This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2017 in music.
Specific locations
African American Asian Australian Brazilian British Canadian Chinese Danish European Finnish French German Icelandic Indian Irish Japanese Latin Malaysian Mongolian Norwegian Philippine Polynesian Scandinavian South Korean Swedish Taiwanese Vietnamese World
Specific genres
Classical Country Electronic Jazz Latin Heavy metal Hip-hop Rock R&B New Wave Opera Pop Progressive rock Punk K-pop J-pop
Albums released
Awards
59th Annual Grammy Awards (USA) 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards (USA/Latin America) 2017 ARIA Music Awards (Australia) 2017 Billboard Music Awards (USA) 2017 Brit Awards (UK) Eurovision Song Contest 2017 (Europe) 48th GMA Dove Awards (USA) 59th Japan Record Awards (Japan) 2017 Juno Awards (Canada) 2017 Mercury Prize (UK and Ireland) 2017 Mnet Asian Music Awards (South Korea, hosted in Vietnam, Japan and Hong Kong) 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards (Europe) 2017 MTV Video Music Awards (USA) 2017 New Zealand Music Awards (New Zealand) 2017 NME Music Awards (UK) 2017 Polaris Music Prize (Canada) 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music (USA) The 5th V Chart Awards (China) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA) 26th Seoul Music Awards (South Korea)
Bands formed
=LOVE The 8-Bit Big Band 22/7 3RACHA 7Senses 14U 22/7 A.C.E Adoy Automatic Bad Wolves Be.A The Belair Lip Bombs Black Dresses Black Midi Bloodywood Blushing Bob Vylan Brats The Boyz Busters The Callous Daoboys Caroline Cellchrome Cheekface Chō Tokimeki Sendenbu CY8ER Creepy Nuts Cynhn Dimlim Dreamcatcher Dry Cleaning Duetto Elris Faky FanxyRed Favorite Fever 333 Fleshwater Fontaines D.C. Fromis 9 Ghost Light Giants in the Trees Gizmodrome Grayscale GreatGuys Golden Child Good Day Hash Tag Highlight Home is Where Honeyst Hyeongseop X Euiwoong Illuminati Hotties IN2IT In Real Life IZ JBJ Josh Todd and the Conflict Kneecap Last Idol Lovebites Leetspeak Monsters Longguo & Shihyun Måneskin Mastersystem Mellow Mellow Mind U MVP MXM My Indigo Myteen NGT48 Novelbright Now United NU'EST W Odd Eye Circle ONF Pale Waves Pink Babies Pink Cres. Polkadot Stingray P.O.P Pom Poko Powerflo Pristin PVA Qyoto Rainz Rak-Su The Rampage from Exile Tribe The Rose Roselia RVG The Sea Within S.I.S Seven O'Clock Silverbacks Sons of Apollo Squid Stray Kids SudannaYuzuYully Superorganism Surfaces Terraplana They Are Gutting a Body of Water Top Secret TRCNG Triple H Tropical Fuck Storm Ukka Varsity Wanna One Wednesday Weki Meki Vespera YHBOYS Yorushika
Soloist debuts
Adieu Aima Baig Asca Ashe Au/Ra Baby Ariel Beverly Blanks Camila Cabello Cavetown Chelsea Cutler Cherry Ngan Clairo Conan Gray Curtismith Diamante Donny Pangilinan DPR Live Gabbi Garcia Harry Styles Haru Nemuri Hatchie Hiroomi Tosaka Hoàng Yến Chibi Huang Xiaoyun I I'll Jang Han-byul Jeong Se-woon Jeon So-yeon Joji Julia Michaels Kang Si-ra Kevin Oh Keina Suda Kim Chung-ha Kim Petras Kim So-hee Kriesha Chu KSI Liam Payne Leeroy Lauren Jauregui Lauv Lee Hae-ri Leellamarz Leila Alcasid Leony Lewis Capaldi Little Simz Luísa Sonza Maan Madison Beer Maisie Peters Masaki Suda Malu Trevejo Megan Thee Stallion Minzy Mxmtoon Niall Horan Nao Tōyama Nathy Peluso Niki Noa Kirel One Phoebe Bridgers Punch Queen Naija Ravi Rauw Alejandro Rena Nōnen Ruel Sabrina Claudio Sam Fender Samuel Saweetie Sayumi Michishige Sayuri Shuta Sueyoshi Seohyun Skylar Stecker Sōma Saitō Sojung Sophy Wong Soyou Suzy Tao Tsuchiya Violetta Zironi Volts Vallejo Woo Won-jae Youngji Yungblud
Bands reformed
As I Lay Dying Audioslave Big Dumb Face Carnivore Chimaira Company of Thieves Dreamcatcher Eagles Eighteen Visions Elastica Exhorder Heavy Load House vs. Hurricane Jawbreaker Jethro Tull The KLF Light This City Lionheart Madina Lake Nachtmystium NRG Orbital Pleymo Sadus Sleeper Steps The Streets Stornoway Sugarland Tripping Daisy Viva Brother The Union Underground Xscape
