Timeline of trends in music (2000-present)

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Contents 1 The decade as a whole 1.1 United States and Canada 1.2 Europe 1.3 Australia and New Zealand 1.4 Latin America/Caribbean 1.5 Far East 2 Year by Year 2.1 2000 in music 2.2 2001 in music 2.3 2002 in music 2.4 2003 in music 2.5 2004 in music 2.6 2005 in music 2.7 2006 in music 2.8 2007 in music 3 References

[edit] The decade as a whole

In the world as a whole music genres like Hip-Hop, R&B, pop and Rock are the most popular in this decade.

[edit] United States and Canada

• Hip hop music becomes the most popular musical genre with American youth, replacing rock and roll. Artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye West, Outkast, Lil Jon, 50 Cent, Nelly, and Eminem are the dominant hip-hop artists that have defined the hip-hop genre in this decade thus far. In the beginning of the decade Nas released Stillmatic, an album considered by many hip-hop heads to be a classic, one his best albums since Illmatic. Eminem looks set to become the best selling music artist of the decade selling around 80 million albums by the end of 2006.[1] Distinct regional differences also developed outside the hip-hop/rap strongholds of the 90s, New York City and Los Angeles; while the southern scenes, particularly Atlanta, emerged "crunk" hip-hop, the upper midwest, especially Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit became nationally recognized scenes for more socially conscious hip hop/rap artists, such as Kanye West, Eminem,Atmosphere (music group) Lupe Fiasco, and Common.^{[citation needed]}
• R&B continues to be popular. Artist such as Usher, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys are all popular mainstream R&B artist in the 2000s. The style is sometimes fueled by combination with Rap or hip-hop beats. Pop R&B, along with hip hop, dominates mainstream music in the earlier part of the mid '00s. Neo-soul is also popular during the early part of the decade.
• Rock has remained very popular, despite the increasing popularity of hip-hop and rap music. It has recently significantly recovered, however, from its all time low in 2004 (23.9% of the music market) [2].
  • The popularity of nu metal music carried over from the late 1990s. Limp Bizkit continues to produce hits early in the decade, but faded from the scene after about 2003, while KoЯn only increased in popularity, and continues to produce hits from its latest album, See You on the Other Side (2005). Papa Roach and Linkin Park were introduced to the nu metal scene near the beginning of the decade, with both becoming instant hits with their debut albums (Infest and Hybrid Theory respectively), both in 2000. Both have since waned in popularity, along with nu metal as a whole.
  • Pop-punk music, although popular in the 1990s, evolved in the 2000s and exploded into mainstream success. This started mainly with Blink-182's breakthrough album Enema of the State (1999). This was followed by a glut of pop-punk bands overwhelming the airwaves, with such pop-punk bands as Sum 41, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, and Yellowcard all achieving breakthrough success from 2001-2003. Green Day, highly popular during the 90s, released American Idiot in 2004, featuring a more modern pop-punk sound and drawing a huge new fanbase, but was also criticized for "selling out" by many previous fans. Emo music, which has proven difficult to define, sprouted from this pop-punk popularity, with such bands as Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! At The Disco breaking out in 2004 and 2005. Although emo is accepted as a popular breakthrough genre with the youth, widespread disagreement has ensued on which bands should be considered emo and which pop-punk or pop-rock with fans of bands often rejecting the emo label. My Chemical Romance, with their 2004 breakthrough album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, is the band that receives the "emo" tag most.
  • In the metal world, a new form of metal that fused heavy metal and thrash with hardcore punk called metalcore achieved popularity. Bands such as Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Trivium, and many others achieved success with the Ozzfest crowd.
  • In the alternative rock/indie rock world, a post-punk revival led by acts such as Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and The White Stripes took place.
  • Throughout the decade, the post-grunge sound remained popular on adult alternative, modern rock, and pop radio stations alike. The Foo Fighters was one of the few post-grunge bands that carried over their success from the 1990s and only increased in popularity with their 2005 album In Your Honor. Nickelback achieved mainstream success from their hit #1 single "How You Remind Me" from their album Silver Side Up (2001). All of their albums since have achieved multi-platinum success, with several songs from All the Right Reasons (2005) achieving widespread airplay. Staind also achieved success in 2001 with their breakout single "It's Been Awhile" from the album Break the Cycle (2001), and remain popular to this day. Seether, with Disclaimer (2002), and Shinedown, with Us and Them (2005), have been among the more recent entries into the mainstream post-grunge world. Hinder is the most recent entry with its breakthrough hit "Lips of an Angel" from their debut album Extreme Behavior (2005).
  • Many popular rock artists of the 90s remained popular, and some even gained more popularity throughout the decade, such as Green Day, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Foo Fighters, Tool, and Weezer.
  • Additionally, veteran rock acts such as Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones, and U2 continued to make innovative recordings, launched record-setting world tours, and achieved high levels of success.
• Pop. Some styles of the 1990s remain strong and even trendy, except for a few such as the girl and boy bands/teen pop of the late '90s that declined in popularity during the early part of the '00s. Most of this can be attributed to the criticism of the genre's "fakeness" and "shallowness" and the growing up of its fanbase. Several artists of the era (i.e. Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Simpson) still maintain a strong presence on the charts and in the media. The teen pop genre morphed into a more adult-alternative or pop-rock oriented sound early on in the decade. In 2002, this new "teen pop rock" movement began. Michelle Branch was arguably the first artist to take this new direction in pop music, with her contemporaries such as Avril Lavigne and Vanessa Carlton not far behind. Soon, every female vocalist had to have a band backing their vocals up instead of processed computer beats. American Idol winners become a big part of the American pop sound, but only one winner became a staple. Kelly Clarkson experienced huge success and tons of hit radio singles with her pop-rock sound. The younger sibling of Jessica Simpson, Ashlee Simpson, experienced a breakthrough success with her teen pop-rock sound as well. Circa mid to late 2000s genres are merging more and more and it's the songs that combine hip-hop/pop/r&b/dance (for example Promiscuous (song), SexyBack, SOS (Rihanna song), My Love, London Bridge (Fergie song), Show Stopper, Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song), Buttons (song)) that are topping the charts. Older songs tht reflect this style of music is Thong Song and Bump Bump Bump.

