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Events

January

George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame. Imogen Cooper, John Rutter and Rod Stewart are awarded the CBE.
Rumours circulate that The Police will reunite for a tour after 23 years to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of "Roxanne". However, there are no plans for an album featuring new material.¹² On January 30, the band announce that they would perform at the opening of the 49th annual Grammy Awards on February 11³ and subsequently announce The Police Reunion Tour.
Rumours circulate that Timbaland may have appropriated his ringtone Block Party and the related beat to Nelly Furtado's "Do It." See 2007 Timbaland plagiarism controversy.

Lebanese-born UK popstar Mika's music career begins after signing to Universal Records UK.

February

February 5 — UK popstar, Mika releases his highly anticipated album Life In Cartoon Motion, kickstarting his very famous international career with the debut single Grace Kelly.
February 7 — Frontman Billy Corgan reveals that The Smashing Pumpkins would finally release the first reunion album Zeitgeist on July 7.⁴ This would be the band's first widely released album since 2000s Machina/The Machines of God with the last Smashing Pumpkins album Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music being restricted to only 25 copies upon initial release.
February 11 — the 49th Grammy Awards aired on CBS, presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Singer Christina Aguilera performed "It's Man's Man's Man's World" a tribute to the Godfather of Soul James Brown. The stunning performance was the talk of the show; Aguilera also took home her fifth Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance In addition to a successful music year, Carrie Underwood became the first American Idol contestant ever to win the Grammy for Best New Artist.
February 16 — American Rock band Audioslave break up after Chris Cornell leaves band because of "Musical Differences".
February 20 — Christina Aguilera began her second leg of her Back to Basics Tour in the US. The tour would go on to become the highest grossing tour for a female artist in 2007.
February 27 — American rock parody band Tenacious D released their movie, Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny on DVD.
February 28 — it was announced that the American early 80s punk band Circle Jerks had released a new song, titled "I'm Gonna Live", which can also be heard on their Myspace page.⁵ Rumors are swirling that the band is also supposedly gearing up to release their follow-up to 1995's Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities.

March

March 1 — Angela Hacker was voted by viewers to be the 2007 champion of the televised singing competition Nashville Star. By virtue of her win, she was signed to a record deal with Warner Bros. Records.
March 12 — Matchbook Romance announces that they are taking an indefinite hiatus, after ten years of their career, as all members decided to go their separate ways.⁶
March 12 — Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, R.E.M., The Ronettes, Patti Smith and Van Halen inducted in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
March 16 — Bad Religion revealed that their new album would be called New Maps of Hell.⁷
March 21 — Toshimitsu Deyama announces that he has been recording with Yoshiki after ten years.
March 25 — Elton John plays Madison Square Garden for the 60th time to celebrate his 60th birthday. With the concert, John set the record for most performances by an artist at the venue. Longtime songwriting partner Bernie Taupin made an appearance, as well as celebrities Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams and former President Bill Clinton. John performed songs from his back catalogue, including "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun" and "Roy Rogers", some of which, the band hadn't played in nearly 30 years.

April

April 7 — Soulster Joss Stone's third studio album Introducing Joss Stone debuts at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming the highest debut entry by a British female solo artist on the U.S. chart; this outdid the record previously held by Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, which had debuted at number seven on the tally the previous week.
April 15 — Cluster reunites for first concert since 1996. A tour of Europe followed.
April 17 — Arcturus officially announced that they would be splitting up due to the fact that they were too busy with other matters to focus on progressing with the band.
April 19 — Joey Jordison of Slipknot becomes a Session Member of Korn.
April 22 — Patrick Wolf told fans on his message board that he was retiring from the music business.⁸ However, he later revoked this, saying that he will merely be on hiatus⁹
April 23 — Bevan Davies replaces Will Hunt due to his commitments of Dark New Day & Vince Neil as the other replacement drummer for Nick Oshiro of Static-X.
April 27 – April 29 — Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Coachella, CA

