1999 in music

January

January 7

After eight years of marriage, musician husband Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.

Paul McCartney attends the launch of his daughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia.

January 11 – During the American Music Awards, Billy Joel is awarded the Special Award of Merit for his "inspired songwriting skills" and "exciting showmanship."

January 12 – Fredrik Johansson is fired from Dark Tranquillity.

January 21 - A&M Records is shut down and merged into the Universal Music Group umbrella label Interscope Geffen A&M. It would be relaunched in 2007.

January 22 – German industrial band KMFDM announces that it has disbanded.

February

February 9 - NSYNC release their third single from their debut album, "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You", which peaks in the top 10 on the Pop charts.

February 10 - Iron Maiden announces that singer Bruce Dickinson has rejoined the band.

February 14 – Elton John appears as himself in a special episode of the animated series The Simpsons

February 15 – "Rolling Stones Day" is declared in Minnesota by Governor (and former Rolling Stones bodyguard) Jesse Ventura

February 19 – Marilyn Manson files a defamation countersuit against former Spin Magazine editor Craig Marks, in response to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that Marks filed in January against the singer, the record label Nothing/Interscope, and Manson's bodyguard agency.

February 20 – Trace Adkins performs his first concert following surgery for tendon damage and a broken ankle. Contrary to doctor's orders, Adkins does not remain seated during the performance.

February 24 - Lauryn Hill makes history at the 1999 Grammy Awards by being the first female artist to win five Grammys in one night.

February 25 – The Artist Formerly Known as Prince files a lawsuit against nine Web sites for copyright and trademark infringement, claiming that the websites sell bootlegged recordings and offer unauthorized song downloads.

March

March 1 – Sony Music Distribution raises wholesale prices on audio compact discs by 8 US cents.

March 2

Cher's song "Believe" reaches number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making Cher the oldest female artist (at the age of 52) to perform this feat. Cher also set the record for the longest hit-making career span, with 33 years between the release of her first and last Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles (1965 and 1999).

The House of Blues in Paradise, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Bob Dylan performs a concert at the club and is joined by U2's lead singer Bono for an encore of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".

March 3 - British soul singer Dusty Springfield dies of breast cancer at the age of 59.

March 5 – Trauma Records files a $40 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the members of Bush for failing to deliver a new album.

March 6 – A 67-year-old George Jones is seriously injured in a car accident while on his way home. Jones' Lexus crashed into a bridge at about 1:30 p.m. It is later revealed that alcohol was a factor in the accident.

March 15 – Marilyn Manson is injured when he slips and falls during a concert at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Manson's performance is cut short.

March 16 - The Recording Industry Association of America introduces a new certification level, Diamond, for albums or singles selling ten million units and the first Radio Disney Jams volume gets released on CD and cassette for the very first time.

March 21 – Irish girl band B*Witched score their fourth consecutive #1 with Blame It On The Weatherman on the UK singles chart. They become the first band to have all their first four singles enter at the top simultaneously and set a new record. It is broken a year later by Irish boy band Westlife.

March 27 – The Bee Gees end their One Night Only tour in Sydney, Australia.

April

April 10 – A charity tribute, the Concert for Linda McCartney is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Here, There and Everywhere: A Concert For Linda, features performances by Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O'Connor, and George Michael. Proceeds raised at the event went to animal rights causes.

April 19 – Neil Young performs at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Due to a mistake by a Madison Square Garden staff member, the marquee read "Bob Dylan, Tonight at 8pm". Young jokingly introduced one of his guitar players as Bob Dylan during the show.

April 20

Billy Joel performs at Meadowlands in New Jersey. Joel announces that this would be his last public pop music concert. Joel also announces plans on devoting his future efforts to classical music.

Columbine High School massacre takes place in Jefferson County, Colorado, sparking a widespread moral panic that ultimately tries to place the blame on violent media, including music perceived to be violent and/or connected to the goth culture. American rocker Marilyn Manson receives the brunt of the blame despite evidence that neither of the shooters were fans of his and recludes, only to address the issue in the form of his fourth studio album. The finger is also pointed at German industrial metal acts Rammstein and KMFDM, of whom the shooters were fans. This sensationalism gradually wanes in the years following, and all three music acts ironically achieve more mainstream acceptance in the U.S. than they had prior to the massacre. Christian Contemporary Music artists respond to the concept that Atheism caused the shooting and in particular the Cassie Bernall urban legend (about a girl who was initially believed to have been shot in the head for answering "yes" when perpetrator Eric Harris asked her if she believed in God) with songs such as "A New Hope" by Five Iron Frenzy, about a band member's sister who had been trapped in the choir room returning to school after the shooting, and "This Is Your Time" by Michael W. Smith, a direct response to the Cassie Bernall story.

