1999 in music

Events

January

• January 7
  • After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.
  • Paul McCartney attends the launch of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia.
• January 11 – During the American Music Awards, Billy Joel is awarded the Special Award of Merit for his "inspired songwriting skills" and "exciting showmanship."
• January 12
  • Britney Spears releases her debut album, ...Baby One More Time, which would go on to sell 26 million copies. The album hits number one on the charts. The title track and first single released from the album, also hits number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1999.
  • Fredrik Johansson is fired from Dark Tranquillity.^[1]
• January 26 – Foxy Brown releases her second album, Chyna Doll, and becomes the first female rapper to debut an album at number 1.

February

• February 14 – Elton John appears as himself in a special episode of the animated series The Simpsons
• February 15 – "Rolling Stones Day" is declared in Minnesota by Governor (and former Rolling Stones bodyguard) Jesse Ventura
• Rapper Big L is killed in Harlem.
• February 19 – Marilyn Manson files a defamation countersuit against former Spin Magazine editor Craig Marks, in response to a multi-million dollar lawsuit that Marks filed in January against the singer, the record label Nothing/Interscope, and Manson's bodyguard agency.
• February 20 – Trace Adkins performs his first concert following surgery for tendon damage and a broken ankle. Contrary to doctor's orders, Adkins does not remain seated during the performance.
• February 23 - Eminem's The Slim Shady LP is released.
• February 25 – The Artist Formerly Known as Prince files a lawsuit against nine Web sites for copyright and trademark infringement, claiming that the websites sell bootlegged recordings and offer unauthorized song downloads.

March

• March 1 – Sony Music Distribution raises wholesale prices on audio compact discs by 8 US cents.
• March 2 – The House of Blues in Paradise, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Bob Dylan performs a concert at the club and is joined by U2's lead singer Bono for an encore of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
• March 5 – Trauma Records files a $40 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the members of Bush for failing to deliver a new album.
• March 6 – A 67 year old George Jones is seriously injured in a car accident while on his way home. Jones' Lexus crashed into a bridge at about 1:30 p.m. It is later revealed that alcohol was a factor in the accident.
• March 10 – Hikaru Utada releases her debut album First Love, selling 2,026,870 in its debut week. Two months later, First Love became the Japan's best-selling album of all time.
• March 15 – Marilyn Manson is injured when he slips and falls during a concert at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Manson's performance is cut short.
• March 21 – Irish girl band B*Witched score their fourth consecutive #1 with Blame It On The Weatherman on the UK singles chart. They become the first band to have all their first four singles enter at the top simultaneously and set a new record. It is broken a year later by Irish boy band Westlife.
• March 27 – The Bee Gees end their One Night Only tour in Sydney, Australia.

April

• April 10 – A charity tribute concert for Linda McCartney is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Here, There and Everywhere: A Concert For Linda, features performances by Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O'Connor, and George Michael. Proceeds raised at the event went to animal rights causes.
• April 19 – Neil Young performs at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Due to a mistake by a Madison Square Garden staff member, the marquee read "Bob Dylan, Tonight at 8pm". Young jokingly introduced one of his guitar players as Bob Dylan during the show.
• April 20
  • Billy Joel performs at Meadowlands in New Jersey. Joel announces that this would be his last public pop music concert. Joel also announces plans on devoting his future efforts to classical music.
  • Columbine High School massacre takes place in Jefferson County, Colorado, sparking a widespread moral panic that ultimately tries to place the blame on violent media, including music perceived to be violent and/or connected to the goth culture. American rocker Marilyn Manson receives the brunt of the blame, despite evidence that neither of the shooters were fans of his, and recludes, only to address the issue in the form of his fourth studio album. The finger is also pointed at German industrial metal acts Rammstein and KMFDM, of whom the shooters were fans. This sensationalism gradually wanes in the years following, and all three music acts ironically achieve more mainstream acceptance in the U.S. than they had prior to the massacre.
• April 26 - Musician and former bandleader of The Sound, Adrian Borland, commits suicide in London.
• April 28 – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• April 30 – Columbine High School massacre: Aerosmith visits Columbine High School shooting victim Lance Kirklin in a Colorado hospital before a concert in Denver, Colorado. Kirklin was one of 24 wounded in the April 20 shooting, 13 others were killed.

