# 2004 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2004.

## Specific locations

* 2004 in British music
* 2004 in Irish music
* 2004 in Norwegian music
* 2004 in South Korean music

## Specific genres

* 2004 in classical music
* 2004 in country music
* 2004 in heavy metal music
* 2004 in hip hop music
* 2004 in Latin music
* 2004 in jazz
* 2004 in South Korean music

## Events
### January–February

* January 1
** The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by Riccardo Muti.
** Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol.
* January 3 – Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood friend, in Las Vegas. The marriage is annulled 55 hours later.
* January 15 – Rapper Mystikal is sentenced to six years in prison for sexual battery.
* January 16–February 1 – The Big Day Out festival takes place in Australia and New Zealand, headlined by Metallica. A Perfect Circle is originally named in the lineup but later withdraw, with Fear Factory appearing as a mystery artist in place of all of A Perfect Circle's scheduled slots.
* February 1
** Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake perform onstage at Super Bowl XXXVIII. The performance concludes with Jackson's right breast being exposed to the audience. The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" is coined during the ensuing controversy.
** Daron Hagen is appointed President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in New York City.
* February 8 – The 46th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below becomes the first rap album to win Album of the Year. Beyoncé wins five awards. Coldplay's "Clocks" wins Record of the Year, while Luther Vandross' "Dance with My Father" wins Song of the Year. Evanescence win Best New Artist.
* February 9 – Blink-182 release single "I Miss You" from the album Blink-182. The song will reach number one on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.
* February 10 – Paulina Rubio releases her seventh studio "Pau-Latina" under Universal Music Mexico. The album charted at #1 on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums and at #105 on the Billboard 200. The album also got certified 2× Platinum (Latin) by the RIAA.
* February 13 – Elton John begins The Red Piano concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Originally scheduled for 75 performances, it would run for 248 shows over five years, including twenty-four tour dates in Europe.
* February 17
** BRIT Awards are held in London. The Darkness, Dido, Busted, Justin Timberlake and KRS-One are among the winners.
** Smashing 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 the band.

### March–April

* March 2 – Britney Spears embarks on The Onyx Hotel Tour, her first tour in 2 years, to support her fourth studio album, In The Zone.
* March 9 – Westlife member Brian McFadden leaves the band.
* March 10 – George Michael announces that Patience will be his last commercially released record. Future releases will be available from his web site in return for donations to his favourite charities.
* March 13 – Luciano Pavarotti gives his last performance in an opera, in Tosca at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
* March 23 – Usher releases his Confessions album selling 1.1 million copies its first week, making him the first R&B artist to ever accomplish that. The album would be the top seller of the year with four number one singles.
* 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.
** Dream Theater performs at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

### May–June

* May 1-2 – The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place in California. Headlined by Radiohead and The Cure, the lineup also features Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Belle and Sebastian, Muse, MF Doom, Basement Jaxx, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Kraftwerk and Kool Keith.
* May 10
** Blender magazine's May issue includes a "50 Worst Songs Ever!" list. "We Built This City," by Starship, is rated worst.
** Peter Tägtgren replaces Mikael Åkerfeldt In Bloodbath.
** Keane release Hopes and Fears which becomes the 16th best selling album of the millennium in the UK. It went 8× platinum and was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the BRIT award for best album.
* May 12–15 – The 49th Eurovision Song Contest, held at Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, is won by Ukrainian singer Ruslana with the song "Wild Dances". It is the first contest to take place as a multi-date event.
* May 18-23 – The European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) is held in Basel.
* May 24 – Madonna starts The Re-Invention Tour in 20 cities with a total of 56 shows and making it the most successful concert tour of the year with a gross of $124.5 million.
* May 25
** Phish announces that after 21 years they will break up following the Summer 2004 Tour.
** 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.
* May 28 – June 6 – The Rock in Rio concert festival is staged in Lisbon, Portugal, under the name Rock in Rio Lisboa. Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Britney Spears and Sting each headline one of the six days.
* June 4
** Karl Jenkins signs a 10-year recording deal with EMI.
** Creed dissolved. Guitarist Mark Tremonti, Drummer Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall (ex Bassist of Creed) were working on side project Alter Bridge along with Myles Kennedy of The Mayfield Four. Their first album is One Day Remains, which was scheduled to be released on August 10.
* June 5-6 – The annual Download Festival takes place at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, with Linkin Park and Metallica headlining the main stage. Pennywise and HIM headline the Snickers "Game On" stage, while the Barfly stage is headlined by Peaches and SuicideGirls.
* June 11 – The Van Halen Summer Tour 2004 kicks off in Greensboro, North Carolina, marking the return of Sammy Hagar on vocals for the first time since his acrimonious departure from the band in 1996.
* June 12 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM 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, 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.
* June 25
** Eric Clapton sells his famous guitar "Blackie" at a Christie's auction, raising $959,000 to benefit the Crossroads drug rehabilitation center that he founded in 1998.
** While in Scheeßel, Germany for his A Reality tour, David Bowie suffers a heart attack onstage and is subsequently rushed to the emergency room for an angioplasty. The incident brings an abrupt end to the tour and prompts Bowie to move away from both musicianship and public life in the following years, with his next album coming out nearly nine years later.

### July–August

* 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.
** American Idol winner Fantasia becomes the first artist in history to debut at number-one on the Hot 100 with a first record.
* 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.
* 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 24 – The Robert Smith organized Curiosa Festival kicks off with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida. Performing along with The Cure are Interpol, The Rapture, Mogwai, Cursive, Muse, Head Automatica, Thursday, Scarling., The Cooper Temple Clause, and Melissa Auf der Maur.
* July 24–25 – The Splendour in the Grass music festival is held in Byron Bay, Australia, headlined by PJ Harvey & Jurassic 5.
* July 25 – The Doobie Brothers record and perform Live at Wolf Trap at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia. The live album was released two months later, on October 26.
* July 31
** Simon & Garfunkel perform a free concert in front of the Colosseum in Rome for an audience of 600,000 people.
** Dispatch performs their last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 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.
* August 23 – The Prodigy release their much anticipated and postponed first full-length album Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned, 7 years after 1997's The Fat Of The Land.

### September–October

* September 18 – Britney Spears marries Kevin Federline.
* September 20 – Green Day release their seventh studio album American Idiot, making a comeback for the band, following disappointing sales of their 2000 album Warning. American Idiot eventually receives the award for Best Rock Album at the 47th Grammy Awards on February 13, 2005.
* September 26 – Avril Lavigne begins her Bonez Tour.
* September 28
** Brian Wilson releases Brian Wilson Presents Smile, the first official interpretation of the Smile sessions since their shelving in 1967.
** On the same day, young Filipino singer Christian Bautista unveiled his first self-titled debut album.
* October – Jazz at Lincoln Center performance venue opens in New York City.
* October 2 – Billy Joel marries for the third time, to the food critic and chef Katie Lee.
* October 11 – Melissa Etheridge undergoes surgery for breast cancer.
* October 23 – Ashlee Simpson is accused of lip synching after an abortive live performance on the television show Saturday Night Live.
* October 25 – Indian singer Hariharan is awarded the Swaralaya Kairali Yesudas Award for his outstanding contribution to Indian film music.

### November–December

* November 4 – Three members of the band RAM, who all lived in a neighborhood known for its support of the recently deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are detained by Haitian police during a concert performance in Port-au-Prince; no charges are ever filed or official explanation for the detentions given.
* November 9 – Britney Spears releases her first compilation album titled Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.
* November 11 – Eric Clapton receives a CBE at Buckingham Palace.
* November 12 – Eminem's fourth major studio album, Encore is released four days before schedule to combat Internet bootleggers. The album sells 710,000 copies in only three days and becomes Eminem's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts.
* November 17 – Within Temptation release the single "Stand My Ground".
* November 21 – Casey Donovan is crowned winner of the second season of Australian Idol. Anthony Callea was named runner-up.
* November 24 – Brian & Eric Hoffman leave Deicide after a royalties dispute.
* November 30 – Jay-Z and Linkin Park's album "Collision Course" debuts at number #01 in the Billboard 200, later becoming the best-selling CD/DVD of that year.
* December 8 – Dimebag Darrell is murdered on stage while performing in Columbus, Ohio, by a deranged fan, who shoots the guitarist three times in the head with a 9mm Beretta handgun. The gunman kills three other people and wounds a further three before being shot dead by police.
* December 11 – Steve Brookstein is crowned winner of the first series of The X Factor. G4 are named the runner-ups, while Tabby Callaghan and Rowetta Satchell finish in third and fourth place respectively.
* December 11–12 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM 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 Velvet Revolver.
* December 14 – Clint Lowery leaves Sevendust due to fights with band about gaining control of the band and doubts of the band's future after being released from their label TVT Records.

## Bands formed

See Musical groups established in 2004

## Bands on hiatus

* Spineshank (reformed in 2008)
* Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus (disbanded in 2006)
* Matchbox Twenty (reformed in 2007)

## Bands disbanded

See Musical groups disestablished in 2004

## Bands re-formed

* Megadeth
* Restless Heart
* Destiny's Child
* Vaya Con Dios
* The Shadows (till 2015)
* New York Dolls

