This page indexes the individual year in music pages. Main article: 2000s in music  Live 8 concerts took place in 9 countries worldwide during 2005. - 2009 in music, 2009 in British music - Death of Michael Jackson, Leon Kirchner, Les Paul, Ali Akbar Khan, Merce Cunningham, Henri Pousseur, Mary Travers, Stephen Gately; Noel Gallagher departs from Oasis after 18 years.
- 2008 in music, 2008 in British music - Deaths of Artie Traum, LeRoi Moore, Erik Darling, Isaac Hayes, Bo Diddley, Richard Wright [disambiguation needed], Nick Reynolds, Mitch Mitchell, Miriam Makeba, Odetta, Eartha Kitt, Freddie Hubbard; Metallica's Death Magnetic; Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends; Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy; AC/DC' Black Ice;; Lady Gaga' The Fame
- 2007 in music, 2007 in British music - Deaths of Beverly Sills, Max Roach, Oscar Peterson, Izumi Sakai, Luciano Pavarotti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Don Arden; Live Earth, 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 album, as part of their The Bedlam in Goliath; Britney Spears performs the infamous show at the VMAs 2007.
- 2006 in music, 2006 in British music, 2006 in Swiss music - Deaths of James Brown and Syd Barrett; Muse - Black Holes and Revelations.
- 2005 in music, 2005 in British music, 2005 in Swiss music - Death of Luther Vandross, Live 8 benefit concert; Arrival of Carrie Underwood.
- 2004 in music, 2004 in British music - Death of Ray Charles; The Grey Album-sparks day of electronic disobedience by internet filesharers against EMI, Arrival of Kanye West; Green Day's American Idiot
- 2003 in music, 2003 in British music - Death of Johnny Cash; The White Stripes' Elephant
- 2002 in music, 2002 in British music - Death of Waylon Jennings, Dave Van Ronk, Layne Staley, Lisa Left-Eye Lopes, Lonnie Donegan and Joe Strummer; Beginning of American Idol earlier known as American Idol: The Search for a Superstar which brings arrival of first winner Kelly Clarkson; James MacMillan, O Bone Jesu
- 2001 in music, 2001 in British music - Michael Jackson's last studio album,Invincible releases,Napster's popularity peaks; Deaths of Aaliyah, George Harrison, John Lee Hooker, John Phillips; Metallica and Dr. Dre sue Napster over illegal distribution of their music; The Strokes' Is This It
- 2000 in music, 2000 in British music - Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, Madonna's album "Music" sells over 16 million copies and becomes one of the best selling albums of the decade.
It should be noted that for various reasons, likely including music downloading, few albums made after 2004 have sold in amounts top albums traditionally sell, which is why all the Top 10 of the 2000s are from the first half of the decade.
[1] Main article: 1990s in music - 1999 in music, 1999 in British music - Arrival of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Slipknot, Muse and Jennifer Lopez; Death of Rick Danko, Curtis Mayfield; Blur - 13, Insane Clown Posse - The Amazing Jeckel Brothers, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
- 1998 in music, 1998 in British music - Arrival of Eminem; Death of Frank Sinatra and Hide; Lauryn Hill - the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; Offspring - Americana; "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith becomes the first song by a rock band to debut at #1; Manu Chao releases Clandestino. Insane Clown Posse dropped from Disney record label Hollywood Records in order for Disney to prevent a violent Southern Baptist Church protest due to Disney World's Gay Days events.
- 1997 in music, 1997 in British music - Death of John Denver, Jeff Buckley, The Notorious B.I.G., Michael Hutchence, and Velvet, Radiohead's OK Computer, Madonna releases her 19 million selling and universally acclaimed album "Ray of Light"
- 1996 in music, 1996 in British music - Death of Ella Fitzgerald, Tupac Shakur, Brad Nowell; Arrival of The Spice Girls. Guns N' Roses break up Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar, Beck's Odelay
- 1995 in music Michael Jackson relases HIStory, that began the best selling multiple disc of all time.[2][3] This double album contains You Are Not Alone that's the first single ever to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at number one.[4], 1995 in British music - Death of Jerry Garcia, Phyllis Hyman, Selena, Burl Ives, Eazy-E, The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Oasis's (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, Living Colour disbands, The Battle of Britpop
- 1994 in music, 1994 in British music - Death of Kurt Cobain, arrival of Oasis, arrival of Weezer, Blur's Parklife
- 1993 in music, 1993 in British music - Death of Marian Anderson, Frank Zappa, Dizzy Gillespie; Aerosmith release Get a Grip which becomes their bestselling studio album worldwide with over 15 million copies sold
- 1992 in music, 1992 in British music - Death of John Cage, Yutaka Ozaki, The Chronic, U2 start the Biggest Concert of The World: Zoo TV Tour, Madonna releases the sexually provocative "SEX" book which was accompanied by the double Platinum album "Erotica".
