List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 2000

"I Knew I Loved You" would prove to be one of the most enduring songs in the history of AC radio, and in 2002 it set a new record for the highest total number of weeks spent on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart when it spent its 124th week on the listing, breaking the record set by one of Savage Garden's earlier songs, "Truly Madly Deeply".

[2] Despite also topping the magazine's all-genre chart, the Hot 100, it would prove to be one of Savage Garden's final hits, however, as the duo split up the following year.

The song was knocked from the top spot on three separate occasions by "You Sang to Me" by Latin pop star Marc Anthony.

BBMak's run at number one was interrupted for one week by Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow's version of Smokey Robinson's song "Cruisin'", taken from the soundtrack of the film Duets,[6] in which the pair played a father and daughter who performed the song in a karaoke competition.

[7] Veteran singer Lewis had achieved a string of hits with his band Huey Lewis and the News since the early 1980s, including number ones on Billboard's rock, AC and dance charts as well as the Hot 100,[8] but "Cruisin'" was the actress Paltrow's first hit as a singer.

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Savage Garden ( vocalist Darren Hayes pictured) spent the first 16 weeks of the year at number one with their song “ I Knew I Loved You ”.
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" Breathe " by Faith Hill had four separate runs at number one and spent a total of 17 weeks in the top spot.
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" You Sang to Me " was a number one for Latin pop star Marc Anthony .
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Actress Gwyneth Paltrow topped the chart with the song " Cruisin' ", which she performed with Huey Lewis in the film Duets .