2004 in music
| Years in music: | 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 |
| Centuries: | 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century |
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| Years: | 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 |
See also:
Events
- January 1 - Vienna New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, conducted by Riccardo Muti
- January 1 - Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol
- January 3 - Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood friend, in Las Vegas. The marriage was annulled two days later.
- February 1 - Daron Hagen is appointed President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in New York City.
- February 17 - Brit Awards held in London. The Darkness, Dido, Busted, Justin Timberlake, and KRS-One are among the winners.
- February 17 - Smahing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan posts a bitter message on his personal blog calling D'Arcy Wretzky a "mean spirited drug addict" and blaming James Iha for the breakup of that band.
- March 10 - George Michael announces that Patience will be his last commercially released record, telling Jo Whiley of BBC Radio 1 "this album nearly killed me". Future releases will be available from his web site in return for donations to his favourite charities.
- April 6 - A previously unreleased Johnny Cash album called My Mother's Hymn Book is released less than a year after his death on September 12, 2003.
- April 20 - Fear Factory returns after their 2002 breakup with the new album Archetype.
- April 26 - Deborah Voigt, sacked by Covent Garden for being too fat for an opera role, makes her recital debut to a rapturous reception at Carnegie Hall.
- May - Blender magazine's May issue includes a list of the 50 worst songs. "We Built This City," by Jefferson Starship, is rated worst.
- May 18 to May 23 - European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) in Basel.
- May 25 - Jam band Phish announces that after 21 years they will break up following the Summer 2004 Tour.
- May 25 - Skinny Puppy releases their first studio album since disbanding in 1996, called The Greater Wrong of the Right.
- May 26 - Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of American Idol, defeating Diana DeGarmo.
- June 4 - Karl Jenkins signs a 10-year recording deal with EMI.
- June - Staind start recording their fourth album, produced by David Bottrill.
- June - The Velvet Revolver's first album Contraband debuts in the top slot on the Billboard album charts, selling over 250,000 copies its first week out.
- June - The Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone is hospitalized in Los Angeles with prostate cancer and diagnosed.
- June 4 - Creed dissolved because guitarist Mark Tremonti is working in a side project Alter Bridge and their first album is One Day Remains, which is scheduled to be released on August 10th.
- June 10 - Ray Charles dies of liver disease at the age of 73.
- June 12 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 12th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, The Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
- June 22 - 14th annual Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for July 17, is cancelled. Organizers cite "poor ticket sales". (See: Lollapalooza 2004 lineup.)
- June 23 - UK DJ Tony Blackburn is suspended by radio station Classic Gold Digital for playing songs by Cliff Richard, against station policy.
- July 10 Ex- S Club star Rachel Stevens sets a world record for completing the fastest promotional circuit in just 24 hours- including a run for the charity Sport Relief.
- July 11 McFly debut at #1 on the UK album charts with Room On The 3rd Floor. They break the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at #1 on the album charts.
- New classic rock and New Wave-influenced bands such as the Killers begin to oust numetal bands.
- July 20 - Van Halen releases The Best of Both Worlds, a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals.
- July 31 - Dispatch performs their last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, MA.
- August 8 - Dave Matthews Band's tour bus dumps 800 lb (360 kg) of human feces from a Chicago bridge, intending to unload it in the river, but it lands on an architecture tour boat. The bus driver and the band are sued by the state of Illinois.
- August 15 - Phish performs their final concert at a two-day festival in Coventry, Vermont.
- September 14 - Megadeth is scheduled to release their new studio album The System Has Failed.
- September 21 - Green Day releases American Idiot, their 7th studio album. It goes 6x platinum and gains a cult following. It is a punk opera, much in the style of Pink Floyd's The Wall or The Who's Quadrophenia.
- September 28 - Hilary Duff releases her self-titled second album on the day she turns 17.
- September 28 - Brian Wilson completes SMiLE, 37 years after its original planned release
- October 11 - The original lineup of Duran Duran release their new album Astronaut, which was preceded by the single "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise".
- October 23 - Ashlee Simpson is accused of lip-synching after an abortive live performance on the television show Saturday Night Live.
- October 26 - Legendary DJ John Peel dies, after 40 years of massive influence upon popular music.
- December - Ned's Atomic Dustbin begins touring with 5 upcoming shows.
- 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 the Velvet Revolver.
