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{{Short description|none}} {{cleanup|date=February 2020|reason=dates in reverse chronological order, contrary to [[WP:DATELIST]].}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2016}} :'''Contents:''' <br />[[#Ancient music|Ancient music]] – [[#Early history|Early history]] – [[#1500s|1500s]] – [[#1510s|1510s]] – [[#1520s|1520s]] – [[#1530s|1530s]] – [[#1540s|1540s]] – [[#1550s|1550s]] – [[#1560s|1560s]] – [[#1570s|1570s]] – [[#1580s|1580s]] – [[#1590s|1590s]] – [[#1600s|1600s]] – [[#1610s|1610s]] – [[#1620s|1620s]] – [[#1630s|1630s]] – [[#1640s|1640s]] – [[#1650s|1650s]] – [[#1660s|1660s]] – [[#1670s|1670s]] – [[#1680s|1680s]] – [[#1690s|1690s]] – [[#1700s|1700s]] – [[#1710s|1710s]] – [[#1720s|1720s]] – [[#1730s|1730s]] – [[#1740s|1740s]] – [[#1750s|1750s]] – [[#1760s|1760s]] – [[#1770s|1770s]] – [[#1780s|1780s]] – [[#1790s|1790s]] – [[#1800s|1800s]] – [[#1810s|1810s]] – [[#1820s|1820s]] – [[#1830s|1830s]] – [[#1840s|1840s]] – [[#1850s|1850s]] – [[#1860s|1860s]] – [[#1870s|1870s]] – [[#1880s|1880s]] – [[#1890s|1890s]] – [[#1900s|1900s]] – [[#1910s|1910s]] – [[#1920s|1920s]] – [[#1930s|1930s]] – [[#1940s|1940s]] – [[#1950s|1950s]] – [[#1960s|1960s]] – [[#1970s|1970s]] – [[#1980s|1980s]] – [[#1990s|1990s]] – [[#2000s|2000s]] – [[#2010s|2010s]] – [[#2020s|2020s]] This page indexes the individual ''year in music'' pages. __NOTOC__ <!-- Please DO ''not'' ADD anything to this list until AFTER it has been added to the relevant year in music itself. SGBailey --> {{Popular music}} == 2020s == {{Main|2020s in music}} *'''[[2026 in American music]]''' *'''[[2025 in music]]''', '''[[2025 in American music]]''' **Deaths of [[Peter Yarrow]], [[Sam Moore]], [[David Lynch]], [[Garth Hudson]], [[Unk]], [[Aaron Rossi]], [[Marianne Faithfull]], [[Irv Gotti]], [[Dave Jerden]], [[Rick Buckler]], [[Snowy Fleet]], [[Jerry Butler]], [[Voletta Wallace]], [[Chris Jasper]], [[Roberta Flack]], [[Roy Ayers]], [[Brian James (guitarist)|Brian James]], [[Les Binks]], [[Clem Burke]], [[Roy Thomas Baker]], [[Mike Peters (musician)|Mike Peters]], [[Dale Henderson]], [[Rick Derringer]] *'''[[2024 in music]]''', '''[[2024 in African music]]''', '''[[2024 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2024 in British music]]''', '''[[2024 in American music]]''', '''[[2024 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2024 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2024 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2024 in Scandinavian music]]''', '''[[2024 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Chris Karrer]], [[Glynis Johns]], [[David Soul]], [[Larry Collins (guitarist)|Larry Collins]], [[James Kottak]], [[Audie Blaylock]], [[Bill Hayes (actor)|Bill Hayes]], [[Laurie Johnson]], [[Marlena Shaw]], [[Frank Farian]], [[Melanie (singer)|Melanie]], [[Wayne Kramer]], [[Aston "Family Man" Barrett]], [[Toby Keith]], [[Mojo Nixon]], [[Bobby Tench]], [[Eric Carmen]], [[Pete Rodriguez (boogaloo musician)|Pete Rodriguez]], [[Steve Harley]], [[Michael Ward (musician)|Michael Ward]], [[Jerry Abbott]], [[Clarence "Frogman" Henry]], [[Mister Cee]], [[Dickey Betts]], [[Mike Pinder]], [[Duane Eddy]], [[Richard Tandy]], [[Gary Floyd]], [[Steve Albini]], [[Charlie Colin]], [[Doug Ingle]], [[Mark Gormley]], [[Richard M. Sherman]], [[Rodger Fox]], [[Cayouche]], [[Doug Dagger]], [[Ed Mann]], [[Colin Gibb]], [[Brother Marquis]], [[C.Gambino]], [[Rose-Marie (singer)|Rose-Marie]], [[Enchanting (rapper)|Enchanting]], [[Françoise Hardy]], [[Johnny Canales]], [[Skowa]], [[Dario G]], [[Buzz Cason]], [[James Chance]], [[Kinky Friedman]], [[John Mayall]], [[Chino XL]], [[Greg Kihn]], [[Jack Russell (musician)|Jack Russell]], [[Fatman Scoop]], [[Rich Homie Quan]], [[Sérgio Mendes]], [[Herbie Flowers]], [[Will Jennings]], [[Zoot Money]], [[Tommy Cash]], [[Tito Jackson]], [[Nick Gravenites]], [[Dick Diamonde]], [[Kris Kristofferson]], [[Cissy Houston]], [[Liam Payne]], [[Paul Di'Anno]], [[DJ Clark Kent]], [[Phil Lesh]], [[Quincy Jones]], [[Shel Talmy]], [[Peter Sinfield]], [[Chuck Woolery]], [[Bob Bryar]], [[Lennie De Ice]], [[Anita Bryant]], [[John Sykes]] *'''[[2023 in music]]''', '''[[2023 in African music]]''', '''[[2023 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2023 in British music]]''', '''[[2023 in American music]]''', '''[[2023 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2023 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2023 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2023 in Scandinavian music]]''', '''[[2023 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Gangsta Boo]], [[Jeff Beck]], [[Lisa Marie Presley]], [[Robbie Bachman]], [[Van Conner]], [[David Crosby]], [[Top Topham]], [[Tom Verlaine]], [[Barrett Strong]], [[Burt Bacharach]], [[Trugoy]], [[Wayne Shorter]], [[Steve Mackey]], [[Gary Rossington]], [[Jim Gordon (musician)|Jim Gordon]], [[Bobby Caldwell]], [[Fuzzy Haskins]], [[Keith Reid]], [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]], [[Harry Belafonte]], [[Gordon Lightfoot]], [[Rolf Harris]], [[Andy Rourke]], [[Pete Brown]], [[Chas Newby]], [[Tina Turner]], [[Cynthia Weil]], [[Astrud Gilberto]], [[Rick Froberg]], [[Mo Foster]], [[Coco Lee]], [[Jane Birkin]], [[Tony Bennett]], [[Sinéad O'Connor]], [[Randy Meisner]], [[Carl Davis]], [[Sixto Rodriguez]], [[Robbie Robertson]], [[Magoo (rapper)|Magoo]], [[Bernie Marsden]], [[Jimmy Buffett]], [[Steve Harwell]], [[Gary Wright]], [[Bruce Guthro]], [[Carla Bley]], [[The 45 King]], [[Charlie Dominici]], [[Mars Williams]], [[Geordie Walker]], [[Shane MacGowan]], [[Denny Laine]], [[Colin Burgess (musician)|Colin Burgess]], [[Eric Moyo]], [[Torben Ulrich]], [[Tom Smothers]], [[Sandra Reaves-Phillips]] **Notable releases: ***[[Travis Scott]]'s ''[[Utopia (Travis Scott album)|Utopia]]'' ***[[100 gecs]]' ''[[10,000 Gecs]]'' ***[[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s ''[[The Ballad of Darren]]'' ***[[Black Country, New Road]]'s ''[[Live at Bush Hall]]'' ***[[King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard]]'s ''[[PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation]]'' ***[[Metallica]]'s ''[[72 Seasons]]'' ***[[Paramore]]'s ''[[This Is Why]]'' ***[[Young Fathers]]' ''[[Heavy Heavy]]'' ***[[Miley Cyrus]]' ''[[Endless Summer Vacation]]'' ***[[NewJeans]]' ''[[Get Up (EP)|Get Up]]'' *'''[[2022 in music]]''', '''[[2022 in African music]]''', '''[[2022 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2022 in British music]]''', '''[[2022 in American music]]''', '''[[2022 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2022 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2022 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2022 in Scandinavian music]]''', '''[[2022 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Ronnie Spector]], [[Meat Loaf]], [[Jon Zazula]], [[Mark Lanegan]], [[Gary Brooker]], [[Betty Davis]], [[Timmy Thomas]], [[Taylor Hawkins]], [[Chris Bailey (musician, born 1956)|Chris Bailey]], [[Gilbert Gottfried]], [[Jewell (singer)|Jewell]], [[Vangelis]], [[Andy Fletcher (musician)|Andy Fletcher]], [[Alan White (Yes drummer)|Alan White]], [[Ronnie Hawkins]], [[Trouble (rapper)|Trouble]], [[Alec John Such]], [[Jim Seals]], [[Q Lazzarus]], [[Olivia Newton-John]], [[Lamont Dozier]], [[PnB Rock]], [[Ramsey Lewis]], [[Jesse Powell]], [[Pharoah Sanders]], [[Coolio]], [[Loretta Lynn]], [[Angela Lansbury]], [[Jerry Lee Lewis]], [[D.H. Peligro]], [[Takeoff (rapper)|Takeoff]], [[Aaron Carter]], [[Gal Costa]], [[Nik Turner]], [[Keith Levene]], [[Irene Cara]], [[Christine McVie]], [[Bob McGrath]], [[Jet Black]], [[Thom Bell]], [[Sidhu Moose Wala]] **American [[Heavy metal music|Heavy Metal]] band [[W.A.S.P. (band)|W.A.S.P.]] Announces 40th Anniversary tour, returning to the United States for the first time since 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brandvold |first=Michael |date=2022-01-12 |title=W.A.S.P. Announce US Tour Dates for 40 Years Live World Tour 2022 |url=https://www.waspnation.com/post/w-a-s-p-announce-us-tour-dates-for-40-years-live-world-tour-2022 |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=Wasp |language=en}}</ref> **Notable releases: ***[[Pink Floyd]] and [[Andriy Khlyvnyuk]]'s "[[Hey, Hey, Rise Up!]]" ***[[Black Country, New Road]]'s ''[[Ants from Up There]]'' ***[[Denzel Curry]]'s ''[[Melt My Eyez See Your Future]]'' ***[[Mitski]]'s ''[[Laurel Hell]]'' ***[[Big Thief]]'s ''[[Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You]]'' ***[[Charli XCX]]'s ''[[Crash (Charli XCX album)|Crash]]'' ***[[Rosalía]]'s ''[[Motomami]]'' ***[[Viagra Boys]]' ''[[Cave World]]'' ***[[Black Midi]]'s ''[[Hellfire (Black Midi album)|Hellfire]]'' ***[[Zeal & Ardor]]'s ''[[Zeal & Ardor (album)|Zeal & Ardor]]'' ***[[Voivod (band)|Voivod]]'s ''[[Synchro Anarchy]]'' ***[[Kendrick Lamar]]'s ''[[Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers]]'' ***[[JID]]'s ''[[The Forever Story]]'' ***[[Angel Olsen]]'s ''[[Big Time (Angel Olsen album)|Big Time]]'' ***[[Harry Styles]]' ''[[Harry's House]]'' ***[[Bad Bunny]]'s ''[[Un Verano Sin Ti]]'' ***[[Beyoncé]]'s ''[[Renaissance (Beyoncé album)|Renaissance]]'' ***[[SZA]]'s ''[[SOS (SZA album)|SOS]]'' ***[[Taylor Swift]]'s ''[[Midnights]]'' *'''[[2021 in music]]''', '''[[2021 in African music]]''', '''[[2021 in British music]]''', '''[[2021 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2021 in American music]]''', '''[[2021 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2021 in European music]]''', '''[[2021 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2021 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2021 in Scandinavian music]]''', '''[[2021 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Gerry Marsden]], [[Sophie (musician)|Sophie]], [[DMX (rapper)|DMX]], [[Young Dolph]], [[Phil Spector]], [[Samuel E. Wright]], [[Gift of Gab (rapper)|Gift of Gab]], [[Joey Jordison]], [[Bunny Wailer]], [[Tom T. Hall]], [[Michael Nesmith]], [[Hub (bassist)|Hub]], [[Milford Graves]], [[Anita Lane]], [[Biz Markie]], [[Dusty Hill]], [[Jerzy Matuszkiewicz]], [[Don Everly]] **Notable releases: ***[[Black Country, New Road]]'s ''[[For the First Time (Black Country, New Road album)|For the First Time]]'' ***[[Weezer]]'s ''[[OK Human]]'' ***[[Julien Baker]]'s ''[[Little Oblivions]]'' ***[[Lana Del Rey]]'s ''[[Chemtrails over the Country Club]]'' ***[[Taylor Swift]]'s ''[[Fearless (Taylor's Version)]]'' and ''[[Red (Taylor's Version)]]'' ***[[Adele]]'s ''[[30 (album)|30]]'' ***[[ABBA]]'s ''[[Voyage (ABBA album)|Voyage]]'', with a [[ABBA Voyage|virtual concert of the same name]] that accompanies both the album and a few of its songs, along with plenty of the band's older songs, premiering in London the following year. ***[[Kanye West]]'s ''[[Donda]]'' ***[[Lana Del Rey]]'s ''[[Blue Banisters]]'' ***[[Radiohead]]'s ''[[Kid A Mnesia]]'' ***[[Iron Maiden]]'s ''[[Senjutsu (album)|Senjutsu]]'' ***[[Turnstile (band)|Turnstile]]'s ''[[Glow On]]'' ***[[Tyler, the Creator]]'s ''[[Call Me If You Get Lost]]'' ***[[Black Midi]]'s ''[[Cavalcade (Black Midi album)|Cavalcade]]'' ***[[Little Simz]]'s ''[[Sometimes I Might Be Introvert]]'' ***[[Injury Reserve]]'s ''[[By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Injury Reserve album)|By the Time I Get to Phoenix]]'' ***[[Squid (band)|Squid]]'s ''[[Bright Green Field]]'' ***[[Silk Sonic]]'s ''[[An Evening with Silk Sonic]]'' ***[[JPEGMafia]]'s ''[[LP!]]'' ***[[Brockhampton (band)|Brockhampton]]'s ''[[Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine]]'' ***[[Lingua Ignota (musician)|Lingua Ignota]]'s ''[[Sinner Get Ready]]'' ***[[Magdalena Bay (group)|Magdalena Bay]]'s ''[[Mercurial World]]'' ***[[Japanese Breakfast]]'s ''[[Jubilee (Japanese Breakfast album)|Jubilee]]'' ***[[Olivia Rodrigo]]'s [[Sour (album)|''SOUR'']] ***[[Doja Cat]]'s ''[[Planet Her]]'' ***[[Billie Eilish]]'s ''[[Happier Than Ever]]'' ***[[Lorde]]'s ''[[Solar Power (album)|Solar Power]]'' ***[[Halsey (singer)|Halsey]]'s ''[[If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power]]'' ***[[Coldplay]]'s ''[[Music of the Spheres (Coldplay album)|Music of the Spheres]]'' ***[[Floating Points]], [[Pharoah Sanders]], and the [[London Symphony Orchestra]]'s ''[[Promises (Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra album)|Promises]]'' ***[[Godspeed You! Black Emperor]]'s ''[[G_d's Pee at State's End!]]'' ***[[Madlib]]'s ''[[Sound Ancestors]]'' ***[[BTS]]' single ''[[Butter (song)|Butter]]'' ***[[Tomorrow X Together]]'s ''[[The Chaos Chapter: Freeze]]'' ***[[Chungha]]'s ''[[Querencia (album)|Querencia]]'' ***[[NCT Dream]]'s ''[[Hot Sauce (NCT Dream album)|Hot Sauce]]'' ***[[Twice]]'s ''[[Formula of Love: O+T=＜3]]'' ***[[IU (singer)|IU]]'s ''[[Lilac (IU album)|Lilac]]'' ***[[Shinee]]'s ''[[Don't Call Me (album)|Don't Call Me]]'' ***[[Stray Kids]]' ''[[Noeasy]]'' ***[[(G)I-dle]]'s ''[[I Burn]]'' ***[[Aespa]]'s ''[[Savage (EP)|Savage]]'' ***[[Parannoul]]'s ''[[To See the Next Part of the Dream]]'' ***[[Chai (band)|Chai]]'s ''[[Wink (album)|Wink]]'' ***[[Måneskin]]'s ''[[Teatro d'ira: Vol. I]]'', which includes the band's commercial breakthrough hit ''[[Zitti e buoni]]'', that won the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2021]]. *'''[[2020 in music]]''', '''[[2020 in African music]]''', '''[[2020 in British music]]''', '''[[2020 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2020 in American music]]''', '''[[2020 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2020 in European music]]''', '''[[2020 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2020 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2020 in Scandinavian music]]''', '''[[2020 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Pop Smoke]], [[Neil Peart]], [[Bob Shane]], [[McCoy Tyner]], [[Bill Withers]], [[John Prine]], [[Fred the Godson]], [[Little Richard]], [[Kenny Rogers]], [[Florian Schneider]], [[Joe Diffie]], [[Charlie Daniels]], [[Tim Smith (Cardiacs)|Tim Smith]], [[Eddie Van Halen]], [[Mory Kanté]], [[Krzysztof Penderecki]], [[Ennio Morricone]], [[MF Doom]], [[King Von]], [[Nikki McKibbin]], [[Naya Rivera]] **Notable releases: ***[[The Weeknd]]'s ''[[After Hours (The Weeknd album)|After Hours]]'' ***[[Ariana Grande]]'s ''[[Positions (album)|Positions]]'' ***[[Selena Gomez]]'s ''[[Rare (Selena Gomez album)|Rare]]'' ***[[Westside Gunn]]'s ''[[Pray for Paris]]'' ***[[Lady Gaga]]'s ''[[Chromatica]]'' ***[[Dua Lipa]]'s ''[[Future Nostalgia]]'' ***[[Yves Tumor]]'s ''[[Heaven to a Tortured Mind]]'' ***[[Fiona Apple]]'s ''[[Fetch the Bolt Cutters]]'' ***[[Phoebe Bridgers]]' ''[[Punisher (album)|Punisher]]'' ***[[Run the Jewels]]'s ''[[RTJ4]]'' ***[[Tame Impala]]'s ''[[The Slow Rush]]'' ***[[Halsey (singer)|Halsey]]'s ''[[Manic (Halsey album)|Manic]]'' ***[[Lil Uzi Vert]]'s ''[[Eternal Atake]]'' ***[[Testament (band)|Testament]]'s ''[[Titans of Creation]]'' ***[[Taylor Swift]]'s ''[[Folklore (Taylor Swift album)|Folklore]]'' and ''[[Evermore (Taylor Swift album)|Evermore]]'' ***[[The Microphones]]'s ''[[Microphones in 2020]]'' ***[[Paul McCartney]]'s ''[[McCartney III]]'' ***[[Oneohtrix Point Never]]'s ''[[Magic Oneohtrix Point Never]]'' ***[[Nicolas Jaar|Against All Logic]]'s ''[[2017–2019]]'' ***[[Autechre]]'s ''[[Sign (Autechre album)|Sign]]'' ***[[Kenshi Yonezu]]'s ''[[Stray Sheep]]'' ***[[Ichiko Aoba]]'s ''[[Windswept Adan]]'' ***[[Rina Sawayama]]'s ''[[Sawayama]]'' ***[[BTS]]' ''[[Map of the Soul: 7]]'' and ''[[Be (BTS album)|Be]]'' ***[[Blackpink]]'s ''[[The Album (Blackpink album)|The Album]]'' ***[[NCT (group)|NCT]]'s ''[[Neo Zone]]'' and ''[[NCT 2020 Resonance]]'' ***[[Twice]]'s ''[[Eyes Wide Open (Twice album)|Eyes Wide Open]]'' ***[[Stray Kids]]' ''[[Go Live (album)|Go Live]]'' ***[[Yukika Teramoto]]'s ''[[Soul Lady]]'' ***[[BoA]]'s ''[[Better (BoA album)|Better]]'' ***[[Lee Tae-min|Taemin]]'s ''[[Never Gonna Dance Again (album)|Never Gonna Dance Again]]'' ***[[Tomorrow X Together]]'s ''[[Minisode1: Blue Hour]]'' **The [[COVID-19 pandemic]] results in the cancellation or postponement of numerous music-related events scheduled to take place this year, including major tours, festivals and television appearances. == 2010s == {{Main|2010s in music}} *'''[[2019 in music]]''', '''[[2019 in African music]]''', '''[[2019 in American music]]''', '''[[2019 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2019 in British music]]''', '''[[2019 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2019 in Danish music]]''', '''[[2019 in European music]]''', '''[[2019 in Finnish music]]''', '''[[2019 in Icelandic music]]''', '''[[2019 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2019 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2019 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2019 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2019 in Scandinavian music]]''', '''[[2019 in South Korean music]]''', '''[[2019 in Swedish music]]''' *Deaths of [[Michel Legrand]], [[André Previn]], [[Doris Duke]], [[Peggy Lipton]], [[Doris Day]], [[Dr. John]], [[João Gilberto]], [[Ric Ocasek]], [[Ginger Baker]], [[Juice WRLD]], [[Keith Flint]], [[Nipsey Hussle]] **Notable releases: *** [[Maggie Rogers]]’ ''[[Heard It In A Past Life]]'' ***[[Ariana Grande]]'s ''[[Thank U, Next]]'' ***[[Madonna]]'s ''[[Madame X (album)|Madame X]]'' ***[[Bring Me the Horizon]]'s ''[[Amo (Bring Me the Horizon album)|Amo]]''<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/bring-me-the-horizon-on-their-emotional-new-album-amo-everything-boils-down-to-love-in-the-end-2370874 | title=Bring Me the Horizon on how divorce and trauma shaped new album 'Amo': 'Everything boils down to love in the end'| website=[[NME]]| date=2018-08-25}}</ref> ***[[Lewis Capaldi]]'s ''[[Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent]]'' ***[[Tool (band)|Tool]]'s ''[[Fear Inoculum]]''<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/09/tool-album-2019/ | title=Maynard James Keenan says Tool's new album is coming in 2019| date=2018-09-10}}</ref> ***[[Tyler, The Creator]]'s ''[[Igor (album)|Igor]]'' ***[[Toby Marlow]] and Lucy Moss' musical ''[[Six (musical)|Six]]'' (originally performed in 2017) debuts in the West End ***[[Charli XCX]]'s ''[[Charli (album)|Charli]]'' ***[[Lana Del Rey]]'s ''[[Norman Fucking Rockwell!|Norman F***ing Rockwell!]]'' ***[[Taylor Swift]]'s ''[[Lover (Taylor Swift album)|Lover]]'' ***[[FKA Twigs]]'s ''[[Magdalene (album)|Magdalene]]'' ***[[MadGibbs|Freddie Gibbs & Madlib]]'s ''[[Bandana (album)|Bandana]]'' ***[[Weyes Blood]]'s ''[[Titanic Rising]]'' ***[[Carly Rae Jepsen]]'s ''[[Dedicated (Carly Rae Jepsen album)|Dedicated]]'' ***[[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]]' ''[[Ghosteen]]'' ***[[DaBaby]]' ''[[Baby on Baby]]'' ***[[Thom Yorke]]' ''[[Anima (Thom Yorke album)|Anima]]'' ***[[BTS]]' ''[[Map of the Soul: Persona]]'' ***[[Billie Eilish]]'s ''[[When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?]]'' ***[[Babymetal]]'s ''[[Metal Galaxy]]'' *'''[[2018 in music]]''', '''[[2018 in African music]]''', '''[[2018 in American music]]''', '''[[2018 in Australian music]]''', '''[[2018 in British music]]''', '''[[2018 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2018 in Chinese music]]''', '''[[2018 in Danish music]]''', '''[[2018 in European music]]''', '''[[2018 in Finnish music]]''', '''[[2018 in Icelandic music]]''', '''[[2018 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2018 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2018 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2018 in Scandinavian music]]''', '''[[2018 in South Korean music]]''', '''[[2018 in Swedish music]]''' **Deaths of [[Hugh Masekela]], [[Tom Rapp]], [[Vic Damone]], [[Bud Luckey]], [[Fredo Santana]], [[Craig Mack]], [[Avicii]], [[XXXTentacion]], [[Jimmy Wopo]], [[Joe Jackson (manager)|Joe Jackson]], [[Aretha Franklin]], [[Mac Miller]], [[Dolores O'Riordan]], [[Charles Aznavour]], [[Pete Shelley]] **Notable releases: ***[[Ariana Grande]]'s ''[[Sweetener (album)|Sweetener]]'' ***[[Christina Aguilera]]'s ''[[Liberation (Christina Aguilera album)|Liberation]]'' ***[[Earl Sweatshirt]]'s ''[[Some Rap Songs]]'' ***[[Car Seat Headrest]]'s ''[[Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)]]'', a reworking of their 2011 album ''[[Twin Fantasy]]'' ***[[Migos]]' ''[[Culture II]]'' ***[[Nasty C]]'s ''[[Strings and Bling]]'' ***[[Camila Cabello]]'s ''[[Camila (album)|self-titled album]]'' ***[[Panic! At the Disco]]'s ''[[Pray for the Wicked]]'' ***[[Kendrick Lamar]]'s ''[[Black Panther: The Album]]'' for the 2018 [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] film ''[[Black Panther (film)|Black Panther]]'' ***[[Cardi B]]'s ''[[Invasion of Privacy (album)|Invasion of Privacy]]'' ***[[Kacey Musgraves]]'s ''[[Golden Hour (Kacey Musgraves album)|Golden Hour]]'' ***[[Parquet Courts]]' ''[[Wide Awake!]]'' ***[[A Perfect Circle]]'s ''[[Eat the Elephant]]'' ***[[Kanye West]]'s ''[[Ye (album)|Ye]]'' ***[[Nas]]'s ''[[Nasir (album)|NASIR]]'' ***[[Mac Miller]]'s ''[[Swimming (Mac Miller album)|Swimming]]'' ***[[Eminem]]'s ''[[Kamikaze (Eminem album)|Kamikaze]]'' ***[[Paul McCartney]]'s ''[[Egypt Station]]'' ***[[Brockhampton (band)|Brockhampton]]'s ''[[Iridescence (album)|Iridescence]]'' ***[[Kids See Ghosts]]'s ''[[Kids See Ghosts (album)|self-titled album]]'' ***[[Khruangbin]]'s ''[[Con Todo el Mundo]]'' ***[[Molchat Doma]]'s ''[[Etazhi]]'' ***[[Daughters (band)|Daughters]]' ''[[You Won't Get What You Want]]'' ***[[Noname (rapper)|Noname]]'s ''[[Room 25]]'' ***[[Tim Hecker]]'s ''[[Konoyo]]'' ***[[Jon Hopkins]]'s ''[[Singularity (Jon Hopkins album)|Singularity]]'' ***[[Nicolas Jaar|Against All Logic]]'s ''[[2012–2017]]'' ***[[BTS]]' ''[[Love Yourself: Tear]]'' ***[[Exo]]'s ''[[Don't Mess Up My Tempo]]'' ***[[Blackpink]]'s ''[[Square Up (EP)|Square Up]]'' ***[[Monsta X]]'s ''[[Take.1 Are You There?]]'' *'''[[2017 in music]]''', '''[[2017 in African music]]''', '''[[2017 in American music]]''', '''[[2017 in Australian music]]''', '''[[2017 in British music]]''', '''[[2017 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2017 in Chinese music]]''', '''[[2017 in Danish music]]''', '''[[2017 in European music]]''', '''[[2017 in Finnish music]]''', '''[[2017 in Icelandic music]]''', '''[[2017 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2017 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2017 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2017 in Scandinavian music]]''', '''[[2017 in South Korean music]]''', '''[[2017 in Swedish music]]''' **Deaths of [[Tom Petty]], [[Chester Bennington]], [[Al Jarreau]], [[Fats Domino]], [[Allan Holdsworth]], [[Chuck Berry]], [[J. Geils]], [[John Wetton]], [[Larry Coryell]], [[Svend Asmussen]], [[Chris Cornell]], [[Gregg Allman]], [[Butch Trucks]], [[Rosalie Sorrels]], [[Prodigy (rapper)|Prodigy]], [[Glen Campbell]], [[Walter Becker]], [[Grant Hart]], [[Walter "Junie" Morrison]], [[Jaki Liebezeit]], [[Holger Czukay]], [[David Cassidy]], [[Johnny Hallyday]], [[Keely Smith]], [[Malcolm Young]], [[Pierre Henry]] and [[Lil Peep]] **The [[One Love Manchester]] event takes place after the devastating Manchester Arena bomb attacks, following an [[Ariana Grande]] concert. **Notable releases: ***[[Katy Perry]]'s ''[[Witness (Katy Perry album)|Witness]]'' ***[[Taylor Swift]]'s ''[[Reputation (Taylor Swift album)|Reputation]]'' ***[[Imagine Dragons]]' ''[[Evolve (Imagine Dragons album)|Evolve]]'' ***[[Jay Z]]'s ''[[4:44 (album)|4:44]]'' ***[[Linkin Park]]'s ''[[One More Light]]'' ***[[Sepultura]]'s ''[[Machine Messiah (album)|Machine Messiah]]'' ***[[The xx]]'s ''[[I See You (The xx album)|I See You]]'' ***[[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]]'s ''[[The Thrill of It All (Sam Smith album)|The Thrill of It All]]'' ***[[Stormzy]]'s ''[[Gang Signs & Prayer]]'' ***[[Demi Lovato]]'s ''[[Tell Me You Love Me (Demi Lovato album)|Tell Me You Love Me]]'' ***[[Dua Lipa]]'s ''[[Dua Lipa (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Sampha]]'s ''[[Process (Sampha album)|Process]]'' ***[[Ed Sheeran]]'s ''[[÷ (album)|÷]]'' ***[[Thundercat (musician)|Thundercat]]'s ''[[Drunk (Thundercat album)|Drunk]]'' ***[[Lorde]]'s ''[[Melodrama (Lorde album)|Melodrama]]'' ***[[Pasek and Paul]]'s [[The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|soundtrack]] to the 20th Century Fox musical film ''[[The Greatest Showman]]'' ***[[Kendrick Lamar]]'s ''[[Damn (Kendrick Lamar album)|DAMN.]]'' ***[[Rag'n'Bone Man]]'s ''[[Human (Rag'n'Bone Man album)|Human]]'' ***[[SZA]]'s ''[[Ctrl (SZA album)|Ctrl]]'' ***[[Drake (musician)|Drake]]'s ''[[More Life]]'' ***[[Smino]]'s ''[[blkswn]]'' ***[[Tyler, The Creator]]'s ''[[Flower Boy]]'' ***[[Brockhampton (band)|BROCKHAMPTON]]'s ''[[Saturation (Brockhampton album)|Saturation]]'', ''[[Saturation II]]'', and ''[[Saturation III]]'' ***[[Rex Orange County]]'s ''[[Apricot Princess]]'' ***[[Father John Misty]]'s ''[[Pure Comedy]]'' ***[[Ryuichi Sakamoto]]'s ''[[async (album)|async]]'' **[[Luis Fonsi]] and [[Daddy Yankee]] release the record breaking hit single "[[Despacito]]". *'''[[2016 in music]]''', '''[[2016 in African music]]''', '''[[2016 in American music]]''', '''[[2016 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2016 in Australian music]]''', '''[[2016 in Brazilian music]]''','''[[2016 in British music]]''', '''[[2016 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2016 in Chinese music]]''', '''[[2016 in Danish music]]''', '''[[2016 in European music]]''' ([[Continental Europe]]), '''[[2016 in Finnish music]]''', '''[[2016 in French music]]''', '''[[2016 in German music]]''', '''[[2016 in Icelandic music]]''', '''[[2016 in Indian music]]''', '''[[2016 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2016 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2016 in Malaysian music]]''', '''[[2016 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2016 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2016 in Scandinavian music]]''', '''[[2016 in South Korean music]]''', '''[[2016 in Swedish music]]''', '''2016 in Vietnamese music''' **Deaths of [[Juan Gabriel]], [[Paul Bley]], [[Pierre Boulez]], [[Elizabeth Swados]], [[David Bowie]], [[Paul Kantner]], [[Glenn Frey]], [[Leif Solberg]], [[Harald Devold]], [[George Martin]], [[Naná Vasconcelos]], [[Keith Emerson]], [[Merle Haggard]], [[Christina Grimmie]], [[Glenn Yarbrough]], [[Dan Hicks (singer)|Dan Hicks]], [[Maurice White]], [[Pete Burns]], [[John Berry (Beastie Boys)|John Berry]], [[Vanity (singer)|Vanity]], [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], [[Oscar Brand]], [[Mose Allison]], [[Nick Menza]], the members of [[Viola Beach]], [[Fred Hellerman]], [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Leon Russell]], [[Sharon Jones]], [[Phife Dawg]], [[Greg Lake]] and [[George Michael]] **Notable releases: ***[[David Bowie]]'s ''[[Blackstar (album)|Blackstar]]'' ***[[Chance the Rapper]]'s ''[[Coloring Book (mixtape)|Coloring Book]]'' ***[[Leonard Cohen]]'s ''[[You Want It Darker]]'' ***[[Gwen Stefani]]'s ''[[This Is What the Truth Feels Like]]'' ***[[Ariana Grande]]'s ''[[Dangerous Woman]]'' ***[[Britney Spears]]' ''[[Glory (Britney Spears album)|Glory]]'' ***[[A Tribe Called Quest]]'s ''[[We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service]]'' ***[[Nick Jonas]]'s ''[[Last Year Was Complicated]]'' ***[[Bruno Mars]]'s ''[[24K Magic (album)|24K Magic]]'' ***[[Post Malone]]'s ''[[Stoney (album)|Stoney]]'' ***[[Green Day]]'s ''[[Revolution Radio]]'' ***[[Blink-182]]'s ''[[California (Blink-182 album)|California]]'' ***[[Lady Gaga]]'s ''[[Joanne (album)|Joanne]]'' ***[[Beyoncé]]'s ''[[Lemonade (Beyoncé album)|Lemonade]]'' ***[[Drake (musician)|Drake]]'s ''[[Views (Drake album)|Views]]'' ***Yussef Kamaal's ''[[Black Focus]]'' ***[[Rihanna]]'s ''[[Anti (album)|Anti]]'' ***[[Tove Lo]]'s ''[[Lady Wood (album)|Lady Wood]]'' ***[[The Weeknd]]'s ''[[Starboy (album)|Starboy]]'' ***[[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s ''[[The Stage (album)|The Stage]]'' ***[[Metal Church]]'s ''[[XI (Metal Church