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Last updated December 07, 2024

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2000. This year was the peak of CD sales in the United States, with sales declining year on year since then.^[1]

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

January

January 1
- In New York City, United States, at precisely midnight, Prince celebrates the start of the final year before the new millennium by playing his anthemic "1999", in what he vows is the song's finale.
- British composer John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List.
January 11
- Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for downloading 4000 pornographic images of children ends.
- Sharon Osbourne quits as manager of Smashing Pumpkins after only three months. In a brash press release she announces she had to resign "for medical reasons: Billy Corgan was making me sick."^[2]
- Singer Whitney Houston is caught with 15.2 grams of marijuana in her bag at a Hawaii airport. She boards her flight to San Francisco before police can arrive to arrest her.^[3]
January 14 – Rolling Stone reveals that the two children of Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Julie Cypher, were fathered by David Crosby.
January 18 – Spencer Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for the 1991 kidnap and murder of the wife of ZZ Top manager Bill Ham. Ham is present at the execution.
January 21–February 6 – The Big Day Out festival takes place in Australia and New Zealand, headlined by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nine Inch Nails. Mr. Bungle are originally named in the lineup, but are "kicked off" due to an ongoing dispute with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

February

February 9 – The Million Dollar Hotel , a film co-written by U2 lead singer Bono, premieres at the 50th Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival).
February 11 – Diana Ross divorces Arne Næss Jr., her husband of 14 years.
February 16 – The Silver Tassie, an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage, receives its première at the London Coliseum, performed by the English National Opera.
February 23 – At the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards, Santana win a record 8 Grammys in one night, tying Michael Jackson who won 8 in 1984. Among the awards won are Album of the Year for Supernatural and Record of the Year and Song of the Year, both for "Smooth" featuring Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas. Christina Aguilera won Best New Artist.
February 24 – Italian motorcycle manufacturing company Aprilia wins a lawsuit filed against the Spice Girls over a sponsorship deal that fell apart when Geri Halliwell left the group.

March

March 6 – Foxy Brown is injured in a car accident in Brooklyn, New York, in which her car hit a fence. Police discover that Brown was driving with a suspended driver license and order her to appear in court in April. Brown's license was suspended for failing to appear in court for a parking violation.
March 7 – Heavy metal band Disturbed release their debut studio album The Sickness .
March 11 – 311 holds their first 3–11 Day concert at Tower Records in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
March 13 – Blink-182 end their European tour early after guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker succumb to strep throat.
March 21 – NSYNC rises to superstardom after the fast-paced sales of their second studio album No Strings Attached
March 24 – After violating a prior probation agreement by getting drunk, Ol' Dirty Bastard is ordered to undergo a 90-day diagnostic evaluation at the California Institute For Men in Chino, California.

April

April 1 – Ted Nugent angers Hispanic groups in Texas after onstage remarks he makes during a concert at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, in which he says that those who did not speak English should get out of America. He is banned from the venue as a result.^[4]
April 4 – Mick Jagger attends the opening of an arts center named after him at Dartford Grammar School in southeast England.
April 6 – Shawn Colvin, James Taylor, Cyndi Lauper, Richard Thompson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Elton John, Cassandra Wilson, Wynonna Judd, k.d. lang, Bryan Adams, and Mary Chapin Carpenter perform in New York as part of a tribute to Joni Mitchell.
April 12 – Metallica files a lawsuit against the peer-to-peer service Napster, as well as Yale University, University of Southern California and Indiana University for copyright infringement. Yale and Indiana are later dropped from the suit when they block access to Napster on campus computers.
April 25 – Nu metal band Papa Roach releases their second studio album, Infest

May

May 1 – A $1.8 million civil fraud lawsuit is filed against Neil Young in Los Angeles Superior Court by a former Village Voice writer. The lawsuit charges that Young broke an agreement to have a biography written about him when he blocked the book's publication.
May 3 – 75-year-old tenor Carlo Bergonzi makes his final professional appearance at Carnegie Hall, in a concert performance of Otello .^[5] After two acts, he is replaced by an understudy.
May 4 – Letters To Cleo play their last concert in Boston; they disband the following month.
May 5 – Rod Stewart undergoes an hour-long throat operation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to remove a growth on his thyroid, which turns out to be benign.
May 6 – John Mellencamp receives an honorary Doctor of Music degree as the commencement speaker for Indiana University's Class of 2000.
May 7 – Westlife releases their 2000 debut album with the release of their Billboard #1 hit single "Swear It Again", as the group's first and only single to have charted in the US
May 13
- The 45th Eurovision Song Contest final, held in Stockholm's Globe Arena, is won by Denmark's Olsen Brothers and the song "Fly on the Wings of Love".
- Dickey Betts is kicked out of The Allman Brothers Band and replaced with Warren Haynes.
May 16 – Prince announces that he has changed his name back to Prince now that his publishing contract with Warner/Chappell has expired. He had been known as an unpronounceable symbol, since 1993.^[6]
May 23 – Eminem releases his third studio album The Marshall Mathers LP selling over 1.76 million copies in its first week, and becomes the fastest selling hip-hop album ever in first week sales.
May 24 – 50 Cent is shot nine times in Queens. After spending time in hospital he returns to recording and performing.
May 25 – Eddie Van Halen begins treatment for prevention of tongue cancer at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.^[7]
May 29 – Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey are named the Best Selling Male and Female artist of the millennium at the World Music Awards in Monaco.

June

June 8 – Sinéad O'Connor comes out as a lesbian in an interview with Curve magazine.^[8]
June 17 – Aaliyah's "Try Again" reaches number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It becomes the first airplay song in history to reach number one following new chart rules placed in 1998 that allowed airplay singles to chart for the first time.
June 20 – Britney Spears begins her Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour, her first world tour, visiting North America, Europe and Brazil in support her sophomore album, Oops!... I Did It Again. The tour was a commercial success and became the second highest-grossing tour by a solo artist in 2000, only behind Tina Turner's Twenty Four Seven retirement tour.
June 23–25 – The Experience Music Project, now the Museum of Pop Culture, opens in Seattle.
June 30 – Nine people are crushed to death during Pearl Jam's set at the Roskilde Festival, in Roskilde, Denmark.

July–August

July 21–22 – Oasis plays at Wembley Stadium. The first of this night is featured on the double CD and the DVD Familiar to Millions .
July 26 – A U.S. district judge orders the Napster to halt the trading of copyrighted music among its users, essentially ordering it shut down. A stay on the injunction is granted two days later, allowing the site to continue operating for the time being.^[9]
August 1 – Experimental pop band Animal Collective release their debut album Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished under the name Avey Tare & Panda Bear.^[10]
August 8 – A coalition of 28 U.S. states file a lawsuit against the major record labels, accusing them of keeping the prices of CDs fixed at artificially high prices since 1995.^[11]
August 11 – Madonna gives birth to her second child, son Rocco. Film director Guy Ritchie is the father.
August 14 – Outside the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Rage Against the Machine performs a free concert protesting the two-party system. In a chaotic scene after the performance, police forcibly disperse the crowd and several arrests are made.^[12]
August 16 – Rapper Eminem files for divorce from wife Kim Mathers.
August 20 – Skinny Puppy reunite for a concert at the Doomsday Festival in Dresden, Germany.
August 22 – Nu Metal band Mudvayne Released their debut studio album L.D. 50 (album)

September

September 7 – Rage Against the Machine's Tim Commerford is arrested for climbing on the set at MTV's Video Music Awards after his band lost the award for "Best Rock Video" to Limp Bizkit. The director of Rage's "Sleep Now in the Fire" video, Michael Moore, suggests Commerford was probably "just bored" by the show.^[13] NSYNC performed their hit single "Bye Bye Bye".
September 11- Successful British girl group Sugababes release their debut single 'Overload'.
September 13 – The first Latin Grammy Awards are held.
September 23 – Isaac Stern celebrates his 80th birthday together with his 40th anniversary as President of Carnegie Hall.
September 26 – Pearl Jam releases twenty-five live albums, each taken from a different show on their European tour, as the initial part of the Pearl Jam Official Bootlegs series.

October

October 1 – Midnight Oil perform their single "Beds are Burning" at the closing of the 2000 Summer Olympics dressed in outfits clearly displaying the word "Sorry" in reference to Australian Prime Minister John Howard's refusal to apologise to the Stolen Generation.
October 2 – Radiohead release their fourth studio album, Kid A . While highly anticipated in the leadup to its release, the album is met with polarized responses from fans and critics as a result of its shift from the densely-layered alternative rock of its 1997 predecessor in favor of electronica-tinged post-rock. However, its reputation would grow more unanimously positive over the years, eventually being regarded by music analysts as one of the greatest albums of all time.
October 3 – Green Day release their sixth album Warning . Despite positive reviews from critics, it would end up a commercial disappointment compared to their previous efforts.
October 5
- The Beatles release a hardcover book version of The Beatles Anthology , containing newly published photos and interviews with band members. The book went straight to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List .
- EMI and Warner Music Group withdraw their application to the European Commission for a proposed $20 billion merger due to regulators' concerns. The merger would have concentrated 80% of the European music business into the hands of just four major labels.^[14]
October 18 – Zack de la Rocha leaves Rage Against the Machine saying that the band's decision-making process has completely failed.
October 24 – Linkin Park release their debut album Hybrid Theory . It has reached diamond certification by the RIAA, with 11 million units as of 2017, making it the best-selling rock album of the 21st century.
October 31 – Napster and BMG Music announce a partnership that would change the website into a subscription-based service offering legal downloads.^[15]

November–December

November 5 – The fourth Terrastock festival is held in Seattle.
November 18 – A new musical adaptation of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck by Robert Wilson and Tom Waits opens in Copenhagen.
November 21 - The Backstreet Boys experience back-to-back sales after the release of their 4th/3rd album Black & Blue
December 2
- Tripp Eisen formerly of Dope replaces Koichi Fukuda in Static-X.
- The Smashing Pumpkins played what was to be their final concert at the Metro Club in Chicago. The band would reunite in 2005.
December 22
- Madonna marries film director Guy Ritchie, at Skibo Castle in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland with Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, Sting, George Clooney, Jon Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Rupert Everett and others in attendance.
- The Coen brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is released, scored by a T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack that revives the popularity of traditional American folk music and bluegrass.
December 31 – Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes marries actress Kate Hudson.

