Jim's Gems: Best albums of 2003, including Amy Winehouse and The Thrills

Twenty years ago, our listening was becoming influenced by music downloads and reality TV. Here are 10 of the best albums that stood the test of time

Amy Winehouse and David Bowie are some of Jim's Gems of 2003.

While the millennium didn’t exactly stop the earth from rotating on its axis, the turn of the century brought some real and lasting changes to the way the music industry worked. 

The advent of online streaming, which arrived with iTunes in 2002, signalled the start of the slow demise of the traditional record store.