- 1991 in music,Metallica's Black Album, Michael Jackson relases Dangerous that began the best selling new jack swing album. It's launched this genre on mainstream.[5] 1991 in British music - U2 release Achtung Baby. Nirvana's Nevermind, Death of Miles Davis, Death of Freddie Mercury, Pearl Jam's Ten, Red Hot Chili Peppers's Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Guns N' Roses's Use Your Illusion I and II
- 1990 in music, 1990 in British music - Death of Sarah Vaughan, Leonard Bernstein, Arrival of Mariah Carey; Milli Vanilli exposed as a music fraud. Madonna releases the 10x Platinum "Immaculate collection" which also goes 12x Platinum in the UK.
List of 10 most sold albums of the 90s: - Whitney Houston / Various artists The Bodyguard - 42 million[6] - 1992
- Backstreet Boys Millennium - 40 million[7][8] - 1999
- Shania Twain Come On Over - 39 million[9] - 1997
- Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill - 33 million[10] - 1995
- Michael Jackson Dangerous - 32 million[11][12] - 1991
- Mariah Carey Music Box - 32 million[13] - 1993
- Celine Dion Falling into You - 32 million[9] - 1996
- Celine Dion Let's Talk About Love - 31 million[9]- 1997
- James Horner Titanic - 30 million[9] - 1997
- Backstreet Boys Backstreet's Back - 28 million[8] - 1997
- ABBA ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits - 26 million[14] - 1992
Main article: 1980s in music - 1989 in music, 1989 in British music - Madonna releases the hit Like a Prayer album, Nirvana releases their first album, Bleach, and the release of Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814.
- 1988 in music - Living Colour releases first studio album Vivid; Bon Jovi releases New Jersey, which charts five consecutive Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, the most ever for a hard rock album; Formation of the Traveling Wilburys, Death of Roy Orbison.
- 1987 in music - Michael Jackson releases the album Bad, which is the first and only album to have 5 consecutive #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100[15]. Guns N' Roses releases Appetite for Destruction, which becomes one of the best selling debut albums ever, with 28 million copies shift whilst Def Leppard releases Hysteria, U2 release the mult-platined album The Joshua Tree with the hits: With Or Without You, I Still Haven't Found... and Where The Streets Have No Name, Whitney Houston releases her second album Whitney, which become the first album by a female artist to debut at #1, with one of the biggest hit singles of 80s I Wanna Dance With Somebody; Death of legendary record producer John H. Hammond.
- 1986 in music - Aerosmith re-records "Walk This Way" with rap group Run-D.M.C. which blends rock and rap music, introduces rap music to a mainstream audience for the first time, and marks the beginning of the resurrection of Aerosmith's career, one of rock's most remarkable comebacks; Bon Jovi releases Slippery When Wet which stays at #1 on the Billboard 200 for 15 weeks, the longest ever for a hard rock album; Metallica releases their third album Master of Puppets; Death of Benny Goodman, Richard Manuel, Cliff Burton, Janet Jackson releases her breakthrough album Control, Madonna releases the hit album True Blue; Pixies form in Boston.
- 1985 in music - Death of Rick Nelson, Live Aid and Farm Aid benefit concerts, Whitney Houston releases her first self-titled album which becomes the most successful female debut album of all time. The famous hard rock band 'Guns N' Roses' was formed in LA, USA.
- 1984 in music - Death of Marvin Gaye, release of Bob Marley & The Wailers collection Legend, the best-selling reggae album of all time; Madonna releases "Like a Virgin" which goes Diamond Akhnaten by Philip Glass premieres in Stuttgart, Prince releases the album and film Purple Rain, Van Halen release the Diamond-certified 1984, which contains the #1 single "Jump" and becomes their last studio album to feature David Lee Roth on vocals.
- 1983 in music - Death of Muddy Waters, New Order release "Blue Monday"; Def Leppard releases Pyromania, The Police's Synchronicity tour starts, Metallica releases their first album Kill 'Em All. Madonna releases her 5xPlatinum self-titled debut album. Iron Maiden release their fourth album Piece of Mind.
- 1982 in music - Death of Thelonious Monk, Lightnin' Hopkins, Glenn Gould; Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the best-selling album of all time[16]; Blondie disband; The compact disc is introduced. Iron Maiden release their best selling album The Number of the Beast.
