't sound funny, but it just kind of is great). Entourage also does a good job in generally using celebrities well - it's a platform for celebrities to mock themselves by playing ridiculous exaggerated versions of themselves, and show viewers at the same time that they have a sense of humor.

What's unfortunate in a way as well, is that now, when many of its fans have written it off - probably more of fatigue than any particular jumping-the-shark arc or moment, Entourage had its best season in years actually delving into something Entourage had never really done - a seriously dark plot for Vinny Chase that wasn't simply solved over the course of an episode. I was a little bit conflicted in that I watch Entourage to see the boys having fun, facing little problems, coming out ahead and having a huge party, but this season the focus was on some actual serious shit, and they almost played into what you expected, but throwing a couple of moments, where you though Vinny would snap out of the funk, but he just fell further. If you described it to me before hand I'm not sure I would have been thrilled about it but I actually really liked it (the same way I felt about watching recent How I Met Your Mother episodes dealing with Marshall's dad's death - I watch the show to laugh, so I don't want to be sad, but all things considered, they've handled the death plot very well).

In the days of hilarious but sometimes hard-to-watch comedies, Entourage is a different breed. It's popcorn. It's not funny, but it's really easy to watch, and enjoyable and that sounds like a backhanded compliment, but it's really not.

I have ranked the top 68 television shows of the '00s, and will be presenting them, one-by-one, starting with 68 and working down. The rankings are more or less based on the show's popularity, it's cult status, it's critical acclaim, and my personal liking of it, with a heavy dose of arbitrariness added in. If a show was a big enough phenomena, I'll keep it on the list - but if I don't like it, I may drop it some spots. One other caveat - these are primetime shows (I apologize if I put a cable show that wasn't, I thought they were all primetime shows - the main point of this is just that no talk shows, no Colbert and Daily show that would be on otherwise).

15: NCIS

The sneaky biggest show on this list, perhaps the most remarkable thing about NCIS is that there's nothing really remarkable at all about it. The little procedural that could, NCIS chugged its way from a 26th place and 11.84 million viewers in its rookie season all the way to the 4th spot and 19.33 million viewers in its most recent 7th season, growing in viewers every single year as it progressed. It can not be emphasized enough just how unusual this is. Sure, every once in a blue moon shows take a couple of years to find their feet but usually they peak out after a few years and begin a decline, either steep, or just gentle because their show is still extremely popular, but fewer people generally watch any one show as years go on, with fewer people watching broadcast TV as a whole. The two most closest examples I could find were Everybody Loves Raymond, which peaked in its 6th season, and dipped a slight bit but not by much afterwards, and Seinfeld which started with absolutely no one watching it, getting an extreme amount of leeway from NBC, and then by the 7th season reached its peak, which it more or less maintained for the couple of seasons after it. While season 8 ratings for NCIS aren't out yet, the single episode record was already set by a season 8 episode. Not to mention all this for a show that had the audacity to schedule itself next to the clear #1 show of the era (which will prevent it from ever notching a #1 slot, for better or worse) American Idol.

Okay, enough about ratings, but man, what else is there to talk about. I've seen quite a big of NCIS - when I was out in California visiting my brother, my usual Law & Order watching schedule was three hours off and NCIS was in its place. It's you know, okay. Kind of a middle of the road procedural, better than some of the real drek of the genre, but inferior to, say, Law & Order. I can understand why people watch it and why it stays on tv; I can not understand why it's the most popular scripted show in America. CSI, which was the most popular procedural before being replaced by NCIS at least has its crazy zoom in shots, and it's super sensationalized crimes. NCIS, while being no authority on realism, is nowhere as out there as CSI. Mark Harmon, who had bounced around after Chicago Hope ended, to end up as the lead, is minorly charismatic and his team is about average, including former Man from U.N.C.L.E. co-star David McCallum as the wacky old and morbid trivia filled medical examiner and Pauley Parette as the she's-over-forty-what-is-she-still-doing-with-the-goth-and-pigtails-thing forensics specialist, who is probably the second most well-known character after Harmon - the creepy NCIS:LA commercials had Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J following her, as NCIS:LA follows NCIS on Tuesday nights.

