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Contents
1 Events
1.1 Undated
2 Bands formed
3 Bands reformed
4 Bands disbanded
5 Albums released
5.1 January
5.2 February
5.3 March
5.4 April
5.5 May
5.6 June
5.7 July
5.8 August
5.9 September
5.10 October
5.11 November
5.12 December
5.13 Release Date Unknown
6 Biggest hit singles
7 Top Singles
8 Top 10 selling albums of the year in USA
9 Acclaimed Music
9.1 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 1999
9.2 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs From 1999
10 Classical music
11 Opera
12 Musical theater
13 Deaths
14 Awards
14.1 Grammy Awards
14.2 Country Music Association Awards
14.3 Eurovision Song Contest
14.4 Mercury Music Prize
14.5 MTV Video Music Awards
14.6 Glenn Gould Prize
15 Charts
15.1 Triple J Hottest 100
16 See also
17 References
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Events
January 7
After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.
Paul McCartney attends the first of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia.
January 11 - During the American Music Awards, Billy Joel is awarded the Special Award of Merit for his "inspired songwriting skills" and "exciting showmanship."
January 12 - Britney Spears releases her debut album, ...Baby One More Time, which would go on to sell 24 million copies. The album hits number one on the charts. The title track and first single released from the album, also hits number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1999.
January 26 - Foxy Brown releases her second album, Chyna Doll, and becomes the first female rapper to debut an album at number 1.
February 14 - Elton John appears as himself in a special episode of the animated series The Simpsons
February 15 - "Rolling Stones Day" is declared in Minnesota by Governor (and former Rolling Stones bodyguard) Jesse Ventura
Rapper Big L is killed in Harlem.
February 19 - Marilyn Manson files a defamation countersuit against former Spin Magazine editor Craig Marks, in response to a multi-million dollar lawsuit that Marks filed in January against the singer, the record label Nothing/Interscope, and Manson's bodyguard agency.
February 20 - Trace Adkins performs his first concert following surgery for tendon damage and a broken ankle. Contrary to doctors orders, Adkins does not remain seated during the performance.
February 23- Eminem's The Slim Shady LP is released.
February 25 - The Artist Formerly Known as Prince files a lawsuit against nine Web sites for copyright and trademark infringement, claiming that the websites sell bootlegged recordings and offer unauthorized song downloads.
March - The Bee Gees end their One Night Only tour in Sydney, Australia
March 1 - Sony Music Distribution raises wholesale prices on audio Compact Discs by 8 cents
March 2 - The House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Bob Dylan performs a concert at the club and is joined by U2's lead singer Bono for an encore of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
March 5 - Trauma Records files a $40 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the members of Bush for failing to deliver a new album.
March 6 - A 67 year old George Jones is seriously injured in a car accident while on his way home. Jones' Lexus crashed into a bridge at about 1:30 p.m. It is later revealed that alcohol was a factor in the accident.
March 10 - Hikaru Utada released her debut album First Love, selling 2,026,870 in its debut week. Two months later, First Love became the Japan's best-selling album of all time.
March 15 - Marilyn Manson is injured when he slips and falls during a concert at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Manson's performance is cut short.
March 21 - Irish girl band B*Witched score their fourth consecutive #1 with Blame It On The Weatherman on the UK singles chart. They become the first band to have all their first four singles enter at the top simultaneously and set a new record. It is broken a year later by Irish boy band Westlife.
Alice Cooper released a box set of his career, dedicating it to his late friend Glen Buxton.
April 10 - A charity tribute concert for Linda McCartney is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Here, There and Everywhere: A Concert For Linda, features performances by Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O'Connor, and George Michael. Proceeds raised at the event went to animal rights causes.
April 19 - Neil Young performs at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Due to a mistake by a Madison Square Garden staff member, the marquee read "Bob Dylan, Tonight at 8pm". Young jokingly introduced one of his guitar players as Bob Dylan during the show.
April 20 - Billy Joel performs at Meadowlands in New Jersey. Joel announces that this would be his last public pop music concert. Joel also announces plans on devoting his future efforts to classical music.
April 20 - Columbine High School massacre takes place in Jefferson County, Colorado. It sparks a widespread moral panic that ultimately tries to place the blame on violent media, including music perceived to be violent and/or connected to the newly demonized goth culture. American rocker Marilyn Manson receives the brunt of the blame, despite evidence that neither of the shooters were fans of his, and recludes, only to address the issue in the form of his fourth studio album. The finger is also pointed at German industrial metal acts Rammstein and KMFDM, of whom the shooters were fans. This sensationalism gradually wanes in the years following, and all three music acts ironically achieve more mainstream acceptance in the U.S. than they had prior to the massacre.
April 28 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
April 30 - Columbine High School massacre: Aerosmith visits Columbine High School shooting victim Lance Kirklin in a Colorado hospital before a concert in Denver, Colorado. Kirklin was one of 24 wounded in the April 20 shooting, 13 others were killed.
May 1 - "The Paintings of Paul McCartney" exhibit opens at the Lyz Art Forum in Siegen, Germany. The exhibit features around 70 paintings created by the former Beatle.
May 1 - Musical group Atari Teenage Riot starts a riot in Berlin with their anti-consumer and anti-government lyrics. The riot was stopped with concert goers pleading for peace from the Swat crew ruthlessly beating down pedestrians. This band is under the label Digital Hardcore Recordings.
May 18 - The American music group, the Backstreet Boys release their multi-platinum 3rd studio album Millennium, that spawned four Top 40 Billboard singles, and would go on to be the best selling album of 1999. The album up to today has sold over 40 million copies and is one of the top selling 100 albums of all-time.
June 1 - The American actress Jennifer Lopez releases her debut album On the 6, and the first single "If You Had My Love" peaked at one in U.S., Canada, and Australia.
June 2 - Backstreet Boys smashes the old first-week sales record of Garth Brooks' 1.08 million, with (Millennium) which sold over 1.13 million in its first week and was the first album to sell over 500,000 copies at least 2 weeks. The album holds at No. 1 first-weeks sales record of the '90s.
June 8 - Red Hot Chili Peppers release Californication this is the first album with John Frusciante in 8 years, the album goes on to sell 13 million copies worldwide.