album)|XI]]'' ***[[Metallica]]'s ''[[Hardwired... to Self-Destruct]]'' ***[[Megadeth]]'s ''[[Dystopia (Megadeth album)|Dystopia]]'' ***[[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]]'s ''[[For All Kings]]'' ***[[Testament (band)|Testament]]'s ''[[Brotherhood of the Snake]]'' ***[[Bon Jovi]]'s ''[[This House Is Not for Sale]]'' ***[[Kanye West]]'s ''[[The Life of Pablo]]'' ***[[Solange Knowles|Solange]]'s ''[[A Seat at the Table]]'' ***[[Panic! at the Disco]]'s ''[[Death of a Bachelor]]'' ***[[Kendrick Lamar]]'s ''[[Untitled Unmastered]]'' ***[[Childish Gambino]]'s ''[["Awaken, My Love!"]]'' ***[[Kings of Leon]]'s ''[[Walls (Kings of Leon album)|Walls]]'' ***[[Radiohead]]'s ''[[A Moon Shaped Pool]]'' ***[[Frank Ocean]]'s ''[[Blonde (Frank Ocean album)|Blonde]]'' and ''[[Endless (Frank Ocean album)|Endless]]'' ***[[BTS]]' ''[[Wings (BTS album)|Wings]]'' ***[[Babymetal]]'s ''[[Metal Resistance]]'' ***[[Justin Timberlake]]'s record breaking single "[[Can't Stop the Feeling]]" (from the [[Trolls (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] to the DreamWorks Animation film ''[[Trolls (film)|Trolls]]''). *'''[[2015 in music]]''', '''[[2015 in American music]]''', '''[[2015 in Australian music]]''', '''[[2015 in British music]]''', '''[[2015 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2015 in Chinese music]]''', '''[[2015 in Danish music]]''', '''[[2015 in European music]]''' ([[Continental Europe]]), '''[[2015 in Finnish music]]''', '''[[2015 in Icelandic music]]''', '''[[2015 in Indian music]]''', '''[[2015 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2015 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2015 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2015 in South Korean music]]''', '''[[2015 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2015 in Swedish music]]''' **Deaths of [[Lemmy]], [[Clark Terry]], [[Erik Amundsen]], [[Rod McKuen]], [[John Eaton (composer)|John Eaton]], [[Lesley Gore]], [[Percy Sledge]], [[Ben E. King]], [[B.B. King]], [[Jean Ritchie]], [[Ronnie Gilbert]], [[Ornette Coleman]], [[Theodore Bikel]], [[Bob Johnston]], [[Kurt Masur]], [[Nora Brockstedt]], [[Scott Weiland]], [[Svein Christiansen]], [[Gary Richrath]], [[Dallas Taylor (drummer)|Dallas Taylor]], [[Kim Fowley]], [[James Last]] and [[Natalie Cole]]. **Notable releases: ***[[Twenty One Pilots]]'s ''[[Blurryface]]'' ***[[Coldplay]]'s ''[[A Head Full of Dreams]]'' ***[[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s ''[[The Magic Whip]]'' ***[[Kendrick Lamar]]'s ''[[To Pimp A Butterfly]]'' ***[[Breaking Benjamin]]'s ''[[Dark Before Dawn]]'' ***[[Disturbed (band)|Disturbed]]'s ''[[Immortalized (Disturbed album)|Immortalized]]'' ***[[Electric Light Orchestra|Jeff Lynne's ELO]]'s ''[[Alone in the Universe]]'' ***[[Sufjan Stevens]]'s ''[[Carrie & Lowell]]'' ***[[Travis Scott]]'s ''[[Rodeo (Travis Scott album)|Rodeo]]'' ***[[Adele]]'s ''[[25 (Adele album)|25]]'' ***[[Iron Maiden]]'s ''[[The Book of Souls]]'' ***[[Tame Impala]]'s ''[[Currents (Tame Impala album)|Currents]]'' ***[[Kamasi Washington]]'s ''[[The Epic (album)|The Epic]]'' ***[[Slayer]]'s ''[[Repentless]]'' ***[[Madonna]]'s ''[[Rebel Heart (Madonna album)|Rebel Heart]]'' ***[[Marius Neset]]'s ''[[Pinball (Marius Neset album)|Pinball]]'' ***[[Dag Arnesen]]'s ''Grieg, Tveitt & I'' ***[[Olga Konkova|Olga Konkova Trio]]'s ''The Goldilocks Zone'' ***[[Death Grips]]'s ''[[The Powers That B]]'' ***[[Pentatonix]]'s ''[[Pentatonix (album)|self-titled]]'' ***[[Lin-Manuel Miranda]]'s ''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]]'' ***[[Faith No More]]'s ''[[Sol Invictus (album)|Sol Invictus]]'' ***[[Demi Lovato]]'s ''[[Confident (Demi Lovato album)|Confident]]'' ***[[Selena Gomez]]'s ''[[Revival (Selena Gomez album)|Revival]]'' ***[[Oneohtrix Point Never]]'s ''[[Garden of Delete]]'' ***[[Carly Rae Jepsen]]'s ''[[Emotion (Carly Rae Jepsen album)|E•MO•TION]]'' ***[[2814]]'s ''[[Birth of a New Day]]'' ***[[Björk]]'s ''[[Vulnicura]]'' ***Death's Dynamic Shroud.wmv's ''[[I'll Try Living Like This]]'' **[[Silento]] releases his hit song ''[[Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)]]'', that creates a viral dance trend. **[[Wiz Khalifa]] and [[Charlie Puth]] release "[[See You Again]]" for the film, ''[[Furious 7]]'', as a tribute to [[Paul Walker]], who died in a car crash. **[[Jerry Lee Lewis]] embarks on a final tour of the UK. *'''[[2014 in music]]''', '''[[2014 in American music]]''', '''[[2014 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2014 in Australian music]]''', '''[[2014 in Brazilian music]]''', '''[[2014 in British music]]''', '''[[2014 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2014 in Chinese music]]''', '''[[2014 in European music]]''' ([[Continental Europe]]), '''[[2014 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2014 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2014 in New Zealand music]]''', '''[[2014 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2014 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2014 in South Korean music]]''', '''[[2014 in Swedish music]]''' **Death of [[Phil Everly]], [[Pete Seeger]], [[Casey Kasem]], [[Bobby Womack]], [[Tommy Ramone]], [[Johnny Winter]], [[Robin Williams]], [[Paco De Lucia]], [[Jack Bruce]], [[Bobby Keys]], [[Joe Cocker]] ** [[Ringo Starr]] and [[Paul McCartney]] perform together on 50th anniversary celebration to [[the Beatles]], with performances by various artists. **Notable releases: ***[[Lady Gaga]] and [[Tony Bennett]]'s ''[[Cheek to Cheek (album)|Cheek to Cheek]]'' ***[[Ed Sheeran]]'s ''[[X (Ed Sheeran album)|x]]'' ***[[Linkin Park]]'s ''[[The Hunting Party (album)|The Hunting Party]]'' ***[[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]]'s ''[[.5: The Gray Chapter]]'' ***[[Coldplay]]'s ''[[Ghost Stories (Coldplay album)|Ghost Stories]]'' ***[[Jackie Evancho]]'s ''[[Awakening (Jackie Evancho album)|Awakening]]'' ***[[Taylor Swift]]'s ''[[1989 (Taylor Swift album)|1989]]'' ***[[Jake Bugg]]'s ''[[Shangri La (Jake Bugg album)|Shangri-La]]'' ***[[Sia]]'s ''[[1000 Forms of Fear]]'' ***[[Bob Dylan]]'s ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete]]'' ***[[J. Cole]]'s ''[[2014 Forest Hills Drive]]'' ***[[U2]]'s ''[[Songs of Innocence]]'' ***[[Beck]]'s ''[[Morning Phase]]'' ***[[Freddie Gibbs]] and [[Madlib]]'s ''[[Piñata (Freddie Gibbs and Madlib album)|Piñata]]'' ***[[Aphex Twin]]'s ''[[Syro]]'' ***[[Machine Girl]]'s ''WLFGRL'' ***[[BadBadNotGood]]'s ''[[III (BadBadNotGood album)|III]]'' ***[[Todd Terje]]'s ''[[It's Album Time]]'' ***[[Arca (musician)|Arca]]'s ''[[Xen (album)|Xen]]'' ***[[Babymetal]]'s ''[[Babymetal (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]]'s ''[[In the Lonely Hour]]'' ***[[Nicki Minaj]]'s ''[[Pinkprint]]'' ***[[Pharrell Williams]]'s ''[[Girl (Pharrell Williams album)|Girl]]'' ***[[Exodus (American band)|Exodus]]' ''[[Blood In, Blood Out (Exodus album)|Blood In, Blood Out]]'' ***[[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[The Endless River]]'' **[[Mark Ronson]] teams up with [[Bruno Mars]] to record the number one hit single ''[[Uptown Funk]]'' *'''[[2013 in music]]''', '''[[2013 in American music]]''', '''[[2013 in Australian music]]''', '''[[2013 in British music]]''', '''[[2013 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2013 in European music]]''' ([[Continental Europe]]), '''[[2013 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2013 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2013 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2013 in South Korean music]]''', '''[[2013 in Swedish music]]''' **Death of [[Patti Page]], [[Cecil Womack]], [[Lil Snupe]], [[Alvin Lee]], [[Clive Burr]], [[Jeff Hanneman]], [[Lou Reed]], [[Cory Monteith]], and [[Ray Manzarek]]. **Notable releases: ***[[Lorde]]'s ''[[Pure Heroine]]'' ***[[Lady Gaga]]'s ''[[Artpop]]'' ***[[Katy Perry]]'s ''[[Prism (Katy Perry album)|Prism]]'' ***[[Justin Timberlake]]'s ''[[The 20/20 Experience]]'' ***[[Chance The Rapper]]'s ''[[Acid Rap]]'' ***[[Tyler, The Creator]]'s ''[[Wolf (Tyler, The Creator album)|Wolf]]'' ***[[Daft Punk]]’s ''[[Random Access Memories]]'' ***[[Boards of Canada]]’s ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' ***[[Oneohtrix Point Never]]’s ''[[R Plus Seven]]'' ***[[Tim Hecker]]’s ''[[Virgins (album)|Virgins]]'' ***[[Jon Hopkins]]’ ''[[Immunity (Jon Hopkins album)|Immunity]]'' ***[[William Onyeabor]]’s ''[[Who is William Onyeabor?]]'' ***[[Kyary Pamyu Pamyu]] releases ''[[Nanda Collection]]'' ***[[Anamanaguchi]] releases ''[[Endless Fantasy]]'' ***[[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]]'s ''[[m b v (album)|m b v]]'' ***[[Disclosure (band)|Disclosure]]'s ''[[Settle (album)|Settle]]'' ***[[Jay-Z]]'s ''[[Magna Carta Holy Grail]]'' ***[[Oneohtrix Point Never]]'s ''[[R Plus Seven]]'' **Actress [[Anna Kendrick]] releases ''[[Cups (song)#Anna Kendrick cover|Cups (When I'm Gone)]]'' (featured on the [[Pitch Perfect (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] to the film ''[[Pitch Perfect]]'') *'''[[2012 in music]]''', '''[[2012 in African music]]''', '''[[2012 in American music]]''', '''[[2012 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2012 in Australian music]]''', '''[[2012 in British music]]''', '''[[2012 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2012 in European music]]''' ([[Continental Europe]]), '''[[2012 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2012 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2012 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2012 in New Zealand music]]''', '''[[2012 in Swedish music]]''', '''[[2012 in South Korean music]]''' **Death of [[Ian Bargh]], [[Whitney Houston]], [[Etta James]], [[Ravi Shankar]], [[Davy Jones (musician)|Davy Jones]], [[Robert B. Sherman]], [[Earl Scruggs]], [[Levon Helm]], [[Adam Yauch]], [[Donna Summer]], [[Robin Gibb]], [[Doc Watson]], [[Bob Welch (musician)|Bob Welch]], [[Kitty Wells]], [[Jon Lord]], [[Andy Williams]], [[Jenni Rivera]], [[Mitch Lucker]], [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]], [[Dave Brubeck]] and [[Richard Rodney Bennett]]. **[[The Beach Boys]] embark on a 2012 world tour celebrating their 50th Anniversary. **[[Swedish House Mafia]] announce their break up and embark on [[One Last Tour]]. **English singer-songwriter [[Jake Bugg]] releases his debut album, [[Jake Bugg (album)|Jake Bugg]]. **[[Madonna]]'s 12th studio album is released, entitled ''[[MDNA (album)|MDNA]]''. It tops the charts across the globe including the United Kingdom where she becomes the solo artist with the most number one albums and the UK breaks the iTunes pre-order record.<ref>[http://www.prefixmag.com/news/madonna-breaks-itunes-pre-order-record-with-mdna/61765/ Madonna Breaks iTunes Pre-Order Record With 'MDNA' | Prefix<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210225/http://www.prefixmag.com/news/madonna-breaks-itunes-pre-order-record-with-mdna/61765/ |date=March 3, 2016 }}</ref> To support the album she embarks on [[The MDNA Tour]] which grosses over $305 million and becomes the second highest grossing female tour, behind her own [[Sticky and Sweet Tour]]. **South Korean pop singer [[Psy]] releases his album ''[[Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1]]'', which includes the viral dance song, ''[[Gangnam Style]]'', that becomes the most viewed YouTube video for 5 years. **[[Nicki Minaj]] releases her album ''[[Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded]]'' **[[Kesha]] releases ''[[Warrior (Kesha album)|Warrior]]'' **[[Taylor Swift]] releases ''[[Red (Taylor Swift album)|Red]]'' **[[Tame Impala]] releases ''[[Lonerism]]'' **[[Kyary Pamyu Pamyu]] releases ''[[Pamyu Pamyu Revolution]]'' **[[Kendrick Lamar]] releases ''[[good kid, m.A.A.d city]]'' **[[Frank Ocean]] releases ''[[Channel Orange]]'' **[[Lana Del Rey]] releases ''[[Born to Die]]'' **[[Imagine Dragons]] release ''[[Night Visions]]'' **[[Godspeed You! Black Emperor]] release ''[['Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!]]'' **[[Flying Lotus]] releases ''[[Until the Quiet Comes]]'' **[[Blank Banshee]] releases ''[[Blank Banshee 0]]'' *'''[[2011 in music]]''', '''[[2011 in American music]]''', '''[[2011 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2011 in British music]]''', '''[[2011 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2011 in European music]]''' ([[Continental Europe]]), '''[[2011 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2011 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2011 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2011 in Swedish music]]''' **Death of [[Gerry Rafferty]], [[Gary Moore]], [[George Shearing]], [[Mike Starr (musician)|Mike Starr]], [[Ferlin Husky]], [[Gil Scott-Heron]], [[Clarence Clemons]], [[Amy Winehouse]], [[Sylvia Robinson]], [[Bert Jansch]], and [[Dobie Gray]]. **English singer [[Adele]] released the album ''[[21 (Adele album)|21]]'', which had sold 26.4 million copies worldwide according to the [[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry]], became the best selling album in the past 15 years, and also won six Grammys. **[[Lady Gaga]] releases her iconic album ''[[Born This Way (album)|Born This Way]]'' **[[Jessie J]] releases her debut studio album, ''[[Who You Are (Jessie J album)|Who You Are]]'' **[[LMFAO (band)|LMFAO]] release the album ''[[Sorry for Party Rocking]]'' **[[Radiohead]] release the album ''[[The King of Limbs]]'' **[[Vektroid]] release the album ''[[Floral Shoppe]]'' **[[Oneohtrix Point Never]] releases the album ''[[Replica (Oneohtrix Point Never album)|Replica]]'' **[[The Caretaker (musician)|The Caretaker]] releases the album ''[[An Empty Bliss Beyond This World]]'' **[[Tim Hecker]] releases the album ''[[Ravedeath, 1972]]'' **[[James Ferraro]] releases the album ''[[Far Side Virtual]]'' **[[Rustie]] releases the album ''[[Glass Swords]]'' **[[C418]] releases ''[[Minecraft (soundtrack)#Minecraft – Volume Alpha|Minecraft – Volume Alpha]]'', the first [[soundtrack album]] to the [[Sandbox game|sandbox video game]] ''[[Minecraft]]'' **[[Robert Lopez]] and ''[[South Park]]'' creators [[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]] team up and create the musical ''[[The Book of Mormon (musical)|The Book of Mormon]]''. **[[Gotye]] releases the album ''[[Making Mirrors]]'', which features the number one hit single "[[Somebody That I Used to Know]]" **[[Rebecca Black]] releases her debut single, "[[Friday (Rebecca Black song)|Friday]]", to scathing reviews, and being the most disliked YouTube video until it was taken down 6 months later. *'''[[2010 in music]]''', '''[[2010 in American music]]''', '''[[2010 in Asian music]]''', '''[[2010 in Australian music]]''', '''[[2010 in British music]]''', '''[[2010 in European music]]''' ([[Continental Europe]]), '''[[2010 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2010 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2010 in New Zealand music]]''', '''[[2010 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2010 in Philippine music]]''', '''[[2010 in Swedish music]]''' **Tour of [[Jerry Lee Lewis]]. **[[Metallica]], [[Megadeth]], [[Slayer]] and [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]] perform together for the first time as part of [[The Big Four: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria|the Big 4]] shows. **Death of [[Teddy Pendergrass]], [[Ed Thigpen]], [[Kate McGarrigle]], [[Ronnie James Dio]], [[Peter Steele]], [[Paul Gray (American musician)|Paul Gray]], [[Lena Horne]], [[Jimmy Dean]], [[Tuli Kupferberg]], [[Eddie Fisher]], [[Joan Sutherland]] and [[Bobby Farrell]]. **Notable releases: ***[[Gorillaz]]'s ''[[Plastic Beach]]'' ***[[Flying Lotus]]'s ''[[Cosmogramma]]'' ***[[Four Tet]]'s ''[[There Is Love in You]]'' ***[[Nicki Minaj]]'s ''[[Pink Friday]]'' ***[[Tim Minchin]]'s ''[[Matilda the Musical]]'' ***[[Kanye West]]'s ''[[My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy]]'' ***[[Katy Perry]]'s ''[[Teenage Dream (Katy Perry album)|Teenage Dream]]'' ***[[CeeLo Green]]'s ''[[The Lady Killer (album)|The Lady Killer]]'' ***[[Kesha]] releases her first studio album, ''[[Animal (Kesha album)|Kesha]]'', as well as her first EP, ''[[Cannibal (EP)|Cannibal]]''. ***[[Yolanda Be Cool]]'s "[[We No Speak Americano]]" ***[[Bruno Mars]]'s ''[[Doo-Wops and Hooligans]]'' ***Australian musical project [[Tame Impala]] releases his debut album ''[[Innerspeaker]]'' == 2000s == {{Main|2000s in music}} [[File:M4100164.JPG|thumb|[[Live 8]] concerts took place in 9 countries worldwide during 2005.]] *'''[[2009 in music]]''', '''[[2009 in British music]]''', '''[[2009 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2009 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2009 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2009 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2009 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Michael Jackson]], [[The Rev|James Owen Sullivan]], [[Leon Kirchner]], [[Les Paul]], [[Ali Akbar Khan]], [[Merce Cunningham]], [[Ron Asheton]], [[Henri Pousseur]], [[Mary Travers (singer)|Mary Travers]], [[Stephen Gately]], and [[Alain Bashung]]. **[[Lady Gaga]] releases ''[[The Fame Monster]]'' **[[Britney Spears]] releases her comeback album ''[[Circus (Britney Spears album)|Circus]]'' which receives critical acclaim. **[[Flo Rida]] releases his studio album ''[[R.O.O.T.S.]]''. His lead single "[[Right Round]]" introduces future pop star [[Kesha]] to a mainstream audience. **[[Noel Gallagher]] departs from [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] after a heated confrontation with vocalist and brother [[Liam Gallagher]] in [[Rock en Seine]], [[France]] leading to the disbandment of [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]. **[[Phoenix (French band)|Phoenix]] release ''[[Lisztomania (song)|Lisztomania]]'' **[[Animal Collective]] releases ''[[Merriweather Post Pavilion (album)|Merriweather Post Pavilion]]'' **[[Owl City]] releases ''[[Ocean Eyes (album)|Ocean Eyes]]'' **[[Michael Bublé]] release ''[[Crazy Love (Michael Bublé album)|Crazy Love]]'' **[[The Heavy (band)|The Heavy]] release ''[[The House That Dirt Built]]'' **[[The Black Eyed Peas]] release ''[[The E.N.D]]'' **[[Ryuichi Sakamoto]] release ''[[Playing the Piano]]'' *Debut of: **[[Susan Boyle]]'s ''[[I Dreamed a Dream (album)|I Dreamed a Dream]]'' *'''[[2008 in music]]''', '''[[2008 in British music]]''', '''[[2008 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2008 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2008 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2008 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2008 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Mauricio Kagel]], [[Artie Traum]], [[Wilfrid Mellers]], [[LeRoi Moore]], [[Erik Darling]], [[Isaac Hayes]], [[Bo Diddley]], [[Richard Wright (musician)|Richard Wright]], [[Nick Reynolds]], [[Mitch Mitchell]], [[Miriam Makeba]], [[Odetta]], [[Eartha Kitt]], [[Freddie Hubbard]], and [[Robert Hazard]]. **[[Mariah Carey]]'s "[[Touch My Body (Mariah Carey song)|Touch My Body]]" becomes her 18th U.S. chart-topper, setting the record for most U.S. number ones singles by a solo artist – only behind [[the Beatles]] with 20 – and most weeks at number one on the Hot 100 chart with a total of 79. **[[Lil Wayne]] released ''[[Tha Carter III]]'' and sold 1 million copies in the first week, becoming the best selling album of 2008. **[[Madonna]]'s [[Sticky and Sweet Tour]] becomes the highest grossing female tour of all-time (surpassing her own record) and then the highest grossing solo tour of all time. It promotes her 11th studio album ''[[Hard Candy (Madonna album)|Hard Candy]]'' which sells 4 million copies and includes the international hit song "[[4 Minutes (Madonna song)|4 Minutes]]". **[[Kanye West]]'s ''[[808s & Heartbreak]]'' **[[Coldplay]]'s ''[[Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends]]'' **[[Lady Gaga]]'s first studio album, ''[[The Fame]]'' **[[Katy Perry]] releases her first studio album, ''[[One of the Boys (Katy Perry album)|One of the Boys]]'' **[[Taylor Swift]]'s second studio album, ''[[Fearless (Taylor Swift album)|Fearless]]'' releases. **[[Flying Lotus]]' ''[[Los Angeles (Flying Lotus album)|Los Angeles]]'' **[[Earth (American band)|Earth]]'s ''[[The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull]]'' **[[Terre Thaemlitz|DJ Sprinkles]]'s ''[[Midtown 120 Blues]]'' *'''[[2007 in music]]''', '''[[2007 in British music]]''', '''[[2007 in Canadian music]]''', '''[[2007 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2007 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[2007 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2007 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Beverly Sills]], [[Max Roach]], [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Izumi Sakai]], [[Luciano Pavarotti]], [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], and [[Don Arden]]. **[[Live Earth]] and [[Led Zeppelin]] reunion. **[[Radiohead]] splits from [[EMI]] and independently releases ''[[In Rainbows]]'' with an online download method of payment that allows the buyer to choose their price. **[[The Mars Volta]] releases one of the first [[USB flash drive]] albums, as part of their ''[[The Bedlam in Goliath]]''. **[[Kanye West]] releases ''[[Graduation (album)|Graduation]]'' **[[Mika (singer)|Mika]] releases ''[[Life in Cartoon Motion]]'' **[[Burial (musician)|Burial]] releases ''[[Untrue (album)|Untrue]]'' **[[Arcade Fire]] release ''[[Neon Bible]]'' **[[Animal Collective]] releases ''[[Strawberry Jam]]'' **[[LCD Soundsystem]] release ''[[Sound of Silver]]'' **[[Bon Iver]] releases ''[[For Emma, Forever Ago]]'' **[[Arctic Monkeys]] release ''[[Favourite Worst Nightmare]]'' **[[Panda Bear (musician)|Panda Bear]] releases ''[[Person Pitch]]'' **[[The National (band)|The National]] release ''[[Boxer (The National album)|Boxer]]'' **[[Alcest]] releases ''[[Souvenirs d'un autre monde]]'' **[[M.I.A. (rapper)|M.I.A.]] releases ''[[Kala (album)|Kala]]'' **[[Battles (band)|Battles]] releases ''[[Mirrored]]'' **[[Justice (band)|Justice]] release ''[[Cross (Justice album)|Cross]]'' * '''[[2006 in music]]''', '''[[2006 in British music]]''', '''[[2006 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2006 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2006 in South Korean music]]''', '''[[2006 in Swiss music]]''' **[[Jack Johnson (musician)|Jack Johnson]]'s [[Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George]] to the [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]]' animated feature ''[[Curious George (film)|Curious George]]'' ** [[System of a Down]] announces hiatus **[[Taylor Swift]] releases her debut album, ''[[Taylor Swift (album)|Taylor Swift]]'' ** [[Amy Winehouse]] releases ''[[Back to Black]]'' ** [[My Chemical Romance]] release ''[[The Black Parade]]'' ** [[Rihanna]] releases ''[[A Girl like Me (Rihanna album)|A Girl like Me]]'' ** [[Evanescence]] releases ''[[The Open Door]]'' ** [[J Dilla]] releases ''[[Donuts (album)|Donuts]]'' ** [[Arctic Monkeys]] release ''[[Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not]]'' ** [[Joanna Newsom]] releases ''[[Ys (Joanna Newsom album)|Ys]]'' ** [[Tool (band)|Tool]] release ''[[10,000 Days (Tool album)|10,000 Days]]'' ** [[Brand New (band)|Brand New]] release ''[[The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me]]'' ** [[Muse (band)|Muse]] releases ''[[Black Holes and Revelations]]'' ** [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] release ''[[Stadium Arcadium]]'' **Deaths of [[James Brown]] and [[Syd Barrett]]. * '''[[2005 in music]]''', '''[[2005 in British music]]''', '''[[2005 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2005 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2005 in South Korean music]]''', '''[[2005 in Swiss music]]''' **After four years, [[Gorillaz]] release their second studio album, ''[[Demon Days]]''. **[[Mariah Carey]] releases her 10-million selling ''[[The Emancipation of Mimi]]'', the best-selling album of the year worldwide, alongside the album's second single "[[We Belong Together]]", the year's most successful single, and the Song of the Decade 2000–2009. **Death of [[Luther Vandross]] and [[John Herald]]. **[[Pink Floyd]] reunion for [[Live 8]]. **[[R. Kelly]] releases his opera series ''[[Trapped in the Closet]]''. **[[Daft Punk]] release ''[[Human After All]]'' **[[Boris (band)|Boris]] release ''[[Pink (Boris album)|Pink]]'' **[[Boards of Canada]] release ''[[The Campfire Headphase]]'' **[[Venetian Snares]] release ''[[Rossz Csillag Alatt Született]]'' **[[Madonna]] releases ''[[Confessions on a Dance Floor]]'', her 10th studio album. It wins a Grammy award, Brit award, sells in excess of 12 million copies and has the worldwide hit "[[Hung Up]]" which tops the charts in a record-breaking 41 countries.<ref>[[Hung Up]]</ref> **[[Kanye West]] releases his album ''[[Late Registration]]'' **Musicals first performed: ***[[Monty Python]] member [[Eric Idle]] releases the Monty Python musical ''[[Spamalot]]'' ***[[Elton John]]'s [[Billy Elliot (musical)|musical adaptation]] of the British drama film ''[[Billy Elliot]]'', which features the song "[[Electricity (Elton John song)|Electricity]]" ***[[Bob Gaudio]]'s biopic [[The Four Seasons (band)|Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons]] musical ''[[Jersey Boys]]'' **Debuts by: ***[[Bullet for My Valentine]]'s ''[[The Poison]]'' *'''[[2004 in music]]''', '''[[2004 in British music]]''', '''[[2004 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2004 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2004 in South Korean music]]''' **Death of [[Ray Charles]], [[Rick James]], [[Dimebag Darrell]]. **[[Danger Mouse (musician)|Danger Mouse]] releases ''[[The Grey Album]]'', sparking days of electronic disobedience by Internet file sharers against [[EMI]]. **[[Green Day]] releases ''[[American Idiot]]'' to critical acclaim. **[[Madvillain]]'s ''[[Madvillainy]]'' **[[MF Doom]]'s ''[[Mm..Food]]'' **[[Green Day]]'s ''[[American Idiot]]'' **[[Animal Collective]]'s ''[[Sung Tongs]]'' **[[Modest Mouse]]'s ''[[Good News for People Who Love Bad News]]'' **[[Interpol (band)|Interpol]]'s ''[[Antics (album)|Antics]]'' **[[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]]'s ''[[Leviathan (Mastodon album)|Leviathan]]'' **[[Björk]]'s ''[[Medúlla]]'' **[[Eminem]]'s ''[[Encore (Eminem album)]]'' **Canadian singer [[Celine Dion]] became recipient of the Diamond award, and she was honored in 2004 by [[World Music Awards]] receiving the best selling female artist of all time. **Debut by: ***[[Kanye West]]'s ''[[The College Dropout]]'' ***[[The Go! Team]]'s ''[[Thunder, Lightning, Strike]]'' ***[[Arcade Fire]]'s ''[[Funeral (Arcade Fire album)|Funeral]]'' ***[[Franz Ferdinand (band)|Franz Ferdinand]]'s ''[[Franz Ferdinand (album)|self-titled album]]'' **Notable releases: ***Moldovan pop band [[O-Zone]] release "[[Dragostea Din Tei]]", going on to become an Internet sensation. *'''[[2003 in music]]''', '''[[2003 in British music]]''', '''[[2003 in Irish music]]''', '''[[2003 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2003 in South Korean music]]''' **Death of [[Nina Simone]], [[Celia Cruz]], [[June Carter Cash]], [[Johnny Cash]], [[Herbie Mann]], and [[John Serry Sr.]] **Debut by: ***[[Beyoncé]] ''[[Dangerously in Love]]'' **Notable releases: ***[[Linkin Park]]'s ''[[Meteora (album)|Meteora]]'' ***[[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]]'s musical ''[[Wicked (musical)|Wicked]]'' ***[[Outkast]]'s ''[[Speakerboxxx/The Love Below]]'' ***[[Robert Lopez]] and [[Jeff Marx]]'s ''[[Avenue Q]]'' ***[[Evanescence]]'s ''[[Fallen (Evanescence album)|Fallen]]'' ***[[The Black Eyed Peas]]' ''[[Elephunk]]'' ***[[Radiohead]]'s ''[[Hail to the Thief]]'' ***[[Kraftwerk]]'s ''[[Tour de France Soundtracks]]'' ***[[The White Stripes]]' ''[[Elephant (album)|Elephant]]'' ***[[Sleep (band)|Sleep]]'s ''[[Jerusalem and Dopesmoker]]'' ***[[Blink-182]]'s ''[[Blink-182 (album)|self-titled album]]'' ***[[Sweet Trip]]'s ''[[Velocity : Design : Comfort]]'' ***[[Explosions in the Sky]]'s ''[[The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place]]'' ***[[Boris (band)|Boris]]'s ''[[Boris at Last -Feedbacker-]]'' ***[[MF Doom]]'s ''[[Take Me to Your Leader (King Geedorah album)|Take Me to Your Leader]]'' ***[[Nujabes]]' ''[[Metaphorical Music]]'' ***[[Four Tet]]'s ''[[Rounds (album)|Rounds]]'' *'''[[2002 in music]]''', '''[[2002 in British music]]''', '''[[2002 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2002 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Waylon Jennings]], [[Dave Van Ronk]], [[Layne Staley]], [[Lisa Left-Eye Lopes]], [[Lonnie Donegan]], [[John Entwistle]] and [[Joe Strummer]]. **Beginning of ''[[American Idol]]'' (initially titled ''American Idol: The Search for a Superstar'') which brings the arrival of first winner [[Kelly Clarkson]]. **[[Alan Jackson]] releases ''[[Drive (Alan Jackson album)|Drive]]''. **[[Eminem]] releases ''[[The Eminem Show]]'' and "[[Lose Yourself]]" from his film ''[[8 Mile (film)|8 Mile]]'', the first rap song of its kind to win an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]]. **[[Justin Timberlake]] releases his debut album ''[[Justified (album)|Justified]]''. **[[Marc Shaiman]]'s [[Hairspray (musical)|musical adaptation]] of the film ''[[Hairspray (1988 film)|Hairspray]]'' first performed. **[[Junior Senior]] release ''[[D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat]]''. **[[Boards of Canada]] release ''[[Geogaddi]]'' **[[Godspeed You! Black Emperor]] releases ''[[Yanqui U.X.O.]]''. **[[Isis (band)|Isis]] releases ''[[Oceanic (Isis album)]]''. * '''[[2001 in music]]''', '''[[2001 in British music]]''', '''[[2001 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2001 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of [[Mimi Fariña]], [[Chet Atkins]], [[Aaliyah]], [[George Harrison]], [[John Lee Hooker]], [[John Phillips (musician)|John Phillips]], [[Perry Como]], [[Isaac Stern]], and [[Chuck Schuldiner]] **[[Duran Duran]] is reunited with the original five members and goes on tour for the first time since 1985. **[[Michael Jackson]]'s last studio album ''[[Invincible (Michael Jackson album)|Invincible]]'' released. **[[Gorillaz]]' [[Gorillaz (album)|self-titled debut album]] is released. **[[Daft Punk]] releases ''[[Discovery (Daft Punk album)|Discovery]]'' **[[Kylie Minogue]] releases ''[[Fever (Kylie Minogue album)|Fever]]'' **Comedy legend [[Mel Brooks]]' [[The Producers (musical)|musical adaptation]] of his 1967 film ''[[The Producers (1967 film)|The Producers]]'' first performed, starring [[Nathan Lane]] and [[Matthew Broderick]]. **[[Basement Jaxx]] release ''[[Rooty]]'' **[[Fennesz]] releases ''[[Endless Summer (Fennesz album)|Endless Summer]]'' **[[The Strokes]]' debut album ''[[Is This It]]'' is released **[[Rammstein]] releases ''[[Mutter (album)|Mutter]]'' **[[Opeth]] releases ''[[Blackwater Park]]'' **[[The Microphones]] releases ''[[The Glow Pt. 2]]'' **[[Muse (band)|Muse]] releases ''[[Origin of Symmetry]]'' **[[System of a Down]] releases ''[[Toxicity (album)|Toxicity]]'' **[[Björk]] releases ''[[Vespertine]]'' **[[Alicia Keys]] releases ''[[Songs in A Minor]]'' **[[Shakira]] releases ''[[Laundry Service (album)|Laundry Service]]'' **[[Manu Chao]] releases ''[[Próxima Estación: Esperanza]]'' **[[Tool (band)|Tool]] release ''[[Lateralus]]'' **[[Cornelius (musician)|Cornelius]] release ''[[Point (Cornelius album)|Point]]'' **[[Hikaru Utada]] releases ''[[Distance (Hikaru Utada album)|Distance]]'' **[[Aphex Twin]] releases ''[[Drukqs]]'' **[[Stars of the Lid]] releases ''[[The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid]]'' **[[Autechre]] releases ''[[Confield]]'' **[[Napster]]'s popularity peaks. **[[Metallica]] and [[Dr. Dre]] sue [[Napster]] over illegal distribution of their music. **Debuts by: ***[[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s ''[[Sounding the Seventh Trumpet]]'' ***[[My Chemical Romance]]’s "[[I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love]]" *'''[[2000 in music]]''', '''[[2000 in British music]]''', '''[[2000 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[2000 in South Korean music]]''' **[[Mariah Carey]] becomes the Best-Selling Artist of the Millennium according to the World Music Awards. **[[Britney Spears]]' ''[[Oops!... I Did It Again (album)|Oops!... I Did It Again]]'' sells over 23 million copies and becomes the best-selling album by a female artist of the decade. **[[Blink-182]] enjoy mainstream success (mainly from their hit single "[[All the Small Things]]") and lead pop-punk into the 21st Century. **[[Madonna]] releases her album ''[[Music (Madonna album)|Music]]'', which goes on to sell 15 million copies, becomes universally acclaimed, and gets nominated for 5 Grammy awards. It follows her 1998 comeback ''[[Ray of Light]]''. **Debuts by: ***[[Linkin Park]]'s ''[[Hybrid Theory]]'' ***[[Coldplay]]'s ''[[Parachutes (Coldplay album)|Parachutes]]'' ***[[Craig David]]'s ''[[Born to Do It]]'' ***[[The Avalanches]]' ''[[Since I Left You]]'' **Notable releases ***[[Eminem]]'s ''[[The Marshall Mathers LP]]'' ***[[Baha Men]]'s ''[[Who Let the Dogs Out (Baha Men album)|Who Let the Dogs Out?]]'' ***[[Outkast]]'s ''[[Stankonia]]'' ***[[Ayumi Hamasaki]]'s ''[[Duty (album)|Duty]]'' ***[[Mai Kuraki]]'s ''[[Delicious Way]]'' ***[[Ringo Sheena]]'s ''[[Shōso Strip]]'' ***[[Boris (band)|Boris]] release ''[[Flood (Boris album)|Flood]]'' ***[[Radiohead]]'s ''[[Kid A]]'' ***[[Godspeed You! Black Emperor]]'s ''[[Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven]]'' ***[[Vladislav Delay]]'s ''[[Vocalcity]]'' ***[[The Beatles]]'s ''[[1 (The Beatles album)|1]]'' === List of 10 best-selling albums of the 2000s === #[[The Beatles]] – ''[[1 (The Beatles album)|1]]'' – 31 million<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-beatles8-2009apr08,0,242705.story|title=Beatles' catalog will be reissued September 9 in remastered versions|last=Lewis|first=Randy|date=April 8, 2009|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=2009-05-02}}</ref> – 2000 #[[Norah Jones]] – ''[[Come Away with Me]]'' – 26 million<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/9229594/Norah-Jones-Little-Broken-Hearts-CD-review.html |title=Norah Jones Little Broken Hearts CD review|last=Brown|first=Helen|date=April 23, 2012|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=2012-04-27}}</ref> – 2002 #[[Backstreet Boys]] – ''[[Black & Blue (Backstreet Boys album)|Black & Blue]]'' – 24 million<ref name="Backstreet Windsor">{{cite news |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2008/10/143_17992.html |title=The boys are back |date=August 7, 2008|newspaper=Windsor Star|access-date=2008-08-21}}</ref><ref name="BSB sales updated!">{{cite news|url=http://hwww.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/music-news/2007/10/26/taking-it-back-86908-20012113/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420025430/http://hwww.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/music-news/2007/10/26/taking-it-back-86908-20012113/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 20, 2013 |title=Taking It Back |date=October 26, 2007 |newspaper=Daily Record |access-date=November 21, 2008 }}</ref> – 2000 #[[Linkin Park]] – ''[[Hybrid Theory]]'' – 24 million<ref name="Live earth Linkin">{{cite web|url=http://liveearth.org/sv/press/pressrelease/linkin-park-headlines-live-earth-tokyo |title=Linkin Park headlines Live Earth Tokyo |date=May 25, 2007 |publisher=Live Earth, LLC |access-date=2008-05-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306081521/http://liveearth.org/sv/press/pressrelease/linkin-park-headlines-live-earth-tokyo |archive-date=March 6, 2012}}</ref> – 2000 #[[Britney Spears]] – ''[[Oops!... I Did It Again (album)|Oops!... I Did It Again]] '' – 20 million<ref>{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/music/photos/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=28788021&page=5 |title=The Evolution of Britney Spears: 2000 – Oops... she did it again |publisher=[[MSN]] |date=May 12, 2011 |access-date=2012-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925003058/http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/music/photos/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=28788021&page=5 |archive-date=September 25, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> – 2000 #[[Usher (entertainer)|Usher]] – ''[[Confessions (Usher album)|Confessions]]'' – 20 million<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bet.com/video/music/u/usher/confessions-part-ii.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707205543/http://www.bet.com/video/music/u/usher/confessions-part-ii.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 7, 2011|title=Usher Confessions part II Video|publisher=Black Entertainment Television|access-date=June 23, 2012}}</ref> – 2004 #[[Eminem]] – ''[[The Eminem Show]]'' – 19 million<ref name="independent 2">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-real-slim-shady-stands-up-the-fans-on-his-european-tour-503319.html|archive-date=May 14, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514042111/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-real-slim-shady-stands-up-the-fans-on-his-european-tour-503319.html|newspaper=The Independent|location=London|title=The real Slim Shady stands up the fans on his European tour|first=Ciar|last=Byrne|date=August 18, 2005|url-status=dead|access-date=May 10, 2012}}</ref> – 2002 #[[Eminem]] – ''[[The Marshall Mathers LP]]'' – 19 million<ref name="independent 2"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://voices.yahoo.com/eminem-fast-rising-rapper-8607941.html?cat=9 |work=The Independent |location=London |title=Eminem – the Fast Rising Rapper |first=Stephanie |last=Raide |date=June 8, 2011 |access-date=2012-05-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022081505/http://voices.yahoo.com/eminem-fast-rising-rapper-8607941.html?cat=9 |archive-date=October 22, 2012}}</ref> – 2000 #[[Avril Lavigne]] – ''[[Let Go (Avril Lavigne album)|Let Go]]'' – 17 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=45518&cat=16|title=Avril Lavigne Ends North American Run of Shows with Two Dates in Washington Beginning May 9|date=May 4, 2008|publisher=transworldnews.com|access-date=May 29, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205061155/http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=45518&cat=16|archive-date=December 5, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref> – 2002 #[[Evanescence]] – ''[[Fallen (Evanescence album)|Fallen]]'' – 17 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/evanescence/2515781|title=Evanescence Biography|publisher=[[Artistdirect]]|access-date=2012-09-23|archive-date=February 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205094357/http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/evanescence/2515781|url-status=dead}}</ref> – 2003 == 1990s == {{Main|1990s in music}} *'''[[1999 in music]]''', '''[[1999 in British music]]''', '''[[1999 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[1999 in South Korean music]]''' **Arrival of [[...Baby One More Time (album)|Britney Spears]], [[Coldplay]], [[Jenni Rivera]], [[Christina Aguilera]], [[Jessica Simpson]], [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]], [[Muse (band)|Muse]] and [[Jennifer Lopez]]. **Deaths of [[Barış Manço]], [[Rick Danko]], [[Scatman John]] and [[Curtis Mayfield]]. **Notable releases: ***[[Dr. Dre]]'s ''[[2001 (Dr. Dre album)|2001]]'' ***[[Moby]]'s ''[[Play (Moby album)|Play]]'' ***[[Sigur Rós]]' ''[[Ágætis byrjun]]'' ***[[Santana (band)|Santana]]' ''[[Supernatural (Santana album)|Supernatural]]'' ***[[The Flaming Lips]]' ''[[The Soft Bulletin]]'' ***[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]'s ''[[Californication (album)|Californication]]'' ***[[MF Doom]]'s ''[[Operation: Doomsday]]'' ***[[Eminem]]'s ''[[The Slim Shady LP]]'' ***[[The Dismemberment Plan]]'s ''[[Emergency & I]]'' ***[[Nine Inch Nails]]' ''[[The Fragile]]'' ***[[Rage Against the Machine]]'s ''[[The Battle of Los Angeles (album)|The Battle of Los Angeles]]'' ***[[Opeth]]'s ''[[Still Life (Opeth album)|Still Life]]'' ***[[Mos Def]]'s ''[[Black on Both Sides]]'' ***[[Fiona Apple]]'s ''[[When the Pawn...]]'' ***[[Mr. Bungle]]'s ''[[California (Mr. Bungle album)|California]]'' ***[[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s ''[[13 (Blur album)|13]]'' ***[[Built to Spill]]'s ''[[Keep It Like a Secret]]'' ***[[Dream Theater]]'s ''[[Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory]]'' ***[[The Magnetic Fields]]' ''[[69 Love Songs]]'' ***[[The Roots]]'s ''[[Things Fall Apart (album)|Things Fall Apart]]'' ***[[Wilco]]'s ''[[Summerteeth]]'' ***[[Blink-182]]'s ''[[Enema of the State]]'' ***[[American Football (band)|American Football]]'s ''[[American Football (1999 album)|first self-titled album]]'' ***[[Fatboy Slim]]'s ''[[You've Come a Long Way, Baby]]'' ***[[Lynda Thomas]]' ''[[Mi Día de la Independencia]]'' ***[[Jamiroquai]]'s ''[[Synkronized]]'' ***[[Backstreet Boys]]' ''[[Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)|Millennium]]'' ***[[Christina Aguilera]]' ''[[Christina Aguilera (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Lou Bega]]'s ''[[Mambo No. 5#Lou Bega version|Mambo No. 5]]'' ***[[Ricky Martin]]'s ''[[Livin' la Vida Loca]]'' ***[[Eiffel 65]]'s ''[[Europop (album)|Europop]]'' ***[[Hikaru Utada]]'s ''[[First Love (Hikaru Utada album)|First Love]]'' ***[[Boredoms]]' ''[[Vision Creation Newsun]]'' ***[[Darude]]' ''[[Before the Storm (Darude album)|Before the Storm]]'' ***[[Mogwai]]'s ''[[Come On Die Young]]'' ***[[Burzum]]'s ''[[Hliðskjálf (album)|Hliðskjálf]]'' ***[[Mr. Oizo]]'s ''[[Analog Worms Attack]]'' ***[[Susumu Yokota]]'s ''[[Sakura (Susumu Yokota album)|Sakura]]'' ***[[Trey Parker]] and [[Marc Shaiman]]'s [[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] to the [[Comedy Central]] animated film ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'' **[[Benny Andersson]] and [[Björn Ulvaeus]]'s ABBA musical ''[[Mamma Mia! (musical)|Mamma Mia!]]'' first performed. *'''[[1998 in music]]''', '''[[1998 in British music]]''', '''[[1998 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[1998 in South Korean music]]''' **Deaths of: ***[[Frank Sinatra]] ***[[Hide (musician)|Hide]] ***[[Linda McCartney]] **[[Lauryn Hill]] releases ''[[The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill]]''. **[[Neutral Milk Hotel]] releases ''[[In the Aeroplane Over the Sea]]''. **[[The Offspring]] releases ''[[Americana (The Offspring album)|Americana]]''. **"[[I Don't Want to Miss a Thing]]" by [[Aerosmith]], from the Michael Bay film ''[[Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon]]'', becomes the first song by a rock band to debut at No. 1. **[[Insane Clown Posse]] gets dropped from [[the Walt Disney Company]]'s record label [[Hollywood Records]] after the release of ''[[The Great Milenko]]'', in order for Disney to prevent a violent [[Southern Baptist Church]] protest due to [[Walt Disney World]]'s [[Gay Days at Walt Disney World|Gay Days]] events. **[[Madonna]] releases her seventh studio album ''[[Ray of Light]]'' which goes on to sell over 16 million copies, become universally acclaimed and win 4 Grammy Awards. **[[Robbie Williams]] releases ''[[I've Been Expecting You]]'' **[[Lauryn Hill]] releases ''[[The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill]]'' **[[Boris (band)|Boris]] release ''[[Amplifier Worship]]'' **[[Massive Attack]] release ''[[Mezzanine (album)|Mezzanine]]'' **[[System of a Down]] release ''[[System of a Down (album)|their self-titled debut album]]'' **[[Outkast]] release ''[[Aquemini]]'' **[[Duster (band)|Duster]] release ''[[Stratosphere (Duster album)|Stratosphere]]'' **[[Elliott Smith]] releaseS ''[[XO (Elliott Smith album)|XO]]'' **[[Refused]] release ''[[The Shape of Punk to Come]]'' **[[Queens of the Stone Age]] release ''[[Queens of the Stone Age (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' **[[Belle and Sebastian]] release ''[[The Boy with the Arab Strap]]'' **[[Black Star (rap duo)|Black Star]] release ''[[Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star]]'' **[[The Smashing Pumpkins]] release ''[[Adore (album)|Adore]]'' **[[Pearl Jam]] release ''[[Yield (album)|Yield]]'' **[[Gorguts]] release ''[[Obscura (album)|Obscura]]'' **[[Air (French band)|Air]] release ''[[Moon Safari]]'' **[[Boards of Canada]] release ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' **[[Tortoise (band)|Tortoise]] release ''[[TNT (Tortoise album)|TNT]]'' **[[Autechre]] releases ''[[LP5]]'' **[[Don Caballero]] releases ''[[What Burns Never Returns]]'' **[[Amon Tobin]] releases ''[[Permutation (Amon Tobin album)|Permutation]]'' **[[Dirty Three]] release ''[[Ocean Songs]]'' **[[Gas (musician)|Gas]] releases ''[[Zauberberg (album)|Zauberberg]]'' and ''[[Königsforst]]'' **[[Andrea Bocelli]] and [[Celine Dion]] release "[[The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)|The Prayer]]" from the animated Warner Bros. film ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' **[[Geri Halliwell]] leaves the [[Spice Girls]] **[[Death (metal band)|Death]] releases their final album ''[[The Sound of Perseverance]]''. *'''[[1997 in music]]''', '''[[1997 in British music]]''', '''[[1997 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[1997 in South Korean music]]''' **Debuts of ''[[Backstreet Boys (1997 album)|Backstreet Boys]]'' and ''[[Life thru a Lens|Robbie Williams]]'' (after leaving Take That) **Death of [[John Denver]], [[Jeff Buckley]], [[Townes Van Zandt]], [[The Notorious B.I.G.]], [[Michael Hutchence]], [[Fela Kuti]], and [[Velvet]]. **Notable releases: ***[[Lynn Ahrens]], [[Stephen Flaherty]], and [[David Newman (composer)|David Newman]]'s [[Anastasia (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] to the animated feature film ''[[Anastasia (1997 film)|Anastasia]]''. ***[[Radiohead]]'s ''[[OK Computer]]'' ***[[Björk]]'s [[Homogenic]] ***[[Janet Jackson]]'s [[The Velvet Rope]] ***[[Mariah Carey]]'s ''[[Number 1's (Mariah Carey album)|#1's]]'', selling 17 million copies. ***[[Blur (band)|Blur]] release the single "[[Song 2]]" to a chart-topping success. ***[[Celine Dion]]'s ''[[Let's Talk About Love]]'', which sold over 31 million copies worldwide. Lead single "[[My Heart Will Go On]]", from the James Cameron film ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'', became the best selling single of the year and the second best selling single by a female artist of all time. ***[[Elton John]] and [[Tim Rice]]'s [[The Lion King (musical)|musical version]] of the [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney Animation]] film ''[[The Lion King]]'' ***[[The Verve]]'s ''[[Urban Hymns]]'' ***[[Shania Twain]]'s ''[[Come On Over]]'' ***[[Elliott Smith]]'s ''[[Either/Or (album)|Either/Or]]'' ***[[Modest Mouse]]'s ''[[The Lonesome Crowded West]]'' ***[[Spiritualized]]'s ''[[Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space]]'' ***[[Portishead (band)|Portishead]]'s ''[[Portishead (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Yo La Tengo]]'s ''[[I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One]]'' ***[[Built to Spill]]'s ''[[Perfect from Now On]]'' ***[[Ween]]'s ''[[The Mollusk]]'' ***[[Deftones]]' ''[[Around the Fur]]'' ***[[The Prodigy]]'s ''[[The Fat of the Land]]'' ***[[Metallica]]'s ''[[Reload (Metallica album)|Reload]]'' ***[[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s ''[[Blur (self-titled album)|self-titled album]]'' ***[[Foo Fighters]]' ''[[The Colour and the Shape]]'' ***[[Stereolab]]'s ''[[Dots and Loops]]'' ***[[Buena Vista Social Club]]'s ''[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Daft Punk]]'s ''[[Homework (Daft Punk album)|Homework]]'' ***[[Godspeed You! Black Emperor]]'s ''[[F♯ A♯ ∞]]'' ***[[Mogwai]]'s ''[[Mogwai Young Team]]'' ***[[The Chemical Brothers]]' ''[[Dig Your Own Hole]]'' ***[[Biosphere (musician)|Biosphere]]'s ''[[Substrata (album)|Substrata]]'' ***[[Squarepusher]]'s ''[[Hard Normal Daddy]]'' ***[[Autechre]]'s ''[[Chiastic Slide]]'' ***[[Amon Tobin]]'s ''[[Bricolage (album)|Bricolage]]'' ***[[Christoph de Babalon]]'s ''[[If You're Into It, I'm Out of It]]'' ***[[Fishmans]]' ''[[Uchū Nippon Setagaya]]'' ***[[Fantastic Plastic Machine (musician)|Fantastic Plastic Machine]]'s ''[[The Fantastic Plastic Machine (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Cornelius (musician)|Cornelius]]' ''[[Fantasma (Cornelius album)|Fantasma]]'' *'''[[1996 in music]]''', '''[[1996 in British music]]''', '''[[1996 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[1996 in South Korean music]]''' **Death of [[Ella Fitzgerald]], [[Tupac Shakur]], [[Zeki Müren]] and [[Brad Nowell]]. **Arrival of [[Lynda Thomas]], [[Spice Girls]]. **[[Guns N' Roses]] break up, later reuniting for 2008's ''[[Chinese Democracy]]''. **[[Pink Floyd]] disband. **[[Celine Dion]] released the album ''[[Falling into You]]'', selling over 32 million copies worldwide. **[[Max Cavalera]] leaves [[Sepultura]], later going on to form [[Soulfly]]. **Notable releases: ***[[Sepultura]]'s ''[[Roots (Sepultura album)|Roots]]'' ***[[Jonathan Larson]]'s ''[[Rent (musical)|Rent]]'' ***[[Jamiroquai]]'s ''[[Travelling Without Moving]]'' ***[[Spice Girls]]' ''[[Spice (album)|Spice]]'' ***[[DJ Shadow]]'s ''[[Endtroducing.....]]'' ***[[Weezer]]'s ''[[Pinkerton (album)|Pinkerton]]'' ***[[Fishmans]]' ''[[Long Season]]'' ***[[Tool (band)|Tool]]'s ''[[Ænima]]'' ***[[Aphex Twin]]'s ''[[Richard D. James Album]]'' ***[[Belle and Sebastian]]'s ''[[If You're Feeling Sinister]]'' ***[[Swans (band)|Swans]]' ''[[Soundtracks for the Blind]]'' ***[[Burzum]]'s ''[[Filosofem]]'' ***[[Beck]]'s ''[[Odelay]]'' ***[[Outkast]] ''[[ATLiens]]'' ***[[Metallica]]'s ''[[Load (album)|Load]]'' ***[[Tortoise (band)|Tortoise]]'s ''[[Millions Now Living Will Never Die]]'' ***[[Toshinori Kondo]] and [[DJ Krush]]'s ''[[Ki-Oku]]'' **Debut album: ***[[Supergrass]]'s ''[[I Should Coco]]'' ***[[Neutral Milk Hotel]]'s ''[[On Avery Island]]'' ***[[Jay-Z]] ''[[Reasonable Doubt (album)|Reasonable Doubt]]'' ***[[Robert Miles]]'s ''[[Dreamland (Robert Miles album)|Dreamland]]'' *'''[[1995 in music]]''', '''[[1995 in British music]]''', '''[[1995 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[1995 in South Korean music]]''' **A year after the [[1994 Eurovision Song Contest]] interval performance, Irish dance show ''[[Riverdance]]'' debuts. **[[Michael Jackson]] releases ''[[HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I]]'', the best-selling multi-disc album of all time.<ref name="HIStory 20 million copies">{{cite news |first=Laura |last=Putti |url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2001/08/24/il-nuovo-michael-jackson-fa-un-tuffo.html |title=Il nuovo Michael Jackson fa un tuffo nel passato |newspaper=La Repubblica |date=August 24, 2001 |access-date=2009-05-10}}</ref><ref>[https://www.today.com/popculture/return-king-pop-wbna15529981 Michael Jackson<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> This double album contains "[[You Are Not Alone]]" – the first single ever to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at number one.<ref name="MTV — Michael Jackson Biography">[http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/jackson_michael/artist.jhtml MTV – Michael Jackson Biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804113359/http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/jackson_michael/artist.jhtml |date=August 4, 2012 }}</ref> **Death of [[Jerry Garcia]], [[Dean Martin]], [[Phyllis Hyman]], [[Selena]], [[Burl Ives]], and [[Eazy-E]]. **[[Mariah Carey]] becomes the first female artist in history to have a song debut at number one with ''[[Fantasy (Mariah Carey song)|Fantasy]]''. ** [[Coolio]] and [[L.V. (singer)|L.V.]] release the award-winning single "[[Gangsta's Paradise]]" from the film ''[[Dangerous Minds]]'' ** Mariah Carey and band [[Boyz II Men]] releases the multiple-record holding "[[One Sweet Day]]", the single with the most weeks at number and the Song of the Decade 1990–1999. ** Italian tenor [[Andrea Bocelli]] first performs and releases the acclaimed opera song "[[Con te partirò]]". ** Italian DJ [[Robert Miles]] releases his debut single "[[Children (composition)|Children]]" to universal acclaim. **[[Los del Río]] release "[[Macarena (song)|Macarena]]", the record breaking dance song of all time. **[[Queen (band)|Queen]] releases their final album ''[[Made in Heaven]]'' following the death of frontman [[Freddie Mercury]]. **Notable releases: ***[[Death (metal band)|Death]]'s ''[[Symbolic (Death album)|Symbolic]]'' ***[[The Smashing Pumpkins]]' ''[[Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness]]'' ***[[Radiohead]]'s ''[[The Bends (album)|The Bends]]'' ***[[Björk]]'s ''[[Post (Björk album)|Post]]'' ***[[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]' ''[[(What's the Story) Morning Glory?]]'' ***[[GZA]]'s ''[[Liquid Swords]]'' ***[[Death (metal band)|Death]]'s ''[[Symbolic (Death album)|Symbolic]]'' ***[[Elliott Smith]]'s ''[[Elliott Smith (album)|self-titled album]]'' ***[[Mobb Deep]]'s ''[[The Infamous|The Infamous Mobb Deep]]'' ***[[Pulp (band)|Pulp]]'s ''[[Different Class]]'' ***[[Swans (band)|Swans]]' ''[[The Great Annihilator]]'' ***[[Ulver]]'s ''[[Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler]]'' ***[[PJ Harvey]]'s ''[[To Bring You My Love]]'' ***[[Pavement (band)|Pavement]]'s ''[[Wowee Zowee]]'' ***[[Raekwon]]'s ''[[Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...]]'' ***[[The Chemical Brothers]]' ''[[Exit Planet Dust]]'' ***[[Sonic Youth]]'s ''[[Washing Machine (album)|Washing Machine]]'' ***[[David Bowie]]'s ''[[Outside (David Bowie album)|Outside]]'' ***[[Alice in Chains]]' ''[[Alice in Chains (album)|self-titled album]]'' ***[[Dissection (band)|Dissection]]'s ''[[Storm of the Light's Bane]]'' ***[[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s ''[[The Great Escape (Blur album)|The Great Escape]]'' ***[[Three 6 Mafia]]'s ''[[Mystic Stylez]]'' ***[[Aphex Twin]]'s ''[[...I Care Because You Do]]'' ***[[Autechre]]'s ''[[Tri Repetae]]'' ***[[Slowdive]]'s ''[[Pygmalion (album)|Pygmalion]]'' ***[[Oval (musical project)|Oval]]'s ''[[94 Diskont]]'' ***[[Porcupine Tree]]'s ''[[The Sky Moves Sideways]]'' ***[[Hallucinogen (musician)|Hallucinogen]]'s ''[[Twisted (Hallucinogen album)|Twisted]]'' *'''[[1994 in music]]''', '''[[1994 in British music]]''', '''[[1994 in Norwegian music]]''' **Deaths of: ***[[Dinah Shore]] ***[[Kurt Cobain]] **Debuts by: ***[[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] (''[[Definitely Maybe]]'') ***[[Weezer]] (''[[Weezer (1994 album)|The Blue Album]]'') ***[[Brandy Norwood|Brandy]] (''[[Brandy (album)|Brandy]]'') ***[[Nas]] (''[[Illmatic]]'') ***[[The Notorious B.I.G.]] (''[[Ready to Die]]'') ***[[Portishead (band)|Portishead]] (''[[Dummy (album)|Dummy]]'') ***[[Sunny Day Real Estate]] (''[[Diary (Sunny Day Real Estate album)|Diary]]'') **Other albums released: ***[[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[The Division Bell]]'', their last album until 2014's ''[[The Endless River]]''. ***[[Madonna]]'s ''[[Bedtime Stories (Madonna album)|Bedtime Stories]]'' ***[[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s ''[[Parklife]]'' ***[[Green Day]]'s major-label debut, ''[[Dookie (album)|Dookie]]'', with the hits "[[Longview (song)|Longview]]", "[[Welcome to Paradise]]", "[[Basket Case (song)|Basket Case]]", "[[When I Come Around]]" and "[[She (Green Day song)|She]]". ***[[The Offspring]]'s ''[[Smash (The Offspring album)|Smash]]'' ***[[Common (rapper)|Common]]'s ''[[Resurrection (Common album)|Resurrection]]'' ***[[Soundgarden]]'s ''[[Superunknown]]'' ***[[R.E.M.]]'s ''[[Monster (R.E.M. album)|Monster]]'' ***[[NOFX]]'s ''[[Punk in Drublic]]'' ***[[Jeff Buckley]]'s ''[[Grace (Jeff Buckley album)|Grace]]'' ***[[Aphex