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This page indexes the individual year in music pages.
2020s
2025 in music, 2025 in American music
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, Slim Shady, Glynis Johns, David Soul, Larry Collins, James Kottak, Audie Blaylock, Bill Hayes, Laurie Johnson, Marlena Shaw, Frank Farian, Melanie, Wayne Kramer, Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Toby Keith, Mojo Nixon, Bobby Tench, Eric Carmen, Pete Rodriguez, Steve Harley, 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, Enchanting, Françoise Hardy, Johnny Canales, Skowa, Dario G, Buzz Cason, James Chance, Kinky Friedman, John Mayall, Chino XL, Greg Kihn, 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
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, 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, 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, Eric Moyo, Torben Ulrich, Tom Smothers, Sandra Reaves-Phillips
Notable releases:
Travis Scott's Utopia
100 gecs' 10,000 Gecs
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
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, Gilbert Gottfried, Jewell, Vangelis, Andy Fletcher, Alan White, Ronnie Hawkins, 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, Aaron Carter, Gal Costa, Nik Turner, Keith Levene, Irene Cara, Christine McVie, Bob McGrath, Jet Black, Thom Bell, Sidhu Moose Wala
American Heavy Metal band W.A.S.P. Announces 40th Anniversary tour, returning to the United States for the first time since 2012.
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
Rosalía's Motomami
Viagra Boys' Cave World
Black Midi's Hellfire
Zeal & Ardor's Zeal & Ardor
Voivod's Synchro Anarchy
Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
JID's The Forever Story
Angel Olsen's Big Time
Harry Styles' Harry's House
Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti
Beyoncé's Renaissance
SZA's 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, DMX, Young Dolph, Phil Spector, Samuel E. Wright, Gift of Gab, Joey Jordison, Bunny Wailer, Tom T. Hall, Michael Nesmith, Hub, Milford Graves, Anita Lane, Biz Markie, Dusty Hill, Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, Don Everly
Notable releases:
Black Country, New Road's 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
ABBA's Voyage, with a 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
Turnstile's Glow On
Tyler, the Creator's Call Me If You Get Lost
Black Midi's Cavalcade
Little Simz's Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Injury Reserve's By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Squid's Bright Green Field
Silk Sonic's An Evening with Silk Sonic
JPEGMafia's LP!
Brockhampton's Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
Lingua Ignota's Sinner Get Ready
Magdalena Bay's Mercurial World
Japanese Breakfast's Jubilee
Olivia Rodrigo's SOUR
Doja Cat's Planet Her
Billie Eilish's Happier Than Ever
Lorde's Solar Power
Halsey's If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
Coldplay's Music of the Spheres
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra's Promises
Godspeed You! Black Emperor's G_d's Pee at State's End!
Madlib's Sound Ancestors
BTS' single Butter
Tomorrow X Together's The Chaos Chapter: Freeze
Chungha's Querencia
NCT Dream's Hot Sauce
Twice's Formula of Love: O+T=＜3
IU's Lilac
Shinee's Don't Call Me
Stray Kids' Noeasy
(G)I-dle's I Burn
Aespa's Savage
Parannoul's To See the Next Part of the Dream
Chai's 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, Eddie Van Halen, Mory Kanté, Krzysztof Penderecki, Ennio Morricone, MF Doom, King Von, Nikki McKibbin, Naya Rivera
Notable releases:
The Weeknd's After Hours
Ariana Grande's Positions
Selena Gomez's 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
Run the Jewels's RTJ4
Tame Impala's The Slow Rush
Halsey's Manic
Lil Uzi Vert's Eternal Atake
Testament's Titans of Creation
Taylor Swift's Folklore and Evermore
The Microphones's Microphones in 2020
Paul McCartney's McCartney III
Oneohtrix Point Never's Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Against All Logic's 2017–2019
Autechre's Sign
Kenshi Yonezu's Stray Sheep
Ichiko Aoba's Windswept Adan
Rina Sawayama's Sawayama
BTS' Map of the Soul: 7 and Be
Blackpink's The Album
NCT's Neo Zone and NCT 2020 Resonance
Twice's Eyes Wide Open
Stray Kids' Go Live
Yukika Teramoto's Soul Lady
BoA's Better
Taemin's 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
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
Bring Me the Horizon's Amo
Lewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
Tool's Fear Inoculum
Tyler, The Creator's Igor
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss' musical Six (originally performed in 2017) debuts in the West End
Charli XCX's Charli
Lana Del Rey's Norman F***ing Rockwell!
Taylor Swift's Lover
FKA Twigs's Magdalene
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's Bandana
Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising
Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Ghosteen
DaBaby' Baby on Baby
Thom Yorke' 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, Aretha Franklin, Mac Miller, Dolores O'Riordan, Charles Aznavour, Pete Shelley
Notable releases:
Ariana Grande's Sweetener
Christina Aguilera's 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 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
Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy
Kacey Musgraves's Golden Hour
Parquet Courts' Wide Awake!
A Perfect Circle's Eat the Elephant
Kanye West's Ye
Nas's NASIR
Mac Miller's Swimming
Eminem's Kamikaze
Paul McCartney's Egypt Station
Brockhampton's Iridescence
Kids See Ghosts's self-titled album
Khruangbin's Con Todo el Mundo
Molchat Doma's Etazhi
Daughters' You Won't Get What You Want
Noname's Room 25
Tim Hecker's Konoyo
Jon Hopkins's Singularity
Against All Logic's 2012–2017
BTS' Love Yourself: Tear
Exo's Don't Mess Up My Tempo
Blackpink's 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, 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
Taylor Swift's Reputation
Imagine Dragons' Evolve
Jay Z's 4:44
Linkin Park's One More Light
Sepultura's Machine Messiah
The xx's I See You
Sam Smith's The Thrill of It All
Stormzy's Gang Signs & Prayer
Demi Lovato's Tell Me You Love Me
Dua Lipa's self-titled debut album
Sampha's Process
Ed Sheeran's ÷
Thundercat's Drunk
Lorde's Melodrama
Pasek and Paul's soundtrack to the 20th Century Fox musical film The Greatest Showman
Kendrick Lamar's DAMN.
