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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
August 6, 2024 Pitbull becomes the first artist to buy the naming rights to a stadium, announcing a 10-year, $12 million deal with Florida International University in his hometown of Miami to rebrand their stadium Pitbull Stadium. As part of the deal, the rapper is allowed to host events like concerts and festivals at the venue.
July 13, 2024 Headlining the Beach, Please! festival in Costinesti, Romania, Wiz Khalifa smokes an enormous marijuana cigarette on stage, landing him in trouble with the authorities. In December 2025 he's sentenced in absentia to nine months in prison, essentially banning him from the country.
July 4, 2024 In Vancouver, Missy Elliott launches her first-ever headlining tour, with support acts Ciara and Busta Rhymes. Elliott, who is introverted and suffers from Graves' disease, kept a light performance schedule since 2004, the last time she toured.
June 18, 2024 Justin Timberlake is arrested for DWI after a night out in the village of Sag Harbor, New York. He reportedly tells the arresting officer, "This is going to ruin the tour," which quickly becomes a meme. Timberlake pleads guilty to a lesser charge of driving while impaired, and in 2026 police bodycam footage is released, showing that the arresting officer - just 23 years old - had no idea who Timberlake was.
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 23, 2024 Sean Kingston, known for his 2007 #1 hit "Beautiful Girls," is arrested, charged along with his mother with wire fraud in a scheme where they bought luxury goods like jewelry and a Cadillac Escalade but didn't actually pay for them, using Kingston's celebrity status to gain trust. On March 28, 2025 they're both found guilty of all charges.
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 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 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.
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