2002 in music
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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 gradually changing its face from the underground. Rock which had for the past years been dominated by corporate nu-metal bands such as Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, 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. It also was the rise of garage rock bands like The White Stripes,The Strokes, and The Vines. 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
- November 30 - Popular UK girl group Girls Aloud are formed on reality TV show
- 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 [link]
- 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
Top hits
See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2002 (USA)
Top 10 selling albums of the year
- The Eminem Show - Eminem
- Nellyville - Nelly
- Let Go - Avril Lavigne
- A New Day Has Come - Celine Dion
- Ashanti - Ashanti
- Drive - Alan Jackson
- Home - Dixie Chicks
- Missundaztood - Pink
- Up! - Shania Twain
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack
