Melanie Chisolm grabbed two 2000 number ones in the UK for herself by debuting at the top with Never Be The Same Again and I Turn To You both taken from her Northern Star album. Never Be The Same Again, was promoted by a languid, and sensual, fitness/ alternate health video and featured a guest rap by Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC. Mel C, the shyest of the Spice Girls, has always had the strongest voice of the girls and both songs, like much of her debut album, combines that strength and shyness in a superior vocal.

Scott Cain

Calling

Cam'ron Featuring Juelz Santana

Blu Cantrell

Blu Cantrell's debut US hit was Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops) which was also a big hit in Australia. As a child Long Island find Blu watched her jazz-singer mother perform on stage. Twenty years later her own career is taking off after a demo led to backing spots with Faith Evans and Puff Daddy amongst others. Her solo debut So Blu has been released and has been described as "the musical diary of a woman trying to succeed at love". While Hit Em Up Style (Oops) was written and produced by Dallas Austin many of the songs on the album were written by Blu herself.

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey returns with Loverboy a song that failed to set radio in America or Europe alight, and with little of a hook and the usual strangled-cat of a vocal this is no surprise. The video too has Mariah revealing her legs, thighs and bosom in such tiresome regularity that you can almost hear video-watchers everywhere shouting "get them... on"...

Vanessa Carlton

Case

Catatonia

Kasey Chambers

Cher

Cher returns with The Music's No Good Without You which could easily be named Believe II since the production team of Mark Taylor and Brian Rawlings have applied the same vocoded style that made Believe a seven-week UK chart-topper in 1998 to the new hit. Her latest album is Living Proof and features songs produced by Chicane and Stargate. Now in her fifties Cher was born Cherilyn LaPierre in 1946 and first hit the limelight in the 1960s with husband Sonny. Her solo career has seen several come-backs most notably in the lates 1980s with her battleship-straddling video for If I Could Turn Back Time.

Chicane featuring Bryan Adams

Chicane's real name is Nick Bracegirdle. He first teamed up with Canadian rocker Bryan Adams on the remix of Love Cloud #9 but was keen with Don't Give Up to avoid turning the track into a danced-up Bryan Adams rocker. He also believes that the current dance market is not in good shape and with this collaboration he's hoping to take things in a new direction.

Chocolate Puma

A bit of a House/Garage cross I Wanna Be U by Chocolate Puma featured vocals by Evo. The track was produced by DJ Zki and DJ Dobre, who have released a variety of material under many monikers since they first met up in Holland in 1992. The video shows a Y2K guy fascinated by an eighties video dancer, and the two somehow get together in a futuristic dance machine. Yes, don't watch, just dance...

City High

City High debut with What Would You Do. The threesome are made up of Ryan Toby, (performed in Sister Act II at the tender age of 12, and producer of Will Smith's Miami), Claudette Ortiz, who admits to being a bit of a "geek" growing up, and Robby Pardlo, musician-producer, vocal arranger, and pianist. The group were originally planned to be a male duo but producers and label managers Wyclef Jean and his cousin Jerry Wonder thought an outfit more like the Fugees would be more distinctive.

Coldplay

Coldplay follow their debut hit Yellow, with the piano led ballad Trouble. The song was the last to be recorded for the album Parachutes and originally had been an uptempo calypso-style track. The band have been playing Glastonbury and other festivals and appeared on Jools Holland's Later. The video for Trouble shows the band tied up and in deep trouble in a dark car park. The lads, Chris Martin vocals and guitar, Guy Berryman - bass, Jonny Buckland - lead guitar and Will Champion - drums, met while studying in London although they come from the four corners of the UK, Devon, Fife, North Wales and Southhampton respectively. The band have been getting good reviews in the US while in Australia Yellow spent several weeks in the Top 5.

Naimee Coleman

The Corrs

Breathless was the first single to be taken from The Corrs album In Blue, their first since the highly successful Talk on Corners in 1997. The Irish family group, Andrea, Jim, Caroline and Sharon first got their international break through the film The Commitments in which all four had minor roles. Andrea also played Peron's lover in the next Alan Parker movie, Evita. Their first album Forgiven not Forgotten was a huge success worldwide but in the UK it took the remix of Dreams, the old Fleetwood Mac song, to break them.

Robbie Craig

Crazy Town

Describing themselves as "hip-hop kids that needed to rock" Crazy Town debut with Butterfly. The band come from L.A. and although they've been together for a number of years The Gift of Game is their first album. The seven-piece group revolves around rappers Shifty Shellshock and Epic Mazur and includes Faydoedeelay (bass), Rust Epique (guitar), Trouble Valli (guitar), DJ AM (turntables) and JBJ (drums). Influences include Cypress Hill, Ice-T, the Beastie Boys and The Cure.

Creed

My Sacrifice by Creed is the first single from their third album Weathered which was been the no 1 album in the US over Christmas 2001. Earlier that year With Arms Open Wide from second album Human Clay was a hit in Australia. The song was written as a personal response by songwriter Scott Stapp to the news that he was about to become a father. The band have quickly become the top group in US rock, dominating airplay charts and receiving plaudits for live performances. Their first album My Own Prison produced four no 1's in the US Rock charts.

Sheryl Crow