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Neilsen Soundscan reports that Mississippi band 3 Doors Down had the most played song on American radio in 2003 with their single When I'm Gone notching up 393,679 plays.
Top Ten Most-played Singles in The USA for 2003
1. 3 Doors Down – When I’m Gone
2. 50 Cent – In Da Club
3. Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
4. Matchbox Twenty - Unwell
5. R. Kelly - Ignition
6. Sean Paul - Get Busy
7. Beyonce - Crazy In Love
8. Nelly, P. Diddy and Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather
9. Trapt - Headstrong
10. Avril Lavigne - I'm With You
Top Ten Most-played Singles in The USA for 2003
1. 3 Doors Down – When I’m Gone
2. 50 Cent – In Da Club
3. Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
4. Matchbox Twenty - Unwell
5. R. Kelly - Ignition
6. Sean Paul - Get Busy
7. Beyonce - Crazy In Love
8. Nelly, P. Diddy and Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather
9. Trapt - Headstrong
10. Avril Lavigne - I'm With You

James Lawrence of Hope Of The States hangs himself at Real World Studios, owned by Peter Gabriel, in Box, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. The group had been recording its debut album.
In Chicago, Illinois, Judge Vincent Guaghan orders R&B star R.
Kelly, who is awaiting trial on child pornography charges, to stay
away from Michael Jackson, who is facing child molestation charges, at the Grammy Awards
ceremonies next month. This is regarded as odd, because Jackson is
not expected to attend the Grammies.



I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton is proclaimed the No1 country ballad of all-time in the premiere of CMT 100 Greatest Love Songs.
Warner Music Group announces plans to buy Madonna's shares of the Maverick Records label which the singer had co-founded twelve years earlier. (2004 )
Halfway through David Bowie's third song at the Norwegian Wood music festival in Oslo, Norway, Europe, a fan throws a lollipop which lodges in Bowie's eye requiring him to receive medical treatment.

Elvis Costello and The Metropole Orchestra play at the Buhrmann Midsummer Jazz Gala, in the Netherlands Congress
Centre, The Hague, Netherlands, Europe.
It is announced that the album Twentysomething by Malmesbury-raised
jazz star Jamie
Cullum has now gone gold in Australia and New Zealand.
Bill Brown, a former guitarist with a leter line-up of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, dies in Springfield, Missouri.
Bono of U2 flies to Omaha, Nebraska, USA, where, the following day, he is to sing at the funeral of Susan Buffett. The wife of millionaire investor Warren Buffett, she shared with Bono a concern for promoting AIDS awareness and prevention.






Bruce Springsteen, John Fogerty and Bright Eyes play a concert in support of US Presidential candidate John Kerry at the Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
R.E.M.,



British jazz and R'n'B drummer Bill Eyden, a stalwart of Georgie Fame's Blue Flames and other bands, dies. Eyden was also the session man who played drums on A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum.





Jazz and blues saxophonist, Dick Heckstall-Smith perhaps best-known as a founder-member of pioneering UK jazz-rock band Colosseum, dies of cancer, aged 70 in London, UK.
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