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2001 music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2001.
3.2 billion units were sold with a value of US$33.7 billion. DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD first rose to prominence in 2001, with approximately 600 titles available in these formats.http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/worldsales2001.pdf The Recording Industry World Sales 2002 2022-12-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20061219035001/http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/worldsales2001.pdf 2006-12-19 Portable music grew in popularity after Apple Inc. released the iTunes media library on January 9Apple Introduces iTunes — World's Best and Easiest To Use Jukebox Software https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/01/09Apple-Introduces-iTunes-Worlds-Best-and-Easiest-To-Use-Jukebox-Software/ 2022-11-20 Apple Newsroom en-US and the first iPod music player device on October 23.October 23, 2001 Apple Presents iPod https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/10/23Apple-Presents-iPod/ February 18, 2019 Apple Inc. Worldwide, the best-selling albums were Hybrid Theory (2000) by Linkin Park, No Angel (1999) by Dido, and Survivor (2001) by Destiny's Child.2000–2005 Top 50 Albums [XLS] https://www.ifpi.org/content/library/top-5-albums-2000-2005.xls https://web.archive.org/web/20120323114337/http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/top-5-albums-2000-2005.xls 2012-03-23 2022-12-03 IFPI The best-selling non-English album was Cieli di Toscana (Tuscan Skies; 2001) by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, which topped the charts in the Netherlands and SwedenCieli di Toscana chart performance http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Andrea+Bocelli&titel=Cieli+di+Toscana&cat=a live https://web.archive.org/web/20121023022138/http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Andrea+Bocelli&titel=Cieli+di+Toscana&cat=a 2012-10-23 2022-12-03 australian-charts.com and was the 23rd best-selling album globally.
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Events
January
January 9 – Apple Inc. introduces the iTunes media player.
January 12–21 – Rock in Rio 3 is held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Headlining acts consist of Sting, R.E.M., 'N Sync, Iron Maiden, Neil Young, Red Hot Chili Peppers and a new line-up of Guns N' Roses. Several Brazilian bands removed themselves from the festival in protest over fewer timeing allocated to Brazilian acts.http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u5776.shtml Bandas nacionais deixam Rock in Rio 3 2000-10-31 Folha de S.Paulo do Vale, Israel
January 17 – Bass player Jason Newsted leaves Metallica after 14 years with the band.
January 19–February 4 – The Big Day Out festival takes place in Australia and New Zealand, headlined by Rammstein (in all venues) and Limp Bizkit (in Auckland, the Gold Coast, and Sydney).
January 26 – A crowd crush occurs during a set by Limp Bizkit at the Sydney Big Day Out music festival. Jessica Michalik is killed and the band subsequently leaves the country after threats to their safety.
February
February 1
CFXJ (Flow 93.5), Canada's first urban music station, solt-launchesshould this be "soft-launches"? October 2026 as a testing signal with its official debut on March 1. The station is considered a breakthrough for Canadian hip-hop and R&B musicians.Greg Quill Radio dream gives city its first black station The Toronto Star February 8, 2001Greg Quill, ""Flow" goes with Marley as new station hits the air," The Toronto Star, February 10, 2001.
Jennifer Lopez becomes first female artist to have both a number one album (J.Lo) and a number one film (The Wedding Planner) in the same week.https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2008201_2008200_2008207,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090301064251/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0%2C8599%2C1093638%2C00.html March 1, 2009 Jennifer Lopez Josh Tyrangiel January 13, 2007 Time August 13, 2005 live Josh Tyrangiel
February 6 – Don Felder is fired from the Eagles. Felder sues the band for wrongful termination, and is countersued by Don Henley and Glenn Frey for breach of contract. The suits are settled out of court.
February 13 – Peter Frampton receives the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.
February 17 – Manic Street Preachers become the first western rock band to play in Cuba. Fidel Castro is in attendance.
February 18 – James Taylor marries Caroline "Kim" Smedvig, director of public relations and marketing for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, marking Taylor's third marriage.
February 21 – The 43rd Annual Grammy Awards are presented in Los Angeles, hosted by Jon Stewart. Several artists win three awards each: Steely Dan (who win Album of the Year for Two Against Nature), U2 (who win both Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Beautiful Day"), Dr. Dre, Eminem and Faith Hill. Shelby Lynne wins Best New Artist.
February 28 – Courtney Love sues to end her contract with Vivendi Universal, on the grounds that music industry contracts are unfairly long compared to those in other industries. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-28-mn-31219-story.html Courtney Love Seeks to Rock Record Labels' Contract Policy Chuck Philips February 28, 2001 Los Angeles Times November 5, 2012
March
March 1 – Collin Raye is awarded the Artist Humanitarian Award from Country Radio Broadcasters. The award was given in recognition of Raye's work on behalf of a number of different charitable organizations including Childhelp USA, USA Weekend's Make A Difference Day and a Native American organization.
March 8 – Melanie C announces she does not intend to do any more work with the Spice Girls. Although the group denies of its separation, it would not be active again until 2007.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1210127.stm Mel C 'not quitting Spices' March 8, 2001 BBC News November 5, 2012
March 9
Janet Jackson's single "All for You" becomes the first song to be added to every station in three mainstream radio formats within its first week of release.VanHorn Teri Janet Jackson Single Breaks Radio, Chart Records http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1441454/janet-jackson-single-breaks-radio-chart-records.jhtml https://archive.today/20121103020007/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1441454/janet-jackson-single-breaks-radio-chart-records.jhtml dead November 3, 2012 February 21, 2014 MTV News March 9, 2001 It was also the highest debut for a single not commercially available in both the United States and France.Joe St-St-Stays On Top With 'Stutter' http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/80407/joe-st-st-stays-on-top-with-stutter Billboard Magazine March 8, 2001 February 22, 2014
Eric Singer replaces Peter Criss as the drummer for Kiss as the band continues its farewell tour in Yokohama, Japan. Singer wears the "Catman" make-up, ending the band's tradition of creating new make-up and personas for replacement members.
March 12 – Daft Punk releases their second studio album Discovery. It reached number 23 on the US Billboard 200.
March 13 – Janet Jackson is honored as the first ever MTV Icon. The televised tribute became the highest rated show of the night.
March 14 – The Court of Appeals in Rome finds Michael Jackson not guilty of plagiarism, reversing a decision made in 1999 by a lower court. Italian songwriter Albano Carrisi had claimed that Jackson's "Will You Be There" was a copy of his song "I Cigni Di Balaka."
March 16 – Sean "Puffy" Combs is acquitted on all charges stemming from a December 1999 nightclub shooting in Manhattan. However, an artist on his Bad Boy Records label, Shyne, is convicted of two counts of assault as well as reckless endangerment and gun possession.http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1441789/puffy-combs-acquitted-shyne-guilty-assault-gun-possession.jhtml https://web.archive.org/web/20111005000515/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1441789/puffy-combs-acquitted-shyne-guilty-assault-gun-possession.jhtml dead October 5, 2011 Puffy Combs Acquitted; Shyne Guilty Of Assault, Gun Possession Hiatt Brian March 16, 2001 MTV November 5, 2012
March 20 – Toadies release Hell Below/Stars Above, the band's first album in nearly seven years. The band announces its disbandment five months later.Billboard Staff 2001-08-24 Texas' Toadies Utter Final Croak https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/texas-toadies-utter-final-croak-78592/ 2022-04-24 Billboard en-US
March 24 – John Connolly of Sevendust marries Lori Kirkley.
March 26
Gorillaz release their first studio album Gorillaz. The album reached number three in the UK, and was an unexpected success in the US, peaking at number 14 and selling over seven million copies worldwide by 2007. The group would win an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band.
Aerosmith release their thirteenth studio album, Just Push Play, charting at number 2 in the US Billboard 200.
March 27
Train release their second studio album, Drops of Jupiter. The album's title track peaked at number 5 in the US Billboard Hot 100.
March 28
Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 replaces Max Bruch's violin concerto at number one in the Classic FM Hall of Fame.
Two big selling albums: Hikaru Utada's Distance and Ayumi Hamasaki's A Best are released on the same date. Their debut week sales are 3,002,720 and 2,874,870, respectively, setting the world's number one and number two one-week album sales records.http://www.oricon.co.jp/search/result.php?kbn=ja&types=rnk&year=2001&month=4&week=2&submit5.x=16&submit5.y=8 ORICON STYLE – Weekly album chart : 2nd week of April 2001 Oricon.co.jp
April–May
April 2 – The Bee Gees release their twenty-second studio album This Is Where I Came In, the last to feature all three Gibb brothers.https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/this-is-where-i-came-in-20050515 This Is Where I Came In | Album Reviews Kemp Rob 15 May 2005 Rolling Stone 3 November 2012
April 3 – Mariah Carey signs a blockbuster contract with Virgin Records, worth $80 million for four albums.
April 4 – Original Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone and keyboardist Rod Argent reunite for a two-part performance at London's Jazz Cafe, the first time the two had performed together in over 30 years.
April 14 – Janet Jackson's "All for You" reaches number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains atop the chart for seven consecutive weeks. It becomes the longest reigning number one single of the year.
April 21 – The first Top Chinese Music Awards ceremony is held.
April 24 – Janet Jackson releases her seventh studio album, All for You. It becomes her fifth consecutive album to debut at number one, with sales exceeding 600,000 copies. It receives three Grammy Award nominations, winning for Best Dance Recording.
April 28 – The second Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place in California as a single-day event. Headlined by Jane's Addiction, the lineup also features Weezer, The Roots, Gang Starr, Iggy Pop, The Orb, The Dandy Warhols and Mos Def.
May 1
Huey Lewis and the News releases the album Plan B, their first album of new material in a decade.
The 4th EJCF is held in Basel, after which the event would go on hiatus until 2004.
May 12 – Joey Fatone of 'N Sync injures his leg in a trap door during rehearsals for the Celebrity Tour.
The 46th Eurovision Song Contest, held at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark, is won by Tanel Padar and Dave Benton, featuring hip-hop group 2XL. They represented Estonia with the song "Everybody", marking the first victory for one of the Baltic states and one of the former Soviet republics. At 50 years old, Benton also becomes the oldest contestant, as well as the first black person, to win Eurovision.
May 15
Charley Pride's A Tribute to Jim Reeves is the first compact disc to have copy protection.
The Go-Go's release their first album in 17 years, God Bless the Go-Go's.
May 22 – Mötley Crüe publishes their collective autobiography The Dirt.
June
June 1 – Christina Aguilera scores her fourth number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 for "Lady Marmalade" a collaboration with Lil' Kim, Mýa, and Pink. The video wins the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year.
June 5
Radiohead releases their fifth studio album, Amnesiac.
Drowning Pool releases their 1st studio album, Sinner. After the 9/11 attacks, the single "Bodies" is listed on the list of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel.