## Albums released
### January–March

| Date | Date | Album | Artist | Notes |
| J A N U A R Y | 1 | Alea Jacta Est | WarCry | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 1 | Not Quite Me | Tess Wiley | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 4 | Explosives and the Will to Use Them | Crime In Stereo | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 6 | As the Roots Undo | Circle Takes the Square | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 6 | Born Free | Humble Gods | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 6 | Phantom Planet | Phantom Planet | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 7 | Terror | Loudness | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 12 | The Glorious Burden | Iced Earth | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 13 | Legion of Boom | The Crystal Method | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 13 | The Opera Band | Amici Forever | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 13 | A War Story Book II | Psycho Realm | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 15 | Love & Honesty | BoA | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 17 | Because I Can | Katy Rose | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 19 | Colour The Small One | Sia | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | Bravebird | Amel Larrieux | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | Civilization | Front Line Assembly | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | The Devil Isn't Red | Hella | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | The Early Chapters | Soilwork | EP |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | Educated Guess | Ani DiFranco | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | Hang On Mike | Candy Butchers | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | Heron King Blues | Califone | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | Slon | Chicago Underground Trio | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | Songs We Should Have Written | Firewater | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | The Willowz | The Willowz | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 21 | Talkie Walkie | Air | US |
| J A N U A R Y | 26 | Sleepy Buildings – A Semi Acoustic Evening | The Gathering | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 26 | Do You Know | Michelle Williams | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 26 | Immortal Memory | Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 26 | Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker | The Coral | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Bangers Vs. Fuckers | Coachwhips | |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings of 10,000 Maniacs | 10,000 Maniacs | Compilation |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Delìrium Còrdia | Fantômas | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Diva: Platinum Edition | Ivy Queen | Re-release |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Hypnotic Underworld | Ghost | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978–2001 | The Cure | Box Set |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Kamikaze | Twista | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Live at the Deaf Club | Dead Kennedys | Live |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Live at the House of Blues | The Vandals | Live |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Love Songs | Michael Franks | Compilation |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Margerine Eclipse | Stereolab | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Mojo Box | Southern Culture on the Skids | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | One Moment More | Mindy Smith | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Ripp tha Game Bloody: Street Muzic | RBX | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Sirens and Condolences | Bayside | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | The Slackers and Friends | The Slackers | Re-issue |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | Unsung: The Best of Helmet (1991–1997) | Helmet | Compilation |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection | Yes | US; Box Set |
| J A N U A R Y | 27 | The Weak's End | Emery | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 28 | Tomatteita Tokei ga Ima Ugokidashita | Zard | - |
| J A N U A R Y | 31 | Politics | Sébastien Tellier | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 2 | Bows + Arrows | The Walkmen | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 2 | Evolution Purgatory | Persuader | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 2 | Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | UK |
| F E B R U A R Y | 3 | 50 First Dates: Love Songs from the Original Motion Picture | Various Artists | Soundtrack |
| F E B R U A R Y | 3 | The Battle for Everything | Five for Fighting | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 3 | Critical Energy | Threshold | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 3 | A Crow Left of the Murder | Incubus | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 3 | Start Something | Lostprophets | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 3 | Upsettin' Ernesto's | The Slackers | Live |
| F E B R U A R Y | 3 | We Shall All Be Healed | The Mountain Goats | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 3 | When the Sun Goes Down | Kenny Chesney | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 6 | The Sunday Best | This Providence | EP; re-release |
| F E B R U A R Y | 9 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | Debut Album |
| F E B R U A R Y | 9 | Free Me | Emma Bunton | UK |
| F E B R U A R Y | 9 | Marshall's House | John Squire | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 9 | The Raging Fire | Seventh Key | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 9 | That's What I'm Talking About | Shannon Noll | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | America's Sweetheart | Courtney Love | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Body Language | Kylie Minogue | US |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | The College Dropout | Kanye West | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Bulería | David Bisbal | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Feels Like Home | Norah Jones | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Get Away From Me | Nellie McKay | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition | Carpenters | Compilation |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Greatest Hits | Thalía | Compilation |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Hell and Back | Drag-On | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Keep It Simple | Keb' Mo' | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Lucky | Melissa Etheridge | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | 'Merican | The Descendents | EP |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Miles Gurtu | Robert Miles & Trilok Gurtu | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | New Found Power | Damageplan | Debut (The first and last album) |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Pau-Latina | Paulina Rubio | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Probot | Probot | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Shamrocks & Shenanigans | House of Pain & Everlast | Compilation |
| F E B R U A R Y | 10 | Turn of the Screw | 1208 | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 16 | The Focusing Blur | Vintersorg | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 16 | Late Night Tales: Turin Brakes | Turin Brakes | Compilation |
| F E B R U A R Y | 16 | The Runaway Found | The Veils | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | All That We Let In | Indigo Girls | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | Fabulous Muscles | Xiu Xiu | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | I Don't Want You Back | Eamon | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | Laced with Romance | The Ponys | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | Nick's Bump | Ben Sidran | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | On The Front Line | The Casualties | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | She's in Control | Chromeo | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | Writer's Block | Evergreen Terrace | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 23 | The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992 | George Harrison | Box Set |
| F E B R U A R Y | 23 | Samotność po zmierzchu | Ania | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 23 | Scars of the Crucifix | Deicide | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | About a Burning Fire | Blindside | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Anything Goes | Brad Mehldau | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | The Arrival | Hypocrisy | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Bodysong | Jonny Greenwood | US; Soundtrack |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Chick Magnet | Paul Wall | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Death Is Certain | Royce Da 5'9" | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Devil's Ground | Primal Fear | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | The Hard Way | Owsley | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Kidz Bop 5 | Kidz Bop Kids | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | The King of Crunk & BME Recordings Present: Trillville & Lil Scrappy | Trillville and Lil Scrappy | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | The Life of Joseph W. McVey | Z-Ro | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Music as a Weapon II | Disturbed, Chevelle, Taproot & Ünloco | Live |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Nude | VAST | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Punk Statik Paranoia | Orgy | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Schizophrenic | JC Chasez | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Sea of Faces | Kutless | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Shadows Collide with People | John Frusciante | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | They Were Wrong, So We Drowned | Liars | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | The Wretched Spawn | Cannibal Corpse | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 25 | Answer | Supercar | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 26 | The Blue Notebooks | Max Richter | - |
| F E B R U A R Y | 29 | Schmack! | Steriogram | - |
| M A R C H | 1 | Mellow | Maria Mena | - |
| M A R C H | 1 | When It Falls | Zero 7 | UK |
| M A R C H | 2 | The Best of LeAnn Rimes | LeAnn Rimes | Compilation |
| M A R C H | 2 | Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine | Cee-Lo Green | - |
| M A R C H | 2 | Guilt Show | The Get Up Kids | - |
| M A R C H | 2 | The Kinnitty Sessions | Lunasa | Live |
| M A R C H | 2 | Modern ARTillery | The Living End | US |
| M A R C H | 2 | When It Falls | Zero 7 | US |
| M A R C H | 3 | Message | Aya Ueto | - |
| M A R C H | 4 | The Tain | The Decemberists | EP |
| M A R C H | 8 | 667.. The Neighbour of the Beast | Wig Wam | - |
| M A R C H | 8 | The Cribs | The Cribs | - |
| M A R C H | 8 | My Religion | TNT | - |
| M A R C H | 8 | Suburban Rock 'N' Roll | Space | - |
| M A R C H | 8 | Sunrise Over Sea | The John Butler Trio | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | All of Our Names | Sarah Harmer | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Black & White | The Samples | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | TV on the Radio | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Don't Stop the Music | Play | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Fall Back Open | Now It's Overhead | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Here Come the Brides | Brides of Destruction | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | High Water | El-P featuring the Blue Series Continuum | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Into the Now | Tesla | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Milk Man | Deerhoof | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | The Moon & Antarctica | Modest Mouse | Re-issue |
| M A R C H | 9 | Neither Here Nor There | Melvins | Compilation |
| M A R C H | 9 | Pawn Shoppe Heart | The Von Bondies | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Rare Tracks | Jet | Japan |
| M A R C H | 9 | Something Beautiful* | Great Big Sea | US |
| M A R C H | 9 | Tempo of the Damned | Exodus | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Two Way Monologue | Sondre Lerche | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Young Man | Jack Ingram | - |
| M A R C H | 9 | Your Country | Graham Parker | - |
| M A R C H | 12 | Hella/Four Tet Split | Hella/Four Tet | Split EP |
| M A R C H | 15 | And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997–2004 | HIM | Compilation |
| M A R C H | 15 | From Ohio with Love | A Day in the Life/Hit the Lights/The Red Affair | 3-way Split |
| M A R C H | 15 | Live and Demos | Raging Speedhorn | Compilation |
| M A R C H | 15 | Misery Is a Butterfly | Blonde Redhead | - |
| M A R C H | 16 | Afterlife | Joe Jackson | Live |
| M A R C H | 16 | Almost Killed Me | The Hold Steady | - |
| M A R C H | 16 | Dead Letters | The Rasmus | US |
| M A R C H | 16 | Frustration Plantation | Rasputina | - |
| M A R C H | 16 | Grown Backwards | David Byrne | - |
| M A R C H | 16 | The Other Side | Godsmack | EP |
| M A R C H | 16 | Patience | George Michael | - |
| M A R C H | 16 | Seven Swans | Sufjan Stevens | - |
| M A R C H | 16 | Split Personality | Cassidy | - |
| M A R C H | 16 | The Very Best of Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | Compilation |
| M A R C H | 16 | You Are Here | UFO | - |
| M A R C H | 17 | The Roy Clark Method | The Roy Clark Method | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | All of Our Names | Sarah Harmer | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Blast Tyrant | Clutch | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Confessions | Usher | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Cool to Be You | The Descendents | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Finally Woken | Jem | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Fly or Die | N.E.R.D. | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Good Side, Bad Side | Master P | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Greatest Hits | Guns N' Roses | Compilation |
| M A R C H | 23 | Hip to the Javabean | Lemon Demon | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | It's Never Enough | Ace Troubleshooter | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Let's Talk About It | Carl Thomas | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Live at the House of Blues | Goldfinger | Live |
| M A R C H | 23 | LP | Ambulance LTD | US |
| M A R C H | 23 | Madvillainy | Madvillain | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Me and Mr. Johnson | Eric Clapton | Robert Johnson tribute album |
| M A R C H | 23 | The Milk-Eyed Mender | Joanna Newsom | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | MP3 | Marcy Playground | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Night of Joy | Widespread Panic | Live |
| M A R C H | 23 | Now That's What I Call Music! 15 (U.S. series) | Various Artists | Compilation |
| M A R C H | 23 | One Way Out | The Allman Brothers Band | Live |
| M A R C H | 23 | Our Endless Numbered Days | Iron & Wine | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Peace, Love, Death Metal | The Eagles of Death Metal | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | The Punisher: The Album | Various Artists | Soundtrack |
| M A R C H | 23 | Redefine | Soil | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed: The Album | Various Artists | Soundtrack |
| M A R C H | 23 | Sings Greatest Palace Music | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Till Death Do Us Part | Cypress Hill | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Tour 2003 | Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band | Live |
| M A R C H | 23 | Venice | Fennesz | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | The Way I Am | Knoc-turn'al | - |
| M A R C H | 23 | Winning Days | The Vines | - |
| M A R C H | 24 | Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do | Sigur Rós | EP |
| M A R C H | 24 | Bee Hives | Broken Social Scene | - |
| M A R C H | 24 | COM LAG (2plus2isfive) | Radiohead | EP |
| M A R C H | 24 | The Frustrated | Glay | - |
| M A R C H | 29 | Absent Friends | The Divine Comedy | - |
| M A R C H | 29 | Alphabetical | Phoenix | - |
| M A R C H | 29 | Anastacia | Anastacia | - |
| M A R C H | 29 | The Chocolate Invasion | Prince | - |
| M A R C H | 29 | The Slaughterhouse | Prince | - |
| M A R C H | 29 | Musicology | Prince | - |
| M A R C H | 29 | Smack Smash | Beatsteaks | - |
| M A R C H | 29 | Soundtrack to Your Escape | In Flames | - |
| M A R C H | 30 | The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall | Bob Dylan | Live |
| M A R C H | 30 | Classics: Vol 1 | Big Moe | Compilation |
| M A R C H | 30 | Damita Jo | Janet Jackson | US |
| M A R C H | 30 | Honkin' on Bobo | Aerosmith | Covers album |
| M A R C H | 30 | In With the Old | Pepper | - |
| M A R C H | 30 | Live & Off the Record | Shakira | Live LP & DVD |
| M A R C H | 30 | Los Lonely Boys | Los Lonely Boys | - |
| M A R C H | 30 | Population Override | Buckethead | - |
| M A R C H | 30 | Prophecy | Soulfly | - |
| M A R C H | 30 | Then and Now | The Who | Compilation +2 new tracks |
| M A R C H | 30 | U Gotta Feel Me | Lil' Flip | - |
| M A R C H | 31 | Smile | L'Arc-en-Ciel | - |

