2000 in music

See also:

• 2000 in music (UK)
• other events of 2000
• list of 'years in music'
• 2000s in music

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 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 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 Doctor of Music degree 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.
• 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.
• June 13 - Rock band Bon Jovi release their highly anticipated album Crush, their first album in almost five years.
• June 30 - Nine people are crushed to death during Pearl Jam's set at the Roskilde Festival, in Roskilde, Denmark
• July 21 and July 22 - Oasis plays at Wembley Stadium. The first of this night is featured on the double CD and the DVD Familiar to Millions.
• 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 band's decision making process 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.
• 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'

Bands Formed

• Bardot

Bands Disbanded

• Rage Against The Machine
• The Smashing Pumpkins

Albums released

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" - The Dandy Warhols
• "Bye Bye Bye" - 'N Sync
• "Californication" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Come on over Baby (All I Want Is You)" - Christina Aguilera
• "Coming Around" - Travis
• "Disillusion" - Badly Drawn Boy
• "Boyz-N-The-Hood" - Dynamite Hack
• "Breathe" - Faith Hill
• "Case of the Ex" - Mya
• "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
• "Independent Women Part I" - Destiny's Child
• "It's My Life" - Bon Jovi
• "It Wasn't Me" - Shaggy feat. Rikrok
• "Kids" - Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue
• "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
• "The 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
• "Say My Name - Destiny's Child
• "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 You Go" - P!nk
• "Trouble" - Coldplay
• "Try Again" - Aaliyah
• "Yellow" - Coldplay
• "Spinning Around" - Kylie Minogue
• "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" - D'Angelo

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2000 (USA)

Top 5 Selling Albums of the Billboard Year

1. *NSYNC - No Strings Attached
2. Santana - Supernatural
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
4. Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again
5. Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre 2001

Top 20 selling albums of the year (Soundscan)

1. *NSYNC - No Strings Attached, 9,936,104 copies
2. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP, 7,921,107 copies
3. Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again, 7,893,544 copies
4. Creed - Human Clay, 6,587,834 copies
5. Santana - Supernatural, 5,857,824 copies
6. Beatles - 1, 5,068,300 copies
7. Nelly - Country Grammar, 5,067,529 copies
8. Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue, 4,289,865 copies
9. Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre 2001, 3,992,311 copies
10. Destiny's Child - The Writing's on the Wall, 3,802,165 copies
11. 3 Doors Down - The Better Life, 3,800,515 copies
12. Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera, 3,768,441 copies
13. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, 3,744,561 copies
14. Dixie Chicks - Fly, 3,520,469 copies
15. Sisqó - Unleash the Dragon, 3,493,269 copies
16. Faith Hill - Breathe, 3,365,926 copies
17. Various Artists - Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 5 (U.S. series), 3,155,083 copies
18. DMX - And Then There Was X, 3,093,579 copies
19. Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause, 2,804,158 copies
20. Papa Roach - Infest, 2,707,954 copies

Complete 200

Classical music

• John Coolidge Adams - El Niño (oratorio)
• 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
  • 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
• Richard Thomas - Tourette's Diva

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 Tigger Movie released February 10
• The Fantasticks released September 22 starring Joel Grey

Births

• August 11 - Rocco John Ritchie, son of Madonna and Guy Ritchie

Deaths

• February 7 - Big Punisher (28), heart attack
• February 12 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (70), U.S. vocal artist
• February 28 - George Siravo (83), 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 (38), actor, singer; brain aneurysm
• March 27 - Ian Dury (57), English rock musician
• April 27 - Vicki Sue Robinson (45), US disco singer
• May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal (78), flautist
• July 24 - Oscar Shumsky (83), violinist
• September 21 - Bengt Hambraeus (72), composer for organ
• September 26 - Carl Sigman (91), songwriter
• October 3 - Benjamin Orr (53), bassist, vocalist for American rock group The Cars
• October 10 - Julie London (74), US singer and actress
• October 28 - Carlos Guastavino (78), composer
• October 30 - Steve Allen (78), comedian, composer, talk show host, author
• November 8 - Dick Morrissey (60), UK tenor saxophonist; cancer
• November 12 - Stanley Turrentine (64), US tenor saxophonist; stroke
• November 16 - DJ Screw (29), hip-hop DJ
• 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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