May

• May 1
  • "The Paintings of Paul McCartney" exhibit opens at the Lyz Art Forum in Siegen, Germany. The exhibit features around 70 paintings created by the former Beatle.
  • Musical group Atari Teenage Riot starts a riot in Berlin with their anti-consumer and anti-government lyrics. The riot was stopped with concert goers pleading for peace from the Swat crew ruthlessly beating down pedestrians. This band is under the label Digital Hardcore Recordings.
• May 18 – The American music group, the Backstreet Boys release their multi-platinum 3rd studio album Millennium, that spawned four Top 40 Billboard singles, and would go on to be the best-selling album of 1999. The album up to today has sold over 40 million copies and is in the 100 best-selling albums of all time.

June

• June 1
  • Pop punk band Blink-182 release their third studio album, Enema of the State, which would later sell 15 million copies worldwide.
  • The American actress Jennifer Lopez releases her debut album On the 6; the first single "If You Had My Love" reaches number one in U.S., Canada, and Australia.
• June 2 – Backstreet Boys smashes the old first-week sales record of Garth Brooks' 1.08 million, with (Millennium) which sold over 1.13 million in its first week and was the first album to sell over 500,000 copies at least 2 weeks. The album holds at No. 1 first-weeks sales record of the 1990s.
• June 8 – Red Hot Chili Peppers release Californication, the first album with John Frusciante in 8 years; the album goes on to sell 13 million copies worldwide.
• June 13 S Club 7 debut at #1 on the UK singles chart with their first single "Bring It All Back" and become the largest vocal group to enter at the top.
• June 15 Santana releases his best selling album Supernatural with the number one hits "Smooth" and "Maria Maria".

July

• July 1 – The new Scottish Parliament is formally opened with a rock concert in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle and is headlined by Garbage, of which, lead singer Shirley Manson, is at the time one of the biggest music stars from Scotland.
• July 3 – Indie rock icon Mark Sandman collapses on stage at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina, Latium, Italy (near Rome) while performing with Morphine. He is soon pronounced dead of a heart attack at the age of 46. Morphine immediately disbands.
• July 8 - Adrian Erlandsson quits The Haunted as the drummer while the band hires Per Möller Jensen as Erlandsson's replacement.
• July 12 – Gregg Alexander issues a press release dissolving the New Radicals.
• July 23–25 – The highly anticipated Woodstock 99 festival takes place in Rome, New York.

August

• August 24 – Christina Aguilera releases her self titled debut album. The album and first single, "Genie in a Bottle", both went to number one on the charts.
• August 27–29 – The third Terrastock festival is held in London.

September

• September 21 – Trent Reznor releases the fourth Nine Inch Nails album, The Fragile after a five-year hiatus to great critical acclaim.
• September 30 - Billboard announces that Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd is expanding into Australia after ending a partnership with MDS Dancenet and establishes Ministry of Sound Australia, known until 2005 as Ministry of Sound (UK) Pty Ltd. Ministry UK also secures a distribution deal with EMI Music Group Australasia Pty Ltd.^[2]

October

• October 9 - "Heartbreaker", the lead single from Mariah Carey's ninth studio album, Rainbow, reaches #1 on the Billboard 100, becoming her 14th #1 single and also her 59th week atop the chart. When it stayed at #1 for a further week Carey surpassed The Beatles for the act with the most weeks spent at number one. The song also topped charts in Canada and New Zealand.
• October 19 – Eurythmics releases first album in 10 years, Peace.

November

• November
  • 1970s rock star Gary Glitter is jailed for four months for downloading pornographic images of children on the Internet.
  • Australian independent record label Liberation Music is formed
• November 15 – Korn performs their entire album Issues at the Apollo Theater in New York city becoming the first rock band ever to perform at the Apollo.
• November 16 – Dr. Dre releases his second album, 2001; Korn releases their fourth studio album Issues.
• November 23 – Jessica Simpson releases her debut album, Sweet Kisses which would go on to sell 4 million copies. The first single, "I Wanna Love You Forever", both went to number three on the charts.

