Wikipedia: 2001 in music

2001 in music
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See also: 2000 in music, other events of 2001, 2002 in music, 2000s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Events

February - Rush records Vapor Trails, which will be a blockbuster album on May 14, 2002
February 13 - Peter Frampton receives the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
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.
May - Bad Religion leaves Atlantic Records, signs a contract with Epitaph Records.
May - The 4th EJCF in Basel was held. Next time was in 2004.
October 20 - Concert For New York: A Tribute To Heroes 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
Tool returns
Audioslave forms
Zebra forms again
Revolution forms
Zwan forms

Albums released

Just Push Play - Aerosmith
10,000 Hz Legend - Air
ANThology - Alien Ant Farm
Underground Network - Anti-Flag
End Is Forever - The Ataris
The Process Of Belief - Bad Religion
Lions - The Black Crowes
Take Off Your Pants And Jacket - Blink-182
Ten New Songs - Leonard Cohen
Wake Up And Smell The Coffee - The Cranberries
Weathered - Creed
Everyday - Dave Matthews Band
The Sickness - The Disturbed
Sing Loud, Sing Proud - Dropkick Murphys
Sinner - Drowning Pool
Love and Theft - Bob Dylan
Suburban Blight - F-Minus
Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards - Lars Frederiksen
The Argument - Fugazi
International SuperHits - Green Day
International SuperVideos - Green Day (DVD Relese)
Warning - Green Day
Covered With Ants - Guttermouth
Live Insurrection - Rob Halford
Scattered, Smothered and Covered - Hootie & the Blowfish
Morning View - Incubus
Arrival - Journey
The Essential Journey - Journey
Demolition - Judas Priest
Cocky - Kid Rock
Lenny - Lenny Kravitz
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
V / Ecstatic Fanatic - Live
Wonders of the World - Long Beach Dub Allstars
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
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
Come Clean - Puddle Of Mudd
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Revolving Around The World - Revolution
My Heart Is In Your Hands - Revolution
Laundry Service - Shakira
God Hates Us All - Slayer
IOWA - Slipknot
Pretty Together - Sloan
Greatest Hits (2-Disc) - The Smashing Pumpkins
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
Toxicity- System of a Down
Mink Car - They Might Be Giants
From Chaos - 311
Lateralus - Tool
Communication & Conviction: Last Seven Years - The Tossers
Fuel For Life - The Turbo AC's
Product Of Television - UP SyNDROME
Weezer (2001) - Weezer
The Sinister Urge - Rob Zombie

Top hits on record

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

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2001

Top 10 selling albums of the year

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

Musical theater

42nd Street Broadway revival
A Class Act Broadway production
Mamma Mia Broadway production
The Producers Broadway production
Urinetown Broadway production

Musical films

Moulin Rouge

Births

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
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

Awards

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

Grammy Awards of 2001

Juno Awards

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