May

May 8 — The rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony come up with Strength and Loyalty album since their last one in 2002.
May 11 — Guitarist Chickn posted a message on MySpace, confirming that D.I. would finally release the long-awaited first reunion album On the Western Front on August 7.¹⁰ This would be their first official album featuring new material since 1994's State of Shock.
May 12 — The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was held in Helsinki, Finland. It was won by Serbia.
May 15 — Minutes To Midnight by Linkin Park sales more than 600,000 copies in the USA and more than 1,000,000 worldwide and to the date is the most selling album in the first week.
May 16 – May 20 — The European Festival of Youth Choirs is currently being held in Basel, Switzerland.
May 19 — The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the fifteenth annual Weenie Roast. Bands that played there were: Linkin Park, Social Distortion, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Bravery, Silversun Pickups, ~~The Killers~~ → Incubus, Korn, Bad Religion, Rise Against, Tim Armstrong, Peter Bjorn and John, Tiger Army, and Plain White T's.¹¹
May 23 — Jordin Sparks of Arizona wins Season 6 of American Idol.
May 25 – May 28 — Salzburg Festival
May 26 – May 27 — Sasquatch! Music Festival
May 30 – June 5 — The Peel Bay Festival Isle of Man TT

June

June 4 — Yoshiki announces that X Japan would reunite for a new tour and a single.
June 8 – June 10 — Download Festival
June 14 — Daft Punk came back in Paris for a show, ten years after their last performance in the French capital.
June 22 – June 23 — Radio Expres Festival - the first music festival of Slovak radio station Rádio Expres
June 22 – June 25 — Glastonbury Festival
June 28 — Spice Girls announce their reunion at the O2 in London in a press conference televised worldwide.
June 29 – July 1 — Heineken Open'er Festival took place in Babie Doły military airport, Gdynia, Poland. Confirmed bands that will play there are: Beastie Boys, Björk, Muse, The Roots, Sonic Youth, Bloc Party, LCD Soundsystem, Groove Armada, Dizzee Rascal, Laurent Garnier, Crazy P, The Strike Boys, Freeform Five.

July

July 1 — The Concert for Diana in honour of Lady Diana's 46th birthday takes place in the Wembley Stadium in London. Performing acts included Duran Duran, Elton John, Fergie, Joss Stone, Kanye West, Nelly Furtado, Rod Stewart, and Tom Jones.
July 7 — Live Earth, worldwide series of concerts to initiate action against global warming. Acts include: Linkin Park, Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Bon Jovi, Fall Out Boy, Shakira, John Mayer, Rihanna, Beastie Boys, Duran Duran, Madonna, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, Spinal Tap, Jack Johnson, Lenny Kravitz, Metallica as well as the reunited bands The Police, Genesis, The Smashing Pumpkins and Crowded House.
July 7 – July 8 — T In The Park, Oxegen 2007
July 17 — Joe Payne joins Divine Heresy.
July 27 — Atom Willard leaves The Offspring and is replaced by former Face to Face and Saves the Day drummer Pete Parada.

August

August 4 – August 11 — The Three Choirs Festival will be held at Gloucester.
August 11 – August 12 — The eighth annual Summer Sonic Festival was held. Bands that played there were: Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Bloc Party, The Horrors, Interpol, The Offspring, Sum 41, Metallica and We Are Scientists.¹²
August 24 – August 26 — Carling Weekend—Reading and Leeds Festivals
August 31 – September 2 — Electric Picnic 2007
August Bank Holiday (last weekend in August) — Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival

September

September — Meegs Rascon of Glass Piñata states a possibility of a Coal Chamber reunion.
September 3 — My Chemical Romance lead singer, Gerard Way, marries Mindless Self Indulgence bassist, Lyn-Z, backstage at Projekt Revolution in Denver, Colorado
September 4 — Small Faces and Don Arden plaque unveiled at 52-55 Carnaby Street, London, England¹³
September 8 — "Weird Al" Yankovic performs his 1,000th live show at Idaho Falls, Idaho.¹⁴
September 9 — Sonata Arctica will play for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico.
September 9 — Britney Spears opened the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards held in the Palms Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
September 12 – October 1 — Prague Autumn International Music Festival
September 20 – September 23 — 4th annual Decibel Festival, Seattle
September 22 – September 29 — 35th North Wales International Music Festival will be held at St Asaph.
September 24 — Patrick Watson's album Close to Paradise wins the Canadian Polaris Music Prize for 2007.