Bands formed

See Musical groups established in 2000

Bands disbanded

All Saints (reformed in 2006)
Art of Noise
Atari Teenage Riot (reformed in 2010)
B*Witched (reformed 2013)
Ben Folds Five (reformed in 2011)
Color Me Badd
Pezz (legal issue with band name, changed name to Billy Talent)
Candlebox (reformed in 2006)
Demonoid
Drain STH
Electric Light Orchestra (with new members except for original members, Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy)
Genesis (would sporadically reunite for reunion tours in 2006 and 2020)
The Golden Palominos
Hi-Standard
Hum
Jack Off Jill
June of 44
Kid Dynamite
Knapsack
Lifter Puller
Luna Sea
Luscious Jackson
Make-Up
The Paradise Motel (reform in 2007)
Phish (hiatus until 2002, disband in 2004)
The Posies (reformed in 2004)
Primus (hiatus until 2004)
Pure
Rage Against the Machine (reformed in 2007)
Sacred Reich (reformed in 2006)
Screaming Trees
Seaweed (reformed in 2007)
Skunk Anansie (reformed 2009)
The Smashing Pumpkins (reformed in 2006)
Soul Coughing
Spice Girls
Symposium
Urban Dance Squad

Bands reformed

The Presidents of the United States of America (after 1998 break)

Albums released

January–March

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
J A N U A R Y	4	Amanda Stott	Amanda Stott	Debut
		Any Given Sunday	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		These Words	Angela Aki	Debut
	11	The Days In Between	Blue Rodeo	-
		Live!	Chuck Berry	Live
		Permanently	Mark Wills	-
		Spit	Kittie	Debut
		This Present Darkness	Chimaira	EP
	14	The Screen Behind the Mirror	Enigma	-
	17	How Strange, Innocence	Explosions in the Sky	-
		The Lioness	Songs: Ohia	-
		Mirror	Flying Saucer Attack	-
		Radio Video	Royal Trux	-
	18	Building Nothing Out of Something	Modest Mouse	Compilation
		J.E. Heartbreak	Jagged Edge	-
		Night Life	Outsidaz	Debut
		The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998	Van Morrison with Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber	Live
	20	Genius 2000	Namie Amuro	-
	24	Razorblade Romance	HIM	-
	25	Designs for Automotion	Snapcase	-
		Guy III	Guy	-
		Introduction to Mayhem	Primer 55	-
		Life'll Kill Ya	Warren Zevon	-
		Masters Of The 1 & 2 – History's Greatest DJ's	Various Artists	-
		Southern Discomfort	Eyehategod	-
		A Thought Crushed My Mind	Blindside	-
		Voodoo	D'Angelo	-
		We Are the Streets	The Lox	-
	31	Deggial	Therion	-
	31	XTRMNTR	Primal Scream	-
	?	Lump	The Presidents of the United States of America	Compilation
F E B R U A R Y	1	Tha Eastsidaz	Tha Eastsidaz	-
		Greatest Hits Volume Three: Best of the Brother Years 1970–1986	The Beach Boys	Compilation
		MP4: Days Since a Lost Time Accident	Michael Penn	-
		New Day Dawning	Wynonna Judd	-
		The Night	Morphine	-
	2	Sonic Dynamite	Pink Cream 69	-
	4	Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?	Blackmail	Compilation
	7	The Art of Self Defense	High on Fire	-
		The Crybaby	Melvins	-
		Incipit Satan	Gorgoroth	-
		What A Beautiful Waste	Socialburn	Debut
	8	The Better Life	3 Doors Down	Debut
		Both Sides Now	Joni Mitchell	-
		The Chainheart Machine	Soilwork	-
		Demons & Wizards	Demons & Wizards	US
		Let's Talk about Leftovers	Lagwagon	-
		Live: A Night on the Strip	L.A. Guns	Live
		Nia	Blackalicious	-
		S.I.O.S.O.S. Volume One	Spooks	Debut
		Suicide Pact – You First	Therapy?	US
		Supreme Clientele	Ghostface Killah	-
		Y2K: The Album	Screwball	-
	15	2gether	2gether	-
		Automatic Midnight	Hot Snakes	-
		The Big Bang!: Best of the MC5	MC5	Compilation
		Bloodflowers	The Cure	-
		Book of Thugs	Trick Daddy	-
		Hear My Cry	Sonique	-
		Lonesomeville	Chris Cummings	-
		The Suicide Machines	The Suicide Machines	-
		Telling Stories	Tracy Chapman	-
		Wonder Boys: Music from the Motion Picture	Various Artists	Soundtrack
	21	The Next Best Thing	Madonna	Soundtrack
	22	And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out	Yo La Tengo	-
		The Blue Room	Union	-
		Carpal Tunnel Syndrome	Kid Koala	-
		The Fourth Legacy	Kamelot	-
		Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy	Mindless Self Indulgence	-
		Freak Magnet	Violent Femmes	-
		Live at the Fillmore – February 1969	The Byrds	Live
		Look Away + 4	The Apples in Stereo	EP
		No One Does It Better	SoulDecision	Canada
		Pennybridge Pioneers	Millencolin	-
		Welcome to Earth	Apoptygma Berzerk	-
	23	B'z The "Mixture"	B'z	Remix/compilation
		The Return of the Great Gildersleeves	Danger Danger	Japanese release date
		The Virgin Suicides	Air	Soundtrack
	28	Standing on the Shoulder of Giants	Oasis	-
		Stiff Upper Lip	AC/DC	UK
		Daisies of the Galaxy	Eels	UK
		Aquarius	Aqua	-
	29	BTNHResurrection	Bone Thugs-n-Harmony	-
		Double Take	Petra	-
		Get Some Go Again	Rollins Band	-
		Hooray for Boobies	Bloodhound Gang	US delayed release
		Live at the Greek	Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes	Live
		Machina/The Machines of God	The Smashing Pumpkins	-
		MTV Unplugged	Shakira	Live
		NakedSelf	The The	-
		One Endless Night	Jimmie Dale Gilmore	-
		Passenger	Tara MacLean	-
		The Truth	Beanie Sigel	-
		Two Against Nature	Steely Dan	-
M A R C H	1	The Swiss Army Romance	Dashboard Confessional	Debut
	3	Blackout Analysis	Vendetta Red	Debut
	6	The Secret Language of Birds	Ian Anderson	-
	7	Adventures of the Imagination	Michael Schenker	-
		The Art of Self Defense	High on Fire	-
		Back in Your Life	Julian Austin	-
		The Dwarves Come Clean	Dwarves	-
		How to Meet Girls	Nerf Herder	-
		Launched	Beatsteaks	-
		Revelation	Armored Saint	-
		Shades of Purple	M2M	Debut
		Snowfall	Yanni	Compilation
		The Sickness	Disturbed	-
		The State	Nickelback	-
		Swagger	Flogging Molly	-
		Turn	Great Big Sea	US
	10	Reflector	Killing Heidi	-
	13	He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms…	A Silver Mt. Zion	Debut
		The Platinum Album	Vengaboys	-
		Revelation 666 – The Curse of Damnation	Old Man's Child	-
	14	Additional Creations	Joe Satriani	-
		Comatised	Leona Naess	Debut
		Crack a Smile...and More!	Poison	-
		Engines of Creation	Joe Satriani	-
		From the Bottom to the Top	Sammie	Debut
		Holy Dogs	Stir	-
		Let's Get Free	Dead Prez	-
		Maybe I'll Catch Fire	Alkaline Trio	-
		The Road to El Dorado	Elton John	Soundtrack
		Winners Never Quit	Pedro the Lion	-
	16	The Closer You Get	Six by Seven	-
	20	The Noise Made by People	Broadcast	-
	21	24 Hour Roadside Resistance	Against All Authority	-
		The Covers Record	Cat Power	Covers
		Da Baddest Bitch	Trina	-
		Drawing Black Lines	Project 86	-
		Get Over It	Mr. Big	-
		Gung Ho	Patti Smith	-
		Latter Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume Two	Led Zeppelin	Compilation
		Magica	Dio	-
		Nickel Creek	Nickel Creek	-
		No Strings Attached	NSYNC	Studio
		Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx	Fishbone	-
		Reinventing the Steel	Pantera	-
		Spend a Night in the Box	The Reverend Horton Heat	-
		War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc)	Ice Cube	-
		We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes	Death Cab for Cutie	-
	23	Killermachine	Peter Pan Speedrock	-
	27	Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81	Pink Floyd	Live
		Drawn from Memory	Embrace	UK
		Engelbert At His Very Best	Engelbert Humperdinck	Compilation
		Punishing Kiss	Ute Lemper	-
	28	The Exies	The Exies	Debut
		From the Screen to Your Stereo	A New Found Glory	EP
		Infinite	Stratovarius	-
		Like Water for Chocolate	Common	-
		Opposite of H2O	Drag-On	-
		Real Live Woman	Trisha Yearwood	-
		Romeo Must Die	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Stage One	Sean Paul	-
		Stomping Ground	Goldfinger	-
	31	Shōso Strip	Ringo Sheena	-
	?	Perdition City	Ulver	-