June 13 S Club 7 debut at #1 on the UK singles chart with their first single "Bring It All Back" and become the largest vocal group to enter at the top.
June 15 Santana releases his best selling album Supernatural with the number one hits "Smooth" and "Maria Maria".
June 22 - Limp Bizkit releases their second studio album titled Significant Other
June 29 - Slipknot releases their debut studio album Slipknot.
June - Adrian Erlandsson, Quits The Haunted.
July 1 - The new Scottish Parliament is formally opened with a rock concert in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle and is headlined by Garbage, of which, lead singer Shirley Manson, is at the time one of the biggest music stars from Scotland.
July 1 - The American actress Jennifer Lopez releases her debut album On the 6, and the first single "If You Had My Love" peaked at one in U.S., Canada, and Australia.
July 3 - Indie rock icon Mark Sandman collapses on stage at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina, Latium, Italy (near Rome) while performing with Morphine. He is soon pronounced dead of a heart attack at the age of 46. Morphine immediately disbands.
July 12 - Gregg Alexander issues a press release dissolving the New Radicals.
July 23–25 - The highly anticipated Woodstock 99 festival takes place in Rome, New York.
August 24 - Christina Aguilera releases her self titled debut album. The album and first single, "Genie in a Bottle", both went to number one on the charts.
August 27–29 - The third Terrastock festival is held in London.
September 21 - Trent Reznor releases the fourth Nine Inch Nails album, The Fragile after a five year hiatus to great critical acclaim.
October 9- The lead single to Mariah Carey's ninth studio album Rainbow entilted Heartbreaker reaches #1 on the Billboard 100 becoming her 14th #1 single and also her 59th week a top the chart. When it stayed at #1 for a further week Carey surpassed The Beatles for the act with the most weeks spent at number one. The song also topped charts in Canada and New Zealand.
October 19 - Eurythmics releases first album in 10 years, Peace.
November
Rock Star Gary Glitter jailed for four months for downloading pornographic images of children on the Internet.
Australian independent record label Liberation Music is formed
November 15 - Korn performs their entire Issues album at the Apollo Theater in New York city becoming the first rock band ever to perform at the Apollo.
November 16 - Dr. Dre releases his second album, 2001; Korn releases their fourth studio album Issues.
December 14 - BMI announces the most played songs on American radio and television in the 20th century [1] (full list)
December 25 - "Smooth" by Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas becomes the final number-one single of the millennium.
Undated
Jesper Strömblad leaves Sinergy.
Antero Manninen leaves Apocalyptica.
Mase made his retirement.
Bands formed
'See Musical groups established in 1999
Bands reformed
The Animals
Bands disbanded
88 Fingers Louie
Ammonia
Artificial Joy Club
The Boo Radleys
Boyzone (reformed in 2007)
Braid (reforms temporarily in 2004)
Cake Like
Custard (one-off reunion in 2009)
Devourment (reforms in 2001)
East 17 (reforms in 2006)
Far
Genesis (reforms in 2006)
Grant Lee Buffalo
Infestdead
The Jesus Lizard (reform in 2008)
Kara's Flowers
Kula Shaker (reform in 2004)
Life of Agony (reform in 2003)
Love & Rockets (reformed 2007-2009)
Monster Voodoo Machine
Morphine
New Radicals
October Tide (reform in 2009)
Park Ave.
Pavement (reform in 2010)
Seaweed
Thrush Hermit
Tripping Daisy
The Verve (reunited 2007–2009)
Yummy Fur
Albums released
Contents:
Top • January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December
January
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
1
A Song for XX
Ayumi Hamasaki
Debut album
5
In Your Area
Hawkwind
-
7
Black the Sun
Alex Lloyd
-
9
The Fortune
Interscope
-
11
Unification
Iron Savior
-
Hawkwind 1997
Hawkwind
Live
12
By Your Side
The Black Crowes
-
It's a Beautiful Thing
Keith Murray
-
...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears
Debut album
Knock Knock
Smog
-
The Power
Vanessa Amorosi
-
14:59
Sugar Ray
-
19
The '90s Suck and So Do You
Angry Samoans
-
Inside Out
Anthrax
EP
I See a Darkness
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
-
Live at Luther College
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
Live
25
Are You Shpongled?
Shpongle
-
26
Chyna Doll
Foxy Brown
-
How to Measure a Planet?
The Gathering
-
Colin James and the Little Big Band II
Colin James
-
Dreaming Neon Black
Nevermore
-
Apocalypse Dudes
Turbonegro
-
27
Theater of Salvation
Edguy
-
Clarity
Jimmy Eat World
-
29
Science Fiction
blackmail
-
February
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
1
Dialogue
Blondie
-
Dialogue
Four Tet
-
2
Keep It Like a Secret
Built to Spill
-
X-Ray Sierra
Tom Cochrane
-
9
Rare & Fatty
Bad Manners
Compilation
Dosage
Collective Soul
-
Sam Prekop
Sam Prekop
-
Good Morning Spider
Sparklehorse
US
15
Anima Animus
The Creatures
-
16
Greatest Hits
New Kids on the Block
Compilation
17
Apple Venus Volume 1
XTC
-
Eien
Zard
-
22
The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One
The Prodigy
Compilation
23
ALL
ALL
EP
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
-
Live at the Fillmore East
Jimi Hendrix
Live
A Place in the Sun
Lit
-
February Son
Oleander
-
Things Fall Apart
The Roots
-
The Hot Rock
Sleater-Kinney
-
Blue Plate Specials Live
The Specials
Live
FanMail
TLC
-
Suicaine Gratifaction
Paul Westerberg
-
24
Dance Classics of Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan
Compilation
25
Eureka
Jim O'Rourke
-
27
Volume 1
CKY
-
March
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
1
Live and Enhanced
Tonic
Live
2
Spiritual Black Dimensions
Dimmu Borgir
-
Universal Madness
Madness
Live
8
Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
EP
Live at the Hardback
Hot Water Music
Live
Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
Kula Shaker
-
Neon Ballroom
Silverchair
-
Performance and Cocktails
Stereophonics
-
9
Ravenous (OST)
Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman
Soundtrack
Gedida
Natacha Atlas
-
Pistolero
Frank Black and the Catholics
-
If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits
Cher
Compilation
Fuse
Joe Henry
-
Back on Top
Van Morrison
-
Everything Louder Than Everyone Else
Motörhead
Live
Have a Nice Day
Roxette
-
Summerteeth
Wilco
-
10
First Love
Hikaru Utada
-
15
13
Blur
-
Axxess & Ace
Songs: Ohia
-
Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Edition
Wings
-
16
Who Else!