October

Placebo's drummer Steve Hewitt left the band, citing "personal and musical differences" as the cause of the split.
October 1 - Jonny Greenwood, the guitarist of Radiohead announces on the band's site that they will release the new album In Rainbows in ten days, which consumers could pay whatever price they wanted for.
October 4 — Fred Mascherino announces his departure from Taking Back Sunday, to pursue his solo career called The Color Fred.
October 9 - Hard rock band Alter Bridge releases their sophomore album Blackbird. They are currently on tour in support of the release.
Godsmack goes on Hiatus.
October 18 — X Japan official site announces that the band will perform the song "I.V." (main theme of Saw IV) on October 22.
October 22 — X Japan performs for the first time in ten years and announces a concert in Tokyo in spring, followed by a world tour.
October 27 — Interpol, Yo La Tengo, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Horrors, TeddyBears and other bands will appear on the Manifest Festival, at Mexico City.
October 23 — Carrie Underwood released her sophomore album Carnival Ride. To this date, the album has gone 3 times platinum.
October 30 — The Backstreet Boys sixth studio album Unbreakable that without Kevin Richardson , who made the decision to pursue other interests, and this album would include various music styles, combining their earlier late-1990s sound with their more recent guitar-driven pop rock sound.
October 30 — Britney Spears releases her highly anticipated fifth studio album Blackout.

November

November 1 — The MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 takes place at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany
November 2 — Drummer of death metal band Decapitated, Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka, dies at 23 due to complications after automobile accident in Russia.
November 7 — Sevendust announces they will head into the studio by the end of November to work on their 7th studio album entiled The 7th Chapter and gave a release date being March 4, 2008.
November 10 — Powerman 5000 goes on Hiatus.
November 11 — American popstar Madonna's Box Set album Hung Up: The Album Collection hits stores worldwide. Also, Kylie Minogue releases her first album since she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in May 2005, X, which features the first two singles "2 Hearts" and "Promises," which both debuted at #1 on the ARIA Charts.
November 12 — OneRepublic breaks Top 40 Radio Airplay record with "Apologize".
November 20 — OneRepublic releases their debut album, 'Dreaming Out Loud.
November 24 — Hawthorne Heights guitarist/backing vocalist Casey Calvert dies in his sleep at 26.
November 25 — Natalie Gauci became the winner of Australian Idol 2007 at the Sydney Opera House, beating Matt Corby for the title. Instead of being Number 1, Gauci's winning single "Here I Am" will now debut at Number 2 to enter the Australian Idol record which marked the very first Australian Idol single not making it to Number 1. On that week The Number 1 single was Timbaland with OneRepublic with "Apologize" coupled with Madonna's "Hung Up" staying at #1 for the record-breaking 7 week run.
November 27 — Harmonia reunited for their first concert since 1976 in Berlin.

Bands on hiatus

Allister (hiatus)

Damiera (on hiatus in April 2007, reformed with new members in June 2007)

The Early November (indefinite hiatus)

Evanescence (indefinite hiatus) ¹⁵

Los Hermanos (indefinite hiatus)

Matchbook Romance (indefinite hiatus)

Nickel Creek (hiatus)

Yourcodenameis:milo (indefinite hiatus)

Position

Album Title

Artist

High School Musical 2 (soundtrack)

High School Musical 2

Back to Black

Amy Winehouse

Noël

Josh Groban

The Best Damn Thing

Avril Lavigne

Long Road Out Of Eden

The Eagles

Minutes to Midnight

Linkin Park

As I Am

Alicia Keys

Call Me Irresponsible

Michael Bublé

Life in Cartoon Motion

Mika

Not Too Late

Norah Jones

Musical film

Hairspray - an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, itself adapted from John Waters' 1988 comedy film. It was released July 20, 2007.