Albums Released
| Album | Artist | Release Date | Album Type | |
| Phantom Planet | Phantom Planet | January 6 | LP | |
| Sapphire Blue | Larry Carlton | January 13 | LP | |
| Legion of Boom | The Crystal Method | January 13 | LP | |
| The Glorious Burden | Iced Earth | January 13 | LP | |
| Slow | Richie Kotzen | January 13 | LP | |
| The Opera Band | Amici Forever | January 13 | LP | |
| Educated Guess | Ani DiFranco | January 20 | LP | |
| Kimi Ga Suki | Matthew Sweet | January 20 | LP | |
| Immortal Memory | Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy | January 26 | LP | |
| Sirens and Condolences | Bayside | January 27 | LP | |
| Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 | The Cure | January 27 | Compilation | |
| Delirium Cordia | Fantômas | January 27 | LP | |
| Unsung: The Best of Helmet 1991-1997 | Helmet | January 27 | Compilation | |
| Because I Can | Katy Rose | January 27 | LP | |
| Kamikaze | Twista | January 27 | LP | |
| Sixty Four | Donovan | February | LP | |
| The Battle for Everything | Five for Fighting | February 3 | LP | |
| A Crow Left of the Murder | Incubus | February 3 | LP | |
| Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | February 3 | LP | |
| Start Something | Lostprophets | February 3 | LP | |
| 50 First Dates | Soundtrack | February 3 | Soundtrack | |
| Greatest Hits | Thalía | February 10 | Greatest Hits | |
| New Found Power | Damageplan | February 10 | LP | |
| 'Merican | The Descendents (released in Europe in 2003) | February 10 | EP | |
| Feels Like Home | Norah Jones | February 10 | LP | |
| America's Sweetheart | Courtney Love | February 10 | LP | |
| Body Language | Kylie Minogue | February 10 | LP | |
| College Dropout | Kanye West | February 10 | LP | |
| Turn of the Screw | 1208 | February 10 | LP | |
| All That We Let In | The Indigo Girls | February 17 | LP | |
| An Elixer for Existence | Sirenia | February 23 | LP | |
| Logic Will Break Your Heart | The Stills | February 23 | LP | |
| About a Burning Fire | Blindside | February 24 | LP | |
| Schizophrenic | JC Chasez | February 24 | LP | |
| Shadows Collide With People | John Frusciante | February 24 | LP | |
| Bodysong | Jonny Greenwood | February 24 | LP | |
| Punk Statik Paranoia | Orgy | February 24 | LP | |
| Scorpio Rising | Prong | February 24 | LP | |
| Nude | V.A.S.T. | February 24 | LP | |
| The Guilt Show | The Get Up Kids | March 2 | LP | |
| MODERN ARTillery | The Living End | March 2 | LP | |
| Sunrise Over Sea | The John Butler Trio | March 8 | ||
| Temple of the Damned | Exodus | March 9 | LP | |
| All of Our Names | Sarah Harmer | March 9 | LP | |
| Don't Stop the Music | Play | March 9 | LP | |
| Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | TV On The Radio | March 9 | LP | |
| Live at the Deaf Club | Dead Kennedys | March 9 | Live | |
| Patience | George Michael | March 16 | LP | |
| The Very Best of Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | March 16 | Greatest Hits | |
| Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1984-1993) | Camper Van Beethoven | March 16 | Re-Issue, LPs | |
| Split Personality | Cassidy | March 16 | LP | |
| Eminem is Back | Eminem | March 16 | Compilation | |
| The Other Side | Godsmack | March 16 | 8-Track Acoustic EP | |
| Frustration Plantation | Rasputina | March 16 | LP | |
| Dead Letters | The Rasmus | March 16 | LP (US release) | |
| Till Death Us Do Part | Cypress Hill | March 23 | LP | |
| Cool to Be You | The Descendents | March 23 | LP | |
| Greatest Hits | Guns N' Roses | March 23 | Greatest Hits | |
| Peace, Love, Death Metal | The Eagles of Death Metal | March 23 | LP | |
| Me and Mr. Johnson | Eric Clapton | March 23 | LP | |
| MP3 | Marcy Playground | March 23 | LP | |
| Fly or Die | N.E.R.D. | March 23 | LP | |
| Re•de•fine | SOiL | March 23 | LP | |
| The Punisher | Soundtrack | March 23 | Soundtrack | |
| Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed | Soundtrack | March 23 | Soundtrack | |
| Confessions | Usher | March 23 | LP | |
| Now That's What I Call Music! 15 (U.S. series) | Various Artists | March 23 | Compilation | |
| Winning Days | The Vines | March 23 | LP | |
| Solace | Xavier Rudd | March 28 | LP (Australia Release) | |
| Honkin' on Bobo | Aerosmith | March 30 | LP | |
| Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1975-1979) | Fleetwood Mac | March 30 | Re-Issue, LPs | |