### April–June

| Date | Date | Album | Artist | Notes |
| A P R I L | 4 | Indestructible Object | They Might Be Giants | EP |
| A P R I L | 5 | Best of Both Worlds | Midnight Oil | DVD |
| A P R I L | 5 | The Dissociatives | The Dissociatives | - |
| A P R I L | 5 | Greatest Hits | Atomic Kitten | Compilation |
| A P R I L | 5 | J Wess Presents Tha LP | J-Wess | LP |
| A P R I L | 5 | Now That's What I Call Music! 57 (UK series) | Various Artists | Compilation |
| A P R I L | 6 | 2 Nights Live! | Barry Manilow | Live |
| A P R I L | 6 | 22nd Century Lifestyle | pre)Thing | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Convict Pool | Calexico | EP |
| A P R I L | 6 | Good News for People Who Love Bad News | Modest Mouse | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Hellfire Club | Edguy | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Hood Hop | J-Kwon | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Just Be | Tiësto | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Inspiration | William Hung | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Liars | Todd Rundgren | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Ludo | Ludo | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Matters | Pulley | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | More | Tamia | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Unearthed (Johnny Cash album)#Disc 4.C2.A0.E2.80.93 My Mother.27s Hymn Book | Johnny Cash | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | The Neon God: Part 1 – The Rise | W.A.S.P. | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | On My Way | Ben Kweller | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Retriever | Ron Sexsmith | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Satanic Panic in the Attic | of Montreal | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Seis De Mayo | Trey Anastasio | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | My Mother's Hymn Book | Johnny Cash | - |
| A P R I L | 6 | Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles? | Local H | - |
| A P R I L | 10 | Exhivision | Exhivision | - |
| A P R I L | 12 | Prasasti Seni | Siti Nurhaliza | - |
| A P R I L | 13 | Baron von Bullshit Rides Again | Modest Mouse | Live |
| A P R I L | 13 | Crossfade | Crossfade | - |
| A P R I L | 13 | The Duel | Allison Moorer | - |
| A P R I L | 13 | Is There Love in Space? | Joe Satriani | - |
| A P R I L | 13 | Kill Bill Vol. 2 Original Soundtrack | various | - |
| A P R I L | 13 | Palm Trees and Power Lines | Sugarcult | - |
| A P R I L | 19 | DJ-Kicks: Erlend Øye | Erlend Øye | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Afroholic... The Even Better Times | Afroman | 2xCD |
| A P R I L | 20 | Archetype | Fear Factory | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | The Blue Jukebox | Chris Rea | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | BYO Split Series, Vol. 5 | Alkaline Trio/One Man Army | Split LP |
| A P R I L | 20 | The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell | Buckethead | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Desensitized | Drowning Pool | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Fire It Up | The Kottonmouth Kings | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Funeral for a Friend / Moments in Grace | Funeral for a Friend / Moments in Grace | Split EP |
| A P R I L | 20 | Hangover Music Vol. VI | Black Label Society | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003 | Little Feat | Live |
| A P R I L | 20 | Hurt No More | Mario Winans | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | I'd Like a Virgin | Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Impossible Dream | Patty Griffin | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Letters from Home | John Michael Montgomery | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Music of Mass Destruction | Anthrax | Live |
| A P R I L | 20 | Mute Print | A Wilhelm Scream | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | The Pretty Toney Album | Ghostface Killah | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Ratatat | Ratatat | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 | Various Artists, Rock Against Bush | Compilation |
| A P R I L | 20 | Stone Age Complication | Queens of the Stone Age | EP |
| A P R I L | 20 | Sunsets and Car Crashes | The Spill Canvas | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Through the Ashes of Empires | Machine Head | US |
| A P R I L | 20 | 2 a.m. Wakeup Call | Tweaker | - |
| A P R I L | 20 | Underneath | Hanson | - |
| A P R I L | 24 | Rejoicing in the Hands | Devendra Banhart | - |
| A P R I L | 26 | Walk The Tightrope | Human Nature | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics | Various Artists | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970–1978) | Black Sabbath | Box Set |
| A P R I L | 27 | D12 World | D12 | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | The Dresden Dolls | The Dresden Dolls | Re-issue |
| A P R I L | 27 | Escondida | Jolie Holland | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | The Girl in the Other Room | Diana Krall | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | The Good, the Bad, the Ugly | Frankee | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | The Inner Circle | Evergrey | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | The Last of Tha Pound | Tha Dogg Pound | Compilation |
| A P R I L | 27 | Naked | Joan Jett and the Blackhearts | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | Re.present | Jimmie's Chicken Shack | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | Souls to Deny | Suffocation | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | Trampin' | Patti Smith | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash | Jason Forrest | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | Van Lear Rose | Loretta Lynn | - |
| A P R I L | 27 | Z-Ro Tolerance | Z-Ro | - |
| M A Y | 2 | The Concretes | The Concretes | Sweden |
| M A Y | 3 | Marbles | Marillion | - |
| M A Y | 3 | My Angel Rocks Back and Forth | Four Tet | EP |
| M A Y | 3 | Sung Tongs | Animal Collective | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Chopstick Bridge | Avoid One Thing | - |
| M A Y | 4 | C'mon Miracle | Mirah | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Emblems | Matt Pond PA | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Endangered Species | Flaw | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Horse of a Different Color | Big & Rich | - |
| M A Y | 4 | i | The Magnetic Fields | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Just for You | Lionel Richie | - |
| M A Y | 4 | One Love | Kimberley Locke | - |
| M A Y | 4 | ONoffON | Mission of Burma | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Platinum & Gold Collection | Lit | Collection |
| M A Y | 4 | The Ride | Los Lobos | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live | Sevendust | Live |
| M A Y | 4 | Still Writing In My Diary: 2nd Entry | Petey Pablo | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Timeless Journey | Patti LaBelle | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Too Much Guitar | Reigning Sound | - |
| M A Y | 4 | Wave of Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies | Pixies | Compilation |
| M A Y | 4 | Wire | Third Day | - |
| M A Y | 5 | Greatest Hits | A*Teens | Compilation |
| M A Y | 10 | All Roads to Fault | Yourcodenameis:milo | EP |
| M A Y | 10 | Hopes and Fears | Keane | - |
| M A Y | 10 | Spectral | Skyfire | - |
| M A Y | 11 | Come Again | Thornley | Debut |
| M A Y | 11 | Dis/Location | Seven Mary Three | - |
| M A Y | 11 | The End of Heartache | Killswitch Engage | - |
| M A Y | 11 | E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals | The Matches | Epitaph re-release |
| M A Y | 11 | Express Yourself | Erik van der Luijt | - |
| M A Y | 11 | Here for the Party | Gretchen Wilson | - |
| M A Y | 11 | Living Legends | 8Ball & MJG | - |
| M A Y | 11 | Metalogy | Judas Priest | Compilation |
| M A Y | 11 | Out to Every Nation | Jorn | - |
| M A Y | 11 | Shrek 2: Motion Picture Soundtrack | Various Artists | Soundtrack |
| M A Y | 11 | Sonic Firestorm | DragonForce | - |
| M A Y | 16 | In Exile Deo | Juliana Hatfield | - |
| M A Y | 16 | Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996 | De La Soul | Live |
| M A Y | 16 | A Song Is A City | Eskimo Joe | - |
| M A Y | 17 | Happiness in Magazines | Graham Coxon | - |
| M A Y | 17 | Iron | Ensiferum | - |
| M A Y | 17 | Meltdown | Ash | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Asobi Seksu | Asobi Seksu | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Baptism | Lenny Kravitz | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Black Skies in Broad Daylight | Living Things | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Catalyst | New Found Glory | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Dynamite Boy | Dynamite Boy | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Faded Seaside Glamour | Delays | US |
| M A Y | 18 | Fuckin A | The Thermals | - |