Across the Universe a musical which tells a love story during war times, using adapted versions of music from The Beatles. It was widely released October 12, 2007.

The film Once a self proclaimed modern-musical is released. It would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Song for the song Falling Slowly

Deaths

January 1—Del Reeves, American country singer, 74, Diana Sear the guitarist comes to P.O.D., 57

January 6—Pete Kleinow, American steel gutairist of Flying Burrito Brothers, 72

January 8—Mercedes Murciano, Cuban member of Miami Sound Machine, 49. Correct spelling. Death from pneumonia.

January 13—Michael Brecker, popular US jazz saxophonist of the post-Coltrane era, 57

January 16—Thornton James "Pookie" Hudson, 73 (The Spaniels)

January 17—Uwe Nettlebeck, German producer and founder of progressive rock band Faust, age unknown

January 18—Brent Liles, original bassist of the influential American punk band Social Distortion, 43

January 19—Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter of The Mamas & the Papas, 66

January 22—Disco D, an American music producer and composer.

January 28—Karel Svoboda, composer, 68

January 31—Kirka Babitzin, singer, former Eurovision representative for Finland, 56

February 1—Gian Carlo Menotti, composer, 95

February 4—Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian songwriter (Nautilus Pompilius), 47

February 6

Billy Henderson, American vocalist with The Spinners, known in the UK as The Detroit Spinners, 67
Frankie Laine, American singer, 93

February 8—Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader (The Funk Brothers), 79

February 15—Ray Evans, American songwriter, 92

February 18—John "Bam Bam" Lane, American drummer (Bill Haley & His Comets), 76

February 19—Janet Blair, American actress and singer, 85

February 23

Donnie Brooks, American pop singer, 71
Ian Wallace, British drummer (King Crimson), 60

February 28—Billy Thorpe, British-born Australian rock performer, 60

March 7—Frigyes Hidas, Hungarian composer, 88

March 9—Brad Delp, American lead singer of 1970s AOR band Boston, 55

March 19—Luther Ingram, American singer, 69

April 5—Mark St. John, American guitarist (Kiss, White Tiger), 51

April 9—Egon Bondy, Czech singer and songwriter (Plastic People of the Universe), 77

April 10—Dakota Staton, US jazz vocalist, 74

April 14—Don Ho, Hawaiian musician, 76

April 17—Kitty Carlisle, US actress and singer, 96

April 20-Andrew Hill, 75

April 25—Bobby "Boris" Pickett, US singer, "Monster Mash", 69

April 26—San Fadyl, American drummer (The Ladybug Transistor), 31

April 27—Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor, 80

April 30

Zola Taylor, American female vocalist with The Platters, 69
Grégory Lemarchal, French singer, 23

May 6—Đorđe Novković, Croatian songwriter, 63

May 20—Ben Weisman, pianist/composer of several Elvis Presley film songs, 95

May 27—Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard), 40

June 1—Tony Thompson, American singer (Hi-Five), 36

June 4—Freddie Scott, American singer, 74

June 8—Nellie Lutcher, US jazz and pop singer and pianist, 94

June 18—Hank Medress, American singer (The Tokens), 67

June 24—Natasja, Danish / Jamaican reggae singer, 33

June 29—George McCorkle, American guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band)

July 2—Hy Zaret, US lyricist, 98

July 3—Boots Randolph, American saxophonist, 80

July 4—Bill Pinkney, American vocalist; last original member of The Drifters, 81.

July 5—George Melly, Jazz vocalist/broadcaster, 80.

