2001 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Albums released 4 Top hits on record 5 Top 10 selling albums of the year 6 Musical theater 7 Musical films 8 Births 9 Deaths 10 Awards 10.1 Grammy Awards 10.2 Juno Awards 10.3 Country Music Association Awards 10.4 Eurovision Song Contest 10.5 Mercury Music Prize

Events

• January 1 - Hum disbands.
• January/February - Rush records Vapor Trails, which was released on May 14, 2002.
• February 13 - Peter Frampton receives the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
• February 17 - Manic Street Preachers become the first western rock band to play in Cuba. (Fidel Castro was in attendance.)
• March 1 - Collin Raye is awarded the Artist Humanitarian Award from Country Radio Broadcasters Inc. The award was given in recognition of Raye's work on behalf of a number of different charitable organizations including Child help USA, USA Weekend's Make a Difference Day and the Native American organization Hecel Oyakapi.
• March 14 - The Court of Appeals in Rome finds Michael Jackson "not guilty" of plagiarism, reversing a decision made in 1999 by a lower court. Italian songwriter Albano Carrisi had claimed that Jackson's "Will You Be There" was a copy of his song "I Cigni Di Balaka."
• April 4 - Original Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone and keyboardist Rod Argent, reunite for a two part performance at London's Jazz Cafe. This was the first time the two band members performed together in over 30 years.
• April 24 and October 30 - Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson release albums in the same year, respectively. Janet releases "All For You" and Michael releases "Invincible". Both albums would hit #1 on the album charts.
• May - The 4th EJCF in Basel was held. Next time was in 2004.
• June 16 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 9th Annual of the Weenie Roast show with Blink-182, Coldplay, Crazy Town, The Cult, The Disturbed, Jane's Addiction, Linkin Park, The Living End, New Found Glory, Pennywise, Papa Roach, Stabbing Westward, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Sum 41 and 311.
• October 20 - airs on VH1, with performances by Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Billy Joel and others.
• Mariah Carey makes a number of unusual public appearances, including an unscheduled visit to MTV's Total Request Live. Rumors fly that the star had a mental breakdown.
• Area One music festival brings together a variety of acts including Moby, Incubus, Outkast, New Order, Nelly Furtado, The Roots, Rinocerose, Paul Oakenfold, and Carl Cox.
• Napster's popularity peaks
• Elastica disband
• Toadies disband
• Apollo Sunshine forms
• Audioslave forms
• Die Trying forms
• Franz Ferdinand forms
• Revolution forms
• Zebra forms again
• Zwan forms

• Helmut Lachenmann - Grido (string quartet)

• Just Push Play - Aerosmith
• 10,000 Hz Legend - Air
• ANThology - Alien Ant Farm
• Underground Network - Anti-Flag
• Wages of Sin - Arch Enemy
• End Is Forever - The Ataris
• The Metal Opera - Tobias Sammet's Avantasia
• The Process Of Belief - Bad Religion (released in the United States in 2002)
• - Barenaked Ladies
• This Is Where I Came In - Bee Gees
• Vespertine - Björk
• Lions - The Black Crowes
• Take Off Your Pants And Jacket - Blink-182
• How I Spent My Summer Vacation - The Bouncing Souls
• Comfort Eagle - Cake
• Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom
• Ten New Songs - Leonard Cohen
• Wake Up And Smell The Coffee - The Cranberries
• Weathered - Creed
• Everyday - Dave Matthews Band
• Day of the Death - Death By Stereo (released in Europe in 2000)
• Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia - Dimmu Borgir
• The Sickness - The Disturbed
• Sing Loud, Sing Proud - Dropkick Murphys
• Sinner - Drowning Pool
• Love and Theft - Bob Dylan
• Mandrake - Edguy
• - Emperor
• In Search of Truth - Evergrey
• Suburban Blight - F-Minus
• Falconer - Falconer
• Jaktens Tid - Finntroll
• Enjoy Yourself - Frantic Flintstones
• Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards - Lars Frederiksen
• The Argument - Fugazi
• No World Order - Gamma Ray
• Light of Day, Day of Darkness - Green Carnation
• International SuperHits - Green Day
• International SuperVideos - Green Day (DVD Relese)
• Warning - Green Day
• Trace - Gridlock
• Covered With Ants - Guttermouth
• Live Insurrection - Rob Halford
• Scattered, Smothered and Covered - Hootie & the Blowfish
• Horror Show - Iced Earth
• Morning View - Incubus
• Mechanized Warfare - Jag Panzer
• Arrival - Journey
• The Essential Journey - Journey
• Demolition - Judas Priest
• Karma - Kamelot
• Cocky - Kid Rock
• Violent Revolution - Kreator
• Unleashed Memories - Lacuna Coil
• Lenny - Lenny Kravitz
• Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
• V / Ecstatic Fanatic - Live
• Roll On - The Living End
• Wonders of the World - Long Beach Dub Allstars
• Awakening the World - Lost Horizon
• Word Of Mouf - Ludacris
• Greatest Hits - Tim McGraw
• The World Needs A Hero - Megadeth
• Destination Unknown - Mest
• God Says No - Monster Magnet
• The Big Combo - New Bomb Turks
• ''No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Silver Side Up - Nickelback
• Rock Steady - No Doubt
• Conspiracy Of One - The Offspring
• Blackwater Park - Opeth
• Down To Earth - Ozzy Osbourne
• Land Of The Free - Pennywise
• Anyone's For Doomsday - Powerman 5000
• Freaked Out and Small - Presidents of the United States of America
• Nuclear Fire - Primal Fear
• Come Clean - Puddle Of Mudd
• We Are Puss - Puss
• Amnesiac - Radiohead
• Mutter - Rammstein
• Revolving Around The World - Revolution
• My Heart Is In Your Hands - Revolution
• Rain of a Thousand Flames - Rhapsody
• Poets and Madmen - Savatage
• Laundry Service - Shakira
• God Hates Us All - Slayer
• IOWA - Slipknot
• Pretty Together - Sloan
• Greatest Hits (2-Disc) - The Smashing Pumpkins
• Silence - Sonata Arctica
• Spy Kids 1 - Soundtrack
• Break The Cycle - Staind
• Sound-Dust - Stereolab
• Is This It - The Strokes
• Start Static - Sugarcult
• All Killer No Filler - Sum 41
• Live on the Edge of Forever - Symphony X
• Toxicity- System of a Down
• Secrets of the Runes - Therion
• Mink Car - They Might Be Giants
• From Chaos - 311
• Lateralus - Tool
• - The Tossers
• World of Glass - Tristania
• Fuel For Life - The Turbo AC's
• Product Of Television - UP SyNDROME
• Weezer (2001) - Weezer
• Don't Tell the Band - Widespread Panic
• Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams
• The Sinister Urge - Rob Zombie