April–June

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
A P R I L	3	Live & Eclectic	Ronnie Wood	Live
		Lost Souls	Doves	-
		The Menace	Elastica	-
		The Power	Vanessa Amorosi	-
	4	Auto Code 3	Auto Boys 400	-
		Can't Take Me Home	Pink	Debut
		Dongs of Sevotion	Smog	-
		Ecstasy	Lou Reed	-
		Garage D'Or	Cracker	-
		Grow Your Own	ThaMuseMeant	-
		Nickels For Your Nightmares	The Headstones	-
		Of One Blood	Shadows Fall	-
		WYSIWYG	Chumbawamba	-
		Yeeeah Baby	Big Pun	-
	10	Buy Now... Saved Later	One Minute Silence	-
		Heliocentric	Paul Weller	UK
		Things to Make and Do	Moloko	-
		Veni Vidi Vicious	The Hives	-
	11	Beethoven's Last Night	Trans-Siberian Orchestra	-
		Both Sides of the Brain	Del tha Funkee Homosapien	-
		Husslin'	Kardinal Offishall	EP
		L	Moe	Live
		L Version 3.1	Moe	Live
		Return of Saturn	No Doubt	-
		S Club	S Club	US
		Special Brew	Bad Manners	Compilation
		Unrestricted	Da Brat	-
	13	Rudeboys inna Ghetto	Buju Banton	Compilation
	14	Minor Earth Major Sky	A-ha	-
	17	Famous in the Last Century	Status Quo	-
		Now That's What I Call Music! 45 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
		Taxidermy	Queen Adreena	-
	18	The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone	The Apples in Stereo	-
		Down Here	Tracy Bonham	-
		Emotional	Carl Thomas	-
		Figure 8	Elliott Smith	-
		Greatest Hits	Ace of Base	Compilation
		Heavy Metal 2000	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Let's Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye	Vince Gill	-
		Live from the Sun	Dokken	Live
		My Name Is Joe	Joe	-
		The Piece Maker	Tony Touch	-
		Stronger than Death	Black Label Society	-
		Tripping Daisy	Tripping Daisy	-
		Victory	Running Wild	-
	25	Arrasando	Thalía
		After the Eulogy	Boysetsfire	-
		The Distillers	The Distillers	-
		Fear of Flying	Mýa	-
		The Heat	Toni Braxton	-
		Promotional Copy	Reggie and the Full Effect	-
		Infest	Papa Roach	-
		Relient K	Relient K	-
		Silver & Gold	Neil Young	-
		Skull & Bones	Cypress Hill	-
		State of Flow	No Fun at All	-
		Summer Day Reflection Songs	Donovan	Compilation
		Thug Walkin'	Ying Yang Twins	-
		Useless	Ünloco	EP
	27	Damned in Black	Immortal	-
	28	Hagnesta Hill	Kent	English version. Swedish version released 6 December 1999
M A Y	1	Bardot	Bardot	-
		The Facts of Life	Black Box Recorder	-
		Internal Wrangler	Clinic	-
		The Last Match	The Aislers Set	-
	2	2000 Years: The Millennium Concert	Billy Joel	Live
		All Hands on the Bad One	Sleater-Kinney	-
		Bachelor No. 2	Aimee Mann	-
		Don't Give Me Names	Guano Apes	-
		Ghost Stories	The Lawrence Arms	-
		Goodfellas	504 Boyz	-
		Homovore	Cattle Decapitation	-
		Pay Attention	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	-
		The Slash Years	L7	Compilation
		White Pepper	Ween	-
	4	Half the World Is Watching Me	Mew	-
	4	My Music at Work	The Tragically Hip	-
	8	There Goes The Neighborhood	Hush	-
	9	100 Broken Windows	Idlewild	-
		3 for One	Chris Isaak	Box Set
		The Ballad Collection	Boyz II Men	Compilation
		Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence	Glassjaw	-
		Hot Rail	Calexico	-
		I Wanna Be with You	Mandy Moore	-
		Live at Ernesto's	The Slackers	Live
		Mission Impossible II soundtrack	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Mob Mentality	The Business/Dropkick Murphys	Split LP
		Mystery White Boy	Jeff Buckley	Live
		The New America	Bad Religion	-
		Open the Door	Roger Hodgson	-
		Smile	The Jayhawks	-
		Survival Sickness	The (International) Noise Conspiracy	-
		Thane to the Throne	Jag Panzer	-
		This Time Around	Hanson	-
		View from Masada	Killah Priest	-
		When All Else Fails	Bracket	-
	15	Whitney: The Greatest Hits	Whitney Houston	Compilation
		We Are Motörhead	Motörhead	-
		Excuses for Travellers	Mojave 3	-
		Supermodified	Amon Tobin	-
	16	Binaural	Pearl Jam	-
		Summer in the City: Live in New York	Joe Jackson	Live
		The Abba Generation	A*Teens	US
		Balance & Options	DJ Quik	-
		Before The Calm	Witness	US; Debut album
		The Big Black	Orange Goblin	-
		Celestial Hi-Fi	Sheavy	-
		Ear-Resistible	The Temptations	-
		The Ever Passing Moment	MxPx	-
		Farmhouse	Phish	-
		The First of the Microbe Hunters	Stereolab	-
		I Got That Work	The Big Tymers	-
		Invincible	Five	US
		The Last Dance	Spice 1	-
		Let's Do It for Johnny!	Bowling for Soup	-
		The Madding Crowd	Nine Days	-
		NYC Ghosts & Flowers	Sonic Youth	-
		Oops!... I Did It Again	Britney Spears	-
		Resolver	Veruca Salt	-
		The Walls Ablaze	Sarah Dougher	-
	22	Lightbulb Sun	Porcupine Tree	-
	23	Alma Caribeña	Gloria Estefan	US
		Blazing the Crop	Rae & Christian	US
		the construKction of light	King Crimson	-
		Deathrace King	The Crown	-
Deviant		Pitchshifter	-
Inside Job		Don Henley	-
Love, God and Murder		Johnny Cash	Box Set
Lucy Pearl		Lucy Pearl	-
Mad Season		Matchbox Twenty	-
The Marshall Mathers LP		Eminem	LP
Masterpiece Theatre		En Vogue	-
Mer de Noms		A Perfect Circle	-
Peek & Poke		White Town	-
The Platform		Dilated Peoples	-
Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous		King's X	-
The Singles Collection, Volume 1		Dropkick Murphys	Compilation
Slick Shoes/Cooter Split		Slick Shoes/Cooter	Split EP
Superfast		Dynamite Hack	-
Vocalcity		Luomo	-
Wake Up Screaming		Slick Shoes	-
Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)		XTC	-
Wishville		Catherine Wheel	-
26	Past Life Trauma (1985–1992)	Kreator	Compilation
29	Brave New World	Iron Maiden	-
	Fevers and Mirrors	Bright Eyes	-
	The Sophtware Slump	Grandaddy	-
30	dwightyoakamacoustic.net	Dwight Yoakam	-
	High as Hell	Nashville Pussy	-
	The History of Rock	Kid Rock	Compilation +1 new track
	Mermaid Avenue Vol. II	Billy Bragg and Wilco	-
	Mind over Matter	Zion I	-
J U N E	1	Broken Bracelet	Michelle Branch	-
	1	Maroon	The Webb Brothers	-
	5	The Captain	Kasey Chambers	US
	6	Another Joyous Occasion	Widespread Panic	Live
		Brutal Planet	Alice Cooper	-
		Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant	Belle & Sebastian	-
		The Holiday Has Been Cancelled	Mad Caddies	EP
		Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons	Blonde Redhead	-
		Nativity in Black II: A Tribute to Black Sabbath	Various Artists	Black Sabbath tribute
		Problematic	ALL	-
		Question in the Form of an Answer	People Under The Stairs	-
		Rated R	Queens of the Stone Age	-
		Reactionary	Face to Face	-
		Tales Out of Luck (Me and the Drummer)	Willie Nelson	-
		Transcendental Blues	Steve Earle	-
		Voyage 34: The Complete Trip	Porcupine Tree	Compilation
	12	OVO	Peter Gabriel	Soundtrack
		7	S Club 7	-
		The Golden D	Graham Coxon	-
		One	Sister2Sister	Debut
	13	Crush	Bon Jovi	-
		Faith and Courage	Sinéad O'Connor	-
		Fantastic, Vol. 2	Slum Village	-
		Mo Thugs III: The Mothership	Mo Thugs Family	-
		The Moon & Antarctica	Modest Mouse	-
		Power to the People	Poison	-
		Pump Up the Valuum	NOFX	-
		Riding with the King	B.B. King & Eric Clapton	-
		The Unseen	Quasimoto	-
		Z-Ro vs. the World	Z-Ro	-
	16	Not That Kind	Anastacia	-
	19	Pop Trash	Duran Duran	-
	19	Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants	Tribe Of Gypsies	-
	20	Anarchy	Busta Rhymes	-
		Chinese Work Songs	Little Feat	-
		Classical Mushroom	Infected Mushroom	-
		De Stijl	The White Stripes	-
		Domestica	Cursive	-
		Down with the Scene	Kid 606	-
		Flash Flash Flash	The Explosion	-
		Hold It Down	Madball	-
		Invincible Summer	k.d. lang	-
		Kaleidoscope Superior	Earthsuit	-
		Let It Go	The Clarks	–
		Now You See Inside	SR-71	Debut
		One Long Year	Todd Rundgren	-
		One Voice	Billy Gilman	Debut
		Quality Control	Jurassic 5	-
		Thunderstorm	Iron Fire	-
		Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer	Ayreon	-
		Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator	Ayreon	-
		Versus God	Dillinger Four	-
		White Pony	Deftones	-
	22	The Fists of Time: An Anthology of Short Fiction and Non-Fiction	As Friends Rust	EP
	22	Sound of Water	Saint Etienne	-
	26	ØØ Void	Sunn O)))	Debut
		Alone with Everybody	Richard Ashcroft	-
		The Hour of Bewilderbeast	Badly Drawn Boy	-
	27	Anthology	Chuck Berry	Compilation
		Country Grammar	Nelly	Debut
		Fortress	Sister Hazel	-
		Gift	Taproot	-
		Greatest Hits	Queensrÿche	Compilation
		Half Hour of Power	Sum 41	EP
High Society		Kottonmouth Kings	-
Insineratehymn		Deicide	-
The Notorious K.I.M.		Lil' Kim	-
Progress		Pedro the Lion	EP
Tonight and the Rest of My Life		Nina Gordon	Debut
30	Double Wide	Uncle Kracker	-