July 8—Jindřich Feld, Czech composer, 82

July 11—Rod Lauren, US singer and actor, 67

July 15—Kelly Johnson, British guitarist (Girlschool), 49

July 23—Ron Miller, Motown songwriter/producer, 74

July 29—Trevor Hudson, American bassist (Bottom of the Hudson), 27

August 4—Lee Hazlewood, American singer and songwriter, 78

August 10—Anthony Wilson, music entrepreneur, founder of factory Records, 57

August 12—Merv Griffin, US band singer, television producer and land developer, 82

August 16—Max Roach, American jazz drummer, 83

September 3-Carter Albrecht, Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians, 33 shot

September 6—Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, 71

September 9 - Hughie Thomasson, American guitarist, 55

September 10 - Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician, 31

September 11

Willie Tee, American singer/songwriter, 63
Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (Weather Report), 75

September 12 - Bobby Byrd, soul/funk singer, 73

September 15 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan composer, pianist and conductor, 79

September 25 — Patrick Bourque, member of Emerson Drive, 29

October 9 - Lady Jaye, Psychic TV

October 16 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer, 26

October 17 - Teresa Brewer, American singer, 76

October 18 - Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician, 43

October 20 - Paul Raven, 46

October 23 - Ursula Vaughan Williams, widow and inspiration of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 96

October 24 - Petr Eben, Czech composer

October 28 - Porter Wagoner, American country singer, 80

October 30 - Robert Goulet, American singer, 73

November 2 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer for death metal band Decapitated, 23

November 6 - Hank Thompson, American country singer and guitarist, 82

November 12 - Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, Swiss singer, 90

November 16 - Grethe Kausland, Norweigen singer, 60

November 19

Paul Brodie, Canadian saxophonist, 73
Kevin DuBrow, American rock singer, Quiet Riot, 52
Wiera Gran, Polish singer, 91

November 20 - Ernest "Doc" Paulin, American jazz musician, 100

November 23 - Frank Guarrera, American singer, Metropolitan Opera, 83

November 24 - Casey Calvert, American guitarist, Hawthorne Heights, 26

November 27 - Cecil Payne, American saxophonist, 84

November 28

Fred Chichin, French musician, Les Rita Mitsouko, 53
Ashley Titus, South African rapper, 37

November 29 - Jim Nesbitt, American country singer, 75

November 30 - Patrick Mason, Bassist, Arsonists Get All the Girls, 21

December 3 - Sergio Gomez, Mexican lead singer of K-Paz de la Sierra band, 34

December 4 - Pimp C, American Southern rapper, UGK, 33

December 5 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German avant-garde composer, 79

December 12 - Ike Turner, rock-and-roll architect and former husband of Tina Turner, 76

December 16:

Dan Fogelberg, American singer/guitarist, 56
Harald Genzmer, German composer and teacher, 98

December 21 - Ruth Wallis, US singer, 87

December 22 - Joe Ames, Ames Brothers, 88

December 23 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke, 82

December 25 - Pat Kirkwood, English actress and singer, 86

December 26 - Joe Dolan, Irish singer, 68

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^ "Smashing Pumpkins Reveal Album Title, Release Date". Pitchfork Media (2007-02-07). Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
^ "Brand new Circle Jerks song streaming". Punknews.org (2007-02-28). Retrieved on 2007-03-01.
^ "Matchbook Romance (1997–2007)". Punknews.org (2007-03-12). Retrieved on 2007-03-13.
^ "Bad Religion to release "New Maps Of Hell" on July 10th". Pitchfork Media (2007-03-16). Retrieved on 2007-03-16.
^ "Patrick Wolf announces his retirement…".
^ "…and then denies it.".
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^ "KROQ Weenie Roast Lineup Announced". Ultimate-Guitar.com (2007-05-01). Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
^ "Offspring Confirm Summer Gig". Ultimate-Guitar.com (2007-03-16). Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
^ Westminster honours Small Faces and Don Arden with Green Plaque
^ "Weird Al" Yankovic: Live Performances
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^ IFPI - 50 Top Selling Albums 2007

2007 in music.html

Contents

Events

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Bands re-formed

Bands on hiatus

Albums released

Best-selling albums globally

Classical music

Instrumental works

Opera

Musical film

Musical theater

Musical television

Deaths

References

See also