| M A Y | 18 | A Grand Don't Come for Free | The Streets | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Guster on Ice | Guster | Live |
| M A Y | 18 | Hell to Pay | Dokken | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Kidz Bop Gold | Kidz Bop Kids | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Lafcadio | As Tall as Lions | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Let It Die | Feist | - |
| M A Y | 18 | My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue | Fall Out Boy | EP/DVD |
| M A Y | 18 | Now Here Is Nowhere | The Secret Machines | - |
| M A Y | 18 | So-Called Chaos | Alanis Morissette | - |
| M A Y | 18 | The Throes | Two Gallants | - |
| M A Y | 18 | Tical 0: The Prequel | Method Man | - |
| M A Y | 18 | You Are the Quarry | Morrissey | - |
| M A Y | 18 | You Do Your Thing | Montgomery Gentry | - |
| M A Y | 21 | Here We Go Again | SR-71 | - |
| M A Y | 24 | Destroy Rock & Roll | Mylo | - |
| M A Y | 24 | Exposures – In Retrospect and Denial | Dark Tranquillity | Compilation |
| M A Y | 24 | Hits 58 | Various artists | Compilation |
| M A Y | 24 | The Human Equation | Ayreon | - |
| M A Y | 24 | Lemuria | Therion | - |
| M A Y | 24 | Sirius B | Therion | - |
| M A Y | 25 | Achilles Heel | Pedro the Lion | - |
| M A Y | 25 | Fading Days | Amber Pacific | EP |
| M A Y | 25 | The Greater Wrong of the Right | Skinny Puppy | - |
| M A Y | 25 | The Human Equation | Ayreon | - |
| M A Y | 25 | It's About Time | Christina Milian | - |
| M A Y | 25 | Let's Be Us Again | Lonestar | - |
| M A Y | 25 | Like Sheep Led to Slaughter | Crisis | - |
| M A Y | 25 | Long Gone Before Daylight | The Cardigans | US |
| M A Y | 25 | Monolithic Baby! | Monster Magnet | - |
| M A Y | 25 | Play to Win | Gabrielle | - |
| M A Y | 25 | Rock the Night: The Very Best of Europe | Europe | Compilation |
| M A Y | 25 | Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead | Grateful Dead | Live |
| M A Y | 25 | Under My Skin | Avril Lavigne | - |
| M A Y | 25 | Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) | Slipknot | - |
| M A Y | 25 | White Trash Beautiful | Everlast | - |
| M A Y | 27 | Between Here and Gone | Mary Chapin Carpenter | - |
| M A Y | 30 | Joe's Corsage | Frank Zappa | Compilation |
| M A Y | 31 | Borrowed Heaven | The Corrs | - |
| M A Y | 31 | I Com | Miss Kittin | - |
| M A Y | 31 | Uh Huh Her | PJ Harvey | UK |
| M A Y | 31 | Wayward Angel | Kasey Chambers | - |
| M A Y | ? | A Year at the Movies | Social Code | - |
| J U N E | 1 | Anything Else but the Truth | The Honorary Title | - |
| J U N E | 1 | Auf der Maur | Melissa Auf der Maur | - |
| J U N E | 1 | Falling Up | Digby | - |
| J U N E | 1 | No Said Date | Masta Killa | - |
| J U N E | 1 | Ready Now | Truth Hurts | - |
| J U N E | 5 | Loud, Mean, Fast and Dirty | Peter Pan Speedrock | - |
| J U N E | 6 | DiscO-Zone | O-Zone | - |
| J U N E | 7 | The Lost Riots | Hope of the States | Debut; UK |
| J U N E | 7 | Guetta Blaster | David Guetta | - |
| J U N E | 7 | Louden Up Now | !!! | - |
| J U N E | 7 | No Roots | Faithless | - |
| J U N E | 7 | Once | Nightwish | - |
| J U N E | 7 | Outta Sight/Outta Mind | The Datsuns | - |
| J U N E | 7 | Rewired | Mike + The Mechanics | - |
| J U N E | 7 | Supergrass Is 10 | Supergrass | Compilation |
| J U N E | 8 | 2004 Warped Tour Compilation | Various Artists | Compilation |
| J U N E | 8 | The Art of Live | Queensrÿche | Live |
| J U N E | 8 | Asshole | Gene Simmons | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Contraband | Velvet Revolver | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See | Jim White | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Egypt | Youssou N'Dour | - |
| J U N E | 8 | The Empire Strikes First | Bad Religion | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Fast Moving Cars | The Clarks | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Greatest Hits '93-'03 | 311 | Compilation |
| J U N E | 8 | Happenstance | Rachael Yamagata | - |
| J U N E | 8 | International War Criminal | The Slackers | EP |
| J U N E | 8 | Keep Your Wig On | Fastball | - |
| J U N E | 8 | One Soul Now | Cowboy Junkies | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Punk-O-Rama Vol. 9 | Various Artists | Compilation |
| J U N E | 8 | The Silence in Black and White | Hawthorne Heights | - |
| J U N E | 8 | The Slow Wonder | A.C. Newman | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Sonic Nurse | Sonic Youth | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | My Chemical Romance | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Thunderdome | Pink Cream 69 | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Two | The Calling | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Un | Chumbawamba | - |
| J U N E | 8 | Vengo a Cobrar | Mellow Man Ace | - |
| J U N E | 8 | White Light Rock & Roll Review | Matthew Good | - |
| J U N E | 12 | Maximum XS: The Essential Nazareth | Nazareth | Compilation |
| J U N E | 14 | 2 | OCS | - |
| J U N E | 14 | Dark Matter | IQ | - |
| J U N E | 14 | Live in Boston | Fleetwood Mac | Live DVD |
| J U N E | 14 | A New Day... Live in Las Vegas | Céline Dion | Live |
| J U N E | 14 | Sound Shattering Sound | Gyroscope | - |
| J U N E | 14 | To the 5 Boroughs | Beastie Boys | - |
| J U N E | 15 | The Blind Watchmaker | Mana ERG | - |
| J U N E | 15 | Disclaimer II | Seether | - |
| J U N E | 15 | Hot Fuss | The Killers | - |
| J U N E | 15 | It's About Time | Christina Milian | US |
| J U N E | 15 | My Name | BoA | - |
| J U N E | 15 | Obsession | Eighteen Visions | - |
| J U N E | 15 | The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) | The Fall | US |
| J U N E | 15 | They're Only Chasing Safety | Underøath | - |
| J U N E | 15 | 23rd St. Lullaby | Patti Scialfa | - |
| J U N E | 15 | Undermind | Phish | - |
| J U N E | 16 | Rock the 40 Oz: Reloaded | Leftöver Crack | Compilation |
| J U N E | 18 | Battering Ram | Iron Savior | - |
| J U N E | 18 | Cipher System / By Night | Cipher System and By Night | EP |
| J U N E | 21 | Aren't You Dead Yet? | Carnal Forge | - |
| J U N E | 21 | One Plus One Is One | Badly Drawn Boy | - |
| J U N E | 21 | Riot on an Empty Street | Kings of Convenience | - |
| J U N E | 21 | A Semblance of Normality | Skyclad | - |
| J U N E | 21 | Ta det lugnt | Dungen | - |
| J U N E | 22 | 1.22.03.Acoustic | Maroon 5 | Live |
| J U N E | 22 | From the End of Your Leash | Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Gettin' in Over My Head | Brian Wilson | - |
| J U N E | 22 | A Ghost Is Born | Wilco | - |
| J U N E | 22 | In a Safe Place | The Album Leaf | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Houses of the Molé | Ministry | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Inferno | Motörhead | - |
| J U N E | 22 | JoJo | JoJo | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Jupiters Darling | Heart | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Kiss of Death | Jadakiss | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Lit | Lit | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love | Jonathan Richman | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Power of the Blues | Gary Moore | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Scream & Whisper | Edwin McCain | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Spider-Man 2 | Various Artists | Soundtrack |
| J U N E | 22 | Unbreakable | Scorpions | - |
| J U N E | 22 | Will to Death | John Frusciante | - |
| J U N E | 23 | TMG I | Tak Matsumoto Group | - |
| J U N E | 28 | Afrodisiac | Brandy | - |
| J U N E | 28 | The Cure | The Cure | - |
| J U N E | 28 | The Eye of Every Storm | Neurosis | - |
| J U N E | 28 | Up All Night | Razorlight | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Tha Carter | Lil Wayne | - |
| J U N E | 29 | The Curse | Atreyu | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count | From First to Last | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Detroit Deli (A Taste of Detroit) | Slum Village | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Dwight's Used Records | Dwight Yoakam | Compilation |
| J U N E | 29 | Feedback | Rush | EP |
| J U N E | 29 | Forget What You Know | Midtown | - |
| J U N E | 29 | The Gorge | Dave Matthews Band | Live |
| J U N E | 29 | Hollywood Potato Chip | The Vandals | - |
| J U N E | 29 | In Between Evolution | The Tragically Hip | - |
| J U N E | 29 | This Magnificent Distance | Chris Robinson | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Mojave | Concrete Blonde | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Nina Sky | Nina Sky | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Revelation | Joe Nichols | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Revival | The Reverend Horton Heat | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Seventy Two and Sunny | Uncle Kracker | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise | Tiger Army | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Trouble | Akon | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Watch Out! | Alexisonfire | - |
| J U N E | 29 | We Are Not Alone | Breaking Benjamin | - |
| J U N E | 29 | White2 | Sunn O))) | - |
| J U N E | 29 | Who Still Kill Sound? | Kid 606 | - |

