2004 IN MUSIC

''See also:''

★ 2004 in music (UK)

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Events

★ January 1

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★ Vienna New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, conducted by Riccardo Muti.

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★ Kurt Nilsen wins ''World Idol''.

★ January 3 - Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood friend, in Las Vegas. The marriage was annulled two days later.

★ February 1 - Daron Hagen is appointed President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in New York City.

★ February 17

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★ BRIT Awards held in London. The Darkness, Dido, Busted, Justin Timberlake, and KRS-One are among the winners.

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★ Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan posts a bitter message on his personal blog calling D'Arcy Wretzky a "mean spirited drug addict" and blaming James Iha for the breakup of that band.

★ March 10 - George Michael announces that ''Patience'' will be his last commercially released record, telling Jo Whiley of BBC Radio 1 "this album nearly killed me". Future releases will be available from his web site in return for donations to his favourite charities.

★ March 13 - Luciano Pavarotti gives his last performance in an opera, in ''Tosca'' at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

★ March 16 - Godsmack releases an EP titled The Other Side, which contains acoustic reworkings of some of their songs

★ March 23 - Usher releases his " Confessions " album selling 1.1 million copies its first week , making him the first R&B artist to ever accomplish that. The album would be the top seller of the year with four number one singles.

★ April 6

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★ A previously unreleased Johnny Cash album called ''My Mother's Hymn Book'' is released less than a year after his death on September 12, 2003.

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★ Modest Mouse, an American indie rock band releases Good News for People Who Love Bad News.

★ Anastacia makes come back after cancer
April 20 - Fear Factory returns after their 2002 breakup with the new album ''Archetype''.

★ April 26

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★ Deborah Voigt, sacked by Covent Garden for being too fat for an opera role, makes her recital debut to a rapturous reception at Carnegie Hall.

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★ Dream Theater performs at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

★ May - ''Blender'' magazine's May issue includes a "50 Worst Songs Ever!" list. "We Built This City," by Starship, is rated worst.

★ May 10 - Keane release ''Hopes and Fears'' which converted into the 16th best selling album of the millennium in the UK. It went 8x platinum and was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the BRIT award for best album.

★ May 18 to May 23 - European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) in Basel.

★ May 24 - Madonna starts ''The Re-Invention Tour'' in 20 cities with a total of 56 shows and making it the most successful concert tour of the year with a gross of $124.5 million.

★ May 25

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★ Jam band Phish announces that after 21 years they will break up following the Summer 2004 Tour.

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★ Skinny Puppy releases their first studio album since disbanding in 1996, called ''The Greater Wrong of the Right''.

★ May 26 - Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of ''American Idol'', defeating Diana DeGarmo.

★ June

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★ Staind start recording their fourth album, produced by David Bottrill.

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★ Velvet Revolver's first album ''Contraband'' debuts in the top slot on the ''Billboard'' album charts, selling over 250,000 copies its first week out.

★ June - The Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone is hospitalized in Los Angeles with prostate cancer and diagnosed.

★ June 4

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★ Karl Jenkins signs a 10-year recording deal with EMI.

★ Creed dissolved. Guitarist Mark Tremonti, Drummer Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall (ex Bassist of Creed) were working on side project Alter Bridge along with Myles Kennedy of The Mayfield Four Their first album is ''One Day Remains'', which is scheduled to be released on August 10th.

★ June 10 - Legendary blues and soul pianist and singer Ray Charles dies of liver disease at the age of 73.

★ June 12 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 12th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, The Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.

★ June 22 - 14th annual Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for July 17, is cancelled. Organizers cite "poor ticket sales". (See: Lollapalooza 2004 lineup.)

★ June 23 - UK DJ Tony Blackburn is suspended by radio station Classic Gold Digital for playing songs by Cliff Richard, against station policy.

★ July 10 Ex- S Club star Rachel Stevens sets a world record for completing the fastest promotional circuit in just 24 hours- including a run for the charity Sport Relief. American Idol winner Fantasia becomes the first artist in history to debut at number-one on the Hot 100 with a first record.

★ July 11 McFly debut at #1 on the UK album charts with Room On The 3rd Floor. They break the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at #1 on the album charts.

★ New classic rock and New Wave-influenced bands such as the Killers begin to oust numetal bands.

★ July 20 - Van Halen releases ''The Best of Both Worlds'', a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals.

★ July 24 - The Robert Smith organized Curiosa Festival kicks off with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida. Performing along with The Cure are Interpol, The Rapture, Mogwai, Cursive, Muse, Head Automatica, Thursday, Scarling., The Cooper Temple Clause, and Melissa Auf Der Maur.

★ July 31 - Dispatch performs their last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, MA.

★ August 8 - Dave Matthews Band's tour bus dumps 800 lb (360 kg) of human feces from a Chicago bridge, intending to unload it in the river, but it lands on an architecture tour boat. The bus driver and the band are sued by the state of Illinois.

★ August 15 - Phish performs their final concert at a two-day festival in Coventry, Vermont.

★ August 31 - Papa Roach releases their third studio album titled Getting Away With Murder

★ September 14

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★ Megadeth is scheduled to release their new studio album ''The System Has Failed''.

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★ Nelly released doubled albums.

★ September 21 - Green Day releases ''American Idiot'', their 9th studio album. It goes 6x platinum and gains a cult following.

★ September 28

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★ Hilary Duff releases her self-titled second album.

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★ Brian Wilson completes ''SMiLE'', 37 years after its original planned release.

★ October 11 - The original lineup of Duran Duran release their new album ''Astronaut'', which was preceded by the single "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise".

★ October 23 - Ashlee Simpson is accused of lip-synching after an abortive live performance on the television show ''Saturday Night Live''.

★ October 26 - Legendary DJ John Peel dies, after 40 years of massive influence upon popular music.

★ November 4 - Three members of the band RAM, who all lived in a neighborhood known for its support of the then-recently deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are detained by Haitian police during a concert performance in Port-au-Prince; no charges are ever filed or official explanation for the detentions given.

★ November 12 - Eminem's fourth studio album is released four days before planned to combat bootleggers. The album sells 710,000 copies in only three days and becomes Eminem's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the billboard charts.

★ November 15 - "Breathe" single by Fabolous was released.

★ December - Ned's Atomic Dustbin begins touring with 5 upcoming shows.

★ November 30 - "Jay-Z and Linkin Park's album Collision Course debuts at number #01 at the Billboard 200, and the album converted in the most selling CD/DVD of that year.

★ December 7 - Lindsay Lohan releases her debut album Speak

★ December 11-12 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 15th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas with Chevelle, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hoobastank, Incubus, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Music, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, The Shins, The Used, and Velvet Revolver.

