This is an alphabetical artist list of every song to make the top 40 during
any given week during this year and its peak highest position reached on the
national charts in USA
What are your favorite songs on this list?
My personal favorites are listed at the very bottom :
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3 Doors Down Here Without You 2003 05
3 Doors Down When I'm Gone 2003 04
50 Cent 21 Questions 2003 01
50 Cent In Da Club 2003 01
50 Cent P.I.M.P. 2003 03
50 Cent Wanksta 2003 13
Aaliyah Come Over 2003 32
Aaliyah Miss You 2003 03
Aaron Lines You Can't Hide Beautiful 2003 38
Alan Jackson It's Five O'Clock Somewhere 2003 17
Alan Jackson That'd Be Alright 2003 29
Amanda Perez Angel 2003 20
American Idol Finalists God Bless The U.S.A. (Proud To Be An American) 2003 04
Ashanti Rain On Me 2003 07
Ashanti Rock Wit U (Awww Baby) 2003 02
Ataris, The The Boys Of Summer 2003 20
Audioslave Like A Stone 2003 31
Avril Lavigne I'm With You 2003 04
B2K Bump, Bump, Bump 2003 01
B2K Girlfriend 2003 30
Baby Do That.. 2003 33
Baby Bash Suga Suga 2003 07
Beyoncé Baby Boy 2003 01
Beyoncé Crazy In Love 2003 01
Black Eyed Peas, The Where Is The Love? 2003 08
Blake Shelton The Baby 2003 28
Bone Crusher Never Scared 2003 26
Bow Wow Let's Get Down 2003 14
Brad Paisley Celebrity 2003 31
Britney Spears Me Against The Music 2003 35
Brooks & Dunn Red Dirt Road 2003 25
Buddy Jewell Help Pour Out The Rain (Lacey's Song) 2003 29
Busta Rhymes I Know What You Want 2003 03
Chingy Holidae In 2003 03
Chingy Right Thurr 2003 02
Christina Aguilera Beautiful 2003 02
Christina Aguilera Can't Hold Us Down 2003 12
Christina Aguilera Fighter 2003 20
Clay Aiken This Is The Night 2003 01
Coldplay Clocks 2003 29
Daniel Bedingfield If You're Not The One 2003 15
Darryl Worley Have You Forgotten? 2003 22
Diamond Rio I Believe 2003 31
Dierks Bentley What Was I Thinkin' 2003 22
Dixie Chicks, The Landslide 2003 07
Dixie Chicks, The Travelin' Soldier 2003 25
Dru Hill I Should Be.. 2003 25
Emerson Drive Fall Into Me 2003 34
Eminem Sing For The Moment 2003 14
Eminem Superman 2003 15
Erykah Badu Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop) 2003 09
Evanescence Bring Me To Life 2003 05
Eve Satisfaction 2003 27
Fabolous Can't Let You Go 2003 04
Fabolous Into You 2003 04
Fabolous Into You 2003 04
Field Mob Sick Of Being Lonely 2003 18
Floetry Say Yes 2003 24
Fountains Of Wayne Stacy's Mom 2003 21
Frankie J Don't Wanna Try 2003 19
Gary Allan Man To Man 2003 25
Gary Allan Tough Little Boys 2003 32
George Strait Cowboys Like Us 2003 38
Ginuwine Hell Yeah 2003 17
Ginuwine In Those Jeans 2003 08
Good Charlotte Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous 2003 20
G-Unit Stunt 101 2003 13
Ja Rule Mesmerize 2003 02
Jagged Edge Walked Outta Heaven 2003 06
Jaheim Fabulous 2003 28
Jaheim Put That Woman First 2003 20
Jason Mraz The Remedy (I Won't Worry) 2003 15
Jay-Z Change Clothes 2003 10
Jay-Z Excuse Me Miss 2003 08
JC Chasez Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love) 2003 35
Jennifer Lopez All I Have 2003 01
Jennifer Lopez I'm Glad 2003 32
Jewel Intuition 2003 20
Jimmy Wayne Stay Gone 2003 32
Joe Budden Pump It Up 2003 38
Joe Nichols Brokenheartsville 2003 27
John Mayer Bigger Than My Body 2003 33
John Mayer Your Body Is A Wonderland 2003 18
Justin Timberlake Cry Me A River 2003 03
Justin Timberlake Rock Your Body 2003 05
Justin Timberlake Senorita 2003 27
Keith Urban Raining On Sunday 2003 38
Keith Urban Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me 2003 30
