Now That Was Totally On The Radio and Stuff! Vol. 2: Forgotten Singles of the Early 2000s

Cannot fathom this being released in 2003

That's because it was released in 2000.
Or do you mean you couldn't fathom something like this being released anytime later than 2002?

Recently identified this video that I had vague memories of. Mostly remember it for the video, since the song isn't very good:
Handsome Devil - Makin Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nRieAoGTW0

Not exactly forgotten but curiously far from every day consciousness.

The video isn't even on YouTube, although that's possibly for NSFW reasons.

Add N to (X) - Plug Me In

https://vimeo.com/88573125

yikes, NSFW indeed.

no memory of that one at all - a UK thing maybe?

I guess mileage does vary with this kind of stuff, but a lot of what's in this thread I never even heard of. Granted some of these that I've googled were VERY minor hits, if that, (ie. never charted at all or hit like #67 on the rap single sales chart for a single week or received airplay in certain markets but didn't really impact elsewhere or w/e)

Either way still cool to be exposed to these songs - some which reveal quite clearly why they never really "made it".

Anyway, my contribution for "once a hit, now totally forgotten" would be Guster's "Satellite" and their lesser hit "Amsterdam"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekt6PELAcEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0TQVbiWeEs

Once recurrent on Triple A / Adult Top 40 stations (my local "Dave Matthews and friends" AAA certainly did anyway) circa the mid-late 00s, I don't recall having heard these played anywhere this decade whether on terrestrial radio, satellite radio, grocery store/mall PAs. In fact, I totally forgot they existed until some music journo types brought them up on twitter.

saw a promo 12-inch for this one in the racks at a record store recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBe1ybJarMo

don't ask me how, but i recognized it as one of a number of tunes pushed to top 40 radio from new/unestablished artists in 2001 that ended up going basically nowhere.

a few others fitting the same description:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLdvMQgltTE

this one i remember hearing, but very little. it might have gotten voted off the new music battle that my local station would air on weekday evenings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAo7TTM81gU

like "hottie," another example of the sort of youthful 'rhythmic'/dance hybrid sound that was being somewhat more successfully taken to airwaves via artists like jessica simpson ("irresistible") and christina milian ("am to pm")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maROJsdJNCA

i definitely heard this, but i'm not sure if it was on the radio or on tv?

Oh yeah, “Miss California”, massive hit in Europe (number 1-ish in these parts) - but true, I had completely forgotten about it, even though I quite liked it at the time.

Also in People who have obviously written their own Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Thomas

oh i had no idea "miss california" was a big hit internationally. makes sense tho, pretty catchy tune even if the artist is not an especially distinctive presence on it... lol that wiki page is really something

listening to the lindsay pagano song again and tbh the chorus melody is kinda great, too bad the verses are horrible/clunky/aimless and sound like they're part of an entirely different song

you're good, dyl! these threads inherently involve subjective experience and the vagaries of memory. i mainly just want to shake out things a step or two above "effectively unreleased and unheard," but below stuff that nobody on ILM needs reminding of even if it's faded away a little.

the production on that ashley ballard one is a real time capsule of like, two years before it came out, and amanda's "everybody doesn't" isn't much more a creature of 2001.... or did this stuff hang around longer than my brain is remembering? the hooks just all sounds like rewrites of "sock it 2 me" and "genie in a bottle" to my ears.

huh wow i've definitely heard that Satellite song plenty of times but never knew it was Guster, who i figured must have broken up after their contributions to the late 90s equivalent of this thread. it's from 2008 though - is it time to establish a late-2000s edition?

just updated the spotify playlist with various recent additions. "Miss California" isn't available but that's no mark of shame - to this day, "Land of a Million Drums" languishes off the grid. sigh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYSW8swX5I

Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk