2001 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2001.

3.2 billion units were sold with a value of US$33.7 billion. DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD first rose to prominence in 2001, with approximately 600 titles available in these formats.[1] Portable music grew in popularity after Apple Inc. released the iTunes media library on January 9[2] and the first iPod music player device on October 23.[3] Worldwide, the best-selling albums were Hybrid Theory (2000) by Linkin Park, No Angel (1999) by Dido, and Survivor (2001) by Destiny's Child.[4] The best-selling non-English album was Cieli di Toscana (transl. Tuscan Skies; 2001) by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, which topped the charts in the Netherlands and Sweden[5] and was the 23rd best-selling album globally.[4]

  1. ^ The Recording Industry World Sales (PDF) (Report). 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
  2. ^ "Apple Introduces iTunes — World's Best and Easiest To Use Jukebox Software". Apple Newsroom. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  3. ^ "Apple Presents iPod". Apple Inc. October 23, 2001. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "2000–2005 Top 50 Albums [XLS]". IFPI. Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
  5. ^ "Cieli di Toscana chart performance". australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2022-12-03.