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See also: 2001 in music, 2002 in music (UK), other events of 2002, 2003 in music, 2000s in music and the list of 'years in music'

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Contents 1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits on record 4 Top 10 selling albums of the year 5 Classical music 6 Opera 7 Musical theater 8 Musical films 9 Births 10 Deaths 11 Awards 11.1 Grammy Awards 11.2 Country Music Association Awards 11.3 Eurovision Song Contest 11.4 Mercury Music Prize 12 Charts 12.1 KROQ 12.2 Triple J Hottest 100

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Events

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

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

• April 23, 2002: Wilco's critically acclaimed fourth album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", is released, debuting at #13.
• June 5 - U.S. soul and R&B singer R. Kelly, was charged with 21 counts of child pornography after a videotape allegedly shows him having sex with an underage girl is broadcast on the Internet.
• June 15 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 10th Annual of the Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Hoobastank, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Eat World, Moby, New Found Glory, P.O.D., Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, The Strokes, System of a Down, Unwritten Law, The Vines, The Violent Femmes and Rob Zombie.
• July 16 - Simon & Garfunkel release the album Live In New York City, 1967, a recording of their live performance at Lincoln Center on 22 January 1967.
• 11–13 October - The fifth Terrastock festival is held in Boston.
• November to December - Die Trying records their self-titled debut album, which was released on June 10, 2003.
• November 29 - The Concert For George is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London as a memorial to George Harrison on the first anniversary of his death, under the musical direction of friend Eric Clapton. Performers included Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston and others. The event benefitted the Material World Charitable Foundation
• December 2 - Peter Garrett leaves Midnight Oil.
• Glastonbury Festival, June 28 to 30. Headline acts: Coldplay, Garbage, Stereophonics, Orbital, Roger Waters, Rod Stewart, Air
• Area 2 Festival, Headline acts: Moby, David Bowie, Busta Rhymes, Ash, Blue Man Group
• Takahiro Nishikawa leaves Dreams Come True on March 24 1
• U2 and Paul McCartney perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI. U2's performance becomes a tribute to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attack.
• Velvet Revolver forms
• Fear Factory disbands
• Megadeth disbands
• Stabbing Westward disbands
• Godflesh disbands
• Apollo Sunshine's musical career begins
• Audioslave's musical career begins
• Rose Falcon's musical career begins
• Beyoncé Knowles' solo career begins
• Zwan's musical career begins

Albums released

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

Top hits on record

• "All I Have" - Jennifer Lopez featuring LL Cool J
• "All the Things She Said" - t.A.T.u.
• "The Anthem" - Good Charlotte
• "Are You In?" - Incubus
• "Breath" - Swollen Members featuring Nelly Furtado
• "Broken Hearted" - Revolution
• "Brother Down" - Sam Roberts
• "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" - Kylie Minogue, Minogue's first American Top 10 single in 14 years.
• "Can't help stop falling in love" - A-Teens
• "Chop Suey!" - System of a Down
• "Cleaning Out My Closet" - Eminem
• "Come Into My World" - Kylie Minogue
• "Complicated" - Avril Lavigne
• "Confession Of Love" - Revolution
• "Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground" - The White Stripes
• "Defy You" - The Offspring
• "Dilemma" - Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland
• "Dirrty" - Christina Aguilera featuring Redman
• "Disease" - Matchbox Twenty
• "Don't Cry For Us" - Justincase (debut single)
• "Don't Walk Away Eileen" - Sam Roberts
• "Everyday" - Bon Jovi
• "Faith In My Heart And Soul" - Holli
• "First Date" - Blink-182
• "Get Ready" - Shawn Desman
• "Get the Party Started" - Pink
• "Gimme the Light" - Sean Paul
• "Girl Talk" - TLC
• "Ketchup Song (Aserejé)" - Las Ketchup
• "Hella Good" - No Doubt
• "Hands Clean" - Alanis Morissette
• "Hey Ma" - Cam'ron
• "Hot in Herre" - Nelly
• "How You Remind Me" - Nickelback
• "I'm Alive" - Céline Dion
• "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" - Shania Twain
• "In My Place" - Coldplay
• "In the End" - Linkin Park
• "Isle Of Dreams" (featuring Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) - Spy Kids
• "Jenny From The Block" - Jennifer Lopez
• "Landslide" - Dixie Chicks
• "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" - Good Charlotte
• "Like I Love You" - Justin Timberlake
• "Little By Little" - Oasis
• "Lose Yourself" - Eminem
• "Love to See You Cry" - Enrique Iglesias
• "Lovely" - Bubba Sparxxx
• "My Sacrifice" - Creed
• "A New Day Has Come" - Céline Dion
• "Opinions" - Mest
• "Rock Steady" - Remy Shand
• "Roll Out (My Business)" - Ludacris
• "The Scientist" - Coldplay
• "Shake It Off" - Jarvis Church
• "She Loves Me Not" - Papa Roach
• "Shut Up" - Kelly Osbourne
• "Sk8er Boi" - Avril Lavigne
• "Soak Up The Sun" - Sheryl Crow
• "Steppin' Thru" - Swollen Members
• "Steve McQueen" - Sheryl Crow
• "Stole" - Kelly Rowland
• "Take a Message" - Remy Shand
• "Thousand Miles" - Vanessa Carlton
• "Through the Rain" - Mariah Carey
• "Underneath It All" - No Doubt
• "The Way I Feel" - Remy Shand
• "Without Me" - Eminem
• "Your Body is a Wonderland" - John Mayer