December

• December 4 – The Spice Girls starts their Christmas Tour around UK dubbed as Christmas in Spiceworld Tour.
• December 14 – BMI announces the most played songs on American radio and television in the 20th century [1] (full list)

Bands formed

• See Musical groups established in 1999

Bands reformed

• The Animals

Bands disbanded

• See Musical groups disestablished in 1999

Albums released

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December

Release Date Unknown

• Face Down – Serial Joe
• Hybrid Theory (EP) – Linkin Park
• Simple Pleasure – Tindersticks
• Where We Stand – Yellowcard

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1999.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	Britney Spears	...Baby One More Time	1999		UK 1 – Feb 1999, US BB 1 of 1999, Holland 1 – Jan 1999, Sweden 1 – Jan 1999, Austria 1 – Mar 1999, Switzerland 1 – Feb 1999, Norway 1 – Feb 1999, Australia 1 of 1999, Germany 1 – Feb 1999, Éire 1 – Feb 1999, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1999, Australia 1 for 9 weeks Jun 1999, Poland 3 – Mar 1999, France 6 – Jan 1999, Italy 7 of 1999, US BB 29 of 1999, POP 29 of 1999, Germany 41 of the 1990s, Scrobulate 91 of upbeat, RYM 95 of 1998, OzNet 814, Acclaimed 875
2	Lou Bega	Mambo No 5 (A Little Bit of ...)	1999		UK 1 – Sep 1999, Holland 1 – Jun 1999, Austria 1 – May 1999, Switzerland 1 – May 1999, Norway 1 – Jun 1999, Germany 1 – May 1999, Éire 1 – Aug 1999, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Sep 1999, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Jan 2000, Australia 3 of 1999, Italy 3 of 1999, POP 3 of 1999, Poland 4 – Jul 1999, US BB 4 of 1999, US BB 4 of 1999, Party 04 of 1999, Sweden 5 – Aug 1999, Germany 11 of the 1990s, RYM 189 of 1999
3	Eiffel 65	Blue (Da Ba Dee)	1999		UK 1 – Sep 1999, Holland 1 – Jul 1999, Sweden 1 – Aug 1999, Austria 1 – Aug 1999, Switzerland 1 – Jul 1999, Norway 1 – Aug 1999, Germany 1 – Jul 1999, Éire 1 – Sep 1999, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Nov 1999, Australia 1 for 9 weeks Mar 2000, Poland 1 for 2 weeks Jan 2000, US BB 6 of 2000, Italy 16 of 1999, Australia 20 of 1999, Germany 20 of the 1990s, US BB 32 of 1999, Party 103 of 1999, RYM 185 of 1998
4	TLC	No Scrubs	1999		US BB 1 of 1999, Éire 1 – May 1999, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Apr 1999, Australia 1 for 7 weeks Aug 1999, UK 3 – Apr 1999, Holland 3 – Mar 1999, Australia 4 of 1999, Switzerland 5 – Apr 1999, Germany 5 – Apr 1999, France 6 – Mar 1999, Norway 7 – Apr 1999, US BB 12 of 1999, Sweden 19 – Mar 1999, Poland 21 – Apr 1999, Austria 30 – May 1999, Italy 30 of 1999, POP 33 of 1999, Scrobulate 52 of rnb, RYM 55 of 1999, Acclaimed 268, Germany 302 of the 1990s, RIAA 361
5	Backstreet Boys	I Want It That Way	1999		Sweden 1 – Oct 1999, France 20 – Sep 1999, Norway 1 – Nov 1999, Germany 1 – Jan 2000, Éire 1 – May 2000, Austria 1 – Sep 1999, UK 1 – Apr 2000, Switzerland 1- Sep 1999, Italy 1 of 2000, Holland 1 – Oct 1999, US BB 18 of 2000, POP 18 of 2000, Poland 24 – Oct 1999, Australia 25 of 2000, RYM 41 of 1999, US BB 52 of 2000, Scrobulate 66 of fun, Germany 98 of the 1990s, Party 98 of 1999

