2004 in music explained
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2004.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Events
January–February
March–April
- March 2 – Britney Spears embarks on The Onyx Hotel Tour, her first tour in 2 years to support her fourth studio album, In The Zone.
- March 9 – Westlife member Brian McFadden leaves the band.
- March 10 – George Michael announces that Patience will be his last commercially released record. Future releases will be available from his web site in return for donations to his favourite charities.
- March 13 – Luciano Pavarotti gives his last performance in an opera, in Tosca at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
- March 23 – Usher releases his Confessions album selling 1.1 million copies its first week, making him the first R&B artist to ever accomplish that. The album would be the top seller of the year with four number one singles.
- April 6
- April 20 – Fear Factory returns after their 2002 breakup with the new album Archetype.
- April 26
- Deborah Voigt, sacked by Covent Garden for being too fat for an opera role, makes her recital debut to a rapturous reception at Carnegie Hall.
- Dream Theater performs at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
May–June
- May 1-2 – The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place in California. Headlined by Radiohead and The Cure, the lineup also features Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Belle and Sebastian, Muse, MF Doom, Basement Jaxx, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Kraftwerk and Kool Keith.
- May 10 Blender magazine's May issue includes a "50 Worst Songs Ever!" list. "We Built This City," by Starship, is rated worst.
- Peter Tägtgren replaces Mikael Åkerfeldt In Bloodbath.
- Keane release Hopes and Fears which becomes the 16th best selling album of the millennium in the UK. It went 8× platinum and was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the BRIT award for best album.
- May 12–15 – The 49th Eurovision Song Contest, held at Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, is won by Ukrainian singer Ruslana with the song "Wild Dances". It is the first contest to take place as a multi-date event.
- May 18-23 – The European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) is held in Basel.
- May 24 – Madonna starts The Re-Invention Tour in 20 cities with a total of 56 shows and making it the most successful concert tour of the year with a gross of $124.5 million.
- May 25
- May 26 – Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of American Idol, defeating Diana DeGarmo.
- May 28 – June 6 – The Rock in Rio concert festival is staged in Lisbon, Portugal under the name Rock in Rio Lisboa. Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Britney Spears and Sting headline each of the six days.
- June 4
- June 5-6 – The annual Download Festival takes place at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, with Linkin Park and Metallica headlining the main stage. Pennywise and HIM headline the Snickers "Game On" stage, while the Barfly stage is headlined by Peaches and SuicideGirls.
- June 7 – The Killers released their first album Hot Fuss.
- June 8 – Velvet Revolver released their first album Contraband.
- June 10 – Ray Charles dies at the age of 73 from acute liver disease.
- June 11 – The Van Halen Summer Tour 2004 kicks off in Greensboro, North Carolina, marking the return of Sammy Hagar on vocals for the first time since his acrimonious departure from the band in 1996.
- June 12 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 12th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
- June 22 – 14th annual Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for July 17, is cancelled. Organizers cite "poor ticket sales". (See: Lollapalooza 2004 lineup.)
- June 23 – UK DJ Tony Blackburn is suspended by radio station Classic Gold Digital for playing songs by Cliff Richard, against station policy.
- June 25
July–August
- July 10
- Ex-S Club star Rachel Stevens sets a world record for completing the fastest promotional circuit in just 24 hours- including a run for the charity Sport Relief.
- American Idol winner Fantasia becomes the first artist in history to debut at number-one on the Hot 100 with a first record.
- July 11 – McFly debut at #1 on the UK album charts with Room On The 3rd Floor. They break the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at #1 on the album charts.
- July 20 – Van Halen releases The Best of Both Worlds, a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals.
- July 24 – The Robert Smith organized Curiosa Festival kicks off with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida. Performing along with The Cure are Interpol, The Rapture, Mogwai, Cursive, Muse, Head Automatica, Thursday, Scarling., The Cooper Temple Clause, and Melissa Auf der Maur.
- July 24–25 – The Splendour in the Grass music festival is held in Byron Bay, Australia, headlined by PJ Harvey & Jurassic 5.
- July 25 – The Doobie Brothers record and perform Live at Wolf Trap at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia. The live album was released two months later, on October 26.
- July 31
- Simon & Garfunkel perform a free concert in front of the Colosseum in Rome for an audience of 600,000 people.[2]
- Dispatch performs their last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, Massachusetts.
- August 8 – Dave Matthews Band's tour bus dumps 800 lb (360 kg) of human feces from a Chicago bridge, intending to unload it in the river, but it lands on an architecture tour boat. The bus driver and the band are sued by the state of Illinois.