Bands formed

★ A Little Bitter

★ Ahab

★ Alesana

★ Alter Bridge

★ Asobi Seksu

★ Band of Horses

★ Cartel

★ Cancer Bats

★ The Car Is on Fire

★ Circa Survive

★ Cold War Kids

★ Folkearth

★ Frost

★ Hazen Street

★ HeavyHeavyLowLow

★ I Am the Avalanche

★ The Moog

★ Nightmare of You

★ Paramore

★ Portugal. The Man

★ Scar Symmetry

★ Test Icicles

★ Veda

★ | Select Start

Bands disbanded

★ Audiovent

★ B2K

★ The Beta Band

★ Beulah

★ Creed

★ Damageplan

★ Eve 6

★ Gene

★ Give Up the Ghost

★ God Lives Underwater

★ The Libertines

★ Onelinedrawing

★ Phish

★ Sixpence None the Richer

★ Small Brown Bike

★ Soluna (hiatus)

★ The Unicorns

★ The Watchmen

Bands re-formed

★ Fear Factory

★ Megadeth

★ Restless Heart

Albums released

'Album'	'Artist'	'Release Date'	'Album Type'
''Not Quite Me''	Tess Wiley	January 1	LP
''Phantom Planet''	Phantom Planet	January 6	LP
''The Glorious Burden''	Iced Earth	January 12	LP
''Legion of Boom''	The Crystal Method	January 13	LP
''The Opera Band''	Amici Forever	January 13	LP
''The Moan''	The Black Keys	January 19	EP
''Educated Guess''	Ani DiFranco	January 20	LP
''Civilization''	Front Line Assembly	January 20	LP
''The Devil Isn't Red''	Hella	January 20	LP
''The Early Chapters''	Soilwork	January 20	EP
''Kimi Ga Suki''	Matthew Sweet	January 20	LP
''The Slackers and Friends''	The Slackers	January 24 (Re-Issue)	LP
''Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker''	The Coral	January 26	LP
''Immortal Memory''	Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy	January 26	LP
''	10,000 Maniacs	January 27	Compilation
''Sirens and Condolences''	Bayside	January 27	LP
''Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001''	The Cure	January 27	Box Set
''Daft Club''	Daft Punk	January 27 (US)	Remix
''Live at the Deaf Club''	Dead Kennedys	January 27	Live
''Delìrium Còrdia''	Fantômas	January 27	LP
''	Helmet	January 27	Compilation
''NYHC EP''	Madball	January 27	EP
''	RBX	January 27	LP
''Because I Can''	Katy Rose	January 27	LP
''Kamikaze''	Twista	January 27	LP
''Live at the House of Blues''	The Vandals	January 27	Live
''	Yes	January 27 (US)	Box Set
''Tomatteita Tokei ga Ima Ugokidashita''	Zard	January 28	LP
''Evolution Purgatory''	Persuader	February 2	LP
''Scissor Sisters''	Scissor Sisters	February 2 (UK)	LP
''The Battle for Everything''	Five for Fighting	February 3	LP
''A Crow Left of the Murder''	Incubus	February 3	LP
''Scissor Sisters''	Scissor Sisters	February 3 (UK)	LP
''Start Something''	Lostprophets	February 3	LP
''Upsettin' Ernesto's''	The Slackers	February 3	Live
''Critical Energy''	Threshold	February 3	LP
''50 First Dates''	Various Artists	February 3	Soundtrack
''That's What I'm Talking About''	Shannon Noll	February 8	LP
''Free Me''	Emma Bunton	February 9 (UK)	LP
''Turn of the Screw''	1208	February 10	LP
''	Carpenters	February 10	Compilation
''New Found Power''	Damageplan	February 10	LP
'''Merican''	The Descendents	February 10	EP
''Feels like Home''	Norah Jones	February 10	LP
''America's Sweetheart''	Courtney Love	February 10	LP
''Miles_Gurtu''	Robert Miles & Trilok Gurtu	February 10	LP
''Body Language''	Kylie Minogue	February 10 (US)	LP
''College Dropout''	Kanye West	February 10	LP
''Greatest Hits''	Thalía	February 10	Greatest Hits
''	Turin Brakes	February 16	Compilation
''The Focusing Blur''	Vintersorg	February 16	LP
''Talkie Walkie''	Air	February 17 (US)	LP
''On The Front Line''	The Casualties	February 17	LP
''Writer's Block''	Evergreen Terrace	February 17	LP
''All That We Let In''	Indigo Girls	February 17	LP
''Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses''	Atreyu	February 23	LP
''The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992''	George Harrison	February 23	Box Set
''A Natural Disaster''	Anathema	February 24 (US)	LP
''About a Burning Fire''	Blindside	February 24	LP
''The Wretched Spawn''	Cannibal Corpse	February 24	LP
''Music as a Weapon II''	Disturbed, Chevelle, Taproot & Unloco	February 24	Live
''Schizophrenic''	JC Chasez	February 24	LP
''Shadows Collide With People''	John Frusciante	February 24	LP
''Bodysong''	Jonny Greenwood	February 24 (US)	Soundtrack
''The Arrival''	Hypocrisy	February 24	LP
''Sea of Faces''	Kutless	February 24	LP
''Punk Statik Paranoia''	Orgy	February 24	LP
''Devil's Ground''	Primal Fear	February 24	LP
''Death Is Certain''	Royce Da 5'9"	February 24	LP
''Nude''	VAST	February 24	LP
''Chick Magnet''	Paul Wall	February 24	LP
''The Life of Joseph W. McVey''	Z-Ro	February 24	LP
''Mellow''	Maria Mena	March 1	LP
''When It Falls''	Zero 7	March 1 (UK)	LP
''Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine''	Cee-Lo	March 2	LP
''Guilt Show''	The Get Up Kids	March 2	LP
''MODERN ARTillery''	The Living End	March 2 (US)	LP
''The Best of LeAnn Rimes''	LeAnn Rimes	March 2	Greatest Hits
''Sunrise Over Sea''	The John Butler Trio	March 8	LP
''Here Come the Brides ''	Brides of Destruction	March 9	LP
''Live at the Deaf Club''	Dead Kennedys	March 9	Live
''Tempo of the Damned''	Exodus	March 9	LP
''Something Beautiful ★ ''	Great Big Sea	March 9 (US)	LP
''All of Our Names''	Sarah Harmer	March 9	LP
''Rare Tracks''	Jet	March 9 (Japan)	LP
''Neither Here Nor There''	Melvins	March 9	Compilation
''Don't Stop the Music''	Play	March 9	LP
''Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes''	TV on the Radio	March 9	LP
''Hella/Four Tet Split''	Hella/Four Tet	March 12	Split EP
''Live and Demos''	Raging Speedhorn	March 15	Compilation
''The Very Best of Jackson Browne''	Jackson Browne	March 16	Greatest Hits
''Split Personality''	Cassidy	March 16	LP
''The Other Side''	Godsmack	March 16	EP
''Patience''	George Michael	March 16	LP
''Dead Letters''	The Rasmus	March 16 (US)	LP
''Frustration Plantation''	Rasputina	March 16	LP
''You Are Here''	UFO	March 16	LP
''It's Never Enough''	Ace Troubleshooter	March 23	LP
''It's Never Enough''	Ace Troubleshooter	March 23	LP
''One Way Out''	The Allman Brothers Band	March 23	Live
''Misery Is a Butterfly''	Blonde Redhead	March 23	LP
''Sings Greatest Palace Music''	Bonnie 'Prince' Billy	March 23	LP
''Me and Mr. Johnson''	Eric Clapton	March 23	Tribute LP
''Till Death Do Us Part''	Cypress Hill	March 23	LP
''Cool to Be You''	The Descendents	March 23	LP
''Peace, Love, Death Metal''	The Eagles of Death Metal	March 23	LP
''Live at the House of Blues''	Goldfinger	March 23	Live
''Greatest Hits''	Guns N' Roses	March 23	Greatest Hits
''All of Our Names''	Sarah Harmer	March 23	LP
''Finally Woken''	Jem	March 23	LP
''MP3''	Marcy Playground	March 23	LP
''Good Side, Bad Side''	Master P	March 23	LP
''Absolution''	Muse	March 23 (US)	LP
''Fly or Die''	N.E.R.D.	March 23	LP
''Redefine''	SOiL	March 23	LP
''Tour 2003''	Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band	March 23	Live
''The Mr. Washington Story''	T-Rock	March 23	LP
''Let's Talk About It''	Carl Thomas	March 23	LP
''Confessions''	Usher	March 23	LP
''Winning Days''	The Vines	March 23	LP