- 1981 in music - MTV first airs; Death of Bob Marley. Iron Maiden release their second album Killers.
- 1980 in music - Joy Division singer Ian Curtis commits suicide,Bon Scott dies, John Lennon is murdered outside the Dakota Building in New York City, accidental death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Death of Tim Hardin,Death of Vinicius de Moraes U2 release first album: Boy. Bryan Adams release his first album : Bryan Adams. Iron Maiden release their debut self-titled album. AC/DC release Back in Black.
Main article: 1970s in music - 1979 in music - Death of Richard Rodgers, Charles Mingus; Birth of Norah Jones; Sony Walkman goes on sale; The Clash - London Calling, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, death of Sid Vicious. Official birth of Rap music with rap group Sugarhill Gang's release of Rapper's Delight.
- 1978 in music - The Who release Who Are You, Blondie release Parallel Lines, Death of Keith Moon, Arrival of Prince, Arrival of Dire Straits, Van Halen release Van Halen (album)
- 1977 in music - Sex Pistols release Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols; Death of Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby; Fleetwood Mac releases Rumours; Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
- 1976 in music - Death of Paul Robeson, Phil Ochs; The Eagles release Hotel California
- 1975 in music - Death of Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer and pianist, Tim Buckley; Bob Dylan begins Rolling Thunder Revue; Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run; Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks; Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti; Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic; Patti Smith – Horses; Release of Donna Summer's Love to Love You Baby.
- 1974 in music - Death of Duke Ellington, Nick Drake
- 1973 in music - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon, Birth of Ferry Corsten, The Who's Quadrophenia Released; Buffalo, Volcanic Rock
- 1972 in music - Birth of The Notorious B.I.G.The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. Birth of Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20, Rob Thomas) Birth of Eminem
- 1971 in music - Birth of Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, Death of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer, Death of Duane Allman, Death of Louis Armstrong, Death of Jim Morrison; Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, The Who's Who's Next Released
- 1970 in music - The Beatles disband; Death of Jimi Hendrix, Death of Janis Joplin; John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band; Diana Ross departs from The Supremes;
- 1969 in music - Death of Brian Jones; Woodstock music festival held in Bethel, New York; Birth of Tiësto and Jennifer Lopez; The Beatles - Let It Be, Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline, The Who's Tommy Released, Jackson 5 appearance on Ed Sullivan
- 1968 in music - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland, Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin, The Beatles - The Beatles (AKA The White Album), Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison, The Band - Music from Big Pink Birth of John Ondrasik (Five for Fighting)
- 1967 in music - Birth of Kurt Cobain; Death of Woody Guthrie, John Coltrane, Otis Redding; The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour, The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced & Axis: Bold as Love, Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Doors - The Doors (with the hit single, Light My Fire), Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding; Monterey Pop Festival,
- 1966 in music - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, The Beatles - Revolver, Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
- 1965 in music - The Beatles - Rubber Soul, The Beatles - Help! Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited, - Like a Rolling Stone, The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Herman's Hermits debut; Death of Edgard Varèse
- 1964 in music - Death of Sam Cooke, Milton Babbitt; The Beatles appear on the The Ed Sullivan Show; The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night Ensembles For Synthesizer, Bill Lear invents 8-track tape cartridge; Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin', British Invasion begins, Beatlemania invades America and becomes international, The Righteous Brothers become the first white act signed to Phil Spector’s Philles label.
- 1963 in music - First cassette tapes made by Philips, The Beatles - Please Please Me, Birth of Paul Oakenfold, Birth of Whitney Houston; Death of Édith Piaf; Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Righteous Brothers "Little Latin Lupe Lu” is released on the Moonglow label.
- 1962 in music - Love Me Do released as a single by The Beatles; Bob Dylan is the debut album from the highly influential American artist of the same name. It was released on March 19, 1962 on Columbia Records, when Dylan was 20 years old. Birth of Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Jon Bon Jovi, Axl Rose; Death of Marilyn Monroe
- 1961 in music - Death of Cisco Houston, Moss Hart
- 1960 in music - Birth of Bono; Death of Oscar Hammerstein II
- 1959 in music - Death of Billie Holiday, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer and guitarist, Motown Records created; Motown's first hit (Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)"); Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um; My Eyes Have Seen is the third influential album by American folk singer Odetta who was an important voice of the folk music revival movement in the early 1960s, birth of 1980's pop-star Pete Burns (from Dead or Alive).
- 1958 in music Cannonball Adderley records Somethin' Else; Bruce Dickinson, Nikki Sixx, Prince, Madonna and Michael Jackson are born. Born Bossa Nova a Brazilian kind of music. Carl Ruggles, Exhaltation in honour of his late wife, Charlotte. Cliff Richard and The Drifters release Move It.