I guess Michael Weatherly's the third most notable character? I don't even know. NCIS was a spin off of JAG which is notable for the fact that I just learned that JAG lasted TEN seasons, a fact which I find absolutely mindblowing, if only vaguely relevant here. That's it, really. This is going to be one of those weird shows that no one probably remembers even though it was huge at the time (Think: The Jets - 80s pop band with five top ten hits who no one has ever heard of - well, that's probably too obscure, but time will tell).

I have ranked the top 68 television shows of the '00s, and will be presenting them, one-by-one, starting with 68 and working down. The rankings are more or less based on the show's popularity, it's cult status, it's critical acclaim, and my personal liking of it, with a heavy dose of arbitrariness added in. If a show was a big enough phenomena, I'll keep it on the list - but if I don't like it, I may drop it some spots. One other caveat - these are primetime shows (I apologize if I put a cable show that wasn't, I thought they were all primetime shows - the main point of this is just that no talk shows, no Colbert and Daily show that would be on otherwise).

16: Grey's Anatomy

Well, we're two in a row now, and two of three in getting through the pivotal ABC shows of the past decade. Debuting a year after Lost and Desperate Housewives in 2005, Grey's started in 2005, and was an instant hit. Ratings have declined since (teaser: there's only two shows offhand I can think of that drastically did the opposite of decline and the strangest one to me is next) but it's still getting enough viewers to at least assure it of an eighth season next fall. And unlike the other two, it's even produced its own successful-enough spin-off Private Practice (I do really want to know what a spin-off from Lost would be). Unlike the other two, I've never quite gotten what was the big deal. Not that Lost or Desperate Housewives ever were necessarily so great but at least they were fairly different from anything else on TV. Grey's Anatomy is pretty much a medical soap. Not that there isn't room for a big one (especially in the face of end of ER) and I suppose there really aren't too many hospital shows around in this age of police procedurals (House is a hospital more or less procedural - there have been a few unsuccessful - Mercy anybody? Along with some newer nurse shows - Nurse Jackie, Hawthorne) but it all seems pretty rote.

I've seen a small amount of Grey's Anatomy, and probably more remarkably when I was bored a couple of summers ago at a job (really bored) I read the wikipedia episode summaries for the first couple of seasons (I was really bored)(pretty much just like watching the show). For some reason the main wikipedia page makes absolutely no mention of what has to be the most insane episode (I think? There's no way there could be a newer, crazier one) and the most watched episode as it appeared right after the Super Bowl (to be fair, it was the fairly lousy Steelers-Seahawks Super Bowl). This is "It's the End of the World" (all the episodes are song titles - it's the gimmick - the next episode is even (And We Know it) (technically not a song title by itself, but I'll give some leeway)). In this episode, without going into the unimportant details, a man comes into the hospital with the bomb in his chest ("unexploded ammunition" - I'm just saying bomb - same point). Over the course of this and the next episode, the doctors try to remove it (I would be remiss to not point out that apparently in Seattle Grace Hospital, this situation is known as a Code Black - you haven't been a doctor long enough until you've had one, I guess) while a bomb squad expert played by Kyle Chandler waits to diffuse it. In the end, the doctors do their job, but soon after the bomb explodes anyway, killing the expendable Chandler and his partner but no doctors. Tragedy.

Of course, the other most well-known incident regarding the show, especially for non-viewers of the show, was the brouhaha that erupted when Isaiah Washington made insulting comments about the sexual orientation of fellow cast member TR Knight, who then came out officially after the incident. Washington tried to take it back, and emphasize to the public how comfortable he was with the gays, but it was too late. Soon, his contract was cancelled and he was bounced from the show, off to appear in uh, well a couple of episodes of the short lived remake of the Bionic Woman. A couple of wrong words can drop you far in this business.

Oh, yeah and it had that weird thing where Patrick Dempsey's character was "McDreamy" and Eric Dane's character was "McSteamy." That was highly relevant for a year or two there.