''Night of Joy''	Widespread Panic	March 23	Live
''The Punisher''	Various Artists	March 23	Soundtrack
''	Various Artists	March 23	Soundtrack
''Now That's What I Call Music! 15'' (U.S. series)	Various Artists	March 23	Compilation
''Bee Hives''	Broken Social Scene	March 24	LP
''COM LAG (2plus2isfive)''	Radiohead	March 24	EP
''Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do''	Sigur Rós	March 24	EP
''Anastacia''	Anastacia	March 29	LP
''Smack Smash''	Beatsteaks	March 29	LP
''Absent Friends''	The Divine Comedy	March 29	LP
''Soundtrack to Your Escape''	In Flames	March 29	LP
''Honkin' on Bobo''	Aerosmith	March 30	Cover LP
''Population Override''	Buckethead	March 30	LP
''	Bob Dylan	March 30	Live
''Damita Jo''	Janet Jackson	March 30 (US)	LP
''U Gotta Feel Me''	Lil' Flip	March 30	LP
''Los Lonely Boys''	Los Lonely Boys	March 30	LP
''In With the Old''	Pepper	March 30	LP
''Live & Off the Record''	Shakira	March 30	Live LP & DVD
''Prophecy''	Soulfly	March 30	LP
''You Are Here''	UFO	March 30	LP
''Indestructible Object''	They Might Be Giants	April 4	EP
''Greatest Hits''	Atomic Kitten	April 5	Greatest Hits
''The Dissociatives''	The Dissociatives	April 5	LP
''J Wess Presents Tha LP''	J-Wess	April 5	LP
''Now That's What I Call Music! 57'' (U.K. series)	Various Artists	April 5	Compilation
''Convict Pool''	Calexico	April 6	EP
''Hellfire Club''	Edguy	April 6	LP
''My Mother's Hymn Book''	Johnny Cash	April 6	LP
''Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?''	Local H.	April 6	LP
''Good News for People Who Love Bad News''	Modest Mouse	April 6	LP
''Matters''	Pulley	April 6	LP
''Liars''	Todd Rundgren	April 6	LP
''Indestructible Object''	They Might Be Giants	April 6	EP
''	W.A.S.P.	April 6	LP
''Crossfade''	Crossfade	April 13	LP
''Baron von Bullshit Rides Again''	Modest Mouse	April 13	Live
''Is There Love in Space?''	Joe Satriani	April 13	LP
''Palm Trees and Power Lines''	Sugarcult	April 13	LP
''Archetype''	Fear Factory	April 19	LP
''BYO Split Series, Vol. 5''	Alkaline Trio/One Man Army	April 20	Split LP
''Music of Mass Destruction''	Anthrax	April 20	Live
''Hangover Music Vol. VI''	Black Label Society	April 20	LP
''The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell''	Buckethead	April 20	LP
''I'd Like a Virgin''	Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine	April 20	LP
''Desensitized''	Drowning Pool	April 20	LP
''Franz Ferdinand''	Franz Ferdinand	April 20	LP
''Archetype''	Fear Factory	April 20	LP
''The Pretty Toney Album''	Ghostface Killah	April 20	LP
''Impossible Dream''	Patty Griffin	April 20	LP
''Underneath''	Hanson	April 20	LP
''Feels like Home''	Norah Jones	April 20	LP
''Fire It Up''	The Kottonmouth Kings	April 20	LP
''Through the Ashes of Empires''	Machine Head	April 20 (US)	LP
''Musicology''	Prince	April 20	LP
''Ratatat''	Ratatat	April 20	LP
''Stone Age Complications''	Queens of the Stone Age	April 20	EP
''2 a.m. Wakeup Call''	Tweaker	April 20	LP
''Hurt No More''	Mario Winans	April 20	LP
''Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1''	Various Artists, Rock Against Bush	April 20	Compilation
''Walk the Tightrope''	Human Nature	April 23	LP
''Rejoicing in the Hands''	Devendra Banhart	April 24	LP
''Walk The Tightrope''	Human Nature	April 26	LP
''	Black Sabbath	April 27	Box Set
''D12 World''	D12	April 27	LP
''The Dresden Dolls''	The Dresden Dolls	April 27 (Re-issue)	LP
''The Last of Tha Pound''	Tha Dogg Pound	April 27	Compilation
''The Inner Circle''	Evergrey	April 27	LP
''re.present''	Jimmie's Chicken Shack	April 27	LP
''The Girl in the Other Room''	Diana Krall	April 27	LP
''Van Lear Rose''	Loretta Lynn	April 27	LP
''Trampin'''	Patti Smith	April 27	LP
''Souls to Deny''	Suffocation	April 27	LP
''Z-Ro Tolerance''	Z-Ro	April 27	LP
''	Various Artists	April 27	LP
''My Angel Rocks Back and Forth''	Four Tet	May 3	EP
''Marbles''	Marillion	May 3	LP
''Chopstick Bridge''	Avoid One Thing	May 4	LP
''Horse of a Different Color''	Big & Rich	May 4	LP
''Endangered Species''	Flaw	May 4	LP
''Platinum & Gold Collection''	Lit	May 4	Collection
''One Love''	Kimberley Locke	May 4	LP
''The Ride''	Los Lobos	May 4	LP
''i''	The Magnetic Fields	May 4	LP
''	Petey Pablo	May 4	LP
''	Pixies	May 4	Compilation
''Just for You''	Lionel Richie	May 4	LP
''	Sevendust	May 4	Live
''Greatest Hits''	A ★ Teens	May 5	Greatest Hits
''Hopes and Fears''	Keane	May 10	LP
''The End of Heartache''	Killswitch Engage	May 11	LP
''Express Yourself''	Erik van der Luijt	May 11	LP
''Here for the Party''	Gretchen Wilson	May 11	LP
''Sonic Firestorm''	DragonForce	May 11	LP
''Metalogy''	Judas Priest	May 11	Greatest Hits
''Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996''	De La Soul	May 16	Live
''A Song Is A City''	Eskimo Joe	May 16	LP
''Meltdown''	Ash	May 17	LP
''Happiness in Magazines''	Graham Coxon	May 17	LP
''Faded Seaside Glamour''	Delays	May 18 (US)	LP
''Hell To Pay''	Dokken	May 18	LP
''My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue''	Fall Out Boy	May 18	EP/DVD
''Guster on Ice''	Guster	May 18	Live
''Baptism''	Lenny Kravitz	May 18	LP
''	Method Man	May 18	LP
''So-Called Chaos''	Alanis Morissette	May 18	LP
''You Are the Quarry''	Morrissey	May 18	LP
''Catalyst''	New Found Glory	May 18	LP
''Now Here Is Nowhere''	The Secret Machines	May 18	LP
''A Grand Don't Come for Free''	The Streets	May 18	LP
''Another Sun''	Thalion	May 20	LP
''Spectral''	Skyfire	May 21	LP
''The Human Equation''	Ayreon	May 24	LP
''Exposures - In Retrospect and Denial''	Dark Tranquillity	May 24	Compilation
''Sirius B''	Therion	May 24	LP
''Lemuria''	Therion	May 24	LP
''Long Gone Before Daylight''	The Cardigans	May 25 (US)	LP
''White Trash Beautiful''	Everlast	May 25	LP
''	Europe	May 25	Compilation
''Play to Win''	Gabrielle	May 25	LP
''Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead''	Grateful Dead	May 25	Live
''Under My Skin''	Avril Lavigne	May 25	LP
''It's About Time''	Christina Milian	May 24	LP
''Monolithic Baby!''	Monster Magnet	May 25	LP
''Achilles Heel''	Pedro the Lion	May 25	LP
''The Greater Wrong of the Right''	Skinny Puppy	May 25	LP
''	Slipknot	May 25	LP
''Final Straw''	Snow Patrol	May 30 (US)	LP
''Joe's Corsage''	Frank Zappa	May 30	Compilation
''Uh Huh Her''	PJ Harvey	May 31 (UK)	LP
''Wayward Angel''	Kasey Chambers	May 31	LP
''Borrowed Heaven''	The Corrs	May 31	LP
''Falling Up''	Digby	June 1	LP
''No Said Date''	Masta Killa	June 1	LP
''Auf der Maur''	Melissa Auf der Maur	June 1	LP
''Ready Now''	Truth Hurts	June 1	LP
''Loud, Mean, Fast and Dirty''	Peter Pan Speedrock	June 5	LP
''Louden Up Now''	!!!	June 7	LP
''No Roots''	Faithless	June 7	LP
''Once''	Nightwish	June 7	LP
''Sonic Nurse''	Sonic Youth	June 7	LP
''Supergrass Is 10''	Supergrass	June 7	Compilation
''Greatest Hits '93-'03''	311	June 8	Compilation
''The Empire Strikes First''	Bad Religion	June 8	LP
''Two''	The Calling	June 8	LP
''Un''	Chumbawamba	June 8	LP
''Borrowed Heaven''	The Corrs	June 8	LP
''One Soul Now''	Cowboy Junkies	June 8	LP
