It’s time for another edition of Mr. Romance’s Top 10 Countdown Show, a look back at the 10 most popular songs on the Adult Contemporary chart for the week of November 8, 2003. Click here if you missed last week’s show featuring 1990.
Get ready for pop culture, trivia and all your lite hits that might just bring back some memories or maybe you’ll discover some new soft rock favorites.
Top 10 Countdown Show Pop Culture
The year was 2003:
Basketball legend Michael Jordan retired after playing 15 seasons for the Chicago Bulls and then finished his career with the Washington Wizards.
At the movies, you were watching:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Seabiscuit
Finding Nemo
On television:
Everybody Loves Raymond
Survivor
The West Wing
….and still going strong today: The Bachelorette, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and America’s Next Top Model…all debuting in 2003.
Top 10 Countdown Show Trivia Question
The same year people were downloading and sharing music with websites like Napster and LimeWire, but in 2003 a legitimate online music store opened as millions of customers started buying their favorite music online without any concern about piracy. With 200,000 tracks available at the time of launch, customers bought more than 1 million songs the first week. Can you guess the online store? Take a listen to the show for the answer.
Song Spotlight
Motown is the sixth album by Michael McDonald that spent over a year on Billboard’s 200 chart. And as you would expect, Michael covered songs by some of the Motown greats including Stevie Wonder, The Temptations and Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell whose song spends its first week on the chart at #30 on its way to #5: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.
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Sit back, relax and enjoy your favorite love songs from the week of November 8, 2003.
An avid record collector, lover of all desserts and sometimes seen wearing multiple Swatch watches, Dave has been lending his voice for over 20 years heard on such prominent brands as Intel, RCA, Eddie Bauer, Kellogg‘s, Pizza Hut, Lexus, and infomercial giants Guthy-Renker and Beachbody. His narration projects include Japan’s preeminent automobile series Best Motoring International and Hot Version, along with GTChannel, QVC, Universal Music Enterprises, and ViSalus Sciences.