Twin]]'s ''[[Selected Ambient Works Volume II]]'' ***[[Global Communication]]'s ''[[76:14]]'' ***[[Nine Inch Nails]]' ''[[The Downward Spiral]]'' ***[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]'s [[live album]] ''[[MTV Unplugged in New York]]'' ***[[Bad Religion]]'s ''[[Stranger than Fiction (Bad Religion album)|Stranger Than Fiction]]''. With this album, the band earned their first (and only) US gold record in its 15-year career. ***[[Mariah Carey]]'s ''[[Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album)|Merry Christmas]]'', with its multi-platinum lead single "[[All I Want for Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey song)|All I Want for Christmas Is You]]", which eventually becomes the nineteenth best-selling digital single of the 20th century. ***[[Beck]]'s major-label debut, ''[[Mellow Gold]]''. ***[[The Prodigy]]'s ''[[Music for the Jilted Generation]]''. *'''[[1993 in music]]''', '''[[1993 in British music]]''', '''[[1993 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Debuts by: *** [[Cynic (band)|Cynic]] (''[[Focus (Cynic album)|Focus]]'') *** [[Rancid (band)|Rancid]] (''[[Rancid (1993 album)|Rancid]]'') *** [[Snoop Dogg|Snoop Doggy Dogg]] (''[[Doggystyle]]'') *** [[Tool (band)|Tool]] (''[[Undertow (Tool album)|Undertow]]'') *** [[Wu-Tang Clan]] (''[[Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)|Enter the Wu-Tang]]'') *** [[Radiohead]] (''[[Pablo Honey]]'') *** [[Björk]] (''[[Debut (Björk album)|Debut]]'') *** [[Autechre]] (''[[Incunabula (album)|Incunabula]]'') *** [[Earth (American band)|Earth]] (''[[Earth 2 (album)|Earth 2]]'') *** [[Seefeel]] (''[[Quique (album)|Quique]]'') **[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] release their final album, titled ''[[In Utero (album)|In Utero]]''. **Birth of [[Ariana Grande]] **Deaths of [[Frank Zappa]], [[Marian Anderson]], and [[Dizzy Gillespie]]. **[[Mariah Carey]] releases her 32-million selling ''[[Music Box (Mariah Carey album)|Music Box]]'' album. **[[Bad Religion]] signs to [[Atlantic Records]], where the band later achieves success. ** Other albums released: *** [[Death (metal band)|Death]]'s ''[[Individual Thought Patterns]]'' *** [[Duran Duran]]'s ''[[Duran Duran (1993 album)|The Wedding Album]]'' *** [[Morbid Angel]]'s ''[[Covenant (Morbid Angel album)|Covenant]]'' *** [[Pestilence (band)|Pestilence]]'s ''[[Spheres (Pestilence album)|Spheres]]'' *** [[Sepultura]]'s ''[[Chaos A.D.]]'' *** [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]'s ''[[Ten Summoner's Tales]]'' *** [[Slowdive]]'s ''[[Souvlaki (album)|Souvlaki]]'' *** [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]' ''[[Siamese Dream]]'' *** [[A Tribe Called Quest]]'s ''[[Midnight Marauders]]'' *** [[Pearl Jam]]'s ''[[Vs. (Pearl Jam album)|Vs.]]'' *** [[Meat Loaf]]'s ''[[Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell]]'' *** [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]]'s ''[[Orbital (1993 album)|Orbital]]'' *'''[[1992 in music]]''', '''[[1992 in British music]]''', '''[[1992 in Norwegian music]]''', '''[[1992 in South Korean music]]''' ** Debuts by: *** [[Body Count (band)|Body Count]] (''[[Body Count (album)|Body Count]]'') *** [[Aphex Twin]] (''[[Selected Ambient Works 85–92]]'') *** [[Dr. Dre]] (''[[The Chronic]]'') *** [[The Future Sound of London]] (''[[Accelerator (The Future Sound of London album)|Accelerator]]'') *** [[Pavement (band)|Pavement]] (''[[Slanted and Enchanted]]'') *** [[Rage Against the Machine]] (''[[Rage Against the Machine (album)|Rage Against the Machine]]'') *** [[Stone Temple Pilots]] (''[[Core (Stone Temple Pilots album)|Core]]'') *** [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]] (''[[40oz. to Freedom]]'') *** [[Therapy?]] (''[[Nurse (album)|Nurse]]'') *** [[Red House Painters]] (''[[Down Colorful Hill]]'') *** [[Ugly Kid Joe]] (''[[America's Least Wanted]]'') *** [[Tori Amos]] (''[[Little Earthquakes]]'') **Death of [[John Cage]] and [[Yutaka Ozaki]]. **[[U2]] start the ''[[Zoo TV Tour]]'' **[[Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert]] **Birth of [[Selena Gomez]] **Other releases: ***[[R.E.M.]]'s ''[[Automatic for the People]]'' ***[[Alice in Chains]]' ''[[Dirt (Alice in Chains album)|Dirt]]'' ***[[Sonic Youth]]'s ''[[Dirty (Sonic Youth album)|Dirty]]'' ***[[Dream Theater]]'s ''[[Images and Words]]'' ***[[Pantera]]'s ''[[Vulgar Display of Power]]'' ***[[Tom Waits]]' ''[[Bone Machine]]'' ***[[Darkthrone]]'s ''[[A Blaze in the Northern Sky]]'' ***[[Megadeth]]'s ''[[Countdown to Extinction]]'' ***[[Kyuss]]' ''[[Blues for the Red Sun]]'' ***[[The Cure]]'s ''[[Wish (The Cure album)|Wish]]'' ***[[Sade (band)|Sade]]'s ''[[Love Deluxe]]'' ***[[Beastie Boys]]' ''[[Check Your Head]]'' ***[[The Orb]]'s ''[[U.F.Orb]]'' ***[[Madonna]]'s sexually-provocative book ''[[Sex (book)|Sex]]'', which was accompanied by the double-platinum album ''[[Erotica (Madonna album)|Erotica]]''. It becomes one of the most controversial books and albums ever released, but enjoys commercial success. From it, Madonna made $500 million for her label.<ref>[[Sex (book)|Sex]]</ref> ***The [[The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album|soundtrack]] to the film ''[[The Bodyguard (1992 film)|The Bodyguard]]'', the best selling soundtrack album of all time, selling over 45 million copies worldwide to date. Its leading single "[[I Will Always Love You]]" became the best selling single by a female artist ([[Whitney Houston]]) of all time, selling over 15 million copies. ***[[Faith No More]]'s ''[[Angel Dust (Faith No More album)|Angel Dust]]'' ***[[Obituary (band)|Obituary]]'s ''[[The End Complete]]'' ***''[[Artificial Intelligence (compilation album)|Artificial Intelligence]]'', [[Warp Records|Warp]]'s compilation album by various artists is released. ***Japanese pop band [[Dreams Come True (band)|Dreams Come True]] release their album ''[[The Swinging Star]]'', whose track ''Sweet Sweet Sweet'' originated as the ending theme of the [[Sega Genesis]] video game ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'', for which [[Masato Nakamura]] composed the music. *'''[[1991 in music]]''', '''[[1991 in British music]]''', '''[[1991 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Debut albums by: *** [[Blur (band)|Blur]] (''[[Leisure (album)|Leisure]]'') *** [[Cypress Hill]] (''[[Cypress Hill (album)|Cypress Hill]]'') *** [[EMF (band)|EMF]] (''[[Schubert Dip]]'') *** The [[Infectious Grooves]] (''[[The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves]]'') *** [[Kyuss]] (''[[Wretch (album)|Wretch]]'') *** [[Pearl Jam]] (''[[Ten (Pearl Jam album)|Ten]]'') *** [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] (''[[Gish]]'') *** [[Beck]] (''[[Golden Feelings]]'') *** [[Massive Attack]] (''[[Blue Lines]]'') *** [[LFO (British band)|LFO]] (''[[Frequencies (album)|Frequencies]]'') *** [[The Orb]] (''[[The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld]]'') *** [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]] (''[[Orbital (1991 album)|Orbital]]'') *** [[Electronic (band)|Electronic]] (''[[Electronic (album)|Electronic]]'') *** [[Biosphere (musician)|Biosphere]] (''[[Microgravity (album)|Microgravity]]'') *** [[Nightmares on Wax]] (''[[A Word of Science: The First and Final Chapter]]'') **Arrival of [[Blue Man Group]] **Death of [[Miles Davis]], [[Freddie Mercury]], [[Eric Carr]], [[Steve Clark]]. **Notable releases: ***[[Death (metal band)|Death]]'s ''[[Human (Death album)|Human]]'' ***[[Michael Jackson]]'s ''[[Dangerous (Michael Jackson album)|Dangerous]]'' ***[[Metallica]]'s ''[[Metallica (album)|Metallica]]'' ***[[Morbid Angel]]'s ''[[Blessed Are the Sick]]'' ***[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s [[Sunset Boulevard (musical)|musical adaptation]] of the 1950 film ''[[Sunset Boulevard (film)|Sunset Boulevard]]'' ***[[Enya]]'s ''[[Shepherd Moons]]'' ***[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]'s ''[[Nevermind]]'' ***[[Bryan Adams]]'s "[[(Everything I Do) I Do It For You]]" from the film ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' ***[[Pestilence (band)|Pestilence]]'s ''[[Testimony of the Ancients]]'' ***[[Sepultura]]'s ''[[Arise (Sepultura album)|Arise]]'' ***[[U2]]'s ''[[Achtung Baby]]'' ***[[The KLF]]'s ''[[The White Room (KLF album)|The White Room]]'' ***[[808 State]]'s ''[[ex:el]]'' ***[[Kraftwerk]]'s ''[[The Mix (Kraftwerk album)|The Mix]]'' ***[[Ultramarine (band)|Ultramarine]]'s ''[[Every Man and Woman Is a Star]]'' ***[[Primal Scream]]'s ''[[Screamadelica]]'' ***[[Red Hot Chili Peppers|Red Hot Chili Pepper]]'s [[Blood Sugar Sex Magik]] ***[[Sonny Sharrock]]'s ''[[Ask the Ages]]'' **[[Mariah Carey]] wins the [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist]]. Mariah Carey becomes the only artist in history to have their first 5 consecutive singles reach number one in the United States. *'''[[1990 in music]]''', '''[[1990 in British music]]''', '''[[1990 in Norwegian music]]''' **Debut albums by [[Alice in Chains]] (''[[Facelift (album)|Facelift]]''), [[Cannibal Corpse]] (''[[Eaten Back to Life]]''), [[Mariah Carey]] (''[[Mariah Carey (album)|Mariah Carey]]''), [[Deee-Lite]] (''[[World Clique]]''), [[Green Day]] (''[[39/Smooth]]''), [[Helmet (band)|Helmet]] (''[[Strap It On (album)|Strap It On]]''), [[Ice Cube]] (''[[AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted]]''), [[Primus (band)|Primus]] (''[[Frizzle Fry]]''), [[Ride (band)|Ride]] (''[[Nowhere (album)|Nowhere]]'') and [[A Tribe Called Quest]] (''[[People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm]]'') are released. **Death of [[Sarah Vaughan]], [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Luigi Nono]], [[Johnnie Ray]], and [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] **[[Milli Vanilli]] becomes [[Milli Vanilli lip syncing scandal|exposed as a music fraud]]. **[[The Three Tenors]] (consisting of [[Plácido Domingo]], [[José Carreras]] and [[Luciano Pavarotti]]) perform their first concert at the [[Baths of Caracalla]] in Rome, with a recording of the concert turned into ''[[Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert]]'', becoming the fastest-selling classical album of all time. **Notable releases: ***[[Slayer]]'s ''[[Seasons in the Abyss]]'' ***[[Obituary (band)|Obituary]]'s ''[[Cause of Death (album)|Cause of Death]]'' ***[[Pantera]]'s ''[[Cowboys from Hell]]'' ***[[Megadeth]]'s ''[[Rust in Peace]]'' ***[[Judas Priest]]'s ''[[Painkiller (Judas Priest album)|Painkiller]]'' ***[[Depeche Mode]]'s ''[[Violator (album)|Violator]]'' ***[[Cocteau Twins]]'s ''[[Heaven or Las Vegas]]'' ***[[Sonic Youth]]'s ''[[Goo (album)|Goo]]'' ***[[Fugazi]]'s ''[[Repeater (album)|Repeater]]'' ***[[Ride (band)|Ride]]'s ''[[Nowhere (album)|Nowhere]]'' ***[[Pixies (band)|Pixies]]' ''[[Bossanova (Pixies album)|Bossanova]]'' ***[[Sinéad O'Connor]]' ''[[I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got]]'' === List of 10 best-selling albums of the 1990s === #[[Whitney Houston]] / Various artists – ''[[The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album|The Bodyguard]]'' – 45 million<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2012/02/the_films_of_whitney_houston.php?page=2|title=Whitney Houston: An Overview of Her Films|last=Hlavaty|first=Craig|newspaper=[[Houston Press]]|date=February 13, 2012|access-date=June 30, 2012|archive-date=January 3, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103073841/http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2012/02/the_films_of_whitney_houston.php?page=2|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bet.com/article/hi8ep2/adele-s-21-closing-in-on-billboard-charts-record|title=Adele's 21 Closing in on Billboard Charts Record|publisher=[[Black Entertainment Television]]|date=January 26, 2012|access-date=June 30, 2012}}</ref> – 1992 #[[Shania Twain]] – ''[[Come On Over (Shania Twain album)|Come on Over]]'' – 40 million<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kiriblakeley/2011/05/10/why-shania-twain-cant-sing/|title=Why Shania Twain Can't Sing|last=Blakeley|first=Kiri|magazine=[[Forbes]]|date=May 10, 2011|access-date=2012-08-23}}</ref> – 1997 #[[Alanis Morissette]] – ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'' – 33 million<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1630912/20100201/knowles_beyonce.jhtml|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529182229/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1630912/20100201/knowles_beyonce.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 29, 2012|title='You Oughta Know': The Story Behind Beyonce's Grammy Cover|last=Montgomery|first=James|date=February 1, 2010|work=[[MTV]]|publisher=[[MTV Network]]|access-date=2008-05-03}}</ref> – 1995 #[[Mariah Carey]] – ''[[Music Box (Mariah Carey album)|Music Box]]'' – 32 million<ref name="Undercover musicbox">{{cite web|url=http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=4687|title=Mariah Carey Has the Right Energy in E=MC2|last=Cashmere|first=Paul|date=April 24, 2008|publisher=Undercover Pty., Ltd.|access-date=2008-05-08}}</ref> – 1993 #[[Celine Dion]] – ''[[Falling into You]]'' – 32 million<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/film/812414-metro-film-fight-club-avatar-v-the-hurt-locker-v-inglourious-basterds-v-up-in-the-air|title=Oscars 2010 special: Avatar v The Hurt Locker v Inglourious Basterds v Up In The Air|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=March 8, 2010|work=[[Metro.co.uk]]|publisher=[[Associated Newspapers]]|access-date=2010-03-23|archive-date=February 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214124921/http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/film/812414-metro-film-fight-club-avatar-v-the-hurt-locker-v-inglourious-basterds-v-up-in-the-air|url-status=dead}}</ref> – 1996 #[[Michael Jackson]] – ''[[Dangerous (Michael Jackson album)|Dangerous]]'' – 32 million<ref name="Dangerous 32 million copies worldwide">{{cite news |first=Claudia |last=Bidasio |title=Gli imperdibili di Michel Jackson |url=http://www.menstyle.it/cont/musica/musica-r/0805/1900/dangerous-8.asp# |work=[[MenStyle.it]] |date=May 19, 2008 |access-date=2009-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627140245/http://www.menstyle.it/cont/musica/musica-r/0805/1900/dangerous-8.asp |archive-date=June 27, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Dangerous 32 million copies worldwide2">{{cite news|title=Michael Jackson sulla sedia a rotelle |url=http://www.affaritaliani.it/entertainment/micheal-jackson110708.html |work=[[Affari Italiani]] |date=July 11, 2008 |access-date=2009-05-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822095924/http://www.affaritaliani.it/entertainment/micheal-jackson110708.html |archive-date=August 22, 2008 }}</ref> – 1991 #[[Celine Dion]] – ''[[Let's Talk About Love]]'' – 31 million<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/learning-to-love-cline-dion/article16178/|title=Learning to Love Celine Dion|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=June 15, 2009|last=Anderson|first=Jason|access-date=2009-12-27|location=Toronto}}</ref> – 1997 #[[Madonna]] – ''[[The Immaculate Collection]]'' – 30 million<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2012/0323/1224313742569.html|title=Girl gone wild: is it time for Madonna to grow up?|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=March 23, 2012|access-date=2012-09-21|archive-date=March 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323121356/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2012/0323/1224313742569.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20071113jk.html|title=Words to Live by: Goh Hotoda|last=Kawaguchi|first=Judith|date=October 23, 2007|work=[[The Japan Times]]|publisher=Toshiaki Ogasawara |access-date=2009-12-02}}</ref> – 1990 #[[Britney Spears]] – ''[[...Baby One More Time (album)|...Baby One More Time]]'' – 30 million<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4723158/With-dreams-in-her-heart.html|title=With dreams in her heart|publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group|The Telegraph]]|date=April 28, 2001|access-date=2012-09-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spike.com/articles/b07kr5/the-top-10-worst-albums-that-went-platinum|title=The Top 10 Worst Albums that Went Platinum|author=dsussman|publisher=[[Spike (TV channel)|Spike]]|date=February 11, 2010|access-date=2012-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405050851/http://www.spike.com/articles/b07kr5/the-top-10-worst-albums-that-went-platinum|archive-date=April 5, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> – 1999 #[[Backstreet Boys]] – ''[[Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)|Millennium]]'' – 30 million<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/backstreet_boys_unite/55725|title=Backstreet Boys Unite!|first=Josh|last=Grossberg|publisher=[[E!|E! Entertainment Television]]|date=July 25, 2007|access-date=2012-01-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/643602.stm|title=Liz the 'Fame' Dame|work=BBC News|access-date=2012-01-07|date=February 15, 2000}}</ref> – 1999 == 1980s == {{Main|1980s in music}} * '''[[1989 in music]]''', '''[[1989 in British music]]''', '''[[1989 in Norwegian music]]''' **Notable events: *** The [[swing revival]] is agreed upon to have started around 1989. *** The musical ''[[Miss Saigon]]'' first performed ** Deaths of: *** [[Herbert von Karajan]] *** [[Irving Berlin]] *** [[Vladimir Horowitz]] **Notable releases: *** [[3rd Bass]] – ''[[The Cactus Album]]'' (Debut) *** [[De La Soul]] – ''[[3 Feet High and Rising]]'' (Debut) *** [[The D.O.C.]] – ''[[No One Can Do It Better]]'' (Debut) *** [[Morbid Angel]] – ''[[Altars of Madness]]'' (Debut) *** [[N.W.A]] – ''[[Straight Outta Compton]]'' (Debut) *** [[Nine Inch Nails]] – ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]'' (Debut) *** [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] – ''[[Bleach (Nirvana album)|Bleach]]'' (Debut) *** [[Obituary (band)|Obituary]] – ''[[Slowly We Rot]]'' (Debut) *** [[The Offspring]] – ''[[The Offspring (album)|The Offspring]]'' (Debut) *** [[The Stone Roses]] – ''[[The Stone Roses (album)|The Stone Roses]]'' (Debut): *** [[Janet Jackson]] – ''[[Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814|Rhythm Nation 1814]]'' *** [[Madonna]] – ''[[Like a Prayer (album)|Like A Prayer]]'' *** [[Mötley Crüe]] – ''[[Dr. Feelgood (album)|Dr. Feelgood]]'' *** [[Fine Young Cannibals]] – ''[[The Raw & the Cooked (album)|The Raw & the Cooked]]'' *** [[Pestilence (band)|Pestilence]] – ''[[Consuming Impulse]]'' *** [[Sepultura]] – ''[[Beneath the Remains]]'' *** [[Phil Collins]] – ''[[...But Seriously]]'' *** [[Kate Bush]] – ''[[The Sensual World]]'' *** [[808 State]] – ''[[90 (album)|90]]'' *** [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] – [[UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff|soundtrack]] to the film ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' * '''[[1988 in music]]''', '''[[1988 in British music]]''', '''[[1988 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: ** Deaths of: *** [[Roy Orbison]] *** [[Andy Gibb]] *** [[Gil Evans]] *** [[Chet Baker]] ** Notable releases: *** [[Biz Markie]] – ''[[Goin' Off]]'' (Debut) *** [[Tracy Chapman]] – ''[[Tracy Chapman (album)|Tracy Chapman]]'' (Debut) *** [[Danzig (band)|Danzig]] – ''[[Danzig (album)|Danzig]]'' (Debut) *** [[Eazy-E]] – ''[[Eazy-Duz-It]]'' (Debut) *** [[EPMD]] – ''[[Strictly Business (EPMD album)|Strictly Business]]'' (Debut) *** [[Jane's Addiction]] – ''[[Nothing's Shocking]]'' (Debut) *** [[Living Colour]] – ''[[Vivid (Living Colour album)|Vivid]]'' (Debut) *** [[Morrissey]] – ''[[Viva Hate]]'' (Debut) *** [[NOFX]] – ''[[Liberal Animation]]'' (Debut) *** [[Pestilence (band)|Pestilence]] – ''[[Malleus Maleficarum]]'' (Debut) *** [[Pixies (band)|The Pixies]] – ''[[Surfer Rosa]]'' (Debut) *** [[Soundgarden]] – ''[[Ultramega OK]]'' (Debut) *** [[Bon Jovi]] – ''[[New Jersey (album)|New Jersey]]'' *** [[Bad Religion]] – ''[[Suffer (album)|Suffer]]'' *** [[Enya]] – ''[[Watermark (Enya album)|Watermark]]'' *** [[Bathory (band)|Bathory]] – ''[[Blood Fire Death]]'' *** [[Steve Roach (musician)|Steve Roach]] – ''[[Dreamtime Return]]'' *** [[Nurse with Wound]] – ''[[Soliloquy for Lilith]]'' *** [[Kino (band)|Kino]] – ''[[Gruppa krovi]]'' *** [[Whitney Houston]] – "[[Where Do Broken Hearts Go]]" * '''[[1987 in music]]''', '''[[1987 in British music]]''', '''[[1987 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: ** Deaths of: *** [[John H. Hammond]] *** [[Liberace]] *** [[Buddy Rich]] *** [[Andres Segovia]] *** [[Fred Astaire]] *** [[Jackie Gleason]] *** [[Jaco Pastorius]] ** Notable releases: *** [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]] – ''[[Among the Living]]'' *** [[Michael Jackson]] – ''[[Bad (album)|Bad]]'' *** [[Whitney Houston]] – ''[[Whitney (album)|Whitney]]'' *** [[Sepultura]] – ''[[Schizophrenia (Sepultura album)|Schizophrenia]]'' *** [[Def Leppard]] – ''[[Hysteria (Def Leppard album)|Hysteria]]'' *** [[U2]] – ''[[The Joshua Tree]]'' *** [[Joe Satriani]] – ''[[Surfing with the Alien]]'' *** The [[Beastie Boys]] – ''[[Licensed to Ill]]'' (Debut) *** [[Death (metal band)|Death]] – ''[[Scream Bloody Gore]]'' (Debut) *** [[Guns N' Roses]] – ''[[Appetite for Destruction]]'' (Debut) *** [[Testament (band)|Testament]] – ''[[The Legacy (album)|The Legacy]]'' (Debut) *** [[Rick Astley]] – ''[[Whenever You Need Somebody]]'' (Debut) * '''[[1986 in music]]''', '''[[1986 in British music]]''', '''[[1986 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** The musical ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (musical)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'' first performed *** [[Aerosmith]] re-records "[[Walk This Way]]" with [[Hip hop music|rap]] group [[Run-D.M.C.]] ** Deaths of: *** [[Benny Goodman]] *** [[Harold Arlen]] *** [[Richard Manuel]] *** [[Cliff Burton]] *** [[Phil Lynott]] ** Notable releases: *** [[Sepultura]] – ''[[Morbid Visions]]'' (Debut) *** [[Bon Jovi]] – ''[[Slippery When Wet]]'' *** [[Metallica]] – ''[[Master of Puppets]]'' *** [[Megadeth]] – ''[[Peace Sells... But Who's Buying]]'' *** [[Slayer]] – ''[[Reign in Blood]]'' *** [[Peter Gabriel]] – ''[[So (album)|So]]'' *** [[Europe (band)|Europe]] – ''[[The Final Countdown (album)|The Final Countdown]]'' *** [[The Smiths]] – ''[[The Queen Is Dead]]'' *** [[Sonic Youth]] – ''[[Evol (Sonic Youth album)|Evol]]'' *** [[Beastie Boys]] – ''[[Licensed to Ill]]'' *** [[Iron Maiden]] – ''[[Somewhere in Time (Iron Maiden album)|Somewhere in Time]]'' *** [[Big Black]] – ''[[Atomizer (album)|Atomizer]]'' *** The [[Top Gun (soundtrack)|soundtrack album]] to the film ''[[Top Gun]]'' is released. *** [[Paul Simon]] – ''[[Graceland (album)|Graceland]]'' *** [[Kraftwerk]] – ''[[Electric Café]]'' *** [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] – ''[[Invisible Touch]]'' *** [[Janet Jackson]] – ''[[Control (Janet Jackson album)|Control]]'' *** [[John Farnham]] – ''[[Whispering Jack]]'' *** [[Hiroshi Yoshimura]] – ''[[Green (Hiroshi Yoshimura album)|Green]]'' *** [[Madonna]] – ''[[True Blue (Madonna album)|True Blue]]'' * '''[[1985 in music]]''', '''[[1985 in British music]]''', '''[[1985 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** The musical ''[[Les Misérables (musical)|Les Misérables]]'' first performed *** [[Live Aid]] and [[Farm Aid]] benefit concerts take place. ** Deaths of: *** [[Ricky Nelson]] ** Notable releases: *** [[Exodus (American band)|Exodus]] – ''[[Bonded by Blood]]'' (Debut) *** [[Whitney Houston]] – ''[[Whitney Houston (album)|Whitney Houston]]'' (Debut) *** [[Megadeth]] – ''[[Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!]]'' (Debut) *** [[Overkill (band)|Overkill]] – ''[[Feel the Fire (Overkill album)|Feel the Fire]]'' (Debut) *** [[A-ha]] – ''[[Hunting High and Low]]'' (Debut) *** [[Phil Collins]] – ''[[No Jacket Required]]'' *** [[Dead or Alive (band)|Dead or Alive]] – ''[[Youthquake (album)|Youthquake]]'' (including "[[You Spin Me Right Round]]") *** [[Falco (musician)|Falco]] – "[[Rock Me Amadeus]]" *** [[Slayer]] – ''[[Hell Awaits]]'' *** [[Tears for Fears]] – ''[[Songs from the Big Chair]]'' *** [[Billy Joel]] – ''[[Greatest Hits – Volume I & Volume II]]'' * '''[[1984 in music]]''', '''[[1984 in British music]]''', '''[[1984 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]] is formed to perform "[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]" *** The Opera ''[[Akhnaten (opera)|Akhnaten]]'' by [[Philip Glass]] premieres in [[Stuttgart]] *** The musical ''[[Sunday in the Park with George]]'' first performed *** The musical ''[[Starlight Express]]'' first performed *** [[Duran Duran]] utilize a monitor in concert to project their performance ** Deaths of: *** [[Marvin Gaye]] *** [[Jackie Wilson]] *** [[Count Basie]] ** Notable releases: *** The [[Bob Marley & The Wailers]] – ''[[Legend (Bob Marley & The Wailers album)|Legend]]'' *** [[Madonna]] – ''[[Like a Virgin (album)|Like A Virgin]]'' *** [[Mercyful Fate]] – ''[[Don't Break the Oath]]'' *** [[Metallica]] – ''[[Ride the Lightning]]'' *** [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] – ''[[Purple Rain (film)|Purple Rain]]'' *** [[Tina Turner]] – ''[[Private Dancer]]'' *** [[Van Halen]] – ''[[1984 (Van Halen album)|1984]]'' *** [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] – ''[[The Red Hot Chili Peppers (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' *** [[Bruce Springsteen]] – ''[[Born in the U.S.A.]]'' *** [[Hüsker Dü]] – ''[[Zen Arcade]]'' *** [[Manuel Göttsching]] – ''[[E2-E4]]'' *** [[Yngwie Malmsteen]] – ''[[Rising Force]]'' (Debut) *** [[Mariya Takeuchi]] – ''[[Variety (Mariya Takeuchi album)|Variety]]'' *** [[Tatsuro Yamashita]] – [[Big Wave (Tatsuro Yamashita album)|soundtrack]] to the Japanese film ''Big Wave'' *** [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]] – ''[[Fistful of Metal]]'' (Debut) *** [[Bathory (band)|Bathory]] – ''[[Bathory (album)|self-titled]]'' (Debut) *** [[Bon Jovi]] – ''[[Bon Jovi (album)|self-titled]]'' (Debut) *** [[Celtic Frost]] – ''[[Morbid Tales]]'' (Debut) *** [[Metal Church]] - ''[[Metal Church (Metal Church album)|self-titled]]'' (Debut) *** [[Ratt]] – ''[[Out of the Cellar]]'' (Debut) *** [[Voivod (band)|Voivod]] – ''[[War and Pain]]'' (Debut) *** [[W.A.S.P. (band)|W.A.S.P.]] – ''[[W.A.S.P. (album)|self-titled]]'' (Debut) * '''[[1983 in music]]''', '''[[1983 in British music]]''', '''[[1983 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** The musical ''[[Blood Brothers (musical)|Blood Brothers]]'' first performed ** Deaths of: *** [[Muddy Waters]] *** [[Karen Carpenter]] *** [[Pete Farndon]] *** [[Harry James]] *** [[Ira Gershwin]] ** Notable releases: *** [[Accept (band)|Accept]] – ''[[Balls to the Wall (album)|Balls to the Wall]]'' *** [[Def Leppard]] – ''[[Pyromania (album)|Pyromania]]'' *** [[Iron Maiden]] – ''[[Piece of Mind]]'' *** [[David Bowie]] – ''[[Let's Dance (David Bowie album)|Let's Dance]]'' *** [[Mötley Crüe]] – ''[[Shout at the Devil]]'' *** [[New Order (band)|New Order]] – ''[[Power, Corruption & Lies]]'' & ''[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]'' *** [[Ozzy Osbourne]] – ''[[Bark at the Moon]]'' *** [[The Police]] – ''[[Synchronicity (The Police album)|Synchronicity]]'' *** [[ZZ Top]] – ''[[Eliminator (album)|Eliminator]]'' *** [[U2]] – ''[[War (U2 album)|War]]'' *** [[Cocteau Twins]] – ''[[Head over Heels (Cocteau Twins album)|Head over Heels]]'' *** [[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[The Final Cut (album)|The Final Cut]]'' *** [[Brian Eno]] – ''[[Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks]]'' *** [[Asia (band)|Asia]] – ''[[Alpha (Asia album)|Alpha]]'' *** [[Quiet Riot]] – ''[[Metal Health]]'' *** [[Dirty Rotten Imbeciles|D.R.I.]] – ''[[Dirty Rotten LP|Dirty Rotten EP/LP]]'' (Debut) *** [[Dio (band)|Dio]] – ''[[Holy Diver]]'' (Debut) *** [[Dokken]] – ''[[Breaking the Chains (album)|Breaking the