Best-Selling Music of 2003

The top 100 on Amazon UK that year.

A definitive look back at the 2003 Amazon UK chart. Click any cover to find it on Amazon.

Dido's Life for Rent opened 2003, sitting atop a list where heritage and reinvention met. The Darkness's tongue-in-cheek Permission To Land and The White Stripes' Elephant carried the rock energy, while R.E.M.'s career-spanning In Time and the Beatles' stripped Let It Be... Naked showed the catalogue pull. The surprises reward a closer look: Jamie Cullum's jazz crossover Twentysomething charting among the pop, Evanescence's Fallen bringing nu-metal gloom, and the Love Actually soundtrack riding the festive film. Beyoncé's Dangerously in Love marked her solo arrival. The whole year reads as British buyers hedging between guitar-band fun and grown-up singer-songwriter comfort.

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Life for Rent

3.8 · 283

Come Away With Me

4.5 · 312

In Time: The Best of REM 1988 - 2003

4.4 · 246

Permission To Land

4.1 · 328

Elephant

4.5 · 217

Now That's What I Call Music! 56

4.2 · 46

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

4.4 · 332

Friday's Child

4.8 · 120

Justified

4.3 · 159

Greatest Hits: Red Hot Chilli Peppers

4.3 · 220

A Present For Everyone

4.0 · 163

By the Way

4.5 · 253

Stripped

4.6 · 226

Number Ones

4.6 · 393

Let It Be... Naked

4.3 · 184

Fallen

4.6 · 466

So Much For The City

4.2 · 80

Absolution

4.6 · 376

Let Go

4.5 · 197

Hail To The Thief

4.2 · 227

Twentysomething

4.2 · 84

Live at Knebworth

4.5 · 90

The Very Best Of Sheryl Crow

4.5 · 91

Room On Fire

4.3 · 121

Elephunk [Explicit Lyrics]

4.2 · 75

Dangerously in Love

3.9 · 164

Innocent Eyes

4.6 · 120

12 Memories

4.3 · 47

You Gotta Go There to Come Back

4.1 · 126

Introduction

4.2 · 94

Gotta Get Thru This

4.4 · 81

Michael Buble

4.6 · 214

Escapology [Explicit Lyrics]

4.2 · 97

Love Actually

4.5 · 194

100th Window

3.9 · 95

Busted

4.1 · 148

Body Language

3.9 · 127

Three

4.3 · 54

Bryn

4.7 · 37

A New Day At Midnight

4.1 · 65

Hayley Westenra: Pure

4.6 · 47

Guilty

4.2 · 45

Meteora (Enhanced UK Version)

4.4 · 304

Try This

4.5 · 70

Turnaround

4.4 · 68

Call Off the Search

4.2 · 228

Think Tank

4.2 · 116

Small World Big Band Friends 3 - Jack O The Green

4.6 · 32

Silence Is Easy

4.0 · 43

Magic and Medicine

3.5 · 46

Smooth Classics - Do Not Disturb

4.6 · 14

Youth and Young Manhood [Digipak]

4.5 · 136

Ether Song

3.7 · 32

4.5 · 273

Melody A.M.

4.6 · 82

Vehicles & Animals

4.3 · 102

Bare

4.4 · 72

As Time Goes By - The Great American Song Book Vol 2

4.6 · 86

American Life

4.2 · 205

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

4.0 · 141

Angels With Dirty Faces

4.5 · 57

Parts of the Process - The Best of Morcheeba

4.4 · 34

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

4.1 · 103

The R In RnB Collection Vol. 1 - Greatest Hits

4.6 · 70

The Diary Of Alicia Keys

4.6 · 72

The Long Road

4.6 · 91

Power Ballads: The Greatest Driving Anthems in the World... ...

4.6 · 82

Parachutes

4.4 · 412

Black Cherry

4.6 · 84

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

4.6 · 109

M!ssundaztood

4.6 · 110

How The West Was Won: Live (3CD)

4.8 · 120

No Angel

4.5 · 257

Dedicated

4.4 · 26

Home

4.5 · 35

Pointless Nostalgic

4.4 · 37

Cast Of Thousands

4.3 · 86

Sacred Love

3.9 · 30

Forty Licks

4.6 · 183

Fire

4.6 · 63

Pop Party [Includes Bonus Karaoke CD]

4.0 · 27

Ladies Night

4.2 · 22

Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits

4.8 · 485

The Coral

4.4 · 62

Say You Will

4.3 · 123

The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring

4.5 · 138

Lost Horizons

4.5 · 77

The Eminem Show

4.6 · 179

Grace

4.7 · 321

The Essential Bruce Springsteen

4.7 · 120

One By One

4.3 · 118

Best - The Greatest Hits

4.7 · 101

Singles 1993-03

4.5 · 14

4.5 · 43

Now That's What I Call Music! Vol 54

4.4 · 46

Echoes: The Einaudi Collection

4.6 · 132

Comfort in Sound

4.7 · 98

Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace

4.5 · 369

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