2003 in Scandinavian music

The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 2003.

Events

3 January – At the Finnish Metal Music Awards held at Tavastia Club in Helsinki, death metal band Children of Bodom was awarded Finnish Band of the Year.
11 April – Kåre Opheim is awarded the Vossajazzprisen 2003 on the first day of the Vossajazz festival in Norway.
24 May – The 48th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Riga, Latvia. The highest-placed Scandinavian country is Norway in fourth. Sweden finishes fifth and Iceland eighth. Denmark and Finland do not participate.
14 June – Finnish guitarist Alexander Kuoppala leaves Children of Bodom in the middle of a tour. He is eventually replaced by Roope Latvala.
August
* After the Belgian music association SABAM decides that Sweden's 2001 Eurovision entry "Listen to Your Heartbeat" plagiarised an earlier Belgian entry, "Liefde is een kaartspel", an accusation denied by songwriters Thomas G:son and Henrik Sethsson, the Swedish delegation settles out of court.
* Vocalist Marco Aro leaves Swedish band The Haunted, to be replaced by the band's original vocalist, Peter Dolving.
11 December – The Nobel Peace Prize Concert is held at the Oslo Spektrum. Stars include Craig David, The Cardigans and Jan Werner Danielsen.
date unknown – Norwegian folk metal band Trollfest is founded by John Espen Sagstad and Jostein Austvik.

1 February – Bodil Kjer, Danish actress and occasional singer
16 March – Teemu "Somnium" Raimoranta, Finnish guitarist, founding member of Finntroll
31 March – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer, organist, pianist, composer and record producer
9 April – Vera Zorina, German-born Norwegian ballerina, choreographer and musical theatre star
5 June – Ola Calmeyer, Norwegian jazz pianist
16 August – Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish musician and radio personality
17 November – Peter Lindroos, Finnish operatic tenor
27 December – Ingeborg Cook, US-born Norwegian actress and singer