''White Light Rock & Roll Review''	Matthew Good	June 8	LP
''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge''	My Chemical Romance	June 8	LP
''The Art of Live''	Queensrÿche	June 8	Live
''Asshole''	Gene Simmons	June 8	LP
''International War Criminal''	The Slackers	June 8	EP
''Sonic Nurse''	Sonic Youth	June 8	LP
''Contraband''	Velvet Revolver	June 8	LP
''Egypt''	Youssou N'Dour	June 8	LP
''2004 Warped Tour Compilation''	Various Artists	June 8	Compilation
''Punk-O-Rama Vol. 9''	Various Artists	June 8	Compilation
''A New Day... Live in Las Vegas''	Céline Dion	June 12	Live
''Sound Shattering Sound''	Gyroscope	June 14	LP
''To the 5 Boroughs''	The Beastie Boys	June 14	LP
''Dark Matter''	IQ	June 14	LP
''Live in Boston''	Fleetwood Mac	June 14	Live DVD
''Obsession''	Eighteen Visions	June 15	LP
''The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)''	The Fall	June 15 (US)	LP
''Hot Fuss''	The Killers	June 15	LP
''The Blind Watchmaker''	Mana ERG	June 15	LP
''It's About Time''	Christina Milian	June 15 (US)	LP
''Undermind''	Phish	June 15	LP
''They're Only Chasing Safety''	Underøath	June 15	LP
''	Leftöver Crack	June 16	Compilation
''Split''	Cipher System and By Night	June 18	EP
''One Plus One Is One''	Badly Drawn Boy	June 21	LP
''A Semblance of Normality''	Skyclad	June 21	LP
''Afrodisiac''	Brandy	June 22	LP
''Will to Death''	John Frusciante	June 22	LP
''Kiss of Death''	Jadakiss	June 22	LP
''JoJo''	JoJo	June 22	LP
''Lit''	Lit	June 22	LP
''Scream & Whisper''	Edwin McCain	June 22	LP
''1.22.03.Acoustic''	Maroon 5	June 22	Live
''Houses of the Molé''	Ministry	June 22	LP
''Inferno''	Motörhead	June 22	LP
''Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love''	Jonathan Richman	June 22	LP
''Unbreakable''	Scorpions	June 22	LP
''A Ghost Is Born''	Wilco	June 22	LP
''Gettin' in Over My Head''	Brian Wilson	June 22	LP
''Dangerously in Love''	Beyoncé	June 24	LP
''Afrodisiac''	Brandy	June 28	LP
''The Cure''	The Cure	June 28	LP
''Up All Night''	Razorlight	June 28	LP
''Watch Out!''	Alexisonfire	June 29	LP
''The Curse''	Atreyu	June 29	LP
''We Are Not Alone''	Breaking Benjamin	June 29	LP
''Mojave''	Concrete Blonde	June 29	LP
''Who Still Kill Sound?''	Kid 606	June 29	LP
''Tha Carter''	Lil Wayne	June 29	LP
''The Gorge''	Dave Matthews Band	June 29	Live
''Revival''	The Reverend Horton Heat	June 29	LP
''This Magnificent Distance''	Chris Robinson	June 29	LP
''Feedback''	Rush	June 29	Cover LP
''Nina Sky''	Nina Sky	June 29	LP
''Detroit Deli (A Taste of Detroit)''	Slum Village	June 29	LP
''	Tiger Army	June 29	LP
''In Between Evolution''	The Tragically Hip	June 29	LP
''Hollywood Potato Chip''	The Vandals	June 29	LP
''In Between Evolution''	The Tragically Hip	June 29	LP
''Room on the 3rd Floor''	McFly	July 5	LP
''Wild Dances''	Ruslana	July 6	LP
''Stone Love''	Angie Stone	July 6 (US)	LP
''Fortress In Flames''	The Crüxshadows	July 6	EP
''Oceanic Remixes and Reinterpretations''	Isis	July 8	Remix
''Star Trails''	Spirit of the West	July 8	LP
''Armed Love''	The (International) Noise Conspiracy	July 12	LP
''Braxton Hicks''	Jebediah	July 12	LP
''License to Chill''	Jimmy Buffett	July 13	LP
''Indian Summer''	Carbon Leaf	July 13	LP
''To Tha X-Treme''	Devin the Dude	July 13	LP
''Hell To Pay''	Dokken	July 13	LP
''At Our Worst''	Evergreen Terrace	July 13	LP
''Blueberry Boat''	The Fiery Furnaces	July 13	LP
''Viking''	Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards	July 13	LP
''Eat Your Face''	Guttermouth	July 13	LP
''Keep Right''	KRS-One	July 13	LP
''Mutual Admiration Society''	Mutual Admiration Society	July 13	LP
''It's About Time''	Christina Milian	July 13	LP
''Together We're Heavy''	The Polyphonic Spree	July 13	LP
''The Tipping Point''	The Roots	July 13	LP
''Shhh...Don't Tell''	Adam Sandler	July 13	LP
''Lock-Sport-Krock''	Nikola Sarcevic	July 13	LP
''Porcelain''	Sparta	July 13	LP
''The Spine''	They Might Be Giants	July 13	LP
''Über Cobra''	Widespread Panic	July 13	Live
''The Funeral of God''	Zao	July 13	LP
''Miss Machine''	The Dillinger Escape Plan	July 20	LP
''No Roots''	Faithless	July 20	LP
''Autobiography''	Ashlee Simpson	July 20	LP
''Hazen Street''	Hazen Street	July 20	LP
''Tyrannosaurus Hives''	The Hives	July 20	LP
''B Is for B-sides''	Less Than Jake	July 20	Compilation
''White Turns Blue''	Maria Mena	July 20	LP
''Beneath... Between... Beyond...''	Static-X	July 20	Compilation
''The Best of Both Worlds''	Van Halen	July 20	Greatest Hits
''Waste of MFZB''	Zebrahead	July 22	LP
''Drivetrain''	38 Special	July 24	LP
''Live in Hyde Park''	Red Hot Chili Peppers	July 26	Live
''Now That's What I Call Music! 58'' (U.K. series)	Various Artists	July 26	Compilation
''Throwback, Vol. 1''	Boyz II Men	July 27	Cover LP
''Studio X Sessions E.P.''	Death Cab for Cutie	July 27	EP
''Whiskey Tango Ghosts''	Tanya Donelly	July 27	LP
''Hymns of the 49th Parallel''	k.d. lang	July 27	LP
''Kevin Lyttle''	Kevin Lyttle	July 27	LP
''Live in Hamburg''	Maria McKee	July 27	LP
''The Beginning of Survival''	Joni Mitchell	July 27	LP
''Testimony Live''	Neal Morse	July 27	DVD
''Live at Benaroya Hall''	Pearl Jam	July 27	Live
''Scissor Sisters''	Scissor Sisters	July 27 (US)	LP
''Where You Want to Be''	Taking Back Sunday	July 27	LP
''True Story''	Terror Squad	July 27	LP
''Lost & Found''	Ian Van Dahl	July 27	LP
''Now That's What I Call Music! 16'' (U.S. series)	Various Artists	July 27	Compilation
''Pass the Flask''	The Bled	July 29	LP
''Alive and Well... In Krakow''	Green Carnation	July 29	Live
''Firestarter''	Jimmy Eat World	August 3	EP
''Ride This - The Covers EP''	Los Lobos	August 3	EP
''A Long Hot Summer''	Masta Ace	August 3	LP
''	Riders in the Sky	August 3	LP
''An Elixir for Existence''	Sirenia	August 3	LP
''Subsurface''	Threshold	August 3	LP
''2Pac Live''	2Pac	August 6	Live
''Safri Duo 3.0''	Safri Duo	August 9	LP
''Automatic Writing''	Ataxia	August 10	LP
''The Best of Coal Chamber''	Coal Chamber	August 10	Compilation
''Crosby & Nash''	David Crosby & Graham Nash	August 10	LP
''Whiskey Tango Ghosts''	Tanya Donelly	August 10	LP
''The Blessed and The Damned''	Iced Earth	August 10	Compilation
''Bubblegum''	Mark Lanegan	August 10	LP
''Creamfields''	Paul Oakenfold	August 10	Remix
''Siren Song of the Counter Culture''	Rise Against	August 10	LP
''Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2''	Various Artists, Rock Against Bush	August 10	Compilation
''Bob Powell Anthology''	Bob Powell	August 12	Box Set
''We Were Born in a Flame''	Sam Roberts	August 13	LP
''The Hard Way''	213	August 17	LP
''Take It All Away''	Ryan Cabrera	August 17	LP
''Decadence''	Head Automatica	August 17	LP
''Love Everybody''	Presidents of the United States of America	August 17	LP
''Up All Night''	Razorlight	August 17	LP
''More Adventurous''	Rilo Kiley	August 17	LP
''Survival of the Sickest''	Saliva	August 17	LP
''Soviet Kitsch''	Regina Spektor	August 17	LP
''Seven Circles''	The Tea Party	August 17	LP
''Pigs of the Roman Empire''	Lustmord & The Melvins	August 23	LP