Chains]]'' (Debut) *** [[Cyndi Lauper]] – ''[[She's So Unusual]]'' (Debut) *** [[Madonna]] – [[Madonna (Madonna album)|Madonna]] (Debut) *** [[Mercyful Fate]] – ''[[Melissa (Mercyful Fate album)|Melissa]]'' (Debut) *** [[Metallica]] – ''[[Kill 'Em All]]'' (Debut) *** [[Pantera]] – ''[[Metal Magic]]'' (Debut) *** [[Queensrÿche]] – [[Queensrÿche (EP)|self-titled EP]] (Debut) *** [[R.E.M.]] – ''[[Murmur (album)|Murmur]]'' (Debut) *** [[Slayer]] – ''[[Show No Mercy]]'' (Debut) *** [[Sonic Youth]] – ''[[Confusion Is Sex]]'' (Debut) *** [[Suicidal Tendencies]] – ''[[Suicidal Tendencies (album)|self-titled]]'' (Debut) *** [[Tears for Fears]] – ''[[The Hurting]]'' (Debut) *** [[Wham!]] – ''[[Fantastic (Wham! album)|Fantastic]]'' (Debut) *** [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] – ''[[Texas Flood]]'' (Debut) *** [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] – ''[["Weird Al" Yankovic (album)|self-titled]]'' (Debut) *** [[Irene Cara]] – ''[[Flashdance... What a Feeling]]'' * '''[[1982 in music]]''', '''[[1982 in British music]]''', '''[[1982 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[1982 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** The compact disc is introduced. *** The musical ''[[Little Shop of Horrors (musical)|Little Shop of Horrors]]'' first performed ** Deaths of: *** [[Thelonious Monk]] *** [[Lightnin' Hopkins]] *** [[John Belushi]] *** [[Glenn Gould]] *** [[Artur Rubinstein]] *** [[Randy Rhoads]] ** Notable releases: *** [[Accept (band)|Accept]] – ''[[Restless and Wild]]'' *** [[Phil Collins]] – ''[[Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)|Hello, I Must Be Going!]]'' *** [[Duran Duran]] – ''[[Rio (Duran Duran album)|Rio]]'' *** [[INXS]] – ''[[Shabooh Shoobah]]'' *** [[Asia (band)|Asia]] – ''[[Asia (Asia album)|Asia]]'' (Debut) *** [[Descendents]] – ''[[Milo Goes to College]]'' (Debut) *** [[Iron Maiden]] – ''[[The Number of the Beast (album)|The Number of the Beast]]'' *** [[Judas Priest]] – ''[[Screaming for Vengeance]]'' *** [[Michael Jackson]] – ''[[Thriller (album)|Thriller]]'' *** [[Toto (band)|Toto]] – ''[[Toto IV]]'' *** [[The Cure]] – ''[[Pornography (album)|Pornography]]'' *** [[Kate Bush]] – ''[[The Dreaming (album)|The Dreaming]]'' *** [[Bruce Springsteen]] – ''[[Nebraska (album)|Nebraska]]'' *** [[Bad Brains]] – ''[[Bad Brains (album)|Bad Brains]]'' *** [[The Clash]] – ''[[Combat Rock]]'' *** [[Roxy Music]] – ''[[Avalon (Roxy Music album)|Avalon]]'' *** [[Rush (band)|Rush]] – ''[[Signals (Rush album)|Signals]]'' *** [[Venom (band)|Venom]] – ''[[Black Metal (Venom album)|Black Metal]]'' *** [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] – ''[[1999 (Prince album)|1999]]'' *** [[Tatsuro Yamashita]] – ''[[For You (Tatsuro Yamashita album)|For You]]'' *** [[Survivor (band)|Survivor]] – ''[[Eye of the Tiger (album)|Eye of the Tiger]]'' * '''[[1981 in music]]''', '''[[1981 in British music]]''', '''[[1981 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[1981 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** [[MTV]] first airs *** The musical ''[[Cats (musical)|Cats]]'' first performed *** The musical ''[[Dreamgirls]]'' first performed ** Deaths of: *** [[Bob Marley]] *** [[David Lynch]] *** [[Bill Haley]] ** Notable releases: *** [[Phil Collins]] – ''[[Face Value (album)|Face Value]]'' (Debut) *** [[Duran Duran]] – [[Duran Duran (1981 album)|self-titled]] (Debut) *** [[Mötley Crüe]] – ''[[Too Fast for Love]]'' (Debut) *** [[Venom (band)|Venom]] – ''[[Welcome to Hell]]'' (Debut) *** [[Depeche Mode]] – ''[[Speak & Spell (album)|Speak & Spell]]'' (Debut) *** [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] – ''[[Abacab]]'' *** [[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[Greatest Hits (Queen album)|Greatest Hits]]'' *** [[Rush (band)|Rush]] – ''[[Moving Pictures (Rush album)|Moving Pictures]]'' *** [[The Human League]] – ''[[Dare (album)|Dare]]'' *** [[The Police]] – ''[[Ghost in the Machine (album)|Ghost in the Machine]]'' *** [[Grace Jones]] – ''[[Nightclubbing (Grace Jones album)|Nightclubbing]]'' *** [[Electric Light Orchestra]] – ''[[Time (ELO album)|Time]]'' *** [[Brian Eno]] and [[David Byrne]] – ''[[My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (album)|My Life in the Bush of Ghosts]]'' *** [[Glenn Branca]] – ''[[The Ascension (Glenn Branca album)|The Ascension]]'' *** [[Jean-Michel Jarre]] – ''[[Les Chants Magnétiques]]'' *** [[Kraftwerk]] – ''[[Computer World]]'' *** [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] – ''[[BGM (album)|BGM]]'' & ''[[Technodelic]]'' *** [[Eiichi Ohtaki]] – ''[[A Long Vacation]]'' * '''[[1980 in music]]''', '''[[1980 in British music]]''', '''[[1980 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[1980 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** The musical ''[[42nd Street (musical)|42nd Street]]'' first performance ** Deaths of: *** [[Bill Evans]] *** [[Ian Curtis]] *** [[Bon Scott]] *** [[John Lennon]] *** [[John Bonham]] *** [[Tim Hardin]] *** [[Vinicius de Moraes]] ** Notable releases: *** [[U2]] – ''[[Boy (album)|Boy]]'' (Debut) *** [[Bryan Adams]] – ''[[Bryan Adams (album)|self-titled]]'' (Debut) *** [[Iron Maiden]] – ''[[Iron Maiden (album)|self-titled]]'' (Debut) *** [[Sheena Easton]] – ''[[Take My Time]]'' (Debut) *** [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]] – ''[[In the Flat Field]]'' (Debut) *** [[AC/DC]] – ''[[Back in Black]]'' *** [[Joy Division]] – ''[[Closer (Joy Division album)|Closer]]'' *** [[Dead Kennedys]] – ''[[Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables]]'' *** [[The Cure]] – ''[[Seventeen Seconds]]'' *** [[Black Sabbath]] – ''[[Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath album)|Heaven and Hell]]'' *** [[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[The Game (Queen album)|The Game]]'' *** [[Dead Kennedys]] – ''[[Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables]]'' *** [[Kate Bush]] – ''[[Never for Ever]]'' *** [[Judas Priest]] – ''[[British Steel (album)|British Steel]]'' *** [[The Feelies]] – ''[[Crazy Rhythms]]'' *** [[Motörhead]] – ''[[Ace of Spades (Motörhead album)|Ace of Spades]]'' *** [[David Bowie]] – ''[[Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)]]'' *** [[Rush (band)|Rush]] – ''[[Permanent Waves]]'' *** [[Talking Heads]]' ''[[Remain in Light]]'' *** [[Swell Maps]] – ''[[Jane from Occupied Europe]]'' *** [[Tatsuro Yamashita]] – ''[[Ride on Time (album)|Ride on Time]]'' *** [[Johnny Landry]] – "[[Hina Na Ho Hine]]" == 1970s == {{Main|1970s in music}} * '''[[1979 in music]]''', '''[[1979 in British music]]''', '''[[1979 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[1979 in Norwegian music]]''' **Notable events: ***The [[Sony Walkman]] goes on sale ***The musical ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' first performed **Deaths of: ***[[Van McCoy]] ***[[Richard Rodgers]] ***[[Charles Mingus]] ***[[Donny Hathaway]] ***[[Sid Vicious]] ***[[Minnie Ripperton]] ***[[Nadia Boulanger]] ***[[Stan Kenton]] **Notable releases: ***[[The Clash]] – ''[[London Calling]]'' ***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[The Wall]]'' ***[[Earth, Wind & Fire]] – ''[[I Am (Earth, Wind & Fire album)|I Am]]'' ***[[Sister Sledge]] – ''[[We Are Family (album)|We Are Family]]'' ***[[Michael Jackson]] – ''[[Off the Wall (album)|Off the Wall]]'' ***[[Donna Summer]] – ''[[Bad Girls (Donna Summer album)|Bad Girls]]'' ***[[Anita Ward]] – "[[Ring My Bell]]" ***[[Public Image Ltd.]] – ''[[Metal Box]]'' ***[[Elvis Costello]] – ''[[Armed Forces (album)|Armed Forces]]'' ***[[AC/DC]] – ''[[Highway to Hell]]'' ***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Lodger (album)|Lodger]]'' ***[[Wire (band)|Wire]] – ''[[154 (album)|154]]'' ***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[In Through the Out Door]]'' ***[[Supertramp]] – ''[[Breakfast in America]]'' ***[[ABBA]] – ''[[Voulez-Vous]]'' ***[[The B-52's]] – ''[[The B-52's (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Motörhead]] – ''[[Overkill (Motörhead album)|Overkill]]'' and ''[[Bomber (album)|Bomber]]'' ***[[Electric Light Orchestra]] – ''[[Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Discovery]]'' ***[[Van Halen]] – ''[[Van Halen II]]'' ***[[Joy Division]] – ''[[Unknown Pleasures]]'' ***[[Talking Heads]] – ''[[Fear of Music]]'' ***[[Gang of Four (band)|Gang of Four]] – ''[[Entertainment!]]'' ***[[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] – ''[[Lovedrive]]'' ***[[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] – ''[[Solid State Survivor]]'' ***[[Casiopea]] – ''[[Casiopea (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Univers Zero]] – ''[[Heresie (album)|Heresie]]'' ***[[Sugarhill Gang]] – "[[Rapper's Delight]]" (often noted as the official birth of rap music) * '''[[1978 in music]]''', '''[[1978 in British music]]''', '''[[1978 in Norwegian music]]''' **Deaths of: ***[[Keith Moon]] ***[[Ray Noble]] ***[[Joe Venuti]] ***[[Louis Prima]] ***[[Don Ellis]] ***[[Jacques Brel]] **Notable releases: ***[[The Who]] – ''[[Who Are You]]'' ***[[Kate Bush]] – ''[[The Kick Inside]]'' ***[[Gloria Gaynor]] – ''[[Love Tracks (Gloria Gaynor album)|Love Tracks]]'' (including her No. 1 hit single "[[I Will Survive]]"). ***[[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] – ''[[Parallel Lines]]'' ***[[Funkadelic]] – ''[[One Nation Under a Groove]]'' *** ''[[Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds]]'' ***[[Devo]] – ''[[Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!]]'' ***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[Jazz (Queen album)|Jazz]]'' ***[[Talking Heads]] – ''[[More Songs About Buildings and Food]]'' ***[[Chic (band)|Chic]] – ''[[C'est Chic]]'' ***[[Olivia Newton-John]] and [[John Travolta]] – [[Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture|soundtrack album]] to the [[musical film]] ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'' ***[[Brian Eno]] – ''[[Ambient 1: Music for Airports]]'' ***[[Jean-Michel Jarre]] – ''[[Équinoxe]]'' ***[[Klaus Schulze]] – ''[[X (Klaus Schulze album)|X]]'' ***[[Kraftwerk]] – ''[[The Man-Machine]]'' ***[[Boney M.]] – ''[[Nightflight to Venus]]'' ***[[Haruomi Hosono]] and [[Yellow Magic Orchestra|Yellow Magic Band]] – ''[[Paraiso (Haruomi Hosono album)|Paraiso]]'' ***[[Prince (musician)|Prince]] – ''[[For You (Prince album)|For You]]'' ***[[Van Halen]] – ''[[Van Halen (album)|Van Halen]]'' (Debut) ***[[Dire Straits]] – ''[[Dire Straits (album)|Dire Straits]]'' ***[[Public Image Ltd.]] – ''[[Public Image: First Issue]]'' ***[[The Blues Brothers]] – ''[[Briefcase Full of Blues]]'' ***[[The Police]] – ''[[Outlandos d'Amour]]'' ***[[Ryuichi Sakamoto]] – ''[[Thousand Knives]]'' ***[[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] – ''[[Yellow Magic Orchestra (album)|Yellow Magic Orchestra]]'' ***[[Haruomi Hosono]], [[Shigeru Suzuki]], and [[Tatsuro Yamashita]]'s ''[[Pacific (1978 album)|Pacific]]'', the [[Omnibus edition|Omnibus album]] which contains a prototype version of Hosono's famous track ''Cosmic Surfin''' that would later be upgraded in [[Yellow Magic Orchestra|YMO]]'s debut album the same year. * '''[[1977 in music]]''', '''[[1977 in British music]]''', '''[[1977 in Norwegian music]]''' **Notable events: ***The musical ''[[Annie (musical)|Annie]]'' first performed ***[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] Convair 240 plane crash **Deaths of: ***[[Elvis Presley]] ***[[Bing Crosby]] ***[[Marc Bolan]] ***[[Errol Garner]] ***[[Ethel Waters]] ***[[Maria Callas]] **Notable releases: ***[[Fleetwood Mac]] – ''[[Rumours (album)|Rumours]]'' ***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[News of the World (album)|News of the World]]'' ***[[Bee Gees]] – ''[[Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)|Saturday Night Fever]]'' ***[[Kraftwerk]]'s ''[[Trans-Europe Express (album)|Trans-Europe Express]]'' ***[[Television (band)|Television]] – ''[[Marquee Moon]]'' ***[[Sex Pistols]] – ''[[Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols]]'' ***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Low (David Bowie album)|Low]]'' and ''[["Heroes" (David Bowie album)|Heroes]]'' ***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[Animals (Pink Floyd album)|Animals]]'' ***[[Earth, Wind & Fire]] – ''[[All 'n All]]'' ***[[Electric Light Orchestra]] – ''[[Out of the Blue (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Out of the Blue]]'' ***[[Giorgio Moroder]] – ''[[From Here to Eternity (Giorgio Moroder album)|From Here to Eternity]]'' ***[[Taeko Onuki]] – ''[[Sunshower (Taeko Ohnuki album)|Sunshower]]'' ***[[Motörhead]] – ''[[Motörhead (album)|Motorhead]]'' ***[[Space (French band)|Space]] – ''[[Magic Fly]]'' ***[[Ashra (band)|Ashra]] – ''[[New Age of Earth]]'' ***[[Weather Report]] – ''[[Heavy Weather (album)|Heavy Weather]]'' ***[[Meat Loaf]] – ''[[Bat Out of Hell]]'' * '''[[1976 in music]]''', '''[[1976 in British music]]''', '''[[1976 in Norwegian music]]''' **Notable events: ***[[The Band]] performs their final concert, ''[[The Last Waltz]]'' ***Russian-soviet baritone [[Eduard Khil]] releases the song "[[Eduard Khil#Legacy|I'm So Glad, as I'm Finally Returning Home]]", which in three decades time, would become an internet sensation on [[YouTube]] **Deaths of: ***[[Benjamin Britten]] ***[[Paul Robeson]] ***[[Phil Ochs]] ***[[Howlin' Wolf]] ***[[Charles Stepney]] ***[[Johnny Mercer]] **Notable releases: *** [[David Bowie]] – ''[[Station to Station]]'' *** [[Stevie Wonder]] – ''[[Songs in the Key of Life]]'' *** [[Rush (band)|Rush]] – ''[[2112 (album)|2112]]'' *** [[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Presence (album)|Presence]]'' *** [[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[Desire (Bob Dylan album)|Desire]]'' *** [[Rainbow (rock band)|Rainbow]] – ''[[Rising (Rainbow album)|Rising]]'' *** [[Judas Priest]] – ''[[Sad Wings of Destiny]]'' *** [[Electric Light Orchestra]] – ''[[A New World Record]]'' *** [[Camel (band)|Camel]] – ''[[Moonmadness]]'' *** [[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[A Day at the Races (album)|A Day at the Races]]'' *** [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] – ''[[Destroyer (Kiss album)|Destroyed]]'' *** [[AC/DC]] – ''[[High Voltage (1976 album)|High Voltage]]'' and ''[[Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap]]'' *** [[ABBA]] – ''[[Arrival (ABBA album)|Arrival]]'' *** [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] – ''[[A Trick of the Tail]]'' *** [[The Eagles]] – ''[[Hotel California (Eagles album)|Hotel California]]'' *** [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] – ''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]'' concept album *** [[Jean-Michel Jarre]] – ''[[Oxygène]]'' *** [[Mort Garson]] – ''[[Mother Earth's Plantasia]]'' *** [[Ryo Fukui]] – ''[[Scenery (Ryo Fukui album)|Scenery]]'' *** [[ABBA]] – ''[[Dancing Queen]]'' ***[[Boston (band)|Boston]] – ''[[Boston (album)|Boston]]'' ***The [[Ramones]] – ''[[Ramones (album)|Ramones]]'' ***[[The Modern Lovers]] – ''[[The Modern Lovers (album)|The Modern Lovers]]'' * '''[[1975 in music]]''', '''[[1975 in British music]]''', '''[[1975 in Norwegian music]]''' **Notable events: ***The musical ''[[A Chorus Line]]'' is first performed **Deaths of ***[[Dmitri Shostakovich]] ***[[Tim Buckley]] ***[[Umm Kulthum]] ***[[Louis Jordan]] ***[[Cannonball Adderley]] ***[[Bernard Herrmann]] **Notable releases: ***[[Bruce Springsteen]] – ''[[Born to Run]]'' ***[[Brian Eno]] – ''[[Another Green World]]'' ***[[Bruce Springsteen]] – ''[[Born to Run]]'' ***[[Black Sabbath]] – ''[[Sabotage (Black Sabbath album)|Sabotage]]'' ***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Young Americans]]'' ***[[Neil Young]] – ''[[Tonight's the Night (Neil Young album)|Tonight's the Night]]'' ***[[Neu!]] – ''[[Neu! '75]]'' ***[[Fela Kuti|Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70]] – ''[[Expensive Shit]]'' ***[[Neil Young]] and [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]] – ''[[Zuma (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album)|Zuma]]'' ***[[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] – ''[[Mothership Connection]]'' ***[[Kraftwerk]] – ''[[Radio-Activity]]'' ***[[Fleetwood Mac]] – ''[[Fleetwood Mac (1975 album)|Fleetwood Mac]]'' ***[[Camel (band)|Camel]] – ''[[The Snow Goose (album)|The Snow Goose]]'' ***[[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[Blood on the Tracks]]'' ***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Physical Graffiti]]'' ***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)|Wish You Were Here]]'' ***[[Aerosmith]] – ''[[Toys in the Attic (album)|Toys in the Attic]]'' ***[[Henry Cow]] and [[Slapp Happy]] – ''[[In Praise of Learning]]'' ***[[Patti Smith]] – ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'' ***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[A Night at the Opera (Queen album)|A Night at the Opera]]'' ***[[Donna Summer]] – ''[[Love to Love You Baby (album)|Love to Love You Baby]]'' * '''[[1974 in music]]''', '''[[1974 in British music]]''', '''[[1974 in Norwegian music]]''' **Deaths of: ***[[Duke Ellington]] ***[[Nick Drake]] **Notable releases: ***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Diamond Dogs]]'' ***[[Camel (band)|Camel]] – ''[[Mirage (Camel album)|Mirage]]'' ***[[Neil Young]] – ''[[On the Beach (Neil Young album)|On the Beach]]'' ***[[Brian Eno]] – ''[[Here Come the Warm Jets]]'' & ''[[Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)]]'' ***[[Robert Wyatt]] – ''[[Rock Bottom (album)|Rock Bottom]]'' ***[[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] – ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]'' ***[[Frank Zappa]] – ''[[Apostrophe (')]]'' ***[[Electric Light Orchestra]] – ''[[Eldorado (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Eldorado]]'' ***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[Queen II]]'', ''[[Sheer Heart Attack]]'' ***[[Yes (band)|Yes]] – ''[[Relayer]]'' ***[[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] – ''[[Kimono My House]]'' ***[[Supertramp]] – ''[[Crime of the Century (album)|Crime of the Century]]'' ***[[Steely Dan]] – ''[[Pretzel Logic]]'' ***[[Joni Mitchell]] – ''[[Court and Spark]]'' ***[[Big Star]] – ''[[Radio City (album)|Radio City]]'' ***[[Jorge Ben]] – ''[[A Tábua de Esmeralda]]'' ***[[Kraftwerk]] – ''[[Autobahn (album)|Autobahn]]'' ***[[King Crimson]] – ''[[Red (King Crimson album)|Red]]'' and ''[[Starless and Bible Black]]'' ***[[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Interstellar Space]]'' ***[[Cluster (band)|Cluster]] – ''[[Zuckerzeit]]'' ***[[Henry Cow]] – ''[[Unrest (Henry Cow album)|Unrest]]'' ***[[Tangerine Dream]] – ''[[Phaedra (album)|Phaedra]]'' ***[[Isao Tomita]] – ''[[Snowflakes Are Dancing]]'' ***[[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] – ''[[Kiss (Kiss album)|Kiss]]'' * '''[[1973 in music]]''', '''[[1973 in British music]]''', '''[[1973 in Norwegian music]]''' – **Notable events: ***The musical ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]'' first performed **Deaths of: ***[[Víctor Jara]] ***[[Bobby Darin]] ***[[Gram Parsons]] **Notable releases: ***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' ***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Houses of the Holy]]'' ***[[The Who]] – ''[[Quadrophenia]]'' Released ***[[Buffalo (band)|Buffalo]] – ''[[Volcanic Rock (album)|Volcanic Rock]]'' ***[[Diana Ross]] – ''[[Touch Me in the Morning (song)|Touch Me in the Morning]]'' ***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Aladdin Sane]]'' ***[[Elton John]] – ''[[Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player]]'' and ''[[Goodbye Yellow Brick Road]]'' ***[[Lou Reed]] – ''[[Berlin (Lou Reed album)|Berlin]]'' ***[[Stevie Wonder]] – ''[[Innervisions]]'' ***[[Can (band)|Can]] – ''[[Future Days]]'' ***[[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] – ''[[Selling England by the Pound]]'' ***[[The Stooges]] – ''[[Raw Power]]'' ***[[Black Sabbath]] – ''[[Sabbath Bloody Sabbath]]'' ***[[John Cale]] – ''[[Paris 1919 (album)|Paris 1919]]'' ***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[Queen (Queen album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Camel (band)|Camel]] – ''[[Camel (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' ***[[Steely Dan]] – ''[[Countdown to Ecstasy]]'' ***[[Maureen McGovern]] – ''[[The Morning After (Maureen McGovern song)|The Morning After]]'' ***[[Roberta Flack]] – ''[[Killing Me Softly With His Song]]'' ***[[Marie Osmond]] – ''[[Paper Roses]]'' ***[[Mike Oldfield]] – ''[[Tubular Bells]]'' ***[[King Crimson]] – ''[[Larks' Tongues in Aspic]]'' ***[[Herbie Hancock]] – ''[[Head Hunters]]'' and ''[[Sextant (album)|Sextant]]'' ***[[Brian Eno]] and [[Robert Fripp]] – ''[[(No Pussyfooting)]]'' ***[[Mahavishnu Orchestra]] – ''[[Birds of Fire]]'' ***[[Gal Costa]] – ''[[Índia]]'' ***[[Magma (band)|Magma]] – ''[[Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh]]'' ***[[Area (band)|Area]] – ''[[Arbeit macht frei (album)|Arbeit macht frei]]'' ***[[Faust (band)|Faust]] – ''[[Faust IV]]'' ***[[Haruomi Hosono]] – ''[[Hosono House]]'' * '''[[1972 in music]]''', '''[[1972 in British music]]''', '''[[1972 in Norwegian music]]''' – **Deaths of: ***[[Ferde Grofe]] ***[[Carl Stalling]] **Notable releases: ***[[The Rolling Stones]] – ''[[Exile on Main St.]]'' ***[[Elton John]] – ''[[Honky Château]]'' ***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars]]'' ***[[Can (band)|Can]] – ''[[Ege Bamyası]]'' ***[[Premiata Forneria Marconi]] – ''[[Per un amico]]'' ***[[Bette Midler]] – ''[[The Divine Miss M]]'' ***[[Neu!]] – ''[[Neu! (album)|Neu!]]'' ***Big Star (''#1 Record'') ***[[Steely Dan]] – ''Can't Buy a Thrill'' * '''[[1971 in music]]''', '''[[1971 in British music]]''', '''[[1971 in Norwegian music]]''' **Deaths of: ***[[Igor Stravinsky]] ***[[Duane Allman]] ***[[Louis Armstrong]] ***[[Jim Morrison]] ***[[Carl Ruggles]] **Notable releases: ***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Led Zeppelin IV]]'' ***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Hunky Dory]]'' ***[[Marvin Gaye]] – ''[[What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album)|What's Going On]]'' ***[[The Who]] – ''[[Who's Next]]'' ***[[Elton John]] – [[Madman Across the Water]] ***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[Meddle]]'' ***[[Joni Mitchell]] – ''[[Blue (Joni Mitchell album)|Blue]]'' ***[[Can (band)|Can]] – ''[[Tago Mago]]'' ***[[Serge Gainsbourg]] – ''[[Histoire de Melody Nelson]]'' ***[[Flower Travellin' Band]] – ''[[Satori (Flower Travellin' Band album)|Satori]]'' * '''[[1970 in music]]''', '''[[1970 in British music]]''', '''[[1970 in Norwegian music]]''' **Notable events: ***[[The Beatles]] disband ***[[Diana Ross]] departs from [[The Supremes]] and releases ''[[Ain't No Mountain High Enough]]'' ***[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] and [[Tim Rice]] release a concept album of their debut musical ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' (which gives birth to the musical name "rock opera") **Deaths of: ***[[Jimi Hendrix]] ***[[Janis Joplin]] ***[[Alfred Newman]] ***[[Tammi Terrell]] ***[[George Szell]] **Notable releases: ***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Led Zeppelin III]]'' ***[[John Lennon]] – [[John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band]] ***[[Elton John]] – his [[Elton John (album)|self-titled album]] ***[[Miles Davis]] – [[Bitches Brew]] ***[[The Jackson 5]] – [[ABC (The Jackson 5 album)|ABC]] ***[[Soft Machine]] – [[Third (Soft Machine album)|Third]] ***[[Black Sabbath]] – ''[[Paranoid (album)|Paranoid]]'' ***[[George Harrison]] – ''[[All Things Must Pass]]'' ***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[Atom Heart Mother]]'' == 1960s == {{Main|1960s in music}} * '''[[1969 in music]]''', '''[[1969 in British music]]''', '''[[1969 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** [[Woodstock festival|Woodstock]] music festival held in [[Bethel, New York]] ** Deaths of: *** [[Brian Jones]] *** [[Judy Garland]] *** [[Paul Chambers]] *** [[Coleman Hawkins]] *** [[Ted Heath]] *** [[Leigh Harline]] ** Notable releases: *** [[The Beatles]] – ''[[Abbey Road]]'' and ''[[Yellow Submarine (album)|Yellow Submarine]]'' *** [[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[Nashville Skyline]]'' *** [[Frank Zappa]] – ''[[Hot Rats]]'' *** [[David Bowie]] – ''[[David Bowie (1969 album)|Space Oddity]]'' *** [[The Who]] – ''[[Tommy (The Who album)|Tommy]]'' *** [[King Crimson]] – ''[[In the Court of the Crimson King]]'' *** [[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Led Zeppelin (album)|Led Zeppelin]]'' and ''[[Led Zeppelin II]]'' *** [[Nick Drake]] – ''[[Five Leaves Left]]'' *** [[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[Ummagumma]]'' and ''[[More (soundtrack)|More]]'' *** [[The Magic Band]] – ''[[Trout Mask Replica]]'' *** [[The Velvet Underground]] – ''[[The Velvet Underground (album)|The Velvet Underground]]'' *** [[Santana (band)|Santana]] – ''[[Santana (1969 album)|Santana]]'' *** [[Miles Davis]] – ''[[In a Silent Way]]'' and ''[[Filles de Kilimanjaro]]'' *** [[The Rolling Stones]] – ''[[Let It Bleed]]'' *** [[The Stooges]] – ''[[The Stooges (album)|The Stooges]]'' *** [[Neil Young]] and [[Crazy Horse (band)|the Crazy Horse]] – ''[[Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere]]'' *** [[The Kinks]] – ''[[Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)]]'' *** [[Pharoah Sanders]] – ''[[Karma (Pharoah Sanders album)|Karma]]'' *** [[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]] – ''[[Scott 4]]'' *** [[Moondog]] – ''[[Moondog (1969 album)|Moondog]]'' *** [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] – ''[[Green River (album)|Green River]]'' and ''[[Willy and the Poor Boys]]'' *** [[The Doors]] – ''[[The Soft Parade]]'' *** [[Sun Ra]] – ''[[Atlantis (Sun Ra album)|Atlantis]]'' *** [[MC5]] – ''[[Kick Out the Jams]]'' *** [[Sly and the Family Stone]] – ''[[Stand!]]'' *** [[Terry Riley]] – ''[[A Rainbow in Curved Air]]'' *** [[White Noise (band)|White Noise]] – ''[[An Electric Storm]]'' *** [[Silver Apples]] – ''[[Contact (Silver Apples album)|Contact]]'' *** [[Can (band)|Can]] – ''[[Monster Movie (Can album)|Monster Movie]]'' *** [[Amon Düül II]] – ''[[Phallus Dei]]'' *** [[Serge Gainsbourg]] and [[Jane Birkin]] – ''[[Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg]]'' *** [[The Archies]] – ''[[Sugar, Sugar]]'' * '''[[1968 in music]]''', '''[[1968 in British music]]''', '''[[1968 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: ** Deaths of: *** [[Jan Johansson (jazz musician)|Jan Johansson]] ** Notable releases *** [[Van Morrison]] – ''[[Astral Weeks]]'' *** [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] – ''[[I've Gotta Be Me (album)|I've Gotta Be Me]]'' *** [[The Rolling Stones]] – ''[[Beggars Banquet]]'' *** [[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]] – ''[[Electric Ladyland]]'' *** [[The Beatles]] – ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' (AKA ''The White Album'') *** [[Johnny Cash]] – ''[[At Folsom Prison]]'' *** [[The Band]] – ''[[Music from Big Pink]]'' *** [[Anne Murray]] – [[What About Me (Anne Murray album)|What About Me]] *** [[The Mothers of Invention]] – ''[[We're Only in It for the Money]]'' *** [[Silver Apples]] – ''[[Silver Apples (album)|Silver Apples]]'' *** [[The United States of America (band)|The United States of America]] – ''[[The United States of America (album)|The United States of America]]'' *** [[The Velvet Underground]] – ''[[White Light/White Heat]]'' *** [[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[A Saucerful of Secrets]]'' *** [[The Zombies]] – ''[[Odessey and Oracle]]'' *** [[The Kinks]] – ''[[The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society]]'' *** [[The Doors]] – ''[[Waiting for the Sun]]'' *** [[Nico]] – ''[[The Marble Index]]'' *** [[Cream (band)|Cream]] – ''[[Wheels of Fire]]'' *** [[Soft Machine]] – ''[[The Soft Machine (Soft Machine