2004 In Music Information
planned to combat bootleggers. The album sells 710,000 copies in only three days and becomes Eminem's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the billboard charts.
- November 16- Destiny's Child released their the fourth and final studio album Destiny Fulfilled by Columbia Records in North America.
- November 24 - Brian & Eric Hoffman leave Deicide after a royalties dispute.
- November 30 - Jay-Z and Linkin Park's album Collision Course debuts at number #01 at the Billboard 200, and the album converted in the most selling CD/DVD of that year.
December
- Ned's Atomic Dustbin begins touring with 5 upcoming shows.
- December 7 - Lindsay Lohan releases her début album Speak
- December 8 - Dimebag Darrell is murdered on stage while performing in Columbus, Ohio.
- December 11–12 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 15th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas with Chevelle, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hoobastank, Incubus, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Music, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, The Shins, The Used, and Velvet Revolver.
- December 14 - Clint Lowery leaves Sevendust due to fights with band about gaining control of the band and doubts of the band's future after being released from their label TVT Records.
Unknown
- Jack Owen leaves Cannibal Corpse to Focus on Adrift.
- New classic rock and New Wave-influenced bands such as The Killers begin to oust nu metal bands.
Bands formed
See Musical groups established in 2004
Bands disbanded
- Apartment 26
- Audiovent
- B2K
- The Beta Band
- Beulah
- Blur (hiatus)
- Cadaver
- Creed (reformed in 2009)
- Damaged
- Damageplan
- Diabolical Masquerade
- Eve 6 (reformed in 2007)
- Gene
- Give Up the Ghost
- Goodshirt
- The Libertines (reformed in 2010)
- Midtown
- Orbital
- On the Might of Princes
- Phish
- Pissing Razors
- The Roy Clark Method
- Sixpence None the Richer (reformed in 2008)
- Small Brown Bike
- Soluna (hiatus)
- The Superjesus
- TISM (hiatus)
- The Unicorns
- Windir
Bands re-formed
- Megadeth
- Restless Heart
- Destiny's Child
- Vaya Con Dios
- The Shadows (till 2005)
Albums released
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| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
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| 6 | Invisible | Nightingale | - |
| 7 | Purple Haze | Cam'ron | - |
| Speak | Lindsay Lohan | - | |
| The Dirtiest Thirstiest | Yung Wun | ||
| 9 | Live from Under the Brooklyn Bridge | U2 | Live EP; iTunes |
| 10 | Artist Collection: Run DMC | Run-D.M.C. | Compilation |
| Almanac | They Might Be Giants | Live | |
| Venue Songs | They Might Be Giants | Live | |
| 13 | For You | Casey Donovan | - |
| Eye To The Telescope | KT Tunstall | - | |
| 14 | Loyal to the Game | 2Pac | - |
| Concrete Rose | Ashanti | - | |
| Weapons of Mass Destruction | Xzibit | - | |
| 21 | The Mind of Mannie Fresh | Mannie Fresh | - |
| 28 | 300 Lésions | Kyo | - |
Unknown Release Date
- 3rd Strike - 3 Feet Smaller
- Greatest Hits 1973-1988 (compilation) - Aerosmith
- 9Live - Angie Aparo