June 9 – Madonna begins her first concert tour in eight years, the Drowned World Tour, in Barcelona, Spain.
June 12
Blink-182 release their fourth studio album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket which would later sell 14 million copies worldwide. This was the band's second successful album.
Electric Light Orchestra release Zoom, their first album in 15 years.
June 15 – Bad Religion drummer Bobby Schayer, who had been with the band since 1991, leaves the band and departs from music after experiencing a "most unfortunate career-ending injury". He is replaced by current drummer Brooks Wackerman. By this time, Bad Religion depart from Atlantic Records and had returned to their original label Epitaph, and founding guitarist Brett Gurewitz had just rejoined the band after a seven-year hiatus.
June 16 – The Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM airs the 9th Annual of the Weenie Roast show with Blink-182, Coldplay, Crazy Town, The Cult, Disturbed, Jane's Addiction, Linkin Park, The Living End, New Found Glory, Pennywise, Papa Roach, Stabbing Westward, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Sum 41 and 311.
June 24 – Jazz pianist John Hicks marries flautist Elise Wood.https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/24/style/weddings-elise-wood-john-hicks-jr.html WEDDINGS; Elise Wood, John Hicks Jr. June 24, 2001 The New York Times
July
July 2
Willy Denzey makes his first appearance at Les Francofolies de La Rochelle.
Napster shuts down its entire network in order to comply with a court injunction ordering it to suspend the trading of copyrighted files. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jul/12/newmedia Napster to stay offline Amy Vickers July 12, 2001 The Guardian November 5, 2012
July 7 – Janet Jackson begins her All for You Tour.
July 9 – Backstreet Boys put their Black & Blue summer tour on hold to allow AJ McLean to enter a rehabilitation facility to deal with alcoholism and depression.
July 10 – Dream Street releases their debut album, Dream Street
July 16 – Mariah Carey releases "Loverboy"; it eventually became the best-selling song of 2001.
July 17 – Aaliyah releases her third studio album Aaliyah.
July 17–22 – The fourth Yoyo A Go Go punk and indie rock festival opens in Olympia, Washington.
July 19 – Ol' Dirty Bastard is sentenced to two to four years in prison for drug possession.
July 21 – The first annual Splendour in the Grass music festival is held in Byron Bay, New South Wales, headlined by Powderfinger.
July 24 – NSYNC releases their third studio album, Celebrity.
July 25 – Mariah Carey enters a hospital for what a spokesperson terms "extreme exhaustion". Carey had exhibited several incidents of bizarre behavior during the previous week, including performing a strange striptease during an unscheduled visit to MTV's Total Request Live and posting a rambling message on her website in which she wrote, "I don't know what's going on with life". http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-07-28/gossip/18369494_1_extreme-exhaustion-york-area-hospital-direct Summer In The City Kin Helping To Carey Diva's Load Mitchell Fink with Alissa Macmillan July 28, 2001 New York Daily News November 4, 2012September 2024 medicmedic
July 30 – The Strokes release their debut album Is This It.
August
August 3 – Whitney Houston signs the largest contract in music history with Arista Records, a six-album deal worth over $100 million. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/whitney-a-100-million-woman-20010803 Whitney a $100 million woman Christina Saraceno August 3, 2001 Rolling Stone November 5, 2012
August 6 – Death Row Records founder Suge Knight is released from prison after serving five years of a nine-year sentence for a parole violation.
August 7 – Aaron Carter releases his third studio album (second under Jive Records) Oh Aaron.
August 13 – Two weeks before its official release, Spider One of Powerman 5000 pulls Anyone for Doomsday? from its original release date due to the album sounding similar to their previous release Tonight the Stars Revolt!. The album would later be released on their website. Two months later, Al 3 and Dorian 27 leave the band.
August 14 – Lifer releases their self-titled debut album, produced by Alex Lifeson of the Prog Rock band Rush, the album was unsuccessful and would become their only album.
August 15 – Wilco signs a buy-out deal with Reprise Records after the label rejects the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album and the band refuses to make any changes. Wilco leaves with the rights to the album in their possession. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/wilco-trot-off-reprise-20010815 Wilco Trot Off Reprise Colin Devenish August 15, 2001 Rolling Stone November 5, 2012
August 22 – Longtime guitarist Roland Grapow and drummer Uli Kusch are fired from German power metal band Helloween.
August 25 – A Cessna 402 carrying nine people, including R&B singer Aaliyah, crashes in the Bahamas, killing all aboard.
September
September 4 – The second studio album from American band System of a Down, Toxicity, is released worldwide. After the 9/11 attacks, the single "Chop Suey!" is listed on the list of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel.
September 5 – A performance of John Cage's As Slow as Possible on a specially-built organ in Sankt-Burchardi-Church in Halberstadt, Germany, scheduled to last until the year 2640 begins with an 18-month pause.
September 6 – At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears performs her new single "I'm a Slave 4 U" in a revealing outfit and featuring a number of exotic animals including a white and live albino Burmese python on her shoulder, leading to a great deal of criticism from animal rights organisation PETA. Nevertheless, MTV named the performance as the most memorable moment in VMA history.
September 7-10 – The Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration tribute concerts are held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
September 10 – Blink-182 film a video for "Stay Together for the Kids", featuring the band playing in a derelict house. When they try to finish the video the following day, the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City occur, and the band abandon the attempt and decide to film a different video for the song.
September 11 –
Bob Dylan's Love and Theft album is released.
Jay-Z's The Blueprint is released a week earlier than initially planned in order to combat bootlegging.
Indie rock band The Microphones' The Glow Pt. 2 album is released.
The September 11 attacks result in the cancellation or postponement of many musical events, due to the halting of many commercial flights and the somber mood of communities around the world:
MTV and VH1 suspend regular programming to carry a newsfeed from CBS, and the 2001 Latin Grammy Awards broadcast is canceled.
Sting, who had planned to stream a performance in Italy on the Internet, reduces the webcast to one song, "Fragile".
Enya's "Only Time" becomes backdrop for CNN.2001-09-22 As U.S. Mourns Attack, Entertainment Industry Unites Billboard 1, 8
The MuchMusic Video Awards scheduled for September 23 are also canceled. http://www.chartattack.com/news/2001/09/13/muchmusic-cancel-video-awards/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130731093526/http://www.chartattack.com/news/2001/09/13/muchmusic-cancel-video-awards/ dead July 31, 2013 MuchMusic Cancel Video Awards September 13, 2001 ChartAttack November 5, 2012
Gerard Way witnesses the attacks and is inspired to start a band, which later becomes My Chemical Romance.
Mariah Carey releases her soundtrack Glitter accompanied by the unsuccessful film. The soundtrack's lead single, "Loverboy", reaches number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
September 14 – Clear Channel Communications issues a controversial memorandum to its radio stations containing a list of 165 songs considered "lyrically questionable" in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The list includes "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", all songs by Rage Against the Machine and John Lennon's "Imagine".
September 21 – America: A Tribute to Heroes airs uninterrupted on all major networks. The solemn concert, held ten days after the September 11 attacks, included performances by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Celine Dion, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Dave Matthews, Faith Hill, Mariah Carey, and others.
September 25 – XM Satellite Radio is launched.
September 29
The First International Accordion Festival begins at La Villita in San Antonio, Texas, celebrating the multicultural traditions of the accordion with artists performing German, Colombian, Irish, Argentinian tango, Cajun-zydeco, Dominican merengue and conjunto-Tejano music.Staff, "Hits of the Week", Houston Chronicle (September 29, 2001): Houston section, p. 2.
Jennifer Lopez marries backup dancer Cris Judd. The marriage would end in June 2002.
October
October 2 – Machine Head release their fourth studio album Supercharger.
October 6
Burton C. Bell gets into a fight with his bandmate Dino Cazares about a manager they fired. The event triggers Fear Factory to separate.
Pop Idol premieres on ITV.
October 9 – The first CD in the Kidz Bop series, consisting of Top 40 hits sung by children, is released.
October 10 – Heavy metal band Anthrax issues a press release in response to the 2001 anthrax attacks jokingly stating that they would be changing the name of the group to "Basket Full of Puppies". It concludes, "we don't want to change the name of the band, not because it would be a pain in the ass, but because we hope that no further negative events will happen and it won't be necessary. We hope and pray that this problem goes away quietly and we all grow old and fat together."http://www.anthrax.com/html/ANTHRAX_PressRelease.htm A N T H R A X – Press Release November 8, 2004 November 5, 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20041108091742/http://www.anthrax.com/html/ANTHRAX_PressRelease.htm November 8, 2004 The band has reported increased traffic to their website due to internet users going to anthrax.com looking for information about the disease.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/11/anthrax.uk Anthrax, the band, consider name change Oliver Burkeman and Imogen Tilden The Guardian October 11, 2001 November 5, 2012
October 12 – Wes Borland leaves Limp Bizkit.
October 16 – Michael Jackson releases special editions of his albums Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad and Dangerous, to celebrate his thirtieth anniversary as a solo musician.
October 20
The Concert for New York City airs on VH1, with performances by Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, The Who, Billy Joel and others.
Volunteers For America benefit concert is held in Atlanta, hosted by Drew Carey with performances by Edgar Winter Group, Mark Farner, Jack Blades, John Waite, The Knack, Eddie Money, Peter Frampton, Survivor, Kansas, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and others.
October 21
United We Stand: What More Can I Give benefit concert is held at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., with performances by Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, James Brown, Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, and others.
Volunteers For America benefit concert is held at Smirnoff Music Centre in Dallas, Texas, hosted by Drew Carey with performances by Edgar Winter Group, Mark Farner, Jack Blades, John Waite, The Knack, Eddie Money, Peter Frampton, Survivor, Kansas, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Bad Company, and others.
October 23
The Backstreet Boys release their first compilation album The Hits: Chapter One.
The first iPod is announced by Apple Inc.
Incubus releases their third full-length major label album titled Morning View. It debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at the number two spot with 266,000 copies sold in its first week. This was the highest placement for Incubus. At the same time, "Wish You Were Here" was at number two on the Modern Rock Charts, and "Drive" sat at number 48 on the Hot 100 chart.
October 25 – Quarashi performs a live concert with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (the band Botnleðja also performed) in the Háskólabíó in Reykjavík, Iceland, which is notable for being the first time that a rap act performed a live concert with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Quarashi perform seven songs from their then-upcoming album, Jinx.
October 30 – Michael Jackson releases Invincible, his first studio album since 1995 and his tenth studio album overall. While the album debuts at number one, its success is limited due to a feud between Jackson and Sony Music Entertainment over the rights to his backcatalog, culminating in Jackson accusing the company of racial discrimination. The album would end up being Jackson's last, with later musical efforts being offset by a second series of child molestation allegations in 2003, a trial over the allegations in 2005, and his death on the eve of his This Is It concert residency in June 2009.
October 31 – Britney Spears releases her third studio album Britney.
