Return of Rock

 By 2003, records by boy bands were very sparse on the Billboard Hot 100, and some members of boy bands left to

Teen pop continued to be an extremely popular genre in the early 2000s with the success of teenage pop singers Britney Spears and Christina

In the early 2000s, the power pop and pop rock trend also spread to female musicians. Michelle Branch became successful in

Hip hop dominated popular music in the early 2000s. Artists such as Eminem, OutKast, The Black Eyed Peas, T.I., 50 Cent, Kanye West, Nelly, Nas, Jay-Z, Ghostface Killah, Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott, M.I.A., Lil’ Kim, Gorillaz, Young

A decade of trying to find the next grunge hit or nu-metal clone left rock radio with bands like Creed,

1998 might have been the year nu-metal stepped up to a whole new level thanks to the blockbusting success of

1997 doesn’t seem all that long ago. Y2K was fast approaching and we were freaking out about machines canceling progress and taking

Metal had seen off grunge and found its feet again by the second half of the 1990s. Yet aside from

In 1995, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl’s new band, the Foo Fighters, helped popularize the genre and define its parameters, becoming one