Jeff Beck
-
Modern Life
EB3
-
Libido
Buck-O-Nine
-
Shades 1968-1998
Deep Purple
Box Set
The Ideal Crash
dEUS
-
100% Ginuwine
Ginuwine
-
Stay the Same
Joe McIntyre
Solo debut
Burning London: The Clash Tribute
Various Artists
Tribute
22
Windowlicker
Aphex Twin
EP
23
Hempstead High
A+
-
The Original Bad Company Anthology
Bad Company
Compilation +4 new songs
Finally
BLACKstreet
-
Super Hits
Brooks & Dunn
Compilation
Tonight
Silk
-
Give Yourself a Hand
Crash Test Dummies
-
Strange Behaviour
Duran Duran
Remix Compilation
Instrument Soundtrack
Fugazi
Soundtrack
Red Voodoo
Sammy Hagar
-
Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida
Elton John
-
Savage Land
Mob Rules
-
@#!*
Pulley
-
Wisconsin Death Trip
Static-X
-
New Way to Be Human
Switchfoot
-
Labour of Love III
UB40
Covers
25
The Art of Storytelling
Slick Rick
-
29
Power Plant
Gamma Ray
-
Come on Die Young
Mogwai
UK
Now That's What I Call Music! 42 (UK series)
Various Artists
Compilation
30
No Gods, No Managers
Choking Victim
-
The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture
Various Artists
Soundtrack
April
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
4
Voices of Transgression – A 90s Retrospective
Kreator
Compilation
6
Heated
Big Sugar
US
Buckcherry
Buckcherry
-
Utopia Parkway
Fountains of Wayne
-
We Kill Everything
GWAR
-
15 Minutes
Nik Kershaw
-
Jordan Knight
Jordan Knight
Solo debut
Thug Mentality 1999
Krayzie Bone
-
Tight
Mindless Self Indulgence
-
I Am…
Nas
-
Stupid Dream
Porcupine Tree
-
Throttle Junkies
Soil
-
9
Fat Music Volume 4: Life in the Fat Lane
Various Artists
Compilation
10
Swear It Again
Westlife
UK Debut single
12
Carboot Soul
Nightmares on Wax
-
Rides
Reef
-
13
Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits
The Ataris
-
Eye II Eye
Scorpions
-
18 Tracks
Bruce Springsteen
-
Dysfunction
Staind
-
16
What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
Echo & the Bunnymen
-
19
Bury the Hatchet
The Cranberries
-
20
Monsters and Robots
Buckethead
-
The Cars: Deluxe Edition
The Cars
Compilation
The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Box Set
Snuffbox Immanence
Ghost
-
Adios
KMFDM
-
Endorama
Kreator
-
Six
Mansun
US
Greatest Hits 1984-1987
Reggie and the Full Effect
-
Holy Roller
The Reverend Horton Heat
Compilation
4 Nights at the Palais Royale
Sloan
Live
The Earth Pressed Flat
10,000 Maniacs
-
Mule Variations
Tom Waits
-
Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Ghost
-
26
Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom
-
Fantômas
Fantômas
-
27
Black Sails EP
AFI
EP
Take Your Shoes Off
Robert Cray
-
The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Ben Folds Five
-
Implode
Front Line Assembly
-
Playing My Game
Lene Marlin
-
Soundbombing II
Various Artists
Compilation
May
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
4
Sonic Brew
Black Label Society
-
Hopeless Romantic
The Bouncing Souls
-
Point No. 1
Chevelle
-
The Matrix: Original Motion Picture Score
Don Davis
Soundtrack
The Warriors EP
P.O.D.
-
Undeniable
Raven Symoné
-
10
Remedy
Basement Jaxx
UK
11
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Top Dogg
Snoop Dogg
-
17
The Maggot
The Melvins
-
The Only Reason I Feel Secure
Pedro the Lion
EP
18
Black Sails in the Sunset
AFI
-
Millennium
Backstreet Boys
-
If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die
Death By Stereo
-
Stop Staring At Me!
Jerky Boys
-
Bigger than the Devil
Stormtroopers of Death
-
Freedumb
Suicidal Tendencies
-
The Hush
Texas
-
Helldorado
W.A.S.P.