November–December
November 1
The governing body of the UK singles chart, Chart Information Network Ltd. (CIN), changes its name to The Official UK Charts Company.
Britney Spears starts her Dream Within a Dream Tour, in support her self-titled third studio album. The tour was accompanied by many extravagant special effect including a water screen that pumped two tons of water into the stage during the encore. The tour was commercial success, all the venues on the 2001 leg are largely sold out and grossed $43.7 million from 68 show.
November 5 – In the UK, BMG becomes the first major label to release a compact disc with copy protection, Natalie Imbruglia's White Lilies Island. Within two weeks BMG announces they would reissue the disc without the copy protection, due to complaints from consumers who were unable to play the CDs in their personal computers.https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/19/bmg_to_replace_antirip_natalie/ BMG to replace anti-rip Natalie Imbruglia CDs Tony Smith November 19, 2001 The Register November 5, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20100217044257/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/19/bmg_to_replace_antirip_natalie/ 2010-02-17 dead
November 6
Britney Spears' third album, Britney debuts at number one, making her the first female artist to have her first three albums enter the US charts at number one.
Nu-Metal Band Dope release their second studio album Life.
November 29 – Former The Beatles member George Harrison dies from lung cancer at the age of 58.
December 1 – Mike Turner quits Our Lady Peace.
December 4 – Gospel music singer Yolanda Adams releases her eighth studio album Believe.
December 12 – Surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl sue Courtney Love in an effort to oust her from the board controlling the management of the band's affairs, calling her "irrational, mercurial, self-centered, unmanageable, inconsistent and unpredictable". The legal battle over the band's legacy has blocked the release of a planned Nirvana box set containing the unreleased track "You Know You're Right". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1708058.stm Nirvana members sue Love December 13, 2001 BBC November 5, 2012
Also in 2001
The Area One music festival is held featuring a variety of artists including Moby, Incubus, Outkast, New Order, Nelly Furtado, The Roots, Rinôçérôse, Paul Oakenfold, and Carl Cox.
The Republic of France awards Jean-Yves Thibaudet the honour of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Deporitaz releases Microwave this CD, his second album, on MP3.com.
Sean Beasley joins Dying Fetus.
Bands formed
See Musical groups established in 2001
Bands disbanded
See Musical groups disestablished in 2001
Bands reformed
Army of Lovers
Dead Kennedys
Devourment
Level 42
The Monkees
Maroon 5
Roxy Music
Zebra
Sunny Day Real Estate
Albums released
:Category:2001 albums
January–March
DateAlbumArtistNotes JANUARY1 Çà et là du Japon Pizzicato Five - Kelly Chen BPM Dance Collection Volume 4 Kelly Chen Compilation9 The Houseman Cometh! Theryl DeClouet Debut Oz Various Artists TV Soundtrack16 Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Black Label Society - Azure Ray Azure Ray - From Long Beach 2 Fillmoe Daz Dillinger & J.T. the Bigga Figga - Scavengers Calla -22 Crystal Empire Freedom Call - Hush! Ana Popović Solo debut Things We Lost in the Fire Low -23 A Better Version of Me Rainer Maria - J.Lo Jennifer Lopez - Little Sparrow Dolly Parton - 2000 Years of Human Error Godhead - Anthology Obituary Compilation Carnival Diablos Annihilator - Day of the Death Death by Stereo - The Donnas Turn 21 The Donnas - It Was All a Dream Dream - O-Town O-Town - The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates Hall & Oates Compilation The World According to Gob Gob -29 Nuclear Fire Primal Fear Germany30 The Best of Tevin Campbell Tevin Campbell Compilation Blues Dream Bill Frisell - Dog in the Sand Frank Black and the Catholics - I Need You LeAnn Rimes Compilation More Vitamin C - You Don't Have to Be Blood to Be Family Throwdown - FEBRUARY1 Brushfire Fairytales Jack Johnson Debut Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EP's Atmosphere EP5 The Anthology... So Far Ringo Starr Live The Knife The Knife -6 Dither Moe - End Is Forever The Ataris - Greatest Hits Vol. II Gloria Estefan Compilation Risen O.A.R. - Samra Faudel - Simply Mortified BS 2000 - Sing Loud, Sing Proud! Dropkick Murphys - 604 Ladytron - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes Propagandhi - You Had It Coming Jeff Beck -12 Hits II: Ganked & Gaffled Spice 1 Compilation13 Conquering Ruler The Specials Covers album Firestarr Fredro Starr - Stephen Malkmus Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - To Record Only Water for Ten Days John Frusciante - Road Movies Land -15 Toki no Tsubasa Zard -19 Another Late Night: Fila Brazillia Fila Brazillia -20 A Predator's Portrait Soilwork - Compuphonic Echo Image Debut Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 Leonard Cohen Live Girls Can Tell Spoon - Newness Ends The New Year Debut Standards Tortoise - Tim Rushlow Tim Rushlow - Wasted Days The Slackers -26 Believe in Nothing Paradise Lost - Any Other City Life Without Buildings Debut Sleepwalking Rae & Christian - Teen Spirit A*Teens -27 American Hi-Fi American Hi-Fi Debut A Bum Note and a Bead of Sweat Baboon Live Cydonia The Orb - Everyday Dave Matthews Band - Farstucker Lords of Acid - Mista Don't Play: Everythangs Workin Project Pat - My World, My Way Silkk the Shocker - Phantom Moon Duncan Sheik - The Professional 2 DJ Clue - A Rollins in the Wry Henry Rollins Live Self-Titled Zao - Who I Am Jessica Andrews -? Only Time Knows Bearfoot Bluegrass Debut albumMARCH1 Another Late Night: Rae & Christian Rae & Christian Compilation B.P. Empire Infected Mushroom - Crime as Forgiven by Against Me! Against Me! EP2 Death's Design Diabolical Masquerade -5 Going Inside John Frusciante EP Just Push Play Aerosmith - Reptile Eric Clapton - The Optimist LP Turin Brakes LP When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up Snow Patrol -6 Katy Hudson Katy Hudson Debut album Accepted Eclectic Aceyalone - Anarchists of Good Taste Dog Fashion Disco - ANThology Alien Ant Farm - Dark Assault Iron Savior - From Wisdom to Hate Gorguts - Feel Good Lost Broken Social Scene - The Greenhornes The Greenhornes - Identity Crisis Thrice - Insanity Darkane - Loco Fun Lovin' Criminals - Madre de Dios Dozer - Mars/Venus Koffee Brown - Musipal Wagon Christ - Quiet Is the New Loud Kings of Convenience - Scorpion Eve - SGNL 05 Isis EP Unwind Oleander -7 Insomnia Chihiro Onitsuka - Jumping into the World BoA EP9 Group Sounds Rocket from the Crypt - One Nil Neil Finn -12 Awakening the World Lost Horizon Sweden Back to the Blues Gary Moore - Blackwater Park Opeth - DiscoveryDaft Punk- Human Rod Stewart - Regeneration The Divine Comedy - Sunny Border Blue Kristin Hersh - Superstars and Cannonballs Savage Garden VHS/DVD Timeless Departure Skyfire -13 All About Chemistry Semisonic - Tantric Tantric - Gourmandises Alizée - Let It Fall Sean Watkins - Trick Pony Trick Pony -19 456132015 De Facto EP Ease Down the Road Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Know Your Enemy Manic Street Preachers - Terra Incognita Gojira Debut20 EP 2 Zero 7 EP Exit Wounds: The Album Various Artists Soundtrack Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards - The Gift Bizzy Bone - Healing Ünloco Debut Hypothetical Threshold - Nation Sepultura - New Killer America Skrape Debut Part III 112 - Hell Below/Stars Above Toadies - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most Dashboard Confessional - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Dimmu Borgir - Satellite Rides Old 97's - Thugs Are Us Trick Daddy - Thug by Nature L-Burna - Unleashed Memories Lacuna Coil -23 Itse Ajattara - 26 Angel of Mine Frank Duval Compilation Gorillaz Gorillaz Debut Natural History I Am Kloot Debut Archive The Specials Compilation27 Acoustic Soul India.Arie - Another Perfect World Peter Cetera - Drops of Jupiter Train - Endangered Species Big Pun Compilation Every Six Seconds Saliva - How I Loved You Angels of Light - Kiss tha Game Goodbye Jadakiss - Live from Mars Ben Harper 2xCD; Live Live in New York City Bruce Springsteen Live The Moon is Down Further Seems Forever - Musicforthemorningafter Pete Yorn - Roll On The Living End - The Sneak Attack KRS-One - Start Breaking My Heart Manitoba Debut Time Bomb Buckcherry - Until the End of Time 2Pac - Whole New You Shawn Colvin -28 A Best Ayumi Hamasaki Compilation Distance Hikaru Utada -? Echo Echo Carbon Leaf - Beto Vázquez Infinity Beto Vázquez Infinity -
April–June
