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May 26, 2025 Guitarist/vocalist Rick Derringer dies at age 77, two months after undergoing triple-bypass surgery. Derringer played with The McCoysThe McCoys, Johnny Winter, and The Edgar Winter Group. He also had a successful solo career, and was best-known for the 1974 hit "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo."
May 19, 2025 "Pretty Little Baby," an obscure 1962 B-side by Connie Francis, goes to #1 on TikTok's Viral 50 and Top 50 charts after millions of creators use it in videos, including celebs like Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner. When told by her publicist that she has a viral hit, the 87-year-old Francis replies, "What's that?"
April 21, 2025 The video for Madonna's "La Isla Bonita" becomes her first to tally a billion views on YouTube, far outpacing "Hung Up," in second place with 531 million. The song is huge with Gen Z thanks to a series of TikTok trends.
April 14, 2025 Katy Perry does some space tourism, joining five other women (including journalist Gayle King) on a 10-minute suborbital flight aboard a Blue Origin rocket. "Space is going to finally be glam," she says before liftoff. "We are going to put the 'ass' in astronaut."More
March 26, 2025 Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Susanna Hoffs, Karen O., Sharon Van Etten and Ben Harper are among the performers at "People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith," a tribute concert at Carnegie Hall. Smith takes the stage for the final number, "People Have the Power," her 1988 protest song that gained traction after the 2024 US election.
March 15, 2025 Shinedown's "Dance, Kid, Dance" goes to #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, making them the first act with 20 chart toppers on that tally. Their run started with "Save Me" in 2005.
February 24, 2025 Roberta Flack dies at 88 after a battle with ALS. As a solo artist, her hits include "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." She also did popular duets with Donny Hathaway ("The Closer I Get To You"), Peabo Bryson ("Tonight, I Celebrate My Love") and Maxi Priest ("Set The Night To Music").
February 14, 2025 Saturday Night Live celebrates their 50th season with a Radio City Music Hall concert stocked with some of their most memorable musical guests, including Cher, Eddie Vedder, Arcade Fire, Bonnie Raitt, Lady Gaga and Brandi Carlile. One memorable moment is Post Malone teaming with the living members of Nirvana to play "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
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 11, 2025 The Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga duet "Die With a Smile" goes to #1 in America on its way to landing as Billboard's top song of 2025. It's the ninth chart-topper for Mars and the sixth for Gaga.
January 10, 2025 Sam Moore, one of the soul men in the duo Sam & Dave, dies at 89.
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 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 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 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 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.
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.
August 23, 2024 Sabrina Carpenter releases her sixth album, Short n' Sweet. With the hits "Espresso" and "Please Please Please," it's a musical breakout for the former Disney actress, putting her in league with other actress-turned-singers like Ariana Grande and Olivia Rodrigo.
August 20, 2024 At the Democratic National Convention, a DJ plays songs for every state as they announce their roll call votes for eventual nominee Kamala Harris. Songs include "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" by Dropkick Murphys for Massachusetts, "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers for Nevada, and "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen for New Jersey. Lil Jon shows up to personally perform "Turn Down For What" for Georgia.
August 15, 2024 Great White lead singer Jack Russell dies of lewy body dementia at 63. The group was big in the '80s, with the MTV hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy." In the 2010s, Russell broke from the band and led a different version called Jack Russell's Great White, which remained active until months before his death.
August 11, 2024 Phoenix close out the Paris Olympics with a closing ceremony set that includes crowd-pleasers "Lisztomania" and "1901." The band, which formed in Paris but sing mostly in English, quickly win over the athletes and spectators. By the end of the set, lead singer Thomas Mars is in the crowd, being held aloft by Olympians.
July 26, 2024 Celine Dion makes a spectacular return with a performance of "Hymne À L'amour" from the Eiffel Tower at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. It's her first performance since 2020, when she was sidelined with Stiff Person Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder.
July 26, 2024 Paris Hilton sets up the "That's Hotline," a play on her "that's hot" catchphrase, to promote her new single, "Chasin'." Calling 855-THTS-HOT gets you advice from Hilton on how to get over an ex, the theme of the song.
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