• Pop country slips in mainstream popularity in the early 2000s, due partly to the public retirement of Garth Brooks. However, the upper part of the Billboard album charts generally has many country albums, including some that go more than double platinum, indicating that the genre has a strong niche in the music industry. The genre grows during the mid 2000s from artists such as Carrie Underwood, who became the first American Idol winner to go into country instead of Pop or R&B. Artists that were popular during the decade were mostly artists who were already successful in the 90s, but the artists include: Dixie Chicks, Rascal Flatts, Toby Keith, Gretchen Wilson, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Kenny Chesney among others.

• Adult Contemporary music, by artists such as Norah Jones, Vanessa Carlton, Natasha Bedingfield, Nick Lachey, Rob Thomas, James Blunt, and Daniel Powter continues to be popular.

• Dance music (house, techno, trance, drum 'n' bass) becomes mainstream in America. A number of little-known House and Trance songs appear in the popular video game Dance Dance Revolution as Dance artists such as Madonna and Kylie Minogue continue to become popular throughout the decade. Many dance remixes of past euro-dance or ballad hits from the past appear between 2004-2006 such as the 2004 hit Call On Me by Eric Prydz, Fading Like A Flower by Dancing Deejays or Everywhere from Bonnie Bailey. These past hits have been enhanced with modern beats to be able to fit in mainstreem and also to be played in parties and night clubs.

• Ska becomes widely listened to in punk, and alternative circles.

• Ethnic music, especially in near tropical locations is mainstream for most of the early to mid '00s, especially in the rise of Reggaeton and Reggae artist Sean Paul in the mid-2000s. In 2005-2006 Diplo brings Baile Funk to mainstream dance culture from Brazil. The rise of Matisyahu, a Hasidic Jewish reggae artist who rose to semi-stardom beginning in 2004, created a marked interest in reggae among average American music-lovers.^{[citation needed]}

• Sales of CDs in 2005 in the U.S. decline drastically from the teen-pop era of the late 1990s-early 2000s. Some people who grew up listening to 1970s, 1980s, or even 1990s music claim the music industry is going for a younger audience in the 2000s that it has in decades past which might be leading to this drop in record sales. However, music industry executives claim the drop in CD sales is due to mp3 players (such as the iPod), and increasing popularity and access to music online such as the use of Napster.

• The musical style of the 1970s and 1980s begins to influence pop music in the middle of the decade, as seen in Rihanna's hit S.O.S. (a sampling of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love), as well as in Jessica Simpson's album A Public Affair, which is a mix of 1970s-influenced music (A Public Affair (song)) and 1980s music (Simpson's cover of You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)). Madonna released a non-stop dance album in mid-2000s, Confessions on a Dance Floor, with songs reminiscent of ABBA, Saturday Night Fever, and even some of her earliest work in the 1980s, (especially her punk-rock debut album, Madonna).

• Children's music rises significantly in sales [3], with acts such as The Wiggles becoming successful.

