2002 in music

Events

2002 was marked by significant trends in Rock Music. Two music genres were focused on in this year both gained major popularity. The continued trend of pop music leaning to R&B and hiphop, and Rock gradually changing its face from the underground. Rock which had for the past years been dominated by corporate nu-metal bands such as Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and pop-punk acts such as Blink-182, and Green Day, began sharing the scene with other genres such as emo which saw increase in interest in record sales which would pick up in the coming years, with bands such as Taking Back Sunday releasing the album Tell All Your Friends , and Brand New. Indie also saw a slight rise in sales, with increasing awareness in indie bands from the Omaha, Nebraska indie scene. It also was the rise of garage rock bands like The White Stripes,The Strokes, and The Vines. Nirvana also made a dramatic comeback with the song You Know You're Right quickly becoming a chart topper, briefly.

Rap continued to have mainstream success in the pop world, with Eminem's The Eminem Show becoming one of the fastest selling rap albums, alongside with Nelly for the year of 2002.

April 23, 2002: Wilco's critically acclaimed fourth album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", is released, debuting at #13.
June 5 - U.S. soul and R&B singer R. Kelly, was charged with 21 counts of child pornography after a videotape allegedly shows him having sex with an underage girl is broadcast on the Internet.
June 15 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 10th Annual of the Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Hoobastank, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Eat World, Moby, New Found Glory, P.O.D., Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, The Strokes, System of a Down, Unwritten Law, The Vines, The Violent Femmes and Rob Zombie.
July 16 - Simon & Garfunkel release the album Live In New York City, 1967, a recording of their live performance at Lincoln Center on 22 January 1967.
11–13 October - The fifth Terrastock festival is held in Boston.
November to December - Die Trying records their self-titled debut album, which was released on June 10, 2003.
November 29 - The Concert For George is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London as a memorial to George Harrison on the first anniversary of his death, under the musical direction of friend Eric Clapton. Performers included Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston and others. The event benefitted the Material World Charitable Foundation
November 30 - Popular UK girl group Girls Aloud are formed on reality TV show The Rivals
December 2 - Peter Garrett leaves Midnight Oil.
Glastonbury Festival, June 28 to 30. Headline acts: Coldplay, Garbage, Stereophonics, Orbital, Roger Waters, Rod Stewart, Air
Area 2 Festival, Headline acts: Moby, David Bowie, Busta Rhymes, Ash, Blue Man Group
Takahiro Nishikawa leaves Dreams Come True on March 24 ^*
U2 and Paul McCartney perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI. U2's performance becomes a tribute to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attack.
Velvet Revolver forms
Fear Factory disbands
Megadeth disbands
Stabbing Westward disbands
Godflesh disbands
Apollo Sunshine's musical career begins
Audioslave's musical career begins
Rose Falcon's musical career begins
Beyoncé Knowles' solo career begins
Zwan's musical career begins