I have ranked the top 68 television shows of the '00s, and will be presenting them, one-by-one, starting with 68 and working down. The rankings are more or less based on the show's popularity, it's cult status, it's critical acclaim, and my personal liking of it, with a heavy dose of arbitrariness added in. If a show was a big enough phenomena, I'll keep it on the list - but if I don't like it, I may drop it some spots. One other caveat - these are primetime shows (I apologize if I put a cable show that wasn't, I thought they were all primetime shows - the main point of this is just that no talk shows, no Colbert and Daily show that would be on otherwise).

17: Desperate Housewives

I remember the first year of Desperate Housewives. It was huge - and a sensation - something people were talking about it. Who Wants to Be A Millionaire was bigger in its time in that more people watched it, but it's not like if you were at work the next day there would be much to talk about it. But if I had been around a water cooler back in the fall of 2004, this is what people would have been talking about. Well, essentially this and Lost (particularly comparable as the biggest ABC scripted successes of the decade). And we all know what happened - one of them went on to be hugely buzzworthy for a couple of years, fell out of favor, and then after announcing when its finale would be, became a cause celebre in its final season, and the other one was Desperate Housewives.

Or so the narrative seems, and that's what I thought I'd find, in terms of ratings. But the story is totally untrue. While it seems like everyone I know and read was talking about Lost, Desperate Housewives was still cranking out better ratings, and it honestly wasn't even that close. Lost, which I would have thought, would have climbed in the ratings during the last season when everyone was buzzing after every single episode, had its lowest rated season yet, while Desperate Housewives, whose ratings were still down relatively (what non-American Idol shows aren't, these days) finished in the top 15.

It was an interesting idea when it came out - the classic trashy primetime soup but this time with a dark comedy satiric spin. Sure, lots of primetime soaps before had not necessary taken themselves super seriously, but not usually with this type of angle. The narrator was the recently dead Mary Alice Young, who killed herself under mysterious circumstances which are the first season mystery (each season seems to have some sort of overarching plot, while there are many smaller plots within). The Desperate Housewives I have seen pretty much came during the first and maybe beginning of second seasons with my parents, who watched it at the time. Anyway, there was all sorts of little of these little dark mysteries - people trying to kill each other and such, lightened by the sense of satire.

Everyone knew Wisteria Lane and the ladies of Desperate Housewives became kind of a famous individually and as a group, though some more than others - it was kind of a comeback for Teri Hatcher, and Eva Longoria probably became the most famous, in addition to her tabloid-drawing romance with basketball point guard Tony Parker, but Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman also (and to a lesser extent, Nicolette Sheridan - as sports fans by remember from this incredibly strange and ill-advised ABC syngeristic pre-Monday Night Football promo - I was just going to link but after watching it again -if you haven't seen it this is such a must-watch that I'm just embedding it below this:

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Honestly, I can't top that. I really want to end on that note, and I don't have much else to say (bunch of characters die? crazy mysteries?), so I'm going to.

I have ranked the top 68 television shows of the '00s, and will be presenting them, one-by-one, starting with 68 and working down. The rankings are more or less based on the show's popularity, it's cult status, it's critical acclaim, and my personal liking of it, with a heavy dose of arbitrariness added in. If a show was a big enough phenomena, I'll keep it on the list - but if I don't like it, I may drop it some spots. One other caveat - these are primetime shows (I apologize if I put a cable show that wasn't, I thought they were all primetime shows - the main point of this is just that no talk shows, no Colbert and Daily show that would be on otherwise).

18: Mad Men

Mad Men is one of the best two dramas on TV right now (along with Breaking Bad, though I'm not always certain on the order) and one of the buzziest shows around, at least in the Eastern seaboard Megalopolis (probably not so much in the flyover states).

