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      2020s



      2025 in music, 2025 in American music
      Deaths of Peter Yarrow, Sam Moore, David Lynch, John Sykes, Garth Hudson, Unk, Marianne Faithfull, Irv Gotti, Dave Jerden, Rick Buckler
      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, Chuck Woolery, Bob Bryar, Lennie De Ice, Anita Bryant
      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
      Tim Minchin's Matilda the Musical
      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)
      N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton (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)
      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:
      Víctor Jara
      Bobby Darin
      Gram Parsons
      Notable releases:
      Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon
      Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
      The Who – Quadrophenia Released
      Buffalo – 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)
      John Serry Sr. - Squeeze Play

      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
      1784 in music –
      1783 in music –
      1782 in music – Birth of Niccolò Paganini, Italian composer and ultra virtuoso violinist; Death of Johann Christian Bach, German composer, Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)
      1781 in music –
      1780 in music –


      1770s


      1779 in music –
      1778 in music –
      1777 in music – Il mondo della luna by Joseph Haydn, premieres in Eszterháza, Hungary
      1776 in music –
      1775 in music –
      1774 in music –
      1773 in music –
      1772 in music –
      1771 in music –
      1770 in music – Ludwig van Beethoven born


      1760s


      1769 in music –
      1768 in music –
      1767 in music –
      1766 in music –
      1765 in music –
      1764 in music – Death of Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and music theorist
      1763 in music –
      1762 in music – Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck, premieres in Vienna
      1761 in music –
      1760 in music – La buona figliuola by Niccolò Piccinni, premieres in Rome


      1750s


      1759 in music – George Frideric Handel dies
      1758 in music –
      1757 in music – Death of Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist
      1756 in music – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born
      1755 in music –
      1754 in music –
      1753 in music –
      1752 in music – Muzio Clementi born
      1751 in music –
      1750 in music – Johann Sebastian Bach dies, Antonio Salieri born


      1740s


      1749 in music – Johann Sebastian Bach finishes his Mass in B Minor; George Frideric Handel composes the Music for the Royal Fireworks
      1748 in music -
      1747 in music – Johann Sebastian Bach finishes his 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
      1731 in music –
      1730 in music –


      1720s


      1729 in music –
      1728 in music – The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch, premieres in London
      1727 in music – Zadok the Priest (the coronation anthem) by George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach finishes and presents his St Matthew Passion
      1726 in music –
      1725 in music – publication of Twelve concerti, Op. 8 by Antonio Vivaldi, including the Four Seasons – 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


      1709 in music –
      1708 in music –
      1707 in music –
      1706 in music – Johann Pachelbel dies
      1705 in music –
      1704 in music –
      1703 in music –
      1702 in music –
      1701 in music –
      1700 in music –


      1690s


      1699 in music –
      1698 in music –
      1697 in music –
      1696 in music –
      1695 in music – Henry Purcell dies
      1694 in music –
      1693 in music –
      1692 in music –
      1691 in music – King Arthur 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
      1684 in music –
      1683 in music – Birth of Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and music theorist
      1682 in music –
      1681 in music –
      1680 in music –


      1670s


      1679 in music –
      1678 in music – Birth of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist
      1677 in music –
      1676 in music –
      1675 in music – Psyche by Matthew Locke
      1674 in music –
      1673 in music –
      1672 in music –
      1671 in music –
      1670 in music –


      1660s


      1669 in music –
      1668 in music – Birth of François Couperin, French composer and harpsichordist
      1667 in music –
      1666 in music –
      1665 in music –
      1664 in music – Heinrich Schutz completes Weihnachtshistorie
      1663 in music –
      1662 in music –
      1661 in music –
      1660 in music – Birth of Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and harpsichordist


      1650s


      1659 in music – Henry Purcell born
      1658 in music –
      1657 in music –
      1656 in music –
      1655 in music –
      1654 in music –
      1653 in music – Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Pachelbel born
      1652 in music –
      1651 in music – La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli
      1650 in music –


      1640s


      1649 in music – Giasone by Francesco Cavalli, premieres in Venice, the first opera to separate aria and recitative
      1648 in music –
      1647 in music –
      1646 in music –
      1645 in music –
      1644 in music – Ormindo by Francesco Cavalli, premieres in Venice
      1643 in music – death of Claudio Monteverdi
      1642 in music – L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, premiered in Venice
      1641 in music –
      1640 in music – Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria by Claudio Monteverdi, premieres in Venice


      1630s


      1639 in music –
      1638 in music –
      1637 in music – The first commercial opera house open to the public, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice
      1636 in music –
      1635 in music –
      1634 in music –
      1633 in music –
      1632 in music – Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer
      1631 in music –
      1630 in music –


      1620s


      1629 in music –
      1628 in music –
      1627 in music –
      1626 in music –
      1625 in music –
      1624 in music –
      1623 in music –
      1622 in music –
      1621 in music –
      1620 in music –


      1610s


      1619 in music – Michael Praetorius, Polyhymnia caduceatrix
      1618 in music –
      1617 in music – Johann Hermann Schein, Banchetto musicale
      1616 in music –
      1615 in music –
      1614 in music – Marco da Gagliano, Sacrarum cantionum
      1613 in music –
      1612 in music –
      1611 in music – William Byrd, Fantasia a 6, No. 3; Carlo Gesualdo, Morro lasso al mio duolo
      1610 in music – Claudio Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610


      1600s


      1609 in music –
      1608 in music – Lamento d'Arianna by Claudio Monteverdi; Since Robin Hood by Thomas Weelkes
      1607 in music – La Favola D'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi
      1606 in music –
      1605 in music – Van de Spiegheling der singconst (ca 1605) by Simon Stevin
      1604 in music –
      1603 in music –
      1602 in music – Cento concerti by Lodovico Viadana, the first book to feature basso continuo
      1601 in music – Le nuove musiche by Giulio Caccini
      1600 in music – the first oratorio: Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo by Emilio de' Cavalieri