''	Napalm Death	August 23	Cover LP
''Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned''	The Prodigy	August 23 (UK)	LP
''Potter's Field''	12 Stones	August 24	LP
''Throwback, Vol. 1''	Boyz II Men	August 24	Cover LP
''Tessie''	Dropkick Murphys	August 24	EP
''Super D''	Ben Folds	August 24	EP
''	Jason Mraz	August 24	LP
''Beat Cafe''	Donovan	August 24	LP
''The Revolution Starts Now''	Steve Earle	August 24	LP
''Hide Nothing''	Further Seems Forever	August 24	LP
''Half Smiles of the Decomposed''	Guided by Voices	August 24	LP
''Legacy of Blood''	Jedi Mind Tricks	August 24	LP
''On My Way To Church''	Jim Jones	August 24	LP
''Happy People/U Saved Me''	R. Kelly	August 24	LP
''Welcome Back''	Ma$e	August 24	LP
''Live Like You Were Dying''	Tim McGraw	August 24	LP
''A Valid Path''	Alan Parsons	August 24	LP
''	The Rolling Stones	August 24 (US)	Compilation
''Lift''	Sister Hazel	August 24	LP
''She Loves You''	The Twilight Singers	August 24	Cover
''The Secondman's Middle Stand''	Mike Watt	August 24	LP
''Silent Nation''	Asia	August 30	LP
''Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow''	Faithless	August 30	LP
''Killing Heidi''	Killing Heidi	August 30	LP
''The Libertines''	The Libertines	August 30	LP
''Medúlla''	Björk	August 31	LP
''Circle of Snakes''	Danzig	August 31	LP
''	Insane Clown Posse	August 31	LP
''	Kansas	August 31	Compilation & DVD
''Ashes of the Wake''	Lamb of God	August 31	LP
''The DEFinition''	LL Cool J	August 31	LP
''Getting Away with Murder''	Papa Roach	August 31	LP
''Rhythm of Time''	Jordan Rudess	August 31	LP
''Leviathan''	Mastodon	August 31	LP
''Fuck World Trade''	Leftöver Crack	August 31	LP
''The Spine Hits the Road''	They Might Be Giants	August 31	Live
''The Romance of Kenny G''	Kenny G	September 1	Compilation
''Unwritten''	Natasha Bedingfield	September 6 (UK)	LP
''Rubber Factory''	The Black Keys	September 6	LP
''The Big Eyeball in the Sky''	Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains	September 7	LP
''I Got Love In These Streetz - The Album''	Daz Dillinger	September 7	LP
''Master of the Moon''	Dio	September 7	LP
''Home for an Island''	The Exit	September 7	LP
''The Very Best of Macy Gray''	Macy Gray	September 7 (US)	Greatest Hits
''Living Things''	Matthew Sweet	September 7	LP
''Season for Assault''	8 Foot Sativa	September 13	LP
''Nino Rojo''	Devendra Banhart	September 13	LP
''Singles Box Set 1986-1995''	Duran Duran	September 13	Box Set
''The Tension and the Spark''	Darren Hayes	September 13	LP
''Kasabian''	Kasabian	September 13 (UK)	LP
''Funeral''	Arcade Fire	September 14	LP
''A Hangover You Don't Deserve''	Bowling for Soup	September 14	LP
''Wayward Angel''	Kasey Chambers	September 14	LP
''Turn''	The Ex	September 14	Double LP
''Wet From Birth''	The Faint	September 14	LP
''Within a Mile of Home''	Flogging Molly	September 14	LP
''DC EP''	John Frusciante	September 14	EP
''The System Has Failed''	Megadeth	September 14	LP
''Sweat and Suit Double albums	Nelly	September 14	LP
''Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned''	The Prodigy	September 14	LP
''Everybody Loves a Happy Ending''	Tears for Fears	September 14	LP
''So Jealous''	Tegan and Sara	September 14	LP
''Studio 150''	Paul Weller	September 14	LP
''QuAUDIOPHILIAc''	Frank Zappa	September 14	LP
''Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus''	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	September 20	LP
''Welcome to the North''	The Music	September 20	LP
''One for the Road''	Ocean Colour Scene	September 20	Live
''Future Perfect''	Autolux	September 21	LP
''American Idiot''	Green Day	September 21	LP
''This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)''	Chevelle	September 21	LP
''London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition''	The Clash	September 21	LP & DVD
''You Fail Me''	Converge	September 21	LP
''The Delivery Man''	Elvis Costello	September 21	LP
''Il Sogno''	Elvis Costello	September 21	LP
''There Will Be a Light''	Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama	September 21	LP
''The New What Next''	Hot Water Music	September 21	LP
''Romeoland''	Lil' Romeo	September 21	LP
''Songs In The Key Of Eh!''	Mad Caddies	September 21	Live
''Remixed!''	Scissor Sisters	September 21	EP
''Noise from the Basement''	Skye Sweetnam	September 21	LP
''Be Here''	Keith Urban	September 21 (US)	LP
''Start from the Dark''	Europe	September 22	LP
''Dreamland''	Joni Mitchell	September 24	LP
''	Rhapsody	September 27	LP
''Never Apologise Never Explain''	Therapy?	September 27	LP
''Goodies	Ciara	September 28	LP
''Hilary Duff''	Hilary Duff	September 28	LP
''Beautiful Soul''	Jesse McCartney	September 28	LP
''Trouble''	Bonnie McKee	September 28	LP
''Antics''	Interpol	September 28	LP
''Shangri-La''	Mark Knopfler	September 28	LP
''Lionheart''	Saxon	September 28	LP
''The War Within''	Shadows Fall	September 28	LP
''Mind, Body & Soul''	Joss Stone	September 28	LP
''Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll''	Social Distortion	September 28	LP
''The Beautiful Struggle''	Talib Kweli	September 28	LP
''Jackassolantern''	Widespread Panic	September 28	Live
''In Love and Death''	The Used	September 28	LP
''	W.A.S.P.	September 28	LP
''SMiLe''	Brian Wilson	September 28	LP
''While You Are Gone	Bradley Joseph	October 1	LP
''Joe's Domage	Frank Zappa	October 1	LP
''	Four Tet	October 4	Compilation
''Confessions''	Usher	October 4 (UK)	LP
''Barenaked for the Holidays''	Barenaked Ladies	October 5	LP
''Pressure Chief''	Cake	October 5	LP
''The Grind Date''	De La Soul	October 5	LP
''Live at Budokan''	Dream Theater	October 5	Live
''	Everclear	October 5	Compilation
''Black Tape''	The Explosion	October 5	LP
''Palookaville''	Fatboy Slim	October 5	LP
''The Chronicles of Life and Death''	Good Charlotte	October 5	LP
''Size Matters''	Helmet	October 5	LP
''Audit in Progress''	Hot Snakes	October 5	LP
''	Wyclef Jean	October 5	LP
''Greatest Hits, Volume 1''	Korn	October 5	Greatest Hits
''Unshattered''	Peter Murphy	October 5	LP
''Around the Sun''	R.E.M.	October 5	LP
''Has Been''	William Shatner	October 5	LP
''The Place You're In''	Kenny Wayne Shepherd	October 5	LP
''50 Number Ones''	George Strait	October 5	Compilation
''Real Gone''	Tom Waits	October 5	LP
''Exodus''	Utada	October 5	LP
''Cosima''	Cosima De Vito	October 11	LP
''10 Years of Hits''	Ronan Keating	October 11	Greatest Hits
''Sirenian Shores''	Sirenia	October 11	EP
''Reckoning Night''	Sonata Arctica	October 11	LP
''False Alarm''	KT Tunstall	October 11	EP
''Frank Black Francis''	Frank Black	October 12	LP
''Platinum & Gold Collection''	Toni Braxton	October 12	Greatest Hits
''	Busta Rhymes	October 12	Compilation
''New Roman Times''	Camper Van Beethoven	October 12	LP
''Heart & Soul''	Joe Cocker	October 12	LP
''Songs of the Unforgiven''	Crash Test Dummies	October 12	LP
''Scenic''	Denver Harbor	October 12	LP
''Miracle''	Céline Dion	October 12	LP
''Astronaut''	Duran Duran	October 12	LP & DVD
''Christmas''	Chris Isaak	October 12	LP