Rag'n'Bone Man's Human
SZA's Ctrl
Drake's More Life
Smino's blkswn
Tyler, The Creator's Flower Boy
BROCKHAMPTON's Saturation, Saturation II, and Saturation III
Rex Orange County's Apricot Princess
Father John Misty's Pure Comedy
Ryuichi Sakamoto's 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, Maurice White, Pete Burns, John Berry, Vanity, 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
Chance the Rapper's 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
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
Post Malone's Stoney
Green Day's Revolution Radio
Blink-182's California
Lady Gaga's Joanne
Beyoncé's Lemonade
Drake's Views
Yussef Kamaal's Black Focus
Rihanna's Anti
Tove Lo's Lady Wood
The Weeknd's Starboy
Avenged Sevenfold's The Stage
Metal Church's XI
Metallica's Hardwired... to Self-Destruct
Megadeth's Dystopia
Anthrax's For All Kings
Testament's Brotherhood of the Snake
Bon Jovi's This House Is Not for Sale
Kanye West's The Life of Pablo
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
Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool
Frank Ocean's Blonde and Endless
BTS' Wings
Babymetal's Metal Resistance
Justin Timberlake's record breaking single "Can't Stop the Feeling" (from the soundtrack to the DreamWorks Animation 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, 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, Kim Fowley, James Last and Natalie Cole.
Notable releases:
Twenty One Pilots's Blurryface
Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams
Blur's The Magic Whip
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly
Breaking Benjamin's Dark Before Dawn
Disturbed's Immortalized
Jeff Lynne's ELO's Alone in the Universe
Sufjan Stevens's Carrie & Lowell
Travis Scott's Rodeo
Adele's 25
Iron Maiden's The Book of Souls
Tame Impala's Currents
Kamasi Washington's The Epic
Slayer's Repentless
Madonna's Rebel Heart
Marius Neset's Pinball
Dag Arnesen's Grieg, Tveitt & I
Olga Konkova Trio's The Goldilocks Zone
Death Grips's The Powers That B
Pentatonix's self-titled
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton
Faith No More's Sol Invictus
Demi Lovato's Confident
Selena Gomez's Revival
Oneohtrix Point Never's Garden of Delete
Carly Rae Jepsen's 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
Ed Sheeran's x
Linkin Park's The Hunting Party
Slipknot's .5: The Gray Chapter
Coldplay's Ghost Stories
Jackie Evancho's Awakening
Taylor Swift's 1989
Jake Bugg's 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
Aphex Twin's Syro
Machine Girl's WLFGRL
BadBadNotGood's III
Todd Terje's It's Album Time
Arca's Xen
Babymetal's self-titled debut album
Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour
Nicki Minaj's Pinkprint
Pharrell Williams's Girl
Exodus' 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
Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience
Chance The Rapper's Acid Rap
Tyler, The Creator's 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
Jon Hopkins’ Immunity
William Onyeabor’s Who is William Onyeabor?
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu releases Nanda Collection
Anamanaguchi releases Endless Fantasy
My Bloody Valentine's m b v
Disclosure's Settle
Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail
Oneohtrix Point Never's R Plus Seven
Actress Anna Kendrick releases Cups (When I'm Gone) (featured on the 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, Robert B. Sherman, Earl Scruggs, Levon Helm, Adam Yauch, Donna Summer, Robin Gibb, Doc Watson, 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.
Madonna's 12th studio album is released, entitled 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. 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
Taylor Swift releases 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, Ferlin Husky, Gil Scott-Heron, Clarence Clemons, Amy Winehouse, Sylvia Robinson, Bert Jansch, and Dobie Gray.
English singer Adele released the 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
Jessie J releases her debut studio album, Who You Are
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
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 – Volume Alpha, the first soundtrack album to the 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.
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", 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 perform together for the first time as part of the Big 4 shows.
Death of Teddy Pendergrass, Ed Thigpen, Kate McGarrigle, Ronnie James Dio, Peter Steele, 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
Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Katy Perry's Teenage Dream
CeeLo Green's The Lady Killer
Kesha releases her first studio album, Kesha, as well as her first 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
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, James Owen Sullivan, Leon Kirchner, Les Paul, Ali Akbar Khan, Merce Cunningham, Ron Asheton, Henri Pousseur, Mary Travers, Stephen Gately, and Alain Bashung.
Lady Gaga releases The Fame Monster
Britney Spears releases her comeback 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 after a heated confrontation with vocalist and brother Liam Gallagher in Rock en Seine, France leading to the disbandment of Oasis.
Phoenix release Lisztomania
Animal Collective releases Merriweather Post Pavilion
Owl City releases Ocean Eyes
Michael Bublé release Crazy Love
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
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, Nick Reynolds, Mitch Mitchell, Miriam Makeba, Odetta, Eartha Kitt, Freddie Hubbard, and Robert Hazard.
Mariah Carey's "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 which sells 4 million copies and includes the international hit 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
Taylor Swift's second studio album, Fearless releases.
Flying Lotus' Los Angeles
Earth's The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
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
Mika releases Life in Cartoon Motion
Burial releases 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 releases Person Pitch
The National release Boxer
Alcest releases Souvenirs d'un autre monde
M.I.A. releases Kala
Battles releases Mirrored
Justice release 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's Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George to the Universal Studios' animated feature Curious George
System of a Down announces hiatus
Taylor Swift releases her debut album, Taylor Swift
Amy Winehouse releases Back to Black
My Chemical Romance release The Black Parade
Rihanna releases A Girl like Me
Evanescence releases The Open Door
J Dilla releases Donuts
Arctic Monkeys release Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Joanna Newsom releases Ys
Tool release 10,000 Days
Brand New release The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
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 release 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.
Kanye West releases his album Late Registration
Musicals first performed:
Monty Python member Eric Idle releases the Monty Python musical Spamalot
Elton John's musical adaptation of the British drama film Billy Elliot, which features the song "Electricity"
Bob Gaudio's biopic 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 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's Antics
Mastodon's 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
Franz Ferdinand's 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
Stephen Schwartz's musical Wicked
Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx's Avenue Q
Evanescence's Fallen
The Black Eyed Peas' Elephunk
Radiohead's Hail to the Thief
Kraftwerk's Tour de France Soundtracks
The White Stripes' Elephant
Sleep's Jerusalem and Dopesmoker
Blink-182's self-titled album
Sweet Trip's Velocity : Design : Comfort
Explosions in the Sky's The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Boris's Boris at Last -Feedbacker-
MF Doom's Take Me to Your Leader
Nujabes' Metaphorical Music
Four Tet's 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.
