2004 in music

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Events

January 1 - Vienna New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, conducted by Riccardo Muti
January 1 - Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol
January 3 - Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood friend, in Las Vegas. The marriage was annulled two days later.
February 1 - Daron Hagen is appointed President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in New York City.
February 17 - Brit Awards held in London. The Darkness, Dido, Busted, Justin Timberlake, and KRS-One are among the winners.
February 17 - Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan posts a bitter message on his personal blog calling D'Arcy Wretzky a "mean spirited drug addict" and blaming James Iha for the breakup of that band.
March 10 - George Michael announces that Patience will be his last commercially released record, telling Jo Whiley of BBC Radio 1 "this album nearly killed me". Future releases will be available from his web site in return for donations to his favourite charities.
March 23 - Usher releases his " Confessions " album selling 1.1 million copies its first week , making him the first R&B artist to ever accomplish that. The album would be the top seller of the year with four number one singles.
April 6 - A previously unreleased Johnny Cash album called My Mother's Hymn Book is released less than a year after his death on September 12, 2003.
April 6 - Modest Mouse, an American indie rock band releases Good News For People Who Love Bad News.
April 20 - Fear Factory returns after their 2002 breakup with the new album Archetype.
April 26 - Deborah Voigt, sacked by Covent Garden for being too fat for an opera role, makes her recital debut to a rapturous reception at Carnegie Hall.
May - Blender magazine's May issue includes a "50 Worst Songs Ever!" list. "We Built This City," by Starship, is rated worst.
May 10 - Keane release Hopes and Fears which converted into the 16th best selling album of the millennium in the UK. It went 8x platinum and was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the Brit award for best album.
May 18 to May 23 - European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) in Basel.

May 25 - Jam band Phish announces that after 21 years they will break up following the Summer 2004 Tour.
May 25 - Skinny Puppy releases their first studio album since disbanding in 1996, called The Greater Wrong of the Right.
May 26 - Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of American Idol, defeating Diana DeGarmo.
June 4 - Karl Jenkins signs a 10-year recording deal with EMI.
June - Staind start recording their fourth album, produced by David Bottrill.
June - The Velvet Revolver's first album Contraband debuts in the top slot on the Billboard album charts, selling over 250,000 copies its first week out.
June - The Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone is hospitalized in Los Angeles with prostate cancer and diagnosed.
June 4 - Creed dissolved because guitarist Mark Tremonti is working in a side project Alter Bridge and their first album is One Day Remains, which is scheduled to be released on August 10th.
June 10 - Ray Charles dies of liver disease at the age of 73.
June 12 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 12th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, The Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
June 22 - 14th annual Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for July 17, is cancelled. Organizers cite "poor ticket sales". (See: Lollapalooza 2004 lineup.)
June 23 - UK DJ Tony Blackburn is suspended by radio station Classic Gold Digital for playing songs by Cliff Richard, against station policy.
July 10 Ex- S Club star Rachel Stevens sets a world record for completing the fastest promotional circuit in just 24 hours- including a run for the charity Sport Relief.
July 11 McFly debut at #1 on the UK album charts with Room On The 3rd Floor. They break the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at #1 on the album charts.
New classic rock and New Wave-influenced bands such as the Killers begin to oust numetal bands.
July 20 - Van Halen releases The Best of Both Worlds, a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals.
July 24 - The Robert Smith organized Curiosa Festival kicks off with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida. Performing along with The Cure are Interpol, The Rapture, Mogwai, Cursive, Muse, Head Automatica, Thursday, Scarling., The Cooper Temple Clause, and Melissa Auf Der Maur.
July 31 - Dispatch performs their last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, MA.
August 8 - Dave Matthews Band's tour bus dumps 800 lb (360 kg) of human feces from a Chicago bridge, intending to unload it in the river, but it lands on an architecture tour boat. The bus driver and the band are sued by the state of Illinois.
August 15 - Phish performs their final concert at a two-day festival in Coventry, Vermont.
September 14 - Megadeth is scheduled to release their new studio album The System Has Failed.
September 14 - Nelly released doubled albums.
September 21 - Green Day releases American Idiot, their 9th studio album. It goes 6x platinum and gains a cult following. It is a punk opera, much in the style of Pink Floyd's The Wall or The Who's Quadrophenia.
September 28 - Hilary Duff releases her self-titled second album on the day she turns 17.
