American Music Awards of 2003

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American Music Awards of 2003

The 30th Annual American Music Awards
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The American Music Awards show is one of several annual major United States music awards shows ....
were held on January 13, 2003.

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The 30th Annual American Music Awards
American Music Awards

The American Music Awards show is one of several annual major United States music awards shows ....
were held on January 13, 2003.

Pop/Rock Category

Subcategory	Winner	Nominees
Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist	Eminem Eminem Marshall Bruce Mathers III , known by his primary stage name Eminem, or by his alter-ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor....	Enrique Iglesias Enrique Iglesias Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler , better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spain singer-songwriter, model, and actor.Iglesias started his musical career with Mexico indie label Fonovisa, which helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Hispanic and Latino Americans market in the United States, sell... Nelly
Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist	Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....	Celine Dion Celine Dion C?line Marie Claudette Dion Order of Canada National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record.... Pink
Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group	Creed Creed (band) Creed was an American post-grunge band from Tallahassee, Florida that became popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The band won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song for the song "With Arms Wide Open" in 2001....	Linkin Park Linkin Park Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards.... Nickelback Nickelback Nickelback is a Canadian Rock music band formed in Hanna, Alberta by Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and then-drummer Brandon Kroeger ....
Favorite Pop/Rock Album	The Eminem Show The Eminem Show *The Eminem Show* is the fourth studio album by Eminem, released in 2002 in music.The Eminem Show was the best-selling album of 2002. At the Grammy Awards of 2003 it was nominated for Grammy Award for Album of the Year and became Eminem's third straight LP to win the award for Best Rap Album.... - Eminem	Ashanti Ashanti (album) *Ashanti* is the self-titled debut album by United States contemporary R&B/pop music singer Ashanti , released in 2002 . The album debuted at number one on the U.S.... - Ashanti Ashanti (singer) Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, dancer, and model who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous Grammy Award-winning debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song "Foolish ", and sold over 504,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S.... Nellyville Nellyville *Nellyville* is the 2002 second album by rapper Nelly. The singles released from this album were "Hot in Herre", "Dilemma ", "Number One , "Air Force Ones ", "Work It ", "Roc The Mic " and "Pimp Juice".... - Nelly Missundaztood - Pink
Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist	Ashanti Ashanti (singer) Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, dancer, and model who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous Grammy Award-winning debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song "Foolish ", and sold over 504,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S....	Kelly Clarkson Kelly Clarkson Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the highly-publicized American Idol of the television series American Idol in 2002.... Puddle of Mudd Puddle of Mudd Puddle of Mudd is an United States Rock music band from Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri, United States. They achieved success on rock radio and some success in the mainstream, and their major-label debut Come Clean has sold over 5 million copies....

Hip/Hop/R&B Category

Subcategory	Winner	Nominees
Favorite Hip/Hop/R&B Male Artist	Eminem	Ja Rule Ja Rule Jeffrey Atkins , better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an United States rapper and actor signed to The Inc. and Universal Records, formerly of Def Jam Recordings.... Nelly
Favorite Hip/Hop/R&B Female Artist	Mary J. Blige Mary J. Blige Mary Jane Blige is a nine-time Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American R&B music singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor who has sold more than forty eight million albums worldwide....	Ashanti Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lynn Lopez , popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American Golden Globe-nominated actor, Grammy Award-nominated singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer....
Favorite Hip/Hop/R&B Band, Duo, or Group	Outkast OutKast OutKast is an United States hip hop music duet based out of East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia . The duo was originally known as The OKB but later changed its name to OutKast....	B2K B2K B2K was an United States Rhythm and blues music group. It was founded and managed by music producer Chris Stokes in 2001 with Lil' Fizz, Raz-B, J-Boog, and Omarion as members.... Nappy Roots Nappy Roots Nappy Roots is an United States Alternative hip hop Southern rap quintet that originated in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1995 and is best known for its hit 2002 single "Po' Folks"....
Favorite Hip/Hop/R&B Album	The Eminem Show - Eminem	Ashanti - Ashanti World of Mouf - Ludacris Ludacris Christopher Bridges , better known by his stage name Ludacris, Grammy Award-winning American rapping. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings.... Nellyville - Nelly
Favorite Hip/Hop/R&B New Artist	Ashanti	B2K Nappy Roots