Eminem releases The Eminem Show and "Lose Yourself" from his 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.
Marc Shaiman's musical adaptation of the 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 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, 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 released.
Gorillaz' self-titled debut album is released.
Daft Punk releases Discovery
Kylie Minogue releases Fever
Comedy legend Mel Brooks' musical adaptation of his 1967 film The Producers first performed, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.
Basement Jaxx release Rooty
Fennesz releases Endless Summer
The Strokes' debut album Is This It is released
Rammstein releases Mutter
Opeth releases Blackwater Park
The Microphones releases The Glow Pt. 2
Muse releases Origin of Symmetry
System of a Down releases Toxicity
Björk releases Vespertine
Alicia Keys releases Songs in A Minor
Shakira releases Laundry Service
Manu Chao releases Próxima Estación: Esperanza
Tool release Lateralus
Cornelius release Point
Hikaru Utada releases 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 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, 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
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?
Outkast's Stankonia
Ayumi Hamasaki's Duty
Mai Kuraki's Delicious Way
Ringo Sheena's Shōso Strip
Boris release 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
= List of 10 best-selling albums of the 2000s
=The Beatles – 1 – 31 million – 2000
Norah Jones – Come Away with Me – 26 million – 2002
Backstreet Boys – Black & Blue – 24 million – 2000
Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory – 24 million – 2000
Britney Spears – Oops!... I Did It Again – 20 million – 2000
Usher – Confessions – 20 million – 2004
Eminem – The Eminem Show – 19 million – 2002
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP – 19 million – 2000
Avril Lavigne – Let Go – 17 million – 2002
Evanescence – Fallen – 17 million – 2003
1990s
1999 in music, 1999 in British music, 1999 in Norwegian music, 1999 in South Korean music
Arrival of Britney Spears, Coldplay, Jenni Rivera, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Slipknot, Muse and Jennifer Lopez.
Deaths of Barış Manço, Rick Danko, Scatman John and Curtis Mayfield.
Notable releases:
Dr. Dre's 2001
Moby's Play
Sigur Rós' Ágætis byrjun
Santana' Supernatural
The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin
Red Hot Chili Peppers's 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
Opeth's Still Life
Mos Def's Black on Both Sides
Fiona Apple's When the Pawn...
Mr. Bungle's California
Blur's 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
Wilco's Summerteeth
Blink-182's Enema of the State
American Football's 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
Christina Aguilera' self-titled debut album
Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5
Ricky Martin's Livin' la Vida Loca
Eiffel 65's Europop
Hikaru Utada's First Love
Boredoms' Vision Creation Newsun
Darude' Before the Storm
Mogwai's Come On Die Young
Burzum's Hliðskjálf
Mr. Oizo's Analog Worms Attack
Susumu Yokota's Sakura
Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman's soundtrack to the Comedy Central animated film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus's ABBA 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
Linda McCartney
Lauryn Hill releases The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Neutral Milk Hotel releases In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
The Offspring releases Americana.
"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith, from the Michael Bay 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 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 release Amplifier Worship
Massive Attack release Mezzanine
System of a Down release their self-titled debut album
Outkast release Aquemini
Duster release Stratosphere
Elliott Smith releaseS XO
Refused release The Shape of Punk to Come
Queens of the Stone Age release self-titled debut album
Belle and Sebastian release The Boy with the Arab Strap
Black Star release Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
The Smashing Pumpkins release Adore
Pearl Jam release Yield
Gorguts release Obscura
Air release Moon Safari
Boards of Canada release Music Has the Right to Children
Tortoise release TNT
Autechre releases LP5
Don Caballero releases What Burns Never Returns
Amon Tobin releases Permutation
Dirty Three release Ocean Songs
Gas releases Zauberberg and Königsforst
Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion release "The Prayer" from the animated Warner Bros. film Quest for Camelot
Geri Halliwell leaves the Spice Girls
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 and 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's soundtrack to the animated feature film Anastasia.
Radiohead's OK Computer
Björk's Homogenic
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
Mariah Carey's #1's, selling 17 million copies.
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, 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 musical version of the Disney Animation film The Lion King
The Verve's Urban Hymns
Shania Twain's Come On Over
Elliott Smith's Either/Or
Modest Mouse's The Lonesome Crowded West
Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Portishead's 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
Blur's self-titled album
Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape
Stereolab's Dots and Loops
Buena Vista Social Club's self-titled debut album
Daft Punk's Homework
Godspeed You! Black Emperor's F♯ A♯ ∞
Mogwai's Mogwai Young Team
The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole
Biosphere's Substrata
Squarepusher's Hard Normal Daddy
Autechre's Chiastic Slide
Amon Tobin's Bricolage
Christoph de Babalon's If You're Into It, I'm Out of It
Fishmans' Uchū Nippon Setagaya
Fantastic Plastic Machine's self-titled debut album
Cornelius' 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
Jonathan Larson's Rent
Jamiroquai's Travelling Without Moving
Spice Girls' Spice
DJ Shadow's Endtroducing.....
Weezer's Pinkerton
Fishmans' Long Season
Tool's Ænima
Aphex Twin's Richard D. James Album
Belle and Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister
Swans' Soundtracks for the Blind
Burzum's Filosofem
Beck's Odelay
Outkast ATLiens
Metallica's Load
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
Robert Miles's 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. This double album contains "You Are Not Alone" – the first single ever to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at number one.
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.
Coolio and 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" to universal acclaim.
Los del Río release "Macarena", the record breaking dance song of all time.
Queen releases their final album Made in Heaven following the death of frontman Freddie Mercury.