''Shake off the Dust... Arise''	Matisyahu	October 12	LP
''The New Danger''	Mos Def	October 12	LP
''Straylight Run''	Straylight Run	October 12	LP
''Chuck''	Sum 41	October 12	LP
''Deceiver''	Chris Thile	October 12	LP
''The Lost Christmas Eve''	Trans-Siberian Orchestra	October 12	LP
''Alizée En Concert''	Alizée	October 18	Live
''One''	Dirty Vegas	October 18	LP
''Never Breathe What You Can't See''	Jello Biafra & The Melvins	October 19	LP
''Alpha and Omega''	Bizzy Bone	October 19	LP
''You Just Gotta Love Christmas''	Peter Cetera	October 19	Christmas
''Panopticon''	Isis	October 19	LP
''Futures''	Jimmy Eat World	October 19	LP
''The Greatest Hits''	Juvenile	October 19	LP
''As/Is''	John Mayer	October 19	Live
''	John Mellencamp	October 19	Greatest Hits
''Graveyard Classics 2''	Six Feet Under	October 19	Cover LP
''From A Basement On The Hill''	Elliott Smith	October 19	LP
''	Rod Stewart	October 19	Cover LP
''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Vol. 1''	Powerman 5000	October 24	Compilation
''Best of Def Leppard''	Def Leppard	October 25	Greatest Hits
''All for You''	Annihilator	October 26	LP
''Dear Heather''	Leonard Cohen	October 26	LP
''Please Describe Yourself''	Dogs Die in Hot Cars	October 26	LP
''Gold Medal''	The Donnas	October 26	LP
''Inside of Emptiness''	John Frusciante	October 26	LP
''War Party''	GWAR	October 26	LP
''Our Kind of Soul''	Hall & Oates	October 26	LP
''Unfinished Business''	Jay-Z & R. Kelly	October 26	LP
''Ultimate Jerky Boys''	The Jerky Boys	October 26	Compilation
''	Pavement	October 26	LP
''2067''	Rheostatics	October 26	LP
''Still Not Getting Any...''	Simple Plan	October 26	LP & DVD
''Shady Satin Drug''	soulDecision	October 26	LP
''	Trick Daddy	October 26	LP
''Then and Again''	Voltaire	October 26	LP
''Wolfmother''	Wolfmother	October 26	EP
''One Way''	Selwyn	October 29	LP
''Interim''	The Fall	November 1	Compilation
''Lifeblood''	Manic Street Preachers	November 1	LP
''Live Licks''	The Rolling Stones	November 1	Live
''	The Verve	November 1 (UK)	Compilation
''A Brief History...''	The Waifs	November 1 (Australia)	Live
''Dead Eyes See No Future''	Arch Enemy	November 2	EP
''Live!''	Catch 22	November 2	Live
''	Jethro Tull	November 2	Live
''Acoustic''	John Lennon	November 2	Compilation
''One''	Neal Morse	November 2	LP
''Devotion''	Newsboys	November 2	LP
''eMOTIVe''	A Perfect Circle	November 2	Cover LP
''Reise, Reise''	Rammstein	November 2	LP
''Mmhmm''	Relient K	November 2	LP
''Alive at Last''	Train	November 2	Live LP
''Singles''	Travis	November 2	Compilation
''Adicción, Tradición, Revolución''	Voodoo Glow Skulls	November 2	LP
''My Brother & Me''	Ying Yang Twins	November 2	Compilation
''Now That's What I Call Music! 17'' (U.S. series)	Various Artists	November 2	Compilation
''The Beginning and the End''	Bizzy Bone	November 7	LP
''Mistaken Identity''	Delta Goodrem	November 7	LP
''Second First Impression''	Daniel Bedingfield	November 8	LP
''R.U.L.E.''	Ja Rule	November 8	LP
''Allow Us to Be Frank''	Westlife	November 8	Cover LP
''	Wet Wet Wet	November 8	Greatest Hits
''Number Ones''	Bee Gees	November 9	Greatest Hits
''Harmonium''	Vanessa Carlton	November 9	LP
''The Tigers Have Spoken''	Neko Case	November 9	Live
''Real Talk''	Fabolous	November 9	LP
''Peachtree Road''	Elton John	November 9	LP
''The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us!)''	NOFX	November 9	Compilation
''Home Movies''	Pennywise	November 9 (re-issue)	DVD
''Vulture Street''	Powderfinger	November 9 (US)	LP
''	Britney Spears	November 9	Compilation & DVD
''Greatest Hits''	Shania Twain	November 9	Compilation
''Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl''	Queen	November 9 (US)	Live LP & DVD
''2005 KROQ New Music''	Various Artists	November 9	Compilation
''Encore''	Eminem	November 12	LP
''Best of Blue''	Blue	November 15 (UK)	Greatest Hits
''	The Verve	November 15 (US)	Compilation
''The Silent Force''	Within Temptation	November 15	LP
''Now That's What I Call Music! 59'' (U.K. series)	Various Artists	November 15	Compilation
''Merry Christmas With Love''	Clay Aiken	November 16	Christmas
''The Capitol Albums, Volume 1''	The Beatles	November 16	Box Set
''100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong''	Bon Jovi	November 16	Box Set
''Greatest Hits''	Bone Thugs-n-Harmony	November 16	Greatest Hits
''Powerballin'''	Chingy	November 16	LP
''Youth''	Collective Soul	November 16	LP
''Destiny Fulfilled''	Destiny's Child	November 16	LP
''	Michael Jackson	November 16	Box Set
''The Kottonmouth Xperience''	Kottonmouth Kings	November 16	LP
''The Best of Mandy Moore''	Mandy Moore	November 16	Greatest Hits
''	Pearl Jam	November 16	Greatest Hits
''aMOTION''	A Perfect Circle	November 16	LP & DVD
''Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi''	Puffy AmiYumi	November 16	Compilation
''Want Two''	Rufus Wainwright	November 16	LP
''Greatest Hits''	Neil Young	November 16	Compilation
''Slang & Serve''	T-Rock	November 21	LP
''Greatest Hits''	Creed	November 22	Greatest Hits
''The Greater of Two Evils''	Anthrax	November 23	Compilation
''So Cold''	Breaking Benjamin	November 23	EP
''Anywhere But Home''	Evanescence	November 23	Live
''Free Yourself''	Fantasia	November 23	LP
''A Sphere in the Heart of Silence''	John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer	November 23	LP
''	Goo Goo Dolls	November 23	Live
''Family Style''	Jet	November 23	DVD
''At Last...The Duets Album''	Kenny G	November 23	Cover LP
''Lonely Runs Both Ways''	Alison Krauss & Union Station	November 23	LP
''The Red Light District''	Ludacris	November 23	LP
''Ultimate Kylie''	Kylie Minogue	November 23	Greatest Hits
''With the Lights Out''	Nirvana	November 23	Box Set
''Play Around the Christmas Tree''	Play	November 23	Christmas
''	Jessica Simpson	November 23	Christmas
''	Snoop Dogg	November 23	LP
''I Need an Angel''	Ruben Studdard	November 23	LP
''Love. Angel. Music. Baby.''	Gwen Stefani	November 23	LP
''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb''	U2	November 23	LP
''Three Imaginary Boys: Deluxe Edition''	The Cure	November 29 (re-issue)	LP
''Platinum Collection''	Genesis	November 29	Box Set
''Downside Up''	Siouxsie & the Banshees	November 29	Box Set
''Collision Course''	Linkin Park and Jay-Z	November 30	EP & DVD
''Breakaway''	Kelly Clarkson	November 30	LP
''Head for the Door''	The Exies	November 30	LP
''Street's Disciple''	Nas	November 30	LP
''Purple Haze''	Cam'ron	December 7	LP
''Speak''	Lindsay Lohan	December 7	LP
''Live from Under the Brooklyn Bridge''	U2	December 9 (iTunes)	Live EP
''	Run DMC	December 10	Compilation
''Almanac''	They Might Be Giants	December 10	Live
''Venue Songs''	They Might Be Giants	December 10	Live
''For You''	Casey Donovan	December 13	LP
''Eye To The Telescope''	KT Tunstall	December 13	LP
''Loyal to the Game''	2Pac	December 14	LP
''Concrete Rose''	Ashanti	December 14	LP
''Weapons of Mass Destruction''	Xzibit	December 14	LP
''The Mind of Mannie Fresh''	Mannie Fresh	December 21	LP