-
Thug Ride
White Dawg
-
Seven
Wolfstone
-
21
Stairway to Fairyland
Freedom Call
-
Colony
In Flames
-
24
Saltwater
Chicane
-
25
A New Kind of Army
Anti-Flag
-
Innamoramento
Mylène Farmer
-
The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Insane Clown Posse
-
This Moment Is Mine
Chanté Moore
-
You Can't Stop the Bum Rush
Len
-
30
Leitmotif
dredg
-
31
Mike + The Mechanics
Mike + The Mechanics
-
June
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
1
Blaque
Blaque
-
Enema of the State
Blink-182
- 1st album to feature Travis Barker on drums
No Angel
Dido
-
1011 Woodland
The Fixx
-
Gorgeous
Guttermouth
-
Venni Vetti Vecci
Ja Rule
-
Shrinking Violet
L.A. Guns
-
On the 6
Jennifer Lopez
Debut album
Play
Moby
-
Straight Ahead
Pennywise
-
Here Comes the Bride
Spin Doctors
-
Short Music for Short People
Various Artists
Compilation
3
The Siket Disc
Phish
Internet
6
Cowboy Bebop Remixes: Music for Freelance
Various Artists
Compilation
7
Crowning of Atlantis
Therion
-
8
Her Wallpaper Reverie
The Apples in Stereo
-
New World Disorder
Biohazard
-
Stereo * Type A
Cibo Matto
-
Get Skintight
The Donnas
-
Synkronized
Jamiroquai
-
In a Reverie
Lacuna Coil
-
Dark Side of the Spoon
Ministry
-
Terror Twilight
Pavement
-
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
-
Astro Lounge
Smash Mouth
-
Triptych
The Tea Party
-
The Gathering
Testament
-
15
Erase the Slate
Dokken
-
Schizophonic
Geri Halliwell
-
Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Liquid Tension Experiment
-
Double Up
Mase
-
Messenger
Edwin McCain
-
Mirrorball
Sarah McLachlan
Live
Supernatural
Santana
-
[R]evolution
Sister Machine Gun
-
This or That
Sway & King Tech
-
Everything You Want
Vertical Horizon
-
The White Stripes
The White Stripes
-
20
Euphoria
Def Leppard
-
21
Beware the Heavens
Sinergy
-
Judgement
Anathema
-
22
A2G
Blackalicious
EP
Surrender
Chemical Brothers
-
Da Real World
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott
-
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
-
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy
-
Significant Other
Limp Bizkit
-
Tuesday's Child
Amanda Marshall
-
The RZA Hits
RZA
Compilation
Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990-1998
Ween
Live
Punk-O-Rama Vol. 4
Various Artists
Compilation
29
Nothing Safe: Best of the Box
Alice in Chains
Compilation
Classics in the Key of G
Kenny G
Covers album
One Guitar, No Vocals
Leo Kottke
-
Soundpieces: Da Antidote
Lootpack
-
Supersonic and Demonic Relics
Mötley Crüe
Rarities Compilation
No Mercy No Remorse
RBX
-
Slipknot
Slipknot
-
Brave New World
Styx
-
Running With Scissors
"Weird Al" Yankovic
-
July
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
4
Act of Depression
Underøath
-
5
How I Learned to Love the Bootboys
The Auteurs
-
On How Life Is
Macy Gray
UK
6
The Very Best of Dokken
Dokken
Greatest Hits
Fenix*TX
Fenix*TX
-
Can't Get There from Here
Great White
-
Live at Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix
Live
Ratt
Ratt
-
7
Fun 9
Takako Minekawa
12
Before The Calm
Witness
UK; Debut album
13
Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr
Gang Starr
Compilation
Blue Green Orange
I Mother Earth
-
California
Mr. Bungle
-
Beware the Heavens
Sinergy
-
Can't Stay Away
Too Short
-
18
Trepanation
American Head Charge
-
Long Tall Weekend
They Might Be Giants
Internet
20
Burning Bridges
Arch Enemy
-
Life of the Party
The Planet Smashers
-
Tonight the Stars Revolt!
Powerman 5000
-
27
Vaya
At the Drive-In
EP
The Blues
Eric Clapton
Compilation
The Writing's On The Wall
Destiny's Child
US
Ignorance is Bliss
Face to Face
-
Guerrilla Warfare
Hot Boys
-
Alive in Athens
Iced Earth
Live
At the Show
MxPx
Live
Staying Power
Barry White
-
'Til the Medicine Takes
Widespread Panic
-
Now That's What I Call Music! 2 (US series)
Various Artists
Compilation
29
Beneath the Surface
GZA
-
The Melancholy Collection
Millencolin
Sweden; Compilation
30
The Ego Has Landed
Robbie Williams
Compilation
August
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
3
Awesome Mix Tape vol. 6
The Pietasters
-
The Coming of Age
Memphis Bleek
-
Do the Collapse
Guided by Voices
-
Fly the Flag
Down by Law
-
Forget About It
Alison Krauss
-
9
Westlife
Westlife
10
The Burning Red
Machine Head
-
Liberate Te Ex Inferis
Zao
-
The Most Beautifullest Hits
Keith Murray
Compilation
No Division
Hot Water Music
-
13
Echo
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
-
16
Juxtapose
Tricky
-
17
The 10 Year Limited Edition Anniversary Box Set
Blur
Box set
Before You Were Punk 2
Various Artists
Compilation
Mary
Mary J. Blige
-
Rough Harvest
John Mellencamp
-
23
The Bootlicker
The Melvins
-
J-Tull Dot Com
Jethro Tull
-
24
A Little Bit of Mambo
Lou Bega
-
The Austin Sessions
Kris Kristofferson
-
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
US
Bitter
Me'shell Ndegeocello
-
Bring Your Own Stereo
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
-
Forever
Puff Daddy
-
The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
P.O.D.
-
LFO
LFO
-
The Muse
Elton John
Soundtrack
Oh! The Grandeur
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire
-
Slap-Happy
L7
-
Title of Record
Filter
-
The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale
Prince
Compilation
30
The Abba Generation
A*Teens
Sweden
A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
Greatest Hits
Yesterday Went Too Soon
Feeder
-
31
Fly
Dixie Chicks
-
Greatest Hits
SWV
Greatest Hits
Live aus Berlin
Rammstein
Live
Risk
Megadeth
-
Vitamin C
Vitamin C
-
?