Country Category

Subcategory	Winner	Nominees
Favorite Country Male Artist	Tim McGraw Tim McGraw Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an United States country music singer and actor. With many of his albums and singles topping the country music charts, Tim has achieved total album sales in excess of 40 million units....	Alan Jackson Alan Jackson Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music artist who has sold over 50 million records. He was influenced by the neotraditional country country of the 1980s, and he was one of the most popular country singers of the 1990s, blending both honky tonk music and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits.... Toby Keith Toby Keith Toby Keith Covel is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums ? 1993's Toby Keith , 1994's Boomtown , 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package "Noogies for Liberals" for various divisions of Mercury Records before ex...
Favorite Country Female Artist	Martina McBride Martina McBride Martina Mariea Schiff is an American country music singer and songwriter who records as Martina McBride. She is best-known for her Inspirational music-styled ballads about women and children....	Jo Dee Messina Jo Dee Messina Jo Dee Marie Messina , known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an United States country music artist. In her career charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts.... Lee Ann Womack Lee Ann Womack Lee Ann Womack is an United States country music singer and songwriter, who is best-known for her old fashioned-styled country music songs that often discuss subjects such as cheating and lost love....
Favorite Country Band, Duo, or Group	Dixie Chicks Dixie Chicks The Dixie Chicks are a country music group, comprising three women; Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Robison. Together, they have sold over 36 million albums as of March 2009....	Brooks & Dunn Brooks & Dunn Brooks & Dunn are an American country music duo, consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn . Both Brooks and Dunn had worked as singer-songwriters before the duo's formation, charting singles of their own in the late 1980s.... Lonestar Lonestar Lonestar is an American country music group consisting of Cody Collins , Michael Britt , Keech Rainwater and Dean Sams . Collins, who had formerly been in another country group called McAlyster, replaced former lead vocalist Richie McDonald, who left in November 2007 for a solo career....
Favorite Country Album	Home Home (Dixie Chicks album) *Home* is the Grammy- winning sixth studio album by United States country music band Dixie Chicks, released in 2002 . It is notable for its acoustic bluegrass music sound, which stands in contrast with their previous two country pop albums.... - Dixie Chicks Dixie Chicks The Dixie Chicks are a country music group, comprising three women; Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Robison. Together, they have sold over 36 million albums as of March 2009....	No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems *No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems* is the seventh album of country music singer Kenny Chesney. His sixth album for BNA Records, it produced five chart singles on the Billboard country music charts between 2002 and 2003: "Young" , "The Good Stuff" , "A Lot of Things Different" , "Big Star" , and the title track .... - Kenny Chesney Kenny Chesney Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney is an American country music artist. Since 1993, Chesney has recorded thirteen albums, eleven of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA.... Drive Drive (Alan Jackson album) *Drive* is the tenth studio album by country music singer Alan Jackson. Released in 2002 on Arista Nashville, the album produced Jackson's highest-debuting single on the Hot Country Songs charts in the Number One hit "Where Were You ", a ballad written in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.... - Alan Jackson Alan Jackson Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music artist who has sold over 50 million records. He was influenced by the neotraditional country country of the 1980s, and he was one of the most popular country singers of the 1990s, blending both honky tonk music and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits.... Unleashed Unleashed (Toby Keith album) *Unleashed* is the title of American country music singer Toby Keith's seventh studio album, released in 2002 on DreamWorks Records Nashville.... - Toby Keith Toby Keith Toby Keith Covel is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums ? 1993's Toby Keith , 1994's Boomtown , 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package "Noogies for Liberals" for various divisions of Mercury Records before ex...
Favorite Country New Artist	Carolyn Dawn Johnson Carolyn Dawn Johnson Carolyn Dawn Johnson is a Canada Juno Award award winning country music singer and songwriter. Since the 2001 release of her debut album Room with a View, she has seen success in both her native Canada and in the United States....	Kellie Coffey Kellie Coffey Kellie Coffey is an American country music artist who made her debut in 2002 with the release of her single "When You Lie Next to Me", a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.... Tommy Shane Steiner Tommy Shane Steiner Tommy Shane Steiner is an United States country music artist. He made his debut in 2001 with the single "What If She's an Angel", which reached a peak of #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts....

Adult Contemporary Category

Category	Winner	Nominees
Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist	Celine Dion Celine Dion C?line Marie Claudette Dion Order of Canada National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record....	Vanessa Carlton Vanessa Carlton Vanessa Lee Carlton is an United States soft rock/Piano pop singer, songwriter, and pianist. She is best known for the single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody which was released April 30, 2002, and certified platinum album in the U.S.... Five for Fighting Five for Fighting Five for Fighting is the stage name of United States singer-songwriter John Ondrasik. His 2000 album America Town went platinum in the U.S....

