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February 2, 2025 The Beatles win the Best Rock Performance Grammy for "Now And Then," the first Grammy-nominated song made with help from AI, which was used to create John Lennon's vocal. It's their fourth post-breakup Grammy, matching their total from when the band was active.
February 2, 2025 On her fifth rodeo getting nominated for the Album Of The Year Grammy, Beyoncé finally wins for Cowboy Carter. The other big winner is Kendrick Lamar, who wins five awards for "Not Like Us," including Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Music Video.
January 30, 2025 A parade of stars including Stevie Wonder, Olivia Rodrigo and Katy Perry perform at the FireAid benefit concerts in Los Angeles to raise money for victims of the California wildfires, which left 29 dead and destroyed thousands of homes. The concert is held at two venues and runs for six hours.More
January 20, 2025 President Donald Trump joins The Village People on stage when they headline the Liberty Ball, part of his inauguration festivities - their song "Y.M.C.A." was a staple at his rallies. Billy Ray Cyrus, Nelly and Jason Aldean also take the stage; other acts performing at inauguration events include Kid Rock, Rascal Flatts, Gavin DeGraw, Parker McCollum and Carrie Underwood, who sings "America the Beautiful" without a backing track at the swearing-in ceremony when there's a technical glitch.
January 13, 2025 SZA appears on The Drew Barrymore Show, where she breaks down her 2017 song "Drew Barrymore." She tells the host that she inspired the song and was a big influence on her because Drew embraced her imperfections and was "unapologetically yourself."
January 10, 2025 Sam Moore, one of the soul men in the duo Sam & Dave, dies at 89.
December 25, 2024 The Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, with Williams depicted as a CGI chimp, opens in theaters. Despite the monkey business, the film covers some heavy topics, like his battles with addiction and struggles with fame.
December 25, 2024 Halftime of the Christmas Day NFL game between the Ravens and Texans is the "Beyoncé Bowl," a grand spectacle that rivals Super Bowl halftime shows. Queen Bey rides in on a horse and sings an abridged version of her Cowboy Carter album, with Post Malone and Shaboozey singing their parts, and her daughter Blue Ivy showing up for a "Texas Hold 'Em" hoedown.
December 8, 2024 Taylor Swift wraps up her Eras Tour with a show in Vancouver, closing out a record-shattering journey that redefines the landscape of live music over the course of 149 concerts on five continents.More
December 1, 2024 Matvii Grinblat posts a video on TikTok using the song "Doot Doot (6 7)" by Skrilla. It goes viral and spawns the "6-7" meme, a bane of teachers and parents.
November 22, 2024 The film version of Wicked, starring Ariana Grande as Galinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, opens in theaters. It's a blockbuster, earning $112 million in America on opening weekend, more than any other Broadway musical adaptation. It's also by far the biggest opening weekend box office for a movie staring a pop singer, blowing past the $42 million opening of Lady Gaga's A Star Is Born.
November 20, 2024 Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson attend the funeral for their One Direction bandmate Liam Payne, who died a month earlier after falling from a balcony. Payne's death dashed hopes of a reunion for the group, which split up in 2016.
November 18, 2024 In Orlando, Florida, Pink wraps up her Summer Carnival tour, which earns about $694 million over 97 dates. That's more than Beyoncé hauled in on her Renaissance tour but about a third of what Taylor Swift made on her Eras tour.
November 15, 2024 "Iris" by The Goo Goo Dolls is certified Diamond 26 years after it was released in 1998. The song found legions of new fans starting around 2018 when it landed on lots of playlists and became a popular cover. It also got a boost from its use in the 2024 movie Deadpool & Wolverine.
November 10, 2024 Pasco Street in Tallahassee, where T-Pain used to walk to school, is renamed T-Pain Lane in his honor.
November 3, 2024 Quincy Jones dies at 91. A musical visionary, his accomplishments include producing Michael Jackson's albums Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad; launching Vibe magazine; and scoring the movie The Color Purple.
November 1, 2024 The Collins Dictionary names "brat" the 2024 word of the year, a nod to the cultural impact of the Charli XCX album Brat, which redefined it to mean "characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude."
October 26, 2024 North Carolina natives Luke Combs and Eric Church put on the Concert For Carolina in Charlotte to raise money for victims of Hurricane Helene, which devastated the state a month earlier. Performers include Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, The Avett Brothers and Keith Urban; the event brings in $24.5 million in donations, plus another $1 million from Dolly Parton.
October 25, 2024 A Spanish version of Brenda Lee's holiday classic "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" ("Noche Buena y Navidad") is released. The song was created using AI trained on Lee's vocals from when she recorded the original at 13. It's the second AI-generated release from a major artist, following Randy Travis' "Where That Came From" six months earlier, and the first use of AI to translate a song to another language.
October 25, 2024 Phil Lesh, the bass player in the Grateful Dead for their entire run (1965-1995), dies at 84. His bass was often a lead instrument in the band, creating a distinctive sound that meshed with Jerry Garcia's guitar work.
October 21, 2024 Paul Di'Anno, Iron Maiden's lead singer from 1978-1981, dies at 66. He sang on their first two albums before a cocaine addiction led to his departure and Bruce Dickinson took over.
October 19, 2024 Ozzy Osbourne, already in with Black Sabbath, is inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as a solo artist along with Mary J. Blige, Cher, The Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang and A Tribe Called Quest.
October 11, 2024 Brantley Gilbert stops his show in Tupelo, Mississippi when he gets word that his wife is in the tour bus and has gone into labor (assisted by a midwife). Gilbert witnesses the birth and returns to the stage to finish the set, telling the crowd, "We got a baby!"
October 11, 2024 The movie Piece By Piece, a biography of Pharrell Williams set in the animated LEGO universe, opens in theaters. Many of his close collaborators, including Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, lend their voices and appear as Lego avatars.
October 8, 2024 Taylor Swift, with net worth estimated at $1.6 billion, becomes the richest female musician, according to Forbes, passing Rihanna on their list. Swift got a big bump from her Eras Tour, the first in history to gross over $1 billion.
October 5, 2024 Future becomes the first artist with three #1 albums in the same calendar year when Mixtape Pluto hits the top spot, following his two Metro Boomin collaborations, We Don't Trust You and We Still Don't Trust You.
September 13, 2024 At a Boston show, Jane's Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell, upset over sound levels, takes a swing at guitarist Dave Navarro and has to be forcibly removed from the stage. The show abruptly ends and the band cancel the rest of their tour. It ends up being their last show; they officially call it quits in December 2025.
September 6, 2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opens in theaters with a soundtrack that revives the '70s songs "MacArthur Park," "Tragedy" and "Margaritaville." Other songs in the film include "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx and "Svefn-G-Englar" by Sigur Rós.
September 5, 2024 Linkin Park release "The Emptiness Machine," their first song without frontman Chester Bennington, who died by suicide in 2017. It's the debut of their new lead singer, Emily Armstrong, who quickly wins over fans with her Bennington-like passion.
August 27, 2024 The bellicose brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher announce an Oasis reunion tour, ending a 15-year hiatus. "The guns have fallen silent," the press release reads. "The stars have aligned."
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