Making his movie debut as a struggling rapper in the Oscar nominated 8 Mile also provided Eminem with one of his biggest hits and a fourth UK chart topper to boot...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 49)
Category: Flashback
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 48)
Daniel Bedingfield had made his name embracing the tail end of UK garage - which is what made the success of his biggest single, a soaring ballad, all the more surprising...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 47)
In the face of intense press coverage and speculation about her personal life, Jennifer Lopez answered back to her critics through her music, proving that deep down, she was still the girl from the Bronx...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 46)
On her second album Stripped, Christina Aguilera sought to shed the teen pop image that she made her name with for something a little more raw, debauched and raunchy...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 45)
After breaking through with the huge "Get Ur Freak On" and Miss-E ... So Addictive album the year previously, Missy Elliott continued to ride the crest of a wave with her Under Construction album...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 44)
After playing the long game and paying his dues on the club scene in his native Spain, it took a soaring cover of a Bryan Adams classic to send DJ Sammy into the global stratosphere...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 43)
With *NSYNC entering their hiatus after five years of success, Justin Timberlake began his solo career in style with a funk R&B workout more than a little indebted to his musical heroes...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 42)
St. Louis hailing rapper Nelly had already ascended into the big leagues with his second album Nellyville, but it was his duet with Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child that went soaring to the top of the chart on both sides of the Atlantic...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 41)
Sisterly Spanish trio Las Ketchup followed in the grand tradition of Euro holiday hits when, hands waving and arms wiggling, they ascended to top of the charts and bought some belated sunshine to the autumnal charts...
The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 40)
With the arrival of Avril Lavigne, a new wave of angsty rock based teen pop broke through that positioned her as Canada's biggest export since Alanis Morissette...
The Niche Reference 