Sound Asleep EP
Evanescence
-
September
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
2
The Avenger
Amon Amarth
-
3
Au Cœur Du Stade
Celine Dion
Live
6
Only Yazoo
Yazoo
Compilation
7
Riot, Riot, Upstart
Agnostic Front
-
Chamber Music
Coal Chamber
-
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
Box Set
Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica
-
Seven Year Itch: 1982-1989
Platinum Blonde
Compilation
The Ultra Zone
Steve Vai
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8
Beyond the Veil
Tristania
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9
Gettin' High on Your Own Supply
Apollo 440
UK
12
Between the Bridges
Sloan
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13
Yellow Submarine Songtrack
The Beatles
Soundtrack
One From The Modern
Ocean Colour Scene
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Sang pour sang
Johnny Hallyday
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14
Felons & Revolutionaries
Dope
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Beautiful Midnight
Matthew Good Band
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Nigga Please
Ol' Dirty Bastard
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Avenue B
Iggy Pop
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Q2K
Queensrÿche
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Ruff Ryders' First Lady
Eve (rapper)
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A Single History: 1991–1997
Unwound
Compilation
20
Blazing the Crop
Rae & Christian
Compilation
Metalhead
Saxon
UK
The Ladder
Yes
UK
21
To Venus and Back
Tori Amos
Double Album:1 Studio, 1 Live
The Greatest Hits - Volume 1
The Beach Boys
Compilation
The Greatest Hits - Volume 2
The Beach Boys
Compilation
Tightrope
Brooks & Dunn
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Euphoria Morning
Chris Cornell
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The Sweetest Punch
Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell
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Live at the Wiltern
CPR
Live
Burn to Shine
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
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I'll Take Care Of You
Mark Lanegan
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The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails
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Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
Our Lady Peace
Canada
Stan and Judy's Kid
Adam Sandler
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Going for Gold
Shed Seven
Compilation
Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Stereolab
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22
King of the Nordic Twilight
Luca Turilli
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Inside Wants Out
John Mayer
EP
Melvin Flynt - Da Hustler
Noreaga
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Time
Third Day
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Underground Vol. 2: Club Memphis
Three 6 Mafia
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Beaucoup Fish
Underworld
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27
A Different Beat
Gary Moore
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28
Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool
Tony Bennett
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Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines
Garth Brooks
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Human Clay
Creed
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Calculating Infinity
The Dillinger Escape Plan
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Temperamental
Everything but the Girl
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Something To Write Home About
The Get Up Kids
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Lost and Gone Forever
Guster
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Come On Now Social
Indigo Girls
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LB IV Life
Lost Boyz
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Blackout!
Method Man & Redman
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The Time Machine
Alan Parsons
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Ghost Town Live
The Specials
Live
Brand New Day
Sting
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Black Diamond
Angie Stone
US
Balance
Swollen Members
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XXX
ZZ Top
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29
Awake and Breathe
B*Witched
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Supergrass
Supergrass
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October
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
1
No Time for Love
Eighteen Visions
EP
Now That's What I Call Music! 43 (UK series)
Various Artists
Compilation
4
Hooray for Boobies
The Bloodhound Gang
Europe
'hours...'
David Bowie
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From Here to Eternity: Live
The Clash
Live
I Hate Myself
Interscope
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Run Devil Run
Paul McCartney
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S Club
S Club 7
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Showbiz
Muse
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5
All Hallow's EP
AFI
EP
Synchronistic Wanderings
Pat Benatar
Compilation
Breakdown
Melissa Etheridge
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Colour Moving and Still
Chantal Kreviazuk
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The Distance to Here
Live
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More Betterness!
No Use for a Name
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Christmas the Cowboy Way
Riders in the Sky
Christmas
Golden Arms Redemption
U-God
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11
Nightlife
Pet Shop Boys
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12
Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Compilation
BBC Sessions
Cocteau Twins
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Total Abandon: Live in Australia
Deep Purple
Live
The Marshall Suite
The Fall
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Black On Both Sides
Mos Def
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Otherworld
Lunasa
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Where I Wanna Be
Donell Jones
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Immortalized
Spice 1
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In Reverse
Matthew Sweet
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Soundsystem
311
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I Want It All
Warren G
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The Private Years
Yanni
Compilation
Against Da Grain
YoungBloodZ
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13
Millionaires
James
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18
Flying Without Wings
Westlife
UK
Rise
Gabrielle
UK
Solo Journey
Bradley Joseph
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Still Life
Opeth
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I Wanna Be Santa Claus
Ringo Starr
Christmas
Suicide Pact - You First
Therapy?
UK
19
Honey to the B
Billie
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Peace
Eurythmics
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Bloodthirst
Cannibal Corpse
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Washed Up!
Catch 22
EP
Los grandes éxitos en español
Cypress Hill
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Symphony No. 1
Joe Jackson
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Internal Affairs
Pharoahe Monch
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
A New Found Glory
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This Christmas
98 Degrees
Christmas
Modified
Save Ferris
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God Save the Smithereens
The Smithereens
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Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
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Keith Urban
Keith Urban
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Give 'Em the Boot II
Various Artists
Compilation
25
Sunday 8PM / Saturday 3AM
Faithless
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Turn It on Again: The Hits
Genesis
Compilation
Leaders Not Followers
Napalm Death
EP
Live from a Shark Cage
Papa M
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Xeneizes
Quarashi
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Steptacular
Steps
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26
Aktapuss
Akinyele
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The Aquabats! vs. the Floating Eye of Death!
The Aquabats!
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The Science of Things
Bush
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Looking Forward
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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The Lost Files
Digital Underground
Compilation
Emergency & I
The Dismemberment Plan
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Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater
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Make Yourself
Incubus
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Hidden Stash
Kottonmouth Kings
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A Guided Tour of Chicago
The Lawrence Arms
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The Days of Our Nights
Luna
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Only God Can Judge Me
Master P
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RéCréation
Florent Pagny
Double cover album
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes
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All Systems Go 2
Rocket from the Crypt
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No. 4
Stone Temple Pilots
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Tiger Army
Tiger Army
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American Made Music to Strip By
Rob Zombie
Remix
Introducing IMx
IMx
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28
Tokyo Warhearts
Children of Bodom
Live
November
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
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Ether~Electrified Porch Music
Carbon Leaf
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Blank-Wave Arcade
The Faint
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Of Someday Shambles
Jebediah
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Wonderful
Madness
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Paul McCartney's Working Classical
Paul McCartney
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Westlife
Westlife
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Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam
Various Artists
Tribute
2
It All Comes Down to This
Bane
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Bleach
Bleach
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Rainbow
Mariah Carey
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This Desert Life
Counting Crows
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6:66 Satan's Child
Danzig
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Scream for Me Brazil
Bruce Dickinson
Live
There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Foo Fighters
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Making the Road
Hi-Standard
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Joy: A Holiday Collection
Jewel
Christmas
Tha Block Is Hot
Lil Wayne
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Shapeshifter
Marcy Playground
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Northern Star
Melanie C
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The Battle of Los Angeles
Rage Against the Machine
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Dirty Harriet
Rah Digga
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The Roots Come Alive
The Roots
Live
Love and the Russian Winter
Simply Red
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8
Magic Hour
Cast
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Invincible
Five
UK
There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Foo Fighters
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Glastonbury 90
Hawkwind
Live
Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2
Hawkwind
Live
Greatest Hits III
Queen
Compilation
Abbamania
Various Artists
Tribute
9
It Just Gets Worse
Anal Cunt
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When the Pawn...