- Gathering Speed - Big Big Train
- Field Rexx - Blitzen Trapper
- Tripped Into Divine - Dexter Freebish
- Golden (compilation) - Failure
- Leaving Town Tonight (EP) - Hit the Lights
- Smoking Weed in the President's Face by Hockey
- IM the Supervisor - Infected Mushroom
- Naked - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
- Bombs Below - Living Things
- Black Skies in Broad Daylight - Living Things
- Safely From the City - Locksley
- Le Compte Complet - Malajube
- We (Don't) Care EP - The Management (MGMT)
- 5 Stories EP - Manchester Orchestra
- Ballads of Living and Dying - Marissa Nadler
- Phantom Planet: Negatives - Phantom Planet
- Negatives 2 - Phantom Planet
- The Pink Spiders Are Taking Over! EP - The Pink Spiders
- Guerilla Disco - Quarashi
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Set Your Goals (Demo EP) - Set Your Goals
- Life Story (compilation) - The Shadows
- Sherwood (EP) - Sherwood
- A Year at the Movies - Social Code
- Point of Origin - There for Tomorrow
Top hits
- "Accidentally In Love" - Counting Crows
- "Amazing" - George Michael
- "American Idiot", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day
- "Black Betty" - Spiderbait
- "Breaking the Habit" - Linkin Park
- "Burn" - Usher
- "Call On Me" - Eric Prydz
- "Come Clean" - Hilary Duff
- "Dragostea din tei" - Haiducii
- "Don't Tell Me" - Avril Lavigne
- "Dragostea din tei" - O-Zone
- "Dry Your Eyes" - The Streets
- "Duality" - Slipknot
- "Everybody's Changing" - Keane
- "Everytime" - Britney Spears
- "Femme Like U (Donne-moi ton corps)" - K.Maro
- "Fit But You Know It" - Streets
- "Flap Your Wings" - Nelly
- "Flawless (Go to the City)" - George Michael
- "From the Inside" - Linkin Park
- "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)" - Eamon
- "Goodies" - Ciara Featuring Petey Pablo
- "Heaven" - Los Lonely Boys
- "Hey Ya!" - OutKast
- "I Am" - Killing Heidi
- "I Cannot Give You My Love" - Cliff Richard (featuring Barry Gibb)
- "I Don't Wanna Know" - Mario Winans featuring Enya & P.Diddy
- "I Miss You" - Blink-182
- "In the Shadows" - Rasmus
- "Last Train Home" - Lostprophets
- "La Rivière de notre enfance" - Garou and Michel Sardou
- "Leave (Get Out)" - JoJo
- "Left Outside Alone" - Anastacia
- "Let's Get It Started" - The Black Eyed Peas
- "Lose My Breath" - Destiny's Child
- "Lying from You" - Linkin Park
- "Milkshake" - Kelis
- "Mockingbird" - Eminem
- "Modern Times" - J-five
- "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers
- "My Band" - D12
- "My Immortal" - Evanescence
- "My Happy Ending" - Avril Lavigne
- "My Place" - Nelly featuring Jaheim
- "My Prerogative" - Britney Spears
- "My Secret Life" - Eric Burdon
- "Naughty Girl" - Beyoncé
- "Not in Love" - Enrique Iglesias featuring Kelis
- "Obsesión" - Aventura
- "Pain - Jimmy Eat World
- "Physical - Alcazar
- "Pieces of Me" - Ashlee Simpson
- "Predictable" - Good Charlotte
- "Run" - Snow Patrol
- "She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5
- "Shadow" - Ashlee Simpson
- "Shut Up" - The Black Eyed Peas
- "Si demain... (Turn Around)" - Bonnie Tyler and Kareen Antonn
- "Solitary Man" - H.I.M.