July–September

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
J U L Y	3	If Then Else	The Gathering	-
	3	G-A-Y	Various Artists	Compilation, UK
	4	Cries of the Past	Underoath	-
	4	Days Of The White Owl	The Nerve Agents	-
	10	Parachutes	Coldplay	UK; Debut
	11	Ad Astra	Spiritual Beggars	-
		Art and Life	Beenie Man	-
		New Tattoo	Mötley Crüe	-
		Killswitch Engage	Killswitch Engage	-
		Live on Stage	Chuck Berry	Live
		Nutty Professor II: The Klumps	Various Artists	-
		Offerings: A Worship Album	Third Day	-
		Out of Control	Anti-Nowhere League	-
		Somewhere to Elsewhere	Kansas	-
		Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile	Everclear	-
		Sonic Jihad	Snake River Conspiracy	Debut
		Swing Set	Ani DiFranco	EP
		Wasting Time	Mest	-
	12	Lunacy	Luna Sea	-
	12	Walk of Life	Billie Piper	Japan
	13	1956	Soul-Junk	-
	17	In Blue	The Corrs	-
	17	Who Needs Guitars Anyway?	Alice DeeJay	UK
	18	2000 B.C.	Canibus	-
		City of Syrup	Big Moe	-
		From the Darkness into the Light	Mellow Man Ace	-
		The Leprechaun	Lil' Flip	-
		MobySongs 1993–1998	Moby	Compilation
		Now That's What I Call Music! 4 (U.S. series)	Various Artists	Compilation
		Pokémon the Movie 2000: The Power of One: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Stay Out of Order	The Casualties	-
		This Business of Art	Tegan and Sara	-
		Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1	Jill Scott	Debut
		Wishmaster	Nightwish	-
	20	Punk-O-Rama 5	Various Artists	Compilation
	24	Now That's What I Call Music! 46 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
	25	Clayman	In Flames	-
		Covenant	UFO	-
		Disconnected	Fates Warning	-
		The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book	Wyclef Jean	-
		The Greyest of Blue Skies	Finger Eleven	-
		Horrorscope	Eve 6	-
		Left and Leaving	The Weakerthans	-
		Outbound	Béla Fleck and the Flecktones	-
		The Savage Poetry	Edguy	-
		Who Let the Dogs Out	Baha Men	-
	31	Ronan	Ronan Keating	-
	?	The Real Thing	Midnight Oil	Live
	?	The Hunter	Persuader	-
A U G U S T	1	Almost Human	Voltaire	-
		The Big Picture	Big L	-
		Fragments of Freedom	Morcheeba	-
		Rancid	Rancid	-
		Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished	Avey Tare & Panda Bear	-
		Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia	The Dandy Warhols	-
		Vavoom!	The Brian Setzer Orchestra	-
	7	Summer's Stellar Gaze	Silverstein	EP
	8	Moment of Glory	Scorpions	With Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
		Deaf Forever: The Best of Motörhead	Motörhead	Compilation
		Resurrection	Halford	-
		1000 Hurts	Shellac	-
		Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump	De La Soul	-
		Hot Shot	Shaggy	-
		To Hell and Back	Sinergy	-
		Until the Ink Runs Out	Eighteen Visions	-
	10	Ace Troubleshooter	Ace Troubleshooter	-
	14	Little Kix	Mansun	-
	14	Raging Speedhorn	Raging Speedhorn	-
	15	Consent to Treatment	Blue October	-
		Dubbing with the Banton	Buju Banton	Remix
		Into the Abyss	Hypocrisy	-
		Souls Aflame	O.A.R.	-
		Water to Drink	Victoria Williams	-
		We Still Crunk!	Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz	-
		Wheatus	Wheatus	Debut
		Pimp to Eat	Analog Brothers	Debut
	21	Liverpool Sound Collage	Paul McCartney	-
	22	Balls	Sparks	-
		Broke	Hed PE	-
		False Cathedrals	Elliott	-
		L.D. 50	Mudvayne	-
		Playmate of the Year	Zebrahead	-
		A Retrospective	KRS-One	Compilation
		Steppin' Out	Cleopatra	-
		Super Hits	Donovan	Compilation
		Touch and Go	Vibrolush
		Unchained Spirit	Buju Banton	-
		V	Spock's Beard	-
		When Incubus Attacks Volume 1	Incubus	EP
		Young World: The Future	Lil Zane	Debut
	25	ID; Peace B	BoA	Debut
	28	Sing When You're Winning	Robbie Williams	-
	28	The Best Of	Motörhead	Compilation
	29	Emotion Is Dead	The Juliana Theory	-
		Four Cornered Night	Jets to Brazil	-
		Genuine	Stacie Orrico	-
		La Luna	Sarah Brightman	-
		Look What I Almost Stepped In...	The Vandals	-
		Mas Borracho	Infectious Grooves	-
		R.A.W	Daz Dillinger	-
		Set it Off	Shuvel	-
		The Supremes	The Supremes	Box Set
		2gether: Again	2gether	-
		Woody's Roundup	Riders in the Sky	-
		You Were Here	Sarah Harmer	-
	30	Chrysalis	Anggun	-
	30	Real	L'Arc-en-Ciel	-
S E P T E M B E R	4	Gold: The Best of Spandau Ballet	Spandau Ballet	Compilation
		Everything, Everything	Underworld	Live
		Ghost Stories	Amanda Ghost	UK; Debut
		Odyssey Number Five	Powderfinger	-
	5	Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music	The Smashing Pumpkins	-
		Black Seeds of Vengeance	Nile	-
		Evan and Jaron	Evan and Jaron	-
		Float	Aesop Rock	-
		Heartbreaker	Ryan Adams	-
		Hyacinths and Thistles	The 6ths	-
		Loud Rocks	Various Artists	Compilation
		The Paper Route	Mack 10	-
		The Teaches of Peaches	Peaches	-
		Trapped in Crime	C-Murder	-
	11	Simplicity Two Thousand	Afterlife	-
	11	Felt Mountain	Goldfrapp	-
	12	13 Ways to Bleed on Stage	Cold	-
		Freaked Out and Small	The Presidents of the United States of America	-
		Free Your Soul and Save My Mind	Suicidal Tendencies	-
		G.O.A.T.	LL Cool J	-
		The Good, the Bad, and the Funky	Tom Tom Club	-
		Hellos & Goodbyes	Buck-O-Nine	Live
		I	Nightingale	-
		It's Like This	Rickie Lee Jones	-
		The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Jimi Hendrix	Box Set
		King James Version	Harvey Danger	-
		Maroon	Barenaked Ladies	-
		Mi Reflejo	Christina Aguilera	Spanish-language
		Music for People	VAST	-
		Nathan Michael Shawn Wanya	Boyz II Men	-
		Red Dirt Girl	Emmylou Harris	-
		Relationship of Command	At the Drive-In	-
		Righteous Love	Joan Osborne	-
		Symbolic	Voodoo Glow Skulls	-
		Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers	The Twilight Singers	-
		Ultimate Collection	Aimee Mann	Compilation
		The Worst	Tech N9ne	-
	18	Music	Madonna	-
	18	Selmasongs	Björk	Soundtrack
	19	14 Diamonds	Stratovarius	Greatest Hits
		The Art of Drowning	AFI	-
		Confederacy of Ruined Lives	Eyehategod	-
		Fearless	Terri Clark	-
		The Friends of Rachel Worth	The Go-Betweens	-
		The Harsh Light of Day	Fastball	-
		Live Cannibalism	Cannibal Corpse	Live
		Milk Cow Blues	Willie Nelson	-
		The Prodigal Son	Nate Dogg	-
		S.D.E.	Cam'ron	-
		Solaris	Photek	-
		Something Like Human	Fuel	-
		The State of New York vs. Derek Murphy	Sadat X	EP
		Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft	Guided by Voices	Box Set
		Timeless: Live in Concert	Barbra Streisand	2xCD; Live
	22	Light Years	Kylie Minogue	-
	25	Sailing to Philadelphia	Mark Knopfler	-
		Into the Light	David Coverdale	UK
		House of Yes: Live from House of Blues	Yes	Live
		A Rock in the Weary Land	The Waterboys	-
		Mardraum – Beyond the Within	Enslaved	-
		Dopethrone	Electric Wizard	-
		Enemy of the Music Business	Napalm Death	-
	26	Aaron's Party (Come Get It)	Aaron Carter	-
		America Town	Five for Fighting	-
Arch Allies: Live at Riverport		REO Speedwagon and Styx	Live
Beware of Dog		Lil' Bow Wow	-
Bridging the Gap		The Black Eyed Peas	-
Friends for Schuur		Diane Schuur	-
Good Charlotte		Good Charlotte	Debut
The Hardest Part		Allison Moorer	-
Jazzmatazz, Vol. 3: Streetsoul		Guru	-
Learning to Breathe		Switchfoot	-
Let's Get Ready		Mystikal	-
New American Gospel		Lamb of God	-
New Found Glory		New Found Glory	-
New Train		Paul Pena	delayed 1973 release
Playaz of Da Game		Juvenile	-
Primitive		Soulfly	-
Revelation		98°	-
Shyne		Shyne	Debut
Ventilation: Da LP		Phife Dawg	LP
Evening Moods		RatDog	Debut
27	Duty	Ayumi Hamasaki	-
27	Q	Mr. Children	-
?	Darkness Forever!	Turbonegro	US release date; Live

October–December

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
O C T O B E R	2	Kid A	Radiohead	-
		The Best of Richard Marx	Richard Marx	Compilation
		King of the Beach	Chris Rea	-
		Cult	Apocalyptica	-
		DJ-Kicks: Nightmares on Wax	Nightmares on Wax	Compilation
		Hell's Kitchen	Maxim	-
		On Earth to Make the Numbers Up	Fosca	Debut
	3	Warning	Green Day	-
		The Very Beast of Dio	Dio	Compilation
		10	Enuff Z'Nuff	Japan
		Destroy the Opposition	Dying Fetus	-
		If I Could Tell You	Yanni	-
		Inches from the Mainline	Slaves on Dope	-
		The Last of a Dying Breed	Scarface	-
		Melodie Citronique	Blonde Redhead	EP
		Oui	The Sea & Cake	-
		Rhode Island	Pelican City	-
		Sibling Rivalry	The Doobie Brothers	-
		So Much for the Ten Year Plan: A Retrospective 1990-2000	Therapy?	Compilation
		Soul Assassins II	Soul Assassins	-
		Soul Caddy	Cherry Poppin' Daddies	-
		Violent by Design	Jedi Mind Tricks	-
		Vivo	Luis Miguel	Live
		A War Story Book I	Psycho Realm	-
		You Win Again	Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis	-
		You're the One	Paul Simon	-
	9	Black Market Music	Placebo	-
		Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	Godspeed You! Black Emperor	-
		Renegade	HammerFall	-
	10	5th Dog Let Loose	Flesh-N-Bone	-
		Ain't Life Grand	Slash's Snakepit	-
		Alone in a Crowd	Catch 22	-
		Bette	Bette Midler	-
		Blender	Collective Soul	-
		Blue Moon	Steve Holy	Debut
		Breach	The Wallflowers	-
		The Door	Keb' Mo'	-
		The Height of Callousness	Spineshank	-
		The Very Best of Yanni	Yanni	Compilation
		If I Could Only Fly	Merle Haggard	-
		Rule 3:36	Ja Rule	-
		Statement	Nonpoint	-
		V-The New Mythology Suite	Symphony X	-
		Vapor Transmission	Orgy	-
		Warriorz	M.O.P.	-
	13	Big Picture Lies	Sunk Loto	Australia
	16	Saints & Sinners	All Saints	-
		Back to Mine: Faithless	Faithless	Compilation
		Renaissance	Lionel Richie	-
		Atomhenge 76	Hawkwind	Live
		High Visibility	The Hellacopters	-
		The House of Atreus Act II	Virgin Steele	-
	17	Iommi	Tony Iommi	-
		American III: Solitary Man	Johnny Cash	-
		Back for the First Time	Ludacris	-
		Bedlam Ballroom	Squirrel Nut Zippers	-
		Born to Do It	Craig David	UK
		Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water	Limp Bizkit	-
		The Coroner's Gambit	The Mountain Goats	-
		The Curtain Falls: Live At The Flamingo	Bobby Darin	-
		Deltron 3030	Deltron 3030	-
		Dream a Dream	Charlotte Church	-
		Eat at Whitey's	Everlast	-
		In the Valley of Dying Stars	Superdrag	-
Lost in the Feeling		Mark Chesnutt	-
Lounge Against the Machine		Richard Cheese	Covers album
Music from and Inspired by The Little Vampire		Various Artists	Soundtrack
PS I Love You		Kid 606	-
The Rose that Grew from Concrete		2Pac	Poetry
Skinhead Girl		The Specials	Covers album
Southern Rain		Billy Ray Cyrus	-
Train of Thought		Reflection Eternal	-
18	Casino	Alcazar	-
23	The Collector's Series, Volume One	Celine Dion	Compilation
	Right Now	Atomic Kitten	Debut
	Loveboat	Erasure	-
	Folkémon	Skyclad	-
	Lemonjelly.ky	Lemon Jelly	-
	Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea	PJ Harvey	-
24	Bedlam Born	Steeleye Span	-
	Borders & Boundaries	Less Than Jake	-
	Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years	Megadeth	Compilation
	Days In Avalon	Richard Marx	-
	The Forbidden Love E.P.	Death Cab for Cutie	EP
	Fozzy	Fozzy	Debut
	Greatest Hits	Lenny Kravitz	Compilation +1 new track
	Hybrid Theory	Linkin Park	Debut
	Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective	Spin Doctors	Compilation
	Ladies, Women and Girls	Bratmobile	-
	Live @ the Key Club	Pennywise	Live
	Love Ways	Spoon	EP
	My Kind of Christmas	Christina Aguilera	Christmas
	Night and Day II	Joe Jackson	-
	Not the Tremblin' Kind	Laura Cantrell	-
	Play: The B Sides	Moby	Compilation
	Scattered, Smothered and Covered	Hootie & the Blowfish	Covers compilation
	Shine: The Hits	Newsboys	Compilation
	Take a Bite Outta Rhyme: A Rock Tribute to Rap	Various Artists	Rap covers by rock artists
	Ten 13	Sammy Hagar	-
	Whoa, Nelly!	Nelly Furtado	Debut
30	All That You Can't Leave Behind	U2	-
	Blur: The Best Of	Blur	Compilation
	Midian	Cradle of Filth	-
	Buzz	Steps	-
	Follow the Reaper	Children of Bodom	-
	The Stone Roses	The Remixes	-
31	Awake	Godsmack	-
	Bizaar	Insane Clown Posse	-
	Bizzar	Insane Clown Posse	-
	Christmas Around the World	Bradley Joseph	Christmas
	The Dynasty: Roc La Familia	Jay-Z	-
	The Essential Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan	Compilation
	Freek Show	Twiztid	-
	Gotta Tell You	Samantha Mumba	-
	Haunted	Poe	-
	Kissproof World	Jane Wiedlin	-
	The Least Worst Of	Type O Negative	Compilation with remixes and unreleased tracks
	Liquored Up and Lacquered Down	Southern Culture on the Skids	-
	Made Me Do It	The Haunted	-
	No Name Face	Lifehouse	-
	The Perfect Element, part I	Pain of Salvation	-
	Road Rage	Great Big Sea	-
	Sindustries	Gardenian	-
	Stankonia	OutKast	-
	Tomorrow's Sounds Today	Dwight Yoakam	-
	Underground Vol. 3: Kings of Memphis	Three 6 Mafia	-
	The Very Best of the Specials and Fun Boy Three	The Specials and Fun Boy Three	Compilation
	We Have Come for Your Parents	Amen	-
?	Spacebrock	Hawkwind	-
N O V E M B E R	3	Cosmic Genesis	Vintersorg	-
	4	Origin	Evanescence	-
	6	Forever	Spice Girls	-
		Genesis Archive 2: 1976–1992	Genesis	Box Set
		Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars	Fatboy Slim	-
		Coast to Coast	Westlife	-
		Planet Pop	ATC	-
		The Unutterable	The Fall	-
	7	Châtelet Les Halles	Florent Pagny	-
		Close to a World Below	Immolation	-
		The Color of Silence	Tiffany	-
		El Cancionero Mas y Mas	Los Lobos	Box Set
		Hits+	Kylie Minogue	Compilation
		The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show: The Enema Strikes Back	blink-182	Live
		Myths, Legends, and Other Amazing Adventures, Vol. 2	The Aquabats	Compilation
		Pure	Gary Numan	-
		Ride Wit Us or Collide Wit Us	Outlawz	-
		Rugrats in Paris: The Movie: Music from the Motion Picture	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Saturday People	Prozzäk	-
		The Seventh Song	Steve Vai	Compilation
		Stilelibero	Eros Ramazzotti	-
		Strait Up	Snot	-
		TP-2.com	R. Kelly	-
		War to End All Wars	Yngwie Malmsteen	-
	13	1	The Beatles	Compilation
		Familiar to Millions	Oasis	Live
		One Night Only	Elton John	Live
		Lovers Rock	Sade	-
		Ghost Tropic	Songs: Ohia	-
		Seul	Garou	Debut
	14	Aijuswanaseing	Musiq	-
		Bridging the Gap	Charlie Wilson	-
		The Collection: Volume Two	Bone Thugs-N-Harmony	Compilation
		Conspiracy of One	The Offspring	-
		Didn't See Me Coming	Keith Sweat	-
		Enters the Colossus	Mr. Lif	EP
		Exposed	Chanté Moore	-
		Fuse	Colin James	-
		Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)	Marilyn Manson	-
		Musique	Theatre of Tragedy	-
		My Favorite Headache	Geddy Lee	-
		Now That's What I Call Music! 5 (U.S. series)	Various Artists	Compilation
		The Playa Rich Project	Various Artists	Compilation
		Sound Loaded	Ricky Martin	-
	20	Maxi On	Takako Minekawa	-
		Now That's What I Call Music! 47 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
		Shut Your Mouth	Frenzal Rhomb	Australia
	21	Beer, Bait & Ammo	Kevin Fowler	-
		Black & Blue	Backstreet Boys	-
		Bottles to the Ground	NOFX	EP
		Checkmate	B.G.	-
		A Day Without Rain	Enya	-
		Flashback	Electric Light Orchestra	Box Set
		Freedom	Michael W. Smith	-
		Greatest Hits	Tim McGraw	Compilation
		Mama's Gun	Erykah Badu	-
		Mass Romantic	The New Pornographers	Debut
		Paradox Addendum	The Crüxshadows	EP
		The Reunion	Capone-N-Noreaga	-
		Songs from an American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time for a Bad Attitude	Everclear	-
		Space Age 4 Eva	8Ball & MJG	-
		Things Falling Apart	Nine Inch Nails	EP
		The W	Wu-Tang Clan	-
	22	Futurama	Supercar	-
27	The Early Chapters of Revelation	Therion	Box Set
	The Fake Sound of Progress	Lostprophets	-
	In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country	Boards of Canada	EP
	Intermission	dc Talk	Compilation
	It's All About the Stragglers	Artful Dodger	-
	One Touch	Sugababes	UK
	Roll On	The Living End	Australia
	Since I Left You	The Avalanches	^[16]
	Thelema.6	Behemoth	-
	Tomorrow Comes Today	Gorillaz	EP
28	Catch the Wind	Donovan	Compilation
	Dawn of Victory	Rhapsody	-
	Ghetto Postage	Master P	-
	Lyricist Lounge 2	Various Artists	Compilation
	Suburban Light	The Clientele	-
?	The Knowing	Novembers Doom	-
D E C E M B E R	1	Human Nature	Human Nature	-
	5	Renegades	Rage Against the Machine	Covers Album
		In the Flesh – Live	Roger Waters	2xCD; Live
		Live	Alice in Chains	Live
		O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		The Best Of The Doors	The Doors	Compilation
		Burning Japan Live 1999	Arch Enemy	Live
		The Dark Ride	Helloween	-
		3LW	3LW	-
		Sessions at West 54th: Recorded Live in New York	Keb' Mo'	Live DVD
		The Understanding	Memphis Bleek	-
	6	Eleven	B'z	-
	12	Live at the Fillmore	Cypress Hill	Live
		Paperdoll	Kittie	EP; remix +5 live tracks
		Restless	Xzibit	-
		Salival	Tool	Box Set
		Spiritual Machines	Our Lady Peace	Canada
		Tangents: The Tea Party Collection	The Tea Party	Compilation
		Temple of Two Suns	Mob Rules	-
		X	K-Ci & JoJo	-
	15	Flood	Boris	-
	19	Tha Last Meal	Snoop Dogg	-
		Lights Out	Lil Wayne	-
		Sessions at West 54th	Neil Finn	Live
	20	Break the Rules	Namie Amuro	Studio album