- 1957 in music - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet in Liverpool, That'll Be the Day by Buddy Holly and The Crickets becomes a US #1 hit; Harry Belafonte has a big hit that reached number five on the Billboard charts with the calypso song Day-O (The Banana Boat Song); At the Gate of Horn is the second solo album by American folk singer Odetta who was a seminal influence on the folksingers of the 1960s.
- 1956 in music - The first Eurovision Song Contest is held on 24 May, Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show; Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues is the influential debut solo album by American folk singer Odetta.
- 1955 in music - Death of Charlie Parker, Rock Around the Clock becomes first worldwide #1 rock and roll record; Birth of Yo-Yo Ma, Harry James signs with Capital releasing Harry James in Hi-Fi, Lonnie Donegan released Rock Island Line.
- 1954 in music - Elvis Presley releases That's Alright Mama on Sun Records; First Fender Stratocaster produced
- 1953 in music - Death of Hank Williams, Death of Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer and pianist
- 1952 in music, 1952 in music (UK) - Birth of Joe Strummer, The official UK singles chart is launched; Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA) established
- 1951 in music - Rocket 88 is recorded by Ike Turner and hailed as the first rock 'n' roll song; The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky premieres in Venice
- 1950 in music - Death of Kurt Weill, Al Jolson, Vaslav Nijinsky
- 1949 in music - Death of Lead Belly, Richard Strauss, German composer and last great champion of European Romantic classical music, Birth of Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Mark Knopfler, RCA Victor introduces 45 RPM records
- 1948 in music - Columbia Records introduces 331/3 RPM (LP) records. Birth of James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Steven Tyler, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Plant, John Bonham (both of Led Zeppelin), Kenny Loggins, Olivia Newton-John, and Donna Summer.
- 1947 in music - Birth of Elton John, Bob Weir, Carlos Santana, Emmylou Harris, Arlo Guthrie, Tracy Nelson, Paul Brady, Carl Ruggles, Jim Messina, Mick Fleetwood, Organum
- 1946 in music - Birth of John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin bassist), Donovan, Linda Ronstadt, Marianne Faithfull, Cher, Freddie Mercury, Patti Smith, Toquinho
- 1945 in music - Birth of Bob Marley, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Deborah Harry, Neil Young, Carly Simon, John Fogerty, Itzhak Perlman; Death of Jerome Kern; Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten premieres in London
- 1944 in music - Birth of Diana Ross, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin guitarist), Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Marvin Hamlisch; Disappearance of Glenn Miller, borns Chico Buarque a Brazilian composer.
- 1943 in music - Birth of George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Robbie Robertson, John Denver, Richard Manuel, Gavin Bryars; Death of Lorenz Hart, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Formation of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carl Ruggles, Evocations
- 1942 in music - Births of Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Brian Jones, Jerry Garcia, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Carole King, Rick Danko, Lou Reed, Paul Butterfield, Jerry Jeff Walker, John P. Hammond; Death of George M. Cohan
- 1941 in music - Les Paul builds one of the first solid-body electric guitars; Birth of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Hank Marvin,Aaron Neville, Charlie Watts, Neil Diamond, Richie Havens, Wilson Pickett and Ritchie Valens
- 1940 in music - Birth of Frank Zappa, Cliff Richard John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Phil Ochs, Levon Helm, Smokey Robinson, Rick Nelson, Tim Hardin, Dionne Warwick, Bobby Hatfield, Bill Medley, (both of the Righteous Brothers)
- 1939 in music - Birth of Judy Collins, Marvin Gaye, Ray Manzarek, Tina Turner
- 1938 in music - Birth of Peter Yarrow, Gordon Lightfoot, Ben E. King, Death of Robert Johnson, Benny Goodman presents a jazz concert in Carnegie Hall; Death of Dan W. Quinn
- 1937 in music - Death of George Gershwin, Birth of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Garth Hudson, Tom Paxton, Philip Glass, Dame Shirley Bassey
- 1936 in music - Birth of Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Wyman, Dave Van Ronk, Steve Reich, Billboard publishes first U.S. music chart
- 1935 in music - Birth of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Phillips, La Monte Young, Terry Riley; Audiovox produce first electric bass guitar; Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin premieres in New York
- 1934 in music - Birth of Leonard Cohen, Jackie Wilson, Deaths of Elgar and Holst
- 1933 in music - Birth of James Brown, soul singer (d. 2006), Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson, Nina Simone, Yoko Ono
- 1932 in music - Birth of Petula Clark, Johnny Cash, Miriam Makeba; Death of Sousa; Birth of John Williams; Adolph Rickenbacker produces first electric guitar; Bell Labs creates first stereophonic sound recordings
- 1931 in music - Birth of Sam Cooke and Carl Ruggles
- 1930 in music - Birth of Ray Charles and Odetta
- 1929 in music - Birth of Beverly Sills, Bill Evans, Dick Clark, Berry Gordy, Henri Pousseur
- 1928 in music - Birth of Bo Diddley and Karlheinz Stockhausen; The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (libretto) premieres in Berlin