Top hits

★ "8th World Wonder" - Kimberley Locke

★ "Always" - Blink-182

★ "American Idiot" - Green Day

★ "Bedshaped" - Keane

★ "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day

★ "Breakaway" - Kelly Clarkson

★ "Breaking The Habit" - Linkin Park

★ "Burn" - Usher

★ "Can't Stand Me Now" - The Libertines

★ "Chocolate" - Snow Patrol

★ "Cold Hard Bitch" - Jet

★ "Confessions Part II" - Usher

★ "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid 20

★ "Dry Your Eyes" - The Streets

★ "Eight Easy Steps" - Alanis Morissette

★ "Everybody's Changing - Keane

★ "Everytime" - Britney Spears

★ "Everything" - Alanis Morissette

★ "Figured You Out" - Nickelback

★ "First of the Gang to Die" - Morrissey

★ "Fit But You Know It" - The Streets

★ "Freakin' Out" - Graham Coxon

★ "Get Low" - Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz feat. Ying Yang Twins

★ "Give A Little Bit" - Goo Goo Dolls

★ "Goodies" - Ciara

★ "Gravity" - Embrace

★ "Harder to Breathe" - Maroon 5

★ "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" - The Darkness

★ "I Miss You" - blink-182

★ "Feeling This" - Blink-182

★ "Leaving New York" - R.E.M.

★ "Left Outside Alone" - Anastacia

★ "Long Time Coming" - The Delays

★ "Look What You've Done" - Jet

★ "Mary" - Scissor Sisters

★ "Megalomaniac" - Incubus

★ "Milkshake" - Kelis

★ "My Band" - D12

★ "My Boo" - Usher and Alicia Keys

★ "My Happy Ending" - Avril Lavigne

★ "My Immortal" - Evanescence

★ "Naughty Girl" - Beyoncé

★ "Not in Love" - Enrique Iglesias

★ "Numb" - Linkin Park

★ "Old Habits Die Hard" - Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart

★ "Open Road" - Bryan Adams

★ "Over and Over" - Nelly & Tim McGraw

★ "Pieces of Me" - Ashlee Simpson

★ "Radio" - Robbie Williams

★ "Real to Me" - Brian McFadden

★ "Rumors" - Lindsay Lohan

★ "Satellite of Love '04" - Lou Reed

★ "She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5

★ "Slither" - Velvet Revolver

★ "Slow Jamz" - Twista feat. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx

★ "Somebody to Love" - Boogie Pimps

★ "Somewhere Only We Know" - Keane

★ "(Reach Up for the) Sunrise" - Duran Duran

★ "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand

★ "Talk About Our Love" - Brandy featuring Kanye West

★ "The Reason" - Hoobastank

★ "This Is the Last Time" - Keane

★ "This Love" - Maroon 5

★ "Through The Wire" - Kanye West

★ "Sick And Tired - Anastacia

★ "Tipsy" - J-Kwon

★ "Toxic" - Britney Spears

★ "Vertigo" - U2

★ "Walking in the Sun" - Travis

★ "Welcome to My Truth"-Anastacia

★ "Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?" - The Thrills

★ "Wishing on a Star" - Paul Weller

★ "Yeah!" - Usher

★ "You Had Me" - Joss Stone

Top 10 selling albums of the year in the US

#Usher - ''Confessions''
#Norah Jones - ''Feels like Home''
#Eminem - ''Encore''
#Kenny Chesney - ''When the Sun Goes Down''
#Gretchen Wilson - ''Here for the Party''
#Tim McGraw - ''Live Like You Were Dying''
#Maroon 5 - ''Songs about Jane''
#Evanescence - ''Fallen''
#Ashlee Simpson - ''Autobiography''
#Jay-Z - ''The Black Album (Jay-Z)''

Classical music

★ Michel van der Aa - ''Second self''

★ Louis Andriessen - ''Racconto dall'Inferno''

★ Caroline Ansink - ''Sub Finem''

★ Vykintas Baltakas - ''Ouroboros''

★ Gerard Beljon - ''Morgen''

★ Valton Beqiri - ''Echos,os,os....''

