2000 in music
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Events
- John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List.
- Gary Glitter is released from jail in January, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.
- January 1- At exactly midinight EST in New York City, Prince plays his classic song 1999 to celebrate the new century, and then vows to never play it again.
- January 14 - Rolling Stone magazine reveals that the two children of Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Julie Cypher, were fathered by David Crosby
- January 18 - Spencer Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Goodman was convicted of kidnapped and murdering the wife of ZZ Top manager Bill Ham in 1991. Ham is present for the execution.
- February 9 - The Million Dollar Hotel, a film co-written by U2 lead singer Bono, premieres at the 50th Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival). The film stars Mel Gibson and Milla Jovovich
- February 11 - Diana Ross divorces her husband of 14 years
- February 16 - The Silver Tassie, an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage, premieres at the London Coliseum, performed by the English National Opera
- February 24 - Italian motorcycle manufacturing company Aprilla SpA wins a lawsuit filed against The Spice Girls over a sponsorship deal that fell apart when Geri Halliwell left the group.
- February 28 - Songwriter Stan Penrige files a lawsuit against the rock band KISS, the band's publishing company and Universal Music Group, claiming that he had not received millions of dollars in publishing royalties that he was owed for the song "Beth".
- March 1 - Social Distortion guitarist Dennis Danell dies of an apparent brain aneurysm
- March 6 - Foxy Brown is injured in a car accident in Brooklyn, New York in which her car hit a fence. Police discover that Brown was driving with a suspended driver license and order her to appear in court in April. Brown's license was suspended for failing to appear in court for a parking violation.
- March 13 - Blink-182 ends its European tour after singer & guitarist Tom Delonge and drummer Travis Barker succumb to strep throat.
- March 24 - After violating a prior probation agreement by getting drunk, Ol' Dirty Bastard is ordered to undergo a 90 day diagnostic evaluation at the California Institute For Men in Chino, California.
- March 28 - Jimmy Page wins a lawsuit filed against Ministry magazine. The magazine claimed that Page had contributed to the death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham by wearing a Satanic robe and chanting spells while the Bonham was dying and choking on his vomit. The magazine apologizes and offers to pay Page's legal bills. Page donates the money received from the case to the Action for Brazil's Children Trust
- April 6 - Shawn Colvin, James Taylor, Cyndi Lauper, Richard Thompson, Sweet Honey, Elton John, Cassandra Wilson, Wynonna Judd, k.d. lang, Bryan Adams, and Mary Chapin Carpenter perform in New York as part of a tribute to Joni Mitchell.
- April 4 - Mick Jagger attends the opening of an arts center at Dartford Grammar School in southeast England which was named after him.
- April 12 - Metallica files a lawsuit against Napster, Yale University, University of Southern California and Indiana University for copyright infringement. Yale and Indiana are later dropped from the suit when they block access to Napster on campus computers.
- April - *NSYNC smashes the old record of 1.1 million with a 2.4 million debut of "No Strings Attached", which is also the first album to sell over 800,000 copies at least 2 weeks.
- May 1 - A $1.8 million civil fraud lawsuit is filed against Neil Young in Los Angeles Superior Court by a former Village Voice writer. The lawsuit charges that Young broke an agreement to have a biography written about him when he blocked the book's publication.
- May 4 - Letters To Cleo plays their last concert in Boston; they disband the following month.
- May 30 - Eminem sets the record for biggest Rap debut with 1.76 million albums sold. Eminem, a protege of Dr. Dre, broke the old record of 803,000 in 1993 set by Snoop Doggy Dogg, another Dr. Dre protege.
- May 5 - Rod Stewart undergoes an hour long throat operation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California to remove a growth on his thyroid, which turns out to be benign.
- May 6 - John Mellencamp receives an honorary doctorate of music as the commencement speaker for Indiana University's Class of 2000.
- May 16 - Britney Spears's second LP, "Oops!...I Did It Again" debuts at #1 selling 1.3 million copies, making the highest debut by a female artist in US history.
- August - Metal band Scars of Life is formed in southern florida.
- September 23 - Isaac Stern celebrates his 80th birthday together with his 40th anniversary as President of Carnegie Hall.
- October - The Beatles release a hardcover book version of The Beatles Anthology, containing newly published photos and interviews with band members. The book went straight to the top of the New York Times bestsellers list.
- October 18 - Zack de la Rocha Leaves Rage Against the Machine Saying that the bands descion making peocess has completely failed.
- 3–5 November - The fourth Terrastock festival is held in Seattle.
- 16–21 November - The Backstreet Boys embarks on 6 continents in just 100 hours.
- December 2 - The Backstreet Boys debuts with 1.6 million with Black & Blue and becomes the first artists in history to achieve back-to-back million-plus first week sales. Also sells 5 million worldwide and sets a record for the best International Sales Week in History.
- December 2 - The Smashing Pumpkins play their final concert, at the Metro Club in Chicago.
- December 22 - Madonna marries film director Guy Ritchie, at Skibo Castle in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland with Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, Sting, George Clooney, Jon Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Rupert Everett and others in attendance.
- The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released to much criticial acclaim. The film and its T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack ignite a new found popularity of traditional American folk music and bluegrass.
- Rage Against The Machine's Tim Commerford is arrested for climbing on the set at MTV's Video Music Awards.
- The All-American Rejects form.
- Ned's Atomic Dustbin reunites by doing a couple shows.
See also:
1999 in music,
other events of 2000,
2001 in music, 2000s in music and the list of 'years in music'
Albums released
Top hits on record
See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2000 (USA)
Top 20 selling albums of the year (Soundscan)
- *NSYNC - No Strings Attached, 9,936,104 copies
- Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP, 7,921,107 copies
- Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again, 7,893,544 copies
- Creed - Human Clay, 6,587,834 copies
- Santana - Supernatural, 5,857,824 copies
- Beatles - 1, 5,068,300 copies
- Nelly - Country Grammar, 5,067,529 copies
- Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue, 4,289,865 copies
- Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre 2001, 3,992,311 copies
- Destiny's Child - The Writing's on the Wall, 3,802,165 copies
- Three Doors Down - Better Life, 3,800,515 copies
- Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera, 3,768,441 copies
- Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, 3,744,561 copies
- Dixie Chicks - Fly, 3,520,469 copies
- Sisqó - Unleash the Dragon, 3,493,269 copies
- Faith Hill - Breathe, 3,365,926 copies
- Various Artists - Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 5 (U.S. series), 3,155,083 copies
- DMX - And Then There Was X, 3,093,579 copies
- Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause, 2,804,158 copies
- Papa Roach - Infest, 2,707,954 copies
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