September 28 - Brian Wilson completes SMiLE, 37 years after its original planned release
October 11 - The original lineup of Duran Duran release their new album Astronaut, which was preceded by the single "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise".
October 23 - Ashlee Simpson is accused of lip-synching after an abortive live performance on the television show Saturday Night Live.
October 26 - Legendary DJ John Peel dies, after 40 years of massive influence upon popular music.
November 4 - Three members of the band RAM, who all lived in a neighborhood known for its support of the then-recently deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are detained by Haitian police during a concert performance in Port-au-Prince; no charges are ever filed or official explanation for the detentions given.
December - Ned's Atomic Dustbin begins touring with 5 upcoming shows.
December 11-12 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 15th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas with Chevelle, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hoobastank, Incubus, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Music, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, The Shins, The Used and the Velvet Revolver.

Bands disbanded

Albums released

Album	Artist	Release Date	Album Type
Phantom Planet	Phantom Planet	January 6	LP
Sapphire Blue	Larry Carlton	January 13	LP
Legion of Boom	The Crystal Method	January 13	LP
The Glorious Burden	Iced Earth	January 13	LP
Slow	Richie Kotzen	January 13	LP
The Opera Band	Amici Forever	January 13	LP
Educated Guess	Ani DiFranco	January 20	LP
Kimi Ga Suki	Matthew Sweet	January 20	LP
Immortal Memory	Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy	January 26	LP
Sirens and Condolences	Bayside	January 27	LP
Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001	The Cure	January 27	Box Set
Delirium Cordia	Fantômas	January 27	LP
Unsung: The Best of Helmet 1991-1997	Helmet	January 27	Compilation
Because I Can	Katy Rose	January 27	LP
Kamikaze	Twista	January 27	LP
Sixty Four	Donovan	February	LP
The Battle for Everything	Five for Fighting	February 3	LP
A Crow Left of the Murder	Incubus	February 3	LP
Scissor Sisters	Scissor Sisters	February 3	LP
Start Something	Lostprophets	February 3	LP
50 First Dates	Soundtrack	February 3	Soundtrack
Greatest Hits	Thalía	February 10	Greatest Hits
New Found Power	Damageplan	February 10	LP
'Merican	The Descendents (released in Europe in 2003)	February 10	EP
Feels Like Home	Norah Jones	February 10	LP
America's Sweetheart	Courtney Love	February 10	LP
Body Language	Kylie Minogue	February 10	LP
College Dropout	Kanye West	February 10	LP
Turn of the Screw	1208	February 10	LP
Emergency Punk Response	Plonker	February 13	LP
The Focusing Blur	Vintersorg	February 16	LP
All That We Let In	The Indigo Girls	February 17	LP
Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses	Atreyu	February 23	LP
An Elixer for Existence	Sirenia	February 23	LP
Logic Will Break Your Heart	The Stills	February 23	LP
About a Burning Fire	Blindside	February 24	LP
Schizophrenic	JC Chasez	February 24	LP
Shadows Collide With People	John Frusciante	February 24	LP
Bodysong	Jonny Greenwood	February 24	LP
Punk Statik Paranoia	Orgy	February 24	LP
Scorpio Rising	Prong	February 24	LP
Death Is Certain	Royce Da 5'9"	February 24	LP
Nude	V.A.S.T.	February 24	LP
The Guilt Show	The Get Up Kids	March 2	LP
MODERN ARTillery	The Living End	March 2	LP
Sunrise Over Sea	The John Butler Trio	March 8
Temple of the Damned	Exodus	March 9	LP
All of Our Names	Sarah Harmer	March 9	LP
Don't Stop the Music	Play	March 9	LP
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes	TV On The Radio	March 9	LP
