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“Things Have Changed” by Bob Dylan
Released 2000
“Things Have Changed” by Bob Dylan appears on 14 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2000 and 2026. It was first released in 2000. Its best result is #25 on the WXRT Listener Poll: Top 30 Songs of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #25 indie & aaa song of 2000, #368 indie & aaa song of all time and #252 of the '00s.
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"Things Have Changed" was Bob Dylan's song for the film Wonder Boys, released as a single on May 1, 2000, and it swept both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song. Dylan wrote it and sings it, and it grooves hard while grinning darkly, playful and ominous in the same breath.
It also marked a turn. Brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone heard it as a sharp break from the Daniel Lanois-produced murk of Time Out of Mind in 1997, the first sign of the loose, frisky, cut-live-in-the-room records Dylan would go on to make as his own producer, with engineer Chris Shaw at his side. When Rolling Stone ranked the best Dylan songs of the 21st century in 2020, it put this one at the top. It has since landed on The Essential Bob Dylan, The Best of Bob Dylan and Dylan.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 25 | 93XRT Chicago, IL | WXRT Listener Poll: Top 30 Songs of 2000 | 30 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1552 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2009 | 320 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2016 | 212 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2019 | 72 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 72 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2020 | 921 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 189 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2023 | 536 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 231 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 306 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 379 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 318 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 357 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
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