album)|The Soft Machine]]'' *** [[The Byrds]] – ''[[The Notorious Byrd Brothers]]'' *** [[Gábor Szabó]] – ''[[Dreams (Gábor Szabó album)|Dreams]]'' *** [[Os Mutantes]] – ''[[Os Mutantes (album)|Os Mutantes]]'' *** [[Peter Brötzmann]] – ''[[Machine Gun (Peter Brötzmann album)|Machine Gun]]'' * '''[[1967 in music]]''', '''[[1967 in British music]]''', '''[[1967 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** [[Monterey Pop Festival]] ** Deaths of *** [[Woody Guthrie]] *** [[John Coltrane]] *** [[Billy Strayhorn]] *** [[Otis Redding]] *** [[Brian Epstein]] *** [[Joe Meek]] *** [[Ina Boyle]] *** [[Paul Whiteman]] ** Notable releases: *** [[The Beatles]] – ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' & ''[[Magical Mystery Tour]]'' *** [[The Velvet Underground]] – ''[[The Velvet Underground & Nico]]'' *** [[Red Krayola]] – ''[[The Parable of Arable Land]]'' *** [[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]] – ''[[Are You Experienced (album)|Are You Experienced]]'' & ''[[Axis: Bold as Love]]'' *** [[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[The Piper at the Gates of Dawn]]'' *** [[David Bowie]] – ''[[David Bowie (1967 album)|David Bowie]]'' (Debut) *** [[Aretha Franklin]] – ''[[I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You]]'' which features her own and iconic version of [[Respect (song)|Respect]]. *** [[The Doors]] – ''[[The Doors (album)|The Doors]]'' (including "[[Light My Fire]]") & ''[[Strange Days (The Doors album)|Strange Days]]'' *** [[Louis Armstrong]] – "[[What a Wonderful World]]" *** [[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[John Wesley Harding]]'' *** [[The 13th Floor Elevators]] – ''[[Easter Everywhere]]'' *** [[Love (band)|Love]] – ''[[Forever Changes]]'' *** [[Leonard Cohen]] – ''[[Songs of Leonard Cohen]]'' *** [[Captain Beefheart]] and [[The Magic Band|his Magic Band]] – ''[[Safe as Milk]]'' *** [[Cream (band)|Cream]] – ''[[Disraeli Gears]]'' *** [[Jefferson Airplane]] – ''[[Surrealistic Pillow]]'' *** [[The Who]] – ''[[The Who Sell Out]]'' *** [[The Kinks]] – ''[[Something Else by the Kinks]]'' *** [[Nico]] – ''[[Chelsea Girl (album)|Chelsea Girl]]'' *** [[The Moody Blues]] with the [[London Festival Orchestra]] – ''[[Days of Future Passed]]'' *** [[The Beach Boys]] – ''[[Wild Honey (album)|Wild Honey]]'' and ''[[Smiley Smile]]'' *** [[The Rolling Stones]] – ''[[Their Satanic Majesties Request]]'' *** [[The 13th Floor Elevators]] – ''[[Easter Everywhere]]'' *** [[Miles Davis]] – ''[[Miles Smiles]]'' *** [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]] – ''[[Wave (Antônio Carlos Jobim album)|Wave]]'' *** [[Red Krayola]] (with The Familiar Ugly) – ''[[The Parable of Arable Land]]'' *** [[Duke Ellington]] – ''[[Far East Suite]]'' * '''[[1966 in music]]''', '''[[1966 in British music]]''', '''[[1966 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: ** Deaths of: *** [[Bobby Fuller]] *** [[Fritz Wunderlich]] **Notable releases: *** [[The Beach Boys]] – ''[[Pet Sounds]]'' *** [[Cream (band)|Cream]] – ''[[Fresh Cream]]'' *** [[The Beatles]] – ''[[Yesterday and Today]]'' and ''[[Revolver (Beatles album)|Revolver]]'' *** [[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[Blonde on Blonde]]'' *** [[The 13th Floor Elevators]] – ''[[The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators]]'' *** [[The Monkees]] – ''[[The Monkees (album)|The Monkees]]'' *** [[The Mothers of Invention]] – ''[[Freak Out!]]'' *** [[The Rolling Stones]] – ''[[Aftermath (Rolling Stones album)|Aftermath]]'' *** [[Simon & Garfunkel]] – ''[[Sounds of Silence]]'' and ''[[Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme]]'' *** [[The Kinks]] – ''[[Face to Face (The Kinks album)|Face to Face]]'' *** [[The Monks]] – ''[[Black Monk Time]]'' *** [[Love (band)|Love]] – ''[[Da Capo (Love album)|Da Capo]]'' *** [[The Byrds]] – ''[[Fifth Dimension (album)|Fifth Dimension]]'' *** [[The Who]] – ''[[A Quick One]]'' *** [[Donovan]] – ''[[Sunshine Superman (album)|Sunshine Superman]]'' *** [[The Yardbirds]] – ''[[Roger the Engineer]]'' *** [[Them (band)|Them]] – ''[[Them Again]]'' *** [[Buffalo Springfield]] – ''[[Buffalo Springfield (album)|Buffalo Springfield]]'' *** [[Nina Simone]] – ''[[Wild Is the Wind (album)|Wild Is the Wind]]'' *** [[John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers]] – ''[[Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton]]'' *** [[The Mamas & the Papas]] – ''[[If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears]]'' *** [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Ascension (John Coltrane album)|Ascension]]'' and ''[[Meditations (John Coltrane album)|Meditations]]'' *** [[Ennio Morricone]] – [[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (soundtrack)|soundtrack album]] to the 1966 Italian western film ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' *** [[Herbie Hancock]] – ''[[Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock album)|Maidene Voyage]]'' *** [[Wayne Shorter]] – ''[[Speak No Evil (Wayne Shorter album)|Speak No Evil]]'' *** [[Krzysztof Komeda]] – ''[[Astigmatic (album)|Astigmatic]]'' *** [[Larry Young (musician)|Larry Young]] – ''[[Unity (Larry Young album)|Unity]]'' * '''[[1965 in music]]''', '''[[1965 in British music]]''', '''[[1965 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** The musical ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' first performed ** Deaths of: *** [[Edgar Varèse]] *** [[Nat King Cole]] *** [[Alan Freed]] *** [[Jack Hylton]] *** [[Tadd Dameron]] *** [[Spike Jones]] **Notable releases: *** [[The Beatles]] – ''[[Help!]]'' and ''[[Rubber Soul]]'' *** [[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[Bringing It All Back Home]]'' and ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'' (with the single "[[Like a Rolling Stone]]") *** [[The Rolling Stones]] – ''[[Out of Our Heads]]'' (with the single "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction]]") *** [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] – "[[What's New Pussycat? (song)|What's New Pussycat?]]" *** [[James Brown]] – "[[I Got You (I Feel Good)]]" *** [[Otis Redding]] – ''[[Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul]]'' *** [[The Who]] – ''[[My Generation (album)|My Generation]]'' *** [[The Beach Boys]] – ''[[The Beach Boys Today!]]'', ''[[Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]]'' and ''[[Beach Boys' Party!]]'' *** [[Nina Simone]] – ''[[Pastel Blues]]'' and ''[[I Put a Spell on You (album)|I Put a Spell on You]]'' *** [[The Byrds]] – ''[[Mr. Tambourine Man (album)|Mr. Tambourine Man]]'' and ''[[Turn! Turn! Turn! (album)|Turn! Turn! Turn!]]'' *** [[The Sonics]] – ''[[Here Are The Sonics]]'' *** [[Jackson C. Frank]] – ''[[Jackson C. Frank (album)|Jackson C. Frank]]'' *** [[The Yardbirds]] – ''[[Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds]]'' *** [[Martha and the Vandellas]] – ''[[Dance Party (album)|Dance Party]]'' *** [[Cher]] – ''[[All I Really Want to Do (album)|All I Really Want to Do]]'' *** [[The Shangri-Las]] – ''[[Leader of the Pack (album)|Leader of the Pack]]'' *** [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[A Love Supreme]]'' *** [[Vince Guaraldi]] – ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas (soundtrack)|A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'' the [[soundtrack album]] to the [[Peanuts]] animated television special [[A Charlie Brown Christmas|of the same name]]. *** [[Herb Alpert|Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass]] – ''[[Going Places (Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album)|Going Places]]'' *** [[Albert Ayler]] – ''[[Spiritual Unity]]'' *** [[Grant Green]] – ''[[Idle Moments]]'' *** [[Andrew Hill (jazz musician)|Andrew Hill]] – ''[[Point of Departure (Andrew Hill album)|Point of Departure]]'' *** [[Bobby Hutcherson]] – ''[[Dialogue (Bobby Hutcherson album)|Dialogue]]'' * '''[[1964 in music]]''', '''[[1964 in British music]]''', '''[[1964 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** [[Bill Lear]] invents [[8-track tape]] cartridge ** Deaths of: *** [[Cole Porter]] *** [[Sam Cooke]] *** [[Milton Babbitt]] *** [[Jack Teagarden]] *** [[Eric Dolphy]] ** Notable releases: *** [[The Beatles]] – ''[[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' and ''[[Beatles for Sale]]'' *** [[Stan Getz]] and [[João Gilberto]] – ''[[Getz/Gilberto]]'' *** [[The Ronettes]] – ''[[Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica]]'' *** [[Eric Dolphy]] – ''[[Out to Lunch!]]'' *** [[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[The Times They Are a-Changin' (album)|The Times They Are a-Changin']]'' and ''[[Another Side of Bob Dylan]]'' *** [[The Beach Boys]] – ''[[All Summer Long (album)|All Summer Long]]'' (featuring the No. 1. hit ''[[I Get Around]]'') *** [[The Rolling Stones]] – ''[[The Rolling Stones (album)|The Rolling Stones]]'' and ''[[12 X 5|12 x 5]]'' *** [[Charles Mingus]] – ''[[Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus]]'' *** [[Herbie Hancock]] – ''[[Empyrean Isles]]'' *** [[Lee Morgan]] – ''[[The Sidewinder]]'' *** [[Kinks (album)|Kinks]] – ''[[The Kinks]]'' *** [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Crescent (John Coltrane album)|Crescent]]'' *** [[Simon & Garfunkel]] – ''[[Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.]]'' *** [[Yusef Lateef]] – ''[[Eastern Sounds]]'' *** [[Muddy Waters]] – ''[[Folk Singer (album)|Folk Singer]]'' *** [[Andrew Hill (jazz musician)|Andrew Hill]] – ''[[Black Fire (album)|Black Fire]]'' *** [[The Supremes]] – ''[[Where Did Our Love Go (album)|Where Did Our Love Go]]'' *** [[Sam Cooke]] – ''[[Ain't That Good News (album)|Ain't That Good News]]'' *** [[Dusty Springfield]] – ''[[A Girl Called Dusty]]'' * '''[[1963 in music]]''', '''[[1963 in British music]]''', '''[[1963 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** First [[Compact Cassette|cassette tapes]] made by [[Philips]] ** Deaths of: *** [[Francis Poulenc]] *** [[Paul Hindemith]] *** [[Patsy Cline]] *** [[Dinah Washington]] *** [[Édith Piaf]] *** [[Axel Stordahl]] *** [[Fritz Reiner]] **Notable releases: *** [[The Beatles]] – ''[[Please Please Me]]'' and ''[[With the Beatles]]'' *** [[Charles Mingus]] – ''[[The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady]]'' *** [[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]'' *** [[James Brown]] and [[The Famous Flames]] – ''[[Live at the Apollo (1963 album)|Live at the Apollo]]'' *** [[The Righteous Brothers]] – ''[[Little Latin Lupe Lu]]'' *** [[Duke Ellington]], [[Charles Mingus]] and [[Max Roach]] – ''[[Money Jungle]]'' *** [[Thelonious Monk]] – ''[[Monk's Dream (Thelonious Monk album)|Monk's Dream]]'' *** [[Duke Ellington]] and [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Duke Ellington & John Coltrane]]'' *** [[Jorge Ben]] – ''[[Samba Esquema Novo]]'' *** [[The Beach Boys]] – ''[[Surfin' U.S.A. (album)|Surfin' U.S.A.]]'', ''[[Surfer Girl]]'' and ''[[Little Deuce Coupe]]'' *** [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Ballads (John Coltrane album)|Ballads]]'' *** ''[[A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector]]'' a collection of Christmas songs is released on [[Philles Records]] *** [[John Coltrane]] and [[Johnny Hartman]] – ''[[John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman]]'' *** [[Sam Cooke]] – ''[[Night Beat (Sam Cooke album)|Night Beat]]'' *** [[Kenny Burrell]] – ''[[Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell album)|Midnight Blue]]'' *** [[Gerry Mulligan]] – ''[[Night Lights (Gerry Mulligan album)|Night Lights]]'' *** [[Stan Getz]] and [[Luiz Bonfá]] – ''[[Jazz Samba Encore!]]'' *** [[Marvin Gaye]] – ''[[That Stubborn Kinda Fellow]]'' *** [[Stevie Wonder]] – ''[[fingertips]]'' -aged only 13, arguably making Motown music commercially popular for the first time even though its birth was in 1959 *** [[Elvis Presley]] – [[Today, Tomorrow, and Forever (Elvis Presley album)|Today, Tomorrow and Forever]] * '''[[1962 in music]]''', '''[[1962 in British music]]''', '''[[1962 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: ** Deaths of: *** [[Marilyn Monroe]] *** [[Fritz Kreisler]] *** [[Harry Barris]] ** Notable releases: *** [[Charles Mingus]] – ''[[Tijuana Moods]]'' and ''[[Oh Yeah (Charles Mingus album)|Oh Yeah]]'' *** [[The Beach Boys]] – ''[[Surfin' Safari]]'' *** [[Bill Evans]] and [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] – ''[[Undercurrent (Bill Evans and Jim Hall album)|Undercurrent]]'' *** [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Coltrane (1962 album)|Coltrane]]'' *** [[Dexter Gordon]] – ''[[Go (Dexter Gordon album)|Go]]'' *** [[Françoise Hardy]] – ''[[Tous les garçons et les filles (album)|Tous les garçons et les filles]]'' *** [[Stan Getz]] and [[Charlie Byrd]] – ''[[Jazz Samba]]'' *** [[Booker T. & the M.G.'s]] – ''[[Green Onions (album)|Green Onions]]'' *** [[Herbie Hancock]] – ''[[Takin' Off]]'' *** [[Ray Charles]] – ''[[Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music]]'' *** [[Bill Evans|Bill Evans Trio]] – ''[[Waltz for Debby (1962 album)|Waltz for Debby]]'' *** [[Duke Ellington]], [[Charles Mingus]] and [[Max Roach]] – ''[[Money Jungle]]'' *** [[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[Bob Dylan (album)|Bob Dylan]]'' (Debut) * '''[[1961 in music]]''', '''[[1961 in British music]]''', '''[[1961 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: **Deaths of: *** [[Cisco Houston]] *** [[Moss Hart]] *** [[Thomas Beecham]] *** [[Carlos Salzedo]] ** Notable releases: *** [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[My Favorite Things (John Coltrane album)|My Favorite Things]]'' and ''[[Olé Coltrane]]'' *** [[Ornette Coleman]] – ''[[Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation]]'' *** [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Africa/Brass]]'' *** [[Max Roach]] – ''[[We Insist!]]'' *** [[Oliver Nelson]] – ''[[The Blues and the Abstract Truth]]'' *** [[Eric Dolphy]] – ''[[Out There (Eric Dolphy album)|Out There]]'' *** [[Thelonious Monk]] – ''[[Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane]]'' * '''[[1960 in music]]''', '''[[1960 in British music]]''', '''[[1960 in Norwegian music]]''' ** Notable events: *** The musical ''[[Oliver! (musical)|Oliver!]]'' first performed ** Deaths of: *** [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] *** [[Eddie Cochran]] ** Notable releases: *** [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Giant Steps]]'' *** [[Miles Davis]] – ''[[Sketches of Spain]]'' *** [[Charles Mingus]] – ''[[Blues & Roots]]'' and ''[[Mingus Dynasty]]'' *** [[Bill Evans]] – ''[[Portrait in Jazz]]'' *** [[Joan Baez]] – ''[[Joan Baez (album)|self-titled debut album]]'' *** [[Etta James]] – ''[[At Last!]]'' *** [[Wes Montgomery]] – ''[[The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery]]'' *** [[Hank Mobley]] – ''[[Soul Station]]'' *** [[Ornette Coleman]] – ''[[Change of the Century]]'' *** [[João Gilberto]] – ''[[O Amor, o Sorriso e a Flor]]'' *** [[Tina Brooks]] – ''[[True Blue (Tina Brooks album)|True Blue]]'' == 1950s == {{Main|1950s in music}} '''[[1959 in music]]''', '''[[1959 in British music]]''', '''[[1959 in Norwegian music]]''' * Notable events: ** [[1st Grammy Awards]] are awarded ** [[Motown Records]] is founded, with their first hit being [[Barrett Strong]]'s "[[Money (That's What I Want)]]". ** The musical ''[[Gypsy (musical)|Gypsy]]'' first performed ** The musical ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' first performed * Deaths of: ** [[Billie Holiday]] ** [[Ritchie Valens]] ** [[Buddy Holly]] ** [[the Big Bopper]] ** [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] * Notable releases: ** [[Miles Davis]] – ''[[Kind of Blue]]'', ''[[Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)|Porgy and Bess]]'' and ''[[Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet]]'' ** [[Charles Mingus]] – ''[[Mingus Ah Um]]'' ** [[Dave Brubeck|The Dave Brubeck Quartet]] – ''[[Time Out (album)|Time Out]]'' ** [[Ornette Coleman]] – ''[[The Shape of Jazz to Come]]'' ** [[Art Blakey]] and [[The Jazz Messengers]] – ''[[Moanin']]'' ** [[Marty Robbins]] – ''[[Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs]]'' ** [[João Gilberto]] – ''[[Chega de Saudade (album)|Chega de Saudade]]'' ** [[Odetta]] – ''[[My Eyes Have Seen]]'' ** [[Sun Ra|Sun Ra and his Arkestra]] – ''[[Jazz in Silhouette]]'' ** [[Nina Simone]] – ''[[Little Girl Blue (album)|Little Girl Blue]]'' ** [[Bill Evans]] – ''[[Everybody Digs Bill Evans]]'' ** [[John Fahey (musician)|John Fahey]] – ''[[Blind Joe Death]]'' ** [[Chuck Berry]] – ''[[Berry Is on Top]]'' ** [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Sonny Stitt]] and [[Sonny Rollins]] – ''[[Sonny Side Up]]'' ** [[Ray Charles]] – ''[[The Genius of Ray Charles]]'' ** [[Chet Baker]] – ''[[Chet (Chet Baker album)|Chet]]'' ** [[Enoch Light]] and his Orchestra – ''[[Persuasive Percussion]]'' ** [[Frank Sinatra]] – ''[[Come Dance with Me! (album)|Come Dance with Me!]]'' ** [[Horace Silver]] – ''[[Blowin' the Blues Away]]'' ** [[Bobby Darin]] – "[[Mack the Knife]]" <br> '''[[1958 in music]]''', '''[[1958 in British music]]''', '''[[1958 in Norwegian music]]''' * Notable events: ** There is a [[Bossa Nova]] fever ** [[Little Richard]] enters seminary * Deaths of: ** [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] ** [[W.C. Handy]] * Notable releases: ** [[Alvin and the Chipmunks]] – "[[The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)]]" ** [[Cannonball Adderley]] – ''[[Somethin' Else (Cannonball Adderley album)|Somethin' Else]]'' ** [[Art Blakey]] and the Jazz Messengers – [[Moanin']] ** [[Count Basie]] [[Count Basie Orchestra|and his orchestra]] – ''[[The Atomic Mr. Basie]]'' ** [[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Blue Train (album)|Blue Train]]'' ** [[Frank Sinatra]] – ''[[Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely]]'' ** [[Billie Holiday]] – ''[[Lady in Satin]]'' ** [[Frank Sinatra]] – ''[[Come Fly with Me (Frank Sinatra album)|Come Fly with Me]]'' ** [[Ella Fitzgerald]] – ''[[Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book]]'' ** [[Miles Davis]] – ''[[Milestones (Miles Davis album)|Milestones]]'', ''[[Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (soundtrack)|Ascenseur pour l'échafaud]]'' and ''[[Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet]]'' ** [[Buddy Holly]] – ''[[Buddy Holly (album)|Buddy Holly]]'' ** [[Carl Ruggles]] – ''Exaltation'' in honour of his late wife, Charlotte. ** [[Cliff Richard]] & The Drifters – [[Move It]] (Considered Britain's first rock and roll hit single). '''[[1957 in music]]''', '''[[1957 in British music]]''', '''[[1957 in Norwegian music]]''' * Notable events: ** ''[[West Side Story]]'' first performed * Deaths of: ** [[Jean Sibelius]] ** [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]] ** [[Arturo Toscanini]] ** [[Jimmy Dorsey]] * Notable releases: ** [[Buddy Holly]] & [[The Crickets]] – "[[That'll Be the Day]]" ** [[Harry Belafonte]] – [[calypso music|calypso]] song "[[Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)|Day-O]]" ** [[folk music|folk singer]] [[Odetta]] – ''[[At the Gate of Horn]]'' ** [[Sonny Rollins]] – ''[[Saxophone Colossus]]'' ** [[Miles Davis]] – ''[[Miles Ahead (album)|Miles Ahead]]'', ''[['Round About Midnight]]'' and ''[[Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet]]'' ** [[Thelonious Monk]] – ''[[Brilliant Corners]]'' and ''[[Monk's Music]]'' ** [[Charles Mingus]] – ''[[The Clown (album)|The Clown]]'' ** [[Little Richard]] – ''[[Here's Little Richard]]'' ** [[Johnny Cash]] – ''[[Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!]]'' ** [[The Crickets]] – ''[[The "Chirping" Crickets]]'' ** [[Chuck Berry]] – ''[[After School Session]]'' ** [[Sonny Rollins]] – ''[[Way Out West (Sonny Rollins album)|Way Out West]]'' ** [[Elvis Presley]] – ''[[Elvis' Christmas Album]]'' <br> '''[[1956 in music]]''', '''[[1956 in British music]]''', '''[[1956 in Norwegian music]]''' * Notable events: ** The first [[Eurovision Song Contest]] is held on 24 May ** The operetta ''[[Candide (operetta)|Candide]]'' first performed * Deaths of: ** [[Tommy Dorsey]] * Notable releases: ** [[Odetta]] – ''[[Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues]]'' (Debut ** [[Elvis Presley]] – [[Elvis Presley (album)|self-titled debut album]] (Debut) ** [[John Serry Sr.]] - ''[[Squeeze Play (album)|Squeeze Play]]'' <br> '''[[1955 in music]]''', '''[[1955 in British music]]''', '''[[1955 in Norwegian music]]''' * Notable events: ** [[Cole Porter]]'s ''[[Silk Stockings]]'' first performed * Deaths of: ** [[George Enescu]] ** [[Arthur Honegger]] ** [[Charlie Parker]] * Notable releases: ** "[[Rock Around the Clock]]" becomes first worldwide No. 1 [[rock and roll]] record; ** [[Little Richard]] – "[[Tutti Frutti (song)|Tutti-Frutti]]" ** [[Harry James]] – ''[[Harry James in Hi-Fi]]'' ** [[Lonnie Donegan]] – "[[Rock Island Line (song)|Rock Island Line]]" <br> '''[[1954 in music]]''', '''[[1954 in British music]]''', '''[[1954 in Norwegian music]]''' – * Notable events: ** The musical ''[[Salad Days (musical)|Salad Days]]'' first performed ** First [[Fender Stratocaster]] produced *Deaths of: ** [[Charles Ives]] ** [[Wilhelm Furtwängler]] ** [[Billy Murray (singer)|Billy Murray]] * Notable releases: **[[Elvis Presley]]'s debut single, "[[That's All Right]]" <br> '''[[1953 in music]]''', '''[[1953 in British music]]''', '''[[1953 in Norwegian music]]''' * Notable events: ** The musical ''[[Can-Can (musical)|Can-Can]]'' is performed *Deaths of: ** [[Hank Williams]] ** [[Sergei Prokofiev]] ** [[Django Reinhardt]] ** [[Florence Price]] * Notable releases: <br> '''[[1952 in music]]''', '''[[1952 in British music]]''', '''[[1952 in Norwegian music]]''' * Notable events: ** The official UK singles chart is launched ** [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (or RIAA) established * Deaths of: ** [[Gertrude Lawrence]] ** [[Fletcher Henderson]] * Notable releases: <br> '''[[1951 in music]]''', '''[[1951 in British music]]''', '''[[1951 in Norwegian music]]''' * Notable events: ** The musical ''[[The King and I]]'' first performed * Deaths of: ** [[Arnold Schoenberg]] ** [[Mildred Bailey]] * Notable releases: **[[Ike Turner]] – ''[[Rocket 88]]'' (hailed as the first rock 'n' roll song) '''[[1950 in music]]''', '''[[1950 in British music]]''', '''[[1950 in Norwegian music]]''' * Notable events: * Deaths of: ** [[Kurt Weill]] ** [[Al Jolson]] ** [[Vaslav Nijinsky]] * Notable releases: ** Cartoon voice actor [[Mel Blanc]] releases the song "[[I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat (song)|I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat]]" as ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' characters [[Tweety Pie|Tweety]] and [[Sylvester the Cat|Sylvester]] == 1940s == {{Main|1940s in music}} * '''[[1949 in music]]''', '''[[1949 in British music]]''', '''[[1949 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[Maureen McGovern]], [[Valery Leontiev]], [[Paul Rodgers]], [[Billy Joel]], [[Steve Perry]], [[Rick Springfield]], [[Gene Simmons]], [[Lionel Richie]], [[Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)|Roger Taylor]] and [[Mark Knopfler]]; [[RCA|RCA Victor]] introduces 45 RPM [[gramophone record|records]]; ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'' by Rodgers and Hammerstein Death of [[Richard Strauss]] German composer * '''[[1948 in music]]''', '''[[1948 in British music]]''', '''[[1948 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Robert Plant]], [[John Bonham]], [[Steven Tyler]], [[Donna Summer]], [[Johnny Ramone]], [[Ted Nugent]], [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], [[James Taylor]], [[Alice Cooper]], [[Jackson Browne]], [[Kenny Loggins]], [[Ian Paice]], [[Olivia Newton-John]], [[Stevie Nicks]], and [[Ozzy Osbourne]]; ''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]'' – [[Cole Porter]]; ''[[Four Last Songs]]'' – [[Richard Strauss]]; [[Columbia Records]] introduces 33<small>1/3</small> RPM ([[vinyl record|LP]]) [[gramophone record|records]]. * '''[[1947 in music]]''', '''[[1947 in British music]]''', '''[[1947 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Elton John]], [[David Bowie]], [[Bob Weir]], [[Brian Johnson]], [[Emmylou Harris]], [[Arlo Guthrie]], [[Tracy Nelson (singer)|Tracy Nelson]], [[Paul Brady]], [[Tim Buckley]], [[Jim Messina (musician)|Jim Messina]], [[Mick Fleetwood]], ''[[Organum]]'', [[Jeff Lynne]], [[Minnie Riperton]], and [[Carlos Santana]] * '''[[1946 in music]]''', '''[[1946 in British music]]''', '''[[1946 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Freddie Mercury]], [[Toquinho]], [[Keith Moon]], [[Benny Andersson]], [[Bon Scott]], [[Tim Curry]], [[Donovan]], [[Linda Ronstadt]], [[Marianne Faithfull]], [[Gram Parsons]], [[Cher]], [[Patti Smith]], [[David Gilmour]], [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]] and [[Dolly Parton]] * '''[[1945 in music]]''', '''[[1945 in British music]]''', '''[[1945 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Bob Marley]], [[Pete Townshend]], [[Neil Young]], [[Van Morrison]], [[Bob Seger]], [[Bob Welch (musician)|Bob Welch]], [[Bette Midler]], [[Deborah Harry]], [[Anne Murray]], [[Carly Simon]], [[John Fogerty]], [[Rod Stewart]], [[Kim Carnes]], [[Davy Jones (musician)|Davy Jones]], [[Micky Dolenz]], [[Anni-Frid Lyngstad]], [[Björn Ulvaeus]], [[John McVie]], [[Ian Gillan]], [[Roger Glover]], [[Ritchie Blackmore]], [[Itzhak Perlman]], [[Debbie Harry]] and [[Eric Clapton]]; Death of [[Jerome Kern]]; ''[[Peter Grimes]]'' by [[Benjamin Britten]] premieres in London; ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'' – Rodgers and Hammerstein; ''[[Metamorphosen]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]]; * '''[[1944 in music]]''', '''[[1944 in British music]]''', '''[[1944 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Keith Emerson]], [[Barry White]], [[Diana Ross]], [[Jeff Beck]], [[Chico Buarque]], [[Marvin Hamlisch]], [[Roger Daltrey]], [[John Entwistle]], [[Booker T. Jones]], [[Joe Cocker]], [[Patti LaBelle]], [[Gladys Knight]], [[Gary Glitter]], [[Brenda Lee]], [[Townes Van Zandt]], [[Mary Wilson (singer)]] and [[Jimmy Page]]; Disappearance of [[Glenn Miller]], * '''[[1943 in music]]''', '''[[1943 in British music]]''', '''[[1943 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Mick Jagger]], [[Keith Richards]], [[Jim Morrison]], [[George Harrison]], [[Janis Joplin]], [[Joni Mitchell]], [[Robbie Robertson]], [[Richard Manuel]], [[John Denver]], [[Jack Bruce]], [[Barry Manilow]], [[Christine McVie]], [[Jim Croce]], [[Carlos (singer)|Carlos]], [[Gavin Bryars]], [[Bobby Sherman]], [[Roger Waters]], [[Richard Wright (musician)|Richard Wright]], and [[Nils-Aslak Valkeapää]]; Death of [[Lorenz Hart]], [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], Formation of [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]], [[Carl Ruggles]], ''[[Evocations]]''; The original [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' opened on March 31, 1943, at the [[St. James Theatre]] in New York City. * '''[[1942 in music]]''', '''[[1942 in British music]]''', '''[[1942 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Paul McCartney]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Brian Jones]], [[John P. Hammond]], [[Ronnie James Dio]], [[Brian Wilson]], [[Jerry Garcia]], [[Peter Tork]], [[Michael Nesmith]], [[Aretha Franklin]], [[Barbra Streisand]], [[Carole King]], [[Rick Danko]], [[Lou Reed]], [[Paul Butterfield]], [[Jerry Jeff Walker]] and [[Tammy Wynette]]; Death of [[George M. Cohan]] * '''[[1941 in music]]''', '''[[1941 in British music]]''', '''[[1941 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Bob Dylan]], [[Joan Baez]], [[Paul Simon]], [[Art Garfunkel]], [[Hank Marvin]], [[Otis Redding]], [[Jon Lord]], [[Chubby Checker]], [[Aaron Neville]], [[Charlie Watts]], [[Neil Diamond]], [[Richie Havens]], [[Cass Elliot]], [[Wilson Pickett]], [[Linda