- "Soldier"-Destiny's Child
- "Somebody Told Me" - The Killers
- "Somethin' is Goin' On" - Cliff Richard
- "Somewhere Only We Know" - Keane
- "Sunshine" - Twista featuring Anthony Hamilton
- "Superstar" - Jamelia
- "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
- "Talk About Our Love" - Brandy featuring Kanye West
- "Thank You" - Jamelia
- "These Words" - Natasha Bedingfield
- "Time Is Running Out" - Muse
- "Tipsy" - J-Kwon
- "The Reason" - Hoobastank
- "This Is the World We Live In" - Alcazar
- "This Love" - Maroon 5
- "Toxic" - Britney Spears
- "Trick Me" - Kelis
- "What You Waiting For? - Gwen Stefani
- "Yeah!" - Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris
- "You Won't Forget About Me" - Dannii Minogue vs. "Flower Power"
Top 10 selling albums of the year in the US
- Confessions / Usher ~ 7,978,594
- Under My Skin / Avril Lavigne ~ 6,970,000
- In The Zone / Britney Spears~ 4,535,102
- Encore / Eminem ~ 3,917,097
- Feels like Home / Norah Jones ~ 3,842,920
- Autobiography / Ashlee Simpson ~ 3,534,912
- When the Sun Goes Down / Kenny Chesney ~ 3,072,224
- Here for the Party / Gretchen Wilson ~ 2,931,097
- Live Like You Were Dying / Tim McGraw ~ 2,786,840
- Songs About Jane / Maroon 5 ~ 2,708,415
Top 15 selling albums of the year globally
- Confessions - Usher
- Under My Skin - Avril Lavigne
- Encore - Eminen
- Love. Angel. Music. Baby. - Gwen Stefani
- Feels Like Home - Norah Jones
- Greatest Hits - Robbie Williams
- Greatest Hits - Shania Twain
- Destiny Fulfilled - Destiny's Child
- Greatest Hits - Guns N' Roses
- Songs About Jane - Maroon 5
- American Idiot - Green Day
- Elephunk - The Black Eyed Peas
- Greatest Hits: My Prerogative - Britney Spears
- Here for the Party - Gretchen Wilson
- Anastacia - Anastacia
Classical music
- Michel van der Aa - Second self
- Louis Andriessen - Racconto dall'Inferno
- Cornelis de Bondt - Madame Daufine
- Elliott Carter - Réflexions
- George Crumb - Winds of Destiny for soprano, percussion quartet and piano
- Mario Davidovsky - Sefarad: Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes, baritone voice, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), percussion, violin and cello
- Joël-François Durand - Ombre/Miroir for flute and 14 instruments
- Ivan Fedele - Odos
- Lorenzo Ferrero - Guarini, the Master for violin and strings
- Philip Glass - Symphony No. 7 Toltec
- Georg Friedrich Haas - Haiku
- Hans Werner Henze - Sebastian im Traum
- Alun Hoddinott - Trombone Concerto
- York Höller - Ex Tempore
- Guus Janssen
- Memory Protect Extended
- Wankeling
- Karl Jenkins - In These Stones Horizons Sing
- Jan Klusák - Axis Temporum
- Rolands Kronlaks - Paion
- Hanna Kulenty - Run
- Theo Loevendie - De 5 Driften
- Roderik de Man - Mensa Sa
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- Naxos Quartet No. 4 Children's Games
- Naxos Quartet No. 5
- Martijn Padding - And Trees Would Sing
Opera
- Thomas Adès - The Tempest
- Harrison Birtwistle - The Io Passion
- William Bolcom - A Wedding
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Licht
Musical theater
- Assassins Broadway production
- Bombay Dreams Broadway production
- Fiddler On The Roof Broadway revival
- Jerry Springer - The Opera by Richard Thomas & Stewart Lee
- The Woman in White - music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel and book by Charlotte Jones, freely adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins. Opened on September 15 at the Palace Theatre, London.
- People Are Wrong! Off-Broadway production
Musical films
- Beyond the Sea, starring Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin
- De-Lovely released June 13 starring Kevin Kline as Cole Porter and Ashley Judd
- Home on the Range, a Disney animated feature
- Ray, starring Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
- Red Riding Hood
- Pixel Perfect, a Disney Channel Original Movie that is also a musical.
