Events

*John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List.
*Gary Glitter is released from jail in January, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.
*January 1- At exactly midinight EST in New York City, Prince plays his classic song 1999 to celebrate the new century, and then vows to never play it again.
*January 14 - Rolling Stone magazine reveals that the two children of Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Julie Cypher, were fathered by David Crosby
*January 18 - Spencer Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Goodman was convicted of kidnapped and murdering the wife of ZZ Top manager Bill Ham in 1991. Ham is present for the execution.
*February 9 - The Million Dollar Hotel, a film co-written by U2 lead singer Bono, premieres at the 50th Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival). The film stars Mel Gibson and Milla Jovovich
*February 11 - Diana Ross divorces her husband of 14 years
*February 16 - The Silver Tassie, an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage, premieres at the London Coliseum, performed by the English National Opera
*February 24 - Italian motorcycle manufacturing company Aprilla SpA wins a lawsuit filed against The Spice Girls over a sponsorship deal that fell apart when Geri Halliwell left the group.
*February 28 - Songwriter Stan Penrige files a lawsuit against the rock band KISS, the band's publishing company and Universal Music Group, claiming that he had not received millions of dollars in publishing royalties that he was owed for the song "Beth".
*March 1 - Social Distortion guitarist Dennis Danell dies of an apparent brain aneurysm
*March 6 - Foxy Brown is injured in a car accident in Brooklyn, New York in which her car hit a fence. Police discover that Brown was driving with a suspended driver license and order her to appear in court in April. Brown's license was suspended for failing to appear in court for a parking violation.
*March 13 - Blink-182 ends its European tour after singer & guitarist Tom Delonge and drummer Travis Barker succumb to strep throat.
*March 24 - After violating a prior probation agreement by getting drunk, Ol' Dirty Bastard is ordered to undergo a 90 day diagnostic evaluation at the California Institute For Men in Chino, California.
*March 28 - Jimmy Page wins a lawsuit filed against Ministry magazine. The magazine claimed that Page had contributed to the death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham by wearing a Satanic robe and chanting spells while the Bonham was dying and choking on his vomit. The magazine apologizes and offers to pay Page's legal bills. Page donates the money received from the case to the Action for Brazil's Children Trust
*April 6 - Shawn Colvin, James Taylor, Cyndi Lauper, Richard Thompson, Sweet Honey, Elton John, Cassandra Wilson, Wynonna Judd, k.d. lang, Bryan Adams, and Mary Chapin Carpenter perform in New York as part of a tribute to Joni Mitchell.
*April 4 - Mick Jagger attends the opening of an arts center at Dartford Grammar School in southeast England which was named after him.
*April 12 - Metallica files a lawsuit against Napster, Yale University, University of Southern California and Indiana University for copyright infringement. Yale and Indiana are later dropped from the suit when they block access to Napster on campus computers.
*April - *NSYNC smashes the old record of 1.1 million with a 2.4 million debut of "No Strings Attached", which is also the first album to sell over 800,000 copies at least 2 weeks.
*May 1 - A $1.8 million civil fraud lawsuit is filed against Neil Young in Los Angeles Superior Court by a former Village Voice writer. The lawsuit charges that Young broke an agreement to have a biography written about him when he blocked the book's publication.
*May 4 - Letters To Cleo plays their last concert in Boston; they disband the following month.
*May 30 - Eminem sets the record for biggest Rap debut with 1.76 million albums sold. Eminem, a protege of Dr. Dre, broke the old record of 803,000 in 1993 set by Snoop Doggy Dogg, another Dr. Dre protege.
*May 5 - Rod Stewart undergoes an hour long throat operation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California to remove a growth on his thyroid, which turns out to be benign.
*May 6 - John Mellencamp receives an honorary doctorate of music as the commencement speaker for Indiana University's Class of 2000.
*May 16 - Britney Spears's second LP, "Oops!...I Did It Again" debuts at #1 selling 1.3 million copies, making the highest debut by a female artist in US history.
*August - Metal band Scars of Life is formed in southern florida.
*September 18 - Madonna releases her album, Music, which hits number one on the album charts and becomes Madonna's first number one album since her 1989's Like A Prayer album.
*September 23 - Isaac Stern celebrates his 80th birthday together with his 40th anniversary as President of Carnegie Hall.
*October - The Beatles release a hardcover book version of The Beatles Anthology, containing newly published photos and interviews with band members. The book went straight to the top of the New York Times bestsellers list.
*October 18 - Zack de la Rocha Leaves Rage Against the Machine Saying that the bands descion making peocess has completely failed.
*3–5 November - The fourth Terrastock festival is held in Seattle.
*16–21 November - The Backstreet Boys embarks on 6 continents in just 100 hours.
*December 2 - The Backstreet Boys debuts with 1.6 million with Black & Blue and becomes the first artists in history to achieve back-to-back million-plus first week sales. Also sells 5 million worldwide and sets a record for the best International Sales Week in History.
*December 2 - The Smashing Pumpkins play their final concert, at the Metro Club in Chicago.
*December 22 - Madonna marries film director Guy Ritchie, at Skibo Castle in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland with Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, Sting, George Clooney, Jon Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Rupert Everett and others in attendance.
* The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released to much criticial acclaim. The film and its T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack ignite a new found popularity of traditional American folk music and bluegrass.
*Rage Against The Machine's Tim Commerford is arrested for climbing on the set at MTV's Video Music Awards.
* The All-American Rejects form.
* Ned's Atomic Dustbin reunites by doing a couple shows.

