In the print side of things, it was a relatively uneventful year, though newcomer PlayMusic bit the dust early on, and there was the brilliant launch of the magazine spin off to the soon to be axed Popworld. Popworld Pulp lasted for just one issue. Elsewhere in print, the NME continued to grow, launching a TV station and announcing plans to launch a radio station. In amongst all that, the magazine's editors managed to piss off Morrissey big time by allegedly misrepresenting him in an interview where he rambled into the tricky issue of immigration. The defamation case is pending. I can't wait.
Probably the biggest story regarding music in the media didn't involve the music media at all, but rather the Mail On Sunday, who scored a couple of real coups with their covermount giveaways which got them lots of press, but pissed off a lot of music people. Most notable were the EMI arranged give away of Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' (much to the annoyance of Mr Oldfield) and the exclusive release of Prince's new album 'Planet Earth' (much to the annoyance of everyone in record label and record shop land).