Kelis Milkshake 2003 03
Kelly Clarkson Miss Independent 2003 09
Kenny Chesney Big Star 2003 28
Kenny Chesney No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems 2003 28
Kenny Chesney There Goes My Life 2003 29
Kid Rock Picture 2003 04
Kid Rock Picture 2003 04
Korn Did My Time 2003 38
Lasgo Something 2003 35
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz Get Low 2003 02
Lil' Kim Magic Stick 2003 02
Lil' Kim The Jump Off 2003 17
Lil' Mo 4 Ever 2003 37
Linkin Park Somewhere I Belong 2003 32
Liz Phair Why Can't I 2003 32
LL Cool J Paradise 2003 36
Lonestar My Front Porch Looking In 2003 23
Ludacris Act A Fool 2003 32
Ludacris Stand Up 2003 01
Lumidee Never Leave You - Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh! 2003 03
Luther Vandross Dance With My Father 2003 38
Madonna American Life 2003 37
Mark Wills 19 Somethin' 2003 23
Maroon5 Harder To Breathe 2003 18
Marques Houston Clubbin 2003 39
Martina McBride This One's For The Girls 2003 39
Mary J. Blige Love At 1st Sight 2003 22
Mary J. Blige Ooh! 2003 29
matchbox twenty Bright Lights 2003 23
matchbox twenty Unwell 2003 05
Michelle Branch Are You Happy Now? 2003 16
Michelle Branch Breathe 2003 36
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott Gossip Folks 2003 08
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott Pass That Dutch 2003 27
Monica So Gone 2003 10
Murphy Lee Wat Da Hook Gon Be 2003 17
Mya My Love Is Like.. Wo 2003 13
Nas I Can 2003 12
Nas Made You Look 2003 32
Nelly Air Force Ones 2003 03
Nelly Shake Ya Tailfeather 2003 01
Norah Jones Don't Know Why 2003 30
OutKast Hey Ya! 2003 01
Panjabi MC Beware Of The Boys (Mundian To Bach Ke) 2003 33
Pat Green Wave On Wave 2003 39
Pharrell Frontin' 2003 05
Pink Family Portrait 2003 20
R. Kelly Ignition 2003 02
R. Kelly Snake 2003 16
R. Kelly Step In The Name Of Love 2003 09
R. Kelly Thoia Thoing 2003 13
Randy Travis Three Wooden Crosses 2003 31
Rascal Flatts I Melt 2003 34
Rascal Flatts Love You Out Loud 2003 30
Ruben Studdard Flying Without Wings 2003 02
Santana Why Don't You & I 2003 08
Santana Why Don't You & I 2003 08
Sean Paul Get Busy 2003 01
Sean Paul Like Glue 2003 13
Shania Twain Forever And For Always 2003 20
Simple Plan Perfect 2003 24
Smilez & Southstar Tell Me (What's Goin' On) 2003 28
Snoop Dogg Beautiful 2003 06
Stacie Orrico (There's Gotta Be) More To Life 2003 30
StainD So Far Away 2003 24
t.A.T.u. All The Things She Said 2003 20
Terri Clark I Just Wanna Be Mad 2003 27
Thalia I Want You 2003 22
Tim McGraw Real Good Man 2003 27
Tim McGraw She's My Kind Of Rain 2003 27
Toby Keith Beer For My Horses 2003 22
Toby Keith I Love This Bar 2003 26
Train Calling All Angels 2003 19
Trapt Headstrong 2003 16
Tupac Runnin' (Dying To Live) 2003 19
Tyrese How You Gonna Act Like That 2003 07
Uncle Kracker Drift Away 2003 09
Vivian Green Emotional Rollercoaster 2003 39
Wayne Wonder No Letting Go 2003 11
Young Gunz Can't Stop, Won't Stop 2003 14
YoungBloodZ Damn! 2003 04
MICHELLE BRANCH - BREATHE (2003) hit #36
Breathe" is a song by
Michelle Branch, released as the second
single from her 2003 album,
Hotel Paper. It hit the number-one spot in
Indonesia . It peaked at number thirty-six on the USA
Billboard Hot 100, a lower position than that of
the album's previous single, "Are
You Happy Now?". "Breathe" appeared on other
Billboard charts and was covered for the
Kidz Bop album series. It is her first single to
have dance remixes, all of which have been released on a
single CD.