| Damita Jo | Janet Jackson | March 30 | LP | |
| Los Lonely Boys | Los Lonely Boys | March 30 | LP | |
| In With the Old | Pepper | March 30 | LP | |
| Live & Off the Record | Shakira | March 30 | LP & DVD | |
| Final Straw | Snow Patrol | March 30 | LP | |
| Prophecy | Soulfly | March 30 | LP | |
| You Are Here | UFO | March 30 | LP | |
| Première | Katherine Jenkins | April | ||
| The Dissociatives | The Dissociatives | April 5 | LP | |
| J Wess Presents Tha LP | J-Wess | April 5 | LP | |
| Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1982-1992) | Bad Religion | April 6 | Re-Issue, LPs | |
| The Curse of Blondie | Blondie | April 6 | LP | |
| Hellfire Club | Edguy | April 6 | LP | |
| My Mother's Hymn Book | Johnny Cash | April 6 | ||
| Re-Issue of 3 oldest albums | Jethro Tull | April 6 | Re-Issue, LPs | |
| Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles? | Local H. | April 6 | LP | |
| Good News for People Who Love Bad News | Modest Mouse | April 6 | LP | |
| Indestructible Object | They Might Be Giants | April 6 | EP | |
| Crossfade | Crossfade | April 13 | LP | |
| Is There Love in Space? | Joe Satriani | April 13 | LP | |
| Cutting | Red Skeleton | April 13 | LP | |
| Palm Trees and Power Lines | Sugarcult | April 13 | LP | |
| Feels Like Home | Norah Jones | April 20 | LP | |
| Hangover Music, Vol. VI | Black Label Society | April 20 | LP | |
| Archetype | Fear Factory | April 20 | LP | |
| Cuckoo Clocks of Hell | Buckethead | April 20 | LP | |
| Underneath | Hanson | April 20 | LP | |
| Desensitized | Drowning Pool | April 20 | LP | |
| Fire It Up | The Kottonmouth Kings | April 20 | LP | |
| Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | April 20 | LP | |
| High Volume | Corrosion of Conformity | April 20 | LP | |
| Hurt No More | Mario Winans | April 20 | LP | |
| Me | The Marques Sisters | April 20 | LP | |
| Musicology | Prince | April 20 | LP | |
| Ratatat | Ratatat | April 20 | LP | |
| Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 | Various Artists, Rock Against Bush | April 20 | Compilation | |
| Stone Age Complications | Queens of the Stone Age | April 20 | Compilation | |
| Through the Ashes of Empires | Machine Head | April 20 | LP | |
| Shine | Cyndi Lauper | April 21 | LP | |
| Walk The Tightrope | Human Nature | April 26 | LP | |
| Souls to Deny | Suffocation | April 27 | LP | |
| The Dresden Dolls | The Dresden Dolls | April 27 | LP | |
| re.present | Jimmie's Chicken Shack | April 27 | LP | |
| American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics | Various Artists | April 27 | LP | |
| D12 World | D12 | April 27 | LP | |
| The Girl in the Other Room | Diana Krall | April 27 | LP | |
| Marbles | Marillion | May 3 | LP | |
| We Are All Sluts of Trust | Sluts of Trust | May 3 | LP | |
| Endangered Species | Flaw | May 4 | LP | |
| Metalogy | Judas Priest | May 4 | Greatest Hits | |
| The Ride | Los Lobos | May 4 | LP | |
| Duets | The Notorious B.I.G. | May 4 | LP | |
| Wave of Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies | Pixies | May 4 | Compilation LP, Concert & Documentary DVD | |
| Just for You | Lionel Richie | May 4 | LP | |
| Matt Sharp | Matt Sharp | May 4 | LP | |
| Police State | The Transplants | May 4 | LP | |
| Here for the Party | Gretchen Wilson | May 11 | LP | |
| Dis/Location | Seven Mary Three | May 11 | LP | |
| The End of Heartache | Killswitch Engage | May 11 | LP | |
| Here for the Party | Gretchen Wilson | May 11 | LP | |
| A Song Is A City | Eskimo Joe | May 16 | LP | |
| Meltdown | Ash | May 17 | LP | |
| Happiness in Magazines | Graham Coxon | May 17 | LP | |
| Baptism | Lenny Kravitz | May 18 | LP | |
| So-Called Chaos | Alanis Morissette | May 18 | LP | |
| You Are the Quarry | Morrissey | May 18 | LP | |
| Catalyst | New Found Glory | May 18 | LP | |
| A Grand Don't Come For Free | The Streets | May 18 | LP | |
| Meltdown | Ash | May 24 | LP | |
| It's About Time | Christina Milian | May 24 | LP (International Release) | |
| Café Naturale | Wendy Matthews | May 24 | LP | |
| The Human Equation | Ayreon | May 24 | LP | |
| The Printz | Bumblebeez 81 | May 25 | LP | |
| Long Gone Before Daylight | The Cardigans | May 25 | LP | |
| White Trash Beautiful | Everlast | May 25 | LP | |
| Rockin' The Rhein With The Grateful Dead | Grateful Dead | May 25 | Live | |
| Under My Skin | Avril Lavigne | May 25 | LP | |
