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• 2000 Madonna and Eminem top the winners at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2000, presented at Stockholm’s Globen venue. Madonna’s worldwide smash “Music” helps her pick up prizes for best dance artist and best female artist, while Eminem wins for best hip-hop artist, and sees his “The Marshall Mathers LP” named best album.

• 2000 In an effort to raise awareness of the Clearwater Project Of Higher Ground For Humanity (HGH) Jewel makes a concert available for online streaming exclusively at the Netaid.org Web site. HGH is a non-profit organization founded by Jewel and her mother/manager, Lendra Carroll in 1999 to help bring safe, clean water to remote areas of the world.

• 2000 English pianist Russ Conway dies after a long fight with cancer. He is 75. Conway was Britain’s best-selling artist of 1959, when he had consecutive No. 1 singles with “Side Saddle” and Roulette,” as well as three other top-10 hits.

• 2000 Kid Rock sideman Joe C. (Joseph Calleja) dies in his sleep at his home in Taylor, Mich. He is 26. Calleja had suffered from Celiac Disease, an intestinal disorder, since he was a child.

• 1998 Gospel Music Hall of Fame member J.D. Sumner dies of a heart attack in his hotel room in Myrtle Beach, S.C. He is 73. A Grammy-and Dove-winner, Sumner was the leader of the Stamps, who became well known for their performances with Elvis Presley.

• 1998 Skatalites founding member and saxophonist Roland Alphonso slips into a coma after suffering a seizure on November 2 while onstage at the Key club in West Hollywood, Calif.

• 1998 Discount department store chain Kmart launches an online music store, Music Favorites. Offering more than 100,000 music titles, the site is located at www.MusicFavorites.com.

• 1998 It is announced that Spice Girl Emma “Baby Spice” Bunting will appear in a new musical version of “The Sleeping Beauty” for the BBC.

• 1998 Jewel ushers in her second album, “Spirit,” with a cybercast performance and interview.

• 1996 All 3,500 tickets for Michael Jackson’s January 3, 1997 show at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu sell out in under four hours. The tickets go so fast that tickets for a second show go on sale immediately.

• 1996 Country singers Lorrie Morgan and Jon Randall carry through with their wedding plans at Morgans home outside Nashville. Her son, Jesse Keith Whitley, gives the bride away, while daughter Morgan Whitley serves as her attendant at the private ceremony with only a small group of family and friends. The couple honeymoon in New York City.

• 1995 As part of the shaping of Time Warners merger with Turner, Michael Fuchs is ousted from his position as head of Time Warners record labels as well as cable channel HBO.

• 1980 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Lady,’ Kenny Rogers. The song is written and produced by Lionel Richie.

• 1970 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “I Think I Love You,’ The Partridge Family. The song reaches the top spot exactly two months and four days after “The Partridge Family’ TV show debuts.

• 1960 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Stay,’ Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs. The song is the shortest No. 1 single in the rock era, at one minute and 37 seconds.

• 1950 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Harbor Lights,’ Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye.

• 1940 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Only Forever,’ Bing Crosby.