### July–September

| Date | Date | Album | Artist | Notes |
| J U L Y | 5 | Room on the 3rd Floor | McFly | - |
| J U L Y | 6 | Fortress In Flames | The Crüxshadows | EP |
| J U L Y | 6 | Patient Man | Brad Cotter | - |
| J U L Y | 6 | Star Trails | Spirit of the West | - |
| J U L Y | 6 | Stone Love | Angie Stone | US |
| J U L Y | 6 | Wild Dances | Ruslana | - |
| J U L Y | 12 | Armed Love | The (International) Noise Conspiracy | - |
| J U L Y | 12 | Braxton Hicks | Jebediah | - |
| J U L Y | 12 | The Futureheads | The Futureheads | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | At Our Worst | Evergreen Terrace | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Back to Basics | Beenie Man | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Blueberry Boat | The Fiery Furnaces | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | The Book of Heavy Metal | Dream Evil | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Caught by the Window | Pilot Speed | US |
| J U L Y | 13 | A Cinderella Story: Original Soundtrack | Hilary Duff/Various Artists | Soundtrack |
| J U L Y | 13 | Eat Your Face | Guttermouth | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | The Funeral of God | Zao | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Happy Love Sick | Shifty | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Humanure | Cattle Decapitation | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Humboldt Beginnings | The Pharcyde | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Indian Summer | Carbon Leaf | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | It's About Time | Christina Milian | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Keep Right | KRS-One | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Letters to the President | Hawk Nelson | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | License to Chill | Jimmy Buffett | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Lock-Sport-Krock | Nikola Šarčević | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Mutual Admiration Society | Mutual Admiration Society | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Out of the Shadow | Rogue Wave | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Porcelain | Sparta | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Shhh...Don't Tell | Adam Sandler | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | The Spine | They Might Be Giants | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | The Tipping Point | The Roots | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | To Tha X-Treme | Devin the Dude | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Together We're Heavy | The Polyphonic Spree | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | Über Cobra | Widespread Panic | Live |
| J U L Y | 13 | Viking | Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards | - |
| J U L Y | 13 | I | Meshuggah | EP |
| J U L Y | 20 | Autobiography | Ashlee Simpson | - |
| J U L Y | 20 | B Is for B-sides | Less Than Jake | Compilation |
| J U L Y | 20 | Beneath... Between... Beyond... | Static-X | Compilation |
| J U L Y | 20 | The Best of Both Worlds | Van Halen | Compilation +3 new songs |
| J U L Y | 20 | East Nashville Skyline | Todd Snider | - |
| J U L Y | 20 | Hazen Street | Hazen Street | - |
| J U L Y | 20 | Miss Machine | The Dillinger Escape Plan | - |
| J U L Y | 20 | Southside | Lloyd | - |
| J U L Y | 20 | Sweet Somewhere Bound | Jackie Greene | - |
| J U L Y | 20 | Tyrannosaurus Hives | The Hives | - |
| J U L Y | 20 | White Turns Blue | Maria Mena | - |
| J U L Y | 21 | Eternal Warrior | Anthem | - |
| J U L Y | 22 | Waste of MFZB | Zebrahead | - |
| J U L Y | 24 | Drivetrain | 38 Special | - |
| J U L Y | 26 | Now That's What I Call Music! 58 (UK series) | Various Artists | Compilation |
| J U L Y | 27 | The Beginning of Survival | Joni Mitchell | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Blue Cathedral | Comets on Fire | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Drag It Up | Old 97's | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Hymns of the 49th Parallel | k.d. lang | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Kevin Lyttle | Kevin Lyttle | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Kiss & Tell | Sahara Hotnights | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Life After Cash Money | B.G. | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Live at Benaroya Hall | Pearl Jam | Live |
| J U L Y | 27 | Live in Hamburg | Maria McKee | Live |
| J U L Y | 27 | Lost & Found | Ian Van Dahl | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Now That's What I Call Music! 16 (U.S. series) | Various Artists | Compilation |
| J U L Y | 27 | Studio X Sessions EP | Death Cab for Cutie | EP |
| J U L Y | 27 | Testimony Live | Neal Morse | DVD |
| J U L Y | 27 | True Story | Terror Squad | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Until the End | Kittie | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Where You Want to Be | Taking Back Sunday | - |
| J U L Y | 27 | Whiskey Tango Ghosts | Tanya Donelly | - |
| A U G U S T | 3 | Alive and Well... In Krakow | Green Carnation | Live |
| A U G U S T | 3 | An Elixir for Existence | Sirenia | - |
| A U G U S T | 3 | Firestarter | Jimmy Eat World | EP |
| A U G U S T | 3 | Red Hot Chili Peppers Live in Hyde Park | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Live |
| A U G U S T | 3 | A Long Hot Summer | Masta Ace | - |
| A U G U S T | 3 | M.I.A.M.I. | Pitbull | - |
| A U G U S T | 3 | Ride This – The Covers EP | Los Lobos | EP |
| A U G U S T | 3 | Riders in the Sky Present: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier | Riders in the Sky | - |
| A U G U S T | 3 | Subsurface | Threshold | - |
| A U G U S T | 3 | Ticonderoga | Morning 40 Federation | - |
| A U G U S T | 6 | 2Pac Live | 2Pac | Live |
| A U G U S T | 9 | 3.0 | Safri Duo | - |
| A U G U S T | 9 | Distant Sense of Random Menace | Urthboy | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Automatic Writing | Ataxia | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | The Best of Coal Chamber | Coal Chamber | Compilation |
| A U G U S T | 10 | The Blessed and the Damned | Iced Earth | Compilation |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Bubblegum | Mark Lanegan | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Creamfields | Paul Oakenfold | Remix |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Crosby & Nash | David Crosby & Graham Nash | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Diesel Truckers | Kool Keith | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | The Essential Red Collection | Sammy Hagar | Compilation |
| A U G U S T | 10 | It's Already Written | Houston | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Kidz Bop 6 | Kidz Bop Kids | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | My Own Best Enemy | Richard Marx | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | One Day Remains | Alter Bridge | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2 | Various Artists, Rock Against Bush | Compilation |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Siren Song of the Counter Culture | Rise Against | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | The Way It Really Is | Lisa Loeb | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Whiskey Tango Ghosts | Tanya Donelly | - |
| A U G U S T | 10 | Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer | Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer | Debut, re-issue |
| A U G U S T | 11 | Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned | The Prodigy | - |
| A U G U S T | 11 | Partytime | The Cheeky Girls | - |
| A U G U S T | 13 | Joyful Rebellion | k-os | - |
| A U G U S T | 16 | Grey Will Fade | Charlotte Hatherley | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | All City | Northern State | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Decadence | Head Automatica | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Free the Bees | The Bees | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | The Hard Way | 213 | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Love Everybody | The Presidents of the United States of America | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Lyfe 268-192 | Lyfe Jennings | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Moonlight Survived | Moments in Grace | Debut album |
| A U G U S T | 17 | More Adventurous | Rilo Kiley | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Music to Start a Cult To | Gram Rabbit | Debut album |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Seven Circles | The Tea Party | Final Album |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Soviet Kitsch | Regina Spektor | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Survival of the Sickest | Saliva | - |
| A U G U S T | 17 | Take It All Away | Ryan Cabrera | - |
| A U G U S T | 18 | ? | Enuff Z'nuff | - |
| A U G U S T | 23 | Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned | The Prodigy | UK |
| A U G U S T | 23 | Flowers in the Pavement | Bliss n Eso | Debut |
| A U G U S T | 23 | Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 | Napalm Death | Covers album |
| A U G U S T | 23 | Pigs of the Roman Empire | Lustmord & Melvins | - |
| A U G U S T | 23 | Winchester Cathedral | Clinic | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Beat Cafe | Donovan | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Connected | The Foreign Exchange | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | The Dirty South | Drive-By Truckers | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Half Smiles of the Decomposed | Guided by Voices | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Happy People/U Saved Me | R. Kelly | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Hide Nothing | Further Seems Forever | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | The Hustle | G. Love & Special Sauce | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones | The Rolling Stones | US; Compilation |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Kidz Bop Halloween | Kidz Bop Kids | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Legacy of Blood | Jedi Mind Tricks | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Letters | Butch Walker | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Lift | Sister Hazel | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Live Like You Were Dying | Tim McGraw | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Luminaria | Ian Moore | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | On My Way to Church | Jim Jones | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Paper | Rich Robinson | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Potter's Field | 12 Stones | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | The Revolution Starts Now | Steve Earle | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | The Secondman's Middle Stand | Mike Watt | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | She Loves You | The Twilight Singers | Covers album |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Straight Outta Cashville | Young Buck | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Super D | Ben Folds | EP |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Tambourine | Tift Merritt | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Tessie | Dropkick Murphys | EP |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Throwback, Vol. 1 | Boyz II Men | Covers album |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom | Jason Mraz | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family | Various | compilation |
| A U G U S T | 24 | A Valid Path | Alan Parsons | - |
| A U G U S T | 24 | Welcome Back | Mase | - |
| A U G U S T | 25 | The Bassmachine | Basshunter | - |
| A U G U S T | 30 | Don't Look Now | Way Out West | - |
| A U G U S T | 30 | Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow | Faithless | - |
| A U G U S T | 30 | Killing Heidi | Killing Heidi | - |
| A U G U S T | 30 | The Libertines | The Libertines | - |
| A U G U S T | 30 | Medúlla | Björk | - |
| A U G U S T | 30 | Pleasureman | Günther | Debut |
| A U G U S T | 30 | Silent Nation | Asia | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | Ashes of the Wake | Lamb of God | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | Circle of Snakes | Danzig | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | The DEFinition | LL Cool J | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | Fuck World Trade | Leftöver Crack | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | Genius Loves Company | Ray Charles | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | Getting Away with Murder | Papa Roach | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | Hell's Pit | Insane Clown Posse | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | Leviathan | Mastodon | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | Rhythm of Time | Jordan Rudess | - |
| A U G U S T | 31 | Sail On: The 30th Anniversary Collection | Kansas | Compilation+DVD |
| A U G U S T | 31 | The Spine Hits the Road | They Might Be Giants | Live |
| S E P T E M B E R | 1 | The Romance of Kenny G | Kenny G | Compilation |
| S E P T E M B E R | 3 | Wu Ha | Will Pan | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck | Flotation Toy Warning | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | De wereld rond | K3 | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Fate of Norns | Amon Amarth | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Sardonic Wrath | Darkthrone | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Showtime | Dizzee Rascal | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | The Sound of White | Missy Higgins | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Temple of Shadows | Angra | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Unwritten | Natasha Bedingfield | UK |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Voice | Alison Moyet | UK, covers album |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | The Big Eyeball in the Sky | Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | Home for an Island | The Exit | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | I Got Love in These Streetz | Daz Dillinger | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | Let It Enfold You | Senses Fail | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | Living Things | Matthew Sweet | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | Master of the Moon | Dio | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | My Everything | Anita Baker | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | Rubber Factory | The Black Keys | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | Stealing of a Nation | Radio 4 | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | Underdog Victorious | Jill Sobule | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | The Very Best of Macy Gray | Macy Gray | US; Compilation |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | What I Do | Alan Jackson | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 8 | Exodus | Utada | Japan |
| S E P T E M B E R | 10 | IM the Supervisor | Infected Mushroom | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | Kasabian | Kasabian | UK |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | Let's Bottle Bohemia | The Thrills | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | Nino Rojo | Devendra Banhart | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | Out of Nothing | Embrace | UK |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | Season for Assault | 8 Foot Sativa | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | The Singles 1986–1995 | Duran Duran | Box Set |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | Solarized | Ian Brown | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | Strangers | Ed Harcourt | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | The Tension and the Spark | Darren Hayes | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 13 | Thunder, Lightning, Strike | The Go! Team | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | DC EP | John Frusciante | EP |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Eat My Heart Out | The Dollyrots | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Everybody Loves a Happy Ending | Tears for Fears | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Exhibit A | The Features | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Funeral | Arcade Fire | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | A Hangover You Don't Deserve | Bowling for Soup | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Quaudiophiliac | Frank Zappa | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | The Revelry | Bullets and Octane | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | The Clarence Greenwood Recordings | Citizen Cope | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Set Yourself on Fire | Stars | Canada |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | So Jealous | Tegan and Sara | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Studio 150 | Paul Weller | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Sweat and Suit Double albums | Nelly | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | The System Has Failed | Megadeth | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Trouble | Ray LaMontagne | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Turn | The Ex | Double LP |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Wayward Angel | Kasey Chambers | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Wet from Birth | The Faint | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Wheel of Life | Karmakanic | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 14 | Within a Mile of Home | Flogging Molly | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 20 | Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 20 | American Idiot | Green Day | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 20 | Hits 59 | Various artists | Compilation |
| S E P T E M B E R | 20 | One for the Road | Ocean Colour Scene | Live |
| S E P T E M B E R | 20 | Universal Audio | The Delgados | Final album |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Be Here | Keith Urban | US |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | City | Client | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Deja Vu All Over Again | John Fogerty | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | The Delivery Man | Elvis Costello | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Dreaming in Color | Jump5 | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Eucademix | Yuka Honda | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Future Perfect | Autolux | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Il Sogno | Elvis Costello | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Last Exit | Junior Boys | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered | Various Artists | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition | The Clash | LP & DVD |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Mirages | Tim Hecker | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | The New What Next | Hot Water Music | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Night on Fire | VHS or Beta | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Noise from the Basement | Skye Sweetnam | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | These Arms Are Snakes | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Remixed! | Scissor Sisters | EP |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Riders of the Apocalypse | Demonoid | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Romeoland | Lil' Romeo | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Saul Williams | Saul Williams | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Shine | Meredith Brooks | Reissue of 2002's Bad Bad One |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | Songs in the Key of Eh | Mad Caddies | Live |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | There Will Be a Light | Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | This Is My Time | Raven-Symoné | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | Chevelle | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | You Fail Me | Converge | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 21 | The War Within | Shadows Fall | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 22 | Start from the Dark | Europe | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 23 | The Other Side of Earth | The Last Goodnight | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 24 | Dreamland | Joni Mitchell | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 25 | This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | Bring Me the Horizon | EP |
| S E P T E M B E R | 26 | By Request | Brett Kissel | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 27 | Antics | Interpol | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 27 | RockShocks | Loudness | Self-cover album |
| S E P T E M B E R | 27 | Never Apologise Never Explain | Therapy? | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 27 | Nightmares Made Flesh | Bloodbath | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 27 | Prelude to History | Preluders | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 27 | Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret | Rhapsody | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | 180° | Gerardo | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Advance and Vanquish | 3 Inches of Blood | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Anniemal | Annie | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Bat Out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Meat Loaf | Live |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Beautiful Soul | Jesse McCartney | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Before the Poison | Marianne Faithfull | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Christian Bautista | Christian Bautista | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | The Beautiful Struggle | Talib Kweli | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | The Dana Owens Album | Queen Latifah | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Feels Like Today | Rascal Flatts | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Goodies | Ciara | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Hilary Duff | Hilary Duff | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | In Love and Death | The Used | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Jackassolantern | Widespread Panic | Live |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Lest We Forget: The Best Of | Marilyn Manson | Compilation +1 new track |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Lionheart | Saxon | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Mind Body & Soul | Joss Stone | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | The Neon God: Part 2 – The Demise | W.A.S.P. | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Reset | Mutemath | EP |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Scores | Barry Manilow | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll | Social Distortion | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Shangri-La | Mark Knopfler | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Show and Tell | Silvertide | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Smile | Brian Wilson | - |
| S E P T E M B E R | 28 | Trouble | Bonnie McKee | - |

