Editing 2003 in music (section)

===September–October===
*[[September 15]] – [[Billy Corgan]] announces that [[Zwan]] has broken up.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Dansby |first=Andrew |date=2003-09-15 |title=Zwan Call It Quits |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/zwan-call-it-quits-246860/ |access-date=2023-12-24 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[September 16]]
** [[Ryan Malcolm]] wins the first season of ''[[Canadian Idol]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tillson |first=Tamsen |date=21 September 2003 |title=Record auds 'Idol' the night away |url=https://variety.com/2003/tv/news/record-auds-idol-the-night-away-1117892700/ |access-date=3 November 2024 |website=Variety}}</ref>
** [[David Bowie]] releases his twenty-third studio album ''[[Reality (David Bowie album)|Reality]]''. The album would be Bowie's last for roughly a decade, with Bowie silently and gradually withdrawing into seclusion following an onstage heart attack the following year.
*[[September 22]] – [[Max Cavalera]] & Gloria Cavalera fire [[Marcello D. Rapp]] causing [[Roy Mayorga]] & Mike Doling to leave the band [[Soulfly]] in protest.
*October – Indie/Rock band Conway wins the National "Battle of the Bands" Competition at the Fountain Pub in Tottenham, London, UK{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}. The Norfolk, UK, band consists of Chris Burgoyne (vocals), Andrew Norman (lead guitar / vocals), Tristan McKelvey (guitar), Leon Chapman (bass) and Peter Rednall (drums). 
*[[October 4]] – [[Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band]]'s [[The Rising Tour]] concludes after 120 shows over 14 months, with record-setting sales in U.S. stadiums during the summer and early autumn.
*[[October 15]] – A two-week-long international conference, "Fuori tempo, dire, fare, sentire la musica oggi", opens in [[Genoa]], Italy, bringing together performers, composers, scholars and administrators from classical, folk and popular music, with a keynote address by [[Charles Rosen]]. Featured participants include Nuria Schoenberg (daughter of [[Arnold Schoenberg]] and widow of [[Luigi Nono (composer)|Luigi Nono]]); musicologist James Harrison; opera conductor [[Roberto Abbado]]; violinist [[Ivry Gitlis]]; composers [[Salvatore Sciarrino]], [[Lorenzo Ferrero]] and [[Andrea Liberovici]]; poet [[Edoardo Sanguineti]]; popular singer-songwriters [[Teresa De Sio]], [[Gianna Nannini]] and [[Gino Paoli]]; rock and jazz artists Peppe Servalo and Peppe D'Argenzio of the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel; and administrators Anna Cammarano (director of classical music at RAI Trade), Gennaro di Benedetto (superintendent of the [[Teatro Carlo Felice]] in Genoa) and Joseph Hussek (director of the artistic programme at the [[Salzburg Festival]]).<ref>Alessandra Pieracci, "Da Abbado alla Nannini a musica va in analisi", ''La Stampa'', no. 277 (October 9, 2003): 33.</ref>
*[[October 16]] – [[Simon & Garfunkel]] begin their "Old Friends" U.S. reunion tour, twenty years after their 1983 world tour.
*[[October 20]] – [[Britney Spears]] releases the first single, "[[Me Against the Music]]", featuring American singer-songwriter [[Madonna]], from her upcoming album ''[[In the Zone]]'', marketed as a comeback single in the US; it goes on to be an international success, reaching the top three in several countries.
*[[October 21]] – [[Delta Goodrem]] wins 7 ARIA Awards and defeats [[Amiel Daemion|Amiel]]'s "[[Lovesong (Amiel song)|Lovesong]]" for and a Gold ARIA for Single of the Year, [[Born to Try]]. ''ARIAs'' host [[Rove McManus]] announced that [[John Farnham]] will raise the very loud speakers to 1985/1986's "[[You're the Voice]]" after being inducted into the [[ARIA Hall of Fame]].
*[[October 29]] – A legal version of the [[Napster (pay service)|Napster]] file sharing network relaunches as a pay service, offering song downloads for 99 cents apiece or $9.99 for unlimited listening.<ref name="napster">{{cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/Legal-Napster-up-and-running/2100-1027_3-5099002.html |title=Legal Napster up and running |last1=Borland |first1=John |date=October 29, 2003 |publisher=[[CNET]] |access-date=February 24, 2013}}</ref>