- The Phantom of the Opera, starring Emmy Rossum as Christine and Gerard Butler as the Phantom
Births
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Deaths
January–February
- January 15 - Terje Bakken, 25, also known as Valfar, lead singer and founder of Norwegian black/folk metal band Windir
- January 17
- Czeslaw Niemen, 65, Polish rock singer
- Tom Rowe, 53, musician
- January 22
- Billy May, 87, US big band & pop music arranger
- Ann Miller, 80, actress, singer and dancer
- January 28 - Mel Pritchard, 56, drummer of Barclay James Harvest
- February 3 - Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
- February 8 - Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
- February 16 - Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
- February 21 - Bart Howard, 88, composer and pianist
- February 23
- Don Cornell, 84, US singer
- Alvino Rey, 95, US bandleader and guitarist
March–April
- March 4 - John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL
- March 6 - Peggy DeCastro, 82, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters
- March 16 - Vilém Tauský, 93, Czech conductor and composer
- March 18 - Vytas Brenner, 57, musician, keyboardist and composer
- March 26 - Jan Berry, 62, US singer of Jan and Dean
- April 3 - Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer
- April 9 - Harry Babbitt, 90, US singer with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
- April 10 - Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
- April 15
May–June
- May 1 - Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
- May 5 - Coxsone Dodd, 72, Jamaican record producer
- May 12
- John LaPorta, 84, Jazz clarinetist, composer and educator
- John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist (shot dead)
- May 17 - Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz Drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
- May 19 - Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
- May 23 - Gundars Mauševics, 29, Latvian guitarist of Brainstorm
- June 2 - Billboard, 25, rapper, The Game's best friend
- June 4 - Irene Manning, 91, US actress, singer and dancer
- June 6 - Iona Brown, 63, conductor and violinist
- June 10 - Ray Charles, 73, US singer and pianist
- June 15 - James F. Arnold, 72, first tenor with the Four Lads
- June 17 - Jackie Paris, 77, US jazz singer
July–August
- July 6 - Syreeta Wright, 57, singer
- July 13 - Carlos Kleiber, 74, conductor
- July 21 - Jerry Goldsmith, 75, US composer, Academy Award winner
- July 22
- Illinois Jacquet, 81, US jazz saxophonist
- Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
- August 6
- Rick James, 56, US funk singer
- Argentino Ledesma, 75, Argentinian singer
- Tony Mottola, 86, US Guitarist
- August 9 - David Raksin, 92, US composer
- August 18 - Elmer Bernstein, 82, US composer
- August 20 - María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban Rumbera
- August 26 - Laura Branigan, 47, US singer (brain aneurysm)
- August 31 - Carl Wayne, 61, vocalist (The Move)
September–October
- September 2 - Billy Davis
- September 11 - Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
- September 12
- John Buller, 77, British composer
- Fred Ebb, 72, US lyricist
- September 15 - Johnny Ramone, 55, US Guitarist and founding member of TheRamones (prostate cancer)
- September 16 - Izora Armstead, 62, member of The Weather Girls
- October 25 - John Peel, 65, British DJ and broadcaster (heart attack)
- October 28 - Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer
November–December
- November 1 - Mac Dre, 34, Bay Area rapper (highway shooting)
- November 12 - Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer
- November 13
- John Balance, 42, British musician from Coil
- Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, African American rapper
- Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer
- November 14 - Michel Colombier, 65, composer
- November 18 - Cy Coleman, 75, US composer
- December 8 - Dimebag Darrell, 38, former Pantera guitarist (shot to death in Ohio)
- December 13 - Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for The Nils (suicide)
- December 14 - Sidonie Goossens, 105, harpist
- December 19 - Renata Tebaldi, 82, operatic soprano
- December 20 - Son Seals, 62, blues musician
- December 26 - Sigurd Køhn, 45, Norwegian jazz saxophonist (tsunami)
- December 30 - Artie Shaw, 94, Swing Era Clarinetist and Bandleader
Awards
ARIA Music Awards
BRIT Awards
Country Music Association Awards
Eurovision Song Contest
Grammy Awards
Juno Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
Charts
Triple J Hottest 100
External links
For a more detailed list of hits or albums by month, see:
- KATS-FM
- New Rock 94.7 The Zone - WZZN-FM - Chicago
- Pause & Play's On The CD Front
- VH1
- MTV
- Rolling Stone
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