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'

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 Triple J Hottest 100

Events

• 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.
• 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] http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fm20020403sm.htm
• 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.
• No new Dynamite Hack album
• The Velvet Revolver forms
• 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

• Pop 'til You drop (US released) - A-Teens
• O, Yeah! The Ultimate Aerosmith Hits - Aerosmith
• Censored page - Christina Aguilera
• The All-American Rejects - The All-American Rejects
• Audioslave - Audioslave
• - Tobias Sammet's Avantasia
• The Process of Belief - Bad Religion (released in Europe in 2001)
• Sea Change - Beck
• Level II - BLACKstreet
• A Night at the Opera - Blind Guardian
• Bounce - Bon Jovi
• Corporate America - Boston
• You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
• The Naked Ride Home - Jackson Browne
• - 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 - Korn
• Waking the Dead - L.A. Guns
• Comalies - Lacuna Coil
• Let Go - Avril Lavigne
• This is Me...Then - Jennifer Lopez
• Warriors of the World - Manowar
• Songs about Jane - Maroon 5 (debut)
• More Than You Think You Are - Matchbox Twenty
• Room for Squares - John Mayer
• Destination Unknown - Mest
• Fever - Kylie Minogue
• Gateways to Annihilation - Morbid Angel
• Under Rug Swept - Alanis Morissette
• 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
• Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
• By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• The Last DJ - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
• Up! - Shania Twain
• Erase The Past - UP SyNDROME
• Maladroit - Weezer
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Broken Hearted - Revolution
• Confession of Love - Revolution
• Dying For the World - W.A.S.P.
• Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

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
• "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

• Patrick Hawes - Blue in Blue

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
• The Sweet Smell of Success      Broadway production
• 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 fever...")
• 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 16 - Eileen Farrell (82), operatic soprano
• March 24 - Dorothy Delay , Juilliard School violin teacher of Itzhak Perlman and Midori
• April 25 - Lisa Lopes, member of TLC
• March 26 - Randy Castillo (41), drummer for Ozzy Osbourne & Mötley Crüe
• June 5th - Dee Dee Ramone, 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 14 - Dave Williams, member of Drowning Pool
• August 31 - Lionel Hampton (94), vibraphone virtuoso
• 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

Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 2002