DateAlbumArtistNotes APRIL2 45 rpm: The Singles, 1977–1979 The Jam Box Set Clarence Park Chris Clark - For the Birds The Frames - Mutter Rammstein - No More Shall We Part Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -3 Arrival Journey US Blood Sweat and Years JT Money - B.R.M.C. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Debut Crown Royal Run-D.M.C. - From Here to Infirmary Alkaline Trio - I Don't Care That You Don't Mind Crash Test Dummies - The Life Ginuwine - Poets and Madmen Savatage - Room Service Roxette - The Swimming Hour Andrew Bird - Unholy Terror W.A.S.P. - One for the Kids Yellowcard First album with Ryan Key on lead vocals The Yin and the Yang Cappadonna -6 At Dawn My Morning Jacket -9 Jessico Babasónicos -Now That's What I Call Music! 48 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation10 Covered With Ants Guttermouth - For the Stars Elvis Costello and Anne Sofie von Otter - The Hogyssey Spacehog - Isolation Drills Guided by Voices - Live Frogs Set 1 Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade Live Old Ramon Red House Painters - Revelling/Reckoning Ani DiFranco - Rock the Plank Mad Caddies - Surfer NOFX EP Full Collapse Thursday -11 Just Enough Education to Perform Stereophonics -15 In My Memory Tiësto Debut16 Colossus of Destiny Melvins Live A Girl Like Me Emma Bunton -17 6.0 Sister Machine Gun - Leaves Turn Inside You Unwound - Live Insurrection Halford Live Olivia Olivia - Psychopharmacology Firewater - Songs from the Earth Son of Sam - Steers & Stripes Brooks & Dunn - Super Hits New Kids on the Block Compilation Up Close and Personal Angie Martinez - The Very Best of Elvis Costello Elvis Costello Compilation21 Abulum Glen Phillips -23 Simple Things Zero 7 UK Free All Angels Ash - Echo Park Feeder - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse of Montreal - In America Kenny G Compilation24 All for You Janet Jackson - Digimortal Fear Factory - Dizzy Spells The Ex - Electric Mile G. Love & Special Sauce - Going Somewhere Colin Hay - Idiology Mouse on Mars - Man in the Moon L.A. Guns - Mutiny on the Bay Dead Kennedys Live Sad Sappy Sucker Modest Mouse - Set This Circus Down Tim McGraw - Streethawk: A Seduction Destroyer - This Is Where I Came In Bee Gees - Underground Network Anti-Flag - The Unraveling Rise Against - Wide Awake Bored Treble Charger -25 Wages of Sin Arch Enemy -30 45 rpm: The Singles, 1980–1982 The Jam Box Set Confield Autechre - Rock Action Mogwai -? Brilliant Career Film School - MAY1 The Best Part J-Live Debut Carrying On Montgomery Gentry - Dillinger & Young Gotti Tha Dogg Pound - Mechanical Wonder Ocean Colour Scene - PeteStrumentals Pete Rock - Popstars Eden's Crush - Survivor Destiny's Child - Trouble in Shangri-La Stevie Nicks - Ultimate Collection Buju Banton Compilation3 Complete 'B' Sides Pixies Compilation7 Asleep In The Back Elbow - Truth Be Told Shed Seven - Wingspan: Hits and History Paul McCartney Compilation8 All Killer No Filler Sum 41 - Amethyst Rock Star Saul Williams Debut Awakening the World Lost Horizon - Ayeshteni Natacha Atlas - Best of B-Boy Records Boogie Down Productions Compilation Break the Cycle Staind - Bridge Blues Traveler - The Crusher Amon Amarth - Dare To Dream Billy Gilman - Deltron 3030: The Instrumentals Deltron 3030 - Dharma Days Mark Turner - Falconer Falconer - Field Songs Mark Lanegan - Flow Foetus - Hi-Teknology Hi-Tek - Last Fair Deal Gone Down Katatonia - Lions The Black Crowes - Live on the Black Hand Side Danzig Live Look into the Eyeball David Byrne - Moulin Rouge! Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film Various Artists Soundtrack Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection Jimi Hendrix Compilation XX Mushroomhead -9 Sexual Healing E-Rotic -13 Próxima Estación: Esperanza List of Nominees 5 January 2002 Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/05/entertainment/et-grammlist5/3 https://web.archive.org/web/20140426121130/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/05/entertainment/et-grammlist5/3 dead 26 April 2014 3 23 June 2015 Manu Chao -14 Acoustica Scorpions Live Exciter Depeche Mode - Reveal R.E.M. - Subject to Change Vanessa-Mae - To Be Frank Nik Kershaw -15 Anoraknophobia Marillion - An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place Us3 - Beautiful Fantastic Plastic Machine - Brand New History Econoline Crush - The Cold Vein Cannibal Ox Debut God Bless The Go-Go's The Go-Go's - Lateralus Tool - Meet Joe Mac Joey McIntyre - Miss E... So Addictive Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - Open Cowboy Junkies - Seventh Key Seventh Key - Shoulda Been Home Robert Cray - Sweet Tea Buddy Guy - A Tribute to Jim Reeves Charley Pride Jim Reeves tribute Weezer Weezer "The Green Album" The World Needs a Hero Megadeth -17 Same Girl, New Songs The All-American Rejects EP21 200 Po Vstrechnoy t.A.T.u. - Can Our Love... Tindersticks - Genetic World Télépopmusik - The Merry Sisters of Fate Lunasa - Scream if You Wanna Go Faster Geri Halliwell - Ultraglide in Black The Dirtbombs - Vibrate You King Adora Debut22 All This and Puppet Stew The Dickies - Blacktrash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones Sticky Fingaz - Bliss, Please Blackmail - Flowers Echo & the Bunnymen - Everybody Got Their Something Nikka Costa - Hawthorne, CA The Beach Boys Compilation Here and Now Ike Turner – How I Spent My Summer Vacation The Bouncing Souls - Lechuza Fenix*TX - Lucero Lucero - Machine Static-X - Malpractice Redman - Mediocre Generica Leftöver Crack - My God Flotsam and Jetsam – One Wild Night Live 1985–2001 Bon Jovi Live Oxygen Avalon – The Party's Over Murphy's Law - Persevere The Proclaimers - Pneumonia Whiskeytown - Put Yo Hood Up Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz - Quest for Fire: Firestarter, Vol. 1 Kardinal Offishall - Rising Again Donovan Live The Renaissance EP MxPx EP Stabbing Westward Stabbing Westward -23 Lovebeat Yoshinori Sunahara -28 10 000 Hz Legend Air - Pause Four Tet UK29 10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke) Eyehategod Live Discosis Bran Van 3000 - Irresistible Jessica Simpson - Part II Brad Paisley -? Living in a Magazine Zoot Woman DebutJUNE3 Don't Leave Me in Love Dierks Bentley -4 Amnesiac Radiohead - Faerie Stories Peatbog Faeries - Angel Delivery Service Emil Bulls -5 Are You Man Enough? Betty Blowtorch - Aura Asia - Bodily Functions Herbert - Curse of the Hidden Mirror Blue Öyster Cult - The Economy of Sound Seven Mary Three - Essence Lucinda Williams - A Flight and a Crash Hot Water Music - Free City St. Lunatics - Full Bluntal Nugity Ted Nugent Live Idle Will Kill Osker - Inside Out Trisha Yearwood - Loser Anthems Matthew Good Band EP The Merry Sisters of Fate Lunasa US Piercing the Veil William Parker and Hamid Drake - The Pleasure and the Greed Big Wreck - Poses Rufus Wainwright - Punk-O-Rama Vol. 6 Various Artists Compilation Shine Like It Does: The Anthology (1979–1997) INXS Compilation Sinner Drowning Pool - Somewhere Over The Slaughter House Buckethead - Spankmaster Kool Keith - Styx World: Live 2001 Styx Live Swordfish:The Album Paul Oakenfold Soundtrack8 Myra Myra -11 The Invisible Band Travis - It's a Wonderful Life Sparklehorse - Organik Robert Miles - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives Prefuse 73 https://web.archive.org/web/20120921164701/http://warp.net/records/releases/prefuse-73/vocal-studies-and-uprock-narratives Warp http://warp.net/records/releases/prefuse-73/vocal-studies-and-uprock-narratives May 22, 2015 September 21, 2012 Prefuse 73: Vocal Studies And Uprock Narratives12 9 Lives AZ - Beneath the Encasing of Ashes As I Lay Dying - The Best of Eighteen Visions Eighteen Visions Compilation Love Session Silk - Perhaps, I Suppose... Rufio - The Philadelphia Experiment The Philadelphia Experiment - PS You Love Me Kid 606 - Rainbow Connection Willie Nelson - Recordings Porcupine Tree Compilation Sugar Ray Sugar Ray - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Blink-182 - Under the Influence Warrant Covers album +2 original tracks Zoom Electric Light Orchestra -13 Document 8 Pg. 99 -18 Beat 'Em Up Iggy Pop - Fan Dance Sam Phillips - Origin of Symmetry Muse UK Outrospective Faithless -19 !!! !!! - 2001 Warped Tour Compilation Various Artists Compilation Alive in an Ultra World Steve Vai Live Cuts for Luck and Scars for Freedom Mystic - Devil's Night D12 - Don't Tell the Band Widespread Panic - Far from Over Edwin McCain - From Chaos 311 - GQ on the EQ++ Kid 606 - Greatest Fits Ministry Compilation I'm Already There Lonestar - Just Like Gravity CPR - Land of the Free? Pennywise - Live in San Francisco Joe Satriani Live Live, Loud and Loose Loverboy Live Luther Vandross Luther Vandross - Mandy Moore Mandy Moore - No Nose Job: The Legend of Digital Underground Digital Underground Compilation Oh, Inverted World The Shins - Return of Dragon Sisqo - Shangri-La Dee Da Stone Temple Pilots - This Ain't a Game Ray J - Tongues Esham LP Trust No One Dave Navarro - The Tyranny of Distance Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The World Won't End Pernice Brothers -20 Beyond Good and Evil The Cult - Friends & Family, Vol. 2 Suicidal Tendencies, Various Artists Compilation Worldchanger Jorn -21 Mercuric Element Eighty -22 Dil Chahta Haihttps://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/features/top40_soundtracks_10_01.shtml BBC – Asian Network – Top 40 Soundtracks of All Time The BBC Asian Network June 23, 2017 Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy -25 Go Plastic Squarepusher - Ridgeriders Phil Beer, Ashley Hutchings and Chris While -26 Based on a True Story Lil' Mo - Episode II Safri Duo - Horror Show Iced Earth - Jagged Little Thrill Jagged Edge - Life Is Good LFO - Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax Anthrax Compilation The Reason Beanie Sigel - Rooty Basement Jaxx - Songs in A Minor Alicia Keys Debut The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads Lift to Experience Debut Blowback Tricky -? Jennie Bomb Sahara Hotnights -
July–September
DateAlbumArtistNotes JULY1 Tales of the Inexpressible Shpongle - Why Call It Anything The Chameleons -2 Kerrang! Various artists Compilation Rock and Roll: an Introduction to The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground Compilation Pleased to Meet You James -3 Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? Big Sugar - Endless Summer Fennesz - Lil' Romeo Lil' Romeo Debut Live at L'Olympia Jeff Buckley Live Tales from the B-Side Biohazard Compilation White Blood Cells The White Stripes - X.O. Experience Tha Liks -9 Karma Kamelot - Ensiferum Ensiferum Debut 4.35am Gemma Hayes EP 11:11 Regina Spektor Debut Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP10 Anakonda Akinyele - The Director's Cut Fantômas Covers album Ancient Melodies of the Future Built to Spill - Blood Red Cherry Jann Arden - Camino Palmero The Calling Debut Dream Street Dream Street Debut Fires at Midnight Blackmore's Night - King of da Ghetto Z-Ro - Long Distance Ivy US; released in Japan in Nov. 2000 The Metal Opera Avantasia Debut Priesthood Killah Priest - The Saga Continues... P. Diddy & the Bad Boy Family - Skin Melissa Etheridge - Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey Kurupt - Standfast Standfast Sweden; Debut Stay What You Are Saves The Day - Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit Good Riddance -14 Three Chord Opera Neil Diamond 16 Hot Shots II The Beta Band UK Song Yet to Be Sung Perry Farrell Debut This Is Rock'n'Roll The Quireboys -17 Aaliyah Aaliyah - Broken Silence Foxy Brown - Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Box Set 1st Born Second Bilal Debut Progress Rx Bandits - Tales from the Lotus Pod Dark Lotus LP What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce Goo Goo Dolls Compilation21 Ryden Dirtay Psychopathic Rydas LP23 Rings Around the World Super Furry Animals -24 Bleed American Jimmy Eat World retitled Jimmy Eat World after 9/11 The Butterfly Collection The Nerve Agents - Celebrity NSYNC - Choreographed Man of War Robert Pollard and the Soft Rock Renegades - Comfort Eagle Cake - Contact! Eiffel 65 - Global a Go-Go Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Greatest Hits Alice in Chains Compilation Live Frogs Set 2 Les Claypool's Frog Brigade Live Love Is a Battlefield Hi-Standard EP Plan B Huey Lewis and the News - Prowler in the Yard Pig Destroyer - The Realness Cormega - Shakedown! theSTART Debut Sharin' in the Groove Various Artists Phish Tribute Album Sounding the Seventh Trumpet Avenged Sevenfold - Tiger Army II: Power of Moonlite Tiger Army -25 Jessico Babasonicos -30 Beetroot Cast - Captain Easychord Stereolab EP First Contact Roger Sanchez - Is This It The Strokes -31 2002 Tha Dogg Pound Compilation Blake Shelton Blake Shelton - Both Worlds *69 Gangsta Boo - Brace 4 Impak Da Beatminerz Debut Demolition Judas Priest - Duces 'N Trayz: The Old Fashioned Way Tha Eastsidaz - Girl Eskimo Joe - Losing All Hope Is Freedom Evergreen Terrace - Megaton Shotblast De Facto EP Now That's What I Call Music! 