Pop · 2000s

Pop loudness in the 2000s

-10.4 Median integrated LUFS
-15.4 to -7.6 Range
26 Tracks

Distribution

-16 to -15 LUFS: 1 track-15 to -14 LUFS: 2 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 4 tracks-13 to -12 LUFS: 1 track-12 to -11 LUFS: 3 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 6 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 6 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 2 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 1 track -16 LUFS -12 LUFS -7 LUFS

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Craig David — Fill Me In Pt. 2
-7.6 LUFS
Quietest: The Pointer Sisters — Slow Hand
-15.4 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Dick Beetham
n=14 · median -9.7 LUFS
Elliot Federman
n=12 · median -13.1 LUFS

Other decades

← Pop in the 1990s

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 26 measured tracks, not a survey of every Pop release from the 2000s.