- August 15 – Phish performs their final concert at a two-day festival in Coventry, Vermont.
- August 17 – Moments in Grace release their debut studio album Moonlight Survived.
- August 23 – The Prodigy release their much anticipated and postponed first full-length album Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned, 7 years after 1997's The Fat Of The Land.
September–October
November–December
- November 4 – Three members of the band RAM, who all lived in a neighborhood known for its support of the recently deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are detained by Haitian police during a concert performance in Port-au-Prince; no charges are ever filed or official explanation for the detentions given.
- November 9 – Britney Spears releases her first compilation album titled .
- November 11 – Eric Clapton receives a CBE at Buckingham Palace.[3]
- November 12 – Eminem's fourth major studio album, Encore is released four days before schedule to combat Internet bootleggers. The album sells 710,000 copies in only three days and becomes Eminem's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts.
- November 16 – Destiny's Child released their fourth and final studio album Destiny Fulfilled by Columbia Records in North America.
- November 17 – Within Temptation release the single "Stand My Ground".
- November 21 – Casey Donovan is crowned winner of the second season of Australian Idol. Anthony Callea was named runner-up.
- November 24 – Brian & Eric Hoffman leave Deicide after a royalties dispute.
- November 30 – Jay-Z and Linkin Park's album "Collision Course" debuts at number #01 in the Billboard 200, later becoming the best-selling CD/DVD of that year.
- December 7 – Lindsay Lohan releases her début album, Speak.
- December 8 – Dimebag Darrell is murdered on stage while performing in Columbus, Ohio, by a deranged fan,[4] [5] who shoots the guitarist three times in the head with a 9mm Beretta handgun.[6] The gunman kills three other people and wounds a further three before being shot dead by police.
- December 11 – Steve Brookstein is crowned winner of the first series of The X Factor. G4 are named the runner-ups, while Tabby Callaghan and Rowetta Satchell finish in third and fourth place respectively.
- December 11–12 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 15th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas with Chevelle, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hoobastank, Incubus, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Music, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, The Shins, The Used, and Velvet Revolver.
- December 14 – Clint Lowery leaves Sevendust due to fights with band about gaining control of the band and doubts of the band's future after being released from their label TVT Records.
Bands formed
See Musical groups established in 2004
Bands on hiatus
Bands disbanded
See Musical groups disestablished in 2004
Bands re-formed
Albums released
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Unknown release dates
Popular songs
See also: Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2004.
Top 10 selling albums of the year in the US
- Confessions – Usher ~ 7,979,000
- Feels like Home – Norah Jones ~ 3,843,000
- Encore – Eminem ~ 3,517,000
- When the Sun Goes Down – Kenny Chesney ~ 3,072,000
- Under My Skin – Avril Lavigne ~ 2,970,000
- Live Like You Were Dying – Tim McGraw ~ 2,787,000
- Songs About Jane – Maroon 5 ~ 2,708,000
- Fallen – Evanescence ~ 2,614,000
- Autobiography – Ashlee Simpson ~ 2,577,000
- Now That's What I Call Music! 16 – Various ~ 2,560,000
Top 15 selling albums of the year globally
- Confessions – Usher
- Feels Like Home – Norah Jones
- Encore – Eminem
- How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – U2
- Under My Skin – Avril Lavigne
- Love. Angel. Music. Baby. – Gwen Stefani
- Greatest Hits – Robbie Williams
- Greatest Hits – Shania Twain
- Destiny Fulfilled – Destiny's Child
- Greatest Hits – Guns N' Roses
- Songs About Jane – Maroon 5
- American Idiot – Green Day
- Elephunk – The Black Eyed Peas
- – Britney Spears
- Anastacia – Anastacia
Classical music
- Michel van der Aa – Second self
- Louis Andriessen – Racconto dall'Inferno
- Cornelis de Bondt – Madame Daufine
- Elliott Carter – Réflexions
- George Crumb – Winds of Destiny for soprano, percussion quartet and piano
- Mario Davidovsky – Sefarad: Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes, baritone voice, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), percussion, violin and cello
- Joël-François Durand – Ombre/Miroir for flute and 14 instruments
- Ross Edwards – Concerto for Guitar and Strings[9]
- Ivan Fedele – Odos
- Lorenzo Ferrero – Guarini, the Master for violin and strings
- Philip Glass – Symphony No. 7 Toltec
- Georg Friedrich Haas – Haiku
- Hans Werner Henze – Sebastian im Traum
- Alun Hoddinott – Trombone Concerto
- York Höller – Ex Tempore
- Guus Janssen
- Memory Protect Extended
- Wankeling
- Karl Jenkins – In These Stones Horizons Sing
- Jan Klusák – Axis Temporum
- Rolands Kronlaks – Paion
- Hanna Kulenty – Run
- Theo Loevendie – De 5 Driften
- Frederik Magle – Souffle le vent, 1st symphonic poem from the suite Cantabile.