Live at the Deaf Club	Dead Kennedys	March 9	Live
Patience	George Michael	March 16	LP
The Very Best of Jackson Browne	Jackson Browne	March 16	Greatest Hits
Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1984-1993)	Camper Van Beethoven	March 16	Re-Issue, LPs
Split Personality	Cassidy	March 16	LP
Eminem is Back	Eminem	March 16	Compilation
The Other Side	Godsmack	March 16	8-Track Acoustic EP
Frustration Plantation	Rasputina	March 16	LP
Dead Letters	The Rasmus	March 16	LP (US release)
Till Death Us Do Part	Cypress Hill	March 23	LP
Cool to Be You	The Descendents	March 23	LP
Greatest Hits	Guns N' Roses	March 23	Greatest Hits
Peace, Love, Death Metal	The Eagles of Death Metal	March 23	LP
Me and Mr. Johnson	Eric Clapton	March 23	LP
MP3	Marcy Playground	March 23	LP
Fly or Die	N.E.R.D.	March 23	LP
Re•de•fine	SOiL	March 23	LP
The Punisher	Soundtrack	March 23	Soundtrack
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed	Soundtrack	March 23	Soundtrack
Confessions	Usher	March 23	LP
Now That's What I Call Music! 15 (U.S. series)	Various Artists	March 23	Compilation
Winning Days	The Vines	March 23	LP
Solace	Xavier Rudd	March 28	LP (Australia Release)
Honkin' on Bobo	Aerosmith	March 30	LP
Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1975-1979)	Fleetwood Mac	March 30	Re-Issue, LPs
Damita Jo	Janet Jackson	March 30	LP
Los Lonely Boys	Los Lonely Boys	March 30	LP
In With the Old	Pepper	March 30	LP
Live & Off the Record	Shakira	March 30	LP & DVD
Final Straw	Snow Patrol	March 30	LP
Prophecy	Soulfly	March 30	LP
You Are Here	UFO	March 30	LP
Première	Katherine Jenkins	April
The Dissociatives	The Dissociatives	April 5	LP
J Wess Presents Tha LP	J-Wess	April 5	LP
Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1982-1992)	Bad Religion	April 6	Re-Issue, LPs
The Curse of Blondie	Blondie	April 6	LP
Hellfire Club	Edguy	April 6	LP
My Mother's Hymn Book	Johnny Cash	April 6
Re-Issue of 3 oldest albums	Jethro Tull	April 6	Re-Issue, LPs
Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?	Local H.	April 6	LP
Good News for People Who Love Bad News	Modest Mouse	April 6	LP
Indestructible Object	They Might Be Giants	April 6	EP
Crossfade	Crossfade	April 13	LP
Is There Love in Space?	Joe Satriani	April 13	LP
Cutting	Red Skeleton	April 13	LP
Palm Trees and Power Lines	Sugarcult	April 13	LP
Feels Like Home	Norah Jones	April 20	LP
Hangover Music, Vol. VI	Black Label Society	April 20	LP
Archetype	Fear Factory	April 20	LP
Cuckoo Clocks of Hell	Buckethead	April 20	LP
Underneath	Hanson	April 20	LP
Desensitized	Drowning Pool	April 20	LP
Fire It Up	The Kottonmouth Kings	April 20	LP
Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	April 20	LP
High Volume	Corrosion of Conformity	April 20	LP
Hurt No More	Mario Winans	April 20	LP
Me	The Marques Sisters	April 20	LP
Musicology	Prince	April 20	LP
Ratatat	Ratatat	April 20	LP
Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1	Various Artists, Rock Against Bush	April 20	Compilation
Stone Age Complications	Queens of the Stone Age	April 20	Compilation
Through the Ashes of Empires	Machine Head	April 20	LP
Shine	Cyndi Lauper	April 21	LP
Walk The Tightrope	Human Nature	April 26	LP
Souls to Deny	Suffocation	April 27	LP
Van Lear Rose	Loretta Lynn	April 27	LP
The Dresden Dolls	The Dresden Dolls	April 27	LP
re.present	Jimmie's Chicken Shack	April 27	LP
Greatest Soul Classics	Various Artists	April 27	LP
D12 World	D12	April 27	LP
The Girl in the Other Room	Diana Krall	April 27	LP
Marbles	Marillion	May 3	LP
We Are All Sluts of Trust	Sluts of Trust	May 3	LP
Endangered Species	Flaw	May 4	LP
Metalogy	Judas Priest	May 4	Greatest Hits
The Ride	Los Lobos	May 4	LP
Duets	The Notorious B.I.G.	May 4	LP
The Best of the Pixies	Pixies	May 4	Compilation LP, Concert & Documentary DVD
