2000s Music Quiz

Our 2000s music quiz is not one quiz but a whole collection of rounds built from the sound of 2000 to 2009. You will move from hip hop and contemporary R&B to pop-punk, emo, crunk and late-decade electropop, guessing tracks by Eminem, Beyonce, Shakira, Usher and more. Each round plays a snippet and challenges you to name the song or the artist before it ends, so the better you know the noughties, the higher you climb.

Expect the artists who defined the decade. Eminem finished as the top-selling artist of the 2000s, Britney Spears as the best-selling female artist, and the rounds lean on Beyonce, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Usher and Shakira. Landmark songs turn up constantly, from Shakira's Hips Don't Lie and OutKast's Hey Ya! to The Killers' Mr. Brightside and Soulja Boy's Crank That, so this 2000s music trivia rewards anyone who lived on the radio then.

Yes. The 2000s music quiz is free to play with no signup, so you can jump straight in and start guessing the moment you land. If you want to save your stats, track a streak and climb the weekly league against other players, you can sign in, but that is entirely optional. Nothing is paywalled: the full collection of noughties rounds is open, whether you play once or come back every single day.

It scales with you. Early rounds serve the megahits almost everyone shouted along to, like Oops!... I Did It Again or Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), so newcomers score quickly. Push deeper and the game digs into crunk, emo, garage rock revival and MySpace-era indie, where one-week wonders and ringtone hits hide. Because the snippets are short, even a 2000s superfan has to lock in the title before it ends to beat the clock.

The 2000s left fingerprints all over its records. Auto-Tune, pushed mainstream by T-Pain around 2007, gives late-decade R&B and pop an unmistakable robotic shimmer, while crunk chants, snap beats and huge pop-punk power chords date a track in a single bar. Add the polished digital production of the iPod and iTunes era, plus hooks engineered for ringtones, and most clues click into place the moment the chorus drops.