- 1927 in music - Birth of Harry Belafonte, Birth of Tom Jobim, Brazilian composer
- 1926 in music - 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 - Birth of 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
- 1924 in music - Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York, Death of Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, Italian opera composer, Carl Ruggles. Men and Mountains
- 1923 in 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 - Birth of Ali Akbar Khan, The first commercial radio station in the United States begins broadcasting
- 1921 in music - Death of Enrico Caruso, Carl Ruggles Angels
- 1920 in music - Birth of Charlie Parker, Ravi Shankar, Isaac Stern; Death of Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer, pianist, organist and conductor
- 1919 in music - Birth of Pete Seeger, Merce Cunningham, Carl Ruggles, Toys
- 1918 in 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 - Birth of Lou Harrison, John Lee Hooker, Dinu Lipatti, Isang Yun; First hit jazz recordings by Original Dixieland Jass Band
- 1916 in music -Birth of Milton Babbitt, Henri Dutilleux, Alberto Ginastera, Betty Grable, Harry James, Dinah Shore,
- 1915 in music - Birth of Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra; Tom Brown starts billing his group as a "Jass Band"
- 1914 in music - St. Louis Blues published; first calypso music recordings
- 1913 in music - Birth of Muddy Waters, Igor Stravinsky's, Vinicius de Moraes. The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
- 1912 in music - Birth of Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Cage
- 1911 in music - Birth of Robert Johnson, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden, Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor
- 1910 in music - Birth of Howlin' Wolf, Artie Shaw, John H. Hammond, Django Reinhardt
- 1909 in music - Elektra by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden; Birth of Benny Goodman
- 1908 in music The two first atonal pieces are composed, first by Béla Bartók and then by Arnold Schoenberg.
- 1907 in music - Death of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843); Birth of Gene Autry, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Kate Smith
- 1906 in music - 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.
- 1905 in music - The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár premieres in Vienna; Salome by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden
- 1904 in music - Death of Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer, Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Milan
- 1903 in music - Birth of Bing Crosby and Vladimir Horowitz
- 1902 in music - Birth of Richard Rodgers, Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy premieres in Paris
- 1901 in music - Birth of Louis Armstrong, Death of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
- 1900 in music - Tosca by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Rome
- 1889 in music - Birth of Vaslav Nijinsky, - Ballet dancer (d. 1950); Effie Stewart records first serious classical music at Edison's Menlo Park [disambiguation needed]; First Phonograph Parlor opens in San Francisco
- 1888 in music - Birth of Lead Belly, Death of Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and ultra virtuoso pianist, Wax phonograph cylinders commercially marketed; Emile Berliner invents lateral-cut disc records
- 1887 in music - Birth of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer and guitarist
- 1886 in music - Birth of Marcel Dupré, Al Jolson, Paul Paray, Othmar Schoeck; death of Franz Liszt
- 1885 in music - Birth of Jerome Kern
- 1884 in music - Birth of Sophie Tucker
- 1883 in music - Birth of Edgard Varèse, Death of Richard Wagner, German composer
- 1882 in music - Birth of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer, Parsifal by Richard Wagner premieres in Bayreuth; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture premiere
- 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)
- 1867 in music
- 1866 in music - Birth of French composer Erik Satie.
- 1865 in music - Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich, marking the beginning of the end for traditional tonality
- 1864 in music Birth of Richard Strauss, German composer, Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer, pianist, organist and conductor
- 1863 in music
- 1862 in music - Birth of Claude Debussy
- 1861 in music -
- 1860 in music - Birth of Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor
- 1858 in music - Birth 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
- 1857 in music - First public performance of Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B Minor
- 1856 in music - Death of Robert Schuman, German composer and pianist; Richard Wagner, German composer, concludes Die Walküre
- 1855 in music
- 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
- 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"
- 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 [disambiguation needed], 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
- 1813 in music Birth of Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and ultra virtuoso pianist, Richard Wagner, German composer and Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
- 1812 in music
- 1811 in music - Franz Liszt born
- 1810 in music - Birth of Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, Fifth Piano Concerto Emperor by Ludwig van Beethoven
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