Just for You	Lionel Richie	May 4	LP
Matt Sharp	Matt Sharp	May 4	LP
Police State	The Transplants	May 4	LP
Carly Simon's Greatest Hits	Carly Simon	May 4	Greatest Hits
Hopes And Fears	Keane	May 10	LP
Here for the Party	Gretchen Wilson	May 11	LP
Dis/Location	Seven Mary Three	May 11	LP
The End of Heartache	Killswitch Engage	May 11	LP
Express Yourself	Erik van der Luijt	May 11	LP
Here for the Party	Gretchen Wilson	May 11	LP
Sonic Firestorm	DragonForce	May 11	LP
A Song Is A City	Eskimo Joe	May 16	LP
Meltdown	Ash	May 17	LP
Happiness in Magazines	Graham Coxon	May 17	LP
My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue	Fall Out Boy	May 18	EP/DVD
Baptism	Lenny Kravitz	May 18	LP
So-Called Chaos	Alanis Morissette	May 18	LP
You Are the Quarry	Morrissey	May 18	LP
Catalyst	New Found Glory	May 18	LP
A Grand Don't Come For Free	The Streets	May 18	LP
Another Sun	Thalion	May 20	LP
Meltdown	Ash	May 24	LP
It's About Time	Christina Milian	May 24	LP (International Release)
Café Naturale	Wendy Matthews	May 24	LP
The Human Equation	Ayreon	May 24	LP
The Printz	Bumblebeez 81	May 25	LP
Long Gone Before Daylight	The Cardigans	May 25	LP
White Trash Beautiful	Everlast	May 25	LP
Rockin' The Rhein With The Grateful Dead	Grateful Dead	May 25	Live
Under My Skin	Avril Lavigne	May 25	LP
Monolithic baby!	Monster Magnet	May 25	LP
Achilles Heel	Pedro the Lion	May 25	LP
The Greater Wrong of the Right	Skinny Puppy	May 25	LP
the Subliminal Verses	Slipknot	May 25	LP
Uh Huh Her	PJ Harvey	May 31	LP (UK Release)
Mercury4	Mercury4	May 31	LP
Wayward Angel	Kasey Chambers	May 31	LP
Auf der Maur	Melissa Auf der Maur	June 1	LP
No Said Date	Masta Killa	June 1	LP
Rock the Block	Krokus	June 1	LP
Square matrix 004	Various artists	June 1	Compilation
Falling Up	Digby	June 1	LP
Once	Nightwish	June 7	LP
Stand Back: the Anthology	The Allman Brothers Band	June 8	Compilation
The Empire Strikes First	Bad Religion	June 8	LP
Purple Haze	Cam'ron	June 8	LP
Un	Chumbawamba	June 8	LP
Borrowed Heaven	The Corrs	June 8	LP
One Soul Now	Cowboy Junkies	June 8	LP
Keep Your Wig On	Fastball	June 8	LP
Uh Huh Her	PJ Harvey	June 8	LP
Happy People	R. Kelly	June 8	LP
Asshole	Gene Simmons	June 8	LP
Greatest Hits '93-'03	311	June 8	Compilation
Punk-O-Rama, Vol. 9	Various Artists, Punk-O-Rama	June 8	Compilation
Sonic Nurse	Sonic Youth	June 8	LP
Contraband	Velvet Revolver	June 8	LP
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	My Chemical Romance	June 8	LP
A New Day... Live in Las Vegas	Céline Dion	June 12	Live
Sound Shattering Sound	Gyroscope	June 14
To the 5 Boroughs	The Beastie Boys		LP
Hot Fuss	The Killers	June 15	LP
It's About Time	Christina Milian	June 15	LP (US Release)
They're Only Chasing Safety	Underoath	June 15
Undermind	Phish	June 15	LP
The Blind Watchmaker	Mana ERG	June 15	LP
Afrodisiac	Brandy	June 22	LP
Will to Death	John Frusciante	June 22	LP
Jupiter's Darling	Heart	June 22	LP
JoJo	JoJo	June 22	LP
Lit	Lit	June 22	LP
Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyve	Lynyrd Skynyrd	June 22	Live
Scream and Whisper	Edwin McCain	June 22	LP
Houses of the Molé	Ministry	June 22	LP
Inferno	Motörhead	June 22	LP
Not So Much to Be Loved As to Love	Jonathan Richman	June 22	LP
Unbreakable	Scorpions	June 22	LP
A Ghost is Born	Wilco	June 22	LP
Gettin' In Over My Head	Brian Wilson	June 22	LP
The Cure	The Cure	June 28	LP
The Curse	Atreyu	June 29	LP
Mojave	Concrete Blonde	June 29	LP
Live at the Gorge	Dave Matthews Band	June 29	Live
This Magnificent Distance	Chris Robinson	June 29	LP
Feedback	Rush	June 29	LP
Nina Sky	Nina Sky	June 29	LP
III: Ghost Tigers Rise	Tiger Army	June 29	LP
Hollywood Potato Chip	The Vandals	June 29	LP
72 and Sunny	Uncle Kracker	June 29	LP
In Between Evolution	The Tragically Hip	June 29	LP