[edit] Europe

• Rise in Electronica of 1990s style, such as trance and drum 'n' bass
• Electro, as well as music that combines it with House becomes mainstream in the dance music scene in the middle of the decade, replacing the mainstream of more jazzy and Latin influenced sounds from the beginning of the decade
• Post-Britpop bands such as Coldplay, Keane and Snow Patrol top the album charts during the decade.
• Boybands do not exactly die out, but they evolve into teen pop-rock/pop punk acts, with artists such as Busted.
• Animated musicians become popular, with the likes of Crazy Frog, Gorillaz, and Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil.
• Return of indie rock groups evoking the late 1970s or 1980s, such as Franz Ferdinand and the Kaiser Chiefs.
• In Germany, music sung in German becomes more mainstream as bands such as Wir Sind Helden, Juli, Rosenstolz and Silbermond become popular.
• Teen pop such as Hilary Duff, Aly & AJ, and the Backstreet Boys continues to be popular, although US-influenced R&B, hip-hop, and emo music is popular during the middle of the decade.
• Grunge Revival with new bands like Nine Black Alps or older bands like Pearl Jam

• PopThe musical style of the 1970s and 1980s begins to influence pop music in the middle of the decade, as seen in Rihanna's hit S.O.S. (a sampling of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love), as well as in Jessica Simpson's album A Public Affair, which is a mix of 1970s-influenced music (A Public Affair (song)) and 1980s music (Simpson's cover of You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)). Madonna released a non-stop dance album in mid-2000s, Confessions on a Dance Floor, with songs reminiscent of ABBA, Saturday Night Fever, and even some of her earliest work in the 1980s, Jamelia "Beware Of The Dog" released in 2007 contains a sample from "Personal Jesus" of Depeche Mode

[edit] Australia and New Zealand

• Many new rock and alternative groups/bands form during the early years of this decade, consisting of 2 or 3 - 7 to 10 members. Instruments are almost always a guitar, drums, bass and sometimes keyboards, reviving youth interest in these instruments. Groups/bands such as The Vines and Jet become very popular amongst others around 2002 - 2003, paving the way for a mass of new groups midway through the decade such as, Evermore, Wolfmother and many others. This is speculated to result in a major breakthrough of the genre in Australia later in the decade similar to the grunge scene in the United States in the early 90s.

• Rock and Hip Hop remain the most popular music genre amongst youth in Australia and New Zealand, particularly Hip Hop, Rap and R&B, although later in the decade these genres lose favour to rock and alternative.

• Pop and Rock remain the most widely played genre's on mainstream radio stations. Most popular being the likes of the Australian Idol contestants, Delta Goodrem and The Veronicas

• Podcasting becomes popular in the later years of this decade with many radio stations podcasting several sections of their shows.

• Bands such as The Living End become increasingly popular amongst a new generation of youth, spurring interest in a sort of punk style revival.

• Popular American television show, The O.C., popularises many alternative Australian and New Zealand alternative rock bands by playing their music during the show. These bands include, Youth Group and Evermore.

[edit] Latin America/Caribbean

• Rise of reggaeton hip hop, and Bachata music

[edit] Far East

• J-pop and K-pop becomes increasingly influenced by hip hop music and Rock and Roll.
• The Chinese metal scene is disrupted by the SARS scare in 2003.

• Legal music downloads take off as Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store sells more than 1 billion songs in 3 years, as of 2006.
• Psychedelic trance replaces Goa trance and gains popularity.
• Teen pop of the late 90s variety peaks and falls within first three years of decade, with a few exceptions. This style of music will dramatically rise in the late part of the decade, and this happening right now with artists such as Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana and Aly & AJ.
• Eminem is the best selling music artist on the planet to date from the 00's so far.
• Nu metal hits peak around 2000-2001, declines by end of 2004 but still exists in the present as of 2006 in the underground, indie world of music.
• Rock music places itself in mainstream music again.
• The popularity of Hip hop in America rises to astronomical heights, beginning to surpass pop rock; crunk, bling become household words by 2003.^{[citation needed]}
• Reality TV shows such as Pop Idol and American Idol create a new generation of pop stars.
• Punk makes a revival in a pop punk form, in 2002 with Simple Plan, Sum 41, and Good Charlotte, older acts such as blink-182 and Green Day continue the act in 2004 and beyond.
• New Wave and Synth-pop return with The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party and other bands. This style of music is sometimes referred to as NuPop or indie.
• Indie Rock becomes more mainstream in the U.S. and Britain .
• Classic Rock re-enters the mainstream by music downloads and greatest hits/best of CD releases, as well as numerous radio airplays.
• In non-English speaking countries British and American artists begin to take over the market, with fewer native language singles released by the year.