### October–December

| Date | Date | Album | Artist | Notes |
| O C T O B E R | 1 | Joe's Domage | Frank Zappa | - |
| O C T O B E R | 1 | Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow | Jonathan Coulton | EP |
| O C T O B E R | 1 | While You Are Gone | Bradley Joseph | - |
| O C T O B E R | 4 | Confessions (Special Edition) | Usher | UK |
| O C T O B E R | 4 | Falling Out | Peter Bjorn and John | - |
| O C T O B E R | 4 | Late Night Tales: Four Tet | Four Tet | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | 50 Number Ones | George Strait | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Around the Sun | R.E.M. | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | The Audio Injected Soul | Mnemic | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Audit in Progress | Hot Snakes | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Barenaked for the Holidays | Barenaked Ladies | Christmas |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Black Tape | The Explosion | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | The Chronicles of Life and Death | Good Charlotte | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | ClassiKhan | Chaka Khan | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Cryptooology | Yowie | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Everything I've Got in My Pocket | Minnie Driver | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | FWX | Fates Warning | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Greatest Hits, Volume 1 | Korn | Compilation +2 new tracks |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | The Grind Date | De La Soul | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Has Been | William Shatner | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground | Various Artists | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Legs to Make Us Longer | Kaki King | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Live at Budokan | Dream Theater | Live |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | The Lost Riots | Hope of the States | US |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | The Ones We Never Knew | Holly Williams | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Palookaville | Fatboy Slim | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | The Place You're In | Kenny Wayne Shepherd | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Pressure Chief | Cake | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Real Gone | Tom Waits | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Size Matters | Helmet | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Soul of a New Machine | Fear Factory | Reissue/Remastered |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Spooked | Robyn Hitchcock | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear 1994–2004 | Everclear | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Unshattered | Peter Murphy | - |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101 | Wyclef Jean | - |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | 10 Years of Hits | Ronan Keating | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | Astronaut | Duran Duran | LP & DVD |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | Back to Bedlam | James Blunt | Debut |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | The Collection | Cast | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | The Collection | Shed Seven | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | Cosima | Cosima De Vito | - |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | Demigod | Behemoth | - |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | False Alarm | KT Tunstall | EP |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | Reckoning Night | Sonata Arctica | - |
| O C T O B E R | 11 | Sirenian Shores | Sirenia | EP |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | The Artist Collection: Busta Rhymes | Busta Rhymes | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Christmas | Chris Isaak | Christmas |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Chuck | Sum 41 | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Deceiver | Chris Thile | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Frank Black Francis | Frank Black | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Heart & Soul | Joe Cocker | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | The Lost Christmas Eve | Trans-Siberian Orchestra | Christmas |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Miracle | Céline Dion | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Munly & the Lee Lewis Harlots | Munly | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | The New Danger | Mos Def | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | New Roman Times | Camper Van Beethoven | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Platinum & Gold Collection | Toni Braxton | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | P.S.I.entology | Pitchshifter | DVD |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Scenic | Denver Harbor | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Shake off the Dust... Arise | Matisyahu | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Songs of the Unforgiven | Crash Test Dummies | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Straylight Run | Straylight Run | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Tarantula | Flickerstick | - |
| O C T O B E R | 12 | Terrifyer | Pig Destroyer | - |
| O C T O B E R | 18 | Alfie: Music from the Motion Picture | Mick Jagger/David A. Stewart/Various Artists | Soundtrack |
| O C T O B E R | 18 | Alizée en concert | Alizée | Live |
| O C T O B E R | 18 | Beautiful Life | Guy Sebastian | - |
| O C T O B E R | 18 | One | Dirty Vegas | - |
| O C T O B E R | 18 | Origin Vol. 1 | The Soundtrack of Our Lives | Europe |
| O C T O B E R | 18 | Silver Box | Simple Minds | Box Set |
| O C T O B E R | 18 | A Smile | Dappled Cities Fly | - |
| O C T O B E R | 18 | Who Killed...... The Zutons? | The Zutons | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Alpha and Omega | Bizzy Bone | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | As/Is | John Mayer | Live |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Casting the Stones | Jag Panzer | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon | Various Artists | Warren Zevon tribute |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | From a Basement on the Hill | Elliott Smith | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Futures | Jimmy Eat World | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Graveyard Classics 2 | Six Feet Under | Covers album |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | The Greatest Hits | Juvenile | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | The Greatest Hits Collection II | Brooks & Dunn | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Never Breathe What You Can't See | Jello Biafra & Melvins | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Panopticon | Isis | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | The Rest Is History | Jin | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Revolver | The Haunted | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Shake the Sheets | Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Stardust: the Great American Songbook 3 | Rod Stewart | Covers album |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Still Hungry | Twisted Sister | Re-recording of Stay Hungry +4 new tracks |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Team America: World Police | Various artists | Soundtrack |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | This Island | Le Tigre | - |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits | John Mellencamp | 2xCD compilation +2 new tracks |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | You Just Gotta Love Christmas | Peter Cetera | Christmas |
| O C T O B E R | 20 | Sol-fa | Asian Kung-Fu Generation | - |
| O C T O B E R | 24 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Vol. 1 | Powerman 5000 | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 25 | Best of Def Leppard | Def Leppard | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 25 | Live Twice | Darius | - |
| O C T O B E R | 25 | Tage Mahal | Jon Oliva's Pain | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | 2067 | Rheostatics | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | All for You | Annihilator | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Buju and Friends | Buju Banton | Compilation |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins | Pavement | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Dear Heather | Leonard Cohen | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Flyleaf | Flyleaf | EP |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Gold Medal | The Donnas | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Healing Rain | Michael W. Smith | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Inside of Emptiness | John Frusciante | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | It Always Will Be | Willie Nelson | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Key | Son, Ambulance | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Live at Wolf Trap | The Doobie Brothers | Live |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Our Kind of Soul | Hall & Oates | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Please Describe Yourself | Dogs Die in Hot Cars | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Poe Little Rich Girl | Jacki-O | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Rendezvous | Luna | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Still Not Getting Any... | Simple Plan | LP & DVD |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Then and Again | Voltaire | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets | Trick Daddy | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Thunderball | U.D.O. | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Unfinished Business | Jay-Z & R. Kelly | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Watching the Snow | Michael Franks | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | War Party | GWAR | - |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | Wolfmother | Wolfmother | EP |
| O C T O B E R | 26 | You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | Death From Above 1979 | - |
| O C T O B E R | 27 | Yumi Shizukusa II | Yumi Shizukusa | - |
| O C T O B E R | 29 | One Way | Selwyn | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | Acoustic | John Lennon | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | Aha Shake Heartbreak | Kings of Leon | UK |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | All the Best | Tina Turner | Compilation +3 new tracks |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | A Brief History... | The Waifs | Australia; Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | Interim | The Fall | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | Isa | Enslaved | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | Lifeblood | Manic Street Preachers | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | Live Licks | The Rolling Stones | Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | This is Music: The Singles 92-98 | The Verve | UK; Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Adicción, Tradición, Revolución | Voodoo Glow Skulls | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Alive at Last | Train | Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | A Types | Hopesfall | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Awake: The Best of Live | Live | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Closure | Everclear | EP/Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Dead Eyes See No Future | Arch Enemy | EP |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Devotion | Newsboys | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | eMOTIVe | A Perfect Circle | Covers album |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Jobe Bells | Afroman | Christmas |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Le compte complet | Malajube | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Live! | Catch 22 | Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Live at St. Ann's Warehouse | Aimee Mann | Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Mmhmm | Relient K | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | My Brother & Me | Ying Yang Twins | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 | Jethro Tull | Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Now That's What I Call Music! 17 (U.S. series) | Various Artists | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | One | Neal Morse | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Reise, Reise | Rammstein | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 2 | Singles | Travis | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 7 | The Beginning and the End | Bizzy Bone | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 8 | 2. OG | Overground | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 8 | Allow Us to Be Frank | Westlife | Covers album |
| N O V E M B E R | 8 | Best 1991–2004 | Seal | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 8 | The Destiny Stone | Pride of Lions | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 8 | Live! Thirty Days Ago | Phoenix | Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 8 | Mistaken Identity | Delta Goodrem | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 8 | R.U.L.E. | Ja Rule | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 8 | Second First Impression | Daniel Bedingfield | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 8 | Wet Wet Wet: The Greatest Hits | Wet Wet Wet | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | All In | Stroke 9 | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Greatest Hits | Shania Twain | Compilation +3 new tracks |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Greatest Hits: My Prerogative | Britney Spears | Compilation +3 new tracks |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us!) | NOFX | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Harmonium | Vanessa Carlton | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Home Movies | Pennywise | Re-issue; DVD |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Horn of Plenty | Grizzly Bear | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | México en la Piel | Luis Miguel | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Number Ones | Bee Gees | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Occasus | The Amenta | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Peachtree Road | Elton John | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl | Queen | US; Live LP & DVD |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Real Talk | Fabolous | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More... | Various Artists | Soundtrack |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | The Tigers Have Spoken | Neko Case | Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 9 | Vulture Street | Powderfinger | US |
| N O V E M B E R | 11 | Ballads of Living and Dying | Marissa Nadler | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 12 | Encore | Eminem | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 15 | Best of Blue | Blue | UK; Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 15 | Lost to Apathy | Dark Tranquillity | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 15 | Now That's What I Call Music! 59 (UK series) | Various Artists | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 15 | The Silent Force | Within Temptation | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 15 | This is Music: The Singles 92-98 | The Verve | US; Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong | Bon Jovi | Box Set |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Amotion | A Perfect Circle | LP & DVD |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | The Best of Mandy Moore | Mandy Moore | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 | The Beatles | Box Set |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Crunk Juice | Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Destiny Fulfilled | Destiny's Child | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Greatest Hits | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Greatest Hits | Neil Young | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi | Puffy AmiYumi | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | The Kottonmouth Xperience | Kottonmouth Kings | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Merry Christmas with Love | Clay Aiken | Christmas |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection | Michael Jackson | Box Set |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Mm..Food | MF Doom | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Our Worlds Divorce | This Providence | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | The Popsicle EP | Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer | EP |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Powerballin' | Chingy | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | The Ransom | Cartel | EP |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Real | Ivy Queen | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003) | Pearl Jam | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Want Two | Rufus Wainwright | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | Youth | Collective Soul | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 22 | Greatest Hits | Creed | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 22 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | U2 | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 22 | Ultimate Kylie | Kylie Minogue | Greatest hits |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Anywhere But Home | Evanescence | Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | At Last...The Duets Album | Kenny G | Covers album |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Chapter III | Allure | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Family Style | Jet | DVD |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Field Rexx | Blitzen Trapper | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Free Yourself | Fantasia | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | The Greater of Two Evils | Anthrax | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Hoy Quiero Soñar | Cristian Castro | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | I Need an Angel | Ruben Studdard | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Live in Buffalo: July 4th, 2004 | Goo Goo Dolls | Live |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Lonely Runs Both Ways | Alison Krauss & Union Station | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Love. Angel. Music. Baby. | Gwen Stefani | Solo debut |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Play Around the Christmas Tree | Play | Christmas |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece | Snoop Dogg | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | The Red Light District | Ludacris | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Rejoyce: The Christmas Album | Jessica Simpson | Christmas |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | So Cold | Breaking Benjamin | EP |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | A Sphere in the Heart of Silence | John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | Ultimate Kylie | Kylie Minogue | Compilation |
| N O V E M B E R | 23 | With the Lights Out | Nirvana | Box Set |
| N O V E M B E R | 25 | Livid | Nightmare | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 26 | Racing | Loudness | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 29 | Downside Up | Siouxsie and the Banshees | Box Set |
| N O V E M B E R | 29 | Irish Son | Brian McFadden | Solo debut |
| N O V E M B E R | 29 | Our Last Album? | The Toy Dolls | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 29 | Platinum Collection | Genesis | Box Set |
| N O V E M B E R | 29 | Three Imaginary Boys: Deluxe Edition | The Cure | Re-issue |
| N O V E M B E R | 30 | Breakaway | Kelly Clarkson | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 30 | Collision Course | Linkin Park and Jay-Z | EP & DVD |
| N O V E M B E R | 30 | Head for the Door | The Exies | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 30 | Rebelde | RBD | Debut album |
| N O V E M B E R | 30 | Street's Disciple | Nas | - |
| N O V E M B E R | 30 | Urban Legend | T.I. | - |
| N O V E M B E R | ? | Fluxion | The Ocean | Debut album |
| D E C E M B E R | 6 | Invisible | Nightingale | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 7 | The Dirtiest Thirstiest | Yung Wun | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 7 | Purple Haze | Cam'ron | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 7 | Speak | Lindsay Lohan | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 7 | The Red Light District | Ludacris | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 8 | Re. | Aya Ueto | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 9 | Live from Under the Brooklyn Bridge | U2 | Live EP; iTunes |
| D E C E M B E R | 10 | Almanac | They Might Be Giants | Live |
| D E C E M B E R | 10 | Artist Collection: Run DMC | Run-D.M.C. | Compilation |
| D E C E M B E R | 10 | Venue Songs | They Might Be Giants | Live |
| D E C E M B E R | 13 | Eye to the Telescope | KT Tunstall | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 13 | For You | Casey Donovan | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 14 | Concrete Rose | Ashanti | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 14 | Loyal to the Game | 2Pac | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 14 | Weapons of Mass Destruction | Xzibit | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 15 | My Story | Ayumi Hamasaki | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 21 | The Mind of Mannie Fresh | Mannie Fresh | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 22 | Renai | Sid | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 28 | 300 Lésions | Kyo | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 28 | Get Lifted | John Legend | - |
| D E C E M B E R | 29 | Plein d'amour: Ai ga Ippai | Kaori Iida | - |
| D E C E M B E R | ? | Piracy Funds Terrorism | M.I.A. and Diplo | - |

## Unknown release dates

* 3rd Strike – 3 Feet Smaller
* 5 Stories EP – Manchester Orchestra
* 9Live – Angie Aparo
* Bombs Below – Living Things
* Crwth – Cass Meurig (first CD release of crwth music)
* Field Rexx – Blitzen Trapper
* ForThemAsses – OPM
* Gathering Speed – Big Big Train
* Get Saved – Pilot to Gunner
* Golden (compilation) – Failure
* Guerilla Disco – Quarashi
* Leaving Town Tonight (EP) – Hit the Lights
* Life Story (compilation) – The Shadows
* Negatives 2 – Phantom Planet
* Oceanic Remixes/Reinterpretations – Isis
* The Pink Spiders Are Taking Over! – The Pink Spiders
* Point of Origin – There for Tomorrow
* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
* Safely From the City – Locksley
* Set Your Goals (Demo EP) – Set Your Goals
* Sherwood (EP) – Sherwood
* Smoking Weed in the President's Face – Hockey
* Tripped Into Divine – Dexter Freebish
* Watching the Snow – Michael Franks (United States release)
* We (Don't) Care – The Management (MGMT)
* Welcome to Woody Creek – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