Going into the fourth season this year I had talked myself a little bit down on the show. I had talked to some people who weren't in love with it, or kind of liked it but thought it was overhyped. The show hadn't been on for a few months and it wasn't fresh in my mind; by the time it came back I wasn't all that excited about it. But then, as I started watching season 4, my feelings changed, and after just a couple of episodes I remembered why I liked the show so much, and after the season was done, I got to thinking this was probably the best season yet. And unlike Friday Night Lights - a show which as I watch it seems amazing, but which quickly seems significantly worse after I'm a few weeks away from watching, the feeling of how good Mad Men was has stayed with me this time.

The acting is supurb and the characters are rich. The plots are great, but the show ultimately isn't about the plots at heart - it's about the interactions between the characters. Don Draper is the heart of the show, and without him being a great character, the show would certainly go nowhere, but it's about more than just him. In addition, it would be easy in some ways to have Draper's character become a little bit at least of a cartoon at various points - ambitious ad man who cheats on his wife constantly is easy to get tired of (as much of a crazy person as Betty later becomes, doesn't excuse the constant cheating - it was good to see the marriage end all around) - but a combination of really good acting and really good writing make him much more interesting than he had to be. This season, the episode "The Suitcase" had that kind of instant cache that pretty much everyone knew they were watching a classic when they saw it - when I read things online and talked to other people, they agreed, and when I talked to people after the season and started with something like "great episode" they knew exactly what I meant. The relationships are interesting, and the Peggy-Don relationship may be the deepest and most important one in the show.

If I do have to make my one nitpicky current issue, and it's a relatively small one (spoilers coming), it's that Betty, Don's by now ex-wife has sort of become cartoonishly insane. She has not been in the show nearly so much once she left Don (she's not quite as important to the show as say Carmela was in Sopranos, but still), but she has become a real monster. Deciding to move to spite Sally, firing Carla ridiculously, and in general just acting like an 8 year old. Yes, we get the idea that she's supposed to be immature and a child, but come on - all the other characterization is far more subtle and nuanced, in particular, say Pete Campbell who was super villainous in the first season and has become much more tolerable, or Roger, but Betty has become one dimensional.

Anyway, it's a minor complaint, seriously. Great show.

2010 Number Ones Ranking continued:

11. "Only Girl (in the World)" - Rihanna

This song to me sounds kind of like it was created by a computer with the inputs "upbeat Rihanna dance song." The computer made some sounds, did some crunching and spit out "Only Girl in the World" - a song that seems like it should work, but it just doesn't. I like Rihanna's other big songs that seem to be to be a relatively similar vain - "S.O.S" and "Please Don't Stop the Music" are both solid, but this one feels like it's missing something. I definitely like it more than "What's My Name" but that might just be because I like this type of song a little bit better overall. I want to like and I can listen to it occasionally - it's by no means a bad song, but sometimes it's hard to listen to songs when you know there are other songs out there that are similar but just better in just about every way. Listening to it again I think that hits it on the head best for me - in a vacuum I'd like this song quite fine - and I was thinking to myself, yeah, you know, this really isn't bad. Then I put on S.O.S., and damn, this really is much better. Maybe it's unfair to compare an artist to their previous work sometimes, but sometimes it isn't.

10. "Rude Boy" - Rihanna

The run of three straight Rihanna songs comes to an end, as well as the fourth number one of the year to be produced by Stargate - eight of the seventeen were written by Stargate or Dr. Luke.

If it makes any sense, Rude Boy is the type of song which I am willing to acknowledge might be better than I like the song. I honestly don't know exactly why I don't like it, but in the same way, you don't know you like a song until you find yourself leaving it on when you hear it on the radio, even if you've heard it ten minutes ago, I found myself, when the song was big, turning it off, and switching stations, even when I hadn't heard it in a while. I like it the best of the Rihanna songs of this year, and even listening to it again now, I want to like it more - I just don't. Some of it is probably the repetitiveness, but again, if it was a song I loved, the repetitiveness generally wouldn't be a problem. I like the style (and I kind of like the video as well). Well, maybe with time it will grow, or maybe not. It's the flip side of the unexpectedly liked song - sometimes you just don't like one you think you should.

9. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry

Part 1 in a series of 2 of songs I really wish were done by anybody except Katy Perry. Not much really separate the music in the two Katy Perry songs here or the two Kesha songs yet to come all with winning synth lines from producer of the year Dr. Luke. I don't really like Firework, but with these two its different. In fact, Tik Tok and California Gurls are more or less the same song as evidenced by a tons of youtube attempts at mashing them up (and really, the same song as "Who Dat Girl" by Flo Rida featuring Akon - another mashup waiting to happen). The difference as far as I can tell, is that Kesha's is great and Katy Perry's isn't. And great, yeah, is probably a stretch, but compared to Katy Perry, she is. And this is nothing at all to do with my sometimes personal contempt for Perry or my dislike of "I Kissed a Girl," which would not have been a good song no matter who was singing it. I absolutely honestly just do not like either her voice or the way she uses her voice, or maybe the best way to say it is her sound. I just don't - if anyone else did these songs, well, almost anyone I could really like them. But there's just something about them, and that's all the more frustrating. It's much easier to deal with a song that just all together is terrible than one that could be really good, and just isn't.

8. California Gurls - Katy Perry

This is mostly already encompassed in the previous entry, but speaking of predispositions, as a born and bred east coast guy, I feel a natural objection to songs so blatantly representing the west coast (and more than the west coast, really - southern california - this isn't about San Francisco or Portland or Seattle). Los Angeles is kind of New Yorkers' natural enemy - first, they start stealing our native tv shows (Law & Order: Los Angeles) and then they come after our number ones ("Empire State of Mind" - in my head - "California Gurls" has always been kind of a response to that, though I know of absolutely no evidence that that is true). So, yeah, I do kind of have a visceral reaction to the touting of SoCal so highly.

Also, random credit should be given for whoever suggested that the "gurls" be spelled with a "u" in tribute to "September Gurls" by Big Star (this, I have read somewhere to be true).

I've also always though that Katy Perry's short response lines during Snoop Dogg's rap could be right out of a porno ("yeah", "Uh huh" - just typing them really misses the point though, just listen to them during the song." As well, I can reluctantly give credit for love it or hate it, making a full-fledged ridiculous video - ambitious videos should at least get credit for trying (I actually don't even have a strong opinion about the video, other than it being ridiculous.)

7. Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars

This fits under the category of songs, when I first saw them on the charts, I hoped they were incredibly random cover songs and were disappointed to find out otherwise. For example, when I first saw Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" (merely two and a half years ago, but how long ago it seems in pop years) some hope harbored it was a cover of Jill Sobule's minor hit, or when more recently Mike Posner's second hit "Please Don't Go" moved up, I thought maybe it was a strangely random cover of the KC and the Sunshine Band song. I thought when I saw "Just the Way You Are" on the charts that maybe, just maybe it was a Billy Joel cover. Alas.

Anyway, I at first didn't like the song much at all - thinking it was a pretty boring ballad, but the more I heard it, I was turned on to some innate sweetness and changed my opinion a little bit. I think I've now gone back past the point where I don't need to hear it again for a while, and I don't think it's great but yeah at least I can see some of the appeal here. It's a nice little ballad, that is bound to be a super generic wedding song for some couples and I'm okay with it being a hit but I have a hard time really championing its cause.

Also, I just wanted to make note that going from not having a wikipedia page at all as "Nothin' On You" climbed the charts, to having two number ones in the year, a third in the first week of 2011, and a top five hit with Travie McCoy and "Billionaire" is pretty fucking impressive.

6. OMG - Usher

This song has one of the stupidest lines in a pop song (I know, I know - there are too many to count, but this ranks somewhere) with "Honey got a booty like pow, pow, pow/ Honey got some boobies like wow, oh, wow." A twelve year old could not have said it better.

Will I Am's production, featuring a whole bunch of crowd noise makes this another anthemic-feeling song on our list, and that's probably it's best quality. Honestly, even without the extra piped in crowd noise in the background, it gets you kind of pumped up, and with all due respect to Usher, the production is really the star here.