[edit] Year by Year

[edit] 2000 in music

• International trends
  • Pop albums dominate the charts and set records for sales - Backstreet Boys (Black & Blue), Madonna (Music), *NSYNC (No Strings Attached), Britney Spears (Oops!... I Did It Again), Spice Girls (Forever), Nelly (Country Grammar), Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera), Creed (Human Clay), Destiny's Child (The Writing's on the Wall), Faith Hill (Breathe), Bon Jovi (Crush), No Doubt (Return of Saturn) Mariah Carey (Rainbow) release top-selling albums.
• Music of Finland
  • Bomfunk MC's ("Freestyler"), HIM and TikTak succeed in bringing Finnish rock to the fringes of the mainstream in Europe.
• Music of the United States
  • O Brother Where Art Thou (soundtrack) is a surprise success, bringing bluegrass to the fringes of the mainstream.
  • Nu Metal becomes a standard.
  • Grunge rock dies, but the more commercial post-grunge remains strong as of 2005.
  • No Strings Attached by NSYNC sells over 2.41 million copies and goes double platinum in its first week of release, the highest debut week total in US History. As of 2005, no album has even sold over 2 million in a week, much less 2.5 million.
  • Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP was the fastest selling hip-hop album in the world.
  • Political rock band Rage Against the Machine breaks up after three albums and talk of a fourth live album.
  • Madonna makes another comeback album with Music, which hits number one on the U.S. album charts and becomes her number one album since Like A Prayer.
  • Billy Corgan, lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the ever popular 90's explosion, The Smashing Pumpkins, announces at the last stop of their tour, that it would be "The last time we see you as a group," as cited by Corgan. However, as of late 2006, it appears a new album and tour are on the way.
  • Britney Spears sets the record for highest first-week sales for females in the history of music with 1.3 million copies of Oops!...I Did It Again sold, a record which still stands today.
  • Radiohead release their 4th studio album Kid A. It reaches #1 in the US with practically no promotion.
  • Aaliyah topped the Billboard Hot 100 with her single Try Again that made her to make a history in Billboard being the first song to top on the chart based solely on the strength of it's radio airplay.

[edit] 2001 in music

• International trends
  • R&B singer and actress Aaliyah and 8 friends including the pilot died in a plane crash in August 25 after shooting the music video for Rock the Boat.After her death, her album pushed to number 1.After few months, her song More Than A Woman became number 1 in UK making her the first deceased artist to top on the chart.
  • Alkaline Trio released their album From Here To Infirmary their third best selling album, behind Good Mourning which reached number 24 for 2003, and their album Crimson which reached number 25 for 2005.
  • Napster's popularity peaks.
  • Apple Computer introduces the first generation iPod.
• Music of Canada
  • With the opening of the first urban-format radio station in Canada (CFXJ Flow 93.5 in Toronto), Canadian hip hop finally enters the mainstream en masse.
• Music of the United States
  • Important releases from System of a Down (Toxicity) and Tool (Lateralus) define the burgeoning hard rock scene; Linkin' Park's Hybrid Theory is the top-selling album of the year in the United States.
  • Nu metal hits its peak of viability with the success of Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Korn, and Limp Bizkit.

[edit] 2002 in music

• International trends
  • Electroclash becomes extremely popular in the US, Germany, Australia and the UK. Artists such as Felix da Housecat, the Scissor Sisters, and Peaches are played constantly in nightclubs similar to Larry Tee's Club Luxx.
  • Shakira starts to sing in English, with the single Whenever, Wherever and her album laundry Service achieving top ten status in the US, UK and Australia.
  • Enrique Iglesias makes his UK breakthrough with the album Escape and the single Hero. Iglesias became the first Latino to have a #1 album in the UK as well as the first Latino to have a #1 single and album simulatneously on the charts. This also made Iglesias the first person to have to have #1 single and album simultaneouly since the Spice Girls five years prior. Iglesias would also be the best selling act in Australia in 2002 and one of the Top 10 in Europe. He would later set further sales records with his Spanish album Quizas.
  • Aaliyah topped the UK Singles Chart with "More Than A Woman" for a week.

• Music of the United States
  • Eminem's album The Eminem Show dominates the charts.
  • Traditional-styled R&B groups such as Dru Hill and Jagged Edge experience decreasing sales and popularity.
  • Boy bands begin to die out. Girl groups such as No Secrets and Destiny's Child peak.
  • Tolkien novelty hip hop act Lords of The Rhymes release the video "Lords of the Rhymes" on Atomfilms.com the month The Two Towers comes out; downloads of songs on their site exceed 300,000 by 2005.
  • Avril Lavigne starts the "sk8er girl" trend and brings back the alternative rock sound, especially in the teen pop genre.
  • Punk pop starts to soar up the charts as Avril Lavigne releases Let Go simultaneously with Good Charlotte's The Young and the Hopeless and Simple Plan's No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls.
  • Rap/Sung collaborations reach an all time high in popularity, through singles such as Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule's "Ain't It Funny", Ashanti and Ja Rule's "Always On Time", and most definitely with Nelly and Kelly Rowland's "Dilemma". All of these singles reached number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, with "Dilemma" spending eight weeks in the top position. Another rise of this trend takes place again in 2006.^{[citation needed]}
  • Norah Jones breakthrough album Come Away With Me soars to new heights with her immense single Don't Know Why opening the door to major popularity in mainstream music of vocal and jazz style music. Norah Jones is recognized as one of the most talented new artists of the decade along with Alicia Keys and her jazzy R&B Hit album Songs in A Minor and its number 1 single Fallin the previous year.
  • Enrique Iglesias album Quizas album goes to #12 on Billboard's Album Chart, making it the highest placement of a Spanish album on the chart at the time. The double platinum album came after his three times platinum English album Escape. The third single from Quizas, Para Que La Vida reaches a million spins on US radio, the first Spanish language song to do so.
  • Aaliyah's first compilation album, "I Care 4 U" was released. In 2003, it's single, "Miss You" became a massive hit, topping on Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-hop Tracks for 3 weeks and peaked #3 on Billboard Hot 100.

