April 15, 2022 Edgar Winter releases Brother Johnny, a tribute album saluting his late brother, blues-rock legend Johnny Winter. The album features contributions from Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and many other famous guest artists. It wins a Grammy Award in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category to earn Edgar his only Grammy Award.
April 11, 2022 At the CMT Awards, The Judds reunite for their first TV appearance in 20 years, performing their 1990 song "Love Can Build A Bridge." Earlier that day, the mother-daughter duo also announced a 10-date arena run across the US dubbed "The Final Tour," with Martina McBride as a supporting act.
April 4, 2022 Jack Harlow previews his song "First Class" on TikTok with an eight-second snippet four days before its official release. It quickly spreads on the platform and helps the song debut at #1, setting up a new paradigm for launching music.
April 3, 2022 Jon Batiste and Silk Sonic are the big winners at the Grammy Awards, where Batiste takes Album Of The Year for We Are, and Silk Sonic win Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year for "Leave The Door Open."
April 3, 2022 Olivia Rodrigo is named Best New Artist at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. The former Disney Channel star also wins Best Pop Vocal Album for her debut release, Sour, and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Drivers License."
March 29, 2022 Eric Church cancels an upcoming concert in San Antonio so he can watch his beloved North Carolina Tar Heels take on Duke in the Final Four.
March 27, 2022 Summer Of Soul, directed by Questlove of The Roots, wins the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The film features never-before-seen footage from the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, including performances by Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson and Sly & the Family Stone.
March 27, 2022 Hans Zimmer wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the 2021 film Dune. The composer crafted an experimental soundscape that eschewed the traditional orchestra in favor of electronic textures, choral chants, and bagpipes to reflect the movie's space-desert setting. Zimmer previously won an Oscar for scoring The Lion King (1994).
March 18, 2022 In a video that goes viral, Charlie Puth demonstrates his perfect pitch on Jimmy Kimmel Live by identifying the key of any sound Kimmel makes. He also demonstrates how he can simulate a phone vibration with his voice, a stupid human trick he used to annoy his teachers.
February 26, 2022 The Avicii Experience museum opens in Stockholm with interactive and real-life exhibits dedicated to the DJ/producer, who died in 2018 at 28.
February 13, 2022 Dr. Dre anchors the first hip-hop-heavy Super Bowl halftime show, performing with Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent.
January 26, 2022 Spotify complies with Neil Young's request to remove his music from the service. Young's issue is with the Spotify podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, which he feels is spreading false information about vaccines. Joni Mitchell also removes her music, but Spotify stands tall for Rogan, whose subscriber count grows considerably in wake of the controversy. Young returns to Spotify two years later.
January 20, 2022 Meat Loaf dies at 74. His 1977 album Bat Out Of Hell is one of the best-selling albums of all time; its 1993 sequel, Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell, contains the #1 hit "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)."
January 13, 2022 Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes dies of cancer at 78. The group was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2007 by Keith Richards, who said they "could sing their way right through a wall of sound," referring to the dense production in hits like "Be My Baby" and "Baby, I Love You."
January 13, 2022 "Baby Shark" becomes the first video to reach 10 billion views on YouTube.
December 28, 2021 Dr. Dre's divorce is settled, with the rapper/producer agreeing to pay his ex wife, Nicole Plotzker-Young, $100 million. They were married from 1996-2020.
December 6, 2021 Drake, a longtime critic of the Grammy Awards, turns down his two nominations, joining The Weeknd in boycotting the awards. Drake feels he's being pigeonholed into hip-hop categories when he's really a pop artist; The Weeknd has beef because he wasn't nominated the previous year for his album After Hours or song "Blinding Lights."
November 27, 2021 Taylor Swift's extended version of "All Too Well," with a running time of 10:13, hits #1 on the Hot 100, becoming the longest song ever to top the chart. Don McLean held the record since 1972, when "American Pie," running 8:36, went to the top.
November 12, 2021 Silk Sonic, the retro-R&B duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, release their only album, An Evening With Silk Sonic. The single "Leave The Door Open" goes to #1 and snarfs up four Grammy Awards. After a Vegas residency, .Paak and Mars put the project to bed, making Silk Sonic the most successful one-off side project in music history.
November 8, 2021 Missy Elliott gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She shouts out "my female MCs in hip-hop," including her forebears Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa, MC Lyte, Monie Love, Sha-Rock, Angie Stone, Roxanne Shanté, and Yo-Yo.
November 5, 2021 Ten fans are killed and hundreds injured during Travis Scott's performance at his Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, when the crowd of 50,000 surges toward the stage, crushing the victims.More
November 5, 2021 ABBA release Voyage, their first album in 40 years, and also their last. They decided to make it while preparing for their show Voyage, which features digital avatars ("Abba-tars") of the band members. The album goes to #1 in most European countries and also Australia.
October 30, 2021 Carole King, Tina Turner, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, Todd Rundgren, the Go-Go's and Foo Fighters are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
October 30, 2021 Harry Styles, known to wear a dress on occasion, plays his Madison Square Garden show in costume as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, with his band dressed like characters from the movie. He calls it "Harryween"; the next night he takes the stage as a Pierrot clown.
October 19, 2021 The TV series Queens, starring Brandy and Eve as members of a hip-hop group from the '90s who reunite in the '20s, debuts on ABC.
September 30, 2021 Tony Bennett, 95, releases an album of standards with Lady Gaga called Love For Sale, making him (according to Guinness) the oldest person to release an album of new material.
September 29, 2021 In downtown Detroit, Eminem opens the restaurant Mom's Spaghetti, named after a line in his song "Lose Yourself." The first fans in line are served by Slim Shady himself.
September 29, 2021 Granting her petition, a judge suspends Britney Spears' father, Jamie, as her conservator, a role he has held since 2008.
September 28, 2021 Alan Jackson reveals that he was diagnosed with a degenerative nerve condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 2011. It affects the muscles in his arms and legs, which causes him to stumble on stage at times.
September 4, 2021 After two pandemic postponements, Harry Styles finally launches his Love On Tour in Las Vegas. The 169-show run stretches nearly two years, selling 5 million tickets and grossing $617 million - more than One Direction earned across their entire career.
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