| The Greater Wrong of the Right | Skinny Puppy | May 25 | LP | |
| Vol. 3: the Subliminal Verses | Slipknot | May 25 | LP | |
| Uh Huh Her | PJ Harvey | May 31 | LP (UK Release) | |
| Mercury4 | Mercury4 | May 31 | LP | |
| Wayward Angel | Kasey Chambers | May 31 | LP | |
| Melissa Auf der Maur | Melissa Auf der Maur | June 1 | LP | |
| No Said Date | Masta Killa | June 1 | LP | |
| Rock the Block | Krokus | June 1 | LP | |
| Square matrix 004 | Various artists | June 1 | Compilation | |
| Falling Up | Digby | June 1 | LP | |
| Stand Back: the Anthology | The Allman Brothers Band | June 8 | Compilation | |
| The Empire Strikes First | Bad Religion | June 8 | LP | |
| Purple Haze | Cam'ron | June 8 | LP | |
| Un | Chumbawamba | June 8 | LP | |
| Borrowed Heaven | The Corrs | June 8 | LP | |
| One Soul Now | Cowboy Junkies | June 8 | LP | |
| Keep Your Wig On | Fastball | June 8 | LP | |
| Uh Huh Her | PJ Harvey | June 8 | LP | |
| Happy People | R. Kelly | June 8 | LP | |
| Asshole | Gene Simmons | June 8 | LP | |
| Greatest Hits '93-'03 | 311 | June 8 | Compilation | |
| Punk-O-Rama, Vol. 9 | Various Artists, Punk-O-Rama | June 8 | Compilation | |
| Sonic Nurse | Sonic Youth | June 8 | LP | |
| Contraband | Velvet Revolver | June 8 | LP | |
| Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | My Chemical Romance | June 8 | LP | |
| A New Day... Live in Las Vegas | Céline Dion | June 12 | Live | |
| Sound Shattering Sound | Gyroscope | June 14 | ||
| To the 5 Boroughs | The Beastie Boys | LP | ||
| Hot Fuss | The Killers | June 15 | LP | |
| It's About Time | Christina Milian | June 15 | LP (US Release) | |
| They're Only Chasing Safety | Underoath | June 15 | ||
| Undermind | Phish | June 15 | LP | |
| The Blind Watchmaker | Mana ERG | June 15 | LP | |
| Afrodisiac | Brandy | June 22 | LP | |
| Will to Death | John Frusciante | June 22 | LP | |
| Jupiter's Darling | Heart | June 22 | LP | |
| JoJo | JoJo | June 22 | LP | |
| Lit | Lit | June 22 | LP | |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyve | Lynyrd Skynyrd | June 22 | Live | |
| Scream and Whisper | Edwin McCain | June 22 | LP | |
| Houses of the Molé | Ministry | June 22 | LP | |
| Inferno | Motörhead | June 22 | LP | |
| Not So Much to Be Loved As to Love | Jonathan Richman | June 22 | LP | |
| Unbreakable | Scorpions | June 22 | LP | |
| A Ghost is Born | Wilco | June 22 | LP | |
| Gettin' In Over My Head | Brian Wilson | June 22 | LP | |
| The Cure | The Cure | June 28 | LP | |
| Mojave | Concrete Blonde | June 29 | LP | |
| Live at the Gorge | Dave Matthews Band | June 29 | Live | |
| This Magnificent Distance | Chris Robinson | June 29 | LP | |
| Feedback | Rush | June 29 | LP | |
| Nina Sky | Nina Sky | June 29 | LP | |
| III: Ghost Tigers Rise | Tiger Army | June 29 | LP | |
| Hollywood Potato Chip | The Vandals | June 29 | LP | |
| 72 and Sunny | Uncle Kracker | June 29 | LP | |
| In Between Evolution | The Tragically Hip | June 29 | LP | |
| Stone Love | Angie Stone | July 6 | LP | |
| Star Trails | Spirit of the West | July 8 | LP | |
| Braxton Hicks | Jebediah | July 12 | LP | |
| Live on the Rocks | Blues Traveler | July 13 | LP | |
| License to Chill | Jimmy Buffett | July 13 | LP | |
| Hell to Pay | Dokken | July 13 | LP | |
| Viking | Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards | July 13 | LP | |
| Eat Your Face | Guttermouth | July 13 | LP | |
| Keep Right | KRS-One | July 13 | LP | |
| Together We're Heavy | The Polyphonic Spree | July 13 | LP | |
| The Tipping Point | The Roots | July 13 | LP | |
| Shhh...Don't Tell | Adam Sandler | July 13 | LP | |
| Lock-Sport-Krock | Nikola Sarcevic | July 13 | LP | |
| The Spine | They Might Be Giants | July 13 | LP | |
| Über Cobra | Widespread Panic | July 13 | LP | |
| Miss Machine | Dillinger Escape Plan (US Release) | July 20 | LP | |
| No Roots | Faithless | July 20 | LP | |
| Those Are Not My Bongos | Fuck | July 20 | LP | |
| Autobiography | Ashlee Simpson | July 20 | LP | |
| Hazen Street | Hazen Street | July 20 | LP | |
| Tyrannosaurus Hives | The Hives | July 20 | LP | |
| B Is for B-sides | Less Than Jake | July 20 | Rarities LP | |
| Beneath, Between, Beyond | Static-X | July 20 | Rarities LP | |
| The Best of Both Worlds: The Very Best of Van Halen | Van Halen | July 20 | Compilation | |
| Hymns of the 49th Parallel | k.d. lang | July 27 | LP | |