[edit] 2003 in music

• Music of the United States
  • The Black Eyed Peas break out to the mainstream pop world with the release of their 3rd album "Elephunk". The first single "Where Is The Love?" becomes a hit with a little help of Fergie and Justin Timberlake.
  • Lil Jon's "crunk" style of Southern hip hop becomes nationally popular.
  • Garage rock from The White Stripes, The Vines, and The Hives rises to popularity.
  • Beyoncé rules the airwaves in 2003 with her singles "Crazy In Love" and "Baby Boy", which top the Hot 100 for 8 weeks and 9 weeks, respectively. Her album goes over 4x platinum and earns her 5 Grammy Awards.
  • Apple Computer introduces the iTunes Music Store, the first ever legal internet music store that received popular acclaim. As of 2006, it has sold more than 1 billion songs.
  • Unique alternative rock band Evanescence explodes into the mainstream with ultra-popular single "Bring Me to Life" featured on their album Fallen. They go on to receive two grammies and a 6X Platinum RIAA certification of Fallen.
  • New teen pop artists, especially ones from movies produced by Disney and Warner Brothers such as Hilary Duff and the Cheetah Girlsflourish. Another burst of teen pop artists takes place circa 2007.
  • After a controversial performance together, Britney Spears and Madonna duet together on the song Me Against The Music, the first single off Spears' fourth album, In The Zone
  • Britney Spears sets the record as the first artist in music history to debut at number one on the Billboard Album Charts four times in a row.
• Music of the United Kingdom
  • The word grime is coined all over the music press. An offshoot of UK Garage, grime took the broken rhythm template from the genre and took it to new sonic heights, at the same time taking cues from the Garage Rap style of So Solid Crew or More Fire Crew. Although The Streets' Original Pirate Material album had already been very successful on a mainstream and critical level a year earlier while already sharing much of the same trademarks, it was the sudden rise of East London MC Dizzee Rascal that truly put the term in vogue. His debut album Boy in Da Corner won the prestigious Mercury Prize, beating strong competition such as Radiohead's Hail to the Thief, Coldplay's A Rush Of Blood To The Head or The Darkness' Permission To Land, selling around 150 000 copies in the UK alone and spawning the hit singles "I Luv U", "Fix Up, Look Sharp" and "Jus' A Rascal". In his wake, artists like Wiley (a member of the Roll Deep crew, of which Dizzee was once a member), Kano or Lady Sovereign start getting some media coverage, readily prompting claims that grime was becoming to 2003 what Drum & Bass had been to British music roughly a decade earlier. But despite not only strong media coverage as well as fierce underground support, real mainstream recognition was still eluding the scene by the mid-2000s.
• Music of Australia
  • Australian artist Delta Goodrem releases her debut album Innocent Eyes, which stayed at #1 on the Australian ARIA charts for a record 29 weeks. The album was eventually certified 14x Platinum. The album broke a record for having all 5 singles reach #1.
  • Michael O'Connor (Rugby player) is the first Australian footballer to release an ARIA recognized single. His song "Dis Kat Got Klaws", from album "Nawty Biatch", makes the top ten after five weeks.
  • The first series of Australian Idol aired on Network Ten, with winner Guy Sebastian's debut album Just As I Am shipping 6x Platinum. The following year, runner-up Shannon Noll released his debut album That's What I'm Talking About which went 4x Platinum. Noll has since outsold Sebastian.^{[citation needed]}
• Music of Germany
  • While British dance and electronic music starts entering a crisis from which has not really recovered by the middle of the decade, Germany (especially the city of Berlin) becomes the new hotbed of the genre. Among the most important artists, people like Ellen Allien, Michael Mayer, Superpitcher, Dominik Eulberg, M.A.N.D.Y. or Tiefschwarz bring the sound of techno, minimal and a hybrid called electro house to the forefront. Tiefschwarz in particular become quite trendy due to a quite large number of remixes which get played by a majority of the big and most important DJs in the business.

[edit] 2004 in music

• Music of the United States
  • After an extended absence, female R&B group Destiny's Child released the new album Destiny Fulfilled, following solo releases from all three members.
  • Gwen Stefani of the ska-pop group No Doubt goes solo. Her album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. goes triple platinum.^[1]
  • Green Day resolidify their viability with the blockbuster American Idiot after years of declining popularity.
  • Usher has the #1 song of the year, "Yeah!" with Lil' Jon and Ludacris. It spends twelve weeks at #1. He also has three more #1 hits this year with "Confessions Pt. 2", "Burn", and "My Boo", a duet with Alicia Keys. His singles "Lovers and Friends" and "Caught Up" also become top 10 hits, peaking at #3 and #7, respectively. His album goes on to sell nine million copies by 2005.
  • Ashlee Simpson, younger sister of pop star Jessica Simpson, releases her successful debut album, Autobiography. Ashlee's reputation takes a nosedive after it is discovered that she used a back-up track (lipsynch) during her performance on Saturday Night Live.
  • The popular band Phish announce their split.
  • Apple Computer introduces the iPod Mini, the most popular variation of its best-selling iPod. It becomes the world's best selling DAP and still is, as of 2006.
  • A massive 1980s comeback in music take place, especially in artists such as Franz Ferdinand and Interpol.
  • Alternative rock enters mainstream after a five year break.^{[citation needed]}

• Music of Ireland
  • U2 release their highly successful How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb album.