7 (U.S. series) Various Artists Compilation So Blu Blu Cantrell - Take Offs and Landings Rilo Kiley Debut Time (The Revelator) Gillian Welch - Tweekend The Crystal Method -? Danse Manatee Animal Collective - AUGUST6 Crow Sit on Blood Tree Graham Coxon - In Search Of... N.E.R.D. Europe release Night on Earth Rialto - Paper Scissors Stone Catatonia - Secrets The Human League - The Tokyo Showdown Live In Japan 2000 In Flames Live7 8701 Usher - Closer Better Than Ezra - Eternal The Isley Brothers feat. Ronald Isley, aka Mr. Biggs - Funk All Y'all Detroit Grand Pubahs - Get Down or Lay Down Philly's Most Wanted - GodMusic Chocolate Genius - Gravitational Forces Robert Earl Keen - Kiss tha Game Goodbye Jadakiss - Mechanized Warfare Jag Panzer - Oh Aaron Aaron Carter - True Carnage Six Feet Under -8 Actual Size Mr. Big - Warmness on the Soul Avenged Sevenfold EP9 Cockroach Danger Danger -13 How It Works Bodyjar -14 Change Is a Sound Strike Anywhere - Exit 263 Chamberlain - Jump5 Jump5 - Lifer Lifer Debut Live by Request k.d. lang Live New Favorite Alison Krauss - No Self Control The Planet Smashers - Now Maxwell - Ozzfest 2001: The Second Millennium Various Artists Live The Spirit Room Michelle Branch - Supernova Lisa Lopes Debut Too Bad You're Beautiful From Autumn to Ashes -16 Beautiful Creatures Beautiful Creatures -20 Getaway The Clean - Intensify Way Out West -21 10 Years of Chaos and Confusion Hypocrisy - Adema Adema - The Best of the Early Years: 1990–1995 Buju Banton Compilation Choices: The Album Three 6 Mafia - Compression Billy Sheehan - Danse Macabre The Faint - Deepcut to Nowhere Graham Parker - Die Hards The Casualties - Just Be Free Christina Aguilera Recorded 1994–'95 Live Plus One All/Descendents Live Mother Earth Within Temptation - Nice Rollins Band - Project English Juvenile - Rock and Roll Part Three Ozma - Start Static Sugarcult - The Sword of God Quasi - Viewfinder Pullman - The War of Art American Head Charge -27 All Is Dream Mercury Rev - Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights HIM - Get Ready New Order - Grave Disorder The Damned - Read My Lips Sophie Ellis-Bextor Debut Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever Explosions in the Sky - Trouble – Norwegian Live EP Coldplay Live EP Vespertine Björk -28 Alien Youth Skillet - The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek Relient K - Anghellic Tech N9ne - Anyone for Doomsday? Powerman 5000 - Circulatory System Circulatory System - Come Clean Puddle of Mudd - The Creepy EP Relient K EP Digital Bullet RZA - Flirting with Twilight Kurt Elling - Gangland Kool & the Gang - Iowa Slipknot - It's a Wonderful Life Sparklehorse - No More Drama Mary J. Blige - Pull My Chain Toby Keith - Sound-Dust Stereolab - Superhero Brian McKnight - Thug On Da Line Krayzie Bone -30 Live at Java Joe's Jason Mraz -31 Bath maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map maudlin of the Well -SEPTEMBER1 All The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead Envy Japan The Herd The Herd Debut3 Cold Frontier Show of Hands - A Funk Odyssey Jamiroquai - If You've Never Been Embrace - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane Jeffrey Lewis Debut Morning Star Entombed - Mutilated Genitals Dog Fashion Disco EP Silence Teaches You How to Sing Ulver EP4 A-Town Blues Wayne Hancock - Almost Heathen Karma to Burn - Back to the Mansion April Wine - Jane Doe Converge - Know by Heart The American Analog Set - Silence Sonata Arctica - The Tokyo Showdown In Flames Live Toxicity System of a Down - United by Fate Rival Schools -10 Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) Groove Armada - Magnification Yes UK Plaguewielder Darkthrone - Wonderland The Charlatans -11 And the Word Became Flesh Professor Griff - Angles Without Edges Yesterdays New Quintet Debut Bayleaf Stone Gossard Debut The Blueprint Jay-Z - The Brotherhood of the Bomb Techno Animal - The Coast Is Never Clear Beulah - The Convincer Nick Lowe - Des Visages des Figures Noir Désir - Dig Boz Scaggs - Face 2 Face Babyface - 5:30 Saturday Morning Lennon - Ghetto Fabolous Fabolous - Glitter Mariah Carey Soundtrack The Glow Pt. 2 The Microphones - The Goat of Mendes Akercocke - God Hates Us All Slayer - Halfway Tree Damian Marley - Hamilton Ironworks John Hartford - Live in a Dive: No Use for a Name No Use for a Name Live Live Scenes from New York Dream Theater Live "Love and Theft" Bob Dylan - Mediocre Generica Leftöver Crack - Mink Car They Might Be Giants - The Moldy Peaches The Moldy Peaches Debut Rockin' the Suburbs Ben Folds - Satellite P.O.D. - Scars Soil - Silver Side Up Nickelback - The Tiki Bar Is Open John Hiatt - Toilet Böys Toilet Böys - Tomcats Screaming Outside Roland Orzabal US Uncivilization Biohazard - Wonders of the World Long Beach Dub Allstars - Worship Michael W. Smith Live17 EP+6 Mogwai UK; Compilation Let It Come Down Spiritualized - Strange Little Girls Tori Amos -18 The Attraction to All Things Uncertain Tweaker - Bleed the Sky Reveille - The Dirty Story: The Best of Ol' Dirty Bastard Ol' Dirty Bastard Compilation Dragontown Alice Cooper - Fahrenheit Fair Enough Telefon Tel Aviv Debut The Golden Hum Remy Zero - Greatest Hits Martina McBride Compilation Here's to Shutting Up Superchunk - The Id Macy Gray - In Search of Truth Evergrey - Jhazmyne's Lullaby 7 Angels 7 Plagues - Labor Days Aesop Rock - The Look of Love Diana Krall - Nailed Place of Skulls - Positively Somewhere Jennifer Paige - The Power Station Years: The Unreleased Recordings Jon Bon Jovi Compilation Rain on Lens Smog - Revolution Revolución Ill Niño - Revolutionary Vol. 1 Immortal Technique - Room for Squares John Mayer - Seven Year Itch: Greatest Hits, 1994–2001 Collective Soul Compilation Shameless Therapy? - V Live - Vertigo René Marie -19 Souljacker Eels -21 Miranda Lambert Miranda Lambert -22 Kristnihald undir Jökli Quarashi -24 Building the Machine Glenn Hughes - Resonance Anathema Compilation A Story in White Aereogramme - Souljacker Eels UK25 AArt Acoustic Alchemy - Baldhead Slick & Da Click Guru - The Best of Bruce Dickinson Bruce Dickinson Compilation Days of the New (red) Days of the New - Dead Yuppies Agnostic Front - Declaration Steven Curtis Chapman - Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks Modest Mouse EP Gold Ryan Adams - Humanistic Abandoned Pools - Killing Ground Saxon - Live Evolution Queensrÿche Live Love Makes the World Carole King - Manic Moonlight King's X - Nivea Nivea - Songs from Call Me Claus Garth Brooks Christmas Songs in Red and Gray Suzanne Vega - Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers - Steal This Record The Suicide Machines - Tenacious D Tenacious D Debut Underneath The Verve Pipe - Violent Revolution Kreator - A Wild-Eyed Christmas Night 38 Special Christmas World of Glass Tristania -26 Built from Scratch The X-Ecutioners -29 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco -
October–December
DateAlbumArtistNotes OCTOBER1 Amélie Yann Tiersen Soundtrack Beautiful Garbage Garbage - Fever Kylie Minogue - First Born Eyedea & Abilities Debut Songs from the West Coast Elton John UK Trouble Every Day Tindersticks Soundtrack Victoria Beckham Victoria Beckham -2 All Back to the Mine Moloko Compilation Alright Guy Gary Allan - Burning the Process Pressure 4-5 Debut Creedence Clearwater Revival: Box Set Creedence Clearwater Revival Box Set The Fallout Default - Fantasies & Delusions Billy Joel - Go Forth Les Savy Fav - The Grand Pecking Order Oysterhead Debut Greatest Hits Live: Vancouver 1986 Donovan Live Instructions Jermaine Dupri - Now It's Overhead Now It's Overhead Debut Other Animals Erase Errata - Pain Is Love Ja Rule - Pass Out of Existence Chimaira - Supercharger Machine Head - Total Devastation: The Best of Busta Rhymes Compilation The Very Best of Winger Winger Compilation6 Nothing New for Trash Like You Against All Authority -8 Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Deep in the Hole Masters of Reality - The Fake Sound of Progress Lostprophets Re-release Love Is Here Starsailor - Neon Lights Simple Minds - Secret of the Runes Therion -9 1942 Soul-Junk EP Bridge Across Forever Transatlantic - Christina Milian Christina Milian - Chrome Trace Adkins - Dark Days, Bright Nights Bubba Sparxxx - D.F.F.D. The Dictators - Direct Action: Day 21 Sham 69 - Enchantment Charlotte Church - Epitaph Front Line Assembly - Falling into Place Finch EP A Fine Day to Exit Anathema - Gerardo: Fame, Sex y Dinero Gerardo - Hidden Stash II: The Kream of the Krop Kottonmouth Kings - I'm Serious T.I. - No World Order Gamma Ray - Not All Who Wander Are Lost Chris Thile - The Photo Album Death Cab for Cutie - Stupid Fat Americans