McCartney]] and [[Ritchie Valens]]; [[Les Paul]] builds one of the first solid-body electric guitars; * '''[[1940 in music]]''', '''[[1940 in British music]]''', '''[[1940 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[John Lennon]], [[Ringo Starr]], [[Frank Zappa]], [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]], [[Vicente Fernández]], [[Dionne Warwick]], [[Cliff Richard]], [[Phil Ochs]], [[Levon Helm]], [[Nancy Sinatra]], [[Denny Doherty]], [[Smokey Robinson]], [[Ricky Nelson]], [[Tim Hardin]], [[Dionne Warwick]], [[Bobby Hatfield]], [[Bill Medley]] and (both of the Righteous Brothers) == 1930s == * '''[[1939 in music]]''', '''[[1939 in British music]]''', '''[[1939 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Judy Collins]], [[Marvin Gaye]], [[Ray Manzarek]], [[Ginger Baker]], [[Tina Turner]] and [[Grace Slick]]; Cole Porter's ''[[DuBarry Was a Lady]];'' [[Judy Garland]] records "[[Over the Rainbow]]" * '''[[1938 in music]]''', '''[[1938 in British music]]''', '''[[1938 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Peter Yarrow]], [[Gordon Lightfoot]], [[Ben E. King]], [[Fela Kuti]], [[Kenny Rogers]], Death of [[Robert Johnson (musician)|Robert Johnson]], [[Benny Goodman]] presents a jazz concert in [[Carnegie Hall]]; Death of [[Dan W. Quinn]] * '''[[1937 in music]]''', '''[[1937 in British music]]''', '''[[1937 in Norwegian music]]''' – Death of [[George Gershwin]], Birth of [[Roberta Flack]], [[Waylon Jennings]], [[Merle Haggard]], [[Garth Hudson]], [[Tom Paxton]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Dame Shirley Bassey]], [[Carl Orff]]'s ''[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana]]'' premieres * '''[[1936 in music]]''', '''[[1936 in British music]]''', '''[[1936 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Buddy Holly]], [[Roy Orbison]], [[Kris Kristofferson]], [[Bill Wyman]], [[Dave Van Ronk]], [[Steve Reich]], [[Bobby Darin]], ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' publishes first U.S. music chart * '''[[1935 in music]]''', '''[[1935 in British music]]''', '''[[1935 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Elvis Presley]], [[Jerry Lee Lewis]], [[Gene Vincent]], [[Luciano Pavarotti]], [[Julie Andrews]], [[Ronnie Hawkins]], [[Johnnie Mathis]], [[John Phillips (musician)|John Phillips]], [[Lou Rawls]], [[La Monte Young]], [[Terry Riley]]; [[Paul Tutmarc|Audiovox]] produce first electric bass guitar; ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' by [[George Gershwin]] premieres in New York * '''[[1934 in music]]''', '''[[1934 in British music]]''', '''[[1934 in Norwegian music]]''' – Cole Porter's ''[[Anything Goes]]''; Birth of [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Jackie Wilson]]; [[Tammy Grimes]], [[Bob Shane]], [[King Curtis]], [[Florence Henderson]], [[Renata Scotto]], [[Shirley Jones]], [[Otis Rush]], [[Frankie Valli]], [[Pat Boone]], [[André Prévost (composer)|André Prévost]], [[Freddie King]], [[Brian Epstein]], [[Dave Guard]], [[Del Shannon]]; Deaths of [[Edward Elgar]] and [[Gustav Holst]] * '''[[1933 in music]]''', '''[[1933 in British music]]''', '''[[1933 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[James Brown (musician)|James Brown]], [[Quincy Jones]], [[Willie Nelson]], [[Nina Simone]], [[Yoko Ono]], [[Nick Reynolds]] * '''[[1932 in music]]''', '''[[1932 in British music]]''', '''[[1932 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Night and Day (song)|Night and Day]]'' by Cole Porter; Birth of [[Johnny Cash]], [[Joel Grey]], [[Petula Clark]], [[Patsy Cline]], [[Glenn Gould]], [[Loretta Lynn]], [[Miriam Makeba]] [[Carl Perkins]], [[Little Richard]], and [[John Williams]]; Death of [[John Philip Sousa]]; [[Adolph Rickenbacker]] produces first electric guitar; [[Bell Labs]] creates first stereophonic sound recordings * '''[[1931 in music]]''', '''[[1931 in British music]]''', '''[[1931 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Teresa Brewer]], [[Sam Cooke]], [[João Gilberto]], [[George Jones]] and [[The McGuire Sisters|Phyllis McGuire]]; Death of [[Anna Pavlova]] * '''[[1930 in music]]''', '''[[1930 in British music]]''', '''[[1930 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Ray Charles]], [[Herbie Mann]], [[Odetta]], [[Sonny Rollins]], [[Stephen Sondheim]], and [[The Big Bopper]] == 1920s == * '''[[1929 in music]]''', '''[[1929 in British music]]''', '''[[1929 in Norwegian music]]''' – Cole Porter's ''[[Fifty Million Frenchmen]]''; Birth of [[Beverly Sills]], [[Bill Evans]], [[Dick Clark]], [[Berry Gordy]], [[Henri Pousseur]] * '''[[1928 in music]]''', '''[[1928 in British music]]''', '''[[1928 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Bo Diddley]] and [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]; Fats Domino ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'' by [[Kurt Weill]] and [[Bertolt Brecht]] (libretto) premieres in Berlin * '''[[1927 in music]]''', '''[[1927 in British music]]''', '''[[1927 in Norwegian music]]''' – Jerome Kern's ''[[Show Boat]]''; Igor Stravinsky's ''[[Apollo (ballet)|Apollo]]''; Birth of [[Harry Belafonte]], [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]], [[Patti Page]], [[Ralph Stanley]] * '''[[1926 in music]]''', '''[[1926 in British music]]''', '''[[1926 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Tapiola (Sibelius)|Tapiola]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; Birth of [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Joan Sutherland]], [[John Coltrane]], [[Miles Davis]], [[Chuck Berry]], [[Tony Bennett]], [[Big Mama Thornton]]; ''[[Turandot]]'' by [[Giacomo Puccini]] premieres in [[Milan]] * '''[[1925 in music]]''', '''[[1925 in British music]]''', '''[[1925 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Celia Cruz]], [[B.B. King]] and [[Pierre Boulez]]; Big record labels begin using electric [[microphone]]s for recording; 78 RPM adopted as standard for [[gramophone record|records]]; [[BBC]] makes first radio broadcast in stereo; ''[[Wozzeck]]'' by [[Alban Berg]] premieres in Berlin, [[Carl Ruggles]], ''Portals''. Debut of the [[Grand Ole Opry]]. * '''[[1924 in music]]''', '''[[1924 in British music]]''', '''[[1924 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[George Gershwin|Gershwin's]] ''[[Rhapsody in Blue]]'' premieres in New York; the ''[[Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 7]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; Death of [[Giacomo Puccini|Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini]], Italian opera composer, [[Carl Ruggles]]. ''[[Men and Mountains]]''. Debut of the [[National Barn Dance]], the first radio program devoted to [[country music]]. * '''[[1923 in music]]''', '''[[1923 in British music]]''', '''[[1923 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Hank Williams]], First recordings by [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Bessie Smith]], and many other African-American artists, [[Carl Ruggles]], ''[[Vox clamans in deserto]]'' * '''[[1922 in music]]''', '''[[1922 in British music]]''', '''[[1922 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Judy Garland]]. * '''[[1921 in music]]''', '''[[1921 in British music]]''', '''[[1921 in Norwegian music]]''' – Death of [[Enrico Caruso]], [[Carl Ruggles]] ''Angels'' * '''[[1920 in music]]''', '''[[1920 in British music]]''', '''[[1920 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Charlie Parker]], [[Ravi Shankar]], [[Isaac Stern]]; Death of [[Alberto Nepomuceno]], Brazilian composer, pianist, organist and conductor. == 1910s == * '''[[1919 in music]]''', '''[[1919 in British music]]''', '''[[1919 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Pete Seeger]], [[Merce Cunningham]], [[Carl Ruggles]], ''Toys'' * '''[[1918 in music]]''', '''[[1918 in British music]]''', '''[[1918 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[Phonograph cylinder]]s become obsolete; the [[Society for Private Musical Performances]] is founded in Vienna by [[Arnold Schoenberg]]; Death of [[Claude Debussy]] * '''[[1917 in music]]''', '''[[1917 in British music]]''', '''[[1917 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Lou Harrison]], [[Ella Fitzgerald]], [[John Lee Hooker]], [[Dinu Lipatti]], [[Isang Yun]]; First hit [[jazz]] recordings by [[Original Dixieland Jass Band]], Death of [[Scott Joplin]] * '''[[1916 in music]]''', '''[[1916 in British music]]''', '''[[1916 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Milton Babbitt]], [[Henri Dutilleux]], [[Alberto Ginastera]], [[Betty Grable]], [[Harry James]], [[Dinah Shore]], * '''[[1915 in music]]''', '''[[1915 in British music]]''', '''[[1915 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[An Alpine Symphony]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]]; Birth of [[Billie Holiday]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[John Serry, Sr.]]; [[Tom Brown (trombonist)|Tom Brown]] starts billing his group as a "[[Jazz|Jass]] Band" * '''[[1914 in music]]''', '''[[1914 in British music]]''', '''[[1914 in Norwegian music]]''' – "[[St. Louis Blues (song)|St. Louis Blues]]" published; first [[calypso music]] recordings * '''[[1913 in music]]''', '''[[1913 in British music]]''', '''[[1913 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Muddy Waters]], [[Vinicius de Moraes]], [[Benjamin Britten]] English Composer; [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'' is premiered in Paris. * '''[[1912 in music]]''', '''[[1912 in British music]]''', '''[[1912 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Woody Guthrie]], [[Lightnin' Hopkins]], [[John Cage]] * '''[[1911 in music]]''', '''[[1911 in British music]]''', '''[[1911 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Robert Johnson (musician)|Robert Johnson]], ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]] premieres in [[Dresden]], Death of [[Gustav Mahler]], Austrian composer and conductor * '''[[1910 in music]]''', '''[[1910 in British music]]''', '''[[1910 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Howlin' Wolf]], [[Artie Shaw]], [[John H. Hammond]], [[Django Reinhardt]]; "[[Let Me Call You Sweetheart]]" == 1900s == * '''[[1909 in music]]''', '''[[1909 in British music]]''', '''[[1909 in Norwegian music]]''' – Death of [[Francisco Tárrega]]; ''[[Elektra (opera)|Elektra]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]] premieres in [[Dresden]]; Birth of [[Benny Goodman]] * '''[[1908 in music]]''', '''[[1908 in British music]]''', '''[[1908 in Norwegian music]]''' – The two first [[atonality|atonal]] pieces are composed, first by [[Béla Bartók]] and then by [[Arnold Schoenberg]] Death of [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]. * '''[[1907 in music]]''', '''[[1907 in British music]]''', '''[[1907 in Norwegian music]]''' – Death of [[Edvard Grieg]], Norwegian composer (b. 1843); Birth of [[Gene Autry]], [[Cab Calloway]], [[Benny Carter]], [[Kate Smith]] * '''[[1906 in music]]''', '''[[1906 in British music]]''', '''[[1906 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Dmitri Shostakowich]], soviet composer and pianist, Victor begins selling the [[Victrola]] phonograph player for $15.00; [[Len Spencer]], ''[[I Am The Edison Phonograph]]'' --- earliest recorded advert played in Phonograph shops to sell the devices; the ''[[Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 8]]'' by [[Gustav Mahler]]: Birth of [[Pedro Vargas]] known as the "Nightingale of the Americas". * '''[[1905 in music]]''', '''[[1905 in British music]]''', '''[[1905 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[The Merry Widow]]'' by [[Franz Lehár]] premieres in [[Vienna]]; ''[[Salome (opera)|Salome]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]] premieres in [[Dresden]] * '''[[1904 in music]]''', '''[[1904 in British music]]''', '''[[1904 in Norwegian music]]''' – The [[Violin Concerto|Violin Concerto (Sibelius)]] by [[Jean Sibelius]]; Death of [[Antonín Dvořák]], Czech composer, ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' by [[Giacomo Puccini]] premieres in [[Milan]] * '''[[1903 in music]]''', '''[[1903 in British music]]''', '''[[1903 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Valse triste]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; Birth of [[Bing Crosby]] and [[Vladimir Horowitz]] * '''[[1902 in music]]''', '''[[1902 in British music]]''', '''[[1902 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Richard Rodgers]], ''[[Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)|Pelléas et Mélisande]]'' by [[Claude Debussy]] premieres in Paris * '''[[1901 in music]]''', '''[[1901 in British music]]''', '''[[1901 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Louis Armstrong]], Death of [[Giuseppe Verdi]], Italian composer, Birth of [[Silvestre Vargas]] * '''[[1900 in music]]''', '''[[1900 in British music]]''', '''[[1900 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Tosca]]'' by [[Giacomo Puccini]] premieres in Rome == 1890s == * '''[[1899 in music]]''', '''[[1899 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' by [[Antonín Dvořák]]; ''[[Ein Heldenleben]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]]; [[Symphony No. 1 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 1]] and publication of ''[[Finlandia]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; ''[[Shéhérazade (Ravel)]]'' by [[Maurice Ravel]]; ''[[Enigma Variations]]'' by [[Edward Elgar]]; "[[Maple Leaf Rag]]" by [[Scott Joplin]]; Death of [[Johann Strauss II]]; Birth of [[Duke Ellington]]; Birth of [[Silvestre Revueltas]] * '''[[1898 in music]]''', '''[[1898 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[George Gershwin]], [[Paul Robeson]] * '''[[1897 in music]]''', '''[[1897 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[Ragtime music]] becomes popular in the United States; Death of [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], Birth of [[Marian Anderson]] * '''[[1896 in music]]''', '''[[1896 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Also sprach Zarathustra (Strauss)|Also sprach Zarathustra]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]]; ''[[Jungfrun i tornet]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; Death of [[Antônio Carlos Gomes|Carlos Gomes]], Brazilian composer and opera composer and [[Anton Bruckner]], Austrian composer and organist * '''[[1895 in music]]''', '''[[1895 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[The Swan of Tuonela]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; ''[[Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]]; Birth of [[Carl Orff]], [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], [[William Grant Still]], the "Dean of African-American music" * '''[[1894 in music]]''', '''[[1894 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[Cello Concerto (Dvořák)|Cello Concerto]] and ''[[Humoresques (Dvořák)|Humoresques]]'' by [[Antonín Dvořák]] * '''[[1893 in music]]''', '''[[1893 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 9]] and [[String Quartet No. 12 (Dvořák)|String Quartet No. 12]] by [[Antonín Dvořák]]; [[Symphony No. 3 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 3]] by [[Gustav Mahler]]; ''[[Karelia Suite]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; Death of [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]], Russian composer * '''[[1892 in music]]''', '''[[1892 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[Dan W. Quinn]] makes first recordings in New York City; ''[[Kullervo (Sibelius)|Kullervo]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; ''[[Pagliacci]]'' by [[Ruggero Leoncavallo]]; ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' by [[Marius Petipa]] * '''[[1891 in music]]''', '''[[1891 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[Piano Trio No. 4 (Dvořák)|Piano Trio No. 4]] by [[Antonín Dvořák]]; Birth of [[Sergei Prokofiev]], Soviet composer and pianist; [[George W. Johnson (singer)|George W. Johnson]] becomes first African American recording artist with "The Laughing Song" * '''[[1890 in music]]''', '''[[1890 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[John Philip Sousa]] makes first recordings with [[Columbia Phonograph Company]]; Birth of [[Bronislava Nijinska]], choreographer == 1880s == * '''[[1889 in music]]''', '''[[1889 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[Effie Stewart]] records at [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]]; [[Edison Records|Edison]] starts commercial recordings on May 24; First [[phonograph|phonograph parlor]] opens in San Francisco; ''[[Kaiser-Walzer]]'' by [[Johann Strauss II]]; ''[[Death and Transfiguration]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]]. * '''[[1888 in music]]''', '''[[1888 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 2]]'' by [[Gustav Mahler]]; Birth of [[Lead Belly]]; Death of [[Charles-Valentin Alkan]], French composer and pianist; Wax [[phonograph cylinder]]s commercially marketed; [[Emile Berliner]] invents lateral-cut [[disc records]]. * '''[[1887 in music]]''', '''[[1887 in Norwegian music]]''' – The [[Havanaise (Saint-Saëns)]] by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; Birth of [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], Brazilian composer, cellist, and guitarist * '''[[1886 in music]]''', '''[[1886 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[The Carnival of the Animals]]'' and the [[Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)|Symphony No. 3]] by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; birth of [[Marcel Dupré]], [[Al Jolson]], [[Paul Paray]], [[Othmar Schoeck]]; [[Franz Liszt]] publishes his final [[Hungarian Rhapsody]]; death of [[Franz Liszt]]. * '''[[1885 in music]]''', '''[[1885 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[The Mikado]]'' – [[Arthur Sullivan]]; ''[[The Gypsy Baron]]'' by [[Johann Strauss II]]; Birth of [[Jerome Kern]] * '''[[1884 in music]]''', '''[[1884 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Sophie Tucker]] * '''[[1883 in music]]''', '''[[1883 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Edgard Varèse]], Death of [[Richard Wagner]], German composer * '''[[1882 in music]]''', '''[[1882 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Igor Stravinsky]], Russian composer, ''[[Parsifal]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Bayreuth]]; [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] – ''[[1812 Overture]]'' premiere * '''[[1881 in music]]''', '''[[1881 in Norwegian music]]''' – Births of [[Béla Bartók]] and [[George Enescu]] * '''[[1880 in music]]''', '''[[1880 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Stabat Mater]]'' and "[[Songs My Mother Taught Me (Dvořák)|Songs My Mother Taught Me]]" by [[Antonín Dvorák]]; The [[Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)]] by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; Death of [[Jacques Offenbach]], composer (b. 1819) == 1870s == * '''[[1879 in music]]''', '''[[1879 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Jean Cras]] * '''[[1878 in music]]''' – Birth of [[George M. Cohan]]; [[William S. Gilbert]] and [[Arthur Sullivan]], [[H.M.S. Pinafore]]; reshapes British and American musical theater; * '''[[1877 in music]]''' – [[Phonograph]] and [[phonograph cylinder]] invented by [[Thomas Alva Edison]]; ''[[Samson and Delilah (opera)|Samson and Delilah]]'' by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]] Birth of [[Billy Murray (singer)]] * '''[[1876 in music]]''' – ''[[Siegfried (opera)|Siegfried]]'' and ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premiere in [[Bayreuth]]; Birth of [[Carl Ruggles]] * '''[[1875 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Maurice Ravel|Joseph-Maurice Ravel]], French composer and pianist; ''[[Carmen]]'' by [[Georges Bizet]] premieres in Paris; ''[[Swan Lake]]'' by [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] premieres * '''[[1874 in music]]''' – ''[[Boris Godunov (opera)|Boris Godunov]]'' by [[Modest Mussorgsky]] premieres in [[Saint Petersburg]]; ''[[Die Fledermaus]]'' by [[Johann Strauss II]] premieres in [[Vienna]]; [[Richard Wagner]] concludes [[Götterdämmerung]], finishing [[Der Ring des Nibelungen|The Ring Cycle]]; ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]]; ''[[Danse macabre]]'' by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; Birth of [[Arnold Schoenberg]] * '''[[1873 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Enrico Caruso]], [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], Russian composer, ultra virtuoso pianist and conductor * '''[[1872 in music]]''' – The [[Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns)]] by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; Birth of [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], English composer; birth of [[Sergei Diaghilev]], choreographer (d. 1929) * '''[[1871 in music]]''' – [[Richard Wagner]] concludes [[Siegfried (opera)|Siegfried]]; ''[[Aida]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] premieres in [[Cairo]] * '''[[1870 in music]]''' – ''[[Die Walküre]]'' (the Valkyrie) by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Munich]] == 1860s == * '''[[1869 in music]]''' – Death of [[Hector Berlioz]], French composer, ''[[Das Rheingold]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Munich]] * '''[[1868 in music]]''' – Death of [[Gioachino Rossini]], Italian composer, ''[[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premières in [[Munich]]; ''[[Ein deutsches Requiem]]'' by [[Johannes Brahms]] premières in Bremen; ''[[Brahms's Lullaby|Wiegenlied]]'' by Brahms (''Brahms' Lullaby''); ''[[Tales from the Vienna Woods]]'' by [[Johann Strauss II]]; the [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)]] by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]] * '''[[1867 in music]]''' Birth of [[Scott Joplin]], famous ragtime composer; ''[[The Blue Danube]]'' by [[Johann Strauss II]]; ''[[Roméo et Juliette]]'' (opera) by [[Charles Gounod]]; ''[[Peer Gynt (Grieg)|Peer Gynt]]'' by [[Edvard Grieg]] * '''[[1866 in music]]''' – [[Franz Liszt]] completes his oratorio [[Christus (Liszt)|Christus]]; Birth of French composer [[Erik Satie]]. * '''[[1865 in music]]''' – Birth of Finnish composer [[Jean Sibelius]]; ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Munich]], marking the beginning of the end for traditional [[tonality]]; The ''[[Symphony No. 1 (Dvořák)|Symphony No. 1]]'' by [[Antonín Dvorak]]; [[Franz Liszt]] publishes his solo piano transcriptions of the full [[Beethoven Symphonies (Liszt)|Beethoven Symphonies]] 1 – 9. * '''[[1864 in music]]''' Birth of [[Richard Strauss]], German composer, [[Alberto Nepomuceno]], Brazilian composer, pianist, organist and conductor * '''[[1863 in music]]'''– The ''[[Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso]]'' by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; Birth of [[Ernesto Nazareth]] * '''[[1862 in music]]''' – Birth of French composer [[Claude Debussy]] * '''[[1861 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Anton Arensky]]; [[Franz Liszt]] completes his first [[Mephisto Waltzes|Mephisto Waltz]] ''The Dance in the Village Inn''. * '''[[1860 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Gustav Mahler]], Austrian composer and conductor == 1850s == * '''[[1859 in music]]''' – ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' by [[Charles Gounod]] premieres [[in Paris]]; [[Richard Wagner]] concludes [[Tristan und Isolde]]; In [[1859]], [[John Freeman Young]] published the English translation of [[Silent Night]] that is most frequently sung today. * '''[[1858 in music]]''' – Births of [[Medardo Rosso]] and [[Giacomo Puccini]], Italian opera composer, ''[[Orpheus in the Underworld|Orphée aux enfers]]'' by [[Jacques Offenbach]], the first [[operetta]], premieres in Paris; [[Hector Berlioz]] writes ''[[Les Troyens]]''; [[Johann Strauss II]] writes ''[[Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka]]'' * '''[[1857 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Edward Elgar]], British composer; First public performance of [[Franz Liszt]]'s [[Piano Sonata (Liszt)|Piano Sonata in B Minor]] * '''[[1856 in music]]''' – Death of [[Robert Schumann]], German composer and pianist; [[Richard Wagner]], German composer, concludes ''[[Die Walküre]]'' * '''[[1855 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Ernest Chausson]] * '''[[1854 in music]]''' – [[Richard Wagner]], German composer, concludes [[Das Rheingold]] * '''[[1853 in music]]''' – ''[[Il trovatore]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] premieres in Rome; ''[[La traviata]]'' by Verdi premieres in [[Venice]] * '''[[1852 in music]]''' – Births of [[Charles Villiers Stanford]], Irish composer, teacher and conductor and [[Francisco Tárrega]], Spanish composer and guitarist * '''[[1851 in music]]''' – ''[[Rigoletto]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] premieres in [[Venice]] * '''[[1850 in music]]''' – ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Weimar]]; ''Foster's Plantation Melodies'' by [[Stephen Foster]], including "[[Camptown Races]]" == 1840s == * '''[[1849 in music]]''' – Death of [[Frédéric Chopin]], Polish composer and pianist; [[Franz Liszt]] publishes his [[Three Concert Études]], alongside completing ''[[Funérailles]]''. * '''[[1848 in music]]''' – ''[[Album for the Young]]'' by [[Robert Schumann]]; Death of [[Gaetano Donizetti]], Italian opera composer * '''[[1847 in music]]''' – "[[Oh! Susanna]]" by [[Stephen Foster]] published; Death of [[Felix Mendelssohn|Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy]], German composer * '''[[1846 in music]]''' – [[Adolphe Sax]] invents the saxophone * '''[[1845 in music]]''' – ''[[Tannhäuser (opera)|Tannhäuser]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premières in [[Dresden]]; The [[Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)|Violin Concerto]] by [[Felix Mendelssohn]]; Birth of [[Ángela Peralta]] * '''[[1844 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] and [[Charles-Marie Widor]] * '''[[1843 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Edvard Grieg]], Norwegian composer (d. 1907); [[Minstrel show]] premieres in United States; ''[[Der fliegende Holländer]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Dresden]] * '''[[1842 in music]]''' – "[[Franz Liszt|Liszt]]omania" sweeps Europe * '''[[1841 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Antonín Dvořák]], Czech composer; ''[[Nabucco]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] * '''[[1840 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]], Russian composer; Death of [[Niccolò Paganini]], Italian composer and ultra virtuoso violinist == 1830s == * '''[[1839 in music]]''' – ''[[Blumenstück]]'' by [[Robert Schumann]] * '''[[1838 in music]]''' – ''[[Kinderszenen]]'' by [[Robert Schumann]] * '''[[1837 in music]]''' – ''[[Requiem (Berlioz)|Requiem]]'' by [[Hector Berlioz]] * '''[[1836 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Antônio Carlos Gomes|Carlos Gomes]], Brazilian composer and opera composer, ''[[Les Huguenots]]'' by [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]] premieres in Paris * '''[[1835 in music]]''' – Death of [[Vincenzo Bellini|Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini]], Italian opera composer, ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' by [[Gaetano Donizetti]] premieres in [[Naples]]; [[Gaetano Corticelli]] is in vogue in salons of Bologna, Italy featuring his terzettis and fantasies; ''[[I puritani]]'' by [[Vincenzo Bellini]] premieres * '''[[1834 in music]]''' – ''Die [[Neue Zeitschrift für Musik]]'' first published by [[Robert Schumann]] * '''[[1833 in music]]''' – [[Johannes Brahms]] born * '''[[1832 in music]]''' – Death of [[Muzio Clementi]], Italian composer and pianist * '''[[1831 in music]]''' – ''[[La sonnambula]]'' and ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'' by [[Vincenzo Bellini]] * '''[[1830 