| Live in Hamburg | Maria McKee | July 27 | LP | |
| Throwback, Volume 1 | Boyz II Men | July 27 | LP | |
| Whiskey Tango Ghosts | Tanya Donelly | July 27 | LP | |
| Kevin Lyttle | Kevin Lyttle | July 27 | LP | |
| Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1986-1999) | Megadeth | July 27 | Re-Issue, LPs | |
| The Marques Sisters | Black and Pink | July 27 | LP | |
| The Beginning of Survival | Joni Mitchell | July 27 | LP | |
| Prince of the South | Mystikal | July 27 | LP | |
| Live at Benaroya Hall | Pearl Jam | July 27 | Live | |
| The Rolling Stones Singles: 1965-1968 | The Rolling Stones | July 27 | Box | |
| Where You Want to Be | Taking Back Sunday | July 27 | LP | |
| Drive Train | 38 Special | July 27 | LP | |
| Miss Machine | Dillinger Escape Plan (International Release) | August 2 | LP | |
| Spiritum Oriundus | Fields of Aplomb | August 3 | LP | |
| Accentuate the Positive | Al Jarreau | August 3 | LP | |
| Live in Hyde Park | Red Hot Chili Peppers | August 3 | Live | |
| Village Gorilla Head | Tommy Stinson | August 3 | LP | |
| One Day Remains | Alter Bridge | August 10 | LP | |
| The Best of Coal Chamber | Coal Chamber | August 10 | Compilation | |
| Crosby Nash | David Crosby & Graham Nash | August 10 | LP | |
| Bubblegum | Mark Lanegan | August 10 | LP | |
| Creamfields | Paul Oakenfold | August 10 | ||
| The Best of Sepultura | Sepultura | August 10 | Compilation | |
| Potter's Field (album) | 12 Stones | August 10 | LP | |
| Live | 2Pac | August 10 | Live | |
| Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2 | Various Artists, Rock Against Bush | August 10 | Compilation | |
| Bob Powell | Bob Powell Anthology | August 12 | Box | |
| Take It All Away | Ryan Cabrera | August 17 | LP | |
| Sail On: the 30th Anniversary Collection 1974-2004 | Kansas | August 17 | Box | |
| Love Everybody | Presidents of the United States of America | August 17 | LP | |
| Up All Night | Razorlight | August 17 | LP | |
| Survival of the Sickest | Saliva | August 17 | LP | |
| Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You | Queen | August 17 | Compilation | |
| Beat Cafe | Donovan | August 24 | LP | |
| The Revolution Starts...Now | Steve Earle | August 24 | LP | |
| Hide Nothing | Further Seems Forever | August 24 | LP | |
| Half Smiles of the Decomposed | Guided By Voices | August 24 | LP | |
| Untitled | Tim McGraw | August 24 | LP | |
| The Secondman's Middle Stand | Mike Watt | August 24 | LP | |
| Killing Heidi | Killing Heidi | August 30 | LP | |
| Medúlla | Björk | August 31 | LP | |
| Circle of Snakes | Danzig | August 31 | LP | |
| The DEFinition | LL Cool J | August 31 | LP | |
| Getting Away With Murder | Papa Roach | August 31 | LP | |
| The Wraith: Hell's Pit | Insane Clown Posse | August 31 | LP | |
| The Big Eyeball in the Sky | Col. Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains | September 7 | LP | |
| Home for an Island | The Exit | September 7 | LP | |
| Armed Love | The (International) Noise Conspiracy | September 7 | LP | |
| In the Meantime | Christine McVie | September 7 | LP | |
| It Came From New Jersey: The Smithereens Anthology | The Smithereens | September 7 | Compilation | |
| Living Things | Matthew Sweet | September 7 | LP | |
| Folker | Paul Westerberg | September 7 | LP | |
| Wayward Angel | Kasey Chambers | September 14 | LP | |
| A Hangover You Don't Deserve | Bowling for Soup | September 14 | LP | |
| Wet From Birth | The Faint | September 14 | LP | |
| The System Has Failed | Megadeth | September 14 | LP | |
| Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned | The Prodigy | September 14 | LP | |
| Everybody Loves a Happy Ending | Tears for Fears | September 14 | LP | |
| American Idiot | Green Day | September 21 | LP | |
| This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In | Chevelle | September 21 | LP | |
| The Delivery Man | Elvis Costello | September 21 | LP | |
| Il Sogno | Elvis Costello | September 21 | LP | |
| Welcome to Woddy Creek | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | September 21 | LP | |
| The Rolling Stones Singles: 1969-1971 | The Rolling Stones | September 21 | Box | |
| The Jump Off | Lil' Romeo | September 21 | LP | |
| Noise From the Basement | Skye Sweetnam | September 21 | LP | |
| London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition | The Clash | September 21 | LP & DVD | |