Release date unknown

Cherry Kicks – Caesars
Floodgate – MD Dunn
Live in Chicago – Kurt Elling
Marvin at the Movies – Hank Marvin
Still Standing – Yellowcard

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 2000.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart entries
1	Madonna	Music	2000	US	UK 1 – Sep 2000 (23 weeks), US Billboard 1 – Aug 2000 (24 weeks), Japan (Tokyo) 1 – Aug 2000 (25 weeks), Sweden 1 – Aug 2000 (10 weeks), Switzerland 1 – Sep 2000 (15 weeks), Norway 1 – Sep 2000 (10 weeks), Canada RPM 1 for 9 weeks – Sep 2000, New Zealand 1 for 1 week – Oct 2000, Australia 1 for 4 weeks – Aug 2000, Europe 1 for 6 weeks – Sep 2000, Spain 1 for 1 week – Oct 2000, Grammy in 2000 (Nominated), US Platinum (certified by RIAA in Oct 2000), Holland 4 – Aug 2000 (12 weeks), Poland 4 – Aug 2000 (13 weeks), Germany 4 – Aug 2000 (3 months), France Gold (certified by SNEP in Jul 2001), Germany Gold (certified by BMieV in 2000), Austria 6 – Sep 2000 (3 weeks), Belgium 6 – Aug 2000 (11 weeks), Italy 7 of 2000, Brazil 8 of 2000, Australia 11 of 2000, US Radio 15 of 2000 (peak 2 17 weeks), ARC 19 of 2000 (peak 1 16 weeks), Switzerland 19 of 2000, Japan (Osaku) 27 of 2000 (peak 3 16 weeks), US BB 33 of 2000, RYM 33 of 2000, POP 33 of 2000, Party 41 of 1999, Scrobulate 87 of pop, Germany 196 of the 2000s (peak 2 8 weeks), UKMIX 533, Acclaimed 674 (2000)
2	Britney Spears	Oops!... I Did it Again	2000	US	UK 1 – May 2000 (14 weeks), Holland 1 – Apr 2000 (13 weeks), Sweden 1 – Apr 2000 (7 weeks), Switzerland 1 – May 2000 (17 weeks), Norway 1 – May 2000 (14 weeks), Canada RPM 1 for 6 weeks – May 2000, New Zealand 1 for 1 week – Jun 2000, Australia 1 for 2 weeks – May 2000, Europe 1 for 6 weeks – May 2000, Spain 1 for 1 week – Aug 2000, US BB 2 of 2000, Germany 2 – May 2000 (3 months), POP 2 of 2000, Japan (Tokyo) 3 – May 2000 (14 weeks), Austria 3 – May 2000 (4 weeks), Belgium 3 – Apr 2000 (15 weeks), France Gold (certified by SNEP in Jul 2001), Germany Gold (certified by BMieV in 2000), Switzerland 7 of 2000, US Billboard 9 – Apr 2000 (20 weeks), France 10 – May 2000 (1 week), ARC 17 of 2000 (peak 1 17 weeks), US Radio 19 of 2000 (peak 1 14 weeks), Australia 26 of 2000, Italy 34 of 2000, Party 39 of 1999, Brazil 44 of 2000, Germany 154 of the 2000s (peak 2 11 weeks), Acclaimed 2376 (2000)
3	U2	Beautiful Day	2000	Ireland	UK 1 – Oct 2000 (16 weeks), Holland 1 – Sep 2000 (17 weeks), Norway 1 – Oct 2000 (6 weeks), Poland 1 – Sep 2000 (46 weeks), Republic of Ireland 1 for 3 weeks – Oct 2000, Australia 1 for 1 week – Oct 2000, Europe 1 for 2 weeks – Oct 2000, Spain 1 for 1 week – Nov 2000, Grammy in 2000, Japan (Tokyo) 2 – Sep 2000 (24 weeks), MTV Video of the Year 2001 (Nominated), Sweden 3 – Oct 2000 (5 weeks), US Gold (certified by RIAA in May 2005), Switzerland 6 – Oct 2000 (8 weeks), Belgium 8 – Oct 2000 (6 weeks), Italy 12 of 2000, RYM 13 of 2000, US Billboard 21 – Oct 2000 (25 weeks), Germany 21 – Oct 2000 (1 month), Scrobulate 22 of rock, Austria 23 – Nov 2000 (1 week), ARC 37 of 2001 (peak 4 18 weeks), Australia 46 of 2000, Europe 50 of the 2000s (2000), Party 62 of 2007, US Radio 77 of 2001 (peak 19 3 weeks), Brazil 83 of 2000, Virgin 99, TheQ 225, WXPN 471, Acclaimed 1223
4	The Corrs	Breathless	2000	Ireland	UK 1 – Dec 2000 (17 weeks), Sweden 1 – Dec 2000 (10 weeks), Austria 1 – Jan 2001 (5 weeks), Switzerland 1 – Dec 2000 (22 weeks), Republic of Ireland 1 for 6 weeks – Dec 2000, Europe 1 for 10 weeks – Dec 2000, Germany 1 for 1 week – Jan 2001, Spain 1 for 1 week – Feb 2001, Holland 2 – Dec 2000 (11 weeks), Germany 2 – Jan 2001 (4 months), MTV Video of the Year 2001 (Nominated), UK Platinum (certified by BPI in Dec 2000), France Platinum (certified by SNEP in Feb 2001), Germany Platinum (certified by BMieV in 2001), Switzerland 3 of 2001, Norway 3 – Dec 2000 (13 weeks), Belgium 3 – Dec 2000 (13 weeks), Australia 3 of 2001, RYM 3 of 2000, Japan (Tokyo) 18 – Jan 2001 (11 weeks), Italy 26 of 2001, Poland 30 – Jan 2001 (5 weeks), US Billboard 51 – Nov 2000 (15 weeks), Scrobulate 53 of hip-hop, Germany 69 of the 2000s (peak 1 12 weeks), France (InfoDisc) 127 of the 2000s (peak 3, 26 weeks, 398k sales estimated, 2000), Rolling Stone 290, Acclaimed 323 (2000), UKMIX 787
5	Bon Jovi	It's My Life	2000	US	Japan (Tokyo) 1 – Apr 2000 (24 weeks), Holland 1 – May 2000 (14 weeks), Sweden 1 – May 2000 (6 weeks), Switzerland 1 – May 2000 (23 weeks), Poland 1 – Apr 2000 (27 weeks), Belgium 1 – May 2000 (17 weeks), Europe 1 for 4 weeks – Jun 2000, Spain 1 for 1 week – Jul 2000, Japan (Osaku) 2 of 2000 (peak 1 29 weeks), Austria 2 – May 2000 (7 weeks), Germany 2 – May 2000 (4 months), Germany Platinum (certified by BMieV in 2000), UK 3 – Jun 2000 (13 weeks), France 3 – Apr 2000 (2 weeks), Switzerland 3 of 2000, Norway 3 – May 2000 (16 weeks), Italy 3 of 2000, POP 8 of 2001, US BB 11 of 2001, Australia 19 of 2000, Germany 27 of the 2000s (peak 2 16 weeks), US Billboard 33 – Aug 2000 (20 weeks), US Radio 67 of 2000 (peak 14 6 weeks), Party 124 of 1999, RYM 144 of 1999