Zebrahead - Sweet Home Transylvania The Bronx Casket Co. - Ten New Songs Leonard Cohen - Together Again For The First Time Pulley - Your Favorite Weapon Brand New -15 The DVD Napalm Death Live DVD Late Night Final Richard Hawley -16 1 Less G n da Hood Blaze Ya Dead Homie - The Argument Fugazi - Atomic Lit - Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes The Velvet Underground Live Bravery, Repetition and Noise The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Cuttin' Heads John Mellencamp - Down to Earth Ozzy Osbourne - The Essential Journey Journey Compilation Feminist Sweepstakes Le Tigre - God Bless America LeAnn Rimes Compilation Here to Heaven Jamie-Lynn Sigler - The Interzone Mantras The Tea Party - Invitation to the Dance 40 Below Summer - John P. Kelly Mr. Cheeks - Live in L.A. (Death & Raw) Death Live On the Line Various Artists Soundtrack Mahogany Soul Angie Stone US Pretty Together Sloan - Temptations Freestyle Fellowship - Three Days Pat Green -17 Wanderland Kelis -18 Disposable Arts Masta Ace -21 A Bad Brains Reunion Live from Maritime Hall Bad Brains Live Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise Emperor -22 Cryptic Collection Vol. 2 Twiztid LP drukqs Aphex Twin - The Grave Digger Grave Digger Germany Libertine Gene - M-16 Sodom - We Love Life Pulp - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee The Cranberries - Your New Favourite Band The Hives Compilation23 Audiodog Bruce Kulick - Bi-Polar Vanilla Ice LP Blue Screen Life Pinback - California Crossing Fu Manchu - Change The Dismemberment Plan - The Complete Limelight Sessions Shania Twain Compilation The Egg Shiner - Everynight Fire Works Hey Mercedes Debut Expansion Team Dilated Peoples - Feeding the Wheel Jordan Rudess - First Strike Still Deadly Testament - Golden State Bush - The Great Depression DMX - The Greatest Fits Headstones Compilation Greatest Hits Volume III: I'm a Survivor Reba McEntire Compilation Hymns Godflesh - Kingsize Five - Live in Chicago 12.19.98 Dave Matthews Band Live The Melancholy Collection Millencolin US; Compilation Morning View Incubus - A New Morning, Changing Weather The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Novakane Outlawz - Now That's What I Call Christmas! (U.S. series) Various Artists Compilation Snowflakes Toni Braxton Christmas Understand This Grand Puba - Won As Friends Rust -24 Point Cornelius -26 6twenty The D4 Debut29 Into The Rasmus - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid Stars of the Lid - Turn to Me Vanessa Amorosi -30 8 Days of Christmas Destiny's Child Christmas The Audio of Being Matthew Good Band - Cuts from the Crypt The Misfits Compilation Escape Enrique Iglesias - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Clint Black Compilation Invincible Michael Jackson - Legacy: The Greatest Hits Collection Boyz II Men Compilation Lenny Lenny Kravitz - Life Is Full of Possibilities Dntel - The National The National Debut Through the Eyes Flaw - Tomahawk Tomahawk - Versus Kings of Convenience Remix White Knuckled Substance Vendetta Red -31 Britney Britney Spears Japan Give Blood Bane -? Polen Lynda Thomas - NOVEMBER2 Re-EntryBbe : Marley Marl - Re-entry https://bbemusic.com/product/re-entry dead https://web.archive.org/web/20040407004050/http://www.bbemusic.com/data.pl?release=BBEBGCD004 April 7, 2004 January 13, 2022 Barely Breaking Even Marley Marl -5 All Hits All Saints Compilation Are You Are Missing Winner The Fall - Best of The Corrs The Corrs Compilation Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd Pink Floyd Compilation Premium Quality... Serve Loud! 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True Hollywood Stories Canibus - Cunt Blood Duster - Destination Unknown Mest - Dirty Money UGK - Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits Barenaked Ladies Compilation The Dreadful Hours My Dying Bride - GHV2 Madonna Compilation Greatest Hits – HIStory Volume I Michael Jackson Compilation Here at the Mayflower Barry Manilow - I Get Wet Andrew W.K. - International Superhits! Green Day Compilation Laundry Service Shakira - Live on the Edge of Forever Symphony X Live Love, Shelby Shelby Lynne - Mis Romances Luis Miguel - Motherland Natalie Merchant - On the Run, Live at the Velvet Lounge Fred Anderson Live Rain of a Thousand Flames Rhapsody EP Rebirth Angra - Scarecrow Garth Brooks - Simple Things Zero 7 US The Sinister Urge Rob Zombie - Sunny Days Allure - This Way Jewel -14 Rusty Medals and Broken Badges Over My Dead Body -15 Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets Gary Jules -16 Here & Now: The Best of Human Nature Human Nature Compilation Root Fire Bedouin Soundclash - Supergott Caramell - Violence Has Arrived Gwar - Whatever Green Velvet -19 Insignificance Jim O'Rourke - Légende du Scorpion à Quatre Queues De Facto EP The Mother and the Enemy Lux Occulta - Not for Beginners Ronnie Wood - Span Thang Basement Jaxx EP Whatever Gets You Through The Day Lighthouse Family UK Some Things Lasgo Belgium20 ...All This Time Sting Live The Beginning of All Things to End Mudvayne - The Box Set Kiss Box Set Bright Flight Silver Jews - Cappadonna Hits Cappadonna Compilation Cocky Kid Rock - Even in Darkness Dungeon Family - Experience: Jill Scott 826+ Jill Scott Live Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo Five Iron Frenzy - Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty Atreyu EP Goddess in the Doorway Mick Jagger - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again Tim Hecker Debut Hoobastank Hoobastank Debut Indecent Proposal Timbaland & Magoo - Is This Room Getting Smaller Onesidezero Debut Josh Groban Josh Groban Debut Missundaztood Pink - Now That's What I Call Music! 8 (U.S. series) Various Artists Compilation The Rainbow Children Prince - Revival Petra - Rotten Apples The Smashing Pumpkins Compilation Songs for the Front Row Ocean Colour Scene Compilation Washed Up and Through the Ringer Catch 22 - Weathered Creed - Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology Aerosmith Compilation21 Greatest Hits The Cure Compilation22 Cover Up UB40 -26 All Rise Blue - 1 Fischerspooner - 7 Worlds Collide Neil Finn Live Arcana Edenbridge - Heartbreak in Stereo Pencey Prep - "Ridgeriders" In Concert Phil Beer, Ashley Hutchings and Chris While Live Sunshine S Club 7 -27 Dark Genesis Iced Earth Box Set Eudora The Get Up Kids Compilation Genesis Busta Rhymes - Marc Lavoine Marc Lavoine - Mandrake Edguy - Smash Mouth Smash Mouth - Ultra.Chilled 01 Various Artists - Word of Mouf Ludacris -- Against Me! 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5 Songs – The Decemberists
Breaking Benjamin – Breaking Benjamin
Don't Be Frightened of Turning the Page – Bright Eyes
Feel No Fade – Push Kings
First Album – Miss Kittin & The Hacker
A Melody of Retreads and Broken Quills – Filthy Thieving Bastards
On the Edge – Iron Fire
Polen – Lynda Thomas
Surf's Up! – David Thomas and Two Pale Boys
Twilight – The Handsome Family
Undone – Brian & Jenn Johnson
Yule Ritual – Hawkwind
Top 5 Selling Albums of Billboard Year
Hybrid Theory – Linkin Park
1 – The Beatles
Invincible – Michael Jackson
All That You Can't Leave Behind – U2
Aaliyah – Aaliyah
Top 10 Best Selling Albums 2001 (Soundscan)
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park ~ 4,810,000http://www.mtv.com/news/1451664/got-charts-linkin-park-shaggy-nsync-are-2001s-top-sellers/ https://archive.today/20150710203041/http://www.mtv.com/news/1451664/got-charts-linkin-park-shaggy-nsync-are-2001s-top-sellers/ dead July 10, 2015 Got Charts? Linkin Park, Shaggy, 'NSYNC Are 2001's Top-Sellers MTV News
Hot Shot by Shaggy ~ 4,520,000
Celebrity by NSYNC ~ 4,420,000
A Day Without Rain by Enya ~ 4,410,000
Break the Cycle by Staind ~ 4,240,000
Songs in A Minor by Alicia Keys ~ 4,100,000
Survivor by Destiny's Child ~ 3,720,000
Weathered by Creed ~ 3,580,000
O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack ~ 3,460,000
Now That's What I Call Music! 6 ~ 3,130,000
Popular songs
30em "19-2000" – Gorillaz (June 25 [UK]; July 17 [US])
"A Little Bit" - Jessica Simpson
"À ma place" – Axel Bauer and Zazie
"All for You" – Janet Jackson (March 27)
"All or Nothing" – O-Town (January 23)
"American Psycho" – Treble Charger
"Angel" – Shaggy feat. Rayvon
"Another Chance" – Roger Sanchez
"Another Day In Paradise" – Brandy feat. Ray J (March)
"Bad Ambassador" – The Divine Comedy (April 17)
"Because I Got High" – Afroman
"Bodies" – Drowning Pool
"Bootylicious" – Destiny's Child (June 26 [US], July 3 [worldwide])
"Boys" – Britney Spears
"Brand New Low" – Treble Charger
"Buck Rogers" – Feeder (January 8)
"Butterfly" – Crazy Town
"Butterfly" – Kylie Minogue (November 12)
"California" – Wave
"Candy" – Ash (October 1)
"Can't Get You Out of My Head" – Kylie Minogue (September 17)
"Chase the Sun" – Planet Funk
"Chop Suey!" – System of a Down (August)
"Clint Eastwood" – Gorillaz (March 5 [UK])
"Come Along" – Titiyo
"Control" – Puddle of Mudd
"Crawling" – Linkin Park (April 17)
"Crying at the Discoteque" – Alcazar
"Crystal" – New Order (13 August)
"Crush" - Mandy Moore
"Digital Love" – Daft Punk
"Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know" – Britney Spears
"Don't Stop Movin'" – S Club 7
"Don't Tell Me" – Madonna (November 21, 2000 (UK); January 16, 2001 (US))
"Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" – Train (February 20)
"Drowning" – Backstreet Boys
"Elevation" – U2
"Eple" – Röyksopp
"Eternity/The Road to Mandalay" – Robbie Williams (July 9)
"Fallin'" – Alicia Keys (July 10)
"Family Affair" – Mary J. Blige
"Fat Lip" – Sum 41 (August 28 US; October 1 UK)
"Fight Music" – D12
"First Date" – Blink-182 (September 24)
"Freedom" – Paul McCartney (Written about the September 11th attacks)
"Follow Me" – Uncle Kracker
"Get the Party Started" – P!nk (October 9)
"Get Ur Freak On" – Missy Elliott (February 20)
"Gone" – NSYNC (October)
"Handbags and Gladrags" – Stereophonics
"Hanging By A Moment" – Lifehouse
"Hard to Explain" – The Strokes (June 25, 2001 (UK), April 30, 2002 (US))
"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" – Daft Punk
"Have a Nice Day" – Stereophonics
"Have You Ever" – S Club 7
