Editing 2003 in music (section)

===March–April===
*[[March 3]] – [[Avril Lavigne]] kicks off her first headlining tour the "[[Avril Lavigne tours#Try to Shut Me Up Tour|Try To Shut Me Up Tour]]".
*[[March 10]]
**[[Johnny Cash]] is admitted to Baptist Hospital in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] to undergo treatment for [[pneumonia]].
**[[The Dixie Chicks]] unleash a firestorm of controversy at a concert in London when lead singer [[Natalie Maines]] announces to the audience that "just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas". The group is dropped from radio playlists all over the United States and receives death threats as a result.<ref name="dixiechicks">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/arts/music/21pare.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |title=The Dixie Chicks: America Catches Up With Them |last1=Pareles |first1=Jon |date=May 21, 2006 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 23, 2013}}</ref>
*[[March 21]] – Ex-''[[Neighbours]]'' star [[Delta Goodrem]] releases her debut album ''[[Innocent Eyes (Delta Goodrem album)|Innocent Eyes]]'' which became Australia's monster smash hit of 2003 and included the releases of the new singles "[[Born to Try (song)|Born to Try]]" and "[[Lost Without You (Delta Goodrem song)|Lost Without You]]".
*[[March 24]] – ''[[Meteora (album)|Meteora]]'' by [[Linkin Park]] debuts at number one on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] album chart.<ref>{{Citation |last=Linkin Park |title=Meteora |date=2003-03-25 |url=https://archive.org/details/limk-3 |access-date=2025-03-21}}</ref>
*[[March 25]] – [[Celine Dion|Céline Dion]] begins [[A New Day...]], her [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]] residency show. It would run for almost five years and over 700 shows.
*[[April 1]] – Dozens of fans walk out during a [[Pearl Jam]] concert when lead singer [[Eddie Vedder]] makes comments opposing the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|Iraq war]] and derogatory remarks about U.S. President [[George W. Bush]]. Other audience members boo and shout at Vedder telling him to "shut up." Vedder attempts to calm the crowd by adding "just to clarify... we support the troops."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cromelin |first=Richard |date=2003-04-05 |title=Walkouts read riot act to Pearl Jam |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-apr-05-et-quicktakes5-story.html |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Triplett |first=Gene |title=Pearl Jam tones down remarks against war at Ford Center concert |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2003/04/04/pearl-jam-tones-down-remarks-against-war-at-ford-center-concert/62050057007/ |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[April 4]] – [[Alex Katunich]] quits [[Incubus (band)|Incubus]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blabbermouth.herokuapp.com/news/incubus-part-ways-with-bassist/|title=INCUBUS Part Ways With Bassist|date=April 4, 2003|website=Blabbermouth.net|access-date=January 23, 2022|archive-date=January 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107040709/https://blabbermouth.herokuapp.com/news/incubus-part-ways-with-bassist/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[April 16]] – [[Luther Vandross]] suffers a severe stroke at his home in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luther Vandross suffers a stroke |url=https://ew.com/article/2003/04/18/luther-vandross-suffers-stroke/ |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref> He emerges from a coma seven weeks later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luther Vandross begins to emerge from coma |url=https://ew.com/article/2003/06/06/luther-vandross-begins-emerge-coma/ |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref>
*[[April 21]] – [[S Club 7|S Club]] announce live on stage at London's [[London Arena|Docklands Arena]] that they've decided to split up after five years together.<ref>{{Cite web |last=NME |date=2003-04-22 |title=S CLUB TO SPLIT |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/s-club-7-13-1369217 |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}</ref> Their final single, "[[Say Goodbye (S Club song)|Say Goodbye]]", enters the chart at #2 a month after the announcement. [[Rachel Stevens]] from the group launched her successful solo career shortly afterwards with the song "[[Sweet Dreams My LA Ex]]".
*[[April 26]]-27 – The [[Coachella|Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival]] takes place in [[California]]. Headlined by [[Beastie Boys]] and [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]], the lineup also features [[Queens of the Stone Age]], [[The Stooges|Iggy and the Stooges]], [[Ben Harper|Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals]], [[Blur (band)|Blur]], [[The White Stripes]], [[Sonic Youth]], [[Black Eyed Peas]], [[Interpol (band)|Interpol]], [[the Mars Volta]], [[N.E.R.D.]] and [[Primal Scream]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Russo |first=Charles |date=12 April 2023 |title=Remembering the year Coachella ran out of beer |url=https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/coachella-2003-look-back-17891554.php |access-date=3 November 2024 |website=SFGate}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] – [[Apple Inc.]] opens the [[iTunes Store|iTunes Music Store]], offering 200,000 songs for download at a cost of 99 cents each. More than 1 million songs are sold in the store's first week.<ref name="itunes">{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/04/0428itunes-music-store-opens/ |title=This Day In Tech |last1=Chen |first1=Brian X. |date=April 28, 2010 |publisher=[[Wired (website)|Wired]] |access-date=February 23, 2013}}</ref>