Stone Love	Angie Stone	July 6	LP
Star Trails	Spirit of the West	July 8	LP
Braxton Hicks	Jebediah	July 12	LP
Live on the Rocks	Blues Traveler	July 13	LP
License to Chill	Jimmy Buffett	July 13	LP
Hell to Pay	Dokken	July 13	LP
Viking	Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards	July 13	LP
Eat Your Face	Guttermouth	July 13	LP
Keep Right	KRS-One	July 13	LP
Together We're Heavy	The Polyphonic Spree	July 13	LP
The Tipping Point	The Roots	July 13	LP
Shhh...Don't Tell	Adam Sandler	July 13	LP
Lock-Sport-Krock	Nikola Sarcevic	July 13	LP
The Spine	They Might Be Giants	July 13	LP
Über Cobra	Widespread Panic	July 13	LP
Miss Machine	Dillinger Escape Plan (US Release)	July 20	LP
No Roots	Faithless	July 20	LP
Those Are Not My Bongos	Fuck	July 20	LP
Autobiography	Ashlee Simpson	July 20	LP
Hazen Street	Hazen Street	July 20	LP
Tyrannosaurus Hives	The Hives	July 20	LP
B Is for B-sides	Less Than Jake	July 20	Rarities LP
Beneath, Between, Beyond	Static-X	July 20	Rarities LP
The Best of Both Worlds: The Very Best of Van Halen	Van Halen	July 20	Compilation
Hymns of the 49th Parallel	k.d. lang	July 27	LP
Live in Hamburg	Maria McKee	July 27	LP
Throwback, Volume 1	Boyz II Men	July 27	LP
Whiskey Tango Ghosts	Tanya Donelly	July 27	LP
Kevin Lyttle	Kevin Lyttle	July 27	LP
Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1986-1999)	Megadeth	July 27	Re-Issue, LPs
The Marques Sisters	Black and Pink	July 27	LP
The Beginning of Survival	Joni Mitchell	July 27	LP
Prince of the South	Mystikal	July 27	LP
Live at Benaroya Hall	Pearl Jam	July 27	Live
The Rolling Stones Singles: 1965-1968	The Rolling Stones	July 27	Box
Where You Want to Be	Taking Back Sunday	July 27	LP
Drive Train	38 Special	July 27	LP
Miss Machine	Dillinger Escape Plan (International Release)	August 2	LP
Spiritum Oriundus	Fields of Aplomb	August 3	LP
Accentuate the Positive	Al Jarreau	August 3	LP
A Long Hot Summer	Masta Ace	August 3	LP
Live in Hyde Park	Red Hot Chili Peppers	August 3	Live
Village Gorilla Head	Tommy Stinson	August 3	LP
One Day Remains	Alter Bridge	August 10	LP
The Best of Coal Chamber	Coal Chamber	August 10	Compilation
Crosby Nash	David Crosby & Graham Nash	August 10	LP
Bubblegum	Mark Lanegan	August 10	LP
Creamfields	Paul Oakenfold	August 10
The Best of Sepultura	Sepultura	August 10	Compilation
Potter's Field (album)	12 Stones	August 10	LP
Live	2Pac	August 10	Live
Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2	Various Artists, Rock Against Bush	August 10	Compilation
Bob Powell	Bob Powell Anthology	August 12	Box
Take It All Away	Ryan Cabrera	August 17	LP
Sail On: the 30th Anniversary Collection 1974-2004	Kansas	August 17	Box
Love Everybody	Presidents of the United States of America	August 17	LP
Up All Night	Razorlight	August 17	LP
Survival of the Sickest	Saliva	August 17	LP
Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You	Queen	August 17	Compilation
Beat Cafe	Donovan	August 24	LP
The Revolution Starts...Now	Steve Earle	August 24	LP
Hide Nothing	Further Seems Forever	August 24	LP
Half Smiles of the Decomposed	Guided By Voices	August 24	LP
Untitled	Tim McGraw	August 24	LP
Lift	Sister Hazel	August 24	LP
The Secondman's Middle Stand	Mike Watt	August 24	LP
Killing Heidi	Killing Heidi	August 30	LP
Medúlla	Björk	August 31	LP
Circle of Snakes	Danzig	August 31	LP
The DEFinition	LL Cool J	August 31	LP
Getting Away With Murder	Papa Roach	August 31	LP
Hell's Pit	Insane Clown Posse	August 31	LP
Collabs & B-Sides	Zion I	September 2	LP
The Big Eyeball in the Sky	Col. Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains	September 7	LP
Home for an Island	The Exit	September 7	LP
Armed Love	The (International) Noise Conspiracy	September 7	LP
In the Meantime	Christine McVie	September 7	LP