| Start from the Dark | Europe | September 23 | LP | |
| Trouble | Bonnie McKee | September 28 | LP | |
| Hilary Duff | Hilary Duff | September 28 | LP | |
| Antics | Interpol | September 28 | LP | |
| Shangri-La | Mark Knopfler | September 28 | LP | |
| Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll | Social Distortion | September 28 | LP | |
| SMiLe | Brian Wilson | September 28 | LP | |
| In Love and Death | The Used | September 28 | LP | |
| Pressure Chief | Cake | October 5 | LP | |
| Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear 1994-2004 | Everclear | October 5 | Compilation | |
| Size Matters | Helmet | October 5 | LP | |
| Palookaville (Fatboy Slim Album) | Fatboy Slim | October 5 | LP | |
| The Chronicles of Life and Death | Good Charlotte | October 5 | LP | |
| Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 | Ko?n | October 5 | Compilation | |
| Gates | Love Is In The Air | October 5 | LP | |
| Unshattered | Peter Murphy | October 5 | LP | |
| Around the Sun | R.E.M. | LP | ||
| Has Been | William Shatner | October 5 | LP | |
| 50 Number Ones | George Strait | October 5 | Compilation | |
| Real Gone | Tom Waits | October 5 | LP | |
| The Place You're In | Kenny Wayne Shepherd | October 5 | LP | |
| Cosima | Cosima De Vito | October 11 | LP | |
| Sirenian Shores | Sirenia | October 11 | EP | |
| Astronaut | Duran Duran | October 12 | LP & DVD | |
| New Roman Times | Camper Van Beethoven | October 12 | LP | |
| Heart & Soul | Joe Cocker | October 12 | LP | |
| Songs of the Unforgiven | Crash Test Dummies | October 12 | LP | |
| Miracle | Céline Dion | October 12 | LP | |
| Chuck | Sum 41 | October 12 | LP | |
| Greatest Hits 1986-2004 | Amy Grant | October 12 | LP | |
| Never Breathe What You Can't See | Jello Biafra & The Melvins | October 19 | LP | |
| Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | October 19 | LP | |
| Raise Hell | (hed) p.e. | October 19 | LP | |
| Futures | Jimmy Eat World | October 19 | LP | |
| Welcome to the North | The Music | October 19 | LP | |
| Walkin' in the Shadow of Life | The Neville Brothers | October 19 | LP | |
| From A Basement On The Hill | Elliott Smith | October 19 | LP | |
| The Great American Songbook III | Rod Stewart | October 19 | LP | |
| 2067 | Rheostatics | October 26 | LP | |
| All for You | Annihilator | October 26 | LP | |
| Gold Medal | The Donnas | October 26 | LP | |
| War Party | GWAR | October 26 | LP | |
| Ultimate Jerky Boys | The Jerky Boys | October 26 | Compilation | |
| Still Not Getting Any... | Simple Plan | October 26 | LP & DVD | |
| This is Music: The Singles 92-98 | The Verve | November 1 | Compilation (International Release) | |
| Singles | Travis | November 2 | Compilation | |
| Merry Christmas With Love | Clay Aiken | November 2 | LP | |
| Acoustic | John Lennon | November 2 | LP | |
| eMOTIVe | A Perfect Circle | November 2 | Covers | |
| Reise Reise | Rammstein | November 2 | LP | |
| I Need an Angel | Ruben Studdard | November 2 | LP | |
| Alive at Last | Train | November 2 | Live LP | |
| Untitled | Trisha Yearwood | November 2 | LP | |
| Mistaken Identity | Delta Goodrem | November 7 | LP | |
| Harmonium | Vanessa Carlton | November 9 | LP | |
| Real Talk | Fabolous | November 9 | LP | |
| Peachtree Road | Elton John | November 9 | LP | |
| 2005 KROQ New Music | KROQ | November 9 | Compilation | |
| Warts & All, Vol. 4 | moe. | November 9 | LP | |
| The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us!) | NOFX | November 9 | Compilation | |
| Home Movies | Pennywise | November 9 | DVD; Re-Issue | |
| Hummin' to Myself | Linda Ronstadt | November 9 | LP | |
| Greatest Hits: My Prerogative | Britney Spears | Compilation & DVD | ||
| [[Queen On Fire | Live at the Bowl]] | (Queen) | Live LP & DVD | |
| Encore | Eminem | November 12 | LP | |
| This is Music: The Singles 92-98 | The Verve | November 15 | Compilation (USA Release) | |
| The Silent Force | Within Temptation | November 15 | LP | |
| The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 | The Beatles | November 16 | Box | |
| Hii Hi Puffy AmiYumi | Puffy AmiYumi | November 16 | LP | |
| Youth | Collective Soul | November 16 | LP | |
| Destiny Fulfilled | Destiny's Child | November 16 | LP | |
| aMOTION | A Perfect Circle | November 16 | LP & DVD | |
| Spongebob Squarepants: the Movie | Soundtrack | November 16 | Soundtrack | |