Her second album
Hotel Paper was released in 2003, and debuted at No. 2 on the
Billboard 200 charts and matched the commercial success of her debut
album earning a Platinum certification by the
RIAA for selling over a million copies. However, the album was met
with mixed reviews. The lead single "Are
You Happy Now?" was a chart success, earning her a nomination for
the
Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, though she was
ultimately edged out by
Pink's "Trouble."
The following singles, however, "Breathe"
and "'Til I Get over You," did not match the first single's success.
t.A.T.u.'s first English-language single made its charts
debut in October 2002 in Sweden and Finland, where it
reached the number two position in a matter of weeks. After
that, the single was released in November 2002 in
Switzerland, where the single reached the number one
position for seven consecutive weeks. By the end of the year
2002 the single was released in France, Denmark, and the
United States. The single hit the number two position in
France for three weeks, topped the Danish charts for a week,
and in the U.S. peaked at number twenty for two weeks. By
the end of the year the song had already reached the number
thirty-three position in Switzerland’s Year-End chart for
2002 with only 2 months on the charts, and the position
number 94 in France where the single had only spent three
weeks on the chart.
In 2003, t.A.T.u. released “All the Things She Said” in
Austria and the UK where the single reached the number
forty-four position on import sales alone before its actual
release date. After being released on January 27, 2003, the
single went straight to number one with sales of more than
90,000 copies and maintain that position for three more
consecutive weeks. This became the girls' first and only
number one UK single. After spending four weeks at the top
of the UK Single Charts the single received a Silver Award
for sales of more than 200,000 copies in the UK alone.
t.A.T.u.’s last market was Australia where the single spent
two weeks at the top of the charts and reached Platinum for
shipments of more than 70,000 copies in Australia. On 26
January 2003, t.A.T.u. released “All the Things She Said” in
New Zealand where it entered the chart at number forty. Over
five weeks, it rose to number two. It peaked at number one
for three weeks. It was later certified gold by the
Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)
shipping over 7,500 copies. It stayed in the charts for 20
weeks in total
NORAH JONES - DON'T KNOW WHY (2003) hit #30
Don't Know Why"
is a song written by
Jesse Harris which originally appeared on his 1999 album, Jesse
Harris & the Ferdinandos. It was the second single by
Norah Jones from her breakthrough 2002 album
Come Away with Me. Although Jones's version only peaked at
number thirty on the U.S.
Billboard Hot 100, it was a critical success for her that
helped establish her as a respected new artist, and subsequently her
album sold extremely well. The single went on to win three
Grammy Awards in 2003 for "Record
of the Year", "Song
of the Year", and "Best
Female Pop Vocal Performance". It remains Jones's biggest hit single
in the USA to date, and her only one to reach the Top 40 of the
Billboard Hot 100. The single was also a hit internationally and
reached Top 10 in several countries. The song charted at 459 in
Blender magazine's 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born
Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar;
March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist,
and actress. She is the daughter of
Indian
sitar player
Ravi Shankar. She is also the paternal half-sister of
Anoushka Shankar.
Jones has won nine
Grammy Awards and was
Billboard magazine's 60th-best-selling music artist
of the 2000–2009 decade. Throughout her career, Jones has
won numerous awards and has sold over 40 million albums
worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of
the 2000–2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the
best-selling artists of her time.
KEITH URBAN - WHO WOULDN'T WANNA BE ME (2003) hit #30 (#1 country)
Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" is the title of a song co-written and
recorded by Australian
country music
singer-songwriter
Keith Urban. It was released in July 2003 as the third single from
his 2002 album
Golden Road. The song became his third number-one hit on the U.S.
