2000: Enya — "A Day Without Rain"
Critic score: 41/100
User score: 8.5/10
What critics said: "Yanni is Tchaikovsky by comparison, Sarah McLachlan, Ella Fitzgerald. Like Master P or Michael Bolton only worse, she tests one's faith in democracy itself." — The Village Voice
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2001: Run-DMC — "Crown Royal"
Critic score: 43/100
User score: 4.3/10
What critics said: "The musical equivalent of Willie Mays stumbling around in the outfield years after his skills were gone, 'Crown Royal' fails in the most arbitrary, impersonal way possible." — The AV Club
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2002: Phil Collins — "Testify"
2003: Limp Bizkit — "Results May Vary"
Critic score: 33/100
User score: 4.1/10
What critics said: "Since the music has no melody, hooks, or energy, all attention is focused on the clown jumping up and down and screaming in front, and long before the record is over, you're left wondering, how the hell did he ever get to put this mess out?" — AllMusic
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2005: Alanis Morissette — "Jagged Little Pill Acoustic"
Critic score: 40/100
User score: 6.0/10
What critics said: "Like Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells II' and Meat Loaf's 'Back Into Hell,' it doesn't so much play as fall out of the speakers with a flump: the sound of a towel being thrown in." — The Guardian
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2006: Kevin Federline — "Playing With Fire"
2007: The Stooges — "The Weirdness"
2008: Louis XIV — "Slick Dogs and Ponies"
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2010: Lil Wayne — "Rebirth"
Critic score: 37/100
User score: 3.0/10
What critics said: "The songs might have been better as parodies than as imitations, although 'Knockout' — a Coldplay homage backing a raunchy lyric — comes close to being both." —The New York Times
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2011: Viva Brother — "Famous First Words"
2012: Chris Brown — "Fortune"
2013: Megadeth — "Super Collider"
Critic score: 41/100
User score: 5.5/10
What critics said: "Super Collider is so mired in midtempo drudgery and familiar hard rock (not thrash) tropes that it never really connects." — All Music
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Critic score: 44/100
User score: 5.4/10
What critics said: "On New Glow, they’ve either finally dumbed things down too much, or simply reached the end of where this rudimentary songwriting can take them." — The AV Club
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2015: Matt and Kim — "New Glow"
2016: Charlie Puth — "Nine Track Mind"
2017: The Chainsmokers — "Memories: Do Not Open"
Critic score: 43/100
User score: 1.8/10
What critics said: "Whether the album’s title is a plea or a warning does not matter, as the effect is the same: The Chainsmokers have one song, and if you don’t want to hear 12 versions of it, please do not un-click the latch holding this box closed." — Spin
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2018 (so far): Justin Timberlake — "Man of the Woods"
Critic score: 55/100
User score: 5.5/10
What critics said: "Too much of 'Man of the Woods' is musically and thematically shallow; at 66 minutes, it’s a mile wide and an inch deep." — Pitchfork
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