- Roderik de Man – Mensa Sa
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- Naxos Quartet No. 4 Children's Games
- Naxos Quartet No. 5
- Marijn Simons
- Symphony No 1, Opus 26
- String Quartet No. 3, Opus 27
- Dobrinka Tabakova
- Concerto for Viola and Strings
- Schubert Arpeggione, arrangement for string orchestra
- Suite in Old Style for viola, strings and harpsichord
- Whispered Lullaby for viola and piano
Opera
Jazz
See main article: 2004 in jazz.
Musical theater
Musical films
Births
- January 4 – Alexa Curtis, Australian singer, Winner of The Voice Kids Australia, Coach was Delta Goodrem
- January 10 – Kaitlyn Maher, American child singer and actress
- January 15 – Grace VanderWaal, American musician, singer/songwriter, ukulele player
- March 21 - Anton, South Korean singer (Riize)
- April 20 – Redveil, American rapper
- June 4 – Mackenzie Ziegler, American dancer, singer, actress and model
- June 5 – Iván Cornejo, American regional Mexican music singer-songwriter
- June 10 – Gayle, American singer
- August 31 – Jang Won-young, South Korean singer (IVE)
- September 1 – Iam Tongi, American singer
- October 9 – Theodor Andrei, Romanian singer
- November 21 – Yvngxchris, American rapper
- December 13 – Matt Ox, American rapper
- December 15 – quinn, American rapper
- December 16 – Ka$hdami, American rapper
- December 20 – Slump6s, American rapper
Deaths
January–February
- January 3 – Ronald Smith, 82, British pianist
- January 6 – Jimmy Hassell, 62, Guitarist/co-lead singer in The First Edition from 1972 to 1976
- January 12 – Randy VanWarmer, 48, songwriter and guitarist
- January 15 – Terje Bakken, 25, also known as Valfar, lead singer and founder of Norwegian black/folk metal band Windir (died of hypothermia in a blizzard)[10]
- January 16 – John Siomos, 56, drummer
- January 17
- Czeslaw Niemen, 65, Polish rock singer
- Tom Rowe, 53, musician
- January 22
- January 30 – Julius Dixson, 90, songwriter and record company executive
- February 3 – Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
- February 6 – Jørgen Jersild, 90, Danish composer and music educator
- February 8 – Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
- February 16 – Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
- February 21
- February 23
- February 24 – A.C. Reed, 77, blues saxophonist
March–April
- March 4 – John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL
- March 6 – Peggy DeCastro, 82, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters
- March 9 – Rust Epique, 36, guitarist (Crazy Town)
- March 10 – Dave Schulthise, 47, punk bassist (The Dead Milkmen)
- March 11 – Edmund Sylvers, 47, lead singer of The Sylvers
- March 13 – Vilayat Khan, 75, sitar player
- March 15 – Eva Likova, 84, operatic soprano
- March 16 – Vilém Tauský, 93, Czech conductor and composer
- March 18
- March 21 – Johnny Bristol, 65, singer, songwriter and record producer
- March 26 – Jan Berry, 62, US singer of Jan and Dean
- March 30 – Timi Yuro, 63, soul and R&B singer and songwriter
- April 1 – Paul Atkinson, 58, guitarist for The Zombies
- April 3 – Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer
- April 6 – Niki Sullivan, 66, guitarist for The Crickets
- April 9 – Harry Babbitt, 90, US singer with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
- April 10 – Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
- April 15
- Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly musician
- Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
May–June
- May 1 – Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
- May 6 – Barney Kessel, 80, jazz guitarist
- May 11 – John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist (shot dead)
- May 12 – John LaPorta, 84, Jazz clarinetist, composer and educator
- May 19 – Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
- May 23 – Gundars Mauševics, 29, Latvian guitarist of Brainstorm
- May 31 – Robert Quine, 61, guitarist
- June 2 – Billboard, 25, rapper, The Game's best friend
- June 4 – Irene Manning, 91, US actress, singer and dancer
- June 6 – Iona Brown, 63, conductor and violinist
- June 7 – Quorthon, 38, Swedish multi-instrumentalist, founder and songwriter of Bathory
- June 10 – Ray Charles, 73, US singer and pianist
- June 15 – James F. Arnold, 72, first tenor with the Four Lads