## Popular songs

* "1, 2 Step" – Ciara ft. Missy Elliott
* "10 A.M. Automatic" – The Black Keys
* "1985" – Bowling for Soup
* "99 Problems" – Jay-Z
* "À chaque pas" – Jonatan Cerrada
* "Accidentally in Love" – Counting Crows
* "All Downhill From Here" – New Found Glory
* "All That I've Got" – The Used
* "All These Things That I've Done" – The Killers
* "Almost" – Bowling for Soup
* "Always" – Blink-182
* "Amazing" – George Michael
* "American Idiot" – Green Day
* "Amerika" – Rammstein
* "Another Planet" – Pendulum
* "Baba Oje' Is The Oldest One" – Arrested Development
* "Baby It's You" – JoJo featuring Bow Wow
* "Back Up" – Pitbull
* "Balla Baby" – Chingy
* "Banzai" – B'z
* "Beautiful Soul" – Jesse McCartney
* "Because of You" – Nickelback
* "Because You Live" – Jesse McCartney
* "Before I Forget" – Slipknot
* "Black Betty" – Spiderbait
* "Bless The Broken Road" – Rascal Flatts
* "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" – Green Day
* "Breakaway" – Kelly Clarkson
* "Breakfast in Bed" – Nicole Scherzinger
* "Breaking the Habit" – Linkin Park
* "Bridging the Gap" – Nas featuring Olu Dara
* "Bring 'Em Out" – T.I.
* "Burn" – Usher
* "Bus durch London" – Christina Stürmer
* "Butterflies and Hurricanes" – Muse
* "California Dreamin'" – Royal Gigolos
* "Call On Me" – Eric Prydz
* "(Can't Get My) Head Around You" – The Offspring
* "Caught Up" – Usher
* "Cerca de ti" – Thalía
* "Chains" – Duran Duran
* "Ch-Check It Out" – Beastie Boys
* "Club Foot" – Kasabian
* "Cold" – Crossfade
* "Come Clean" – Hilary Duff
* "Comfortably Numb" – Scissor Sisters
* "Culo" – Pitbull
* "Curtain Falls" – Blue
* "Daughters" – John Mayer
* "A Decade Under the Influence" – Taking Back Sunday
* "Despre tine" – O-Zone
* "Det gör ont" – Lena Philipsson
* "Ding Dong Song" – Günther and the Sunshine Girls
* "Dirt off Your Shoulder" – Jay-Z
* "Disco Inferno" – 50 Cent
* "Divide The Hate" – Sumbersed
* "Don't Tell Me" – Avril Lavigne
* "Down" – Blink-182
* "Dragostea Din Tei" – O-Zone
* "Drive" – Ziggy Marley
* "Drop It Like It's Hot" – Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell Williams
* "Dry Your Eyes" – The Streets
* "Duality" – Slipknot
* "Every Breath You Take" – UB40
* "Everybody's Changing" – Keane
* "Everytime" – Britney Spears
* "Face à la mer" – Calogero and Passi
* "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" – Nickelback
* "Femme Like U (Donne-moi ton corps)" – K.Maro
* "Figured You Out" – Nickelback
* "First" – Lindsay Lohan
* "Flap Your Wings" – Nelly
* "Flawless (Go to the City)" – George Michael
* "Float On" – Modest Mouse
* "Fly" – Hilary Duff
* "For You" – The Disco Boys
* "Força" – Nelly Furtado
* "Friday I'm in Love" – Dryden Mitchell
* "From the Inside" – Linkin Park
* "Gasolina" – Daddy Yankee
* "Getting Away with Murder" – Papa Roach
* "Ghetto" – Akon
* "The Ghost in You" – Mark McGrath
* "Girls" – The Prodigy
* "Goodies" – Ciara featuring Petey Pablo
* "Hands to Heaven" – Christian Bautista
* "Heaven" – Los Lonely Boys
* "Heavy on My Heart" – Anastacia
* "Hey Mama" – The Black Eyed Peas
* "High" – James Blunt
* "Hitomi no Juunin" – L'Arc-en-Ciel
* "Hold Me Now" – Wayne Wonder
* "Holiday" – Green Day
* "Hollaback Girl" – Gwen Stefani
* "Hollow" – Submersed
* "Hotride" – The Prodigy
* "How We Do" – The Game
* "I Am" – Killing Heidi
* "I Believe In You" – Kylie Minogue
* "I Don't Wanna Know" – Mario Winans featuring Enya & P.Diddy
* "I Just Wanna Live" – Good Charlotte
* "I Melt with You" – Jason Mraz
* "I Miss You" – Blink-182
* "I Predict a Riot" – Kaiser Chiefs
* "I Wish" – Guy Sebastian
* "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" – My Chemical Romance
* "In the Shadows" – The Rasmus
* "Just Be" – Tiësto
* "Just Lose It" – Eminem
* "Kailan Pa Ma'y Ikaw" – Christian Bautista
* "Killin' Me" – Drowning Pool
* "Kryptonite" – Guy Sebastian
* "La La" – Ashlee Simpson
* "La Rivière de notre enfance" – Garou and Michel Sardou
* "Laid to Rest" – Lamb of God
* "Laissez-moi danser" – Star Academy 4
* "Last Train Home" – Lostprophets
* "Lazy Generation" – The F-Ups
* "Leave (Get Out)" – JoJo
* "Left Outside Alone" – Anastacia
* "Let Me Love You" – Mario
* "Let's Get It Started" – The Black Eyed Peas
* "Let's Get Blown" – Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell Williams
* "Little Voice" – Hilary Duff
* "Life" – Seven Wiser
* "Lips Like Sugar" – Seal featuring Mikey Dread
* "Live Like You Were Dying" – Tim McGraw
* "Locked Up" – Akon
* "Lose My Breath" – Destiny's Child
* "Lovers & Friends" – Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz featuring Usher and Ludacris
* "Lovesong" – 311
* "Lying from You" – Linkin Park
* "Maps" – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
* "Meant to Live" – Switchfoot
* "Milkshake" – Kelis
* "Modern Times" – J-five
* "Money" – David Guetta
* "Move Ya Body" – Nina Sky
* "Mr. Brightside" – The Killers
* "Musicology" – Prince
* "My Band" – D12
* "My Boo" – Usher featuring Alicia Keys
* "My Immortal" – Evanescence
* "My Happy Ending" – Avril Lavigne
* "My Place" – Nelly featuring Jaheim
* "My Prerogative" – Britney Spears
* "My Secret Life" – Eric Burdon
* "My Spirit Will Go On" – DragonForce
* "Nasty Girl" – Nitty
* "Naughty Girl" – Beyoncé
* "Nobody's Home" – Avril Lavigne
* "Not in Love" – Enrique Iglesias featuring Kelis
* "Not Listening" – Papa Roach
* "Obsesión" – Aventura
* "Ocean Avenue" – Yellowcard
* "Oh My God" – Kaiser Chiefs
* "Oh Oh" – Guy Sebastian
* "On n'oublie jamais rien, on vit avec" – Hélène Ségara & Laura Pausini
* "On the Way Down" – Ryan Cabrera
* "Open Your Eyes" – Alter Bridge
* "Out with My Baby" – Guy Sebastian
* "Outrageous" – Britney Spears
* "Over" – Lindsay Lohan
* "Oye Mi Canto" – N.O.R.E. featuring Nina Sky
* "Party for Two" – Shania Twain featuring Billy Currington/Mark McGrath
* "Physical" – Alcazar
* "Pieces of Me" – Ashlee Simpson
* "Predictable" – Good Charlotte
* "Pump It Up!" – Danzel
* "Push Up" – Freestylers
* "(Reach Up for The) Sunrise" – Duran Duran
* "Real N***a Roll Call" – Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz featuring Ice Cube
* "The Reason" – Hoobastank
* "Rich Girl" – Gwen Stefani ft. Eve
* "Right to Be Wrong" – Joss Stone
* "Rockit" – Gorillaz
* "Rumors" – Lindsay Lohan
* "Same Direction" – Hoobastank
* "Scars" – Papa Roach
* "See You at the Show" – Nickelback
* "Shake That Bush Again" – The Mooney Suzuki
* "She Wants to Move" – N.E.R.D.
* "She Will Be Loved" – Maroon 5
* "She's No You" – Jesse McCartney
* "Shadow" – Ashlee Simpson
* "Si demain... (Turn Around)" – Bonnie Tyler and Kareen Antonn
* "Sick and Tired" - Anastacia
* "Since U Been Gone" – Kelly Clarkson (#1 on Radio Top 40 of 2005)
* "Single" – Natasha Bedingfield
* "Slash Dot Dash" – Fatboy Slim
* "Slave to Love" – Elan Atias featuring Gwen Stefani
* "Slither" – Velvet Revolver
* "Sobri (notre destin)" – Leslie & Amine
* "Soldier" – Destiny's Child
* "Soldiers of the Wasteland" – DragonForce
* "Solitary Man" – H.I.M.
* "Somebody Told Me" – The Killers
* "Somethin' is Goin' On" – Cliff Richard
* "Someone's Watching Over Me" – Hilary Duff
* "Somewhere Only We Know" – Keane
* "Spare Me the Details" – The Offspring
* "Stay" – David Guetta featuring Chris Willis
* "Step Up" – Drowning Pool
* "Sunshine" – Twista featuring Anthony Hamilton
* "Superstar" – Jamelia
* "Take It Away" – The Used
* "Take Me As I Am" – Seven Wiser
* "Take Me Out" – Franz Ferdinand
* "Take My Breath Away" – Jessica Simpson
* "Talk About Our Love" – Brandy featuring Kanye West
* "Thank You" – Jamelia
* "That's Nasty" – Pitbull
* "These Words" – Natasha Bedingfield
* "Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist" – Muse
* "'Till I Get My Way"/"Girl Is on My Mind" – The Black Keys
* "Time Is Running Out" – Muse
* "Tipsy" – J-Kwon
* "Thief's Theme" – Nas
* "This Is the World We Live In" – Alcazar
* "This Love" – Maroon 5
* "Toujours pas d'amour" – Priscilla Betti
* "Toxic" – Britney Spears
* "Trick Me" – Kelis
* "True" – Ryan Cabrera
* "True" – will.i.am & Fergie
* "Truth of My Youth" – New Found Glory
* "U Should've Known Better" – Monica
* "Unholy Confessions" – Avenged Sevenfold
* "Unwritten" – Natasha Bedingfield
* "Used to Love U" – John Legend featuring Kanye West
* "Vertigo" – U2
* "Vindicated" – Dashboard Confessional
* "Wake Me Up When September Ends" – Green Day
* "Walkie Talkie Man" – Steriogram
* "The Way"/"Solitaire" – Clay Aiken
* "The Way You Look At Me" – Christian Bautista
* "Welcome to My Life" – Simple Plan
* "We Are" – Ana Johnsson
* "We're All To Blame" – Sum 41
* "Westside Story" – The Game
* "What U Gon' Do" – Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz featuring Lil Scrappy
* "What You Waiting For?" – Gwen Stefani
* "When You're Gone" – Richard Marx
* "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been" – Relient K
* "Who Is It" – Björk
* "Wisemen" – James Blunt
* "With You" – Jessica Simpson
* "The World is Mine" – David Guetta
* "Yeah!" – Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris
* "You Had Me" – Joss Stone
* "You Won't Forget About Me" – Dannii Minogue vs. "Flower Power"
* "You're Beautiful" – James Blunt
* "Your Love" – Wyclef Jean featuring Eve

## Top 10 selling albums of the year in the US

* Confessions – Usher ~ 7,979,000
* Feels like Home – Norah Jones ~ 3,843,000
* Encore – Eminem ~ 3,517,000
* When the Sun Goes Down – Kenny Chesney ~ 3,072,000
* Under My Skin – Avril Lavigne ~ 2,970,000
* Live Like You Were Dying – Tim McGraw ~ 2,787,000
* Songs About Jane – Maroon 5 ~ 2,708,000
* Fallen – Evanescence ~ 2,614,000
* Autobiography – Ashlee Simpson ~ 2,577,000
* Now That's What I Call Music! 16 – Various ~ 2,560,000

## Top 15 selling albums of the year globally

* Confessions – Usher
* Feels Like Home – Norah Jones
* Encore – Eminem
* How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – U2
* Under My Skin – Avril Lavigne
* Love. Angel. Music. Baby. – Gwen Stefani
* Greatest Hits – Robbie Williams
* Greatest Hits – Shania Twain
* Destiny Fulfilled – Destiny's Child
* Greatest Hits – Guns N' Roses
* Songs About Jane – Maroon 5
* American Idiot – Green Day
* Elephunk – The Black Eyed Peas
* Greatest Hits: My Prerogative – Britney Spears
* Anastacia – Anastacia

## Classical music

The following composers' works were composed, premiered, or published this year, as noted in the citation.

