This is a summary of 2003 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
Hitting the top of the UK charts for the third time with his 5th single was Daniel Bedingfield with another love ballad, "Never Gonna Leave Your Side" which he said was a twin of his previous chart topper, "If You're Not The One", being about the same girl.
It was a remake of the "Tears For Fears" #3 hit from 1982 and topped the UK charts for 3 weeks becoming the fastest selling single of the year (not the largest though) and took the Christmas number one spot along with it.
The UK urban breakthrough artist of 2003, Dizzee Rascal produced one of the freshest and most innovative sounds of the year.
The spandex-clad rockers were the success story of the year in UK rock, bringing the fun back to a guitar scene that had been dominated by serious and stony-faced bands for a decade.
They were known in the music industry before 2003 - but not one music expert tipped them in the Sound of 2003 survey because no-one thought they could make it.
The city's eclectic mix of music has created the sense among its inhabitants that Manchester is the most important city in world music.
Manchester's main popular music venue is the Manchester Evening News Arena, which seats over twenty thousand, and is the largest arena of its type in Europe.
An area known as the Northern Quarter, considered the cultural and musical heart of the city, houses some of the more famous of these venues such as the Band on the Wall, Roadhouse, Night and Day Cafe, The Bierkeller and Dry Bar.
The catalyst was piracy, falling revenues - global CD sales fell to a record low in 2003 - and the intervention of a computer firm with a vision.
Effectively a device for storing music files, the iPod helped kickstart a rush to move music from the compact disc to the portable hard disc drive.
To increase the use of iPods Apple needed to convince record companies to allow their music to be not just downloaded but also transferred to portable devices with few restrictions.
Amazon.co.uk: Magix Music Studio 2003 Deluxe: Software(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
MAGIX music studio 2003 deLuxe is the perfect recording studio for your PC: compose and record music, steer and control MIDI equipment, master and then burn optimal sounds onto CD.
Everyone into modern music making has usually have heard about Cubase and Logic and the top magazines constantly provide tutorials on these expensive packages but not many seem to know that Music Maker is based almost entirely on Logic and uses similar software engines to run it.
Music scoring, built in instruments and great effects mean that there is little else required to produce professional sounding tracks.
The UK School of Music is one of 10 designated Areas of Excellence within the University for its outstanding programs.
The School has achieved awards and national recognition for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as for music education, composition, theory and music history.
The award-winning UK School of Music presents around 200 concerts, recitals and public lectures each year.
The Flaming Lips are a truly original and inspirational band, Butterfly is a fantastic new artist with great songs and we are obviously more than pleased to continue our relationship with The Clash, one of the most influential acts of all time.
Their debut album Nu Flow has been Top 10 in the UK and is destined to turn platinum, whilst their same-titled debut single went Top 10 in more than 15 countries.
Since their 1999 signing with Universal Music Publishing, The Clash have won the 2001 Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music and have been inducted into the Rock \'N\' Roll Hall Of Fame.
There were music industry professionals and accomplished musicians.
In a music business drowning in a morass of over-inflated egos and over-hyped artists, Lang consistently has been a truly talented breath of fresh air.
This time around Lang was touring in support of his new album Long Time Coming, and many in the crowd had waited years and traveled cross-country in order to see him perform live.
www.musicbox-online.com /jl11-03.html (383 words)
UK Recorded Music 2003 market briefing(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Snapshots' UK Recorded Music2003 report provides 2002 year-end market data, with 2003 estimates and five-year forecasts.
The report gives an instant overview of the UK recorded music market and covers sales of albums and singles (all formats).
UK Recorded Music2003 forms part of Snapshots' Media industry coverage.
www.biz-lib.com /ZSN86341.html (191 words)
UK Music Albums 2003 market briefing(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Snapshots' UKMusic Albums 2003 report provides 2002 year-end market data, with 2003 estimates and five-year forecasts.
The report gives an instant overview of the UKmusic album market and covers retail sales of recorded music albums (all formats).
UKMusic Albums 2003 forms part of Snapshots' Media industry coverage.
www.biz-lib.com /ZSN86343.html (192 words)
BBC - Radio 3 - Awards for World Music 2003(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The last Awards from March 2003 was presented by some surprise guests including Mica Paris, Manu Dibango and Jon Snow.
Read profiles and listen to the music of all this year's nominees.
The shortlist was voted on by delegates to WOMEX, the annual world music expo, held Oct 24-27th in Essen.
Ultrasound 2003 presents a diverse programme including live performance, conference, showcase, workshop and DJ night.
We present the 'Icelandic Partition', a survey of the Icelandic contemporary music scene, programmed by Thor Magnusson of the ixi-software project.
http://www.ultrasound.ws/messa_di_voce/index.html ================================================= Sat 29 Nov / LIVE MUSIC / ================================================= The Media Centre 7pm - 1am Kippi Kaninus / Vindva Mei / Johann Johannsson / Sumeru / Mugison / http://www.ultrasound.ws/index.html ================================================= ================================================= + Please note that the running order is subject to change.
Having been in training for this all month, namely by going out at least 3/4 nights per week for the previous 4 weeks, we felt ready for anything.
As we check in, things as always are pretty chaotic by the reception area – our worries, however are smoothed over by the complimentary crate of alco-pops we generously received with thanks.
She played it dark and hard, a very, very underground set from such a commercially successful artist and one that would have silenced many of her critics.
BBC Manchester, music, interview with Jimi Goodwin of Doves at Leeds Festival.
The biggest names in music, including Mary J. Blige, Katharine McPhee, John Legend and more perform for the kids to benefit the JCPenney Afterschool Fund.
Download, listen and watch Jimi Goodwin music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
Amazon.co.uk: Magix Music Maker 2003: Software(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Music Maker 2003 features all the clever gizmos that made the first half dozen so popular; it also adds some nice new knobs and switches of its own.
As with the previous Music Makers the idea is that you mix and match music samples, video clips, CD trax, even media files sent as e-mails, and turn them into something very much your own.
The screen can get a bit busy at times, and the console doesn't have quite the simplicity of some rival offerings; nonetheless this is a very clever and competitively priced bit of software.