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and peaked at number 30
on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967) is a
New Zealand-Australian
country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose
commercial success has been mainly in the
United States and
Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his
career in Australia at an early age. In 1991, he released a
self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in
Australia before moving to the United States in 1992.
Eventually, Urban found work as a session guitarist before
starting a band known as
The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on
Capitol Records and charted two singles on the
Billboard country charts.
Still signed to Capitol, he
made his solo American debut in 1999 with the album
Keith Urban. Certified platinum in the U.S., it also
produced his first American Number One in "But
for the Grace of God". His breakthrough hit was the
Number One "Somebody Like You", from his second Capitol
album
Golden Road (2002). This album also earned Urban his
first Grammy Award win for "You'll Think of Me", its fourth
single and the fourth Billboard Number One of his
career. 2004's
Be Here, his third American album, produced three
more Number Ones, and became his highest-selling album,
earning 4× Multi-Platinum certification.
Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released in
2006, producing the record-setting No.17 country chart debut
of "Once
in a Lifetime", as well as Urban's second Grammy for the
song "Stupid
Boy", while a Greatest Hits package entitled
Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in late 2007. This
album was re-released a year later as Greatest Hits: 19
Kids with one track added: the number one "You Look Good
in My Shirt", which he had previously recorded on Golden
Road. Additional albums
Defying Gravity and
Get Closer were released on 31 March 2009 and 16
November 2010, respectively.
The song reached number one in
Mexico, number four on the U.S.
Billboard Hot 100 (Lavigne's third single to reach the
top ten), number seven in the
United Kingdom and number thirteen in
Canada. "I'm with You" received radio and television
airplay in
Australia, but it was not officially released there.
"I'm with You" became Lavigne's third top 10 song when it
peaked at #4 on
Billboard Hot 100 in 2003 during its ninth week on the
chart. The song spent ten consecutive weeks on the top 10
and twenty-seven weeks on the Hot 100 making it Lavigne's
second-longest staying song on this chart, surpassed by her
debut single "Complicated"
which stayed on the chart for 31 weeks. "I'm with You"
ranked at #18 on the
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2003 and #13 on
the
Canadian Singles Chart The song was certified gold by
Recording Industry Association of America in 2006 for
sales of over 500,000 copies in the United States. As a
double-A-side
DVD single, the "I'm with You"/"Sk8er
Boi" video single was certified gold and platinum in
2003.
In United Kingdom, "I'm with You" was released on March
31, 2003. The song debuted and peaked at #7 on the
UK Singles Chart in 2003, becoming her third top ten
single on the chart; the song re-entered in
UK Singles Chart in the week of 17 December 2011 in #58.
It debuted at #6 and peaked at #5 in Ireland, staying in the
top ten for six weeks. "I'm with You" reached top five in
New Zealand; top ten in
Belgium and the
Netherlands; top twenty in
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Austria,
Germany,
Norway, and
Denmark as well as reaching the top forty in
France. The song re-entered the UK Singles Chart on the
10th December 2011 at 58, almost 10 years after the song
first charted
BEYONCE - CRAZY IN LOVE (2003) hit #1
Crazy in Love" is the debut single by
R&B singer-songwriter
Beyoncé Knowles, featuring rapper and now-husband
Jay-Z. Producer
Rich Harrison, Knowles and Jay-Z wrote the song for
Knowles' debut solo album,
Dangerously in Love. "Crazy in Love" is an R&B love
song which incorporates elements of 1970s-style
funk,
soul and
dance-pop genres. The track features a
sample from
The Chi-Lites' 1970 song "Are You My Woman (Tell Me
So)", used as the song's horn hook.
Columbia Records released "Crazy in Love" on May 20,
2003, as the album's
lead single. Critics praised the
horn sample, the guest appearance of Jay-Z, and the
assertiveness with which Knowles sings the lyrics. "Crazy in
Love" ranks 118th on
Rolling Stone's
2010 list of
the 500 greatest songs of all time.
VH1
placed the song at number one on its 100 Greatest Songs of
the 2000s list. At the
46th Grammy Awards, it won
Grammys for
Best R&B Song and
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. "Crazy in Love" was
Knowles' first number one single as a solo artist in the
United States, peaking on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart for eight consecutive
weeks. It also topped
UK Singles Chart, and reached the top ten on the singles
charts in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, New
Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden as well as
Switzerland and achieved multi-platinum certifications in
most of these countries.
SHANIA TWAIN - FOREVER AND FOR ALWAYS (2003) hit #20
Forever and For Always" is a song released by
Canadian singer
Shania Twain from her 2002
album
Up! The song was written by
Mutt Lange and Twain. It was the third
single on her album Up!. The single was released
in the United States radio on April 7, 2003. The video
debuted on
Country Music Television on April 26, 2003. The song was
also used for
Febreze: Scentstories promotion, in which Twain took
part. In 2006, "Forever and for Always" was certified gold
for 100,000 digital downloads in the U.S. by the
RIAA. "Forever and for Always" was nominated
for two Grammy Awards in 2004,
Best Country Song and
Best Female Country Vocal Performance; however it lost
in both categories. The song was also named Song of the Year
at both the 2004 BMI Country Songwriter Awards and 2004
European BMI Awards.
"Forever and for Always" debuted on
the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart the
week of April 12, 2003 at number 60. The single spent 26
weeks on the chart and climbed to a peak position of number
four on September 6, 2003, where it remained for one week.
"Forever and for Always" became Twain's 14th top ten single
and 19th top 20 single.
On the
adult contemporary chart, "Forever and for Always"
debuted at number 30 the week of May 10, 2003. The single
spent 77 weeks on the chart and slowly climbed to a peak
position of number one on November 15, 2003, where it
remained for six non-consecutive weeks. "Forever and for
Always" became Twain's third number one, sixth top ten
single and seventh consecutive top 20 single.
Twain's fourth most successful single on the
Billboard Hot 100 is "Forever and for Always". It
debuted on May 24, 2003, at number 75. It spent 23 weeks on
the chart and peaked at number 20 on September 6, 2003,
where it remained for one week. "Forever and for
Always" proved to be successful internationally, becoming
Twain's fifth biggest single in the UK. It debuted on June
14, 2003, at its peak at number six. This made it her
seventh consecutive, eighth overall, top ten single. It
remained on the entire chart for 10 weeks. In all, "Forever
and for Always" hit the top ten in six countries: Austria,
Canada, Germany, Ireland, Romania, and the UK.
According to Lee, "Bring Me
to Life" has several meanings and inspirations; its subjects
are an incident in a restaurant, open-mindedness and waking
up to the things which are missing in the protagonist's
life. Lee later revealed that the song was inspired by her
long-time friend and husband, Josh Hartzler. Critical
response to the song was mostly positive, critics praising
the melody of the song, Lee's vocals and their accompaniment
by McCoy.
Following the inclusion of "Bring Me to Life" on the
Daredevil soundtrack, it has become a commercial
and critical success topping the charts in Australia, the
United Kingdom and Italy. It charted in the top ten in more
than fifteen countries including the United States,
Argentina, Germany and New Zealand. "Bring Me to Life" was
certified Platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and
twice Platinum by the
Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The
lyrics of the song have been interpreted as a call for new
life in Jesus Christ, which helped the song to chart on the
Christian rock charts.
The band won in the category for
Best Hard Rock Performance at the
46th Grammy Awards where the song was also nominated for
Best Rock Song. The accompanying music video was
directed by Philipp Stölzl; it shows Lee singing and
climbing on a skyscraper while having nightmares in her
bedroom. "Bring Me to Life" was part of the set list during
the Fallen and
The Open Door Tour. Many artists recorded cover versions
of the song, including the classical singer
Katherine Jenkins and American pianist,
John Tesh. The song was also used on several television
shows.
