page_title: List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 2003
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 2003 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: English: Shania Twain at the 2011 Juno Awards in St. Lawrence Market, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in March 2011.
context_page_description: Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music genre. In 2003, eight different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.
  In the first issue of Billboard of the new year, the number one song was Josh Groban's rendition of the 19th century Christmas song "O Holy Night", which was in its second week atop the chart. It held the top spot for a single week in 2003 before being replaced by "Cry" by country singer Faith Hill. Five of the year's eight chart-toppers featured female vocalists, including "Beautiful", which gave pop singer Christina Aguilera her first AC number one. The song had been considered for release as the first single from Aguilera's album Stripped, but was passed over in favor of the uptempo, sexually-charged song "Dirrty". When that single performed poorly, "Beautiful", a ballad with themes of personal acceptance and inner beauty, was released and went on to become one of the singer's signature tracks.
caption: Shania Twain topped the chart with "Forever and for Always".
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