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2002 (USA)

Top 10 selling albums of the year

1. The Eminem Show - Eminem
2. Nellyville - Nelly
3. Let Go - Avril Lavigne
4. Home - Dixie Chicks
5. 8 Mile - Soundtrack
6. Missundaztood - Pink
7. Ashanti - Ashanti
8. Drive - Alan Jackson
9. Up! - Shania Twain
10. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack

Classical music

• George Crumb - Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (A Little Midnight Music) for piano
• Patrick Hawes - Blue in Blue
• John Kinsella - Cello Concerto
• Theo Loevendie - Clarinet Concerto

Opera

• Friedrich Cerha - Der Riese vom Steinfeld
• Mark-Anthony Turnage - The Silver Tassie

Musical theater

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

Musical films

• Chicago

Births

Deaths

• January 7 - Jon Lee (33), Feeder drummer, suicide.
• January 21 - Peggy Lee, Jazz performer, most famous for song Fever ("You give me feverw/.")
• February 1 - Hildegard Knef (76), actress, singer, writer
• February 13 - Waylon Jennings
• February 24 - Leo Ornstein, composer, 109
• February 27 - Dudley Moore, English composer, pianist and actor
• March 1 - Doreen Waddell, vocalist of bands Soul II Soul and KLF
• March 4 - Mark Vann (39), Leftover Salmon, melanoma
• March 23 - Eileen Farrell (82), operatic soprano
• March 24 - Dorothy Delay, Juilliard School violin teacher of Itzhak Perlman and Midori
• April 5 - Layne Staley, member of Alice in Chains
• April 25 - Lisa Lopes, member of TLC
• April 27 - Hillous Butrum, country musician
• March 26 - Randy Castillo (41), drummer for Ozzy Osbourne & Mötley Crüe
• May 7 - Xavier Montsalvatge, composer
• June 5 - Dee Dee Ramone, 49, The Ramones
• June 27 - John Entwistle (57), bassist for The Who
• June 29 - Rosemary Clooney, US singer and actress
• July 2 - Ray Brown (75), jazz bassist
• July 2 - Earle Brown, composer
• August 2 - Joe Allison, songwriter
• August 14 - Dave Williams, member of Drowning Pool
• August 31 - Lionel Hampton (94), vibraphone virtuoso
• September 20 - Joan Littlewood, impresario
• September 29 - Mickey Newbury, singer, songwriter
• October 24 - Adolph Green, lyricist
• October 30 - Jam Master Jay, member of Run DMC
• November 3 - Lonnie Donegan, musician
• November 21 - Hadda Brooks, U.S. jazz singer, pianist and composer, 86
• December 9 - Mary Hansen, member of Stereolab
• December 22 - Joe Strummer, member of The Clash

Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Isaac Hayes, Brenda Lee, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Gene Pitney, Ramones and the Talking Heads
• Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Pat Boone, and Amy Grant

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 2002

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 2002

Mercury Music Prize

• A Little Deeper - Ms. Dynamite wins.

Charts

KROQ

• KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 2002

Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 2002

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