★ Caroline Berkenbosch - ''Monument 35''

★ Cornelis de Bondt - ''Madame Daufine''

★ Anke Brouwer - ''Hammerfest''

★ Elliott Carter - ''Réflexions''

★ George Crumb - ''Winds of Destiny'' for soprano, percussion quartet and piano

★ Mario Davidovsky - ''Sefarad: Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes'', baritone voice, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), percussion, violin and cello

★ Jorrit Dijkstra - ''Veeg''

★ Wim Dirriwachter - ''Blanco''

★ David Dramm - ''Bitter Green Lullabies''

★ Joël-François Durand - ''Ombre/Miroir'' for flute and 14 instruments

★ Benjamin Dwyer - ''Afterjoyce''

★ Mohammed Fairouz - ''Elegiac Verses''

★ Ivan Fedele - ''Odos''

★ Ron Ford - ''Ratrace''

★ Steven R. Gerber - Chaconne and Fugue for Viola and Cello

★ Philip Glass - Symphony No. 7 ''Toltec''

★ Georg Friedrich Haas - ''Haiku''

★ Jeff Hamburg - ''Songs from Joshe Kalb''

★ Jörg Herchet - ''Sich Verräumlichend. Komposition 4 für Orchester''

★ Rozalie Hirs - ''Platonic ID''

★ Alun Hoddinott - Trombone Concerto

★ York Höller - ''Ex Tempore''

★ Guus Janssen

★
★ ''Memory Protect Extended''

★
★ ''Wankeling''

★ Karl Jenkins - ''In These Stones Horizons Sing''

★ Bart de Kemp - ''Ankers''

★ Jan Klusák - ''Axis Temporum''

★ Hans Kox - ''Twelve Monographies''

★ Rolands Kronlaks - ''Paion''

★ Hanna Kulenty - ''Run''

★ Theo Loevendie - ''De 5 Driften''

★ Roderik de Man - ''Mensa Sa''

★ Peter Maxwell Davies

★
★ Naxos Quartet No. 4 ''Children's Games''

★
★ Naxos Quartet No. 5

★ Mayke Nas - ''Musique qui sent la table et la pantoufle''

★ Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk - ''Dido's klacht''

★ Seung-Ah Oh - ''Circle''

★ Christina Viola Oorebeek - ''Traces of Anthem''

★ Martijn Padding - ''And Trees Would Sing''

★ Gao Ping - ''Twelve-Hour Bridge''

Opera

★ William Bolcom - ''A Wedding''

Musical theater

★ ''Assassins'' Broadway production

★ ''Bombay Dreams'' Broadway production

★ ''Fiddler On The Roof'' Broadway revival

★ ''Jerry Springer - The Opera'' by Richard Thomas & Stewart Lee

★ ''The Woman in White'' - music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel and book by Charlotte Jones, freely adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins. Opened on September 15 at the Palace Theatre, London.

★ ''People Are Wrong!'' Off-Broadway production

Musical films

★ ''Beyond the Sea'', starring Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin

★ ''De-Lovely'' released June 13 starring Kevin Kline as Cole Porter and Ashley Judd

★ ''Home on the Range'' animated feature

★ ''Ray'', starring Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles

★ ''Red Riding Hood''

★ ''Pixel Perfect'', a Disney Channel Original Movie that is also a musical.

★ ''The Phantom of the Opera, starring Emmy Rossum as Christine and Gerard Butler as the Phantom

Births

Deaths

★ January 13 - Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby

★ January 17

★
★ Czeslaw Niemen (65) - Polish rock singer

★
★ Tom Rowe, musician

★ January 22

★
★ Billy May (87) - US big band & pop music arranger

★
★ Ann Miller, actress, singer and dancer

★ February 1 - Rocco Clein, 35, journalist, musician

★ February 3 - Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)

★ February 8 - Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer

★ February 16 - Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer

★ February 21 - Bart Howard, 88, composer and pianist

★ February 23

★
★ Don Cornell, 84, US singer

★
★ Alvino Rey, 95, US bandleader and guitarist

★ March 4 - John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with ''Magazine'', ''Siouxsie and the Banshees'' and ''PiL''

★ March 6 - Peggy DeCastro, 82, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters

★ March 16 - Vilém Tauský, 93, Czech conductor and composer

★ March 18 - Vytas Brenner, 57,musician, keyboardist and composer

★ March 26 - Jan Berry, US singer of Jan and Dean

★ March 28 - Sylvia Froos, 89, US singer

★ April 3 - Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian Singer

★ April 9 - Harry Babbitt, 90, US singer with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra

★ April 10 - Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity

★ April 15

★
★ Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer

★
★ Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician (b. 1950)

★ May 1 - Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (''Double'')

★ May 12

★
★ John LaPorta, 84, Jazz clarinetist, composer and educator

★
★ John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead

★ May 17 - Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz Drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.

★ May 19 - Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist

★ May 23 - Gundars Mauševics, 29, Latvian guitarist of Brainstorm

★ June 2 - Billboard, 25, Rapper & The Game's best friend

★ June 4 - Irene Manning, 91, US actress, singer and dancer

★ June 6 - Iona Brown, 63, conductor and violinist

★ June 10 - Ray Charles, 73, US singer and pianist

★ June 15 - James F. Arnold, 72, first tenor with the Four Lads

★ June 17 - Jackie Paris, US jazz singer

★ July 13 - Carlos Kleiber, conductor

★ July 21 - Jerry Goldsmith, 75, US composer, Academy Award winner

★ July 22

★
★ Illinois Jacquet, 81, US jazz saxophonist

★
★ Sacha Distel, 71, French singer

★ August 6

★
★ Rick James, 56, US funk singer

★
★ Argentino Ledesma, 75, Argentinian singer

★
★ Tony Mottola, 86, US Guitarist

★ August 9 - David Raksin, 92, US composer

★ August 18 - Elmer Bernstein, 82, US composer

★ August 20 - María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban Rumbera

★ August 26 - Laura Branigan, 47, US singer

★ September 11 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer

★ September 12

★
★ John Buller, 77, British composer

★
★ Fred Ebb, 72, US lyricist

★ September 15 - Johnny Ramone, 55, US Guitarist and founding member of ''The Ramones''

★ September 19 - Skeeter Davis, 72, US country singer

★ October 25 - John Peel, 65, British DJ and broadcaster

★ October 28 - Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer

★ November 12 - Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer

★ November 13

★
★ John Balance, 42, British musician from Coil

★
★ Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, African American rapper

★
★ Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer

★ November 14 - Michel Colombier, 65, composer

★ November 18 - Cy Coleman, 75, US composer

★ December 8 - Dimebag Darrell, 38, former Pantera guitarist, shot to death in Ohio

★ December 13 - Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for The Nils

★ December 14 - Sidonie Goossens, 105, harpist

★ December 19 - Renata Tebaldi, 82, operatic soprano

★ December 20 - Son Seals, 62, blues musician

★ December 30 - Artie Shaw, 94, Swing Era Clarinetist and Bandleader

Awards

ARIA Music Awards

★ ARIA Music Awards of 2004

BRIT Awards

★ 2004 BRIT Awards

Country Music Association Awards

Charts

Triple J Hottest 100

★ Triple J Hottest 100, 2004

External links

For a more detailed list of hits or albums by month, see:

★ KATS-FM

★ New Rock 94.7 The Zone - WZZN-FM - Chicago

★ Pause & Play's On The CD Front

★ VH1

★ MTV

★ Rolling Stone

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