Bands on hiatus
Camera Obscura Cyntia Dark Sermon Dave Matthews Band Disclosure Flumpool fun. Girls’ Generation Ikimono-gakari The Gaslight Anthem Heart The Jezabels Katatonia Karnataka Linkin Park Mejibray Pinegrove PWR BTTM Slipknot Soundgarden Sphere Tackey & Tsubasa Tsubaki Twenty One Pilots Vamps With Confidence
Bands disbanded
A Tribe Called Quest Amoral As One Audioslave Black Sabbath Brontide The Cab Chairlift Cibo Matto Cinderella Circus Devils Coal Chamber C-ute The Crookes The Dillinger Escape Plan Doll Elements Donovan Wolfington Especia Friendzone Game Theory HIM Hail of Bullets Heaven's Basement Hilcrhyme In Dying Arms Letlive Les B.B. The Maccabees Marionette Mimi Meme Mimi Mindless Behavior Miss A Mobb Deep Mudcrutch The Pagans Plenty The Poster Boy Poured Out Prizmmy Reol Rev. from DVL The Roches The Saturdays Spawn of Possession Staind Sug Textures Those Who Fear Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers The Tragically Hip Trap Them Vallenfyre Vanna Vant We Are the Ocean White Ash White Miles William Control The Wonder Girls Xerath Yellowcard Your Memorial
Deaths January 1 – Memo Morales (79), Venezuelan rumba singer 2 – Auriel Andrew (69), Indigenous Australian country singer 4 – Bade Fateh Ali Khan (82), Pakistani classical music and Khyal singer 6 – Sylvester Potts (78), American R&B singer (the Contours) 7 – Jerzy Kossela (74), Polish rock guitarist (Czerwone Gitary) 8 – Peter Sarstedt (75), British folk pop singer 10 – Buddy Greco (90), American jazz singer and pianist 11 – Tommy Allsup (83), American rock and roll guitarist 13 Horacio Guarany (91), Argentine folklore singer Richie Ingui (69), American soul singer (Soul Survivors) 14 – John Boudreaux (80), American jazz and soul drummer 15 – Greg Trooper (61), American alternative country singer and songwriter 16 William Onyeabor (70), Nigerian funk singer-songwriter Steve Wright (66), American power pop bassist and songwriter (The Greg Kihn Band) 18 – Mike Kellie (69), British psychedelic rock and power pop drummer (Spooky Tooth, The Only Ones) 19 – Loalwa Braz (63), Brazilian pop and lambada singer (Kaoma) 20 Ronald "Bingo" Mundy (76), American singer (The Marcels) Joey Powers (82), American pop singer Tommy Tate (71), American soul singer 21 Karl Hendricks (46), American alternative rock singer (The Karl Hendricks Trio) Walter "Junie" Morrison (62), American funk keyboardist (The Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic) Maggie Roche (65), American folk singer (The Roches) 22 Jaki Liebezeit (78), German experimental rock drummer (Can) Pete Overend Watts (69), British glam rock bassist and singer (Mott the Hoople, British Lions) 23 – Bobby Freeman (76), American pop and R&B singer 24 Gil Ray (60), American power pop drummer (Game Theory, The Loud Family) Butch Trucks (69), American rock drummer (The Allman Brothers Band, Les Brers) 25 – Ronnie Davis (66), Jamaican reggae singer (The Tennors, The Itals) 27 – Stan Boreson (91), American comedian, accordionist and singer 28 Guitar Gable (79), American blues singer and guitarist Geoff Nicholls (68), British rock musician and keyboardist (Black Sabbath, Quartz) Alexander Tikhanovich (64), Belarusian pop singer (Verasy) 29 – Elkin Ramírez (54), Colombian hard rock singer (Kraken) 30 – James Laurence (27), American hip hop musician and producer (Friendzone) (death announced on this date) 31 Deke Leonard (72), British progressive rock guitarist (Man) John Wetton (67), British progressive rock singer, bassist, and songwriter (Asia, King Crimson)