"Heaven" – DJ Sammy & Yanou featuring Do
"Heaven Is a Halfpipe" – OPM
"Here With Me" – Dido
"Here's to the Night" – Eve 6
"Hero" – Enrique Iglesias (November)
"How We Roll" – Big Pun
"How Wonderful You Are " – Gordon Haskell
"How You Remind Me" – Nickelback (December 16)
"I Believe" – Galleon
"I Don't Want a Lover (remix)" – Texas
"I Feel Loved" – Depeche Mode (July 30 UK; July 31 US)
"I Wanna Be Bad" – Willa Ford (May 22)
"I'm a Slave 4 U" – Britney Spears (October 23 [US]; October 8 [UK])
"I'm Like a Bird" – Nelly Furtado
"I'm Real" – Jennifer Lopez (October 16)
"I'm Real (Murder Remix)" – Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule (peaked week of September 11)
"Imitation of Life" – R.E.M. (April)
"In My Pocket" - Mandy Moore
"In the End" – Linkin Park (November 20)
"In Too Deep" – Sum 41 (December 3, UK)
"Inner Smile" – Texas
"Irresistible" – Jessica Simpson (April 12)
"Island in the Sun" – Weezer (August 28)
"It Wasn't Me" – Shaggy featuring Rikrok
"It's a Great Day to Be Alive" – Travis Tritt
"It's Been Awhile" – Staind (June 26)
"It's Raining Men" – Geri Halliwell (April 30 [UK])
"Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" – Jay Z (July 17)
"Jaded" – Aerosmith (March 13)
"Just Push Play" – Aerosmith
"Juxtapozed with U" – Super Furry Animals
"Knives Out" – Radiohead August 14 (Pt.1, Pt.2); August 28 (US CD); September 25, 2001 (Pt. 3)
"La Musique (Angelica)" – Star Academy France (December)
"La Negra Tiene Tumbao" – Celia Cruz (October 2, 2001)
"Lady Marmalade" – Christina Aguilera, Pink, Lil' Kim & Mýa (May 8)
"Last Nite" – The Strokes
"Left Behind" – Slipknot
"Life" – E-Type featuring Nana Hedin
"Liquid Dreams" – O-Town
"Let Me Blow Ya Mind" – Eve featuring Gwen Stefani (May 15)
"Lo Mejor de Mi" – Lynda Thomas
"Love Don't Cost A Thing" – Jennifer Lopez (January 30)
"Loverboy" – Mariah Carey (July 16)
"Me Gustas Tu" – Manu Chao
"The Middle" – Jimmy Eat World
"More Than a Woman" – Aaliyah (November 13, 2001 [US]; February 19, 2002 [UK]; March 5, 2002 [AUS])
"Mr. Writer" – Stereophonics
"My Sacrifice" – Creed (December 11)
"My Way" – Limp Bizkit (May)
"Never Had a Dream Come True" – S Club 7
"Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" – Ricky Martin & Christina Aguilera
"Ocean Spray" – Manic Street Preachers (June 4)
"One Minute Man" – Missy Elliott (featuring Ludacris and Trina)
"One More Time" – Daft Punk
"One Wild Night" - Bon Jovi
"Only Time" – Enya
"Out of Reach" – Gabrielle
"Outside" – Staind (May)
"Overprotected" – Britney Spears (December)
"Pagan Poetry" – Björk
"Play" – Jennifer Lopez
"Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)" – Safri Duo
"Plug in Baby" – Muse
"Pop" – NSYNC (July 17)
"Purple Hills" – D12 featuring Eminem
"Pyramid Song" – Radiohead (May 29, 2001; June 19, 2001 (Pt.1, Pt.2); December 11, 2001 (Japan CD)
"Queen of My Heart" – Westlife (UK)
"Ramp! (The Logical Song)" – Scooter
"Ride Wit Me" – Nelly Featuring City Spud (July 24)
"The Rock Show" – Blink-182 (July 1)
"Rock The Boat" – Aaliyah (August 2001 (North America); March 5, 2002 (Australia); May 6, 2002 (UK))
"Sail Away" – David Gray
"Salsoul Nugget (If U Wanna)" – M&S Pres. The Girl Next Door (#6 UK)http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/SALSOUL%20NUGGET%20%28IF%20U%20WANNA%29/ M&S Presents The Girl Next Door Official Charts Company 8 April 2015
"Schism" – Tool
"Seul" – Garou
"Sexual Guarantee" – Alcazar (November 26)
"Shining Light" – Ash (January 29)
"Short Skirt/Long Jacket" – Cake
"Side" – Travis (September 17)
"Sing" – Travis (May 28)
"Smooth Criminal" – Alien Ant Farm
"Someone To Call My Lover" – Janet Jackson
"Something" – Lasgo
"Stan" – Eminem featuring Dido
"Standing Still" – Jewel
"Starlight" – The Supermen Lovers
"Step On My Old Size Nines" – Stereophonics
"Stronger" – Britney Spears
"Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" – U2
"Superman (It's Not Easy)" – Five For Fighting
"Superstylin'" – Groove Armada
"Survivor" – Destiny's Child
"Thank You" – Dido (21 May)
"There Must Be an Angel" – No Angels
"This Year's Love" – David Gray
"Toutes les femmes de ta vie" – L5
"Turn off the Light" – Nelly Furtado (August 14)
"Turn the Tide" – Sylver
"U Got It Bad" – Usher
"U Remind Me" – Usher
"Ugly" – Bubba Sparxxx
"Up On The Downside" – Ocean Colour Scene
"Upside Down" – A*Teens
"Uptown Girl" – Westlife (UK)
"Us Against The World" – Play (September 11)
"Walk On" – U2 (November 19) (UK/Eur); November 26(Aus)
"Want You Bad" – The Offspring
"Wasting My Time" – Default
"The Way You Like It" – Adema
"We Come 1" – Faithless
"We Need a Resolution" – Aaliyah (April 24)
"Weapon of Choice" – Fatboy Slim
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" – Madonna
"Whenever, Wherever" – Shakira
"Wherever You Will Go" – The Calling (December 16)
"Who Do You Love Now?" – Riva featuring Dannii Minogue (November 19)
"Whole Again" – Atomic Kitten
"Wish You Were Here" – Incubus
"With Arms Wide Open" – Creed
"Wrong Impression" – Natalie Imbruglia
"You Rock My World" – Michael Jackson
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2001 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2001
Opera
Jason Kao Hwang – The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown
Theo Loevendie – Johnny & Jones
Sven-David Sandström – Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy
David Sawer – From Morning to Midnight
Michel van der Aa – Vuur
Jazz
2001 in jazz
Musical theater
Atgof o'r Sêr – first performed by Bryn Terfel and Cor Rhuthun in north Wales. Commissioned for the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Denbigh.
A Class Act – Broadway production opened at the Ambassador Theatre on March 11 and ran for 105 performances
42nd Street – Broadway revival opened at the Ford Center on May 2
Mamma Mia! – Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 18 and ran for 5773 performances. It was the eighth longest run in Broadway musical history.
The Producers – Broadway production opened at St. James Theatre on April 19 and ran for 2502 performances. The show won a record twelve Tony Awards.
Urinetown – Broadway production opened at the Hudson Theatre on September 20 and ran for 965 performances
Musical films
Beijing Rocks
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, starring Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel and Amrish Puri
Glitter released September 21, starring Mariah Carey and Max Beesley
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, directed by and starring John Cameron Mitchell
Love You Hamesha, starring Akshaye Khanna and Sonali Bendre
Moulin Rouge! released May 18, starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor
On the Road to Emmaus, starring Peter Franzén
One Night the Moon, starring Paul Kelly and Kaarin Fairfax
Rebelové, starring Zuzana Norisová and Tomáš Hanák
Rock Star
Scratch
Musical television
Band Geeks episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
Births
January 1 – Winter, South Korean singer and dancer (aespa)
January 2 – Inji, Turkish singer-songwriter
January 3 – Erick Brian Colón, Dancer, football fan, and the youngest member of the group CNCO
January 4 – Lola Young, English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
January 5 – Victony, Nigerian singer, songwriter and rapper
January 8
Kaash Paige, American singer-songwriter
Melitha Sidabutar, Indonesian singer (d. 2024)
January 18 – Thomas Raggi, Italian guitarist (Måneskin)
January 21 – Griff, British singer
January 25 – Michela Pace, Maltese singer
February 5
Maria Makino, Japanese pop singer, dancer and model (Morning Musume)
Kim Min-ju, South Korean actress and singer
February 8
Jxdn, American singer-songwriter
I.N, South Korean singer
February 22 – Chase Icon, American singer, songwriter, social media content creator, and reality television personality
March 3 - Jvke, American singer-songwriter, producer, and social media personality.
March 8 – Zhavia Ward, American singer, songwriter, musician
March 9 – Jeon Somi, Canadian singer
March 18 – Jada Facer, American actress and singer
March 19 - Eunseok, South Korean singer (Riize)
March 21 – Addison Grace, American singer-songwriter and online personality
March 27 – Natanael Cano, Mexican rapper
March 31
Noah Urrea, American singer (Now United)
Sofia Tarasova, Ukrainian singer and actress
April 10
Noa Kirel, Israeli singer
Angelina Mango, Italian singer
April 13 − Isaiah Falls, American singer-songwriter and producer
April 17 – Ryujin, South Korean rapper and dancer (Itzy)
April 18 – PinkPantheress, English singer and record producer
April 21 − Thomas LaRosa, American singer, songwriter, producer and brother of Isabel LaRosa
April 29 – JJ (singer), Austrian singer-songwriter
April 30 – Lil Tjay, American rapper
May 9 – Bandokay, British rapper
May 15 – Kevin Kaarl, Mexican singer and producer
May 17 – AJ Mitchell, American singer
May 18 – Breskvica, Serbian singer
May 27 – Zach Herron, American singer (Why Don't We)
June 1 – ppcocaine, American rapper
June 3 - Reyanna Maria, Filipino-Australian singer, rapper, and songwriter
June 5 – Chaeryeong, South Korean singer and dancer (Itzy)
June 16 – Shannon K, American-Indian singer and actress
June 18 - Mike Dimes, American rapper
June 23 - Bárbara Bandeira, Portuguese singer
July 1
Chosen Jacobs, American actress, musician, singer-songwriter and rapper
Dave Blunts, American rapper and singer-songwriter
Elmiene, British-Sudanese singer
July 15 − 6arelyhuman, American singer, rapper and songwriter
July 30 – Destroy Lonely, American rapper
August 3 – Tiago PZK, Argentine rapper
August 7 – Ryusei Ohnishi, Japanese singer and actor (Naniwa Danshi)
August 12 – Dixie D'Amelio, American singer
August 18 – Almaxanım, Azerbaijani singer
August 27 – May-a, Australian singer-songwriter
August 29 – Rori Moore, American singer (3Quency)
August 30 - Emily Bear, American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and pianoist
September 3 – Kaia Gerber, American model and actress (daughter of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber)
September 6 – Laprete, American singer, producer and musician
September 8 – Remo Forrer, Swiss singer
September 11 − Rin, Japanese singer (Atarashii Gakko!)