• Music of the United Kingdom
  • New Wave makes a comeback with Franz Ferdinand.
  • After 7 years without a record deal Morrissey releases his 7th solo album You Are the Quarry and reaches #2 in the British music charts.

• Music of Australia
  • Delta Goodrem releases her second album Mistaken Identity after a brief battle with cancer. The album debuted at #1 and went 5x Platinum.
  • Missy Higgins and rock band Jet release their multi platinum debut albums. Jet also achieve international success, with their single Are You Gonna Be My Girl? reaching the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100.
  • Australian Idol runner up Anthony Callea released his hit single The Prayer, which has gone on to be the biggest selling Australian single of all time. His self titled album proved to be a success as well.

[edit] 2005 in music

• International trends
  • The Black Eyed Peas go triple platinum with "Monkey Business", which gave them four big hits: "Don't Phunk With My Heart", "Don't Lie", "Pump It" and the second most downloaded song of all time (only preceded by "Hollaback Girl") "My Humps"
  • Live 8 concerts held twenty years after Live Aid.
• Music of the United States
  • Britney Spears wins her first Grammy award with her smash single Toxic.
  • "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani becomes the most-downloaded online single ever released, becoming the first single to go platinum in online sales. The next single, "Cool", is only a moderate success. "Cool" did nonetheless go to #1 in Canada.
  • Popular post-grunge acts of the 1990s continue to sell, led by the success of Foo Fighters.
  • 'Emo', led by the likes of Hawthorne Heights, Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance gains popularity.
  • The final album by deceased rapper Notorious B.I.G was released by Bad Boy Records. It featured many guest appearances, and contained over 20 songs and skits. It sold around 6 million copies.^{[citation needed]}
  • Mariah Carey becomes popular again after her highly publicised breakdown early in the decade, mainly due to the success of "We Belong Together." This becomes one of the most successful songs of the decade, spending 14 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100. The song also breaks several major airplay records.^{[citation needed]} On December 31, "Don't Forget About Us" reaches #1, becoming Mariah's 17th #1. This milestone places Mariah equal second in the list of artists with the most Hot 100 #1's. Second place is shared with Elvis Presley, and only The Beatles, with 20, have more #1 hits.
  • Midwestern pop rock outfit Fall Out Boy release the very popular "Sugar, We're Goin' Down." Their album From Under The Cork Tree goes platinum by October, continuing to strenthen the 'emo' trend.
  • Cream reunites for a series of four shows at the Royal Albert Hall on May 2, 3, 5, and 6. It is the first time Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker have played together since their 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cream also plays three shows at Madison Square Garden on October 24, 25, and 26.
  • Kelly Clarkson, winner of the first season of American Idol enjoys her biggest success in 2005, with four top-ten singles. She is named "Artist of the Year" at the American Music Awards. Her album remains a huge-seller, remaining in the Top 20 for over a year.
  • Madonna begins a massive worldwide comeback, Confessions On A Dancefloor debuts at #1 with sales of 350K. "Hung Up" becomes a massive download hit. The song reaches #1 on iTunes, and gives Madonna her 36th US Hot 100 Top 10 single, tying her with Elvis Presley as the act with the most US Top 10 singles. The hit also reaches #1 in more than 30 countries around the world, including the UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia.
  • Kate Bush returned to music after a 12-year absence with the hugely acclaimed Aerial album, which became a commercial success and one of the year's most critically-revered albums.
  • Rock bands such as U2, The Rolling Stones and Bon Jovi start touring again, to much critical acclaim.
  • Coldplay releases their 3rd album X&Y, which was the top selling album of 2005. They also kicked off a large world tour that ended in June 2006