Fiona Apple
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The Gift of Game
Crazy Town
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The Exchange
Against All Authority/The Criminals
Split EP
Darrin's Coconut Ass: Live from Omaha
Goldfinger
Live
Metal Jukebox
Helloween
Covers
Breathe
Faith Hill
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marillion.com
Marillion
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Alanis Unplugged
Alanis Morissette
Live
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
Prince
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Affirmation
Savage Garden
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Greatest Hits
Sublime
Compilation
Live at Sturgis
38 Special
Live
Sugar
Tonic
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10
Loveppears
Ayumi Hamasaki
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12
The Corrs Unplugged
The Corrs
Live
The Last Tour on Earth
Marilyn Manson
Live
15
The Road to Hell: Part 2
Chris Rea
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16
Return of the Killer A's
Anthrax
Compilation
To the Teeth
Ani DiFranco
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Timeless: The Classics Vol. 2
Michael Bolton
Covers album
All the Way… A Decade of Song
Celine Dion
Compilation
2001
Dr. Dre
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Greatest Hits of the 20th Century
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Compilation
Reload
Tom Jones
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Faith: A Holiday Album
Kenny G
Holiday
Issues
Korn
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Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha
Kurupt
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Love Liberty Disco
Newsboys
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Immobilarity
Raekwon
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Cut Carefully and Play Loud
Rocket from the Crypt
EP
Willennium
Will Smith
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SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century
Sonic Youth
-
The Chosen Ones
Stratovarius
Compilation
Ödemarkens Son
Vintersorg
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19
Sweet Kisses
Jessica Simpson
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20
1999 Remixes
Jamiroquai
Box Set
22
Now That's What I Call Music! 44 (UK series)
Various Artists
Compilation
23
The Sounds of Science
Beastie Boys
Compilation
Midnite Vultures
Beck
-
Garth Brooks and the Magic of Christmas
Garth Brooks
Christmas
IX Equilibrium
Emperor
-
Live Era: '87-'93
Guns N' Roses
Live
Enrique
Enrique Iglesias
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Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume One
Led Zeppelin
Compilation
Alchemy
Yngwie Malmsteen
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Listener Supported
Dave Matthews Band
Live
S&M
Metallica
Live
Grey Dawn
October Tide
Nastradamus
Nas
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The Decline
NOFX
EP
Amplified
Q-Tip
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Live
They Might Be Giants
Live
Blue
Third Eye Blind
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Viva Wisconsin
Violent Femmes
Live
29
Complete '79: Collectors Series Volume 1
Hawkwind
Live
30
The Greatest Hits
Cher
Compilation
The Fragile Art of Existence
Control Denied
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The Mystery of the Whisper
The Crüxshadows
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Europop
Eiffel 65
US
The Master
Rakim
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Unleash the Dragon
Sisqo
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December
Day
Album
Artist
Notes
7
Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park
Sheryl Crow
Live
Mimosa
Fun Lovin' Criminals
Compilation
At the Heart of Winter
Immortal
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Kaleidoscope
Kelis
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Magnolia
Aimee Mann
Soundtrack
So Real
Mandy Moore
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Methods Of Mayhem
Methods Of Mayhem
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Resurrection
Vice Squad
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9
Born Again
Notorious B.I.G.
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13
Tha G-Code
Juvenile
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Songs from the Last Century
George Michael
Covers album
14
Don't Mind If I Do
Culture Club
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Still I Rise
2Pac and Outlawz
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21
...And Then There Was X
DMX
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World Party
Goodie Mob
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Best of the Specials
The Specials
Compilation
Everything Is Healing Nicely
Frank Zappa
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28
Singles of the 90s
Ace of Base
Compilation
Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter
Jay-Z
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Release Date Unknown
American Girl - Juice Newton
Face Down - Serial Joe
Simple Pleasure - Tindersticks
Where We Stand - Yellowcard
Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1999.