Notable releases:
Death's Symbolic
The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Radiohead's The Bends
Björk's Post
Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
GZA's Liquid Swords
Death's Symbolic
Elliott Smith's self-titled album
Mobb Deep's The Infamous Mobb Deep
Pulp's Different Class
Swans' The Great Annihilator
Ulver's Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love
Pavement's Wowee Zowee
Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
The Chemical Brothers' Exit Planet Dust
Sonic Youth's Washing Machine
David Bowie's Outside
Alice in Chains' self-titled album
Dissection's Storm of the Light's Bane
Blur's The Great Escape
Three 6 Mafia's Mystic Stylez
Aphex Twin's ...I Care Because You Do
Autechre's Tri Repetae
Slowdive's Pygmalion
Oval's 94 Diskont
Porcupine Tree's The Sky Moves Sideways
Hallucinogen's Twisted
1994 in music, 1994 in British music, 1994 in Norwegian music
Deaths of:
Dinah Shore
Kurt Cobain
Debuts by:
Oasis (Definitely Maybe)
Weezer (The Blue Album)
Brandy (Brandy)
Nas (Illmatic)
The Notorious B.I.G. (Ready to Die)
Portishead (Dummy)
Sunny Day Real Estate (Diary)
Other albums released:
Pink Floyd's The Division Bell, their last album until 2014's The Endless River.
Madonna's Bedtime Stories
Blur's Parklife
Green Day's major-label debut, Dookie, with the hits "Longview", "Welcome to Paradise", "Basket Case", "When I Come Around" and "She".
The Offspring's Smash
Common's Resurrection
Soundgarden's Superunknown
R.E.M.'s Monster
NOFX's Punk in Drublic
Jeff Buckley's Grace
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Global Communication's 76:14
Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral
Nirvana's live album MTV Unplugged in New York
Bad Religion's 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, with its multi-platinum lead single "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 (Focus)
Rancid (Rancid)
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Doggystyle)
Tool (Undertow)
Wu-Tang Clan (Enter the Wu-Tang)
Radiohead (Pablo Honey)
Björk (Debut)
Autechre (Incunabula)
Earth (Earth 2)
Seefeel (Quique)
Nirvana release their final album, titled In Utero.
Birth of Ariana Grande
Deaths of Frank Zappa, Marian Anderson, and Dizzy Gillespie.
Mariah Carey releases her 32-million selling Music Box album.
Bad Religion signs to Atlantic Records, where the band later achieves success.
Other albums released:
Death's Individual Thought Patterns
Duran Duran's The Wedding Album
Morbid Angel's Covenant
Pestilence's Spheres
Sepultura's Chaos A.D.
Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales
Slowdive's Souvlaki
The Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream
A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders
Pearl Jam's Vs.
Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell
Orbital's Orbital
1992 in music, 1992 in British music, 1992 in Norwegian music, 1992 in South Korean music
Debuts by:
Body Count (Body Count)
Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works 85–92)
Dr. Dre (The Chronic)
The Future Sound of London (Accelerator)
Pavement (Slanted and Enchanted)
Rage Against the Machine (Rage Against the Machine)
Stone Temple Pilots (Core)
Sublime (40oz. to Freedom)
Therapy? (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
Sonic Youth's 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
Sade's Love Deluxe
Beastie Boys' Check Your Head
The Orb's U.F.Orb
Madonna's sexually-provocative book Sex, which was accompanied by the double-platinum 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.
The soundtrack to the 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
Obituary's The End Complete
Artificial Intelligence, Warp's compilation album by various artists is released.
Japanese pop 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 (Leisure)
Cypress Hill (Cypress Hill)
EMF (Schubert Dip)
The Infectious Grooves (The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves)
Kyuss (Wretch)
Pearl Jam (Ten)
The Smashing Pumpkins (Gish)
Beck (Golden Feelings)
Massive Attack (Blue Lines)
LFO (Frequencies)
The Orb (The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld)
Orbital (Orbital)
Electronic (Electronic)
Biosphere (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's Human
Michael Jackson's Dangerous
Metallica's Metallica
Morbid Angel's Blessed Are the Sick
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard
Enya's Shepherd Moons
Nirvana's Nevermind
Bryan Adams's "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" from the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Pestilence's Testimony of the Ancients
Sepultura's Arise
U2's Achtung Baby
The KLF's The White Room
808 State's ex:el
Kraftwerk's The Mix
Ultramarine's Every Man and Woman Is a Star
Primal Scream's Screamadelica
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), Cannibal Corpse (Eaten Back to Life), Mariah Carey (Mariah Carey), Deee-Lite (World Clique), Green Day (39/Smooth), Helmet (Strap It On), Ice Cube (AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted), Primus (Frizzle Fry), Ride (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 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's Cause of Death
Pantera's Cowboys from Hell
Megadeth's Rust in Peace
Judas Priest's Painkiller
Depeche Mode's Violator
Cocteau Twins's Heaven or Las Vegas
Sonic Youth's Goo
Fugazi's Repeater
Ride's Nowhere
Pixies' 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 – 45 million – 1992
Shania Twain – Come on Over – 40 million – 1997
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill – 33 million – 1995
Mariah Carey – Music Box – 32 million – 1993
Celine Dion – Falling into You – 32 million – 1996
Michael Jackson – Dangerous – 32 million – 1991
Celine Dion – Let's Talk About Love – 31 million – 1997
Madonna – The Immaculate Collection – 30 million – 1990
Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time – 30 million – 1999
Backstreet Boys – Millennium – 30 million – 1999
1980s
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)
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine (Debut)
Nirvana – Bleach (Debut)
Obituary – Slowly We Rot (Debut)
The Offspring – The Offspring (Debut)
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses (Debut):
Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation 1814
Madonna – Like A Prayer
Mötley Crüe – Dr. Feelgood
Fine Young Cannibals – The Raw & the Cooked
Pestilence – Consuming Impulse
Sepultura – Beneath the Remains
Phil Collins – ...But Seriously
Kate Bush – The Sensual World
808 State – 90
"Weird Al" Yankovic – soundtrack to the 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 (Debut)
Danzig – Danzig (Debut)
Eazy-E – Eazy-Duz-It (Debut)
EPMD – Strictly Business (Debut)
Jane's Addiction – Nothing's Shocking (Debut)
Living Colour – Vivid (Debut)
Morrissey – Viva Hate (Debut)
N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton (Debut)
NOFX – Liberal Animation (Debut)
Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum (Debut)
The Pixies – Surfer Rosa (Debut)
Soundgarden – Ultramega OK (Debut)
Bon Jovi – New Jersey
Bad Religion – Suffer
Enya – Watermark
Bathory – Blood Fire Death
Steve Roach – Dreamtime Return
Nurse with Wound – Soliloquy for Lilith
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 – Among the Living
Michael Jackson – Bad
Whitney Houston – Whitney
Sepultura – Schizophrenia
Def Leppard – Hysteria
U2 – The Joshua Tree
Joe Satriani – Surfing with the Alien
The Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill (Debut)
Death – Scream Bloody Gore (Debut)
Guns N' Roses – Appetite for Destruction (Debut)
Testament – 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 first performed
Aerosmith re-records "Walk This Way" with 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
Europe – The Final Countdown
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth – Evol
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time
Big Black – Atomizer
The soundtrack album to the film Top Gun is released.