Top Singles

• "9pm (Till I Come)" - ATB
• "All or Nothing" – Cher
• "Absolutely Everybody" – Vanessa Amorosi (debut)
• "All Star" – Smash Mouth
• "Aller plus haut" – Tina Arena
• "Almost Doesn't Count" – Brandy
• "Always Have, Always Will - Ace of Base
• "American Woman" – Lenny Kravitz
• "Amazed" – Lonestar
• "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" – Silverchair
• "Angel" – Sarah McLachlan
• "Angel of Mine" – Monica
• "As" - George Michael & Mary J. Blige
• "Au Nom de la rose" – Moos
• "...Baby One More Time" – Britney Spears (debut)
• "Back At One" – Brian McKnight
• "Bailamos" – Enrique Iglesias
• "Bawitdaba" – Kid Rock
• "Beautiful Stranger" – Madonna
• "Believe" – Cher
• "Better Off Alone" - Alice DeeJay
• "Big Big World" – Emilia
• "Bills, Bills, Bills" - Destiny's Child
• "Black Balloon" – Goo Goo Dolls
• "Blue Monday" – Orgy
• "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" – Eiffel 65
• "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom" - Vengaboys
• "Born to Make You Happy" – Britney Spears
• "Bring It All Back" – S Club 7
• "Bring It All To Me" – Blaque
• "Burning Down the House" – Tom Jones featuring The Cardigans
• "Candy" – Mandy Moore (debut)
• "Can't Fight the Moonlight" – LeAnn Rimes
• "The Carpet Crawlers 1999" – Genesis
• "Cherish the Day" – Sade
• "Desert Rose" – Sting
• "Dizzy" – Goo Goo Dolls
• "Don't Say You Love Me" – M2M
• "Dov'e l'amore - Cher
• "Down So Long" – Jewel
• "Electricity" - Suede
• "Everlasting Night" – Dannii Minogue
• "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" – Baz Luhrmann
• "Everyday I Love You" - Boyzone
• "Everything You Want" – Vertical Horizon
• "Every Morning" – Sugar Ray
• "Falling Away From Me" – KoЯn
• "Flat Beat" - Mr. Oizo
• "Flying Without Wings" – Westlife (UK)
• "Freak on a Leash" – KoЯn
• "Freestyler" – Bomfunk MC's
• "Genie in a Bottle" – Christina Aguilera (debut)
• "Guerrilla Radio" – Rage Against the Machine
• "Have You Ever?" – Brandy
• "Heartbreak Hotel" – Whitney Houston, Faith Evans, & Kelly Price
• "Heartbreaker" – Mariah Carey
• "Hello Time Bomb" – Matthew Good Band
• "Honey to the Bee" – Billie
• "I Feel Lonely" - Sascha Schmitz
• "I Have a Dream"/Seasons in the Sun" - Westlife
• "I Need to Know" – Marc Anthony
• "I Knew I Loved You" – Savage Garden
• "I Saved the World Today" - Eurythmics
• "I Wanna Love You Forever" – Jessica Simpson (debut)
• "I Want It That Way" – Backstreet Boys
• "I Will Remember You" – Sarah McLachlan
• "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time" - R. Kelly
• "If I Let You Go" – Westlife (UK)
• "If Ya Gettin' Down" - Five
• "If You Had My Love" – Jennifer Lopez
• "It's Only Us" - Robbie Williams
• "Keep On Movin'" - Five
• "King of My Castle" - Wamdue Project
• "Kiss Me" – Sixpence None the Richer
• "Kiss of Life" – Sade
• "Kiss (When the Sun Don't Shine)" - Vengaboys
• "Larger than Life" - Backstreet Boys
• "Last Kiss" – Pearl Jam
• "Learn to Fly" – Foo Fighters
• "Lit Up" – Buckcherry
• "Livin' la Vida Loca" – Ricky Martin
• "Load Me Up" – Matthew Good Band
• "Look at Me" - Geri Halliwell
• "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" – Lou Bega
• "Mamma Mia" - A-Teens
• "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" – Shania Twain
• "Maria" – Blondie
• "Mi Chico Latino" - Geri Halliwell
• "The Millennium Prayer" – Cliff Richard
• "The Miracle" – Cliff Richard
• "Move Your Body" - Eiffel 65
• "My Love Is Your Love" - Whitney Houston
• "My Name Is" – Eminem
• "My Own Worst Enemy" – Lit
• "Nie Wieder" - Tic Tac Toe
• "Never Be the Same Again" – Melanie C feat. Lisa Lopes
• "Never Let You Go" – Third Eye Blind
• "Nothing Really Matters" – Madonna
• "No Scrubs" – TLC
• "Nookie" – Limp Bizkit
• "Nothing Is Real but the Girl" – Blondie
• "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" – The Offspring
• "Praise You" – Fatboy Slim
• "S Club Party" – S Club 7
• "Satisfy You" - Puff Daddy & R. Kelly
• "Scar Tissue" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "She Wants You" – Billie
• "She's So High" – Tal Bachman
• "She's the One" - Robbie Williams
• "Sing it Back" * Moloko
• "Sitting Down Here" - Lene Marlin
• "Sleep Now in the Fire" – Rage Against the Machine
• "Slide" – Goo Goo Dolls
• "Slippin'" - DMX
• "Smooth" – Santana feat. Rob Thomas
• "Someday" – Sugar Ray
• "Sometimes" – Britney Spears
• "Steal My Sunshine" – Len
• "Still D.R.E." - Dr.Dre featuring Snoop Dogg
• "Strong Enough" – Cher
• "Summer Son" - Texas
• "Sun Is Shining" - Bob Marley vs Funkstar De Luxe
• "Super Trouper - A-Teens
• "Swear It Again" – Westlife (UK) (debut)
• "Sweet Like Chocolate" - Shanks & Bigfoot
• "Take a Picture" – Filter
• "Tender" – Blur
• "The Animal Song" – Savage Garden
• "The Bad Touch" – Bloodhound Gang
• "The Best of Me" - Bryan Adams
• "Thank ABBA for the Music" – Steps, Tina Cousins, Cleopatra, B*Witched, Billie
• "That Don't Impress Me Much" – Shania Twain
• "The World Is Not Enough" – Garbage
• "Then the Morning Comes" – Smash Mouth
• "There She Goes" – Sixpence None the Richer
• "Tu ne m'as pas laissé le temps" – David Hallyday
• "U Don't Know Me" - Armand Van Helden
• "Unpretty" – TLC
• "Waiting for Tonight" – Jennifer Lopez
• "We Can Leave the World" - Sascha Schmitz
• "We're Going to Ibiza" - Vengaboys
• "Wish I Could Fly" - Roxette
• "Will2K" - Will Smith & K-Ci
• "What a Girl Wants" – Christina Aguilera
• "What It's Like" – Everlast
• "What's My Age Again?" – Blink-182
• "When the Heartache Is Over" – Tina Turner
• "When Worlds Collide" – Powerman 5000
• "When You Say Nothing at All" - Ronan Keating
• "Where My Girls At" -702
• "Why Don't You Get a Job?" - The Offspring
• "Wild Wild West" – Will Smith featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee
• "You Are Not Alone" - Modern Talking
• "(You Drive Me) Crazy" – Britney Spears
• "You'll Be in My Heart" – Phil Collins
• "You Needed Me" - Boyzone
• "You're a God" – Vertical Horizon
• "You're Still the One" – Shania Twain
• "You Get What You Give" – New Radicals