# Artist Title Year Chart Entries 1 Britney Spears Baby One More Time 1999 UK 1 - Feb 1999, US BB 1 of 1999, Holland 1 - Jan 1999, Sweden 1 - Jan 1999, Austria 1 - Mar 1999, Switzerland 1 - Feb 1999, Norway 1 - Feb 1999, Australia 1 of 1999, Germany 1 - Feb 1999, Éire 1 - Feb 1999, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1999, Australia 1 for 9 weeks Jun 1999, Poland 3 - Mar 1999, France 6 - Jan 1999, Italy 7 of 1999, US BB 29 of 1999, POP 29 of 1999, Germany 41 of the 1990s, Scrobulate 91 of upbeat, RYM 95 of 1998, OzNet 814, Acclaimed 875 2 Lou Bega Mambo No 5 (A Little Bit of ...) 1999 UK 1 - Sep 1999, Holland 1 - Jun 1999, Austria 1 - May 1999, Switzerland 1 - May 1999, Norway 1 - Jun 1999, Germany 1 - May 1999, Éire 1 - Aug 1999, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Sep 1999, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Jan 2000, Australia 3 of 1999, Italy 3 of 1999, POP 3 of 1999, Poland 4 - Jul 1999, US BB 4 of 1999, US BB 4 of 1999, Party 04 of 1999, Sweden 5 - Aug 1999, Germany 11 of the 1990s, RYM 189 of 1999 3 Eiffel 65 Blue (Da Ba Dee) 1999 UK 1 - Sep 1999, Holland 1 - Jul 1999, Sweden 1 - Aug 1999, Austria 1 - Aug 1999, Switzerland 1 - Jul 1999, Norway 1 - Aug 1999, Germany 1 - Jul 1999, Éire 1 - Sep 1999, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Nov 1999, Australia 1 for 9 weeks Mar 2000, Poland 1 for 2 weeks Jan 2000, US BB 6 of 2000, Italy 16 of 1999, Australia 20 of 1999, Germany 20 of the 1990s, US BB 32 of 1999, Party 103 of 1999, RYM 185 of 1998 4 TLC No Scrubs 1999 US BB 1 of 1999, Éire 1 - May 1999, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Apr 1999, Australia 1 for 7 weeks Aug 1999, UK 3 - Apr 1999, Holland 3 - Mar 1999, Australia 4 of 1999, Switzerland 5 - Apr 1999, Germany 5 - Apr 1999, France 6 - Mar 1999, Norway 7 - Apr 1999, US BB 12 of 1999, Sweden 19 - Mar 1999, Poland 21 - Apr 1999, Austria 30 - May 1999, Italy 30 of 1999, POP 33 of 1999, Scrobulate 52 of rnb, RYM 55 of 1999, Acclaimed 268, Germany 302 of the 1990s, RIAA 361 5 Bloodhound Gang The Bad Touch 1999 Sweden 1 - Oct 1999, France 1 - Sep 1999, Norway 1 - Nov 1999, Germany 1 - Jan 2000, Éire 1 - May 2000, Austria 3 - Sep 1999, UK 4 - Apr 2000, Switzerland 4 - Sep 1999, Italy 15 of 2000, Holland 17 - Oct 1999, US BB 18 of 2000, POP 18 of 2000, Poland 24 - Oct 1999, Australia 41 of 2000, RYM 41 of 1999, US BB 52 of 2000, Scrobulate 66 of fun, Germany 98 of the 1990s, Party 98 of 1999 Top Singles "All or Nothing" - Cher "Absolutely Everybody" - Vanessa Amorosi (debut) "All Star" - Smash Mouth "Aller plus haut" - Tina Arena "Almost Doesn't Count - Brandy "American Woman" - Lenny Kravitz "Amazed" - Lonestar "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" - Silverchair "Angel" - Sarah McLachlan "Angel of Mine" - Monica "Au Nom de la rose" - Moos "...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears (debut) "Back At One" - Brian McKnight "Bailamos" - Enrique Iglesias "Bawitdaba" - Kid Rock "Beautiful Stranger" - Madonna "Believe" - Cher "Big Big World" - Emilia "Black Balloon" - Goo Goo Dolls "Blue Monday" - Orgy "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" - Eiffel 65 "Born to make you happy" - Britney Spears "Bring It All Back" - S Club 7 "Bring It All To Me" - Blaque "Burning Down the House" - Tom Jones featuring The Cardigans "Candy" - Mandy Moore "Can't Fight the Moonlight" - LeAnn Rimes "The Carpet Crawlers 1999" - Genesis "Cherish the Day" - Sade "Desert Rose" - Sting "Dizzy" - Goo Goo Dolls "Don't Say You Love Me" - M2M "Down So Long" - Jewel "Everlasting Night" - Dannii Minogue "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" - Baz Luhrmann "Everything You Want" - Vertical Horizon "Every Morning" - Sugar Ray "Falling Away From Me" - KoЯn "Flying Without Wings" - Westlife (UK) "Freak on a Leash" - KoЯn "Freestyler" - Bomfunk MC's "Flat Beat" - Mr. Oizo "Genie in a Bottle" - Christina Aguilera (debut) "Guerrilla Radio" - Rage Against the Machine "Have You Ever?" - Brandy "Heartbreak Hotel" - Whitney Houston, Faith Evans, & Kelly Price "Heartbreaker" - Mariah Carey "Hello Time Bomb" - Matthew Good Band "Honey to the Bee" - Billie "How to Rob" - 50 Cent "I Need To Know" - Marc Anthony "I Knew I Loved You" - Savage Garden "I Wanna Love You Forever" - Jessica Simpson (debut) "I Want It That Way" - Backstreet Boys "I Will Remember You" - Sarah McLachlan "If I Let You Go" - Westlife (UK) "If You Had My Love" - Jennifer Lopez "Larger Than Life" - Backstreet Boys "Kiss Me" - Sixpence None the Richer "Kiss of Life" - Sade "Last Kiss" - Pearl Jam "Learn to Fly" - Foo Fighters "Lit Up" - Buckcherry "Livin' la Vida Loca" - Ricky Martin "Load Me Up" - Matthew Good Band "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" - Lou Bega "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" - Shania Twain "Maria" - Blondie "The Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard "The Miracle" - Cliff Richard "My Name Is" - Eminem "My Own Worst Enemy" - Lit "Never Be the Same Again" - Melanie C feat. Lisa Lopes "Never Let You Go" - Third Eye Blind "Nothing Really Matters" - Madonna "No Scrubs" - TLC "Nookie" - Limp Bizkit "Nothing Is Real but the Girl" - Blondie "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" - The Offspring "Praise You" - Fatboy Slim "S Club Party" - S Club 7 "Scar Tissue" - Red Hot Chili Peppers "She Wants You" - Billie "She's So High" - Tal Bachman "Sleep Now in the Fire" - Rage Against the Machine "Slide" - Goo Goo Dolls "Smooth" - Santana feat. Rob Thomas "Someday" - Sugar Ray "Sometimes" - Britney Spears "Steal My Sunshine" - Len "Strong Enough" - Cher "Swear It Again" - Westlife (UK) (debut) "Take a Picture" - Filter "Tender" - Blur "The Animal Song" - Savage Garden "The Bad Touch" - Bloodhound Gang "Thank ABBA for the Music" - Steps, Tina Cousins, Cleopatra, B*Witched, Billie "That Don't Impress Me Much" - Shania Twain "The World Is Not Enough" - Garbage "Then the Morning Comes" - Smash Mouth "There She Goes" - Sixpence None the Richer "Tu ne m'as pas laissé le temps" - David Hallyday "Unpretty" - TLC "Waiting for Tonight" - Jennifer Lopez "What a Girl Wants" - Christina Aguilera "What It's Like" - Everlast "What's My Age Again?" - Blink-182 "When the Heartache Is Over" - Tina Turner "When Worlds Collide" - Powerman 5000 "Where My Girls At" -702 "Wild Wild West" - Will Smith featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee "(You Drive Me) Crazy" - Britney Spears "You'll Be in My Heart" - Phil Collins "You're a God" - Vertical Horizon "You're Still the One" - Shania Twain "You Get What You Give" - New Radicals See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1999 Top 10 selling albums of the year in USA Backstreet Boys - Millennium Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time Shania Twain - Come on Over 1 'N