September 12 − Chris Grey, Canadian R&B singer
September 13 - Sungchan, South Korean singer (Riize)
September 15 – Voyage, Serbian singer
September 16 – Cris MJ, Chilean singer and songwriter
September 18 – Darkoo, English-Nigerian rapper
September 23
J.I., American rapper and songwriter
Tiara Andini, Indonesian singer
October 3 – SoFaygo, American rapper
October 6 – Ari Abdul, American singer-songwriter
October 8 – Huh Yunjin, South Korean singer (Le Sserafim)
October 22 – Jo Yuri, South Korean singer
October 30 – Bella Paige, Australian singer
November 22 – Chenle, Chinese singer and songwriter (NCT Dream)
November 28 – Stella Quaresma, English singer, member of Flo
November 29 − Suzuka, Japanese singer (Atarashii Gakko!)
December 1 – Elias Abbas, Swedish singer
December 5 − YG Marley, American singer and rapper (son of Lauryn Hill and Rohan Marley)
December 6
Molly Grace, American musician and singer-songwriter
Zack Tabudlo, Filipino singer, songwriter, and musician
December 15 – Diljá, Icelandic singer
December 17 – Brakence, American singer
December 18 – Billie Eilish, American singer, dancer, musician, activist and songwriter
Unknown – Libianca, Cameroonian and American singer
Deaths
January 4 – Les Brown, bandleader (89)
January 5 – Milan Hlavsa, Czech musician (Plastic People of the Universe) (49)
January 7 – James Carr, soul singer (58)
January 10 – Bryan Gregory, guitarist (The Cramps) (49)
January 24 – Leif Thybo, Danish composer and organist (78)
February 4
J.J. Johnson, jazz bebop trombonist (77)Fordham John Obituary: JJ Johnson https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/feb/07/guardianobituaries.johnfordham 6 November 2015 The Guardian 7 February 2001
Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (78)Griffiths, Paul. (5 February 2001). "Iannis Xenakis, Composer Who Built Music on Mathematics, Is Dead at 78". The New York Times, p. B7
February 7 – Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress (88)Brooks Patricia Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous Chapter 8: East L.A. and the Desert 235–37 2006 Globe Pequot Press Guilford, CT 978-0762741014 Brooks Jonathan 70284362
February 10 – Buddy Tate, jazz musician (87)
February 13 – George T. Simon, music critic and original Glenn Miller Orchestra drummer (pneumonia)
February 19 – Charles Trenet French singer and songwriter (87)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/feb/20/guardianobituaries1 Charles Trenet February 20, 2001 The Guardian Patrick O'Conner April 5, 2021
February 21
Ronnie Hilton, English singer (75)
Malcolm Yelvington, rockabilly musician (82)
February 22 – John Fahey, guitarist, indie label owner (61)
March 4 – Glenn Hughes, The Village People (50)
March 9 – Richard Stone, American composer (47)https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-15-me-38004-story.html Richard Stone; Won Emmys as Composer of Cartoon Music March 15, 2001 Los Angeles Times 15 June 2015
March 12 – Sir Lancelot, calypso singer (98)
March 18 – John Phillips, singer-songwriter, co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas (65)https://www.today.com/popculture/phillips-says-she-may-have-aborted-dads-child-1C9404900 Phillips says she may have aborted dad's child Associated Press Today NBC News New York City September 23, 2009 September 2, 2018
March 20 – Francis Grasso, disc jockey (51)
March 28 – Moe Koffman, Canadian jazz singer (73)
March 29 – John Lewis, jazz pianist (80)
April 6 – Charles Pettigrew, of Charles & Eddie (37) (cancer)
April 9 – Graziella Sciutti, operatic soprano (73)
April 11
Sandy Bull, folk musician (60)
Graciela Naranjo, bolero singer and actress (84)
Sir Harry Secombe, entertainer (79)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1315879/Goon-star-Sir-Harry-Secombe-dies-aged-79.html Goon star Sir Harry Secombe dies aged 79 Thomas Penny 12 April 2001 The Daily Telegraph
April 15 – Joey Ramone, lead singer of The Ramones (49) (lymphoma)
April 20 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, composer and conductor (54) (heart attack)Allan Kozinn Allan Kozinn Giuseppe Sinopoli, Intense and Physical Conductor, Dies at 54 After Collapsing Onstage https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/23/arts/giuseppe-sinopoli-intense-physical-conductor-dies-54-after-collapsing-onstage.html subscription 6 February 2020 The New York Times 23 April 2001 B 7
May 3 – Billy Higgins, jazz drummer (64)
May 5 – Boozoo Chavis, zydeco musician (70)
May 10 – James E. Myers, songwriter ("Rock Around the Clock") (81)
May 12 – Perry Como, American crooner (88)https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UoxfAAAAIBAJ&pg=1967,4295477&dq=perry+como&hl=en Crooning baritone Perry Como dies Riddle, Amanda The Madison Courier Indiana May 14, 2001 1 Associated Press August 30, 2013
May 16 – Prince Ital Joe, reggae singer (38) (car accident)
May 20 – Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (81)
June 4 – John Hartford, bluegrass musician (64)
June 7 – Carole Fredericks, singer
June 13 – Marcelo Fromer, guitarist for Brazilian band Titãs (39) (rammed by a motorcycle)
June 18 – Davorin Popović, lead singer for Bosnian band Indexi (55)
June 21 – John Lee Hooker, blues musician (88)https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/22/nyregion/john-lee-hooker-bluesman-is-dead-at-83.html John Lee Hooker, Bluesman, Is Dead at 83 Pareles Jon June 22, 2001 The New York Times February 9, 2019 0362-4331
June 30
Chet Atkins, country musician (77)https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/us/guitars-gently-weep-as-nashville-pays-tribute-to-chet-atkins.html Guitars Gently Weep as Nashville Pays Tribute to Chet Atkins July 4, 2001 The New York Times September 19, 2016
Joe Henderson, jazz saxophonist (64)
July 3
Delia Derbyshire, English electronic composer (64)
Johnny Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (61)
July 5 – Ernie K-Doe, R&B singer (65)
July 7 – Fred Neil, folk singer-songwriter (65)
July 15 – Anthony Ian Berkeley, rapper (Brothers Grym, Gravediggaz) (36) (colon cancer)
July 18 – Mimi Fariña, singer-songwriter (56) (neuroendocrine cancer)Cooksey G The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives 2004 Charles Scribner's Sons New York 152–153 Volume 6: 2000-2002
July 23 – Richie Lee, singer and bassist (Acetone) (34) (suicide)
July 27
Harold Land, hard bop saxophonist (73)
Leon Wilkeson, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd (49)
August 2 – Ronald Townson, American singer and actor (The 5th Dimension) (68)
August 6 – Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso (86)https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/08/08/musician-larry-adler-87-dies/83c70110-2abc-4c5d-a23e-81804ea375b8/ Musician Larry Adler, 87, Dies 8 August 2001 6 October 2018 washingtonpost.com
August 18 – Roland Cardon, Belgian composer and multi-instrumentalist (72)
August 25 – Aaliyah, American singer, model, dancer and actress (22) (plane crash)http://archives.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/26/death.aaliyah/ U.S. investigators to probe Aaliyah crash August 27, 2001 CNN April 8, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090413035550/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/26/death.aaliyah/ April 13, 2009 dead
August 27 – Karl Ulrich Schnabel, pianist (92)
August 29 – Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, lead singer of Skyhooks (49)
September 1 – Ted Mulry, lead singer with Ted Mulry Gang (54)
September 6 – Carl Crack, techno musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (30)
September 22 – Isaac Stern, violinist (81)https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/nyregion/violinist-isaac-stern-dies-at-81-led-efforts-to-save-carnegie-hall.html?pagewanted=all Violinist Isaac Stern Dies at 81; Led Efforts to Save Carnegie Hall The New York Times Allan Kozinn 2001-09-23 2015-04-12
October 3 – Tatiana Menotti, operatic soprano (92)
October 5 – Ivan Hrušovský, Slovak composer (74)
October 10 – Barry McCauley, operatic tenor (51) (lung cancer)
October 17 – Jay Livingston, songwriter (86)
November 17 – Michael Karoli, guitarist, violinist and composer (53) (cancer)
November 21 – Ralph Burns, American songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and bebop pianist (79)
November 24 – Melanie Thornton, singer (La Bouche) (34) (air crash)
November 28 – Kal Mann, American lyricist ("Teddy Bear", "Butterfly") (84)
November 29 – George Harrison, musician and former member of The Beatles (58) (lung cancer)http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/george-harrisons-death-certificate George Harrison's Death Certificate The Smoking Gun 22 June 2012 live https://web.archive.org/web/20120628104956/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/george-harrisons-death-certificate 28 June 2012
December 13 – Chuck Schuldiner, vocalist and guitarist with Death (34) (cancer)
December 15 – Rufus Thomas, singer (84)
December 16 – Stuart Adamson, guitarist with Big Country (43) (suicide)
December 17 – Débria Brown, operatic soprano (65)
December 18 – Gilbert Bécaud, singer-songwriter (74)https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/12/22/gilbert-becaud-french-singer-g/38755b85-c75a-4d46-815b-9f542884cc6d/ Gilbert Becaud French Singer G ... The Washington Post 2020-03-09
December 22 – Norman Granz, American producer (83)
December 29 – Cássia Eller, Brazilian singer (39)Folha Online Folha Online Cássia Eller morre aos 39 anos no Rio http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u20138.shtml April 4, 2018 Folha de S.Paulo
Awards
The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Aerosmith, Solomon Burke, The Flamingos, Michael Jackson, Queen, Paul Simon, Steely Dan and Ritchie Valens
Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Larry Norman, and Elvis Presley
ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards of 2001
Country Music Association Awards
2001 Country Music Association Awards
Grammy Awards
Grammy Awards of 2001
Juno Awards
Juno Awards of 2001
March 4 – Bruce Cockburn is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame
Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 2001
Mercury Music Prize
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea – PJ Harvey wins.
MTV Video Music Awards
2001 MTV Video Music Awards
See also
:Category:Record labels established in 2001
References
Category:2001-related lists
Category:Music-related lists
Category:Music by year