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The Best Music of 2003

Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 2003. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.

For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 2003, check out this list.

Albums (?)		Wikipedia
50 Cent	Get Rich Or Die Tryin'	☆
A Perfect Circle	Thirteenth Step	☆
AFI	Sing the Sorrow	☆
Alicia Keys	The Diary Of Alicia Keys	☆
Amy Winehouse	Frank	☆
Annie Lennox	Bare	☆
Avenged Sevenfold	Waking The Fallen	☆
Blink-182	Blink-182	☆
Brooks & Dunn	Red Dirt Road	☆
Erykah Badu	Worldwide Underground	☆
Jane's Addiction	Strays	☆
Jay-Z	The Black Album	☆
Jet	Get Born	☆
King Crimson	The Power to Believe	☆
Kylie Minogue	Body Language	☆
Linkin Park	Meteora	☆
Lucinda Williams	World Without Tears	☆
Ludacris	Chicken-N-Beer	☆
Machine Head	Through the Ashes of Empires	☆
Muse	Absolution	☆
Original Broadway Cast	Wicked	☆
Original Broadway Cast	Avenue Q	☆
OutKast	Speakerboxx/The Love Below	☆
Radiohead	Hail To The Thief	☆
RZA and Various Artists	Kill Bill Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack	☆
Sleep	Dopesmoker	☆
Sonata Arctica	Winterheart's Guild	☆
Sufjan Stevens	Michigan	☆
The Black Eyed Peas	Elephunk	☆
The Darkness	Permission to Land	☆
The Mars Volta	De-Loused in the Comatorium	☆
The Strokes	Room On Fire	☆
The White Stripes	Elephant	☆
Warren Zevon	The Wind	☆
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Fever To Tell	☆

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Songs (?)		Wikipedia
50 Cent	P.I.M.P.	☆
Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett	It's Five O'Clock Somewhere	☆
Alicia Keys	If I Ain't Got You	☆
Annie Lennox	Into the West	☆
Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z	Crazy in Love	☆
Black Eyed Peas featuring Justin Timberlake	Where is the Love?	☆
Blink-182	I Miss You	☆
Blink-182	Feeling This	☆
Brad Paisley/Alison Krauss	Whiskey Lullaby	☆
Britney Spears	Toxic	☆
Britney Spears	Everytime	☆
Caesars	Jerk It Out	☆
Death Cab for Cutie	Transatlanticism	☆
Dido	White Flag	☆
DMX	X Gon' Give It to Ya	☆
Evanescence	Bring Me To Life	☆
Fountains Of Wayne	Stacy's Mom	☆
Franz Ferdinand	Darts of Pleasure	☆
Good Charlotte	The Anthem	☆
Hilary Duff	Come Clean	☆
Hoobastank	The Reason	☆
Jane's Addiction	Superhero	☆
Jay-Z	99 Problems	☆
Jet	Are You Gonna Be My Girl	☆
Jet	Cold Hard Bitch	☆
Kelis	Milkshake	☆
Lil' Kim featuring 50 Cent	Magic Stick	☆
Linkin Park	Numb	☆
Linkin Park	Somewhere I Belong	☆
Lumidee	Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)	☆
Luther Vandross	Dance With My Father	☆
Martina McBride	This One's for the Girls	☆
Muse	Time Is Running Out	☆
Muse	Hysteria	☆
Muse	Butterflies & Hurricanes	☆
No Doubt	It's My Life	☆
OutKast	Hey Ya!	☆
OutKast	The Way You Move	☆
OutKast	Roses	☆
Radiohead	2 + 2 = 5	☆
Silverstein	Smashed Into Pieces	☆
The Darkness	I Believe In A Thing Called Love	☆
The Darkness	Get Your Hands Off of My Woman	☆
The Postal Service	Such Great Heights	☆
The Postal Service	We Will Become Silhouettes	☆
The Strokes	Reptilia	☆
The Strokes	12:51	☆
The White Stripes	Seven Nation Army	☆
The White Stripes	The Hardest Button to Button	☆
The White Stripes	Ball and Biscuit	☆
Train	Calling All Angels	☆
Warren Zevon	Keep Me in Your Heart	☆
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Maps	☆
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Pin	☆

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