This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2019 in music.
Specific locations
African music American music Asian music Australian music Brazilian music British music Canadian music Chinese music Czech music Danish music European music Finnish music French music German music Icelandic music Indian music Indonesian music Irish music Japanese music Latin music Malaysian music Monogolian music Norwegian music Philippine music Polynesian music Scandinavian music South Korean music Swedish music Taiwanese music Vietnamese music
Specific genres
Classical Country Electronic Jazz Latin Heavy metal Hip-hop Musical theater Progressive rock Rock Pop K-pop
Albums released
Awards 61st Annual Grammy Awards (USA) 2019 Billboard Music Awards (USA) 2019 Brit Awards (UK) 2019 Juno Awards (Canada) 33rd Golden Disc Awards (South Korea) 2019 MTV Video Music Awards (USA) 2019 MTV Europe Music Awards (Europe) American Music Awards of 2019 (USA) 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music (USA) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA) Mercury Prize (UK) Polaris Music Prize (Canada) Eurovision Song Contest 2019 (Europe) 28th Seoul Music Awards (South Korea)
Bands formed
1Team 1the9 3YE AB6IX ALI ALLMO$T Ariaz Argon Argonavis from BanG Dream! Ballistik Boyz from Exile Tribe BDC Better Oblivion Community Center Beyooooonds Bis B.O.L.T Bonny Light Horseman Bvndit Carry Loose CGM48 Chat Pile Cherry Bullet Chubby and the Gang CIX College Cosmos D1CE DEL48 Dialogue Dos Monos DracoVirgo ENOi Everglow EXO-SC Fanatics Florence Road Frost Children Girls² Grupo Frontera The Highwomen Hinatazaka46 Hinapia Honest Boyz Horsegirl Household Gods Itzy Jus2 King Gnu Legss Lifeguard Mameshiba no Taigun Newkidd @onefive Oneus Onewe OnlyOneOf Purplebeck Purple Mountains Real Like You Rocket Punch Rolling Quartz Sard Underground Sault SB19 Simple Creatures Sprints Static Dress Sunday Service Choir SuperM Sweeping Promises Sweet Pill Tebasaki Sensation Teen Teen Tomorrow X Together Verivery WayV We in the Zone Wet Leg Wooseok x Kuanlin X1 Yard Act Yoasobi ZOC
Soloist debuts
Akari Kitō Baby Keem Bae Jin-young Baekhyun Benee Breskvica Camilo Chen Chen Zhuoxuan Chih Siou Chloe Moriondo Children of Bodom Davina Michelle Devito Dove Cameron Eito Elaine Elle Winter Elyanna Emilia Mernes Gracie Abrams Griff Ian Chan Haruka Fukuhara Ha Sung-woon Hwasa Im Hyun-sik Jace Chan Jang Dong-woo Jeon Somi Jung Dae-hyun Joyce Pring Kang Daniel Kang Min-kyung KD Estrada Keung To Kim Jin-woo Kim Ji-yeon Kim Jung-mo Kim Woo-sung Kwon Hyun-bin Latto Lee Jin-hyuk Lee Jin-young Lee Min-hyuk María Becerra Mayu Maeshima Milet Nichkhun Nicki Nicole Oh Ha-young Park Ji-hoon Renforshort Roh Tae-hyun Ruann Sayaka Yamamoto Shen Yue Sulli Sungmin Tate McRae Terence Lam Teya Dora U-Know U-Kwon Vaundy Voyage Yoon Ji-sung Yoona Yukika Yuuri Zelo Zephanie
Bands reformed
Alphabeat Bauhaus Bikini Kill The Black Crowes Egypt Central funeral for a friend Heart Idiot Pilot Jawbox Jonas Brothers McFly Men at Work Motion City Soundtrack My Chemical Romance Oysterhead Rage Against the Machine The Rapture Rockpile Roxy Music (one performance) Stereolab Stereos Strange Advance Supergrass The Pussycat Dolls Vex Red Vivian Girls
Bands on hiatus
An Cafe Blu-Billion DNCE Devin Townsend Project Fifth Harmony fun. f(x) Hedley Katatonia Linkin Park Moose Blood One Direction Shinee
Bands disbanded
Act of Defiance Alpine The Apocalypse Blues Revue The Damned Things Belanova Boyzone Cassius The Cranberries Country Girls Delorean Divinyls Fischerspooner Flower Free Cake for Every Creature Her's Hobbs' Angel of Death Hollerado The Hoopers Janne Da Arc Kalafina Kinoko Teikoku Little Green Cars Lower Than Atlantis The Muffs The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Negoto Nine Muses Pentagon Prophets of Rage Purple Mountains Rah Rah Rock a Japonica Roxette The Searchers Serebro Slayer Spandau Ballet Superjoint SOB X RBE Spice Girls Thursday Tsuri Bit Toto Yeasayer Wake Up, Girls!