Albums released

Hate Made Me - 8 Foot Sativa
Da Capo (Released in Europe) - Ace of Base
O, Yeah! The Ultimate Aerosmith Hits - Aerosmith
Stripped - Christina Aguilera
The All-American Rejects - The All-American Rejects
Mon Chi Chi - All Systems Go!
Pop 'til You drop(US released) - A-Teens
Live - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses - Atreyu
Audioslave - Audioslave
The Metal Opera: Part II - Tobias Sammet's Avantasia
The Process of Belief - Bad Religion (released in Europe in 2001)
Nordland I - Bathory
Sea Change - Beck
Greatest Hits - Björk
Family Tree - Björk
Level II - BLACKstreet
A Night at the Opera - Blind Guardian
Bounce - Bon Jovi
Corporate America - Boston
Full Moon - Brandy
Lifted, or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground - Bright Eyes
You Forgot It in People - Broken Social Scene
The Naked Ride Home - Jackson Browne
Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years - Camper Van Beethoven
Tusk - Camper Van Beethoven
Degradation Trip - Jerry Cantrell
Charmbracelet - Mariah Carey
Blacklisted - Neko Case
Let It Rain - Tracy Chapman
Wonder What's Next - Chevelle
Come With Us - Chemical Brothers
Shake It Off - Jarvis Church
Purple Onion - Les Claypool
Dark Days - Coal Chamber
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
10 - LL Cool J
Testify - Phil Collins
Go Me - Cory P
Hard Candy - Counting Crows
Darkhorse - Crazy Town
C'mon C'mon - Sheryl Crow
Folk-Lore - Cruachan
Damage Done - Dark Tranquillity
Busted Stuff - Dave Matthews Band
X - Def Leppard
Shawn Desman - Shawn Desman
Killing the Dragon - Dio
A New Day Has Come - Céline Dion
Believe - The Disturbed
Home - Dixie Chicks
Pied Piper - Donovan
A Bustle in Your Hedgerow - Down
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater
El Cielo - dredg
The Mytotyc Exyt - Dryft
The Eminem Show - Eminem
New Beat - The Exit
Fuck The System - The Exploited
What it is to Burn - Finch
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
One by One - Foo Fighters
Happenstance - Fozzy
Up - Peter Gabriel
Yanqui U.X.O. - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Young and the Hopeless - Good Charlotte
Up All Night - Gore Gore Girls
Superstarved - Gravity Kills (final album)
Gusto! - Guttermouth
Crucible - Rob Halford
Crimson Thunder - Hammerfall
Cherry Marmalade - Kay Hanley
Faith In My Heart And Soul - Holli
Kings of Pop - Home Grown
Lemon Tongue - Honeymoon Suite
Make Up the Breakdown - Hot Hot Heat
Sons of Northern Darkness - Immortal
Reroute to Remain - In Flames
Shangri-La - Insane Clown Posse
First Album - The International Playboys
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
Oceanic - Isis
Living with the Past - Jethro Tull
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones and The Handsome Band
Red 13 - Journey
Live in London - Judas Priest
Untouchables - KoЯn
The Ragpicker's Dream - Mark Knopfler
Waking the Dead - L.A. Guns
Comalies - Lacuna Coil
Let Go - Avril Lavigne
Lost Horizons - Lemon Jelly
This is Me...Then - Jennifer Lopez
Warriors of the World - Manowar
Songs about Jane - Maroon 5 (debut)
more than you think you are - matchbox twenty
Room for Squares - John Mayer
Destination Unknown - Mest
Fever - Kylie Minogue
Statues - Moloko
Gateways to Annihilation - Morbid Angel
Under Rug Swept - Alanis Morissette
Hammered - Motörhead
The End of All Things To Come - Mudvayne
Foretold in the Language of Dreams - Natacha Atlas and Marc Eagleton
Nellyville - Nelly
Century Child - Nightwish
In Their Darkened Shrines - Nile
No Secrets - No Secrets
Heathen Chemistry - Oasis
Deliverance - Opeth
Shut Up - Kelly Osbourne
Gravity - Our Lady Peace
lovehatetragedy - Papa Roach
Dutty Rock - Sean Paul
Riot Act - Pearl Jam
Control - Pedro the Lion
Round Room - Phish
Black Sun - Primal Fear
Jinx - Quarashi
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
We Will Be Dead Tomorrow - Raging Speedhorn
Kite Yo Pale - RAM
By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Cheer Up - Reel Big Fish
Power of the Dragonflame - Rhapsody
The Execution of All Things - Rilo Kiley
Obsesion - Ritmi i Rruges
Forty Licks - The Rolling Stones
Simply Deep - Kelly Rowland
The Brotherhood - Running Wild
Vapor Trails - Rush
( ) - Sigur Rós
The Way I Feel - Remy Shand
The Art of Balance - Shadows Fall
Grandes Éxitos - Shakira
Thalía (2002 album) - Thalía
Christmas Is Almost Here - Carly Simon
Anthology - Carly Simon
Diorama - Silverchair
Suicide By My Side - Sinergy
At Sixes and Sevens - Sirenia
One Beat - Sleater-Kinney
Bloodsport - Sneaker Pimps
Lust in Phaze - Soul Coughing
8 Mile - Soundtrack
Spy Kids 2: Island Of Lost Dreams - Soundtrack
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
Space Metal - (Arjen Anthony Lucassen's) Star One
Start Static - Sugarcult
Elements, Pt. 1 - Stratovarius
Does This Look Infected? - Sum 41
Monsters in the Closet - Swollen Members
The Odyssey - Symphony X
Steal This Album! - System of a Down
200 Km/H in the Wrong Lane - t.A.T.u.
Rampton - Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
If It Was You - Tegan and Sara
20 Years Of They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants
No! - They Might Be Giants
They Got Lost - They Might Be Giants
Away from the Sun - 3 Doors Down
Justified - Justin Timberlake
The Radio Tisdas Sessions - Tinariwen
3D - TLC
The Last DJ - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Up! - Shania Twain
Erase The Past - UP SyNDROME
Maladroit - Weezer
Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits - Vol. 1 - Westlife
Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Broken Hearted - Revolution
Confession of Love - Revolution
Dying For the World - W.A.S.P.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Bona fide - Wishbone Ash
OZ - Frank Zappa
Heavy Metal Thunder - Saxon
Santa Claus Lane - Hilary Duff
Boo Hoo - Voltaire
In Absentia - Porcupine Tree