April 26 - Musician and former bandleader of The Sound, Adrian Borland, commits suicide in London.

April 28 – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

April 30 – Columbine High School massacre: Aerosmith visits Columbine High School shooting victim Lance Kirklin in a Colorado hospital before a concert in Denver, Colorado. Kirklin was one of 24 wounded in the April 20 shooting, 13 others were killed.

May

May 1

"The Paintings of Paul McCartney" exhibit opens at the Lyz Art Forum in Siegen, Germany. The exhibit features around 70 paintings created by the former Beatle.

Musical group Atari Teenage Riot starts a riot in Berlin with their anti-consumer and anti-government lyrics. The riot was stopped with concert goers pleading for peace from the Swat crew ruthlessly beating down pedestrians. This band is under the label Digital Hardcore Recordings.

June

June 1 – Peer-to-peer file sharing network Napster is launched.

June 2 – Backstreet Boys smashes the old first-week sales record of Garth Brooks' 1.08 million, with (Millennium) which sold over 1.13 million in its first week and was the first album to sell over 500,000 copies at least 2 weeks. The album holds at No. 1 first-weeks sales record of the 1990s.

June 13 - S Club 7 debut at #1 on the UK singles chart with their first single "Bring It All Back" and become the largest vocal group to enter at the top.

June 22 - Limp Bizkit's second album, Significant Other, debuts at number one on the Billboard 200, with 643,874 copies sold in its first week. The album launches them into mainstream success.

June 28 - Britney Spears embarked her first concert tour, ...Baby One More Time Tour. The tour only reached North America and garned a positive review, but generated some controversy due to her racy outfit and accusation of lip syncing.

July

July 1 – The new Scottish Parliament is formally opened with a rock concert in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle and is headlined by Garbage, of which, lead singer Shirley Manson, is at the time one of the biggest music stars from Scotland.

July 3 – Indie rock icon Mark Sandman collapses on stage at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina, Latium, Italy (near Rome) while performing with Morphine. He is soon pronounced dead of a heart attack at the age of 46. Morphine immediately disbands.

July 8 - Adrian Erlandsson quits The Haunted as the drummer while the band hires Per Möller Jensen as Erlandsson's replacement.

July 12 – Gregg Alexander issues a press release dissolving the New Radicals.

July 13–18 – The third Yoyo A Go Go punk and indie rock festival opens in Olympia, Washington.

July 23–25 – The highly anticipated Woodstock 99 festival takes place in Rome, New York.

August

August 6 - The Grateful Dead's tape archivist Dick Latvala dies at age 56.

August 14-15 - The Artist Formerly Known as Prince holds a weekend yard sale at his Paisley Park Studios, with part of the proceeds going to benefit underprivileged youth.

August 27–29 – The third Terrastock festival is held in London.

September

September 1 - The Irish Music Hall of Fame opens; Van Morrison is the first inducted into the museum.

September 17 - Rapper Eminem is sued by his mother for $10 million, claiming that public comments he made about her were slanderous and had caused emotional stress and financial harm. She eventually collects a mere $1,600 settlement in 2001.

September 21 – David Bowie's Hours becomes the first complete album by a major artist available to download over the Internet, preceding the physical release by two weeks.

September 30 - Billboard announces that Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd is expanding into Australia after ending a partnership with MDS Dancenet and establishes Ministry of Sound Australia, known until 2005 as Ministry of Sound (UK) Pty Ltd. Ministry UK also secures a distribution deal with EMI Music Group Australasia Pty Ltd.

October

October 9

"Heartbreaker", the lead single from Mariah Carey's ninth studio album, Rainbow, reaches #1 on the Billboard 100, becoming her 14th #1 single and also her 59th week atop the chart. When it stayed at #1 for a further week Carey surpassed The Beatles for the act with the most weeks spent at number one. The song also topped charts in Canada and New Zealand.