Deaths
January 1 Shane Bisnett, 31, American metalcore bassist (Ice Nine Kills) Feis Ecktuh, 32, Dutch rapper Joan Guinjoan, 87, Spanish composer and pianist Kris Kelmi, 63, Russian rock singer and keyboardist Pegi Young, 66, American folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist 2 – Daryl Dragon, 76, American pop keyboardist and songwriter (Captain & Tennille, The Beach Boys) 3 – Steve Ripley, 69, American country rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Tractors) 5 Alvin Fielder, 83, American jazz drummer Eric Haydock, 75, British rock bassist (The Hollies) Dan Tshanda, 54, South African pop singer and bassist (Splash) 7 Jimmy Hannan, 84, Australian pop singer John Joubert, 91, British classical music composer Clydie King, 75, American pop and rock singer Houari Manar, 38, Algerian rai singer 9 – Joseph Jarman, 81, American jazz saxophonist (Art Ensemble of Chicago) 10 Larry Cunningham, 67, American R&B singer (The Floaters) Kevin Fret, 24, Puerto Rican trap singer 12 – Sanger D. Shafer, 84, American country singer-songwriter 13 Glen Dale, 79, English pop singer (The Fortunes) Bonnie Guitar, 95, American country singer Willie Murphy, 75, American blues singer and pianist David "Frenchy" O'Brien, 71, American drummer (Animotion) 15 – Carol Channing, 97, American Broadway and film musicals singer 16 Lorna Doom, 61, American punk rock bassist (Germs) Brian Velasco, 41, Filipino hard rock drummer (Razorback) Chris Wilson, 62, Australian blues singer and guitarist 17 Debi Martini, American punk rock singer and bassist (Red Aunts) Ron Watson, 62, Canadian rock guitarist (Helix) Reggie Young, 82, American rock guitarist (The Memphis Boys) 19 – Ted McKenna, 68, Scottish glam rock drummer (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band) 21 Marcel Azzola, 91, French chanson accordionist Kaye Ballard, 93, American pop singer Edwin Birdsong, 77, American funk keyboardist Maxine Brown, 87, American country singer (The Browns) 23 – Oliver Mtukudzi, 66, Zimbabwean afro-jazz guitarist 25 Bruce Corbitt, 56, American thrash metal singer (Rigor Mortis, Warbeast) Jacqueline Steiner, 94, American folk singer-songwriter 26 Jean Guillou, 88, French composer and classical organist Michel Legrand, 86, French composer, conductor and jazz pianist 27 – Pepe Smith, 71, Filipino rock singer and guitarist (Juan de la Cruz Band, Speed, Glue & Shinki, Asin) 28 – Paul Whaley, 72, American psychedelic rock drummer (Blue Cheer, The Oxford Circle) 29 – James Ingram, 66, American R&B singer-songwriter 31 – Harold Bradley, 93, American country guitarist
February 1 Alex Brown, 52, American punk rock guitarist (Gorilla Biscuits, Project X) Ayub Ogada, 63, Kenyan worldbeat singer and Nyatiti player 2 – Tim Landers, American emo guitarist and singer (Transit, Misser) 3 Detsl, 35, Russian rapper Peter Posa, 77, New Zealand pop guitarist 5 – Eddy Giles, 80, American R&B and blues singer-songwriter 6 – Gerald English, 93, British opera singer 9 Cadet, 28, British rapper Phil Western, 47, Canadian electronic synthesizer player and guitarist (Download, PlatEAU) 11 Olli Lindholm, 54, Finnish rock singer and guitarist (Yö, Appendix) Harvey Scales, 78, American R&B and soul singer-songwriter 13 – Willy Lambregt, 59, Belgian rock guitarist (The Scabs, Vaya Con Dios) 15 – Kofi Burbridge, 57, American jam band keyboardist and flautist (Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Derek Trucks Band, Aquarium Rescue Unit) 16 Glenn Bell, 64, Canadian rock drummer (The Cooper Brothers) Ken Nordine, 98, American jazz spoken word artist 17 – Ethel Ennis, 86, American jazz singer 19 – Artie Wayne, 77, American pop singer, songwriter and producer 20 Dominick Argento, 91, American classical music composer Gerard Koerts, 71, Dutch progressive rock keyboardist (Earth and Fire) 21 Gus Backus, 81, American doo-wop singer (The