• "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You" - Brooks & Dunn
• "Crawling" - Linkin Park
• "Hey Baby" - No Doubt
• "I Hope You Dance" - Lee Ann Womack
• "In The End" - Linkin Park
• "Million Miles Away" - The Offspring
• "My Baby" - Lil Romeo
• "One Step Closer" - Linkin Park
• Revolving Around The World - Revolution
• "Spy Kids Theme" - Fonda
• "Want You Bad" - The Offspring
• "Whenever Wherever"/"Suerte" - Shakira

Top 10 selling albums of the year

1. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
2. Shaggy - Hotshot
3. NSYNC - No Strings Attached
4. Enya - A Day Without Rain
5. Staind - Break The Cycle
6. Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor
7. Destiny's Child - Survivor
8. Creed - Weathered
9. Soundtrack - O Brother, Where Art Thou
10. Various Artists - Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 6

• 42nd Street     Broadway revival opened at the Ford Center on May 2
• A Class Act     Broadway production opened at the Ambassador Theatre on March 11 and ran for 105 performances
• Mamma Mia     Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 18
• The Producers     Broadway production opened at St. James Theatre on April 19
• Urinetown     Broadway production opened at the Hudson Theatre on September 20 and ran for 965 performances

• Moulin Rouge released May 18, starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor

Deaths

• February 13 - George Simon, Music critic and original Glenn Miller Band drummer, pneumonia
• February 19 - Charles Trenet, French singer, songwriter
• February 21 - Ronnie Hilton
• February 21 - Malcolm Yelvington
• February 22 - John Fahey, guitarist, indie label owner
• March 18 - John Phillips, cofounder of Popular Music group The Mamas and the Papas
• March 28 - Moe Koffman (73), Canadian Jazz singer
• April 15 - Joey Ramone, lead singer for The Ramones
• April 20 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, composer and conductor
• June 21 - John Lee Hooker, 83, Blues musician
• June 30 - Chet Atkins, 77, country musician
• July 27 - Leon Wilkeson, 49, Bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd
• August 25 - Aaliyah, 22, American singer and actress
• September 22 - Isaac Stern, 81, violinist
• November 29 - George Harrison, 58, musician and former member of The Beatles
• December 13 - Chuck Schuldiner, 34, vocalist and guitarist with Death
• December 16 - Stuart Adamson, Big Country

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Aerosmith, Solomon Burke, The Flamingos, Michael Jackson, Queen, Paul Simon, Steely Dan and Ritchie Valens
• Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Larry Norman, and Elvis Presley

• Grammy Awards of 2001

• Juno Awards of 2001
  • March 4 - Bruce Cockburn is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 2001

• Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - P.J. Harvey wins.