February 1 – Robert Dahlqvist (40), Swedish alternative rock guitarist and singer (The Hellacopters, Thunder Express, Dundertåget) 4 – Steve Lang (67), Canadian rock bassist (April Wine) 5 David Axelrod (85), American jazz musician and producer Sonny Geraci (70), American pop and rock singer (Climax, The Outsiders) 7 – Svend Asmussen (100), Danish jazz violinist 8 Rina Matsuno (18), Japanese pop singer (Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku) Tony Särkkä (44), Swedish black metal multi-instrumentalist 11 – Jarmila Šuláková (87), Czech folk singer 12 Al Jarreau (76), American jazz singer Damian (52), British pop singer 13 Trish Doan (31), American heavy metal bassist (Kittie) (death announced on this date) E-Dubble (34), American rapper 16 – Pericoma Okoye (81), Nigerian traditional music singer 17 Peter Skellern (69), English easy listening singer-songwriter and pianist Dave Yorko (73), American rock and roll guitarist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) 18 – Clyde Stubblefield (73), American funk and soul drummer (James Brown, The J.B.'s) 19 – Larry Coryell (73), American jazz fusion guitarist 20 – Huang Feili (99), Chinese classical music conductor 23 Horace Parlan (86), American jazz pianist Leon Ware (77), American funk singer and songwriter 25 Rick Chavez, American progressive metal singer and guitarist (Drive) Toshio Nakanishi (61), Japanese new wave guitarist (Plastics) Bill Paxton (61), American new wave keyboardist (Martini Ranch) and actor
March 1 – Hiroshi Kamayatsu (78), Japanese rock singer (The Spiders, Vodka Collins) 2 – Gata Cattana (26), Spanish rapper 3 Jim Fuller (69), American surf rock guitarist (The Surfaris) Lyle Ritz (87), American rock bassist and ukuleleist (The Wrecking Crew) Danny Spooner (80), British-born Australian folk singer 4 Valerie Carter (64), American rock singer and songwriter Edi Fitzroy (61), Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer Tommy Page (46), American pop singer 6 Ritchie Adams (78), American songwriter and singer (The Fireflies) Lars Diedricson (66), Swedish rock singer (Snowstorm) Alberto Zedda (89), Italian conductor and musicologist 7 – Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya (46), Indian folk singer 8 Dave Valentin (64), American jazz flutist Wordsayer (47), American rapper (Source of Labor) 10 – Joni Sledge (60), American R&B and disco singer (Sister Sledge) 11 Evan Johns (60), American rockabilly guitarist (The LeRoi Brothers) Ángel Parra (73), Chilean folk singer Don Warden (87), American country slide guitarist 12 – Joey Alves (63), American hard rock rhythm guitarist (Y&T) 13 Robert "P-Nut" Johnson, American funk singer (Parliament-Funkadelic) John Lever (55), British post-punk drummer (The Chameleons) 15 Phil Garland (75), New Zealander folk singer Vicky (69), Colombian pop singer 16 – James Cotton (81), American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter 18 – Chuck Berry (90), American rock and roll guitarist, singer and songwriter 20 Buck Hill (90), American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist Tony Terran (90), American rock and pop trumpeter (The Wrecking Crew) 21 – Gabriel "Negru" Mafa (42), black metal drummer (Negură Bunget) 22 Sib Hashian (67), American rock drummer (Boston) Sven-Erik Magnusson (74), Swedish pop singer and guitarist (Sven-Ingvars) 23 – Sebastián (63), Argentine cuarteto singer 24 Vincent Falcone (78), American pianist (Frank Sinatra) and conductor Pete Shotton (75), British skiffle percussionist and washboardist (The Quarrymen) 25 – Edward Grimes (43), American post-rock drummer (Rachel's) 26 Alessandro Alessandroni (92), Italian film composer and classical guitarist Jimmy Dotson (83), American blues singer and songwriter 27 – Clem Curtis (76), Trinidadian-British singer (The Foundations) 28 – Terry Fischer (70), American pop singer (The Murmaids) 30 – Rosie Hamlin (71), American pop singer (Rosie and the Originals)
April 1 Lonnie Brooks (83), American blues singer and guitarist Ikutaro Kakehashi (87), Japanese engineer, founder of Roland Corporation, manufacturer of electronic musical instruments Wycliffe Noble (91), British gospel singer (The Joystrings) and architect