The first Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is held in California. The inaugural line-up consists of Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Tool, Morrissey and Rage Against the Machine.

The anti-poverty initiative NetAid is launched with simultaneous benefit concerts in London, New Jersey and Geneva.

October 20 - Melissa Auf der Maur leaves Hole.

November

November 5

Australian independent record label Liberation Music is formed.

Gary Cherone leaves Van Halen.

November 12 - 1970s rock star Gary Glitter is jailed for four months for downloading child pornography off the Internet.

November 15 – Korn performs their entire album Issues at the Apollo Theater in New York City, becoming the first rock band ever to perform at the Apollo.

November 16 – Korn's fourth studio album, Issues, debuts at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with 575,000 copies sold in its first week.

November 23 – University of Oregon student Jeffrey Levy, having downloaded MP3s without permission, is the first person ever convicted for copyright infringement under the NET Act of 1997. He is sentenced to two years of probation and a limit on Internet access.

December

December 4 – The Spice Girls start their Christmas Tour around the UK, dubbed as the Christmas in Spiceworld Tour.

December 14

BMI announces the most played songs on American radio and television in the 20th century [1] (full list)

Paul McCartney returns to The Cavern Club to play a special concert for 300 fans.

Boy George is injured by a 62-pound disco ball that falls from a concert venue's ceiling during a rehearsal, nearly killing him as it almost landed on his head.

December 27 - Puff Daddy and fellow rapper Shyne are arrested for weapons violations and other charges after a shooting in a Manhattan nightclub that leaves three people injured.

December 30 - George Harrison survives a knife attack by an intruder in his Friar Park home.

December 31 – Many special New Year's Eve concerts are held around the world to celebrate the arrival of the year 2000. Big shows include Barbra Streisand at The MGM Grand Las Vegas, The Eagles at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden, and Metallica with Kid Rock and Ted Nugent playing for 54,000 the Pontiac Silverdome. The biggest concert on Earth that night is by Phish, however, playing for 75,000 people at the Big Cypress Indian Reservation in Florida.

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Iron Maiden fires lead singer Blaze Bayley. Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith return to the band. The band now has three lead guitarists.

Vocalist, Lawrence Mackrory quits Darkane. The band hires by Andreas Sydow as his replacement after.

Bands formed

See Musical groups established in 1999

Bands reformed

The Animals

Bands disbanded

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Release Date Unknown

The Collection – Spandau Ballet

Ella in Budapest, Hungary – Ella Fitzgerald

Face Down – Serial Joe

In Stereo - Bomfunk MC's

Mi Día de la Independencia – Lynda Thomas*Side Show Freaks – 40 Below Summer

Simple Pleasure – Tindersticks

Where We Stand – Yellowcard

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1999.

Popular songs

"2 Times" - Ann Lee

"9pm (Till I Come)" - ATB

"All I Really Want" - Kim Lukas

"All or Nothing" – Cher

"Absolutely Everybody" – Vanessa Amorosi

"All Star" – Smash Mouth

"Aller plus haut" – Tina Arena

"Almost Doesn't Count" – Brandy

"Always Have, Always Will - Ace of Base

"American Woman" – Lenny Kravitz

"Amazed" – Lonestar

"Ana's Song (Open Fire)" – Silverchair

"Angel" – Sarah McLachlan

"Angel of Mine" – Monica

"Anton aus Tirol" - Anton & DJ Ötzi

"As" - George Michael & Mary J. Blige

"Au Nom de la rose" – Moos

"...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears

"Back At One" – Brian McKnight

"Back in My Life" - Alice DeeJay

"Bailamos" – Enrique Iglesias

"Bawitdaba" – Kid Rock

"Beautiful Stranger" – Madonna

"Believe" – Cher

"Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)" - Citizen King

"Better Off Alone" - Alice DeeJay

"Big Big World" – Emilia

"Bills, Bills, Bills" - Destiny's Child

"Bla Bla Bla" - Gigi D'Agostino

"Black Balloon" – Goo Goo Dolls

"Blue Monday" – Orgy

"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" – Eiffel 65

"Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom" - Vengaboys

"Born to Make You Happy" – Britney Spears

"Bring It All Back" – S Club 7

"Bring It All To Me" – Blaque

"Burning Down the House" – Tom Jones featuring The Cardigans

"Bye Bye Baby" - TQ

"Call Me Mañana - Scooter

"Candy" – Mandy Moore (debut)