Along with "The
Way You Move", recorded by OutKast's other member
Big Boi, "Hey Ya!" was released by
LaFace Records in September 2003 as one of the album's
two
lead singles. It became a commercial success, reaching
the top five of most of the charts it entered, and topping
the
Billboard
Hot 100 and the
ARIA Singles Chart, among others. Later it was named the
20th most successful song of the 2000s decade, on the
Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade. The song
popularized the phrase "shake it like a
Polaroid picture," and the
Polaroid Corporation used the song to revitalize the
public's perception of its products.
Hey Ya!" was successful in North America, topping the
Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks, from December 13, 2003
to February 7, 2004. The digital sales topped the
Billboard
Hot Digital Tracks for nineteen weeks. The song
performed well in
urban contemporary markets, topping the
Rhythmic Top 40 chart and reaching number nine on the
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. It was also successful
in mainstream music, topping the
Top 40 Mainstream and
Top 40 Tracks and reaching number 13 on the
Adult Top 40. The song's
pop rock origins allowed it some crossover success, and
it reached number 16 on the
Modern Rock Tracks. In September 2005, the
Recording Industry Association of America certified the
single triple platinum for shipping three million copies At
the 46th Grammy Awards, the song won Best Urban/Alternative
Performance and was nominated for
Record of the Year, but lost to
Coldplay's "Clocks".
"Hey Ya!" also topped the
Canadian Singles Chart. The song performed well in
Europe, though not as strong as in the U.S. In the United
Kingdom, it debuted at number six on the
UK Singles Chart and peaked at number three after 12
weeks, remaining on the chart for a total of 21 weeks. "Hey
Ya!" topped the
Norwegian singles chart for seven weeks, and it reached
the top in
Sweden for the first week of 2004.
BABY BASH - SUGA SUGA (2003) hit #7
Suga Suga" is the title of a song recorded by
American rapper
Baby Bash featuring
Frankie J. It was released in August 2003 as the second
and final single from his album
Tha Smokin' Nephew. It is Baby Bash's
highest-charting song at number seven, on the Billboard
Hot 100. It was a Top 20 hit in France.
The song was
written by
Baby Bash, Happy Perez,
Frankie J and it samples "I'm Gonna Love You Just a
Little More Baby" by
Barry White.
"Suga Suga (Reggae Remix)" is featured in the film
Be Cool.
Ronnie Ray Bryant (born October 18, 1975), better
known by his
stage nameBaby Bash (formerly Baby Beesh),
is a Mexican-American rapper. From 1995 to 1998, he
performed under the stage name Baby Beesh, as part of
the
Vallejo, California group Potna Duece, after which he
changed the last part of the name to Bash. His first
album was On Tha Cool, with one of his greatest hits,
"Vamanos"...
He has frequently contributed to other performers' works,
including a spot in the song "Obsession (No Es Amor)" by
3rd Wish released in Europe and later a U.S release with
a copy / re- recording of the European version, performed by
Frankie J in 2005 and "Doing
Too Much" by
Paula DeAnda in 2006.
THE DIXIE CHICKS - TRAVELING SOLDIER (2003) hit #25 (#1 country)
Travelin' Soldier" is a song written and originally
recorded by American country music artist
Bruce Robison in 1996 and again, in rewritten form, in
1999. It was later recorded by
Ty England on his 1999 album
Highways & Dance Halls. The first rendition to be
issued as a single was by the
Dixie Chicks in December 2002, from their album
Home. It became the group's sixth and final single
to reach #1 on
Billboard "Hot Country Singles & Tracks" (now "Hot
Country Songs"). A version of the song featuring
Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, Bruce Robison and
Robison's wife,
Kelly Willis, appears on
KGSR's Broadcasts Vol. 13 album.
The song is a
tale about a shy, lonesome, young
American
soldier who strikes up a conversation and later a
correspondence with a
high school girl during the
Vietnam War era.
Americana details pervade the lyrics, including piers,
school bands, public prayer, and Friday night football
games. At the end, the soldier has died, unnoticed by any
but the young girl he realized he had fallen in love with.
The song was being promoted by the Dixie Chicks when on
March 10, 2003, lead singer
Natalie Maines told a
London, England, audience the band was ashamed that then
United States President
George W. Bush was from
Texas. Subsequent U.S. publication of Maines' comments
caused some stations, including 42 owned by
Cumulus Media, to drop the song from their playlists,
causing it to fall from #1 on the country singles chart to
#3 the following week, March 29, before disappearing from
the charts entirely.