Top 10 selling albums of the year in USA

1. Backstreet Boys – Millennium
2. Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time
3. Shania Twain – Come on Over ^[3]
4. 'N Sync – *NSYNC
5. Ricky Martin – Ricky Martin
6. Limp Bizkit – Significant Other
7. Santana – Supernatural
8. TLC – FanMail
9. Christina Aguilera – Christina Aguilera
10. Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause

Classical music

• Samuel Adler – Viola Concerto
• Leonardo Balada – Piano Concerto No. 3
• Michael Daugherty – Hell's Angels
• Joël-François Durand – La Terre et le Feu (Oboe and orchestra)
• Lorenzo Ferrero
  • Glamorama Spies
  • Presagios (symphonic poem)
  • El encuentro (symphonic poem)
  • La matanza del Templo Mayor (symphonic poem)
• Carlo Forlivesi – Requiem
• Patrick Hawes – The Call (song cycle)
• Joe Jackson – Symphony No. 1
• Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
• John Kinsella – Symphony No. 8: Into the New Millennium
• Richard Payne – Saxophone Concerto
• Jay Zee - Here I Go With Da Flow

Opera

• William Bolcom – A View from the Bridge
• Deborah Drattell – Festival of Regrets
• Rued Langgaard – Antikrist (composed 1921-30, premiered 1999)
• Daron Hagen – Bandanna
• John Harbison – The Great Gatsby
• Nicholas Lens – The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Terra Terra – The Aquarius Era
• Anthony Snyder – Sodomy

Musical theater

• Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin) – Broadway revival
• Fame – The Musical     London production
• Kiss Me, Kate (Cole Porter) – Broadway revival
• Mamma Mia! (ABBA) – London production
• My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe) – London revival
• Saturday Night Fever     Broadway production