"Canned Heat" - Jamiroquai

"The Carpet Crawlers 1999" – Genesis

"Cherish the Day" – Sade

"Corazón Perdido" – Lynda Thomas

"Desert Rose" – Sting

"Dizzy" – Goo Goo Dolls

"Dolphins Cry" - Live

"Don't Call Me Baby" - Madison Avenue

"Don't Say You Love Me" – M2M

"Don't Stop!" - ATB

"Dov'e l'amore - Cher

"Down So Long" – Jewel

"Drinking in L.A." - Bran Van 3000

"Drop It" - Scoop

"Electricity" - Suede

"Enjoy Yourself" - A+

"Everlasting Night" – Dannii Minogue

"Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" – Baz Luhrmann

"Everyday I Love You" - Boyzone

"Every Morning" – Sugar Ray

"Falling Away From Me" – KoЯn

"Faster Harder Scooter" - Scooter

"Fear the Voices" – Alice in Chains

"Flat Beat" - Mr. Oizo

"Flying Without Wings" – Westlife (UK)

"Freak on a Leash" – KoЯn

"Fuck the Millennium" - Scooter

"Genie in a Bottle" – Christina Aguilera (debut)

"Get Born Again" – Alice in Chains

"Get Get Down" - Paul Johnson

"Guerrilla Radio" – Rage Against the Machine

"Have You Ever?" – Brandy

"Heartbreak Hotel" – Whitney Houston, Faith Evans, & Kelly Price

"Heartbreaker" – Mariah Carey

"Hello Time Bomb" – Matthew Good Band

"Here with Me" - Dido

"Hey Boy Hey Girl" - The Chemical Brothers

"Honey to the Bee" – Billie

"I Feel Lonely" - Sascha Schmitz

"I Got a Girl" - Lou Bega

"I Have a Dream" - Westlife

"I Need to Know" – Marc Anthony

"I Knew I Loved You" – Savage Garden

"I Saved the World Today" - Eurythmics

"I Still Believe" - Mariah Carey

"I Try" - Macy Gray

"I Wanna Love You Forever" – Jessica Simpson (debut)

"I Want It That Way" – Backstreet Boys

"I Will Remember You" – Sarah McLachlan

"If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time" - R. Kelly

"If I Let You Go" – Westlife (UK)

"If Ya Gettin' Down" - Five

"If You Had My Love" – Jennifer Lopez

"If You Love Me" - Mint Condition

"In Our Lifetime" - Texas

"Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann" - Jan Delay

"It's Not Right but It's Okay" - Whintey Houston

"It's Only Us" - Robbie Williams

"Jesse Hold On" - B*Witched

"Join Me in Death" - HIM

"Kalimba de Luna" - Garcia

"Keep On Movin'" - Five

"Kernkraft 400" - Zombie Nation

"King of My Castle" - Wamdue Project

"Kiss Me" – Sixpence None the Richer

"Kiss of Life" – Sade

"Kiss (When the Sun Don't Shine)" - Vengaboys

"Larger than Life" - Backstreet Boys

"Last Kiss" – Pearl Jam

"Lean on Me (with the Family)" - 2-4 Family

"Learn to Fly" – Foo Fighters

"Lit Up" – Buckcherry

"Livin' la Vida Loca" – Ricky Martin

"Load Me Up" – Matthew Good Band

"Look at Me" - Geri Halliwell

"Love's Got a Hold on My Heart" - Steps

"Ma Baker" - Boney M vs Sash!