| Want Two | Rufus Wainwright | November 16 | LP | |
| The Ultimate Collection | Michael Jackson | November 16 | Box | |
| Anywhere But Home | Evanescence | November 23 | Live LP | |
| Greatest Hits | Creed | November 23 | Compilation | |
| R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) The Masterpiece | Snoop Dogg | November 23 | LP | |
| Red Light District | Ludacris | November 23 | LP | |
| With the Lights Out | Nirvana | November 23 | Box | |
| 42 Ultimate Hits | Kenny Rogers | |||
| Rejoice | Jessica Simpson | November 23 | LP | |
| Love. Angel. Music. Baby. | Gwen Stefani | |||
| How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | U2 | November 23 | LP | |
| Eye To The Telescope | KT Tunstall | November 27 | LP | |
| Collision Course | Linkin Park and Jay-Z | November 30 | LP & DVD | |
| Breakaway | Kelly Clarkson | November 30 | LP | |
| Speak | Lindsay Lohan | December 7 | LP | |
| Ai no Dai 6 Kan | Morning Musume | December 8 | LP | |
| For You | Casey Donovan | December 13 | LP | |
| Loyal to the Game | 2Pac | December 14 | LP | |
| The Queen | Dalida (Remix compilation) |
Top Hits
- "American Idiot" - Green Day
- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day
- "Bed-Shaped" - Keane
- "Can't Stand Me Now" - The Libertines
- "Chocolate" - Snow Patrol
- "Cold Heart Bitch" - Jet
- "Cry" - Keeler
- "Do They Know It's Christmas" - Band Aid 20
- "Dry Your Eyes" - The Streets
- "Everybody's Changing" - Keane
- "Everytime" - Britney Spears
- "First of the Gang To Die" - Morrissey
- "Fit But You Know It" - The Streets
- "40 Miles" - Franz Ferdinand
- "Freakin' Out" - Graham Coxon
- "Gravity" - Embrace
- "Harder To Breathe" - Maroon 5
- "Here Without You" - 3 Doors Down
- "How To Be Dead" - Snow Patrol
- "If I Ain't Got You" - Alicia Keys
- "Leaving New York" - R.E.M.
- "Left Outside Alone" - Anastacia
- "Long Time Coming" - The Delays
- "Look What You Done" - Jet
- "Love Is Only A Feeling" - The Darkness
- "Mary" - Scissor Sisters
- "Matinee" - Franz Ferdinand
- "Miss You" - Blink 182
- "My Happy Ending" - Avril Lavigne
- "My Immortal" - Evanescence
- "Naughty Girl" - Beyonce
- "Old Habits Die Hard" - Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart
- "Open Road" - Bryan Adams
- "Over & Over" - Nelly & Tim McGraw
- "Radio" - Robbie Williams
- "Run To Me" - Brian McFadden
- "Satellite Of Love '04" - Lou Reed
- "She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5
- "Since U Been Gone" - Kelly Clarkson
- "Somewhere Only We Know" - Keane
- "Sunrise" - Duran Duran
- "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
- "This Is The Last Time" - Keane
- "This Love" - Maroon 5
- "Tipsy" - J-Kwon
- "Toxic" - Britney Spears
- "Walking In The Sun" - Travis
- "Whatever Happened To Corey Haim?" - The Thrills
- "Wishing On A Star" - Paul Weller
- "Vertigo" - U2
- "You Had Me" - Joss Stone
Hot 100 Number One Hits of 2004
- "The Way You Move" - OutKast featuring Sleepy Brown (1 week at #1)
- "Slow Jamz" - Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx (1 week at #1)
- "Yeah!" - Usher Raymond featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris (12 weeks at #1) No. 1 Hit of 2004
- "Burn" - Usher Raymond (8 weeks at #1)
- "I Believe" - Fantasia Barrino (1 week at #1) Debut at #1
- "Confessions, Part Two" Usher Raymond (2 weeks at #1)
- "Slow Motion" - Juvenile (rapper) featuring Soulja Slim (2 weeks at #1)
- "Lean Back" - Terror Squad featuring Fat Joe and Remy Martin (rapper) (3 weeks at #1)
- "Goodies" - Ciara featuring Petey Pablo (7 weeks at #1)
- "My Boo" - Usher Raymond and Alicia Keys (6 weeks at #1)
- "Drop It Like It's Hot" - Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell (3 weeks at #1)
Top 10 selling albums of the year
- Usher - Confessions
- Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
- Eminem - Encore
- Kenny Chesney - When the Sun Goes Down
- Gretchen Wilson - Here for the Party
- Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
- Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
- Evanescence - Fallen
- Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography
- Various Artists - NOW! That's What I Call Music 16
- Michel van der Aa - Second self
- Louis Andriessen - Racconto dall'Inferno
- Caroline Ansink - Sub Finem
- Vykintas Baltakas - Ouroboros
- Gerard Beljon - Morgen
- Valton Beqiri - Echos,os,os....