Popular songs

"17 Again" – Eurythmics (January 2000)
"7 Days" – Craig David
"Aaron's Party (Come Get It)" – Aaron Carter
"Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" – Nine Days
"Adam's Song" – Blink-182 (September 5)
"Again" – Lenny Kravitz (November 14)
"Against All Odds" – Westlife and Mariah Carey (UK)
"All the Small Things" – Blink-182 (January 18)
"American Pie" – Madonna (March 3)
"A Mil Por Hora" – Lynda Thomas
"A Puro Dolor" – Son by Four
"Around the World (La La La La La)" – ATC (May 9)
"Babylon" – David Gray
"Back Here" – BBMak
"Bang Bang Boom" – The Moffatts
"Bayern" – Die Toten Hosen
"BEP Empire" – The Black Eyed Peas
"Be With You" – Enrique Iglesias (March 7)
"Beautiful Day" – U2 (October 9)
"Bent" – Matchbox Twenty (July 4 [US])
"Bohemian Like You" – The Dandy Warhols
"Boyz-N-The-Hood" – Dynamite Hack
"Breakout" – Foo Fighters
"Breathe" – Faith Hill
"Breathless" – The Corrs (June 14)
"Bye Bye Bye" – NSYNC (January 11)
"Californication" – Red Hot Chili Peppers (May 20)
"The Call" – Backstreet Boys
"Can I Get A" – Jay-Z Featuring Ja Rule
"Can't Fight the Moonlight" – LeAnn Rimes (August 22)
"Case of the Ex" – Mýa (November 14)
"Castles in the Sky" – Ian van Dahl (May 2000 [Europe], 2001 [worldwide])
"Change (In the House of Flies)" – Deftones
"Come On Over (All I Want Is You)" – Christina Aguilera
"Coming Around" – Travis (June 5)
"Crazy for This Girl" – Evan and Jaron
"Dancing in the Moonlight" – Toploader
"Day & Night" – Billie Piper (May 15)
"Death Blooms" – Mudvayne
"Dig" – Mudvayne
"Doesn't Really Matter" - Janet Jackson
"Do You Want My Love" - Coco Lee
"Don't Give Up" – Chicane ft. Bryan Adams
"Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know" – Britney Spears (January 15)
"Don't Say You Love Me" – M2M (January 2000)
"Don't Think I'm Not" - Kandi Burruss
"Down With The Sickness" – Disturbed
"Drive" – Incubus
"Everything You Want" – Vertical Horizon
"Faded" – SoulDecision
"Feel Good Hit of the Summer" – Queens of the Stone Age
"Feel the Beat" – Darude
"Fly on the Wings of Love" – Olsen Brothers
"Fool Again" – Westlife
"Forgot About Dre" – Dr. Dre featuring Eminem
"Freestyler" – Bomfunk MC's (October 1999 [Finland], February 14, 2000 [worldwide])
"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" – Britney Spears (February 1 [US] – February 22 [Aus])
"Graduation (Friends Forever)" – Vitamin C (July 4)
"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" – Spiller Feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor (August 2000 (UK))
"The Great Beyond" – R.E.M. (November 1999 (US), January 24, 2000 (UK))
"He Wasn't Man Enough" – Toni Braxton
"Higher" – Creed
"Hit or Miss" – New Found Glory
"I Disappear" – Metallica
"I Think I'm in Love with You" – Jessica Simpson (May 18)
"I Try" – Macy Gray (September 27, 1999 (UK), January 25, 2000 (US))
"I Turn To You" – Melanie C
"I Turn To You" – Christina Aguilera
"I Wanna Be with You" – Mandy Moore
"If You're Gone" – Matchbox Twenty
"Incomplete" – Sisqó (June 13)
"Independent Women Part I" – Destiny's Child (September 4)
"It Wasn't Me" – Shaggy feat. Rikrok
"It Feels So Good" – Sonique ( re-released May 2000)
"It's Gonna Be Me" – NSYNC
"It's My Life" – Bon Jovi (May 23)
"It's So Hard" – Big Pun (April 17)
"Kids" – Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue (October 9)
"Komodo (Save a Soul)" – Mauro Picotto
"Kryptonite" – 3 Doors Down (January 11)
"L'amour toujours " – Gigi D'Agostino (July 2000)
"Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" – Modjo
"Last Resort" – Papa Roach (September 18)
"Leader of Men" – Nickelback (March 4)
"Let's Get Loud" - Jennifer Lopez
"Life Is a Rollercoaster" – Ronan Keating (July 10)
"Little Things" – Good Charlotte
"Loser" – 3 Doors Down
"The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" – Queens of the Stone Age
"Lucky" – Britney Spears (August 4 (UK), August 15 (US))
"Make Me Bad" – KoЯn
"Makes No Difference" – Sum 41
"Mama Told Me Not to Come" – Tom Jones and the Stereophonics
"Man Overboard" – Blink-182
"Maria Maria" – Santana (January 25)
"Minority" – Green Day (October 31)
"Moi... Lolita" – Alizée (July 4, 2000)
"Mr. E's Beautiful Blues" – Eels (February 14 (UK))
"Music" – Madonna (August 21)
"My Generation" – Limp Bizkit (September 2000)
"My Love" – Westlife
"Never Be The Same Again" – Melanie C
"Never Let You Go" – Third Eye Blind
"The Next Episode" – Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg
"On a Night Like This" – Kylie Minogue
"The One" – Backstreet Boys (May 16) (Millennium album)
"One More Time" – Daft Punk (November 30)
"One Step Closer" – Linkin Park
"Only Time" – Enya
"Oops!... I Did It Again" – Britney Spears (April 25 [US], May 1 [UK])
"Original Prankster" – The Offspring (October 24)
"Otherside" – Red Hot Chili Peppers (January 11)
"Pinch Me" – Bare Naked Ladies (August 29)
"Please Stay" – Kylie Minogue (December 11)
"Private Emotion" – Ricky Martin featuring Meja
"Pure Shores" – All Saints (February 26)
"Reach" – S Club 7
"The Real Slim Shady" – Eminem (May 16)
"Responsibility" – MxPx
"Rise" – Gabrielle (January 24(UK) May 2(U.S.))
"Rock DJ" – Robbie Williams (July 31)
"Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" – Limp Bizkit (September 2000)
"Say My Name" – Destiny's Child (February 29 [US], May 16 [UK])
"Save Me" - Hanson (July 15)
"Sex Bomb" – Tom Jones featuring Mousse T.
"Shape of My Heart" – Backstreet Boys (October 31)
"Shine" – Vanessa Amorosi (June 2000)
"Shiver" – Coldplay
"Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely" – Backstreet Boys (Millennium album)
"So Real (Mandy Moore song)" - Mandy Moore
"Something Deep Inside" – Billie Piper (September 18)
"Spinning Around" – Kylie Minogue (June 2000)
"Stan" – Eminem featuring Dido (December)
"Stronger" – Britney Spears (November 13 [EUR] December 4 [UK], November 30 [US])
"Summer Jam" – The Underdog Project
"Sunburn" – Muse
"Take a Look Around" – Limp Bizkit
"Teenage Dirtbag" – Wheatus
"Thank God I Found You" – Mariah Carey featuring Joe and 98 Degrees (January 25 (U.S.), February 28(UK))
"Thank You for Loving Me" – Bon Jovi (December)
"There She Goes" – Sixpence None the Richer
"The Time Is Now" – Moloko
"Thong Song" – Sisqó (February 15)
"Trouble" – Coldplay
"Try Again" – Aaliyah (February 29)
"Unintended" – Muse
"Untitled (How Does It Feel)" – D'Angelo (January 1)
"Wait and Bleed" – Slipknot (February)
” Walking Away” - Craig David
"Warning" – Green Day (December 11)
"The Way I Am" – Eminem
"Weekends" – The Black Eyed Peas
"What's Your Fantasy" – Ludacris featuring Shawnna
"Who Let the Dogs Out?" – Baha Men (July)
"With Arms Wide Open" – Creed
"Wonderful" – Everclear
"Yellow" – Coldplay (June 26)
”You Make Me Sick” -Pink
"You're No Rock n' Roll Fun" – Sleater-Kinney

Best selling albums of the year in the United States (Soundscan)

According to Soundscan, the best selling album of 2000 was No Strings Attached by NSYNC, selling nearly 10 million copies.^[17]^[18]

Rank	Album	Artist	Sales (in millions)
1	No Strings Attached	NSYNC	9.9
2	The Marshall Mathers LP	Eminem	7.9
3	Oops!... I Did It Again	Britney Spears	7.8
4	Human Clay	Creed	6.6
5	Supernatural	Santana	5.9
6	1	The Beatles	5.1
7	Country Grammar	Nelly	5.1
8	Black & Blue	Backstreet Boys	4.2
9	2001	Dr. Dre	3.9
10	The Writing's on the Wall	Destiny's Child	3.8