Top hits

"A Little Less Conversation" - JXL featuring Elvis Presley
"A Thousand Miles" - Vanessa Carlton
"Aerials" - System of a Down
"All the Things She Said" - t.A.T.u.
"All You Wanted" - Michelle Branch
"The Anthem" - Good Charlotte
"Any" - Mr. Children
"Atsuki Kodō no Hate" - B'z
"Big Yellow Taxi" - Counting Crows
"Blurry" - Puddle of Mudd
"Broken Hearted" - Revolution
"Brother Down" - Sam Roberts
"By The Way" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Can't Get You Out Of My Head" - Kylie Minogue, Minogue's first American Top 10 single in 14 years.
"Can't Stop" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Chop Suey!" - System of a Down
"Cleaning Out My Closet" - Eminem
"Come Into My World" - Kylie Minogue
"Complicated" - Avril Lavigne
"Confession of Love" - Revolution
"Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground" - The White Stripes
"Defy You" - The Offspring
"Die Another Day" - Madonna
"Dirrty" - Christina Aguilera featuring Redman
"Disease" - Matchbox Twenty
"Do You Realize??" - The Flaming Lips
"Don't Let Me Get Me" - Pink
"Don't Stop" - The Rolling Stones
"Dreaming Of You" - The Coral
"Electrical Storm" - U2
"Everyday" - Bon Jovi
"Feel" - Robbie Williams
"Fell in Love With a Girl"-The White Stripes
"Flowers In The Window" - Travis
"Game of Love" - Santana ft. Michelle Branch
"Get Ready" - Shawn Desman
"Get the Party Started" - Pink
"Gimme the Light" - Sean Paul
"Grace" - Supergrass
"Hella Good" - No Doubt
"Hands Clean" - Alanis Morissette
"Hero" - Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott
"Hey Baby" - No Doubt
"Hikari" - Hikaru Utada
"The Hindu Times" - Oasis
"Hot In Herre" - Nelly
"How You Remind Me" - Nickelback
"I'm Alive" - Céline Dion
"I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" - Shania Twain
"In My Place" - Coldplay
"In the End" - Linkin Park
"independent" - Ayumi Hamasaki
"Isle Of Dreams" (featuring Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) - Spy Kids
"Just Like A Pill" - Pink
"Kimi ga Suki" - Mr. Children
"Lazy" - X-Press 2 and David Byrne
"Life goes on" - Dragon Ash
"Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" - Good Charlotte
"Like I Love You" - Justin Timberlake
"Little By Little" - Oasis
"Lose Yourself" - Eminem
"Love to See You Cry" - Enrique Iglesias
"Love don't let me go" - David Guetta
"Lovely" - Bubba Sparxxx
"The Middle" - Jimmy Eat World
"My Sacrifice" - Creed
"Never Again" - Nickelback
"Okina Furudokei" - Ken Hirai
"One Last Breath" - Creed
"Ordinary Day" - Vanessa Carlton
"The Rising" - Bruce Springsteen
"Rock Steady" - Remy Shand
"SAKURA Drops" - Hikaru Utada
"Santa Cruz" - The Thrills
"The Scientist" - Coldplay
"Shake It Off" - Jarvis Church
"She Loves Me Not" - Papa Roach
"Silent Sigh - Badly Drawn Boy
"Sk8er Boi" - Avril Lavigne
"Slow Burn" - David Bowie
"Soak Up the Sun" - Sheryl Crow
"Something to Talk About" - Badly Drawn Boy
"Sound of the Underground" - Girls Aloud
"Steve McQueen" - Sheryl Crow
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" - Oasis
"There Goes The Fear" - The Doves
"This Is Me" - Bryan Adams
"Through the Rain" - Mariah Carey
"Tokyo" - Keisuke Kuwata
"Voyage" - Ayumi Hamasaki
"Wadatsumi no Ki" - Chitose Hajime
"We're All Made of Stars" - Moby
"Whenever, Wherever" - Shakira
"Wherever You Will Go" - The Calling
"Without Me" - Eminem
"You Know You're Right" - Nirvana
"Youth of The Nation" - P.O.D.
"The Zephyr Song" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Top 10 selling albums of the year

The Eminem Show - Eminem
Nellyville - Nelly
Let Go - Avril Lavigne
A New Day Has Come - Celine Dion
Ashanti - Ashanti
Drive - Alan Jackson
Home - Dixie Chicks
Missundaztood - Pink
Up! - Shania Twain
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack

Classical music

Leonardo Balada - Passacaglia for Orchestra
George Crumb - Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (A Little Midnight Music) for piano
Philip Glass - Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra
Patrick Hawes - Blue in Blue
John Kinsella - Cello Concerto
Theo Loevendie - Clarinet Concerto
Peter Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartet No. 1

Opera

Friedrich Cerha - Der Riese vom Steinfeld
Steve Reich - Three Tales
Mark-Anthony Turnage - The Silver Tassie

Musical theater

Bombay Dreams London production
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang London production
Hairspray Broadway production
Movin' Out Broadway production
The Musical Broadway production opened on March 14 at the Martin Beck Theatre and ran for 109 performances and 18 previews.
Taboo London production opened January 29
Thoroughly Modern Millie Broadway production