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• • Backstreet Boys make a big comeback with a new manager, Jay Orpin, and a successful single "Incomplete," which reached number 1 in Canada and Australia, and reached the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100.
  • Matisyahu brings Jewish-based reggae to the popular arena with his album Live at Stubb's.
  • Dropkick Murphys release their album The Warrior's Code which reached number 48 in the United States, their highest position on the charts since their album Blackout two years earlier.
  • System of a Down releases two albums (Mezmerize and Hypnotize) that both debut at #1 on the Billboard 200, a feat not accomplished since rapper DMX did it in 1998.
  • The Pussycat Dolls release their self-titled debut album PCD and become one of the most popular all-female groups since the Spice Girls.
  • Popular 90's nu-metal band Korn are still going in their 13th year, with the release of See You on the Other Side in December and their Family Values Tour festival, despite a guitarist leaving their band years before, and health problems with Jonathon Davis, their lead singer.
• Music of Australia
  • Pop group The Veronicas release their debut album The Secret Life Of... which has since produced 5 hit singles and has been certified 4x Platinum.
  • Rogue Traders, an electro pop rock band unveiled their new lineup, fronted by Neighbours star Natalie Bassingthwaighte. They scored one of the biggest songs of the year with Voodoo Child. Their album Here Come The Drums has produced a further 4 hit singles and has been certified 3x Platinum.
  • Australian Idol series one runner up Shannon Noll releases his second album Lift. The album debuts at #1 and has been certified 3x Platinum. The album provided Noll with 4 top ten hits over the next year.
  • Wolfmother's self-titled album has a record-breaking six tracks in Australian youth culture media outlet, Triple J's Hottest 100, as well as winning the inaugural J Award.
  • Bernard Fanning gets Number One in the Hottest 100 with his song "Wish You Well".

[edit] 2006 in music

• The popularity of hip-hop, particularly in the USA markedly decreases from previous years. In particular, album sales decline, with only one hip-hop album (Eminem's Curtain Call: The Hits) in Billboard's top 10 bestselling albums of the year, a marked difference from every previous year of the decade. The dominance of the genre on the singles charts is also considerably less than in previous years. Instead, there is a rise in the popularity of pop and adult contemporary recordings, with tracks by Daniel Powter, James Blunt and Natasha Bedingfield all reaching the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 of 2006.
• Pure Pop and Teen pop music re-enters the mainstream after a three year break, but is still the sound is still dominated by other genres. New teen pop artists such as Aly & AJ enter mainstream.

The Disney movie High School Musical abruptly brought the genre back.

• Pop-punk peaks and gradually dies out and teen pop and singer songwriter, along with urban music gradually becomes the new face of Top 40 music.
• Many underground artists and singer-songwriters such as Gavin DeGraw and John Legend increase in popularity in both Europe and the United States. Individuality in music increases in popularity, along with an older chord structure.^{[citation needed]}
• Electronic Music continues its rise into mainstream music, especially in Europe where Röyksopp's "Curves" is massive hit.
• Reggaeton, a musical style most frequently associated with Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon, gains popularity in the United States and many Latin American countries.
• Queen, with Paul Rodgers taking over lead vocals, tour the UK and the US.
• A slight 1940s nostalgia is shown in many pop and R&B artists, such as Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, and the Black Eyed Peas.
• Tool releases their greatly anticipated 10,000 Days album to commercial success, showing that Progressive rock can still survive in the mainstream.
• Incubus releases their first album in a couple years Light Grenades. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 165,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week; it is the band's first number one album.
• Pearl Jam makes a comeback with the fiery hit single "World Wide Suicide" off their new self-titled album, considered to be their best since 1994's Vitalogy.
• Alternative rock band Evanescence releases follow-up album to 2003's Fallen, The Open Door, which debuts at #1 in the US and sells more than 447,000 copies in the first week alone.
• The debut self-named album of British singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae from Virgin records gives music a new touch of her soft rock style
• Emo/screamo bands, such as Underoath begin to become more exploited.^{[citation needed]}
• Billboard charts, particularly the Hot 100 experience a rapid turnover of number 1 hits, mainly due to the introduction of digital sales figures. 2006 also sees an increase in the number of high debuts on the Hot 100, with 14 songs debuting in the top 30 by August 2006.
• James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" hits #1 on the Hot 100, becoming the first British artist to top the Hot 100 since Elton John almost nine years earlier. Blunt is also the first non-urban or American idol-based artist to reach Number 1 since Nickelback in 2001. Canadian Daniel Powter, another non-urban, non-Idol artist, hits #1 a few weeks later with his single Bad Day.
• Hardcore artists begin to hit the alternative charts (Underoath's Define The Great Line selling 100,000 copies in its first week.)
• Chicago-based alternative band Smashing Pumpkins announce their reunification under lead singer Billy Corgan.
• The Red Hot Chili Peppers release their highly anticipated album "Stadium Arcadium", their first since 2002. The album, propelled by the highly successful first single "Dani California," reaches number 1 in more than twenty countries around the world.
• Madonna is expected to become the first female artist with the highest grossing concert tour in history of $200 million with her Confessions Tour according to Billboard magazine.
• R&B Singers such as Ginuwine and Donell Jones experience declining popularity.
• D4L and Dem Franchize Boyz usher in the subgenre of Snap Rap.
• Ex-Blink 182 artists form two new bands; Tom DeLonge (ex Blink-182 guitarist) with Angels and Airwaves, Mark Hoppus (ex Blink-182 bassist) & Travis Barker (ex Blink-182 drummer) with +44
• Shakira's Hips Don't Lie (featuring Wyclef Jean) tops the United World Chart for 16 weeks, a new record.
• Hardcore dance finally finds its way into mainstream dance, after ten years of underground events, with chart releases from popular movements including Slammin Vinyl, HTID (Hardcore 'Til I Die), Euphoria, and Ministry of sound often frequenting the UK album charts for many weeks.
• Only two artists this year are able to achieve more than one Billboard Hot 100 number one hits. They are Justin Timberlake with Sexyback" and "My Love", and Beyoncé Knowles with "Check On It" and "Irreplaceable"
• Muse's fourth album Black Holes and Revelations debuts at #10 on the Billboard charts, continuing the rise in popularity of British based rock bands such as Radiohead and Coldplay.
• There is a diversification in popular music, with genres previously unpopular appearing on top 40 lists, for example soul with Gnarls Barkley, and the return of Heavy Metal with Iron Maiden.
• Peter Bjorn and John - a Swedish indie rock band - releases Writer's Block, an album featuring the song, Young Folks. Young Folks, as well as the album in general, receive quite significant popularity across the globe.
• Debut artist KT Tunstall becomes a major adult contemporary success entering the billboard top 40 with alternative rock songs Black Horse and Cheryy Tree and Suddenly I See
• Regina Spektor's 2nd studio album on Sire Records, Begin to Hope, gives mainstream music a taste of her unique piano-alternative sound with the single Fidelity reaching #51