Del-Vikings) Jackie Shane, 78, American soul singer Peter Tork, 77, American rock bassist and singer (The Monkees) 23 – Dorothy Masuka, 83, Zimbabwean-born South African jazz singer-songwriter 24 – Mac Wiseman, 93, American bluegrass singer and guitarist (Foggy Mountain Boys) 25 – Mark Hollis, 64, British new wave and post-rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Talk Talk) 26 – Andy Anderson, 68, British new wave drummer (The Cure, The Glove, Hawkwind) 27 – Doug Sandom, 89, British rock drummer (The Who) 28 Stephan Ellis, 69, American rock bassist (Survivor) André Previn, 89, German-born American jazz and classical pianist, conductor and composer
March 1 – Paul Williams, 78, British rock and blues singer (Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, Juicy Lucy, Tempest, Allan Holdsworth) 2 – Al Hazan, 84, American pianist (B. Bumble and the Stingers), songwriter and record producer 3 – Leo de Castro, 70, New Zealand funk and soul singer and guitarist 4 Keith Flint, 49, British electronica singer (The Prodigy) Sara Romweber, 55, American jangle pop drummer (Let's Active, Dex Romweber Duo) 5 – Jacques Loussier, 84, French jazz pianist and film score composer (Jacques Loussier Trio) 6 James Dapogny, 78, American jazz pianist and musicologist Mike Grose, 77, British rock bassist (Queen) Charlie Panigoniak, 72, Canadian Inuk folk singer-songwriter 8 – Eddie Taylor Jr., 46, American blues singer and guitarist 10 – Asa Brebner, 65, American power pop singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Modern Lovers, Robin Lane & The Chartbusters) 11 Hal Blaine, 90, American rock and pop drummer (The Wrecking Crew) Danny Kustow, 63, British punk rock guitarist (Tom Robinson Band) 12 – John Kilzer, 62, American rock singer-songwriter 16 Dick Dale, 81, American surf rock guitarist Dewayne "Son" Smith, 76, American country music singer and guitarist (The Geezinslaw Brothers) David White, 79, American doo-wop and pop singer (Danny & the Juniors, The Spokesmen) 17 Wolfgang Meyer, 64, German classical clarinetist Bernie Tormé, 66, Irish guitarist (Gillan, Guy McCoy Tormé, Atomic Rooster, Desperado) Yuya Uchida, 79, Japanese rock musician (Flower Travellin' Band) Andre Williams, 82, American R&B singer 20 – Terje Nilsen, 67, Norwegian pop singer-songwriter 21 – Doris Duke, 77, American gospel and soul singer 22 – Scott Walker, 76, American-born British pop and avant garde singer-songwriter (The Walker Brothers) 23 – Shahnaz Rahmatullah, 66, Bangladeshi playback singer 25 – Bill Isles, 78, American R&B singer (The O'Jays) 26 – Ranking Roger, 56, British ska and new wave singer (The Beat, General Public) 27 Stephen Fitzpatrick, 24, British indie rock singer and guitarist (Her's) Audun Laading, 25, Norwegian indie rock bassist (Her's) 30 Geoff Harvey, 83, British-Australian television music composer and pianist Simaro Lutumba, 81, Congolese soukous guitarist (TPOK Jazz) 31 – Nipsey Hussle, 33, American rapper
April 1 – Armando Vega Gil, 64, Mexican rock bassist (Botellita de Jerez) 2 Rick Elias, American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and guitarist (A Ragamuffin Band) Kim English, 48, American house and gospel singer 3 - Shawn Smith, 53, American alternative rock singer and keyboardist (Brad, Satchel, Pigeonhed) 4 Alberto Cortez, 79, Argentine pop singer-songwriter Tiger Merritt, 31, American psychedelic rock singer and guitarist (Morning Teleportation) 5 Pastor López, 74, Venezuelan cumbia singer-songwriter and bandleader Davey Williams, 66, American avant-garde and free jazz guitarist (Curlew) Wowaka, 31, Japanese Vocaloid producer, singer and guitarist 6 Jim Glaser, 81, American country singer Ib Glindemann, 84, Danish jazz bandleader and composer 10 – Earl Thomas Conley, 77, American country singer-songwriter 12 – Johnny Hutchinson, 78, British rock and roll drummer (The Big Three)