Alternative Category

Category	Winner	Nominees
Favorite Alternative Artist	Creed	Linkin Park System of a Down System of a Down System of a Down is an American rock music band, from Glendale, California, formed in 1994 . System of a Down consisted of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian , and John Dolmayan , the band has released five albums since 1998....

Latin Category

Category	Winner	Nominees
Favorite Latin Artist	Enrique Iglesias Enrique Iglesias Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler , better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spain singer-songwriter, model, and actor.Iglesias started his musical career with Mexico indie label Fonovisa, which helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Hispanic and Latino Americans market in the United States, sell...	Marc Anthony Marc Anthony Marc Anthony is an American Grammy award-winning, Latin Grammy award-winning, and Premio Lo Nuestro award winning singer/songwriter/actor. He is best known for his salsa music and ballads and for his wide-ranging tenor vocals.... Shakira Shakira Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll known simply as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who emerged as a Prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the mid-1990s....

Soundtrack Category

Category	Winner	Nominees
Favorite Soundtrack	Spider-Man Spider-Man (film) *Spider-Man* is a 2002 in film American superhero film based on the fictional character Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The film is the first in the Spider-Man ....	Lilo & Stitch Lilo & Stitch *Lilo & Stitch* is a 2002 USA film. The 42nd Animation in the List of Disney theatrical animated features, it was released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 21, 2002.... The Scorpion King The Scorpion King *The Scorpion King* is a 2002 in film starring Dwayne Johnson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu, Steven Brand, Ralf Moeller and Grant Heslov, and is directed by Chuck Russell....

Inspirational Category

Category	Winner	Nominees
Favorite Inspirational Contemporary Artist	Avalon Avalon Avalon is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend, famous for its beautiful apples. It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudohistorical account Historia Regum Britanniae as the place where King Arthur's sword Excalibur is forged and where the king is taken to recover from his wounds after his last battle at Ba...	Jars of Clay Jars of Clay Jars of Clay is a Grammy Award winning Christian rock band from Franklin, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois. Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on singer, Charlie Lowell on piano and Keyboard instrument, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars.... P.O.D. P.O.D. P.O.D. , is an American Christian Rock music band from San Diego, California. Formed in 1992, the band's line-up consists of vocalist Sonny Sandoval, drummer Noah Bernardo, guitarist Marcos Curiel, and bassist Traa Daniels....

Fan's Choice Award

Winner	Nominees
Nelly	Ashanti Creed Eminem Enrique Iglesias

Award of Merit

Alabama
Alabama (band)

Alabama is a Grammy Award-winning country music and southern rock band that originated in Fort Payne, Alabama, Alabama, United States. They were the most commercially successful country act in the 1980s and remain one of the bestselling American musical acts of all time....

Performers

Elton John
Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw

Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an United States country music singer and actor. With many of his albums and singles topping the country music charts, Tim has achieved total album sales in excess of 40 million units....
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera

Christina Mar?a Aguilera is an American pop music/contemporary R&B singer and songwriter. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club#1990s revival from 1993?1994....
Shania Twain
Shania Twain

Shania Twain Order of Canada is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country music and popular music genres. Her third album Come on Over is the List of best-selling albums worldwide of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music....
Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney

Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney is an American country music artist. Since 1993, Chesney has recorded thirteen albums, eleven of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA....
Toby Keith
Toby Keith

Toby Keith Covel is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums ? 1993's Toby Keith , 1994's Boomtown , 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package "Noogies for Liberals" for various divisions of Mercury Records before ex...
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
Matchbox 20
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English Celebrity, Singing, award-winning Actor, Radio personality, fashion designer and Model . She is the daughter of Sharon Osbourne and Ozzy Osbourne....
B2K
B2K

B2K was an United States Rhythm and blues music group. It was founded and managed by music producer Chris Stokes in 2001 with Lil' Fizz, Raz-B, J-Boog, and Omarion as members....
Ja Rule
Ja Rule

Jeffrey Atkins , better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an United States rapper and actor signed to The Inc. and Universal Records, formerly of Def Jam Recordings....
Nickelback
Nickelback

Nickelback is a Canadian Rock music band formed in Hanna, Alberta by Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and then-drummer Brandon Kroeger ....
Missy Elliott
Missy Elliott

Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American rapping, singing, songwriter, and record producer. With record sales of over seven million in the United States, she is the only female rapper to have six albums certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, including one double platinum ....
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey is an United States singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S....
Bobby Brown
Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown is a Grammy Award-winning United States contemporary R&B singer-songwriter and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award....
Britney Spears
Britney Spears

'Britney Jean Spears' is a Grammy Awards-winning American pop music singer, dancer, actress, and glamour model.Raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club#199...