It Came From New Jersey: The Smithereens Anthology	The Smithereens	September 7	Compilation
Living Things	Matthew Sweet	September 7	LP
Folker	Paul Westerberg	September 7	LP
Wayward Angel	Kasey Chambers	September 14	LP
A Hangover You Don't Deserve	Bowling for Soup	September 14	LP
Wet From Birth	The Faint	September 14	LP
The System Has Failed	Megadeth	September 14	LP
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned	The Prodigy	September 14	LP
Everybody Loves a Happy Ending	Tears for Fears	September 14	LP
''Sweat (album) and Suit (album) Double albums	Nelly	September 14	LP
So Jealous	Tegan and Sara	September 14	LP
Perjetesisht	Ritmi i Rruges	September 20	LP
American Idiot	Green Day	September 21	LP
This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In	Chevelle	September 21	LP
The Delivery Man	Elvis Costello	September 21	LP
Il Sogno	Elvis Costello	September 21	LP
Welcome to Woddy Creek	Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	September 21	LP
The Rolling Stones Singles: 1969-1971	The Rolling Stones	September 21	Box
Romeoland	Lil' Romeo	September 21	LP
Noise From the Basement	Skye Sweetnam	September 21	LP
London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition	The Clash	September 21	LP & DVD
Start from the Dark	Europe	September 22	LP
Trouble	Bonnie McKee	September 28	LP
Hilary Duff	Hilary Duff	September 28	LP
Beautiful Soul	Jesse McCartney	September 28	LP
Antics	Interpol	September 28	LP
Shangri-La	Mark Knopfler	September 28	LP
''Goodies	Ciara	September 28	LP
Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll	Social Distortion	September 28	LP
SMiLe	Brian Wilson	September 28	LP
In Love and Death	The Used	September 28	LP
Funeral	The Arcade Fire	September 28	LP
The City At Night	The Firebird Band	October 4	LP
Pressure Chief	Cake	October 5	LP
The Best of Everclear 1994-2004	Everclear	October 5	Compilation
Size Matters	Helmet	October 5	LP
Palookaville (Fatboy Slim Album)	Fatboy Slim	October 5	LP
The Chronicles of Life and Death	Good Charlotte	October 5	LP
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1	KoЯn	October 5	Compilation
Gates	Love Is In The Air	October 5	LP
Unshattered	Peter Murphy	October 5	LP
Around the Sun	R.E.M.		LP
Has Been	William Shatner	October 5	LP
50 Number Ones	George Strait	October 5	Compilation
Real Gone	Tom Waits	October 5	LP
The Place You're In	Kenny Wayne Shepherd	October 5	LP
Cosima	Cosima De Vito	October 11	LP
Sirenian Shores	Sirenia	October 11	EP
Astronaut	Duran Duran	October 12	LP & DVD
New Roman Times	Camper Van Beethoven	October 12	LP
Heart & Soul	Joe Cocker	October 12	LP
Songs of the Unforgiven	Crash Test Dummies	October 12	LP
Miracle	Céline Dion	October 12	LP
Chuck	Sum 41	October 12	LP
Greatest Hits 1986-2004	Amy Grant	October 12	LP
Broken	Era	October 19	EP
Never Breathe What You Can't See	Jello Biafra & The Melvins	October 19	LP
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	October 19	LP
Raise Hell	(hed) p.e.	October 19	LP
Futures	Jimmy Eat World	October 19	LP
Welcome to the North	The Music	October 19	LP
Walkin' in the Shadow of Life	The Neville Brothers	October 19	LP
From A Basement On The Hill	Elliott Smith	October 19	LP
The Great American Songbook III	Rod Stewart	October 19	LP
2067	Rheostatics	October 26	LP
All for You	Annihilator	October 26	LP
Gold Medal	The Donnas	October 26	LP
War Party	GWAR	October 26	LP
Ultimate Jerky Boys	The Jerky Boys	October 26	Compilation
Still Not Getting Any...	Simple Plan	October 26	LP & DVD
Then & Again	Voltaire	October 26	LP
Simcerity	luna spark	October 31	LP
The Singles 92-98	The Verve	November 1	Compilation (International Release)
Singles	Travis	November 2	Compilation
Merry Christmas With Love	Clay Aiken	November 2	LP
