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The Best Music of 2002
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 2002. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 2002, check out this list.
| Albums (?) | Wikipedia | |
| Aaliyah | I Care 4 U | ☆ |
| Against Me! | Reinventing Axl Rose | ☆ |
| And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead | Source Tags & Codes | ☆ |
| Audioslave | Audioslave | ☆ |
| Avril Lavigne | Let Go | ☆ |
| Beck | Sea Change | ☆ |
| Boards of Canada | Geogaddi | ☆ |
| Bohren & Der Club Of Gore | Black Earth | ☆ |
| Bruce Springsteen | The Rising | ☆ |
| Christina Aguilera | Stripped | ☆ |
| Coldplay | A Rush Of Blood To The Head | ☆ |
| Counting Crows | Hard Candy | ☆ |
| Dave Matthews Band | Busted Stuff | ☆ |
| David Bowie | Heathen | ☆ |
| Dixie Chicks | Home | ☆ |
| Dream Theater | Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | ☆ |
| Eminem | The Eminem Show | ☆ |
| Eminem & Various Artists | 8 Mile: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture | ☆ |
| Foo Fighters | One by One | ☆ |
| George Harrison | Brainwashed | ☆ |
| Interpol | Turn On The Bright Lights | ☆ |
| Johnny Cash | American IV: The Man Comes Around | ☆ |
| Justin Timberlake | Justified | ☆ |
| Kenny Chesney | No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems | ☆ |
| Maná | Revolución de Amor | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | Charmbracelet | ☆ |
| Maroon 5 | Songs About Jane | ☆ |
| Missy Elliott | Under Construction | ☆ |
| Moby | 18 | ☆ |
| N.E.R.D. | In Search of... | ☆ |
| Nas | God's Son | ☆ |
| Neko Case | Blacklisted | ☆ |
| Nelly | Nellyville | ☆ |
| Nightwish | Century Child | ☆ |
| Norah Jones | Come Away With Me | ☆ |
| Opeth | Deliverance | ☆ |
| Phantom Planet | The Guest | ☆ |
| Porcupine Tree | In Absentia | ☆ |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Songs For The Deaf | ☆ |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | By The Way | ☆ |
| Shania Twain | Up! | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | C'mon, C'mon | ☆ |
| Sigur Rós | () | ☆ |
| Spoon | Kill the Moonlight | ☆ |
| System of a Down | Steal This Album! | ☆ |
| The Chemical Brothers | Come With Us | ☆ |
| The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots | ☆ |
| The Libertines | Up The Bracket | ☆ |
| The Roots | Phrenology | ☆ |
| Tori Amos | Scarlet's Walk | ☆ |
| Various Artists | Chicago: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture | ☆ |
| Various Artists | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | ☆ |
| Weezer | Maladroit | ☆ |
| Songs (?) | Wikipedia | |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | Another Morning Stoner | ☆ |
| 3 Doors Down | Here Without You | ☆ |
| 3 Doors Down | When I'm Gone | ☆ |
| 50 Cent | In Da Club | ☆ |
| Aimee Mann | Humpty Dumpty | ☆ |
| Alanis Morissette | Hands Clean | ☆ |
| Ashanti | Foolish | ☆ |
| Audioslave | Like A Stone | ☆ |
| Audioslave | Show Me How to Live | ☆ |
| Audioslave | Cochise | ☆ |
| Avril Lavigne | Complicated | ☆ |
| Avril Lavigne | Sk8ter Boi | ☆ |
| Avril Lavigne | I'm with You | ☆ |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Spread Your Love | ☆ |
| Brandy | What About Us? | ☆ |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones | All That Jazz | ☆ |
| Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott | Hero | ☆ |
| Christina Aguilera | Beautiful | ☆ |
| Christina Aguilera | Fighter | ☆ |
| Christina Aguilera (feat. Lil' Kim) | Can't Hold Us Down | ☆ |
| Coldplay | Clocks | ☆ |
| Coldplay | The Scientist | ☆ |
| Coldplay | A Rush of Blood to the Head | ☆ |
| Coldplay | In My Place | ☆ |
| Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton | Big Yellow Taxi | ☆ |
| Dirty Vegas | Days Go By | ☆ |
| Dixie Chicks | Landslide | ☆ |
| Eminem | Lose Yourself | ☆ |
| Eminem | Without Me | ☆ |
| Eminem | Cleanin' Out My Closet | ☆ |
| Eminem | Sing for the Moment | ☆ |
| Foo Fighters | Times Like These | ☆ |
| Foo Fighters | All My Life | ☆ |
| Girls Aloud | Sound of the Underground | ☆ |
| Good Charlotte | The Anthem | ☆ |
| Good Charlotte | Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous | ☆ |
| Guitar Wolf | UFO Romantics | ☆ |
| Idlewild | You Held The World In Your Arms | ☆ |
| Interpol | PDA | ☆ |
| Jennifer Lopez feat. Jadakiss and Styles P | Jenny from the Block | ☆ |
| Johnny Cash | Hurt | ☆ |
| Johnny Cash | The Man Comes Around | ☆ |
| Justin Timberlake | Cry Me A River | ☆ |
| Kelly Clarkson | A Moment Like This | ☆ |
| Kenny Chesney | The Good Stuff | ☆ |
| LCD Soundsystem | Losing My Edge | ☆ |
| Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz featuring Ying Yang T | Get Low | ☆ |
| Maroon 5 | This Love | ☆ |
| Maroon 5 | She Will Be Loved | ☆ |
| Maroon 5 | Harder to Breathe | ☆ |
| Matchbox 20 | Unwell | ☆ |
| Missy Elliott | Work It | ☆ |
| Moby | We Are All Made of Stars | ☆ |
| Moby | Extreme Ways | ☆ |
| Motörhead | The Game | ☆ |
| Nas | I Can | ☆ |
| Nelly | Hot In Herre | ☆ |
| Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland | Dilemma | ☆ |
| Nightwish | Ever Dream | ☆ |
| Nightwish | Phantom of the Opera | ☆ |
| Nirvana | You Know You're Right | ☆ |
| Norah Jones | Don't Know Why | ☆ |
| Norah Jones | Come Away With Me | ☆ |
| Oasis | Stop Crying Your Heart Out | ☆ |
| Phantom Planet | California | ☆ |
| Porcupine Tree | Trains | ☆ |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | No One Knows | ☆ |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | Go With The Flow | ☆ |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | Can't Stop | ☆ |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | By the Way | ☆ |
| Robyn | Don't Stop the Music | ☆ |
| Santana feat. Michelle Branch | The Game of Love | ☆ |
| Shania Twain | I'm Gonna Getcha Good! | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | Steve McQueen | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | Soak Up the Sun | ☆ |
| Soggybottom Boys | I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow | ☆ |
| Stone Sour | Bother | ☆ |
| Sum 41 | Still Waiting | ☆ |
| t.A.T.u | All The Things She Said | ☆ |
| The Calling | Wherever You Will Go | ☆ |
| The Donnas | Take It Off | ☆ |
| The Flaming Lips | Do You Realize? | ☆ |
| The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 | ☆ |
| The Knife | Heartbeats | ☆ |
| The Streets | Weak Become Heroes | ☆ |
| The Vines | Get Free | ☆ |
| Toby Keith | Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) | ☆ |
| Trapt | Headstrong | ☆ |
| Vanessa Carlton | A Thousand Miles | ☆ |
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