Classical music

Thomas Adès – Piano Quintet, op. 20
John Coolidge Adams – El Niño (opera-oratorio)
John Luther Adams – The Light That Fills the World, for orchestra
Julian Anderson – Alhambra Suite, for chamber orchestra
Milton Babbitt
- Little Goes a Long Way, for violin and piano
- Pantuns, for soprano and piano
Leonardo Balada – Music for Flute and Orchestra
Chen Yi – KC Capriccio, for wind ensemble and mixed choir
Edward Cowie
- Bad Lands Gold, for tuba and piano
- Concerto for oboe and orchestra
- Dark Matter, for brass ensemble
- Elysium IV, for orchestra
- Four Frames in a Row, for high voice and baroque ensemble
- The Healing of Saul, for violin and harp (or piano)
- Several Charms, for violin and piano
Peter Maxwell Davies – Symphony No. 7
Péter Eötvös – Paris–Dakar, for ensemble
Lorenzo Ferrero
- Glamorama Spies , for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano
- Rastrelli in Saint Petersburg, for oboe and string orchestra
- Tempi di quartetto, for string quartet
Stefano Gervasoni – Rigirio
Frans Geysen
- Alles heeft zijn tijd 1, for orchestra
- Alles heeft zijn tijd 2, for string quartet
- Alles heeft zijn tijd 3, for string quartet
- Alles heeft zijn tijd 4, for keyboard instrument
- Alles heeft zijn tijd 5, for keyboard instrument
- Alles heeft zijn tijd 6, for string quartet
- Alles heeft zijn tijd 7, for four-part mixed choir (or string quartet, or trumpet, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon)
- Alles heeft zijn tijd 8, for keyboard instrument
- Alles heeft zijn tijd 9, for 4 trumpets
- Alles komt terug 2, for three-part choir
- Alles komt terug 3, for SSATB choir
- Alles komt terug 4, for carillon
- Alles komt terug 5, for keyboard instrument
- Benadering van de kern, for keyboard instrument
- Muziek voor toetsenbord 2, for piano
- Toetsing, for keyboard instrument
Philip Glass
- Tirol Concerto, for piano and orchestra
- Concerto Fantasy, for two timpanists and orchestra
Alexander Goehr
- Piano Quintet, op. 69
- Suite, for two pianos, op. 70
Friedrich Goldmann –
- Augenblick für Stimme, for mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, electric guitar, keyboard, viola and cello
- Etudes (3) for piano
- Quartet, for oboe, violin, viola, and cello
- 7 x 10 Takte für Dieter Schnebel , for flute and clarinet
Ilja Hurník
- Con brio, for orchestra
- Symphony in C
Karl Jenkins – Adiemus IV: The Eternal Knot
Nigel Keay – Viola Concerto ()
Wojciech Kilar –
- Introitus for organ
- Missa pro pace, for solo voices, choir and orchestra or instrumental ensemble
- The Oscar fanfare
Meyer Kupferman – Icon Symphony
Mario Lavista
- Estudio, for four marimbas
- Mater dolorosa, for organ
- Tres Miniaturas, for guitar,
György Ligeti – Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel
Magnus Lindberg
- Corrente – China Version
- Jubilees, for piano
- Gran Duo, for wind orchestra
James MacMillan
- Mass, for choir and organ
- Cello Sonata No. 2
- Northern Skies, for cello and piano
- For Ian, for solo piano
- Parthenogenesis, Scena for soprano, baritone, actress and chamber ensemble
- Nunc Dimittis, for S.A.T.B. choir and organ
Mesías Maiguashca – El Tiempo, for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 cellos, 2 percussionists, and electronics
Tomás Marco – América (cantata)
Donald Martino – Romanza, for violin solo
Robert Morris
- In Concert, for ten instruments
- Still, for piano
Bayan Northcott – Alma Redemptoris Mater, for three tenors, op. 7, no. 2
Gérard Pape – Tantric Transformations, eight-channel electronic music and digital video
Henri Pousseur
- Anneaux du soleil, for piano
- Navigations, for harp
- Seize Paysages planétaires, ethno-electroacoustical music
Wolfgang Rihm
- Auf einem anderen Blatt, for piano
- Concerto (Dithyrambe), for string quartet and orchestra
- Deus passus (Passions-Stücke nach Lukas), for soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, mixed chorus, and orchestra
- ... fleuve V (omnia tempus habent), for mezzo-soprano, baritone, distant ensemble (2 trumpets, 3 percussion), and large orchestra
- Frage, for coloratura soprano, English horn, A-clarinet (+ bass clarinet), harp, viola, cello, double bass, piano, and percussion
- Im Anfang, for large orchestra
- In Frage, for English horn, bass clarinet, harp, viola, cello, double bass, piano, and percussion
- Rilke: Vier Gedichte, for tenor and piano
- Stilles Stück (text by Hermann Lenz), for baritone and 2 string quartets
- Vers une symphonie fleuve IV, for large orchestra
- Vier Male (Stücke), for A-clarinet
Peter Ruzicka – Traces, for clarinet and orchestra
Peter Sculthorpe
- Djilile, for string quartet
- From the River, for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano
- Harbour Dreaming, for piano (originally titled Between Five Bells)
- New Norcia, for brass and percussion
- Parting, for viola and piano
- Quamby, for chamber orchestra
- Reef Singing, for clarinet and piano
- Saibai, for unison voices and drums
- Song for a Penny, for solo piano (shorter and longer versions)
- Tailitnama Song, for viola and piano, or viola solo
- Three Shakespeare Songs, for voice and piano (Text: William Shakespeare)
Roger Smalley – String Quartet No. 2
Juan María Solare
- Blockartig, for three recorders (TTB)
- Constelación (Nueva Suite Modal) [Constellation (New Modal Suite)], five pieces for flute and clarinet
- de capa caída, tango for two pianos
- Utopía caminante [Walking Utopia], for trombone and cello
- Viejo Fueye Deconstruido [Old, deconstructed bag (bellows)], postmodern tango for tenor saxophone, bandoneon, double bass, and piano
Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Engel-Prozessionen (from Sonntag aus Licht )
- Refrain 2000
John Tavener – Song of the Cosmos
Eric Whitacre – October
Charles Wuorinen
- String Quartet No. 4
- Cyclops 2000, for twenty players
Antón García Abril
- El Mar de las Calmas, for orchestra
- Concierto de las Tierras Altas, cello concerto
- Castilla de la Luz, for voice and piano

Opera

Michael Abels – Homies and Popz
John Coolidge Adams – El Niño (opera-oratorio)
Peter Maxwell Davies – Mr Emmet Takes a Walk
Carlisle Floyd – Cold Sassy Tree
Cristóbal Halffter – Don Quijote
Jake Heggie – Dead Man Walking
Michael Nyman – Facing Goya

Kaija Saariaho – L'Amour de loin
Richard Thomas – Tourette's Diva

Jazz

Musical theater

Aida – Broadway production opened at the Palace Theatre and ran for 1852 performances
The Dead – Broadway production opened at the Belasco Theatre and ran for 120 performances
The Full Monty – Broadway production opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre and ran for 770 performances
Jane Eyre – Broadway production opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre and ran for 209 performances
The Music Man (Meredith Willson) – Broadway revival
Seussical – Broadway production opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre and ran for 198 performances
The Sapphire Necklace – Midway Village premiere

Musical film

Almost Famous
Dancer in the Dark (Danser i mørket), starring Björk ^[19]
Darling Darling
Escaflowne , with music by Yoko Kanno, Hajime Mizoguchi and Inon Zur
The Filth and the Fury
Help! I'm a Fish , with music by Søren Hyldgaard ^[20]
Kandukondain Kandukondain ^[21]
Nuvvu Vastavani
Songcatcher
The Road to El Dorado (animation)
The Tigger Movie released February 10
The Fantasticks released September 22, starring Joel Grey ^[22]
Thenkasipattanam
Turn It Up

Births

January 1 - Ice Spice, American rapper
January 5
- Big Baby Tape, Russian rapper, songwriter and record producer
- Roxen, Romanian singer^[23]
January 6 – Shuhua, Taiwanese singer ((G)I-DLE)
January 8 – Noah Cyrus, American singer, songwriter, actress, activist (sister of Miley Cyrus and Trace Cyrus, and daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus)
January 9
- Flo Milli, American rapper and songwriter
- Toosii, American rapper
January 10 - Reneé Rapp, American singer-songwriter and actress
January 18 – Rei(c)hi, Japanese rapper
January 20 – Mike Singer, German singer-songwriter
January 27 – Bailey Zimmerman, American singer
January 30
- Benee, New Zealand singer-songwriter, musician, and activist
- Daniela Villarreal, Mexican guitarist, singer, songwriter
February 9 – Mads Christian, Danish singer
February 10 – Jonathan Mergui, Israeli singer, songwriter and dancer
February 12 – María Becerra, Argentine singer
February 14 – Andrea Koevska, Macedonian singer
February 16 – Koffee, Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ and guitarist
February 19 – Giorgos Kakosaios, Greek singer
February 26 – Yeat, American rapper
February 27
- Tsuyoshi Furukawa, Japanese singer and actor (SUPER★DRAGON)
- Dasha (singer), American singer-songwriter and musician
February 28
- Kyohei Takahashi, Japanese singer and actor (Naniwa Danshi)
- Kaya Stewart, English-American singer and songwriter
March 5 – Gabby Barrett, American singer
March 10
- ChriseanRock, American rapper
- Roko Blažević, Croatian singer
March 15 – Kristian Kostov, Russian/Bulgarian singer-songwriter^{[ citation needed ]}
March 20 – Hyunjin, South Korean singer and dancer (Stray Kids)
March 23 – Renjun, Chinese singer (NCT)
March 25 – Omer Fedi, Israeli guitarist, songwriter and producer (24kGoldn, Machine Gun Kelly, Iann Dior)
March 27 – Halle Bailey, American singer-songwriter, actress and member of duo Chloe x Halle
March 28 – Aleyna Tilki, Turkish singer^{[ citation needed ]}
March 29 – Jireel, Swedish rapper
March 30
- Marius Yo, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Sexy Zone)
- Uncle Waffles, Swazi-born DJ and record producer
April 3 – Koba LaD, French rapper
April 7 – Big Scarr, American rapper (d. 2022)
April 8 – Don Xhoni, Kosovo-Albanian rapper
April 9 – Jackie Evancho, American classical crossover singer
April 10 – Surf Mesa, American electronic musician
April 11
- Karina, South Korean singer and dancer (aespa)
- Ken Carson, American rapper, singer and record producer
April 12
- Manuel Turizo, Colombian singer
- Teya, Austrian singer
April 13 – Khea, Argentine trap singer
April 20 – Klara Hammarström, Swedish singer
April 23
- Jeno, South Korean singer and dancer (NCT)
- Junior H, Mexican singer–songwriter
April 26 – Unique Salonga, Filipino musician and singer-songwriter
April 27 – Be'O, South Korean rapper
April 28 – Victoria De Angelis, Italian bassist (Måneskin)
May 1
- Rema, Nigerian rapper and singer-songwriter
- 9lokkNine, American rapper
May 7 – Eden Alene, Israeli singer
May 13 - Antonio Cipriano, American actor and singer
May 18 – Carlie Hanson, American musician and YouTuber
May 20
- Rosa Linn, Armenian singer-songwriter
- Rusherking, Argentine rapper
May 26 – Yeji, South Korean singer and dancer (ITZY)
May 28 – Maisie Peters, English "Emo Girl Pop" singer-songwriter, musician, and YouTuber
June 2 – MC Jottapê, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
June 3 – beabadoobee, Filipino-English indie singer-songwriter
June 6
- Haechan, South Korean singer (NCT)
- Cat Burns, English rapper
- BabyTron, American rapper
- Vaundy, Japanese musician
June 8 – Charlotte Lawrence, American singer-songwriter, model
June 13 – Hotboii, American rapper and songwriter
June 15
- Ouyang Nana, Taiwanese actress, singer and musician
- Jérémie Makiese, Belgian singer
June 16 – Tay-K, American rapper and songwriter
June 29 – Digga D, English rapper songwriter
July 5 – Faouzia, Moroccan-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
July 7 – HAON, South Korean rapper
July 9 – mxmtoon, Chinese-American singer songwriter, musician and YouTuber
July 14
- Mata, Polish rapper and songwriter
- Maia Reficco, American singer and actress
July 18 – Sarah Kinsley, American singer
July 21 – Lia, South Korean singer (ITZY)
July 23 - Mimi Webb, British singer songwriter
July 28
- Mero, German rapper and songwriter
- Audrey Mika, American singer and songwriter.
July 29 - Kaliii, American rapper
August 1
- Lil Loaded, American rapper (d. 2021)
- Kim Chaewon, South Korean singer (Le Sserafim)
August 3 – Ron Suno, American rapper and songwriter
August 9 – Arlo Parks, English singer-songwriter and poet
August 13 – Jaemin, South Korean singer (NCT)
August 17 – Lil Pump, American rapper, record producer, and songwriter
August 25
- Vincenzo Cantiello, Italian singer^[24]
- Nicki Nicole - Argentine singer
- Nick Mira, American record producer and songwriter (Juice Wrld, Lil Uzi Vert, XXXTentacion)
August 26 – ZK, Danish rapper
September 12 – Laine Hardy, American singer
September 14 – Han Jisung, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer (Stray Kids)
September 15 – Fêlix, Australian-Korean rapper (Stray Kids)
September 22
- Kankan, American rapper
- Seungmin, South Korean singer (Stray Kids)
September 24 – Marco Ip, Hong Kong singer (P1X3L)
September 25 – Ikura, American-Japanese singer (Yoasobi)
October 2 – Quadeca, American rapper
October 4 – Lunay, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
October 6 – David Kushner, American singer
October 8 – Ethan Torchio, Italian drummer and composer (Måneskin)
October 10 – Yangyang, Taiwanese singer (NCT, WayV)
October 13 – Lydia Night, American singer and rhythm guitarist, member of pop rock band The Regrettes
October 21
- Imanbek, Kazakh DJ and record producer
- Popp Hunna, American rapper
October 22
- Baby Keem, American rapper, songwriter, and record producer (Black Panther (soundtrack), The Lion King: The Gift)
- Weiland, American rapper, singer, music producer, and songwriter
October 23 – Hanna Ferm, Swedish singer
October 27 – Claudia Emmanuela Santoso, Indonesian singer
October 28 – Aydan Calafiore, Australian singer
October 30
- Giselle, Japanese singer-songwriter and rapper (aespa)
- TuralTuranX, Azerbaijani brothers duo
October 31 – Willow Smith, American singer-songwriter, rapper, activist, actress and dancer (daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, sister of Jaden Smith)
November 2 – Junna, Japanese singer
November 8
- Jasmine Thompson, English singer
- Roy Wang, Chinese singer-songwriter, television host and actor
- S10, Dutch singer, rapper and songwriter
November 13 – 24kGoldn, American rapper and songwriter
November 21 - Crayon, Nigerian singer
November 22
- Baby Ariel, American singer, actress and social media personality
- Ansonbean, Hong Kong singer and actor
November 25 - Shotaro, Japanese singer and dancer (Riize)
November 26 - Tali Golergant, Israeli-born Luxembourgish singer, songwriter, actress and vocal coach
November 28 - Jackson Yee, Chinese actor and singer
December 3 – Iru Khechanovi, Georgian singer
December 5 – Soobin, South Korean singer (TXT)
December 7 – Niko B, English rapper and musician
December 12 – B-Lovee, American rapper
December 22
- Joshua Bassett, American singer and actor
- Sematary, American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer^{[ citation needed ]}
December 24 – Ethan Bortnick, American pianist, singer-songwriter, record producer and musician
December 26 – Isac Elliot, Finland-Swedish singer, songwriter and dancer
December 28
- Larissa Manoela, Brazilian actress, singer and songwriter
- Lee Mujin, South Korean folk Singer
December 29 – Eliot Vassamillet, Belgian singer
unknown - Penelope Scott, American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer

Deaths

January 2 – Nat Adderley (68), jazz cornet and trumpet player^[25]
January 16 – Gene Harris (67), jazz pianist
January 19
- Irra Petina (91), operatic contralto
- Josh Clayton-Felt (32), singer-songwriter (choriocarcinoma)
January 22 – Carlo Cossutta (67), operatic tenor
February 3 – Alla Rakha (80), tabla player
February 4 – Doris Coley (58), vocalist (the Shirelles)
February 7
- Big Punisher (28), rapper (heart attack)
- Dave Peverett (56) (Foghat)
February 11 – Lord Kitchener (77), calypsonian
February 12
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins (70), U.S. vocal artist^[26]
- Andy Lewis (33), Australian bass player (The Whitlams) (b. 1967)
- Oliver (54), U.S. singer (b. 1945)
February 19 – Marin Goleminov (91), violinist and composer
February 23 – Ofra Haza (42), singer^[27]
February 29 – Dennis Danell (38), guitarist (Social Distortion) (brain aneurysm)
March 4 – Walter Dana (97), polka-music promoter
March 5 – Alexander Young (79), operatic tenor
March 7 – Pee Wee King (86), country musician and songwriter (heart attack)
March 20 – Gene "Eugene" Andrusco (38), actor and singer (brain aneurysm)
March 27 – Ian Dury (57), English rock musician (liver cancer)^[28]
April 25 – Niels Viggo Bentzon (80), Danish composer
April 27 – Vicki Sue Robinson (45), US disco singer (cancer)
May 2 – Sundar Popo (56), Indo-Trinidadian chutney musician (heart and kidney ailment relating to diabetes)
May 13 – Cesare Valletti (77), operatic tenor
May 20 – Jean-Pierre Rampal (78), flautist
May 31 – Johnnie Taylor (66), singer
June 1 – Tito Puente (77), Afro-Cuban jazz and salsa musician
June 7 – James Moore (44), gospel singer
June 14 – Paul Griffin (62), pianist
June 21 – Alan Hovhaness (89), American composer^[29]
June 25 – Wilson Simonal (62), Brazilian singer
July 5 – Lord Woodbine (Harold Adolphus Phillips) (71), calypsonian
July 6
- Ľudovít Rajter (93), Slovak composer and conductor
- Władysław "Władek" Szpilman (88), Jewish-Polish pianist who survived the Holocaust
July 11 – Jaroslav Filip (51), Slovak musician, actor
July 15 – Paul Young (53), English singer and percussionist of Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics (heart attack)
July 24 – Oscar Shumsky (83), violinist
July 28 – Jerome Smith (KC and the Sunshine Band)
August 2 - Edward A. Baird (67), operatic bass and voice teacher
August 10 – Suzanne Danco (89), operatic soprano
August 13 – Nazia Hassan (34), iconic Pakistani singer (lung cancer)
August 25
- Jack Nitzsche (63), arranger, producer, songwriter and composer
- Allen Woody (44), bass guitarist
September 12 – Stanley Turrentine (66), jazz saxophonist
September 21 – Bengt Hambraeus (72), composer for organ
September 25 – Tommy Reilly (81), harmonica virtuoso
September 26 – Carl Sigman (91), songwriter
October 1
- Robert Allen (73), American pianist and composer (b. 1928)
- Cub Koda (51), singer, guitarist and songwriter (Brownsville Station)
October 3 – Benjamin Orr (53), bassist, vocalist of The Cars
October 17 – Joachim Nielsen (36), Norwegian rock singer in Jokke & Valentinerne
October 18 – Julie London (74), US singer and actress
October 21 – Frankie Crocker, radio DJ
October 27 – Winston Grennan (56), Jamaican drummer
October 28 – Carlos Guastavino (78), composer
October 30 – Steve Allen (78), comedian, composer, talk show host, author
November 8
- Brian Boydell (83), Irish composer
- Dick Morrissey (60), UK tenor saxophonist (cancer)
November 12 – Stanley Turrentine (64), US tenor saxophonist (stroke)
November 16
- DJ Screw (29), hip-hop DJ (codeine overdose)
- Joe C. (26), rapper
November 30 – Scott Smith (45), bassist (Loverboy) (lost at sea)
December 17 – Harold Rhodes (89), inventor of Rhodes piano
December 18 – Kirsty McColl (41), English singer songwriter (speedboat accident)
December 19
- Rob Buck (42), guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) (liver disease)
- Milt Hinton (90), jazz double bassist
- Pops Staples (85), gospel and R & B musician
December 24 – Nick Massi (65), bass singer in The Four Seasons
December 26 - Piotr Łuszcz (22), Polish rapper in Kaliber 44 and Paktofonika (suicide)

Awards

The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Eric Clapton, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Moonglows, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor
Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Shirley Caesar, and The Oak Ridge Boys

Charts

Triple J Hottest 100

Triple J Hottest 100, 2000

References

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↑ "Sinead O'Connor Comes Out in an Interview with Curve, the U.S. Lesbian Magazine". NY Rock. June 8, 2000. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
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[1] "U.S. Sales Database". Recording Industry Association of America .

[osbourne-2] Evans, Rob (January 11, 2000). "Billy Corgan Slammed As Smashing Pumpkins Manager Quits". Soundspike. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[houston-3] Marcus Baram and K.C. Baker (January 18, 2000). "Whitney Takes Flight Over Hawaii Pot Rap". New York Daily News . Retrieved October 15, 2012.^{[ dead link ‍]}

[nugent-4] Rosen, Craig (July 20, 2000). "Ted Nugent Still In Hot Water Over Houston Pro-English Statements". Yahoo! Music. Archived from the original on January 1, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[5] "Music Review; Bergonzi Sings Just 2 Acts of Otello", The New York Times , May 5, 2000. Accessed 31 July 2014

[princename-6] Hubert, Jordan (November 1, 2011). "Bringing It All Back Home: The Ultimate Decision of Re-Branding". Sterling PR. Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[vanhalen-7] "Edward Van Halen Fighting Cancer". Van Halen News Desk. May 26, 2000. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[oconnor-8] "Sinead O'Connor Comes Out in an Interview with Curve, the U.S. Lesbian Magazine". NY Rock. June 8, 2000. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[injunction-9] "Court grants stay of Napster injunction". CNET . July 28, 2000. Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[anco-10] Sirota, Brent (August 1, 2000). "Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 16, 2020.

[prices-11] Borland, John (August 8, 2000). "States target record labels with price-fixing suit". CNET . Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[dnccnn2-12] "Convention opens to protests, rubber bullets". CNN. August 15, 2000. Archived from the original on January 8, 2007. Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[ratm-13] Herman, Maureen (September 8, 2000). "Rage Against the Machine Explain Bassist's Actions". Rolling Stone . Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[merger-14] "EMI, Time Warner abandon merger". BBC. October 5, 2000. Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[napster-bmg-15] "Napster, BMG in music pact". CNN. October 31, 2000. Retrieved October 15, 2012.

[16] "Discography". The Avalanches Official Website. Archived from the original on August 20, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2014.

[17] Christman, Ed (January 13, 2001). "Album Sales Increase by Only 4% in 2000". Billboard . p. 88.

[Soundscan-18] "SoundScan List of Best Sellers – 2000". January 3, 2001. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Retrieved December 22, 2008.

[19] Bradshaw, Peter (September 14, 2000). "Dancer in the dark". The Guardian . Retrieved May 7, 2016.

[20] "Hjælp! Jeg er en fisk". Danish Film Institute . Retrieved July 6, 2020.

[21] Rajitha (September 7, 2000). "Rahman does it again". Rediff. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2011.

[22] "The Fantasticks: Sprinkling Stardust and a Dollop of Magic Over a Pair of Lovebirds", The New York Times, September 22, 2000, accessed March 23, 2015

[23] "Even though she sings Amnesia, it is the unforgettable ROXEN". OGAE Azerbaijan. Retrieved September 5, 2022.

[24] "Italy 2014". EBU.

[25] Ratliff, Ben (January 4, 2000). "Nat Adderley, Jazz Cornetist, Is Dead at 68". The New York Times . Retrieved April 25, 2020.

[26] Ashyia N. Henderson (2001). Contemporary Black Biography. Gale Group. p. 83. ISBN 9780787646189.

[27] Pareles, Jon (February 24, 2000). "Ofra Haza, 41, Israeli Pop Singer Who Crossed Cultural Bounds". The New York Times . New York. Retrieved July 28, 2011.

[28] Denselow, Robin (March 27, 2000). "Obituary: Ian Dury". The Guardian . Retrieved May 19, 2021.

[29] Rosner, Arnold, and Vance Wolverton (2001). "Hovhaness [Hovaness], Alan [Chakmakjian, Alan Hovhaness]". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.

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