Acoustic	John Lennon	November 2	LP
Dead Eyes See No Future	Arch Enemy	November 2	EP
eMOTIVe	A Perfect Circle	November 2	Covers
Reise Reise	Rammstein	November 2	LP
I Need an Angel	Ruben Studdard	November 2	LP
Alive at Last	Train	November 2	Live LP
Untitled	Trisha Yearwood	November 2	LP
Mistaken Identity	Delta Goodrem	November 7	LP
Greatest Hits	Shania Twain	November 9	Compilation
Harmonium	Vanessa Carlton	November 9	LP
Real Talk	Fabolous	November 9	LP
Peachtree Road	Elton John	November 9	LP
2005 KROQ New Music	KROQ	November 9	Compilation
Warts & All, Vol. 4	moe.	November 9	LP
The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us!)	NOFX	November 9	Compilation
Home Movies	Pennywise	November 9	DVD; Re-Issue
Hummin' to Myself	Linda Ronstadt	November 9	LP
My Prerogative	Britney Spears		Compilation & DVD
Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl	Queen		Live LP & DVD
Encore	Eminem	November 12	LP
The Singles 92-98	The Verve	November 15	Compilation (USA Release)
The Silent Force	Within Temptation	November 15	LP
The Capitol Albums, Volume 1	The Beatles	November 16	Box
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi	Puffy AmiYumi	November 16	LP
Youth	Collective Soul	November 16	LP
Destiny Fulfilled	Destiny's Child	November 16	LP
aMOTION	A Perfect Circle	November 16	LP & DVD
Spongebob Squarepants: the Movie	Soundtrack	November 16	Soundtrack
Want Two	Rufus Wainwright	November 16	LP
The Ultimate Collection	Michael Jackson	November 16	Box
Lonely Runs Both Ways	Alison Krauss & Union Station	November 23	LP
Anywhere But Home	Evanescence	November 23	Live LP
Greatest Hits	Creed	November 23	Compilation
R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) The Masterpiece	Snoop Dogg	November 23	LP
Free Yourself	Fantasia Barrino	November 23	LP
Red Light District	Ludacris	November 23	LP
With the Lights Out	Nirvana	November 23	Box
42 Ultimate Hits	Kenny Rogers
Rejoice	Jessica Simpson	November 23	LP
Love. Angel. Music. Baby.	Gwen Stefani
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	U2	November 23	LP
Eye To The Telescope	KT Tunstall	November 27	LP
Collision Course	Linkin Park and Jay-Z	November 30	LP & DVD
Breakaway	Kelly Clarkson	November 30	LP
Freeze	Pierrot	December 1	LP
Speak	Lindsay Lohan	December 7	LP
Three Imaginary Boys: Deluxe Edition	The Cure	December 7	Reissue (2-Disc)
Ai no Dai 6 Kan	Morning Musume	December 8	LP
For You	Casey Donovan	December 13	LP
Loyal to the Game	2Pac	December 14	LP
''Burned My Ass	Annabelle Chvostek		CD
The Queen	Dalida (Remix compilation)
Allow Us To Be Frank	Westlife

Top hits

"Always" - blink-182
"American Idiot" - Green Day
"Beautiful Soul" - Jesse McCartney
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day
"Bedshaped" - Keane
"Bend and Break" - Keane
"Burn" - Usher
"Can't Stand Me Now" - The Libertines
"Chocolate" - Snow Patrol
"Closest Thing to Heaven - Tears For Fears
"Cold Heart Bitch" - Jet
"Confessions" - Usher
"Cry" - Keeler
"Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro" - Hikaru Utada
"Diary" - Alicia Keys
"Do They Know It's Christmas" - Band Aid 20
"Dry Your Eyes" - The Streets
"Everybody's Changing - Keane
"Everytime" - Britney Spears
"First of the Gang To Die" - Morrissey
"Fit But You Know It" - The Streets
"40'" - Franz Ferdinand
"Freakin' Out" - Graham Coxon
"Goodies" - Ciara
"Gravity" - Embrace
"Hana" - Orange Range
"Harder To Breathe" - Maroon 5
"Here Without You" - 3 Doors Down
"How To Be Dead" - Snow Patrol
"I Believe in a Thing Called Love" - The Darkness
"If I Ain't Got You" - Alicia Keys
"I'm Feeling This" - Blink 182
"Jupiter" - Ayaka Hirahara
"Kibō ~Yell~" - NewS
"Kimi Koso Star Da" - Southern All Stars
"Kimi ni Bump" - Ketsumeishi
"Leaving New York" - R.E.M.