### A

* Louis Andriessen – Racconto dall'Inferno

### C

* Elliott Carter – Réflexions
* George Crumb – Winds of Destiny for soprano, percussion quartet and piano

### D

* Cornelis de Bondt – Madame Daufine
* Mario Davidovsky – Sefarad: Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes, baritone voice, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), percussion, violin and cello
* Roderik de Man – Mensa Sa
* Joël-François Durand – Ombre/Miroir for flute and 14 instruments

### E

* Ross Edwards – Concerto for Guitar and Strings

### F

* Ivan Fedele – Odos
* Lorenzo Ferrero – Guarini, the Master for violin and strings

### G

* Philip Glass – Symphony No. 7 Toltec

### H

* Georg Friedrich Haas – Haiku
* Hans Werner Henze – Sebastian im Traum
* Alun Hoddinott – Trombone Concerto
* York Höller – Ex Tempore

### J

* Guus Janssen
** Memory Protect Extended
** Wankeling
* Karl Jenkins – In These Stones Horizons Sing

### K

* Jan Klusák – Axis Temporum
* Rolands Kronlaks – Paion
* Hanna Kulenty – Run

### L

* Theo Loevendie – De 5 Driften

### M

* Frederik Magle – Souffle le vent, 1st symphonic poem from the suite Cantabile.
* Peter Maxwell Davies
** Naxos Quartet No. 4 Children's Games
** Naxos Quartet No. 5

### R

* Einojuhani Rautavaara
** Book of Visions for orchestra
** Manhattan Trilogy for strings

### S

* Marijn Simons
** Symphony No 1, Opus 26
** String Quartet No. 3, Opus 27

### T

* Dobrinka Tabakova
** Concerto for Viola and Strings
** Schubert Arpeggione, arrangement for string orchestra
** Suite in Old Style for viola, strings and harpsichord
** Whispered Lullaby for viola and piano

### V

* Michel van der Aa – Second self

### Z
## Opera

* Thomas Adès – The Tempest
* Harrison Birtwistle – The Io Passion
* William Bolcom – A Wedding

## Musical theater

* Assassins – Broadway production opened at Studio 54 and ran for 101 performances
* Bombay Dreams – Broadway production opened at The Broadway Theatre and ran for 284 performances
* 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 – London production opened on September 15 at the Palace Theatre, London.
* People Are Wrong! – Off-Broadway production

## Musical films

* Alt for Egil, starring Kristoffer Joner
* Beyond the Sea, starring Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin
* Bride and Prejudice, starring Aishwarya Rai
* De-Lovely released June 13, starring Kevin Kline as Cole Porter and Ashley Judd
* Home on the Range, a Disney animated feature
* Ray, starring Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
* Red Riding Hood
* Pixel Perfect, a Disney Channel Original Movie that is also a musical.
* Swing Girls
* The Phantom of the Opera, starring Emmy Rossum as Christine and Gerard Butler as the Phantom
* Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
* Where's Firuze?, starring Haluk Bilginer and Demet Akbağ

## Births

* January 4 – Alexa Curtis, Australian singer, Winner of The Voice Kids Australia, Coach was Delta Goodrem
* January 10 – Kaitlyn Maher, American child singer and actress
* January 15 – Grace VanderWaal, American musician, singer/songwriter, ukulele player
* March 21 - Anton, South Korean singer (Riize)
* April 20 – Redveil, American rapper
* June 4 – Mackenzie Ziegler, American dancer, singer, actress and model
* June 5 – Iván Cornejo, American regional Mexican music singer-songwriter
* June 10 – Gayle, American singer
* August 31 – Jang Won-young, South Korean singer (IVE)
* September 1 – Iam Tongi, American singer
* October 9 – Theodor Andrei, Romanian singer
* November 21 – Yvngxchris, American rapper
* December 13 – Matt Ox, American rapper
* December 15 – quinn, American rapper
* December 16 – Ka$hdami, American rapper
* December 20 – Slump6s, American rapper

## Deaths
### January–February

* January 3 – Ronald Smith, 82, British pianist
* January 6 – Jimmy Hassell, 62, Guitarist/co-lead singer in The First Edition from 1972 to 1976
* January 12 – Randy VanWarmer, 48, songwriter and guitarist
* January 15 – Terje Bakken, 25, also known as Valfar, lead singer and founder of Norwegian black/folk metal band Windir (died of hypothermia in a blizzard)
* January 16 – John Siomos, 56, drummer
* January 17
** Czeslaw Niemen, 65, Polish rock singer
** Tom Rowe, 53, musician
* January 22
** Billy May, 87, US big band & pop music arranger
** Ann Miller, 80, actress, singer and dancer
* January 30 – Julius Dixson, 90, songwriter and record company executive
* February 3 – Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
* February 6 – Jørgen Jersild, 90, Danish composer and music educator
* February 8 – Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
* February 16 – Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
* February 21
** Les Gray, 57, English singer (Mud)
** Bart Howard, 88, composer and pianist
* February 23
** Don Cornell, 84, US singer
** Alvino Rey, 95, US bandleader and guitarist
* February 24 – A.C. Reed, 77, blues saxophonist

### March–April

* 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 9 – Rust Epique, 36, guitarist (Crazy Town)
* March 10 – Dave Schulthise, 47, punk bassist (The Dead Milkmen)
* March 11 – Edmund Sylvers, 47, lead singer of The Sylvers
* March 13 – Vilayat Khan, 75, sitar player
* March 15 – Eva Likova, 84, operatic soprano
* March 16 – Vilém Tauský, 93, Czech conductor and composer
* March 18
** Vytas Brenner, 57, musician, keyboardist and composer
** Erna Spoorenberg, 78, Dutch operatic soprano
* March 21 – Johnny Bristol, 65, singer, songwriter and record producer
* March 26 – Jan Berry, 62, US singer of Jan and Dean
* March 30 – Timi Yuro, 63, soul and R&B singer and songwriter
* April 1 – Paul Atkinson, 58, guitarist for The Zombies
* April 3 – Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer
* April 6 – Niki Sullivan, 66, guitarist for The Crickets
* 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
** Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly musician
** Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer

### May–June

* May 1 – Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
* May 5
** Coxsone Dodd, 72, Jamaican record producer
** Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese songwriter
* May 6 – Barney Kessel, 80, jazz guitarist
* May 11 – John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist (shot dead)
* May 12 – John LaPorta, 84, Jazz clarinetist, composer and educator
* May 17
** Gunnar Graps, 52, Estonian singer (Magnetic Band and Gunnar Graps Group)
** Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz Drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s
* May 19 – Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
* May 23 – Gundars Mauševics, 29, Latvian guitarist of Brainstorm
* May 31 – Robert Quine, 61, guitarist
* June 2 – Billboard, 25, rapper, The Game's best friend
* June 4 – Irene Manning, 91, US actress, singer and dancer
* June 6 – Iona Brown, 63, conductor and violinist
* June 7 – Quorthon, 38, Swedish multi-instrumentalist, founder and songwriter of Bathory
* 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, 77, US jazz singer
* June 27 – Sis Cunningham, 95, folk musician

### July–August

* July 6 – Syreeta Wright, 57, singer (congestive heart failure, a side effect of cancer treatment)
* July 13
** Arthur Kane, 55, bassist (New York Dolls)
** Carlos Kleiber, 74, conductor
* July 21 – Jerry Goldsmith, 75, US composer, Academy Award winner
* July 22
** Illinois Jacquet, 81, US jazz saxophonist
** Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
* August 2 – Don Tosti, 81, American composer
* August 6
** Rick James, 56, US funk singer
** Argentino Ledesma, 75, Argentinian singer
** Tony Mottola, 86, US Guitarist
* August 9 – David Raksin, 92, US composer
* August 15 – William Herbert York, 85, bassist for Drifting Cowboys
* August 17 – Bernard Odum, 72, bass player for James Brown
* August 18 – Elmer Bernstein, 82, US composer
* August 20 – María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban Rumbera
* August 26 – Laura Branigan, 52, US singer (brain aneurysm)
* August 31 – Carl Wayne, 61, vocalist (The Move)

### September–October

* September 2
** Michael Connor, 54, American country rock keyboardist (Pure Prairie League)
** Billy Davis
* September 11 – Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
* September 12
** John Buller, 77, British composer
** Kenny Buttrey, 59, Nashville session drummer
** Fred Ebb, 72, US lyricist
* September 15 – Johnny Ramone, 55, US guitarist and founding member of The Ramones (prostate cancer)
* September 16 – Izora Armstead, 62, member of The Weather Girls
* September 19 - Skeeter Davis, 72, singer
* September 29 – Heinz Wallberg, 81, German conductor
* September 30 – Jacques Levy, 69, songwriter and theatre director
* October 1 – Bruce Palmer, 58, bassist of Buffalo Springfield
* October 7 – Miki Matsubara, 44, Japanese composer and singer
* October 19 – Greg Shaw, 55, music historian and record label owner
* October 25 – John Peel, 65, British DJ and broadcaster (heart attack)
* October 28 – Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer

### November–December

* November 1
** Mac Dre, 34, Bay Area rapper (highway shooting)
** Terry Knight, 61, lead singer of Terry Knight and the Pack and manager-producer of Grand Funk Railroad(stabbed in domestic dispute)
* November 12 – Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer
* November 13
** John Balance, 42, British musician from Coil
** Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, African American rapper (drug overdose)
** Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer
* November 14 – Michel Colombier, 65, composer
* November 18 – Cy Coleman, 75, US composer
* November 19 – Terry Melcher, 62, musician and producer
* November 24 – James Wong Jim, 63, Cantopop lyricist and songwriter
* December 2 – Kevin Coyne, 60, singer, composer and guitarist
* December 4 - Willem Duyn, 67, singer of Mouth and MacNeal
* December 5 – Bill Maybray, 60, lead singer of The Jaggerz (cancer)
* December 8 – Dimebag Darrell, 38, former Pantera guitarist (shot to death in Ohio)
* December 13 – Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for The Nils (suicide)
* December 14 – Sidonie Goossens, 105, harpist
* December 16 -Freddie Perren, 61, songwriter, producer, arranger and conductor
* December 19 – Renata Tebaldi, 82, operatic soprano
* December 20 – Son Seals, 62, blues musician
* December 26 – Sigurd Køhn, 45, Norwegian jazz saxophonist (tsunami)
* December 27 – Hank Garland, 74, Nashville session guitarist
* December 30 – Artie Shaw, 94, Swing Era Clarinetist and Bandleader

## Awards

The following artists were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Jackson Browne, The Dells, George Harrison, Prince, Bob Seger, Traffic, ZZ Top.

### ARIA Music Awards

* ARIA Music Awards of 2004

### BRIT Awards

* 2004 BRIT Awards

### Country Music Association Awards

* 2004 Country Music Association Awards

### Eurovision Song Contest

* Eurovision Song Contest 2004
* Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004

### Grammy Awards

* Grammy Awards of 2004

### Juno Awards

* Juno Awards of 2004

### MTV Video Music Awards

* 2004 MTV Video Music Awards

## Charts
### Triple J Hottest 100

* Triple J Hottest 100, 2004