"Maldita Timidez" – Lynda Thomas

"Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" – Lou Bega

"Mamboleo" - Loona

"Mamma Mia" - A-Teens

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" – Shania Twain

"Maria" – Blondie

"Maschen-Draht-Zaun" - Stefan Raab

"MFG" - Die Fantastischen Vier

"Mi Chico Latino" - Geri Halliwell

"The Millennium Prayer" – Cliff Richard

"The Miracle" – Cliff Richard

"Move Your Body" - Eiffel 65

"Mudshovel" - Staind

"My Love Is Your Love" - Whitney Houston

"My Name Is" – Eminem

"My Own Worst Enemy" – Lit

"Nie Wieder" - Tic Tac Toe

"Never Let You Go" – Third Eye Blind

"New York City Boy" - Pet Shop Boys

"No Quiero Verte" – Lynda Thomas

"No Scrubs" – TLC

"Nookie" – Limp Bizkit

"Nothing Else Matters '99" - Metallica

"Nothing Is Real but the Girl" – Blondie

"Nothing Really Matters" – Madonna

"Opa Opa" - Antique

"Outside" - Staind

"Parce que c'est toi" - Axelle Red

"Perfect Moment" - Martine McCutcheon

"Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" – The Offspring

"Praise You" – Fatboy Slim

"Promises" - The Cranberries

"Protect Your Mind (For The Love Of A Princess)" - DJ Sakin & Friends

"Rhythm Divine" - Enrique Iglesias

"S Club Party" – S Club 7

"Saltwater" - Chicane

"Sandstorm" - Darude

"Satisfy You" - Puff Daddy & R. Kelly

"Scar Tissue" – Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Seasons in the Sun" - Westlife

"Sexy, Sexy Lover" - Modern Talking

"Shake Your Bon-Bon" - Ricky Martin

"She Wants You" – Billie

"She's All I Ever Had" - Ricky Martin

"She's So High" – Tal Bachman

"She's the One" - Robbie Williams

"Silence" - Delerium & Sarah McLachlan

"Sing it Back" - Moloko

"Sitting Down Here" - Lene Marlin

"Sleep Now in the Fire" – Rage Against the Machine

"Slide" – Goo Goo Dolls

"Slippin'" - DMX

"Smooth" – Santana feat. Rob Thomas

"Someday" – Sugar Ray

"Sometimes" – Britney Spears

"Steal My Sunshine" – Len

"Still D.R.E." - Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg

"Strong Enough" – Cher

"Summer Son" - Texas

"Sun Is Shining" - Bob Marley vs Funkstar De Luxe

"Super Trouper - A-Teens

"Swear It Again" – Westlife (UK) (debut)

"Sweet Like Chocolate" - Shanks & Bigfoot

"Take a Picture" – Filter

"Take Me to Your Heaven" - Charlotte Nilsson

"Tarzan & Jane" - Toy-Box

"Tell Me Why" - Prezioso feat. Marvin

"Tender" – Blur

"That's The Way It Is" – Celine Dion

"The Animal Song" – Savage Garden

"The Bad Touch" – Bloodhound Gang

"The Best of Me" - Bryan Adams

"The Hardest Thing" - 98 Degrees

"The Launch" - DJ Jean

"The Kids Aren't Alright" - The Offspring

"Thank ABBA for the Music" – Steps, Tina Cousins, Cleopatra, B*Witched, Billie

"That Don't Impress Me Much" – Shania Twain

"The Riddle" - Gigi D'Agostino

"The Rigga-Ding-Dong-Song" - Passion Fruit

"The World Is Not Enough" – Garbage

"Then the Morning Comes" – Smash Mouth

"There She Goes" – Sixpence None the Richer

"Tu ne m'as pas laissé le temps" – David Hallyday

"Turn Around" - Phats & Small

"Turn Your Lights Down Low" - Lauryn Hill & Bob Marley

"Two in a Million" - S Club 7

"U Don't Know Me" - Armand Van Helden

"U Know What's Up" - Donell Jones & Lisa Lopes

"Unpretty" – TLC

"Waiting for Tonight" – Jennifer Lopez

"We Can Leave the World" - Sascha Schmitz

"We're Going to Ibiza" - Vengaboys

"Wish I Could Fly" - Roxette

"Will2K" - Will Smith & K-Ci

"What a Girl Wants" – Christina Aguilera

"What It's Like" – Everlast

"What's It Gonna Be?!" - Busta Rhymes & Janet Jackson

"What's My Age Again?" – Blink-182

"When the Heartache Is Over" – Tina Turner

"When Worlds Collide" – Powerman 5000

"When You Say Nothing at All" - Ronan Keating

"Where My Girls At" -702

"Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" - Moby

"Why Don't You Get a Job?" - The Offspring

"Wild Wild West" – Will Smith featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee

"You Are Not Alone" - Modern Talking

"(You Drive Me) Crazy" – Britney Spears

"You'll Be in My Heart" – Phil Collins

"You Needed Me" - Boyzone

"You're My Number One" - S Club 7

"You're Still the One" – Shania Twain

"You Get What You Give" – New Radicals

Top 10 selling albums of the year in USA

1. Backstreet Boys – Millennium
2. Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time
3. Shania Twain – Come on Over#
4. 'N Sync – *NSYNC
5. Ricky Martin – Ricky Martin
6. Christina Aguilera – Christina Aguilera
7. Santana – Supernatural
8. TLC – FanMail
9. Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause
10. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP

Classical music

Samuel Adler – Viola Concerto

Leonardo Balada – Piano Concerto No. 3

Michael Daugherty – Hell's Angels

Joël-François Durand – La Terre et le Feu for oboe and orchestra

Carlo Forlivesi – Requiem

Patrick Hawes – The Call (song cycle)

Joe Jackson – Symphony No. 1

Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

John Kinsella – Symphony No. 8: Into the New Millennium

Richard Payne – Saxophone Concerto

Wolfgang Rihm

Ende der Handschrift. Elf späte Gedichte von Heiner Müller

Zwiesprache for piano

Karlheinz Stockhausen –

Klavierstück XVII, for 8- or 2-track tape, electronic keyboard, and sound projectionist, 7½ ex Nr. 64

Komet (Comet) for 8- or 2-track tape, percussionist, and sound projectionist, 7⅔ ex Nr. 64

Lichter—Wasser (Sunday Greeting), for soprano, tenor, and orchestra, Nr. 75

Paare vom Freitag, with soprano, bass, electronic instruments (tape), Nr. 63

Mindaugas Urbaitis

Fanfare for the Vilnius Festival for orchestra

Der Fall Wagner for ensemble

Opera

William Bolcom – A View from the Bridge

Deborah Drattell – Festival of Regrets

Rued Langgaard – Antikrist (composed 1921-30, premiered 1999)

Daron Hagen – Bandanna

John Harbison – The Great Gatsby

Nicholas Lens – The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Terra Terra – The Aquarius Era

Musical theater

Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin) – Broadway revival

Fame – The Musical – London production

Kiss Me, Kate (Cole Porter) – Broadway revival

Mamma Mia! (ABBA) – London production

My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe) – London revival

Saturday Night Fever (musical) - Broadway production opened at the Minskoff Theatre and ran for 501 performances

Musical films

Buena Vista Social Club

Mother

Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi

Raja

Sangamam

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Sugar Town

Topsy-Turvy

Births

January 5 – Marc Yu, American pianist and cellist

June 20 - Yui Mizuno, Japanese singer (Babymetal)

July 4 - Moa Kikuchi, Japanese singer (Babymetal)

July 14 – Camryn, American singer and actress

Deaths

January 2 – Rolf Liebermann (88), composer

January 21 - Charles Brown, (76), blues singer and pianist

January 22 - Gabor Carelli (83), operatic tenor

January 23 – "Prince" Lincoln Thompson (49), reggae musician

February 3 – Gwen Guthrie (48), singer

February 4 – Kenneth C. Burns (68), country musician

February 6 – Jimmy Roberts (74), American tenor

February 12 – Toni Fisher (67), singer

February 14 - Buddy Knox (65), singer and songwriter

February 15

Lamont "Big L" Coleman (24), rapper (gunshot)

Agnes Bernelle (75), actress and singer

February 16 – Necil Kâzım Akses (90), Turkish composer (date of death from this contemporary newspaper)

March 2

David Ackles (62), singer/songwriter

Dusty Springfield (59), singer (breast cancer)

March 4 – Eddie Dean (91), country music artist, actor

March 7 - Lowell Fulson (77), blues guitarist and songwriter

March 9 – Harry Somers (73), Canadian composer

March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin (92), violinist and musical director

March 13 – Bidu Sayão (97), Brazilian opera singer

March 14

Gregg Diamond (49), jazz pianist

Marius Müller (40), Norwegian guitarist (car crash)

March 26 – Ananda Shankar (50), Indian classical musician and composer (cardiac arrest)

March 28 - Freaky Tah (27), rapper (Lost Boyz) (shot)

March 29 – Joe Williams (80), jazz singer

April 1 - Jesse Stone (97), R & B musician and songwriter

April 3 – Lionel Bart (68), songwriter and composer

April 6 – Red Norvo (91), jazz musician

April 14 – Anthony Newley (67), songwriter, actor and singer

April 16 – Skip Spence (52), musician (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer

April 21 – Buddy Rogers (94), jazz musician

April 25

Roger Troutman (47), R&B singer (gunshot wounds)

Larry Troutman (54), R&B percussionist (suicide after killing younger brother)

Kemi Olusanya (35), British drum and bass duo Kemistry & Storm (freak highway accident)

April 26 – Adrian Borland (41), English singer, songwriter, guitarist (The Sound) (suicide)

April 27

Al Hirt (76), New Orleans trumpeter

Maria Stader (87), operatic soprano

April 30 – Darrell Sweet (51), drummer (Nazareth), heart attack

May 8 - Leon Thomas (61), jazz singer

May 14 – William Tucker, guitarist, Ministry, suicide by slitting own throat

May 17 - Bruce Fairbairn (49), producer

May 18 - Augustus Pablo (44), reggae producer and instrumentalist (collapsed lung)

May 26 – Paul Sacher (93), Swiss conductor

May 30 – Don Harper, Australian jazz violinist and composer (cancer)

June 5 – Mel Tormé, (73), singer

June 15 – Fausto Papetti, (76), Italian saxophonist

June 16 - Screaming Lord Sutch (58), UK musician

June 21 – Kami, (26), Japanese drummer for Malice Mizer, subarachnoid hemorrhage

June 27 – Sven Einar Englund, (83), Finnish composer

July 1

Dennis Brown (42), reggae singer

Guy Mitchell (72), pop singer

July 3 – Mark Sandman, (46), alternative rock musician, member of Morphine, heart attack

July 6

Benny Bell, (93), musician

Joaquín Rodrigo (97), Spanish composer

July 11 – Helen Forrest (82), big band singer

July 13 - Louise Caselotti (88), operatic mezzo-soprano

July 17 – Kevin Wilkinson (41), drummer (suicide by hanging)

July 22 – Gar Samuelson (41), American drummer (liver failure)

July 27 - Harry "Sweets" Edison (83), jazz trumpeter

July 29 - Anita Carter (66), country and folk singer

August 3 - Leroy Vinnegar (71), jazz bassist (heart attack)

August 20 – Bobby Sheehan (31), bassist for Blues Traveler (drug overdose)

August 25 – Rob Fisher (42), keyboardist and songwriter (cancer)

September 8 - Moondog (83), avant-garde musician

September 10

Beau Jocque (46), zydeco musician

Alfredo Kraus (72), opera singer

October 4 – Art Farmer (71), jazz trumpeter

October 6 – Amalia Rodrigues (79), Portuguese singer

October 9 – Milt Jackson (76), jazz vibraphonist

October 10 – Robert Wright (90), songwriter and librettist

October 12 - Frank Frost (63), blues harmonica player

October 15 - Josef Locke (82), Irish tenor

October 16 – Ella Mae Morse, (75), singer

October 19 – Harry Bannink (70), Dutch songwriter

October 26

Hoyt Axton (61), country music singer/songwriter (heart attack)

Rex Gildo (63), German singer

October 28 – Robert Linn (74), composer and teacher

November 8 - Lester Bowie (58), jazz trumpet player and composer

November 13 - Donald Mills (84), American singer (Mills Brothers)

November 18 – Doug Sahm (58), country and rock musician

November 21 – Marie Kraja (88), operatic and folk singer

December 2 – Charlie Byrd (74), jazz guitarist

December 3 – Scatman John (57), pop musician

December 6 – Todd Barnes (34), T.S.O.L.

December 10 – Rick Danko (56), rock singer in The Band (drug-related heart failure)

December 17 – Grover Washington Jr. (56), American saxophonist

December 18 - Joe Higgs (59), reggae musician

December 20 - Hank Snow (85), country music artist

December 26 – Curtis Mayfield (57), singer/composer

Awards

The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Billy Joel, Curtis Mayfield, Paul McCartney, Del Shannon, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen and The Staple Singers

Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include The Fairfield Four and Second Chapter of Acts

Grammy Awards

Grammy Awards of 2000

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1999

Mercury Music Prize

Ok – Talvin Singh wins.

MTV Video Music Awards

1999 MTV Video Music Awards

Glenn Gould Prize

Yo-Yo Ma (laureate), Wu Man (protégé)

Triple J Hottest 100

Triple J Hottest 100, 1999

Pop Culture Madness 1999 Pop Music Chart