- Caroline Berkenbosch - Monument 35
- Cornelis de Bondt - Madame Daufine
- Anke Brouwer - Hammerfest
- 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
- Jorrit Dijkstra - Veeg
- Wim Dirriwachter - Blanco
- David Dramm - Bitter Green Lullabies
- Benjamin Dwyer - Afterjoyce
- Ivan Fedele - Odos
- Ron Ford - Ratrace
- Steven R. Gerber - Chaconne and Fugue for Viola and Cello
- Philip Glass - Symphony No. 7 Toltec
- Georg Friedrich Haas - Haiku
- Jeff Hamburg - Songs from Joshe Kalb
- Jörg Herchet - Sich Verräumlichend. Komposition 4 für Orchester
- Rozalie Hirs - Platonic ID
- Alun Hoddinott - Trombone Concerto
- York Höller - Ex Tempore
- Guus Janssen - Memory Protect Extended
- Guus Janssen - Wankeling
- Bart de Kemp - Ankers
- Jan Klusák - Axis Temporum
- Hans Kox - Twelve Monographies
- Rolands Kronlaks - Paion
- Hanna Kulenty - Run
- Theo Loevendie - De 5 Driften
- Roderik de Man - Mensa Secunda
- Peter Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartet No. 4 Children's Games
- Peter Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartet No. 5
- Mayke Nas - Musique qui sent la table et la pantoufle
- Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk - Dido's klacht
- Seung-Ah Oh - Circle
- Christina Viola Oorebeek - Traces of Anthem
- Martijn Padding - And Trees Would Sing
- Gao Ping - Twelve-Hour Bridge
- William Bolcom - A Wedding
- Assassins Broadway production
- Bombay Dreams Broadway production
- Fiddler On The Roof Broadway revival
- 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.
- 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 animated feature
- Ray, starring Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
Births
Deaths
- January 13 - Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby
- January 17 - Czeslaw Niemen (65) - Polish rock singer
- January 17 - Tom Rowe, musician
- January 22 - Billy May (87) - US big band & pop music arranger
- January 22 - Ann Miller, actress, singer and dancer
- February 1 - Rocco Clein, 35, journalist, musician ([1]); ([2])
- 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
- February 23 - Alvino Rey, 95, US bandleader and guitarist
- 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, US singer of Jan and Dean
- March 28 - Sylvia Froos, 89, US singer
- 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 - Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
- May 1 - Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
- 12 May - John LaPorta, 84, Jazz clarinetist, composer and educator
- May 12 - 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
- 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, US jazz singer
- July 13 - Carlos Kleiber, conductor
- July 21 - Jerry Goldsmith, 75, US composer, Academy Award winner
- July 22 - Illinois Jacquet, 81, US jazz saxophonist
- July 22 - Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
- August 6 - Rick James, 56, US funk singer
- August 6 - Argentino Ledesma, 75, Argentinian singer
- August 9 - 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
- September 11 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
- September 12 - John Buller, 77, British composer
- September 12 - Fred Ebb, 72, US lyricist
- September 15 - Johnny Ramone, 55, US Guitarist and founding member of The Ramones
- September 19 - Skeeter Davis, 72, US country singer
- October 25 - John Peel, 65, British DJ and broadcaster
- October 28 - Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer
- November 12 - Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer
- November 13 - John Balance, 42, British musician from Coil
- November 13 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, African American rapper
- November 13 - 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
- December 14 - Sidonie Goossens, 105, harpist
- December 19 - Renata Tebaldi, 82, operatic soprano
- December 20 - Son Seals, 62, blues musician
- December 30 - Artie Shaw, 94, Swing Era Clarinetist and Bandleader
Awards
Country Music Association Awards
Charts
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