Paul Simon – Graceland
Kraftwerk – Electric Café
Genesis – Invisible Touch
Janet Jackson – Control
John Farnham – Whispering Jack
Hiroshi Yoshimura – Green
Madonna – True Blue
1985 in music, 1985 in British music, 1985 in Norwegian music
Notable events:
The musical Les Misérables first performed
Live Aid and Farm Aid benefit concerts take place.
Deaths of:
Ricky Nelson
Notable releases:
Exodus – Bonded by Blood (Debut)
Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston (Debut)
Megadeth – Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! (Debut)
Overkill – Feel the Fire (Debut)
A-ha – Hunting High and Low (Debut)
Phil Collins – No Jacket Required
Dead or Alive – Youthquake (including "You Spin Me Right Round")
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 is formed to perform "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
The 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
Madonna – Like A Virgin
Mercyful Fate – Don't Break the Oath
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Prince – Purple Rain
Tina Turner – Private Dancer
Van Halen – 1984
Red Hot Chili Peppers – 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
Tatsuro Yamashita – soundtrack to the Japanese film Big Wave
Anthrax – Fistful of Metal (Debut)
Bathory – self-titled (Debut)
Bon Jovi – self-titled (Debut)
Celtic Frost – Morbid Tales (Debut)
Metal Church - self-titled (Debut)
Ratt – Out of the Cellar (Debut)
Voivod – War and Pain (Debut)
W.A.S.P. – self-titled (Debut)
1983 in music, 1983 in British music, 1983 in Norwegian music
Notable events:
The musical Blood Brothers first performed
Deaths of:
Muddy Waters
Karen Carpenter
Pete Farndon
Harry James
Ira Gershwin
Notable releases:
Accept – Balls to the Wall
Def Leppard – Pyromania
Iron Maiden – Piece of Mind
David Bowie – Let's Dance
Mötley Crüe – Shout at the Devil
New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies & Blue Monday
Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon
The Police – Synchronicity
ZZ Top – Eliminator
U2 – War
Cocteau Twins – Head over Heels
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut
Brian Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Asia – Alpha
Quiet Riot – Metal Health
D.R.I. – Dirty Rotten EP/LP (Debut)
Dio – Holy Diver (Debut)
Dokken – Breaking the Chains (Debut)
Cyndi Lauper – She's So Unusual (Debut)
Madonna – Madonna (Debut)
Mercyful Fate – Melissa (Debut)
Metallica – Kill 'Em All (Debut)
Pantera – Metal Magic (Debut)
Queensrÿche – self-titled EP (Debut)
R.E.M. – Murmur (Debut)
Slayer – Show No Mercy (Debut)
Sonic Youth – Confusion Is Sex (Debut)
Suicidal Tendencies – self-titled (Debut)
Tears for Fears – The Hurting (Debut)
Wham! – Fantastic (Debut)
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood (Debut)
"Weird Al" Yankovic – 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 first performed
Deaths of:
Thelonious Monk
Lightnin' Hopkins
John Belushi
Glenn Gould
Artur Rubinstein
Randy Rhoads
Notable releases:
Accept – Restless and Wild
Phil Collins – Hello, I Must Be Going!
Duran Duran – Rio
INXS – Shabooh Shoobah
Asia – Asia (Debut)
Descendents – Milo Goes to College (Debut)
Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
Judas Priest – Screaming for Vengeance
Michael Jackson – Thriller
Toto – Toto IV
The Cure – Pornography
Kate Bush – The Dreaming
Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
Bad Brains – Bad Brains
The Clash – Combat Rock
Roxy Music – Avalon
Rush – Signals
Venom – Black Metal
Prince – 1999
Tatsuro Yamashita – For You
Survivor – 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 first performed
The musical Dreamgirls first performed
Deaths of:
Bob Marley
David Lynch
Bill Haley
Notable releases:
Phil Collins – Face Value (Debut)
Duran Duran – self-titled (Debut)
Mötley Crüe – Too Fast for Love (Debut)
Venom – Welcome to Hell (Debut)
Depeche Mode – Speak & Spell (Debut)
Genesis – Abacab
Queen – Greatest Hits
Rush – Moving Pictures
The Human League – Dare
The Police – Ghost in the Machine
Grace Jones – Nightclubbing
Electric Light Orchestra – Time
Brian Eno and David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Glenn Branca – The Ascension
Jean-Michel Jarre – Les Chants Magnétiques
Kraftwerk – Computer World
Yellow Magic Orchestra – 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 first performance
Deaths of:
Bill Evans
Ian Curtis
Bon Scott
John Lennon
John Bonham
Tim Hardin
Vinicius de Moraes
Notable releases:
U2 – Boy (Debut)
Bryan Adams – self-titled (Debut)
Iron Maiden – self-titled (Debut)
Sheena Easton – Take My Time (Debut)
Bauhaus – In the Flat Field (Debut)
AC/DC – Back in Black
Joy Division – Closer
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
The Cure – Seventeen Seconds
Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
Queen – The Game
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Kate Bush – Never for Ever
Judas Priest – British Steel
The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
Motörhead – Ace of Spades
David Bowie – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Rush – Permanent Waves
Talking Heads' Remain in Light
Swell Maps – Jane from Occupied Europe
Tatsuro Yamashita – Ride on Time
Johnny Landry – "Hina Na Ho Hine"
1970s
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
Sister Sledge – We Are Family
Michael Jackson – Off the Wall
Donna Summer – Bad Girls
Anita Ward – "Ring My Bell"
Public Image Ltd. – Metal Box
Elvis Costello – Armed Forces
AC/DC – Highway to Hell
David Bowie – Lodger
Wire – 154
Led Zeppelin – In Through the Out Door
Supertramp – Breakfast in America
ABBA – Voulez-Vous
The B-52's – self-titled debut album
Motörhead – Overkill and Bomber
Electric Light Orchestra – Discovery
Van Halen – Van Halen II
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Talking Heads – Fear of Music
Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Scorpions – Lovedrive
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor
Casiopea – self-titled debut album
Univers Zero – 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 (including her No. 1 hit single "I Will Survive").
