Album · Dr. Dre
2001 by Dr. Dre
2001 is an album by Dr. Dre, released in 1999. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 9 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Forgot About Dre”, on 6 lists with a best position of #17.
2001, Dr. Dre's second studio album and the follow-up to 1992's The Chronic, dropped on November 16, 1999, through Aftermath and Interscope, the label setup Dre built after walking away from Death Row. He produced most of it with Mel-Man, with Lord Finesse lending a hand, and the sound takes his G-funk blueprint and widens it into something colder and more cinematic: crisp, spacious beats, heavy low end and a menacing chill.
The guest list is a small army, with Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Xzibit, Nate Dogg, Hittman and a hungry Eminem all stepping up, and the subject matter stays firmly in gangsta rap territory: crime, drugs, sex and street life. Critics raved about the production even when the lyrics made them wince. It debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 with 516,000 copies in its first week, and went on to sell 7,800,000 in the US.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from 2001 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forgot About Dre | 6 | #17 | – | 2000–2025 | |
| 2 | The Next Episode | 2 | #271 | – | 2022–2023 | |
| 3 | Still D.R.E. | 1 | #240 | – | 2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.