2003 is best remembered as the year which Delta Goodrem dominated, with her debut album “Innocent Eyes” spawning five number one singles, including the song of the same name.
Guy Sebastian became our first Australian Idol, and IIRC he secured the year-end number one song with “Angels Brought Me Here”.
In America, Maroon 5 (formerly know as Kara’s Flowers) entered the conscience of Australian music fans with “Harder to Breathe”, while Justin Timberlake continued his solo career success with “Cry Me a River” and “Rock Your Body”.
Just looking through my playlist, my other highlights from that year not already mentioned include
JET - for the album ‘Get Born’, which included ‘Rollover DJ’ and ‘Look What You’ve Done’ as well as their big hit ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’.
The Offspring - for the album ‘Splinter’, which included ‘Hit That’ and one of my favourites of theirs ‘Spare Me The Details’.
Dido - for her album ‘Life For Rent’, which included the title track plus ‘White Flag’ and ‘Sand In My Shoes’.
And I couldn’t not mention, Australia’s one (well two) hit wonder from that year… Amiel… her best known song, ‘Lovesong’ plus this track which didn’t even get much airplay at the time, but I still think is a great song.
Still on the topic of 2003, Double J will be replaying the Hottest 100 of that year on Saturday 3rd February (a week after the most recent Hottest 100 takes place).
You’re forgetting ‘Addicted To Bass’ which features Amiel on vocals. That’s probably her biggest hit, though it’s usually credited to Josh Abrahams/Puretone.
2003 wasn’t all bad, though the better music was mostly off the charts. That’s the case from about the mid 90s onward and definitely from the year 2000.
I can identify the last good pop rock song on the charts: ‘The Morning After’ by Zinc, released in 2004. It sounded so out of place in amongst the other garbage.
Elan’s “Midnight” and Milky’s “Just The Way You Are” were a couple of those for me, along with Katie Underwood’s “Danger”, which I’ve mentioned recently somewhere here.
It was 2003 that he was on the show (the first season). While impressive, his beat boxing skills didn’t fit the premise of the show - could’ve been better suited to Australia’s Got Talent or the X Factor.
This song borrows/samples the base line from the 1988 hit, “The Streets of Your Town “ by The Go Betweens. One of the great bands that came out of Brisbane
I remember it getting flogged on radio around 2002-2003 ,not so much now though
Now here’s a song that hasn’t been played on radio in Australia (either on normal or digital):
Peaked at #26 on the ARIA Charts in the second half of 2009. Agnes is best known for winning Swedish Idol in 2005 and was Down Under early last year for WorldPride.
