DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD first rose to prominence in 2001, with approximately 600 titles available in these formats.
[1] Portable music grew in popularity after Apple Inc. released the iTunes media library on January 9[2] and the first iPod music player device on October 23.
[3] Worldwide, the best-selling albums were Hybrid Theory (2000) by Linkin Park, No Angel (1999) by Dido, and Survivor (2001) by Destiny's Child.
[4] The best-selling non-English album was Cieli di Toscana (transl.
Tuscan Skies; 2001) by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, which topped the charts in the Netherlands and Sweden[5] and was the 23rd best-selling album globally.