At the age of five, his young voice and exuberance won him a talent contest singing a then-popular song, " Have You Ever Gone Sailing ( Down the River of Memories ).

She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

* " Euphoria " ( Loreen song ), performed by Swedish singer Loreen, won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

Hybrid Theory won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song " Crawling " and was nominated for two other Grammy Awards: Best New Artist and Best Rock Album.

In February 2010, Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against the group arising from the uncredited appropriation of " Kookaburra ", originally written in 1934 by Marion Sinclair and for which they owned the publishing rights, as the flute line in the song " Down Under ".

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

At the 33rd Grammy Awards, Abdul won her first Grammy for Best Music Video for " Opposites Attract ", She was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her song " Straight Up " but it lost to Bonnie Raitt's " Nick of Time ".

He began acting and composing for film with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), which he starred in and composed the score for ; the song " Forbidden Colours " which he composed for it became a worldwide hit and he won a BAFTA Award for the film's score.

The song won the 1999 Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.

His compositional efforts have included a number of film scores, notably a set of songs written for Warren Beatty's 1990 film version of Dick Tracy ; one song, " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" ( as performed by Madonna ), won Sondheim an Academy Award.

The album won a Grammy in 2000 ; as an indicator of how difficult it is to classify Waits's music, he was nominated simultaneously for Best Contemporary Folk Album ( which he won ) and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ( for the song " Hold On "), both different from the genre for which he won his previous Grammy.

The band has won two Grammy Awards, one in 2002 for their song " Boss of Me ", which served as the theme to Malcolm in the Middle.

The song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7 " single pressed locally for family and friends during 1980 with another Amos-penned composition as a B-side, " Walking With You ".

The song was adopted as the pre-game anthem during the deciding match of the 1990 Five Nations Championship between Scotland and England, which Scotland won 13 – 7 to win the Grand Slam.

* April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.

The Dixie Chicks ' cover of Nicks's 1975 song " Landslide " also earned her a BMI Songwriters Award in 2003 when it won " Song of the Year " ( the award is given to the songwriter of the track, regardless of the performer ).

Its inclusion helped the song reach number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1992 ( it remained in the Hot 100 for over 40 weeks ), and won the band an MTV Award at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

The stars of the film wrote their own songs ; Keith Carradine won an Academy Award for the song " I'm Easy ".

Henry Mancini, who won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for his soundtrack to Peter Gunn, was the first composer to have a widespread hit with a song from a soundtrack.

During the 2001 / 02 season when Feyenoord won the UEFA Cup a parody was launched of the song " Put your hands up " by Black and White Brothers called " Put your hands up for Pi-Air " as a tribute to Pierre ( Pi-Air ) van Hooijdonk.

In 2002, the US remake of Queer as Folk used the song " Smalltown Boy " in an episode.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

In 2002, he recorded a version of the Beatles ' classic " When I'm Sixty-Four ", a song from Sgt.

It is featured in several music videos, including Marilyn Manson's " Mobscene ", the 2002 music video to Elvis Presley vs. JXL remix of " A Little Less Conversation ", the 2007 music video to Christina Aguilera's song " Candyman ", the 2008 video release from Millencolin ; Detox and the music videos to Movits!

* " Legion ", a song by At the Gates from the 2002 re-issue of the album Slaughter of the Soul

Will Smith made a song called " Men in Black ", for the movie Men in Black in 1997, and " Black Suits Comin ' ( Nod Ya Head )" for its sequel in 2002.

* Rock band The Flaming Lips perform the song " Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon ( Utopia Planitia )" on their 2002 release Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

* American progressive metal band Symphony X interprets multiple scenes of the epic in their song, The Odyssey ( 2002 ).

Kool Moe Dee adds, “ in 2002 Eminem created the song that got the first Oscar in Hip-Hop history

She previously dated actor Owen Wilson ; her album C ' mon C ' mon ( 2002 ) featured the song " Safe and Sound ", which was dedicated to him and which, according to the album's liner notes, was an autobiographical account of their relationship.

*" Seneca Falls ", a song by the band The Distillers from their 2002 album Sing Sing Death House

* " Sublime " ( song ), a 2002 single by Shakaya

* " Spin " ( Lifehouse song ), 2002

* The Stability EP, a 2002 three song EP by Death Cab for Cutie

* 2002: Mandy Patinkin performs the song on his album Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim.

In 2002 that song also appeared on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack.

Tommy Womack, a singer / songwriter from Nashville, sings a mostly biographical song called " The Replacements " recounting the history and histrionics of the band on his 2002 Circus Town CD.

* Call of the Champions, the Olympic theme song for 2002

In 2002, Furtado appeared on the song " Thin Line ", on underground hip hop group Jurassic 5's album Power in Numbers.

Early in 2002, Blur recorded a song that would be played by European Space Agency's Beagle 2 lander once it touched down ; however, attempts to locate the probe after it landed on Mars were fruitless.

The tune of the song is also used as " The Speed Test " in the 2002 musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Jonny L's song included a sample of President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union Address speech which included the phrase.

Also in 2002, hip hop artist Juha released an album called Polari, with the chorus of the title song written entirely in the slang.