Sync - *NSYNC Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin Limp Bizkit - Significant Other Santana - Supernatural TLC - FanMail Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause Acclaimed Music AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 1999 The Soft Bulletin — The Flaming Lips 69 Love Songs — The Magnetic Fields Agaetis Byrjun — Sigur Rós Play — Moby I See a Darkness — Bonnie "Prince" Billy The Slim Shady LP — Eminem Remedy — Basement Jaxx Summerteeth — Wilco Mule Variations — Tom Waits Black on Both Sides — Mos Def Midnite Vultures — Beck The Man Who — Travis 13 — Blur Californication — Red Hot Chili Peppers Things Fall Apart — The Roots AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs From 1999 My Name Is — Eminem No Scrubs — TLC Window Licker — Aphex Twin ...Baby One More Time — Britney Spears Smooth — Santana feat. Rob Thomas I Want It That Way — Backstreet Boys Beautiful Stranger — Madonna Red Alert — Basement Jaxx Flat Beat — Mr. Oizo Say My Name — Destiny's Child Got Your Money — Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis Hey Boy Hey Girl — The Chemical Brothers Caught Out There — Kelis Race for the Prize — The Flaming Lips Sing it Back — Moloko Classical music Samuel Adler - Viola Concerto Leonardo Balada - Piano Concerto No. 3 Michael Daugherty - Hell's Angels Lorenzo Ferrero Glamorama Spies Presagios (symphonic poem) El encuentro (symphonic poem) La matanza del Templo Mayor (symphonic poem) Carlo Forlivesi - Requiem Patrick Hawes - The Call (song cycle) Joe Jackson - Symphony No. 1 Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace John Kinsella - Symphony No. 8: Into the New Millennium Richard Payne - Saxophone Concerto Opera William Bolcom - A View from the Bridge Deborah Drattell - Festival of Regrets Daron Hagen - Bandanna John Harbison - The Great Gatsby Nicholas Lens - The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Terra Terra - The Aquarius Era Anthony Snyder - Sodomy Musical theater Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin) - Broadway revival Fame - The Musical London production Kiss Me, Kate (Cole Porter) - Broadway revival Mamma Mia! (ABBA) - London production My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe) - London revival Saturday Night Fever Broadway production Deaths January 2 - Rolf Liebermann (88), composer January 23 - "Prince" Lincoln Thompson (49), reggae musician February 3 - Gwen Guthrie (48), singer February 4 - Kenneth C. Burns (68), country musician February 12 - Toni Fisher (67), singer February 15 Lamont "Big L" Coleman (24), rapper, gunshot Agnes Bernelle (75), actress and singer February 16 - Necil Kâzım Akses (90), Turkish composer (date of death from this contemporary newspaper) March 3 - Dusty Springfield (59), singer, breast cancer March 4 - Eddie Dean (91), country music artist, actor March 12 - Yehudi Menuhin (92), violinist and musical director March 13 - Bidu Sayão (97), Brazilian opera singer March 26 - Ananda Shankar (50), Indian classical musician and composer, cardiac arrest March 29 - Joe Williams (80), jazz singer April 3 - Lionel Bart (68), songwriter and composer April 6 - Red Norvo (91), jazz musician April 14 - Anthony Newley (67), songwriter, actor and singer April 16 - Skip Spence (52), musician (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer April 25 Roger Troutman (47), R&B singer, gunshot wounds Larry Troutman (54), R&B percussionist, suicide after killing younger brother Kemi Olusanya (35), British drum and bass duo Kemistry & Storm, freak highway accident April 26 - Adrian Borland (41), English singer, songwriter, guitarist (The Sound), suicide April 27 - Al Hirt (76), New Orleans trumpeter April 30 - Darrell Sweet (51), drummer (Nazareth), heart attack May 14 - William Tucker, guitarist, Ministry, suicide by slitting own throat May 26 - Paul Sacher (93), Swiss conductor June 5 - Mel Tormé, (73), singer June 15 - Fausto Papetti, (76), Italian Famous Musician June 21 - Kami, (26), Japanese drummer for Malice Mizer, subarachnoid hemorrhage June 27 - Sven Einar Englund, (83), Finnish composer July 3 - Mark Sandman, (46), alternative rock musician, member of Morphine, heart attack July 6 Benny Bell, (93), musician Joaquín Rodrigo (97), Spanish composer July 11 - Helen Forrest, (82), big band singer July 17 - Kevin Wilkinson, (41) August 3 - Lesley Pitts (30), music publicist August 20 - Bobby Sheehan (31), bassist for Blues Traveler, drug overdose September 10 - Alfredo Kraus (72), opera singer October 4 - Art Farmer (71), jazz trumpeter October 6 - Amalia Rodrigues (79), Portuguese singer October 9 - Milt Jackson (76), jazz vibraphonist October 10 - Robert Wright (90), songwriter and librettist October 16 - Ella Mae Morse, (75), singer October 19 - Harry Bannink (70), Dutch songwriter October 26 - Rex Gildo (63), German singer October 28 - Robert Linn (74), composer and teacher November 18 - Doug Sahm (58), country and rock musician December 3 - Scatman John (57), pop musician December 6 - Todd Barnes (34), TSOL December 10 - Rick Danko (56), rock singer in The Band December 17 - Grover Washington Jr. (66), American saxophonist December 26 - Curtis Mayfield (57), singer/composer Awards The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Billy Joel, Curtis Mayfield, Paul McCartney, Del Shannon, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen and The Staple Singers Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include The Fairfield Four and Second Chapter of Acts Grammy Awards Grammy Awards of 1999 Country Music Association Awards Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 1999 Mercury Music Prize Ok - Talvin Singh wins. MTV Video Music Awards 1999 MTV Video Music Awards Glenn Gould Prize Yo-Yo Ma (laureate), Wu Man (protégé) Charts Triple J Hottest 100 Triple J Hottest 100, 1999 Pop Culture Madness 1999 Pop Music Chart See also 1999 in music (UK) Category:Record labels established in 1999 References ^ Billboard.com - Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - The Billboard 200