Musical films

• Mother
• Raja
• Sangamam
• Topsy-Turvy

Deaths

• January 2 – Rolf Liebermann (88), composer
• January 22 - Gabor Carelli (83), operatic tenor
• January 23 – "Prince" Lincoln Thompson (49), reggae musician
• February 3 – Gwen Guthrie (48), singer
• February 4 – Kenneth C. Burns (68), country musician
• February 12 – Toni Fisher (67), singer
• February 15
  • Lamont "Big L" Coleman (24), rapper (gunshot)
  • Agnes Bernelle (75), actress and singer
• February 16 – Necil Kâzım Akses (90), Turkish composer (date of death from this contemporary newspaper)
• March 3 – Dusty Springfield (59), singer (breast cancer)
• March 4 – Eddie Dean (91), country music artist, actor
• March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin (92), violinist and musical director
• March 13 – Bidu Sayão (97), Brazilian opera singer
• March 26 – Ananda Shankar (50), Indian classical musician and composer (cardiac arrest)
• March 29 – Joe Williams (80), jazz singer
• April 3 – Lionel Bart (68), songwriter and composer
• April 6 – Red Norvo (91), jazz musician
• April 14 – Anthony Newley (67), songwriter, actor and singer
• April 16 – Skip Spence (52), musician (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer
• April 25
  • Roger Troutman (47), R&B singer (gunshot wounds)
  • Larry Troutman (54), R&B percussionist (suicide after killing younger brother)
  • Kemi Olusanya (35), British drum and bass duo Kemistry & Storm (freak highway accident)
• April 26 – Adrian Borland (41), English singer, songwriter, guitarist (The Sound) (suicide)
• April 27
  • Al Hirt (76), New Orleans trumpeter
  • Maria Stader (87), operatic soprano
• April 30 – Darrell Sweet (51), drummer (Nazareth), heart attack
• May 14 – William Tucker, guitarist, Ministry, suicide by slitting own throat
• May 26 – Paul Sacher (93), Swiss conductor
• June 5 – Mel Tormé, (73), singer
• June 15 – Fausto Papetti, (76), Italian Famous Musician
• June 21 – Kami, (26), Japanese drummer for Malice Mizer, subarachnoid hemorrhage
• June 27 – Sven Einar Englund, (83), Finnish composer
• July 3 – Mark Sandman, (46), alternative rock musician, member of Morphine, heart attack
• July 6
  • Benny Bell, (93), musician
  • Joaquín Rodrigo (97), Spanish composer
• July 11 – Helen Forrest (82), big band singer
• July 13 - Louise Caselotti (88), operatic mezzo-soprano
• July 17 – Kevin Wilkinson (41), drummer (suicide by hanging)
• August 3 – Lesley Pitts (30), music publicist
• August 20 – Bobby Sheehan (31), bassist for Blues Traveler (drug overdose)
• August 25 – Rob Fisher (42), keyboardist and songwriter (cancer)
• September 10 – Alfredo Kraus (72), opera singer
• October 4 – Art Farmer (71), jazz trumpeter
• October 6 – Amalia Rodrigues (79), Portuguese singer
• October 9 – Milt Jackson (76), jazz vibraphonist
• October 10 – Robert Wright (90), songwriter and librettist
• October 15 - Josef Locke (82), Irish tenor
• October 16 – Ella Mae Morse, (75), singer
• October 19 – Harry Bannink (70), Dutch songwriter
• October 26 – Rex Gildo (63), German singer
• October 28 – Robert Linn (74), composer and teacher
• November 18 – Doug Sahm (58), country and rock musician
• December 3 – Scatman John (57), pop musician
• December 6 – Todd Barnes (34), T.S.O.L.
• December 10 – Rick Danko (56), rock singer in The Band (drug-related heart failure)
• December 17 – Grover Washington Jr. (66), American saxophonist
• December 26 – Curtis Mayfield (57), singer/composer

Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Billy Joel, Curtis Mayfield, Paul McCartney, Del Shannon, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen and The Staple Singers
• Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include The Fairfield Four and Second Chapter of Acts

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 2000

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1999

Mercury Music Prize

• Ok – Talvin Singh wins.

MTV Video Music Awards

• 1999 MTV Video Music Awards

Glenn Gould Prize

• Yo-Yo Ma (laureate), Wu Man (protégé)

Charts

Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 1999
• Pop Culture Madness 1999 Pop Music Chart

See also

• 1999 in music (UK)
• Category:Record labels established in 1999

References

1. ^ http://darktranquillity.com/oldnews.html
2. ^ http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eAgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA40&dq=ministry+of+sound+australia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xONdT4OpOs6iiAflmLy8DQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=ministry%20of%20sound%20australia&f=false
3. ^ Billboard.com – Year End Charts – Year-end Albums – The Billboard 200