in music]]''' – ''[[Symphonie Fantastique]]'' by [[Hector Berlioz]] is written; ''[[The Hebrides (overture)]]'' by [[Felix Mendelssohn]]; ''[[Anna Bolena]]'' by [[Gaetano Donizetti]]; and ''[[I Capuleti e i Montecchi]]'' by [[Vincenzo Bellini]] == 1820s == * '''[[1829 in music]]''' – The ''[[Italian Symphony]]'', the ''[[Scottish Symphony]]'', and the ''[[Songs Without Words]]'' by [[Felix Mendelssohn]]; Birth of [[Anton Rubinstein]], Russian composer and ultra virtuoso pianist * '''[[1828 in music]]''' – [[Franz Schubert]] dies * '''[[1827 in music]]''' – [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] dies; ''[[Winterreise]]'' by [[Franz Schubert]]; ''[[Il pirata]]'' by [[Vincenzo Bellini]] * '''[[1826 in music]]''' – June 5, Death of [[Carl Maria von Weber|Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber]], German opera composer. ''[[String Quartet No. 14 (Beethoven)|String Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp minor]]'' by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] was completed. October 31, [[Muzio Clementi]]'s complete ''[[Gradus ad Parnassum]]'' (100 pieces) appears for the first time, simultaneously in Paris, Leipzig and London. * '''[[1825 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Johann Strauss II]], Austrian composer; ''Songs from Sir Walter Scott'' by [[Franz Schubert]], including "[[Ellens dritter Gesang]]" (Schubert's ''Ave Maria''); The ''[[Octet (Mendelssohn)|Octet]]'' by [[Felix Mendelssohn]] [[Antonio Salieri]] dies * '''[[1824 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Anton Bruckner]], Austrian composer and organist; [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's 9th Symphony]] * '''[[1823 in music]]''' – ''[[Die schöne Müllerin]]'' by [[Franz Schubert]] * '''[[1822 in music]]''' * '''[[1821 in music]]''' – ''[[Der Freischütz]]'' by [[Carl Maria von Weber]], premieres in Berlin * '''[[1820 in music]]''' == 1810s == * '''[[1819 in music]]''' – April 16, The publication of [[Muzio Clementi]]'s ''[[Gradus ad Parnassum]]'' Volume II is entered at Stationer's Hall, London. September 13, Birth of [[Clara Schumann]], German pianist and composer. * '''[[1818 in music]]''' – ''[[Piano Sonata No. 29 (Beethoven)|Hammerklavier sonate]]'' by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]; "[[Silent Night (song)|Silent Night]]" written by [[Josef Mohr]] and composed by [[Franz Gruber (musician)|Franz Xaver Gruber]], – The first performance of ''[[Silent Night]]'' on December 25, (Church of St. Nikolaus in [[Oberndorf bei Salzburg|Oberndorf]], [[Austria]]). * '''[[1817 in music]]''' – March 1, [[Muzio Clementi]]'s ''[[Gradus ad Parnassum]]'' Volume I is published simultaneously in London, Paris and Leipzig. * '''[[1816 in music]]''' – ''[[Il barbiere di Siviglia]]'' (The Barber of Seville) by [[Gioachino Rossini]], premieres in [[Rome]] * '''[[1815 in music]]''' * '''[[1814 in music]]''' – [[Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 8]] by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] * '''[[1813 in music]]''' – Birth of French-Jewish composer and ultra virtuoso pianist [[Charles-Valentin Alkan]]; Birth of German composer [[Richard Wagner]]; Birth of Italian composer [[Giuseppe Verdi]], [[Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 7]] by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] * '''[[1812 in music]]''' – Birth of German composer [[Friedrich von Flotow]]; Birth of Swiss composer and virtuoso pianist [[Sigismund Thalberg]]. * '''[[1811 in music]]''' – Birth of Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist [[Franz Liszt]]. * '''[[1810 in music]]''' – Birth of Polish composer and virtuoso pianist [[Frédéric Chopin]]; Birth of German composer and virtuoso pianist [[Robert Schumann]]; [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] completes his ''[[Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven)|Fifth Piano Concerto Emperor]]''. == 1800s == * '''[[1809 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Felix Mendelssohn|Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy]], German composer, pianist, organist and conductor; Death of [[Joseph Haydn]], Austrian composer * '''[[1808 in music]]''' – [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] completes his [[Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)|6th Symphony "Pastoral"]], [[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's 5th Symphony]] * '''[[1807 in music]]''' – ''[[La Vestale]]'' by [[Gaspare Spontini]], [[Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 4]] by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] * '''[[1806 in music]]''' – ''[[Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)|Fourth Piano Concerto]]'', ''[[Violin Concerto (Beethoven)|Violin Concerto]]'' by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] * '''[[1805 in music]]''' – ''[[Fidelio]]'' by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] * '''[[1804 in music]]''' – ''[[Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 3 'Eroica']]'' by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] * '''[[1803 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Hector Berlioz]], French composer [[Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 2]] by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] * '''[[1802 in music]]''' – [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach's]] [[Sonatas and partitas for solo violin]] are published by [[Bote and Bock]] * '''[[1801 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Vincenzo Bellini|Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini]], Italian opera composer, [[Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's ''Moonlight Sonata'']] * '''[[1800 in music]]''' – ''[[Symphony No. 1 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 1]]'' by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] == 1790s == * '''[[1799 in music]]''' – * '''[[1798 in music]]''' – [[Joseph Haydn]]'s ''[[The Creation (Haydn)|The Creation]]'' * '''[[1797 in music]]''' – [[Joseph Haydn]]'s ''[[Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser]]''; Birth of [[Franz Schubert]], Austrian composer and pianist and [[Gaetano Donizetti|Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti]], Italian opera composer * '''[[1796 in music]]''' – * '''[[1795 in music]]''' – First [[Beethoven]] Piano Sonatas written ([[Piano Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven)|Op. 2]]<!--Nos. 1, 2 and 3, published as a set-->) * '''[[1794 in music]]''' – * '''[[1793 in music]]''' – ''[[Scots Wha Hae]]'' * '''[[1792 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Gioachino Rossini|Gioachino Antonio Rossini]], Italian composer * '''[[1791 in music]]''' – [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s ''[[Die Zauberflöte]]'' (The Magic Flute); death of Mozart * '''[[1790 in music]]''' – == 1780s == * '''[[1789 in music]]''' – [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s ''[[Così fan tutte]]'' * '''[[1788 in music]]''' – Death of [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]], German composer and keyboardist * '''[[1787 in music]]''' – [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' * '''[[1786 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Carl Maria von Weber|Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber]], German opera composer, [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s ''[[Le nozze di Figaro]]'' (The marriage of Figaro) * '''[[1785 in music]]''' – [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] composes his [[Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto No. 21]] * '''[[1784 in music]]''' – * '''[[1783 in music]]''' – * '''[[1782 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Niccolò Paganini]], Italian composer and ultra virtuoso violinist; Death of [[Johann Christian Bach]], German composer, [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]'' (The Abduction from the Seraglio) * '''[[1781 in music]]''' – * '''[[1780 in music]]''' – == 1770s == * '''[[1779 in music]]''' – * '''[[1778 in music]]''' – * '''[[1777 in music]]''' – ''[[Il mondo della luna]]'' by [[Joseph Haydn]], premieres in [[Eszterháza]], Hungary * '''[[1776 in music]]''' – * '''[[1775 in music]]''' – * '''[[1774 in music]]''' – * '''[[1773 in music]]''' – * '''[[1772 in music]]''' – * '''[[1771 in music]]''' – * '''[[1770 in music]]''' – [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] born == 1760s == * '''[[1769 in music]]''' – * '''[[1768 in music]]''' – * '''[[1767 in music]]''' – * '''[[1766 in music]]''' – * '''[[1765 in music]]''' – * '''[[1764 in music]]''' – Death of [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]], French composer and music theorist * '''[[1763 in music]]''' – * '''[[1762 in music]]''' – ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]'' by [[Christoph Willibald Gluck]], premieres in [[Vienna]] * '''[[1761 in music]]''' – * '''[[1760 in music]]''' – ''[[La buona figliuola]]'' by [[Niccolò Piccinni]], premieres in Rome == 1750s == * '''[[1759 in music]]''' – [[George Frideric Handel]] dies * '''[[1758 in music]]''' – * '''[[1757 in music]]''' – Death of [[Domenico Scarlatti]], Italian composer and harpsichordist * '''[[1756 in music]]''' – [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] born * '''[[1755 in music]]''' – * '''[[1754 in music]]''' – * '''[[1753 in music]]''' – * '''[[1752 in music]]''' – [[Muzio Clementi]] born * '''[[1751 in music]]''' – * '''[[1750 in music]]''' – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] dies, [[Antonio Salieri]] born == 1740s == * '''[[1749 in music]]''' – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] finishes his [[Mass in B Minor]]; [[George Frideric Handel]] composes the ''[[Music for the Royal Fireworks]]'' * '''[[1748 in music]] ''' - * '''[[1747 in music]]''' – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] finishes his [[The Musical Offering|Musical Offering]] * '''[[1746 in music]]''' – * '''[[1745 in music]]''' – * '''[[1744 in music]]''' – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] finishes the Book II from [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]] * '''[[1743 in music]]''' – * '''[[1742 in music]]''' – première of ''[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]'' by [[George Frideric Handel]], in [[Dublin]] * '''[[1741 in music]]''' – Death of [[Antonio Lucio Vivaldi]], Italian composer and violinist [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach's]] [[Goldberg Variations]] are published * '''[[1740 in music]]''' – == 1730s == * '''[[1739 in music]]''' – The ''[[Clavier-Übung III]]'' by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] is published * '''[[1738 in music]]''' – * '''[[1737 in music]]''' – * '''[[1736 in music]]''' – ''[[Alexander's Feast (Handel)|Alexander's Feast]]'' by [[George Frideric Handel]] * '''[[1735 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Johann Christian Bach]], German composer * '''[[1734 in music]]''' – * '''[[1733 in music]]''' – ''[[La serva padrona]]'' by [[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]], the first [[opera buffa]], premieres in [[Naples]]; ''[[Hippolyte et Aricie]]'' by [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]], premieres in Paris, Death of [[François Couperin]], French composer and harpsichordist * '''[[1732 in music]]''' – [[Joseph Haydn]] born * '''[[1731 in music]]''' – * '''[[1730 in music]]''' – == 1720s == * '''[[1729 in music]]''' – * '''[[1728 in music]]''' – ''[[The Beggar's Opera]]'' by [[John Gay]] and [[Johann Christoph Pepusch]], premieres in London * '''[[1727 in music]]''' – ''Zadok the Priest'' (the coronation anthem) by [[George Frideric Handel]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] finishes and presents his ''[[St Matthew Passion]]'' * '''[[1726 in music]]''' – * '''[[1725 in music]]''' – publication of ''Twelve concerti, Op. 8'' by [[Antonio Vivaldi]], including ''[[the Four Seasons (Vivaldi)|the Four Seasons]]'' – Death of [[Alessandro Scarlatti]], Italian composer * '''[[1724 in music]]''' – ''[[Giulio Cesare]]'' by [[George Frideric Handel]] premières in London, [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] presents his ''[[St John Passion]]'' * '''[[1723 in music]]''' – Vivaldi composes ''The Four Seasons'' * '''[[1722 in music]]''' – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] finishes the Book I from [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], ''Traité de l'harmonie'' by [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]] causes a revolution in music theory. * '''[[1721 in music]]''' – * '''[[1720 in music]]''' – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] presents his [[Brandenburg Concertos]] to [[Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt|Christian Ludwig]]; [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] completes the [[Sonatas and partitas for solo violin]] == 1710s == * '''[[1719 in music]]''' – * '''[[1718 in music]]''' – * '''[[1717 in music]]''' – ''[[Water Music (Handel)|Water Music]]'' by [[George Frideric Handel]] * '''[[1716 in music]]''' – ''[[Juditha triumphans]]'' is composed by [[Antonio Vivaldi]] * '''[[1715 in music]]''' – * '''[[1714 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]], German composer * '''[[1713 in music]]''' – Death: [[Arcangelo Corelli]], Italian composer and violinist * '''[[1712 in music]]''' – * '''[[1711 in music]]''' – ''[[Rinaldo (opera)|Rinaldo]]'' by [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]], premieres in London, the first all-Italian opera performed in London * '''[[1710 in music]]''' – ''[[Agrippina (opera)|Agrippina]]'' by [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]], premieres in [[Venice]] == 1700s == * '''[[1709 in music]]''' – * '''[[1708 in music]]''' – * '''[[1707 in music]]''' – * '''[[1706 in music]]''' – [[Johann Pachelbel]] dies * '''[[1705 in music]]''' – * '''[[1704 in music]]''' – * '''[[1703 in music]]''' – * '''[[1702 in music]]''' – * '''[[1701 in music]]''' – * '''[[1700 in music]]''' – == 1690s == * '''[[1699 in music]]''' – * '''[[1698 in music]]''' – * '''[[1697 in music]]''' – * '''[[1696 in music]]''' – * '''[[1695 in music]]''' – [[Henry Purcell]] dies * '''[[1694 in music]]''' – * '''[[1693 in music]]''' – * '''[[1692 in music]]''' – * '''[[1691 in music]]''' – ''[[King Arthur (opera)|King Arthur]]'' by [[Henry Purcell]] * '''[[1690 in music]]''' – == 1680s == * '''[[1689 in music]]''' – ''[[Dido and Aeneas]]'', opera, by [[Henry Purcell]] and [[Nahum Tate]] (libretto) performed * '''[[1688 in music]]''' – * '''[[1687 in music]]''' – Death of [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]], French composer * '''[[1686 in music]]''' – * '''[[1685 in music]]''' – ''[[Albion and Albanius]]'', opera, by [[Louis Grabu]]; Birth of: [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] and [[George Frideric Handel|Georg Friedrich Häendel]] (German composers, organists and harpsichordists); [[Domenico Scarlatti]], Italian composer and harpsichordist * '''[[1684 in music]]''' – * '''[[1683 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]], French composer and music theorist * '''[[1682 in music]]''' – * '''[[1681 in music]]''' – * '''[[1680 in music]]''' – == 1670s == * '''[[1679 in music]]''' – * '''[[1678 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Antonio Lucio Vivaldi]], Italian composer and violinist * '''[[1677 in music]]''' – * '''[[1676 in music]]''' – * '''[[1675 in music]]''' – ''[[Psyche (Locke)|Psyche]]'' by [[Matthew Locke (composer)|Matthew Locke]] * '''[[1674 in music]]''' – * '''[[1673 in music]]''' – * '''[[1672 in music]]''' – * '''[[1671 in music]]''' – * '''[[1670 in music]]''' – == 1660s == * '''[[1669 in music]]''' – * '''[[1668 in music]]''' – Birth of [[François Couperin]], French composer and harpsichordist * '''[[1667 in music]]''' – * '''[[1666 in music]]''' – * '''[[1665 in music]]''' – * '''[[1664 in music]]''' – [[Heinrich Schutz]] completes [[Weihnachtshistorie]] * '''[[1663 in music]]''' – * '''[[1662 in music]]''' – * '''[[1661 in music]]''' – * '''[[1660 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Alessandro Scarlatti]], Italian composer and harpsichordist == 1650s == * '''[[1659 in music]]''' – [[Henry Purcell]] born * '''[[1658 in music]]''' – * '''[[1657 in music]]''' – * '''[[1656 in music]]''' – * '''[[1655 in music]]''' – * '''[[1654 in music]]''' – * '''[[1653 in music]]''' – [[Arcangelo Corelli]], [[Johann Pachelbel]] born * '''[[1652 in music]]''' – * '''[[1651 in music]]''' – ''[[La Calisto]]'' by [[Francesco Cavalli]] * '''[[1650 in music]]''' – == 1640s == * '''[[1649 in music]]''' – ''[[Giasone]]'' by [[Francesco Cavalli]], premieres in [[Venice]], the first opera to separate [[aria]] and [[recitative]] * '''[[1648 in music]]''' – * '''[[1647 in music]]''' – * '''[[1646 in music]]''' – * '''[[1645 in music]]''' – * '''[[1644 in music]]''' – ''[[Ormindo]]'' by [[Francesco Cavalli]], premieres in [[Venice]] * '''[[1643 in music]]''' – death of [[Claudio Monteverdi]] * '''[[1642 in music]]''' – ''[[L'incoronazione di Poppea]]'' by [[Claudio Monteverdi]], premiered in [[Venice]] * '''[[1641 in music]]''' – * '''[[1640 in music]]''' – ''[[Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria]]'' by [[Claudio Monteverdi]], premieres in [[Venice]] == 1630s == * '''[[1639 in music]]''' – * '''[[1638 in music]]''' – * '''[[1637 in music]]''' – The first commercial [[opera house]] open to the public, [[Teatro San Cassiano]], opens in [[Venice]] * '''[[1636 in music]]''' – * '''[[1635 in music]]''' – * '''[[1634 in music]]''' – * '''[[1633 in music]]''' – * '''[[1632 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]], French composer * '''[[1631 in music]]''' – * '''[[1630 in music]]''' – == 1620s == * '''[[1629 in music]]''' – * '''[[1628 in music]]''' – * '''[[1627 in music]]''' – * '''[[1626 in music]]''' – * '''[[1625 in music]]''' – * '''[[1624 in music]]''' – * '''[[1623 in music]]''' – * '''[[1622 in music]]''' – * '''[[1621 in music]]''' – * '''[[1620 in music]]''' – == 1610s == * '''[[1619 in music]]''' – [[Michael Praetorius]], ''[[Polyhymnia caduceatrix]]'' * '''[[1618 in music]]''' – * '''[[1617 in music]]''' – [[Johann Hermann Schein]], ''Banchetto musicale'' * '''[[1616 in music]]''' – * '''[[1615 in music]]''' – * '''[[1614 in music]]''' – [[Marco da Gagliano]], ''[[Sacrarum cantionum]]'' * '''[[1613 in music]]''' – * '''[[1612 in music]]''' – * '''[[1611 in music]]''' – [[William Byrd]], [[Fantasia a 6, No. 3]]; [[Carlo Gesualdo]], ''[[Morro lasso al mio duolo]]'' * '''[[1610 in music]]''' – [[Claudio Monteverdi]], ''[[Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610]]'' == 1600s == * '''[[1609 in music]]''' – * '''[[1608 in music]]''' – ''[[Lamento d'Arianna]]'' by [[Claudio Monteverdi]]; ''[[Since Robin Hood]]'' by [[Thomas Weelkes]] * '''[[1607 in music]]''' – ''[[L'Orfeo|La Favola D'Orfeo]]'' by [[Claudio Monteverdi]] * '''[[1606 in music]]''' – * '''[[1605 in music]]''' – ''[[Van de Spiegheling der singconst]]'' (ca 1605) by [[Simon Stevin]] * '''[[1604 in music]]''' – * '''[[1603 in music]]''' – * '''[[1602 in music]]''' – {{lang|it|Cento concerti}} by [[Lodovico Viadana]], the first book to feature [[basso continuo]] * '''[[1601 in music]]''' – ''[[Le nuove musiche]]'' by [[Giulio Caccini]] * '''[[1600 in music]]''' – the first [[oratorio]]: ''[[Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo]]'' by [[Emilio de' Cavalieri]] == 1590s == * '''[[1599 in music]]''' – * '''[[1598 in music]]''' – * '''[[1597 in music]]''' – [[John Dowland]]'s ''First Book of Lute Songs''; ''[[Dafne]]'', the first known opera * '''[[1596 in music]]''' – * '''[[1595 in music]]''' – * '''[[1594 in music]]''' – [[Orlande de Lassus]] completes [[Lagrime di San Pietro]] (posthumously published); [[Orlande de Lassus]] dies * '''[[1593 in music]]''' – * '''[[1592 in music]]''' – * '''[[1591 in music]]''' – * '''[[1590 in music]]''' – [[Claudio Monteverdi]], Il secondo libro de madrigali a 5 == 1580s == * '''[[1589 in music]]''' – * '''[[1588 in music]]''' – * '''[[1587 in music]]''' – * '''[[1586 in music]]''' – * '''[[1585 in music]]''' – * '''[[1584 in music]]''' – * '''[[1583 in music]]''' – * '''[[1582 in music]]''' – * '''[[1581 in music]]''' – The court entertainment ''Ballet comique de la reine'' by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx was presented on Oct 15 * '''[[1580 in music]]''' – Appearance of three Fantasias for viol consort by [[William Byrd]]. Founding of [[Concerto delle donne]] under the direction of [[Luzzasco Luzzaschi]]: Consisting of women voices, this group becomes a significant part of [[Alfonso II d'Este]]'s court entertainment. == 1570s == * '''[[1579 in music]]''' – * '''[[1578 in music]]''' – * '''[[1577 in music]]''' – * '''[[1576 in music]]''' – * '''[[1575 in music]]''' – * '''[[1574 in music]]''' – * '''[[1573 in music]]''' – * '''[[1572 in music]]''' – * '''[[1571 in music]]''' – * '''[[1570 in music]]''' – == 1560s == * '''[[1569 in music]]''' – * '''[[1568 in music]]''' – * '''[[1567 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Claudio Monteverdi]], Italian composer and singer * '''[[1566 in music]]''' – * '''[[1565 in music]]''' – * '''[[1564 in music]]''' – * '''[[1563 in music]]''' – * '''[[1562 in music]]''' – * '''[[1561 in music]]''' – * '''[[1560 in music]]''' – First works for Viol Consort attributed to [[William Byrd]] == 1550s == * '''[[1559 in music]]''' – * '''[[1558 in music]]''' – * '''[[1557 in music]]''' – * '''[[1556 in music]]''' – * '''[[1555 in music]]''' – * '''[[1554 in music]]''' – * '''[[1553 in music]]''' – * '''[[1552 in music]]''' – * '''[[1551 in music]]''' – * '''[[1550 in music]]''' – == 1540s == * '''[[1549 in music]]''' – * '''[[1548 in music]]''' – * '''[[1547 in music]]''' – * '''[[1546 in music]]''' – Death of [[John Taverner]], English composer. * '''[[1545 in music]]''' – * '''[[1544 in music]]''' – * '''[[1543 in music]]''' – * '''[[1542 in music]]''' – * '''[[1541 in music]]''' – * '''[[1540 in music]]''' – Birth of [[William Byrd]], English composer; [[Thomas Tallis]] begins writing his first works for the Latin church service. == 1530s == * '''[[1539 in music]]''' – [[Jacques Arcadelt]]'s First book of madrigals for four voices is published, the most reprinted madrigal book of the century * '''[[1538 in music]]''' – printing of the first [[Protestant]] hymn-book, ''Ein Hubsch new Gesangbuch''; publication of the first book of [[madrigal (music)|madrigal]]s by [[Maddalena Casulana]], the first printed book of music by a woman in European history. * '''[[1537 in music]]''' – * '''[[1536 in music]]''' – * '''[[1535 in music]]''' – * '''[[1534 in music]]''' – * '''[[1533 in music]]''' – * '''[[1532 in music]]''' – * '''[[1531 in music]]''' – * '''[[1530 in music]]''' – {{lang|it|Madrigali de diversi musici: libro primo de la Serena}} is published, the first book of madrigals to use the word 'madrigal' to describe them. The majority of the pieces in it are by [[Philippe Verdelot]]. == 1520s == * '''[[1529 in music]]''' – * '''[[1528 in music]]''' – * '''[[1527 in music]]''' – * '''[[1526 in music]]''' – * '''[[1525 in music]]''' – birth of [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]] * '''[[1524 in music]]''' – * '''[[1523 in music]]''' – * '''[[1522 in music]]''' – death of [[Jean Mouton]] (c. 1459 – October 30, 1522) * '''[[1521 in music]]''' – death of [[Josquin des Prez|Josquin]] * '''[[1520 in music]]''' – {{lang|it|Musica di messer [[Bernardo Pisano]] sopra le canzone del [[Francesco Petrarch|Petrarcha]]}} is published, the first printed book of secular music dedicated to a single composer. It contains the first [[madrigal]]s, though they are not called by that name. == 1510s == * '''[[1519 in music]]''' – * '''[[1518 in music]]''' – * '''[[1517 in music]]''' – * '''[[1516 in music]]''' – * '''[[1515 in music]]''' – * '''[[1514 in music]]''' – * '''[[1513 in music]]''' – * '''[[1512 in music]]''' – * '''[[1511 in music]]''' – * '''[[1510 in music]]''' – [[Josquin des Prez]] composes the ''[[Missa de Beata Virgine (Josquin)|Missa de Beata Virgine]]'' == 1490s and 1500s == * '''[[1509 in music]]''' – * '''[[1508 in music]]''' – * '''[[1507 in music]]''' – * '''[[1506 in music]]''' – * '''[[1505 in music]]''' – * '''[[1504 in music]]''' – * '''[[1503 in music]]''' – * '''[[1502 in music]]''' – * '''[[1501 in music]]''' – publication of ''[[Harmonice Musices Odhecaton]]'' by [[Ottaviano Petrucci]], the first printed collection of polyphonic music * '''[[1500 in music]]''' – * '''[[1499 in music]]''' – * '''[[1498 in music]]''' – * '''[[1497 in music]]''' – * '''[[1496 in music]]''' – * '''[[1495 in music]]''' – * '''[[1494 in music]]''' – * '''[[1493 in music]]''' – * '''[[1492 in music]]''' – * '''[[1491 in music]]''' – * '''[[1490 in music]]''' – == Early history == ===15th century=== * [[Josquin des Prez]] composes the ''[[Domine, ne in fuore tuo]]'' * '''[[1490s in music]]''' – [[Josquin des Prez]] – ''[[Nymphes des bois]]''; The [[Chigi codex]] is compiled. * '''1480s in music''' – [[Johannes Ockeghem]] completes ''[[Requiem (Ockeghem)|Requiem]]''; [[Josquin des Prez]] composes the ''[[Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales]]'' *'''[[1460s in music]]''' – [[Anna Inglese]] sings at the festivities for the marriage of [[Galeazzo Maria Sforza|Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan]] and [[Bona of Savoy]]<ref>Lubkin, Gregory (Summer 2002). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jams.2002.55.2.346 "Review: ''Music and Patronage in the Sforza Court'', by Paul A. Merkley and Lora L. M. Merkley"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214013808/http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jams.2002.55.2.346 |date=February 14, 2016 }}. ''Journal of the American Musicological Society'', Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 346–353.</ref> * '''1450s in music''' – [[Antoine Busnois]] writes the ''O Crux Lignum'' * '''1440s in music''' – [[Bianca de' Medici]] is born; [[Royal Danish Orchestra|Royal Danish Chapel]] is founded by [[Christian I of Denmark|Christian I.]] * '''1430s in music''' – * '''1420s in music''' – * '''[[1410s in music]]''' – * '''1400s in music''' – * The [[Old Hall Manuscript]] is compiled ===14th century=== * '''[[1390s in music]]''' – * '''[[1380s in music]]''' – * '''[[1370s in music]]''' – Death of [[Guillaume de Machaut]] * '''[[1360s in music]]''' – [[Guillaume de Machaut]] composes ''[[Messe de Nostre Dame]]'', the first complete polyphonic ordinary of the mass * '''[[1350s in music]]''' – * '''[[1340s in music]]''' – * '''[[1330s in music]]''' – * '''[[1320s in music]]''' – * '''[[1310s in music]]''' – * '''[[1300s in music]]''' – [[Edward I of England]] holds the [[Feast of the Swans]] at Westminster Abbey, with music involving over 150 minstrels from a number of European countries. ===[[13th century in music|13th century]]=== * The [[Worcester Fragments]] are compiled. ===12th century=== * The ''[[Magnus Liber]]'' is compiled by [[Léonin]] * The ''[[Codex Calixtinus]]'' is compiled ==Ancient music== * '''[[1st millennium in music]]''' * '''[[1st millennium BC in music]]''' * '''[[2nd millennium BC in music]]''' * '''[[3rd millennium BC in music]]''' ==See also== {{Portal|Music|Lists}} * [[List of years in country music]] * [[List of years in jazz]] * [[List of years in rock music]] * [[Table of years in music]] == References == {{reflist|30em}} == External links == * [http://musictimeline.wordpress.com/ Music Timeline] A Chronology of Music From Prehistory to the Present Day. {{Lists of years}} {{Music topics}} [[Category:Music by year| ]] [[Category:Music-related lists|Events, List of musical]] [[Category:Timelines of music| ]] [[Category:Timelines by year|Music]] [[Category:Lists of years by topic|Music]]
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