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 – Jazz
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food
Chic – C'est Chic
Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta – soundtrack album to the musical film Grease
Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Jean-Michel Jarre – Équinoxe
Klaus Schulze – X
Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine
Boney M. – Nightflight to Venus
Haruomi Hosono and Yellow Magic Band – Paraiso
Prince – For You
Van Halen – Van Halen (Debut)
Dire Straits – 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
Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, and Tatsuro Yamashita's Pacific, the Omnibus album which contains a prototype version of Hosono's famous track Cosmic Surfin' that would later be upgraded in YMO's debut album the same year.
1977 in music, 1977 in British music, 1977 in Norwegian music
Notable events:
The 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
Queen – News of the World
Bee Gees – Saturday Night Fever
Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express
Television – Marquee Moon
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
David Bowie – Low and Heroes
Pink Floyd – Animals
Earth, Wind & Fire – All 'n All
Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue
Giorgio Moroder – From Here to Eternity
Taeko Onuki – Sunshower
Motörhead – Motorhead
Space – Magic Fly
Ashra – New Age of Earth
Weather Report – 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 "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 – 2112
Led Zeppelin – Presence
Bob Dylan – Desire
Rainbow – Rising
Judas Priest – Sad Wings of Destiny
Electric Light Orchestra – A New World Record
Camel – Moonmadness
Queen – A Day at the Races
Kiss – Destroyed
AC/DC – High Voltage and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
ABBA – Arrival
Genesis – A Trick of the Tail
The Eagles – Hotel California
Andrew Lloyd Webber – Evita concept album
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygène
Mort Garson – Mother Earth's Plantasia
Ryo Fukui – Scenery
ABBA – Dancing Queen
Boston – Boston
The Ramones – Ramones
The Modern Lovers – 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
David Bowie – Young Americans
Neil Young – Tonight's the Night
Neu! – Neu! '75
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 – Expensive Shit
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Zuma
Parliament – Mothership Connection
Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
Camel – The Snow Goose
Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
Henry Cow and Slapp Happy – In Praise of Learning
Patti Smith – Horses
Queen – A Night at the Opera
Donna Summer – 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 – Mirage
Neil Young – On the Beach
Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets & Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Frank Zappa – Apostrophe (')
Electric Light Orchestra – Eldorado
Queen – Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack
Yes – Relayer
Sparks – Kimono My House
Supertramp – Crime of the Century
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark
Big Star – Radio City
Jorge Ben – A Tábua de Esmeralda
Kraftwerk – Autobahn
King Crimson – Red and Starless and Bible Black
John Coltrane – Interstellar Space
Cluster – Zuckerzeit
Henry Cow – Unrest
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
Isao Tomita – Snowflakes Are Dancing
Kiss – Kiss
1973 in music, 1973 in British music, 1973 in Norwegian music –
Notable events:
The musical The Rocky Horror Show first performed
Deaths of:
Victor 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 – Volcanic Rock
Diana Ross – 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
Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
Can – Future Days
Genesis – Selling England by the Pound
The Stooges – Raw Power
Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
John Cale – Paris 1919
Queen – self-titled debut album
Camel – self-titled debut album
Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy
Maureen McGovern – 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
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp – (No Pussyfooting)
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire
Gal Costa – Índia
Magma – Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Area – Arbeit macht frei
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 – Ege Bamyası
Premiata Forneria Marconi – Per un amico
Bette Midler – The Divine Miss M
Neu! – 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
The Who – Who's Next
Elton John – Madman Across the Water
Pink Floyd – Meddle
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Can – Tago Mago
Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson
Flower Travellin' Band – 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 self-titled album
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
The Jackson 5 – ABC
Soft Machine – Third
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother
1960s
1969 in music, 1969 in British music, 1969 in Norwegian music
Notable events:
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
Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline
Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
David Bowie – Space Oddity
The Who – Tommy
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma and More
The Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
Santana – Santana
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way and Filles de Kilimanjaro
The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
The Stooges – The Stooges
Neil Young and the Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
The Kinks – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Pharoah Sanders – Karma
Scott Walker – Scott 4
Moondog – Moondog
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River and Willy and the Poor Boys
The Doors – The Soft Parade
Sun Ra – Atlantis
MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
Sly and the Family Stone – Stand!
Terry Riley – A Rainbow in Curved Air
White Noise – An Electric Storm
Silver Apples – Contact
Can – 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
Notable releases
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Sammy Davis Jr. – I've Gotta Be Me
The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
The Beatles – The Beatles (AKA The White Album)
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
The Band – Music from Big Pink
Anne Murray – What About Me
The Mothers of Invention – We're Only in It for the Money
Silver Apples – Silver Apples
The United States of America – 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 – Wheels of Fire
Soft Machine – The Soft Machine
The Byrds – The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Gábor Szabó – Dreams
Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes
Peter Brötzmann – 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 & Magical Mystery Tour
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
Red Krayola – The Parable of Arable Land
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced & Axis: Bold as Love
Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
David Bowie – David Bowie (Debut)
Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You which features her own and iconic version of Respect.