- June 17 – Jackie Paris, 77, US jazz singer
- June 27 – Sis Cunningham, 95, folk musician
July–August
- July 6 – Syreeta Wright, 57, singer (congestive heart failure, a side effect of cancer treatment)
- July 13
- July 21 – Jerry Goldsmith, 75, US composer, Academy Award winner
- July 22
- August 2 – Don Tosti, 81, American composer
- August 6
- August 9 – David Raksin, 92, US composer
- August 15 – William Herbert York, 85, bassist for Drifting Cowboys
- August 17 – Bernard Odum, 72, bass player for James Brown
- August 18 – Elmer Bernstein, 82, US composer
- August 20 – María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban Rumbera
- August 26 – Laura Branigan, 52, US singer (brain aneurysm)
- August 31 – Carl Wayne, 61, vocalist (The Move)
September–October
- September 2
- September 11 – Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
- September 12
- September 15 – Johnny Ramone, 55, US guitarist and founding member of The Ramones (prostate cancer)
- September 16 – Izora Armstead, 62, member of The Weather Girls
- September 19 - Skeeter Davis, 72, singer
- September 29 – Heinz Wallberg, 81, German conductor[11]
- September 30 – Jacques Levy, 69, songwriter and theatre director
- October 1 – Bruce Palmer, 58, bassist of Buffalo Springfield
- October 7 – Miki Matsubara, 44, Japanese composer and singer
- October 19 – Greg Shaw, 55, music historian and record label owner
- October 25 – John Peel, 65, British DJ and broadcaster (heart attack)
- October 28 – Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer
November–December
- November 1
- November 12 – Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer
- November 13
- November 14 – Michel Colombier, 65, composer
- November 18 – Cy Coleman, 75, US composer
- November 19 – Terry Melcher, 62, musician and producer
- November 24 – James Wong Jim, 63, Cantopop lyricist and songwriter
- December 2 – Kevin Coyne, 60, singer, composer and guitarist
- December 4 - Willem Duyn, 67, singer of Mouth and MacNeal
- December 5 – Bill Maybray, 60, lead singer of The Jaggerz (cancer)
- December 8 – Dimebag Darrell, 38, former Pantera guitarist (shot to death in Ohio)
- December 13 – Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for The Nils (suicide)
- December 14 – Sidonie Goossens, 105, harpist
- December 16 -Freddie Perren, 61, songwriter, producer, arranger and conductor
- December 19 – Renata Tebaldi, 82, operatic soprano
- December 20 – Son Seals, 62, blues musician
- December 26 – Sigurd Køhn, 45, Norwegian jazz saxophonist (tsunami)
- December 27 – Hank Garland, 74, Nashville session guitarist
- December 30 – Artie Shaw, 94, Swing Era Clarinetist and Bandleader
Awards
The following artists were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Jackson Browne, The Dells, George Harrison, Prince, Bob Seger, Traffic, ZZ Top.
ARIA Music Awards
- ARIA Music Awards of 2004
BRIT Awards
Country Music Association Awards
Eurovision Song Contest
Grammy Awards
Juno Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
Charts
Triple J Hottest 100
See also
External links
For a more detailed list of hits or albums by month, see:
Notes and References
- Web site: Clapton's Guitar Sells For $959,000 . June 25, 2004 . . March 3, 2013.
- Web site: Simon and Garfunkel play huge gig . August 1, 2004 . . March 3, 2013.
- Web site: Ex-rebel Clapton receives his CBE . November 4, 2004 . . March 3, 2013.
- News: Former Friend: Gunman Obsessed With Pantera . Associated Press . December 8, 2004 .
- News: Darrell Abbott, 38, a Guitarist Featured in Heavy-Metal Bands, Dies . New York Times . Ben . Ratliff . 2004-12-10.
- Book: Chris Arnold. James Niggemeyer. A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa. 21 October 2011. 15 March 2007. MJS Music & Entertainment. 978-0-9762917-7-0. 244–.
- Web site: Coachwhips. Narnack Records. July 2, 2015. July 3, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150703004347/http://www.narnackrecords.com/releases2.php?release=85. dead.
- "Crwth" (archive from 14 March 2017; accessed 2 June 2018).
- http://discoveraustralianmusic.com/recording/white-ghost-dancing/ Discover Australian Music
- Web site: Metal Underground Web Article: Windir Frontman, Valfar (a.k.a. Terje Bakken), Found Dead at 25.
- News: Heinz Wallberg, chef d'orchestre allemand . 6 November 2021 . . 2 October 2004 . fr.