See also:
1999 in music,
other events of 2000,
2001 in music, 2000s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Albums released

*20th Century Masters- The Millennium Collection: The Best Of ABBA - ABBA
*Greatest Hits - Ace of Base
*Singles Of The 90s- Ace of Base
*ABBA Generation(US Released) - A-Teens
*Stiff Upper Lip - AC/DC
*Saints & Sinners - All Saints
*Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle (debut)
*Aquarius - Aqua
*Let It Burn - The Ataris
*Mi Reflejo - Christina Aguilera
*Black And Blue - Backstreet Boys
*Brutal Planet - Alice cooper
*The New America - Bad Religion
*Maroon - Barenaked Ladies
*1 - The Beatles
*Outbound - Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
*Selmasongs - Björk
*The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show: The Enema Strikes Back - Blink-182
*The Post Wave - Blue Meanies
*Lucky To Be Alive - Braid
*Hellos & Goodbyes - Buck-O-Nine
*Crush - Bon Jovi
*Kanaval Rasin - Vodou Adjae - Boukman Eksperyans
*The Middle Kingdom - Cruachan
*Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case
*Full Stop - Annabelle Chvostek
*Sincere - M.J. Cole
*Midian - Cradle of Filth
*Bloodflowers - The Cure
*Skull & Bones - Cypress Hill
*I♥ - Das Pop
*Demons and Wizards - Demons and Wizards
*The Sickness - Disturbed
*Déjà Nu - Dion DiMucci
*Cell - Dryft
*Pop Trash - Duran Duran
*Superfast - Dynamite Hack
*Freedom - Sheena Easton
*Balada Sinetron Cinta - Ebiet G Ade
*The Menace - Elastica (final album before disbanding)
*Live in Chicago - Kurt Elling
*The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
*Loveboat - Erasure
*How Strange, Innocence - Explosions in the Sky
*Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars - Fatboy Slim
*The Setting Sun And Its Satellites - The Firebird Band
*Eight Track Sound System - Fonda 500
*The Autumn/Winter Collection - Fonda 500
*Fozzy - Fozzy
*Something Like Human - Fuel
*if_then_else - The Gathering
*Moonchild - Debbie Gibson
*Stomping Ground - Goldfinger
*Road Rage - Great Big Sea
*Warning: - Green Day
*5.25 - Gridlock
*Awaking the Centuries - Haggard
*Resurrection - Rob Halford
*Renegade - Hammerfall
*This Time Around - Hanson
*The Dark Ride - Helloween
*Breathe - Faith Hill
*Clayman - In Flames
*Mas Borracho - Infectious Grooves
*Brave New World - Iron Maiden
*Thane to the Throne - Jag Panzer
*Fuse - Colin James
*Jellybean's House Party - Jellybean
*The Fourth Legacy - Kamelot
*P.S. I Love You - Kid 606
*The ConstuKction Of Light - King Crimson
*Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler
*New American Gospel - Lamb of God
*Souvenirs (aka Child of the Seventies) - Bettye Lavette
*Borders and Boundaries - Less Than Jake
*Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
*Pic n Mix - Lolly
*Music - Madonna
*Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years - Megadeth
*Wasting Time - Mest
*Pay Attention - The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones
*Light Years - Kylie Minogue
*Things To Make And Do - Moloko
*I Wanna Be With You - Mandy Moore
*New Tattoo - Mötley Crüe
*We Are Motörhead - Motörhead
*The Miracle Of Shame - Mr. T Experience
*The Ever Passing Moment - MxPx
*No Strings Attached - *NSYNC
*Country Grammar - Nelly
*How To Meet Girls - Nerf Herder
*Dead Heart in a Dead World - Nevermore
*Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers
*The State - Nickelback
*Wishmaster - Nightwish
*Black Seeds of Vengeance - Nile
*Return of Saturn - No Doubt
*Pump Up the Valuum - NOFX
*Standing on the Shoulder of Giants - Oasis
*Conspiracy Of One - The Offspring
*Vapor Transmission - Orgy
*Binaural - Pearl Jam
*Progress - Pedro the Lion
*Winners Never Quit - Pedro the Lion
*The Hunter - Persuader
*Walk of Life - Billie Piper
*Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey
*Freaked Out and Small - The Presidents of the United States of America
*Kid A - Radiohead
*Rancid (skull cover) - Rancid
*Promotional Copy - Reggie and the Full Effect
*Dawn of Victory - Rhapsody
*Bota Eshte e Jona - Ritmi i Rruges
*Rule 3:36 - Ja Rule
*MTV Unplugged - Shakira
*The Bedroom Tapes - Carly Simon
*Fortress - Sister Hazel
*Folkemon - Skyclad
*Ain't Life Grand - Slash's Snakepit
*All Hands on the Bad One - Sleater-Kinney
*MACHINA/The Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins
*O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
*Oops!... I Did It Again - Britney Spears
*Forever - Spice Girls
*Two Against Nature - Steely Dan
*Infinite - Stratovarius
*Free Your Soul and Save My Mind - Suicidal Tendencies
*Half Hour Of Power - Sum 41
*ØØ Void - Sunn O)))
*V: The New Mythology Suite - Symphony X
*This Business of Art - Tegan and Sara
*NakedSelf - The The
*So Much For the Ten Year Plan - Therapy? (Retrospective)
*The Color of Silence - Tiffany
*Salival - Tool (CD, VHS & DVD Set)
*Freek Show - Twiztid
*All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
*Freak Magnet - Violent Femmes
*White Pepper - Ween
*Coast to Coast - Westlife
*De Stijl - The White Stripes
*Live in the Classic City - Widespread Panic
*Sing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams
*Mother Earth - Within Temptation
*Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) - Marilyn Manson
*Beethoven's Last Night - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
*Almost Human - Voltaire