The Doors – The Doors (including "Light My Fire") & Strange Days
Louis Armstrong – "What a Wonderful World"
Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding
The 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
Love – Forever Changes
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band – Safe as Milk
Cream – Disraeli Gears
Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
The Who – The Who Sell Out
The Kinks – Something Else by the Kinks
Nico – Chelsea Girl
The Moody Blues with the London Festival Orchestra – Days of Future Passed
The Beach Boys – 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
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 – Fresh Cream
The Beatles – Yesterday and Today and Revolver
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The Monkees – The Monkees
The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
The Rolling Stones – Aftermath
Simon & Garfunkel – Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
The Kinks – Face to Face
The Monks – Black Monk Time
Love – Da Capo
The Byrds – Fifth Dimension
The Who – A Quick One
Donovan – Sunshine Superman
The Yardbirds – Roger the Engineer
Them – Them Again
Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield
Nina Simone – 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 and Meditations
Ennio Morricone – soundtrack album to the 1966 Italian western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Herbie Hancock – Maidene Voyage
Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
Krzysztof Komeda – Astigmatic
Larry Young – 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 – "What's New Pussycat?"
James Brown – "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
Otis Redding – Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
The Who – 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
The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man and Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics
Jackson C. Frank – Jackson C. Frank
The Yardbirds – Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds
Martha and the Vandellas – Dance Party
Cher – All I Really Want to Do
The Shangri-Las – Leader of the Pack
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Vince Guaraldi – A Charlie Brown Christmas the soundtrack album to the Peanuts animated television special of the same name.
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass – Going Places
Albert Ayler – Spiritual Unity
Grant Green – Idle Moments
Andrew Hill – Point of Departure
Bobby Hutcherson – 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 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' and Another Side of Bob Dylan
The Beach Boys – All Summer Long (featuring the No. 1. hit I Get Around)
The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones and 12 x 5
Charles Mingus – Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles
Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder
Kinks – The Kinks
John Coltrane – Crescent
Simon & Garfunkel – Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds
Muddy Waters – Folk Singer
Andrew Hill – Black Fire
The Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go
Sam Cooke – 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 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
The Righteous Brothers – Little Latin Lupe Lu
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach – Money Jungle
Thelonious Monk – Monk's Dream
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Jorge Ben – Samba Esquema Novo
The Beach Boys – Surfin' U.S.A., Surfer Girl and Little Deuce Coupe
John Coltrane – 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
Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue
Gerry Mulligan – 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
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
The Beach Boys – Surfin' Safari
Bill Evans and Jim Hall – Undercurrent
John Coltrane – Coltrane
Dexter Gordon – Go
Françoise Hardy – Tous les garçons et les filles
Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba
Booker T. & the M.G.'s – Green Onions
Herbie Hancock – Takin' Off
Ray Charles – Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Bill Evans Trio – Waltz for Debby
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach – Money Jungle
Bob Dylan – 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 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
Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
1960 in music, 1960 in British music, 1960 in Norwegian music
Notable events:
The 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 – 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
1950s
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 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 and Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – 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
Odetta – My Eyes Have Seen
Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Jazz in Silhouette
Nina Simone – Little Girl Blue
Bill Evans – Everybody Digs Bill Evans
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
Enoch Light and his Orchestra – Persuasive Percussion
Frank Sinatra – Come Dance with Me!
Horace Silver – Blowin' the Blues Away
Bobby Darin – "Mack the Knife"
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
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin'
Count Basie and his orchestra – The Atomic Mr. Basie
John Coltrane – Blue Train
Frank Sinatra – Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin
Frank Sinatra – Come Fly with Me
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book
Miles Davis – Milestones, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud and Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Buddy Holly – 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 song "Day-O"
folk singer Odetta – At the Gate of Horn
Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
Miles Davis – Miles Ahead, 'Round About Midnight and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners and Monk's Music
Charles Mingus – 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
Elvis Presley – Elvis' Christmas Album
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 first performed
Deaths of:
Tommy Dorsey
Notable releases:
Odetta – Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (Debut
Elvis Presley – self-titled debut album (Debut)
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"
Harry James – Harry James in Hi-Fi
Lonnie Donegan – "Rock Island Line"
1954 in music, 1954 in British music, 1954 in Norwegian music –
Notable events:
The musical Salad Days first performed
First Fender Stratocaster produced
Deaths of:
Charles Ives
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Billy Murray
Notable releases:
Elvis Presley's debut single, "That's All Right"
1953 in music, 1953 in British music, 1953 in Norwegian music
Notable events:
The musical Can-Can is performed
Deaths of:
Hank Williams
Sergei Prokofiev
Django Reinhardt
Florence Price
Notable releases:
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:
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" as Looney Tunes characters Tweety and Sylvester
1940s
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 and Mark Knopfler; RCA Victor introduces 45 RPM records; 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 331/3 RPM (LP) 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, Paul Brady, Tim Buckley, 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 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, Bette Midler, Deborah Harry, Anne Murray, Carly Simon, John Fogerty, Rod Stewart, Kim Carnes, 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 – 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, Gavin Bryars, Bobby Sherman, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää; Death of Lorenz Hart, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Formation of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carl Ruggles, Evocations; The original 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, 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, 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 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 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, Lou Rawls, La Monte Young, Terry Riley; 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, 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, Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson, Nina Simone, Yoko Ono, Nick Reynolds
1932 in music, 1932 in British music, 1932 in Norwegian music – 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 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; Birth of Harry Belafonte, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Patti Page, Ralph Stanley
1926 in music, 1926 in British music, 1926 in Norwegian music – 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 microphones for recording; 78 RPM adopted as standard for 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 – Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York; the Symphony No. 7 by Jean Sibelius; Death of 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 cylinders 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 starts billing his group as a "Jass Band"
1914 in music, 1914 in British music, 1914 in Norwegian music – "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, 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 by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden; Birth of Benny Goodman
1908 in music, 1908 in British music, 1908 in Norwegian music – The two first 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 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 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 by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden
1904 in music, 1904 in British music, 1904 in Norwegian music – The 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 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 by Antonín Dvořák; Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss; 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 Brahms, Birth of Marian Anderson
1896 in music, 1896 in Norwegian music – Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss; Jungfrun i tornet by Jean Sibelius; Death of 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 and Humoresques by Antonín Dvořák
1893 in music, 1893 in Norwegian music – Symphony No. 9 and String Quartet No. 12 by Antonín Dvořák; 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 by Jean Sibelius; Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo; The Nutcracker by Marius Petipa
1891 in music, 1891 in Norwegian music – Piano Trio No. 4 by Antonín Dvořák; Birth of Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer and pianist; 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; Edison starts commercial recordings on May 24; First 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 by Gustav Mahler; Birth of Lead Belly; Death of Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and pianist; Wax phonograph cylinders 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 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" 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 by Camille Saint-Saëns Birth of Billy Murray (singer)
1876 in music – Siegfried and Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner premiere in Bayreuth; Birth of Carl Ruggles
1875 in music – Birth of 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 by Modest Mussorgsky premieres in Saint Petersburg; Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II premieres in Vienna; Richard Wagner concludes Götterdämmerung, finishing The Ring Cycle; 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; 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; 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 by Edvard Grieg
1866 in music – Franz Liszt completes his oratorio 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 by Antonín Dvorak; Franz Liszt publishes his solo piano transcriptions of the full 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 Waltz The Dance in the Village Inn.
