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July 22, 2024 Duke Fakir, the last surviving founder of The Four Tops, dies of heart failure at 88. He toured with the group until the year before his death.
July 10, 2024 Cypress Hill team up with the London Symphony Orchestra for a concert at Royal Albert Hall. This odd pairing first happened in the 1996 "Homerpalooza" episode of The Simpsons when the Cypress Hill and LSO avatars played "Insane In The Brain" together.
June 15, 2024 110,905 fans see George Strait perform at Kyle Field, the football stadium on the campus of Texas A&M, setting a record for largest paid crowd at a US non-festival concert. The previous record holder was Grateful Dead, who drew 107,019 to their 1977 show in Englishtown, New Jersey. Strait's record doesn't last long: Zach Bryan breaks it in 2025 when he headlines the first concert ever held at Michigan Stadium (the "Big House"), the largest stadium in America.
June 13, 2024 Donald Fagen and the late Walter Becker of Steely Dan are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio welcomes Fagen and Becker into the institution, and leads a tribute performance featuring their classic songs "Kid Charlemagne" and "Reelin' In The Years."
May 31, 2024 Charli XCX releases a remix of her popular song "360," featuring dance-pop artist Robyn and rapper Yung Lean, both of Sweden. Charli and Robyn, who is 13 years her senior, met while they were touring the same festivals in Australia and became good friends.
May 18, 2024 Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us," a scathing diss track directed at Drake, goes to #1 as their feud comes to a head.
May 17, 2024 CNN airs a video from 2016 showing Sean Combs (Puff Daddy) violently assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, who has filed a lawsuit against him. Combs has already lost most of his marketing deals and partnerships in a wave of allegations of violence and sexual misconduct.
May 11, 2024 Nemo, representing Switzerland, becomes the first non-binary winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with a performance of "The Code," which is about "the realization that I am neither a man nor a woman." It's Switzerland's first win since Celine Dion took the prize for "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi" in 1988.
May 4, 2024 After 10 weeks at the top of the Country chart, Beyoncé's "Texas Hold 'Em" gives way to "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey, a singer who came to the fore when Beyoncé featured him on her Cowboy Carter album.
May 4, 2024 The top 14 songs on the Hot 100 are all from Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department, with "Fortnight" taking the top spot. All 31 songs from the album are on the chart in addition to an earlier song, "Cruel Summer."
May 3, 2024 Randy Travis, unable to sing as a result of a stroke he suffered in 2011, releases "Where That Came From," a song with his vocal generated by artificial intelligence. It's the first major release from a legacy artist using AI technology to create a vocal from scratch, offering the possibility of more songs from singers - living or dead - that don't have to actually sing on them.
April 30, 2024 Duane Eddy, who developed a twangy guitar sound that led the way to surf rock, dies of cancer at 86. He had several instrumental hits from 1958-1963, including "Rebel Rouser" and "Forty Miles Of Bad Road."
April 26, 2024 Eric Church polarizes fans with a headlining set at the Stagecoach festival where he does a one-man show of mostly cover songs backed by a gospel choir. "I knew there were going to be 30,000 TikTokers who were there to be seen," he says. "The show wasn't for them."
April 19, 2024 Taylor Swift releases The Tortured Poets Department, an album filled with confessional songs written in the aftermath of breakups with Joe Alwyn and The 1975 singer Matt Healy. At 2 a.m. she surprise releases an additional 15 tracks in a second volume of the album called The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.
April 18, 2024 Longtime Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts dies at 80 after years of health problems. Betts wrote many of their most popular songs, including "Blue Sky," written about his girlfriend, Sandy "Bluesky" Wabegijig.
April 15, 2024 Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé team up on the single "II Most Wanted" from Beyoncé's country-influenced Cowboy Carter album. It peaks at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and wins the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance the following year.
April 13, 2024 At Coachella, two of the biggest ska bands of the '90s reunite: Sublime and No Doubt. Sublime is fronted by Jakob Nowell, whose father Brad was the group's lead singer until his death in 1996. For No Doubt, it's their first show since 2015.
March 29, 2024 Beyoncé drops Cowboy Carter, a sassy country album (mostly) with 27 tracks and appearances by Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, and an unheralded Black country singer named Linda Martell, whose only album was released in 1970. When Cowboy Carter tops the Country chart, it makes Beyoncé the first Black woman to do so.More
March 26, 2024 Donald Trump partners with Lee Greenwood, endorsing the God Bless The USA Bible, which includes the chorus lyrics to Greenwood's song. "I'm proud to be partnering with my very good friend Lee Greenwood," Trump says. "Who doesn't love his song 'God Bless the USA'?"
March 22, 2024 Kendrick Lamar disses Drake in the song "Like That," igniting a high-profile feud that gets ugly. Lamar wins the popular vote in this rap battle when his diss track "Not Like Us" goes to #1.More
March 13, 2024 At his concert in Los Angeles, Justin Timberlake brings out his group 'N Sync, who perform together for the first time since the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. Along with a medley of their hits, they debut a new song, "Paradise."
February 16, 2024 Crunk pioneer Lil Jon releases an album of guided meditations where he answers his famous question, Turn down for what?: "To hear the voice within."
February 11, 2024 Usher, at times shirtless and other times on roller skates, pulls off a Vegas-worthy halftime show at the Super Bowl between the 49ers and Chiefs. Guests include Alicia Keys, H.E.R., and of course, Lil Jon and Ludacris for "Yeah!." After the show, he heads to a Vegas wedding chapel and marries his longtime girlfriend Jennifer Goicoechea.
February 8, 2024 "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee becomes the first song ever certified Double Diamond by the RIAA for 20 million units in America, which translates to 3 billion streams. The song is featured in the 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
February 5, 2024 Toby Keith dies at 62 after a battle with stomach cancer. He wrote or co-wrote most of his 20 #1 Country hits, including "How Do You Like Me Now!?" and "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)."
February 4, 2024 Taylor Swift wins the Album Of The Year Grammy for Midnights, making her the first artist to win that award four times. Miley Cyrus gets Record Of The Year for "Flowers" and Billie Eilish takes Song Of The Year for "What Was I Made For?" from the movie Barbie.
February 4, 2024 Miley Cyrus wins her first pair of Grammys when "Flowers" takes the trophies for Record Of The Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. The self-love anthem is the lead single from her 2023 Endless Summer Vacation album.
February 4, 2024 Halle Bailey of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle earns a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Song for her debut solo single, "Angel." She loses the trophy to SZA for "Snooze."
February 4, 2024 Noah Kahan is nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards. The "Stick Season" singer, who issued his breakthrough album of the same name in 2022, loses to R&B songstress Victoria Monét.
January 27, 2024 Max Martin breaks Beatles producer George Martin's record for most #1 hits as a producer when "Yes, And?," which he helmed for Ariana Grande, becomes his 24th chart-topping production. His first was "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears in 1999.
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