April 6, 2023 The series Beef airs on Netflix with a soundtrack that revives several songs from the '90s and '00s, including "Drive" by Incubus, "Self Esteem" by The Offspring, and "Lonely Day" by System of a Down.
April 4, 2023 The first truly believable AI-generated song appears online, posted to TikTok by an anonymous user. It's called "Heart On My Sleeve," and mimics the voices of Drake and The Weeknd. It quickly spreads to streaming services and is continually taken down and reposted, raising the issue of copyright with AI music.
March 18, 2023 Every track - all 36 of them - from Morgan Wallen's album One Thing at a Time lands in the Hot 100, breaking Drake's record of 27 set in 2017. Wallen's song "Last Night" claims the top spot.
March 11, 2023 "TQG," a collaboration between Colombian superstars Shakira and Karol G, debuts at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. Just weeks after Shakira became the first female artist to open in the Top 10 with a Spanish-language track ("Shakira: BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53"), "TQG" breaks the record as the highest-charting Spanish-language tune by a female artist in the tally's history.
March 10, 2023 Miley Cyrus releases her eighth album, Endless Summer Vacation. Some of the songs, including the #1 hit "Flowers," seem to take aim at her ex-husband, the actor Liam Hemsworth.
February 12, 2023 Performing on a suspended platform and on a stage with 80 dancers, Rihanna is the halftime entertainment at Super Bowl LVII, where the Chiefs beat the Eagles 38-35. After the performance she confirms she's pregnant with her second child.
February 5, 2023 Beyoncé wins four Grammys, breaking the record for most all-time Grammy wins with 32. There's also a 50 years of hip-hop celebration, and the inaugural Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, given to... Dr. Dre.
February 5, 2023 73-year-old Bonnie Raitt wins the Grammy for Song Of The Year, beating out songs by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Harry Styles with the title track to her album Just Like That. Her first Grammy wins came in 1990, when she was 40, after releasing her album Nick Of Time.
February 5, 2023 Harry Styles, the breakaway solo star from One Direction, wins the Album Of The Year Grammy for his third album, Harry's House, the one with "As It Was" and "Late Night Talking."
February 3, 2023 After years of frustration waiting for her record company to release her debut album, My 21st Century Blues, Raye finally puts it out independently. The song "Escapism," which deals with her unhealthy coping mechanisms during this time, is a #1 hit in her native UK.
January 28, 2023 Miley Cyrus' alone-but-happy anthem "Flowers" grows to #1 in the US, where it stays for a total of eight weeks.
January 21, 2023 Beyoncé plays a private show in Dubai, her first full concert in four years, for a reported $24 million. Her 11-year-old daughter Blue Ivy joins her on "Brown Skin Girl," the first live performance of the song.
January 20, 2023 Marshall Tucker, a blind piano tuner from South Carolina whom The Marshall Tucker Band was named for, dies at 99.
December 9, 2022 SZA releases her second album, SOS, which debuts at #1 in America. Many of the songs find her navigating a toxic relationship, including the big hit "Kill Bill," where she considers offing her ex.
December 3, 2022 SZA performs two cuts from her album SOS on Saturday Night Live, but it's a song called "Cuffing Season" in the skit "Big Boys" - a celebration of hefty boyfriends - that takes off of TikTok.
November 5, 2022 Thanks to huge streaming numbers, Taylor Swift claims every spot on the Top 10 of the Hot 100 with songs from her album Midnights, with "Anti-Hero" at #1. She's the first artist to do so; Drake held nine of the Top 10 for a week in September 2021.
October 12, 2022 Following years as a featured vocalist for the likes of Jonas Blue, Jax Jones and David Guetta, Raye releases her breakthrough single, "Escapism," a song about "running away from reality as fast as you possibly can." Months later, it's included on her debut album, My 21st Century Blues.
October 4, 2022 Loretta Lynn dies at 90, leaving a legacy as one of the greatest and most influential singer-songwriters in country music. Her signature song, "Coal Miner's Daughter," tells the story of her humble origins. It was made into a movie in 1980 with Sissy Spacek playing Lynn.
September 11, 2022 The TV series Monarch, starring Trace Adkins as (fittingly) a country singer, debuts on Fox. Susan Sarandon plays his wife and Beth Ditto of The Gossip is one of his daughters. It's cancelled after one season.
September 3, 2022 At Wembley Stadium, a brigade of stars including Paul McCartney, Kesha, and Nile Rodgers join Foo Fighters in a tribute concert for their drummer, Taylor Hawkins, who died six months earlier.
August 26, 2022 After Jason Aldean's wife Brittany posts a makeup video on Instagram with the caption, "I'd really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase," Maren Morris, an advocate for transgender rights, flames her with a Tweet, writing, "Zip it, Insurrection Barbie." The feud raises tensions between conservative members of the country music community and those with more progressive views like Morris.
August 21, 2022 Police in Ohio raid the home of "Because I Got High" singer Afroman looking for evidence of kidnapping and drug trafficking. He isn't charged, and uses the surveillance footage in the video for his song "Lemon Pound Cake," zeroing in on a moment when an officer looks down to discover the cake in the kitchen.
July 29, 2022 Beyoncé releases her seventh solo album, Renaissance, with the hit "Break My Soul." Like her previous six albums, it goes to #1 in America.
July 24, 2022 Joni Mitchell makes a surprise appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, performing a full set for the first time since 2000. Performing from a chair (Mitchell had a brain aneurism in 2015), she's joined by Brandi Carlile for most of the set.
July 16, 2022 Two songs from the '80s land in the US Top 40: "Master Of Puppets" by Metallica (#40) and "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush (#4). Both songs were revived by season 4 of Stranger Things, where they're used in battle against the evil Vecna.
July 15, 2022 After four somewhat disappointing albums with Hollywood Records, Sabrina Carpenter releases Emails I Can't Send on Island, built around the concept of messages she wrote but never sent. It includes the breakout hit Nonsense and leads to a gig opening for Taylor Swift.
July 11, 2022 On just the second date on their Public Service Announcement tour, their first in 11 years, Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha tears his Achilles tendon jumping on stage. They finish the North American portion of the tour but are forced to cancel the rest of it, which is planned for 2023.
July 7, 2022 The only copy of Bob Dylan's newly recorded "Blowin' In The Wind" sells at auction for £1,482,000 ($1.7 million). Dylan recorded it with producer T Bone Burnett and the song was pressed to a disc in Burnett's new format, Ionic Original, which is made of aluminium but plays on a turntable.
June 24, 2022 The movie Elvis, directed by Baz Luhrmann, hits theaters, starring Austin Butler as Presley. The soundtrack includes new songs by Eminem ("The King and I") and Doja Cat ("Vegas") along with Elvis songs in their original form and in new versions by the likes of Kacey Musgraves ("Can't Help Falling In Love") and Måneskin ("If I Can Dream").
June 16, 2022 Eight years after signing a "cessation of touring agreement," Mötley Crüe kick off a co-headlining tour with Def Leppard in Atlanta.
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