"Travelin' Soldier" is the last single released by the
Dixie Chicks to reach the top 20 on the country singles
chart, although their 2007 single "Not
Ready to Make Nice", peaked at #4 on the
Billboard Hot 100 while reaching #36 on the country
chart.
PINK - FAMILY PORTRAIT (2003) hit #20
Family Portrait" is an
R&B song written by
Pink and
Scott Storch for Pink's sophomore album
Missundaztood (2001).The song is about relationships
and her family that was about to fall to pieces, portraying
the conflict through the eyes of her as a child. It was
released as the album's fourth and final
single in December 2002. It peaked in the top 20 in both
the U.K. and U.S.
The single received mostly positive reviews from the
critics. Paul Matthew from UKMIX gave the song 4 out of 5
stars, saying that it is strong, catchy and different from
anything she had released to date.
Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen praised the song's stripped down
nature, stating that 'Pink has never been afraid to show her
true colors. The haunting, yet urgently importuning nature
of the music matches and magnifies the meaning. The
intensity of every earnest guitar strum and run echoes the
sense of longing for familial harmony expressed in the
chorus. Pink's voice on “Family Portrait” further reflects
the urgency underlying the song.'
Malaimport from Oppapers gave Pink the credit for the song
in his article, 'Pink positioned the audience to understand
and accept her representations of pain and frustration was
clear through the uses language choices and imagery devices
such as repetition and use of strong and forceful words.'
According to Pink's father, James Moore Jr., during an
E! Entertainment's
E! True Hollywood Story, this song has been
unofficially named the national anthem for young kids who
have been through the harsh effects of divorce of their
parents: "I have got letters from parents thanking us from
this song." The song, which she wrote and composed in
collaboration with
Scott Storch, was still going strong as of late April of
2012, with millions of hits on
YouTube and millions of albums sold from
Missundaztood. "It took me a while to listen to
'Family Portrait' without getting emotional," Pink's mother
told E! True Hollywood Story. Although the song
addresses how Pink struggled through her parents's divorce,
it is also addressed to kids, to encourage them to talk with
their parents about how they feel about their divorce.
THE DIXIE CHICKS - LANDSLIDE (2003) hit #7 (#2 country)
Landslide" is a song written by
Stevie Nicks and performed by British-American music group
Fleetwood Mac. It was first featured on the band's 1975 eponymous
album
Fleetwood Mac. Along with
Rhiannon, it would be Nicks's first original contribution to the
band upon joining.
The
country group
Dixie Chicks then covered "Landslide" on their 2002
Home album. This rendition, featuring the group's
trademark two- and three-part harmonies reached the Top 10
of both the
pop (number 7) and
country charts (number 2) as well as several other
charts. It became the Dixie Chicks' only number 1 single (to
date) on the
adult contemporary chart. Lead singer
Natalie Maines said she was attracted, in part, to the
song because she was then the same age that Nicks was when
she initially performed it. "Landslide" debuted at #32 on
the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart
for the week of September 7, 2002.
The Dixie Chicks are an American
country music band which has also
successfully crossed over into other
genres. The band is composed of founding
members (and sisters)
Martie Erwin Maguire and
Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer
Natalie Maines. The band formed in 1989 in
Dallas,
Texas and was originally composed of four
women performing
bluegrass and country music,
busking and touring the bluegrass festival
circuits and small venues for six years without
attracting a
major label. After the departure of one
bandmate, the replacement of their lead singer,
and a slight change in their repertoire, the
Dixie Chicks soon achieved commercial success,
beginning in 1998 with hit songs "There's
Your Trouble" and "Wide
Open Spaces".
During a
London concert ten days before the
2003 invasion of Iraq, lead vocalist Maines
said, "we don't want this war, this violence,
and we're ashamed that the President of the
United States [George
W. Bush] is from Texas" The positive
reaction to this statement from the British
audience contrasted with the
boycotts that ensued in the U.S., where "the
band was assaulted by talk-show
conservatives" while their albums were
discarded in public protest