      1590s


      1599 in music –
      1598 in music –
      1597 in music – John Dowland's First Book of Lute Songs; Dafne, the first known opera
      1596 in music –
      1595 in music –
      1594 in music – Orlande de Lassus completes Lagrime di San Pietro (posthumously published); Orlande de Lassus dies
      1593 in music –
      1592 in music –
      1591 in music –
      1590 in music – Claudio Monteverdi, Il secondo libro de madrigali a 5


      1580s


      1589 in music –
      1588 in music –
      1587 in music –
      1586 in music –
      1585 in music –
      1584 in music –
      1583 in music –
      1582 in music –
      1581 in music – The court entertainment Ballet comique de la reine by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx was presented on Oct 15
      1580 in music – Appearance of three Fantasias for viol consort by William Byrd. Founding of Concerto delle donne under the direction of Luzzasco Luzzaschi: Consisting of women voices, this group becomes a significant part of Alfonso II d'Este's court entertainment.


      1570s


      1579 in music –
      1578 in music –
      1577 in music –
      1576 in music –
      1575 in music –
      1574 in music –
      1573 in music –
      1572 in music –
      1571 in music –
      1570 in music –


      1560s


      1569 in music –
      1568 in music –
      1567 in music – Birth of Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer and singer
      1566 in music –
      1565 in music –
      1564 in music –
      1563 in music –
      1562 in music –
      1561 in music –
      1560 in music – First works for Viol Consort attributed to William Byrd


      1550s


      1559 in music –
      1558 in music –
      1557 in music –
      1556 in music –
      1555 in music –
      1554 in music –
      1553 in music –
      1552 in music –
      1551 in music –
      1550 in music –


      1540s


      1549 in music –
      1548 in music –
      1547 in music –
      1546 in music – Death of John Taverner, English composer.
      1545 in music –
      1544 in music –
      1543 in music –
      1542 in music –
      1541 in music –
      1540 in music – Birth of William Byrd, English composer; Thomas Tallis begins writing his first works for the Latin church service.


      1530s


      1539 in music – Jacques Arcadelt's First book of madrigals for four voices is published, the most reprinted madrigal book of the century
      1538 in music – printing of the first Protestant hymn-book, Ein Hubsch new Gesangbuch; publication of the first book of madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, the first printed book of music by a woman in European history.
      1537 in music –
      1536 in music –
      1535 in music –
      1534 in music –
      1533 in music –
      1532 in music –
      1531 in music –
      1530 in music – Madrigali de diversi musici: libro primo de la Serena is published, the first book of madrigals to use the word 'madrigal' to describe them. The majority of the pieces in it are by Philippe Verdelot.


      1520s


      1529 in music –
      1528 in music –
      1527 in music –
      1526 in music –
      1525 in music – birth of Palestrina
      1524 in music –
      1523 in music –
      1522 in music – death of Jean Mouton (c. 1459 – October 30, 1522)
      1521 in music – death of Josquin
      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


      1519 in music –
      1518 in music –
      1517 in music –
      1516 in music –
      1515 in music –
      1514 in music –
      1513 in music –
      1512 in music –
      1511 in music –
      1510 in music – Josquin des Prez composes the Missa de Beata Virgine


      1490s and 1500s


      1509 in music –
      1508 in music –
      1507 in music –
      1506 in music –
      1505 in music –
      1504 in music –
      1503 in music –
      1502 in music –
      1501 in music – publication of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton by Ottaviano Petrucci, the first printed collection of polyphonic music
      1500 in music –
      1499 in music –
      1498 in music –
      1497 in music –
      1496 in music –
      1495 in music –
      1494 in music –
      1493 in music –
      1492 in music –
      1491 in music –
      1490 in music –


      Early history




      = 15th century

      =
      Josquin des Prez composes the Domine, ne in fuore tuo
      1490s in music – Josquin des Prez – Nymphes des bois; The Chigi codex is compiled.
      1480s in music – Johannes Ockeghem completes Requiem; 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.
      1430s in music –
      1420s in music –
      1410s in music –
      1400s in music –
      The Old Hall Manuscript is compiled


      = 14th century

      =
      1390s in music –
      1380s in music –
      1370s in music – Death of Guillaume de Machaut
      1360s in music – Guillaume de Machaut composes Messe de Nostre Dame, the first complete polyphonic ordinary of the mass
      1350s in music –
      1340s in music –
      1330s in music –
      1320s in music –
      1310s in music –
      1300s in music – Edward I of England holds the Feast of the Swans at Westminster Abbey, with music involving over 150 minstrels from a number of European countries.


      = 13th century

      =
      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


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    Music History Timeline: From Ancient Times to …

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    Music Timeline - Infoplease

    Aug 5, 2020 · Read this history of music and find a timeline of milestones in the music industry, dating from 325 to the present day

    Music Timeline - World History Encyclopedia

    Life of the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Life of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Explore the timline of Music.

    Music History Timeline: From the Middle Ages to Today

    This timeline documents the history of Western music from its beginnings to today. Each section contains information about musical characteristics, performance styles, and social context of the era, as well as examples of …

    Music Timeline - Preceden

    Explore the timeline of music from its origins to the present day, including key events, influential artists, and major developments in genres and technology.

    Music Genres Timeline - Softschools.com

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    Timeline of Broadway Musicals - Playlist Research

    1976 - Oh! Calcutta opens for a long run of nearly 6,000 performances.