• Music of Australia
  • Former Australian Idol contestants Paulini(season one), Ricki Lee(season two), Kate DeAraugo (winner- season three) and Emily Williams(runner up- season three) came together to become the Young Divas. After the surprise success of a sell out tour and the platinum selling single This Time I Know It's For Real there was a demand for a second single. Their recording label instead commissioned an album. The self titled album contains cover versions of songs by former divas such as Gloria by Laura Branigan, It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls and Flashdance (What A Feeling). The album debuted at #4.

[edit] 2007 in music

• Teen pop continues to rise in popularity and the targeted age rise for more of the people older than 14. New teen pop artists hit the charts such as Miley Cyrus, Ashley Tisdale, LAX, and many more. Almost all music on the current top 40 list has been either been played on Radio Disney or on the adult contemporary stations, with the exception for some, but not all urban music
• Pop/rock music begins to outnumber hip hop in popularity with such artists as Stone Sour, My Chemical Romance, Evanescence, Daughtry, Blue October, Augustana, Gym Class Heroes, Hinder, Nickelback, Gwen Stefani, Pink, Relient K, Katherine McPhee, Hilary Duff, Miley Cyrus and many others.
• Christian music artists such as Relient K, Aly & AJ, Lifehouse, Starfield, POD, Red, and Shinedown rise in popularity.
• Musical styles from older decades combined with new trends become extremely popular, especially from such decades such as the 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, and the early 1980s, along with remakes of older songs such as "Baby Come Back To Me." and "Cupid's Chokehold"
• Joke music (Novelty songs) remains mildly popular, while comedian songs enjoy a slight increase in popularity.
• Bands like The Fray, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, The Killers, and Keane enjoy an explosion of popularity.
• The rise of Independent Record Labels or "Indie Labels", open the door for obscure bands/artists and reached peak success in 2006-2007 with the digital age of music distribution over the internet. 30% of internet radio play is drawn from independent artists and labels without major label distribution. Manufactured pop slowly declines in the second half of the decade. Consumers are finding new and easy ways to get new and obscure music, as the major label strangle hold on pop cultre loosens and shifts to a much younger demographic. CD sales drop as the mp3 file format continues to gain popularity.
• Arcade Fire release their highly anticipated sophomore album, Neon Bible. It is well received by both critics and public, debuting at #2 on Billboard.
• Electronica, dance pop, New Wave, minimal synth, and synthpop (a.k.a Max Martin sound) elements increase in many areas of music, including pop, rock, alternative, hip hop, and R&B, especially due to the significant rise in teen pop that started in 2006 with the movie, High School Musical. Artists include Justin Timberlake, Regina Spektor, Gym Class Heroes, Young Love, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, Backstreet Boys, Hilary Duff, Lily Allen, Keane, Sean Paul, Hellogoodbye, Nelly Furtado, Blue October, Lloyd, Seal, Vanessa Hudgens, Katherine McPhee, Gwen Stefani, Diddy, T-Pain, Fergie, Jonas Brothers, A Girl Called Jane, LAX, MIMS, and Ashley Tisdale. This trend was also popular in the year 2000 with artists such as Cher and the Backstreet Boys and this trend is gradually coming back in 2006 and 2007.
• Klaxons start the New Rave movement mixing dance-punk,indie rock and rave vibes.Nas "hip hop is dead" statement starts to cause controversy. Also it causes some people to listen to underground rap instead of mainstream.

[edit] References

1. ^ Hooper, Joseph. ELLE. "Escape Artist". Retrieved February 27, 2007.