1860 in music – Birth of Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor
1850s
1859 in music – 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, 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 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 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-Bartholdy, German composer
1846 in music – Adolphe Sax invents the saxophone
1845 in music – Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner premières in Dresden; The 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 – "Lisztomania" 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 by Hector Berlioz
1836 in music – Birth of Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer and opera composer, Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer premieres in Paris
1835 in music – Death of 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 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 Friedrich Ernst von Weber, German opera composer. 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 by Felix Mendelssohn Antonio Salieri dies
1824 in music – Birth of Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer and organist; 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 – Hammerklavier sonate by Ludwig van Beethoven; "Silent Night" written by Josef Mohr and composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, – The first performance of Silent Night on December 25, (Church of St. Nikolaus in 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 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 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 Fifth Piano Concerto Emperor.
1800s
1809 in music – Birth of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German composer, pianist, organist and conductor; Death of Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
1808 in music – Beethoven completes his 6th Symphony "Pastoral", Beethoven's 5th Symphony
1807 in music – La Vestale by Gaspare Spontini, Symphony No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven
1806 in music – Fourth Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven
1805 in music – Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
1804 in music – Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' by Ludwig van Beethoven
1803 in music – Birth of Hector Berlioz, French composer Symphony No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven
1802 in music – Bach's Sonatas and partitas for solo violin are published by Bote and Bock
1801 in music – Birth of Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini, Italian opera composer, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
1800 in music – Symphony No. 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven
1790s
1799 in music –
1798 in music – Joseph Haydn's The Creation
1797 in music – Joseph Haydn's Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser; Birth of Franz Schubert, Austrian composer and pianist and Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian opera composer
1796 in music –
1795 in music – First Beethoven Piano Sonatas written (Op. 2)
1794 in music –
1793 in music – Scots Wha Hae
1792 in music – Birth of Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer
1791 in music – Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute); death of Mozart
1790 in music –
1780s
1789 in music – Mozart's Così fan tutte
1788 in music – Death of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer and keyboardist
1787 in music – Mozart's Don Giovanni
1786 in music – Birth of Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, German opera composer, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (The marriage of Figaro)
1785 in music – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his Piano Concerto No. 21
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1783 in music –
1782 in music – Birth of Niccolò Paganini, Italian composer and ultra virtuoso violinist; Death of Johann Christian Bach, German composer, Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)
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1770s
1779 in music –
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1777 in music – Il mondo della luna by Joseph Haydn, premieres in Eszterháza, Hungary
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1770 in music – Ludwig van Beethoven born
1760s
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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 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 by George Frideric Handel, in Dublin
1741 in music – Death of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist 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 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
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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 – 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 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 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 by Handel, premieres in London, the first all-Italian opera performed in London
1710 in music – Agrippina by Handel, premieres in Venice
1700s
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1707 in music –
1706 in music – Johann Pachelbel dies
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1690s
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1695 in music – Henry Purcell dies
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1691 in music – 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 Georg Friedrich Häendel (German composers, organists and harpsichordists); Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist
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1683 in music – Birth of Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and music theorist
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1680 in music –
1670s
1679 in music –
1678 in music – Birth of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist
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1676 in music –
1675 in music – Psyche by Matthew Locke
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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
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1662 in music –
1661 in music –
1660 in music – Birth of Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist
1650s
1659 in music – Henry Purcell born
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1656 in music –
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1653 in music – Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Pachelbel born
1652 in music –
1651 in music – La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli
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1640s
1649 in music – Giasone by Francesco Cavalli, premieres in Venice, the first opera to separate aria and recitative
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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
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1638 in music –
1637 in music – The first commercial opera house open to the public, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice
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1632 in music – Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer
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1610s
1619 in music – Michael Praetorius, Polyhymnia caduceatrix
1618 in music –
1617 in music – Johann Hermann Schein, Banchetto musicale
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1614 in music – Marco da Gagliano, Sacrarum cantionum
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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 – La Favola D'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi
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1605 in music – Van de Spiegheling der singconst (ca 1605) by Simon Stevin
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1603 in music –
1602 in music – 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
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1591 in music –
1590 in music – Claudio Monteverdi, Il secondo libro de madrigali a 5
1580s
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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
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1560s
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1568 in music –
1567 in music – Birth of Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer and singer
1566 in music –
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1561 in music –
1560 in music – First works for Viol Consort attributed to William Byrd
1550s
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1540s
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1546 in music – Death of John Taverner, English composer.
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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 madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, the first printed book of music by a woman in European history.
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1530 in music – 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
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1526 in music –
1525 in music – birth of Palestrina
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1523 in music –
1522 in music – death of Jean Mouton (c. 1459 – October 30, 1522)
1521 in music – death of Josquin
1520 in music – Musica di messer Bernardo Pisano sopra le canzone del Petrarcha is published, the first printed book of secular music dedicated to a single composer. It contains the first madrigals, though they are not called by that name.
1510s
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1510 in music – Josquin des Prez composes the Missa de Beata Virgine
1490s and 1500s
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1501 in music – publication of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton by Ottaviano Petrucci, the first printed collection of polyphonic music
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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; 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, Duke of Milan and Bona of Savoy
1450s in music – Antoine Busnois writes the O Crux Lignum
1440s in music – Bianca de' Medici is born; Royal Danish Chapel is founded by Christian I.
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The Old Hall Manuscript is compiled
= 14th century
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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
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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
=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
List of years in country music
List of years in jazz
List of years in rock music
Table of years in music
References
External links
Music Timeline A Chronology of Music From Prehistory to the Present Day.
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