Critical Reception
"Bye Bye Bye" received 2 Grammy nominations, "Record of the Year" and "Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal". The song and video won the group 3 Video Music Awards at the 2000 MTV VMA's. (Best Pop Video, Best Choreography in a Video and Viewer's Choice) The video won the most VMA's that year. It also won a Radio Music Radio award in 2000, for best song of the year. Rolling Stone, however, listed "Bye Bye Bye" as the 17th most annoying song of all time. Other awards included 3 Teen Choice Awards in 2000 (Choice Single, Choice Music Video, and Song of the Summer), MuchMusic Video Music Award (Favorite International Group for "Bye Bye Bye") and Blockbuster Entertainment Award 2001 (category Favorite Single for "Bye Bye Bye"). The song was voted the number 1 Boyband/girlband song on U Choose 40 on C4 in New Zealand.
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