"Left Outside Alone" - Anastacia
"Long Time Coming" - The Delays
"Look What You've Done" - Jet
"Mary" - Scissor Sisters
"Mickey - Gorie with Jasmine & Joann
"Miss You" - Blink 182
"My Band" - D12
"My Happy Ending" - Avril Lavigne
"My Immortal" - Evanescence
"Naughty Girl" - Beyonce
"Old Habits Die Hard" - Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart
"Open Road" - Bryan Adams
"Over & Over" - Nelly & Tim McGraw
"Pieces of Me" - Ashlee Simpson
"Radio" - Robbie Williams
"Run To Me" - Brian McFadden
"Sakura (03.12)" - Kyōgo Kawaguchi
"Sakuranbo" - Ai Otsuka
"Satellite Of Love '04" - Lou Reed
"Sekai ni Hitotsu Daka no Hana" - SMAP
"She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5
"Sign" - Mr. Children
"Since U Been Gone" - Kelly Clarkson
"Slither" - Velvet Revolver
"Somewhere Only We Know" - Keane
"Sunrise" - Duran Duran
"Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
"This Is The Last Time" - Keane
"This Love" - Maroon 5
"Tipsy" - J-Kwon
"Toxic" - Britney Spears
"Walking In The Sun" - Travis
"Whatever Happened To Corey Haim?" - The Thrills
"Wishing On A Star" - Paul Weller
"Vertigo" - U2
"Yeah!" - Usher
"You Had Me" - Joss Stone
"Yume ni Kieta Julia" - Southern All Stars

Top 10 selling albums of the year

Usher - Confessions
Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
Eminem - Encore
Kenny Chesney - When the Sun Goes Down
Gretchen Wilson - Here for the Party
Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Evanescence - Fallen
Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography
Various Artists - NOW! That's What I Call Music 16

Classical music

Michel van der Aa - Second self
Louis Andriessen - Racconto dall'Inferno
Caroline Ansink - Sub Finem
Vykintas Baltakas - Ouroboros
Gerard Beljon - Morgen
Valton Beqiri - Echos,os,os....
Caroline Berkenbosch - Monument 35
Cornelis de Bondt - Madame Daufine
Anke Brouwer - Hammerfest
Elliott Carter - Réflexions
George Crumb - Winds of Destiny for soprano, percussion quartet and piano
Mario Davidovsky - Sefarad: Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes, baritone voice, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), percussion, violin and cello
Jorrit Dijkstra - Veeg
Wim Dirriwachter - Blanco
David Dramm - Bitter Green Lullabies
Joël-François Durand - Ombre/Miroir for flute and 14 instruments
Benjamin Dwyer - Afterjoyce
Ivan Fedele - Odos
Ron Ford - Ratrace
Steven R. Gerber - Chaconne and Fugue for Viola and Cello
Philip Glass - Symphony No. 7 Toltec
Georg Friedrich Haas - Haiku
Jeff Hamburg - Songs from Joshe Kalb
Jörg Herchet - Sich Verräumlichend. Komposition 4 für Orchester
Rozalie Hirs - Platonic ID
Alun Hoddinott - Trombone Concerto
York Höller - Ex Tempore
Guus Janssen - Memory Protect Extended
Guus Janssen - Wankeling
Bart de Kemp - Ankers
Jan Klusák - Axis Temporum
Hans Kox - Twelve Monographies
Rolands Kronlaks - Paion
Hanna Kulenty - Run
Theo Loevendie - De 5 Driften
Roderik de Man - Mensa Secunda
Peter Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartet No. 4 Children's Games
Peter Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartet No. 5
Mayke Nas - Musique qui sent la table et la pantoufle
Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk - Dido's klacht
Seung-Ah Oh - Circle
Christina Viola Oorebeek - Traces of Anthem
Martijn Padding - And Trees Would Sing
Gao Ping - Twelve-Hour Bridge