Top hits on record

*"Again" - Lenny Kravitz
*"All The Small Things" - Blink-182
*"Babylon" - David Gray
*"Beautiful Day" - U2
*"Black Coffee" - All Saints
*"Bohemian Like You" - Dandy Warhols
*"Bye Bye Bye" - 'N Sync
*"Californication" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
*"Come on Over" - Christina Aguilera
*"Coming Around" - Travis
*"Disillusion" - Badly Drawn Boy
*"Boyz-In-The-Hood" - Dynamite Hack
*"Breathe" - Faith Hill
*"Case of the Ex" - Mya
*"Cherish the Day" - Sade
*"Freestyler" - Bomfunk MC's
*"Get Off" - Dandy Warhols
*"Go Let It Out" - Oasis
*"Graduation (Friends Forever)" - Vitamin C
*"He Wasn't Man Enough" - Toni Braxton
*"I Try" - Macy Gray
*"It's My Life" - Bon Jovi
*"Kids" - Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue
*"Kiss of Life" - Sade
*"Life Is A Rollercoaster" - Ronan Keating
*"Long Way Around" - Eagle Eye Cherry and Neneh Cherry
*"Mama Told Me Not To Come" - Tom Jones and the Stereophonics
*"Maria Maria" - Santana
*"Masses Against The Classes" - Manic Street Preachers
*"Miss You Love" - Silverchair
*"Mr. E's Beautiful Blues" - Eels
*"Music" - Madonna
*"Oops! I Did It Again" - Britney Spears
*"Pinch Me" - Bare Naked Ladies
*"Pure Shores" - All Saints
*"Rise" - Gabrielle
*"Rock DJ" - Robbie Williams
*"7 Days" - Craig David
*"17 Again" - Eurythmics
*"Still" - Macy Gray
*"Sunday Morning Call" - Oasis
*"Thank God I Found You" - Mariah Carey featuring Joe and 98 Degrees
*"Thank You For Loving Me" - Bon Jovi
*"The Bad Touch" - Bloodhound Gang
*"The Great Beyond" - R.E.M.
*"There She Goes" - Sixpence None the Richer
*"There U Go" - P!nk
*"Trouble" - Coldplay
*"Try Again" - Aaliyah
*"Yellow" - Coldplay
*"Spinnin' Around" - Kylie Minogue
*"Untitled (How Does It Feel)" - D'Angelo
See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2000 (USA)

Top 20 selling albums of the year (Soundscan)

#*NSYNC - No Strings Attached, 9,936,104 copies
#Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP, 7,921,107 copies
#Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again, 7,893,544 copies
#Creed - Human Clay, 6,587,834 copies
#Santana - Supernatural, 5,857,824 copies
#Beatles - 1, 5,068,300 copies
#Nelly - Country Grammar, 5,067,529 copies
#Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue, 4,289,865 copies
#Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre 2001, 3,992,311 copies
#Destiny's Child - The Writing's on the Wall, 3,802,165 copies
#Three Doors Down - Better Life, 3,800,515 copies
#Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera, 3,768,441 copies
#Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, 3,744,561 copies
#Dixie Chicks - Fly, 3,520,469 copies
#Sisqó - Unleash the Dragon, 3,493,269 copies
#Faith Hill - Breathe, 3,365,926 copies
#Various Artists - Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 5 (U.S. series), 3,155,083 copies
#DMX - And Then There Was X, 3,093,579 copies
#Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause, 2,804,158 copies
#Papa Roach - Infest, 2,707,954 copies

Complete 200

Classical music

*Leonardo Balada - Music for Flute and Orchestra
*Stefano Gervasoni - Rigirio
*Karl Jenkins - Adiemus IV: the Eternal Knot
*Nigel Keay - Viola concerto
*Meyer Kupferman - Icon Symphony
*Peter Maxwell Davies - Symphony No. 7
*Peter Maxwell Davies - Symphony No. 8 Antarctica
*Peter Ruzicka - Traces for Clarinet and Orchestra
*John Tavener - Song of the Cosmos

Opera

*Michael Abels - Homies and Popz
*Carlisle Floyd - Cold Sassy Tree
*Cristóbal Halffter - Don Quijote
*Jake Heggie - Dead Man Walking
*Michael Nyman - Facing Goya
*Sheila Silver - The Thief of Love

Musical theater

*Aida Broadway production
*The Dead Broadway production
*The Full Monty Broadway production
*Jane Eyre Broadway production
*The Music Man (Meredith Willson) - Broadway revival
*Seussical Broadway production

Musical film

*The Fantasticks released September 22 starring Joel Grey

Births

* August 11 - Rocco Ritchie, son of Madonna and Guy Ritchie

Deaths

*February 12 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (70), U.S. vocal artist
*February 28 - George Siravo US arranger and saxophonist
*March 1 - Dennis Danell, Social Distortion (38), brain aneurysm
*March 7 - Pee Wee King (86), heart attack on February 28.
*March 20 - Gene "Eugene" Andrusco, actor, singer, of a brain aneurysm
*March 27 - Ian Dury (57), English rock musician
*April 27 - Vicki Sue Robinson, US disco singer
*May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal, flautist
*July 24 - Oscar Shumsky, violinist
*September 21 - Bengt Hambraeus, composer for organ
*September 26 - Carl Sigman, songwriter
*October 3 - Benjamin Orr, bassist, vocalist for American rock group The Cars
*October 10 - Julie London, 74, US singer and actress
*October 28 - Carlos Guastavino, composer
*October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
*November 16 - DJ Screw, hip-hop DJ, 29
*December 18 - Kirsty McColl, 41, English singer songwriter,
*December 24 - Nick Massi, 65, bass singer for the pop band The Four Seasons
*Robert Rental - Industrial music innovator, cancer

Awards

*The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Eric Clapton, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Moonglows, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor
*Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Shirley Caesar, and The Oak Ridge Boys

Grammy Awards

*Grammy Awards of 2000

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

*Eurovision Song Contest 2000

Mercury Music Prize

*The Hour of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy wins.

Charts

*Pop Culture Madness 2000 Music Chart

KROQ

*KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 2000

Triple J Hottest 100

*Triple J Hottest 100, 2000

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