2001 in music

Events

*January 1 - Comeback of Guns N' Roses in House of Blues
*January 1 - Hum disbands.
*January 17 - Bass player Jason Newsted leaves Metallica after 14 years with the band.
*January/February - Rush records Vapor Trails, which was released on May 14, 2002.
*February - CFXJ (Flow 93.5), Canada's first urban music station, goes to air for the first time as a testing signal (its official debut is on March 1.) This is a breakthrough for Canadian hip hop and R&B musicians, who had previously faced significant barriers to getting exposure for their music.
*February 13 - Peter Frampton receives the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
*February 17 - Manic Street Preachers become the first western rock band to play in Cuba. (Fidel Castro was in attendance.)
*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."
*March 28 - Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 replaces Max Bruch's violin concerto at #1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame.
*March 31 - Whitney Houston and husband Bobby Brown are banned for life from Hollywood's Bel Air hotel after destroying their room. Property that was allegedly damaged included a TV, and two doors. According to Hotel Workers, the walls and carpets were also stained by alcohol. The Hotel closed down the room for five days for repairs.
*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.
*April 24 and October 30 - Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson release albums in the same year, respectively. Janet releases "All For You" and Michael releases "Invincible". Both albums would hit #1 on the album charts.
*May - The 4th EJCF in Basel was held. Next time was in 2004.
*June 12 - Electric Light Orchestra's first album in 15 years since Balance Of Power is released called Zoom.
*June 16 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 9th Annual of the Weenie Roast show with Blink-182, Coldplay, Crazy Town, The Cult, Disturbed, Jane's Addiction, Linkin Park, The Living End, New Found Glory, Pennywise, Papa Roach, Stabbing Westward, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Sum 41 and 311.
*July - Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean enters a rehabilitation facility to deal with alcoholism and depression, as the Black & Blue Summer tour put on hold.
*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.
* November - The governing body of the UK Singles Chart, Chart Information Network Ltd. (CIN), changes its name to The Official UK Charts Company.
* November 16 - Britney Spears' third album, Britney debuts at #1, making her the first female artist with her first three albums to debut at #1.
*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
*Elastica disband
*Toadies disband
*5ive disband
*Apollo Sunshine forms
*Audioslave forms
*Die Trying forms
*Fall Out Boy forms
*Franz Ferdinand forms
*Revolution forms
*Savage Garden disband
*Steps disband
*The Underdog Project forms
*Weta disband
*Zebra forms again
*Zwan forms
*Sikth forms
*Electric Light Orchestra reforms again under new members except for original members, Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy

Albums released

*January
*February
*March
Kingsize - 5ive
Greatest Hits - 5ive
From Chaos - 311
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
The Definitive Collection - ABBA
Gold - Ryan Adams
Teen Spirit - A-Teens
Just Push Play - Aerosmith
New Favorite - Alison Krauss & Union Station
10,000 Hz Legend - Air
ANThology - Alien Ant Farm
The War of Art - American Head Charge
Underground Network - Anti-Flag
Wages of Sin - Arch Enemy
End Is Forever - The Ataris
drukqs - Aphex Twin
The Hits: Chapter One - Backstreet Boys
The Metal Opera - Tobias Sammet's Avantasia
The Process Of Belief - Bad Religion (released in the United States in 2002)
Dragontown - Alice Cooper
Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits - Barenaked Ladies
Long Stories Short - Bayside
Victoria Beckham - Victoria Beckham
This Is Where I Came In - Bee Gees
Vespertine - Björk
Lions - The Black Crowes
Take Off Your Pants And Jacket - Blink-182
Honour - Valour - Pride - Bolt Thrower
How I Spent My Summer Vacation - The Bouncing Souls
Britney - Britney Spears
Feel Good Lost - Broken Social Scene
Buffalo Springfield (box set) - Buffalo Springfield
A Girl Like Me - Emma Bunton
Golden State - Bush
Comfort Eagle - Cake
Glitter - Mariah Carey
Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom
Pass Out of Existence - Chimaira
Ten New Songs - Leonard Cohen
Feeder - Echo Park
Wake Up And Smell The Coffee - The Cranberries
I Don't Care That You Don't Mind - Crash Test Dummies
Weathered - Creed
Greatest Hits - The Cure
Discovery - Daft Punk
Devil's Night - D12
Révolution 5° du Nom - Dalida (Remix album)
Everyday - Dave Matthews Band
A Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
All Rise - Blue
The Best of Bruce Dickinson - Bruce Dickinson
Mutiny on the Bay - Dead Kennedys
Day of the Death - Death By Stereo (released in Europe in 2000)
Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia - Dimmu Borgir
It Was All a Dream - Dream
Sing Loud, Sing Proud - Dropkick Murphys
Sinner - Drowning Pool
Love and Theft - Bob Dylan
Mandrake - Edguy
Flirting with Twilight - Kurt Elling
Bahasa Langit - Ebiet G. Ade
Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise - Emperor
Girl - Eskimo Joe
In Search of Truth - Evergrey
Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever - Explosions in the Sky
Suburban Blight - F-Minus
Falconer - Falconer
Jaktens Tid - Finntroll
The Drive - The Firebird Band
Viva los violence - Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13
Enjoy Yourself - Frantic Flintstones
Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd
Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards - Lars Frederiksen
The Argument - Fugazi
Dreams Can Come True, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 - Gabrielle
No World Order - Gamma Ray
Beautifulgarbage - Garbage
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Light of Day, Day of Darkness - Green Carnation
International SuperHits! - Green Day
International SuperVideos! - Green Day (DVD Release)
Trace - Gridlock
Covered With Ants - Guttermouth
Violence Has Arrived - GWAR
Live Insurrection - Rob Halford
Going Somewhere - Colin Hay
Scream If You Wanna Go Faster - Geri Halliwell
Scattered, Smothered and Covered - Hootie & the Blowfish
Horror Show - Iced Earth
Revolutionary Vol. 1 - Immortal Technique
Morning View - Incubus
All for you - Janet Jackson
Invincible - Michael Jackson
Mechanized Warfare - Jag Panzer
The Blueprint - Jay-Z
Jimmy Eat World (formerly Bleed American) - Jimmy Eat World
Arrival - Journey
The Essential Journey - Journey
Demolition - Judas Priest
Karma - Kamelot
Gravitational Forces - Robert Earl Keen
Songs in A Minor - Alicia Keys
Cocky - Kid Rock
Violent Revolution - Kreator
Unleashed Memories - Lacuna Coil
Lenny - Lenny Kravitz
V / Ecstatic Fanatic - Live
Roll On - The Living End
Wonders of the World - Long Beach Dub Allstars
Awakening the World - Lost Horizon
The Fake Sound Of Progress (Thefakesoundofprogress) - lostprophets
Word Of Mouf - Ludacris
Supercharger - Machine Head
Disposable Arts - Masta Ace
Driving Rain - Paul McCartney
Greatest Hits - Tim McGraw
The World Needs A Hero - Megadeth
All Is Dream - Mercury Rev
Destination Unknown - Mest
Miss E ...So Addictive - Missy Elliott
God Says No - Monster Magnet
Mandy Moore - Mandy Moore
Origin of Symmetry - Muse
Ayeshteni - Natacha Atlas
Stillmatic - Nas
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
Blackwater Park - Opeth
Down To Earth - Ozzy Osbourne
Land Of The Free? - Pennywise
Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd
Anyone's For Doomsday - Powerman 5000
Freaked Out and Small - Presidents of the United States of America
Nuclear Fire - Primal Fear
Come Clean - Puddle of Mudd
We Are Puss - Puss
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Raging Speedhorn - Raging Speedhorn
Mutter - Rammstein
The Golden Hum - Remy Zero
Revolving Around The World - Revolution
My Heart Is In Your Hands - Revolution
Rain of a Thousand Flames - Rhapsody
Melody A.M. - Röyksopp
Poets and Madmen - Savatage
Animosity - Sevendust
*Laundry Service - Shakira
*God Hates Us All - Slayer
*IOWA - Slipknot
*Pretty Together - Sloan
*Greatest Hits (2-Disc) - The Smashing Pumpkins
*Silence - Sonata Arctica
*Spy Kids - Soundtrack
*Break The Cycle - Staind
*Sound-Dust - Stereolab
*Is This It - The Strokes
*Start Static - Sugarcult
*All Killer No Filler - Sum 41
*Live on the Edge of Forever - Symphony X
*Toxicity - System of a Down
*Shameless - Therapy?
*Secret of the Runes - Therion
*Mink Car - They Might Be Giants
*From Chaos - 311
*Lateralus - Tool
*Communication & Conviction: Last Seven Years - The Tossers
*It Doesn´t Matter - The Underdog Project
*World of Glass - Tristania
*Fuel For Life - The Turbo AC's
*Until The End Of Time - Tupac Shakur
*Product Of Television - UP SyNDROME
*Back at the Laundromat - US Bombs
*Final V.U. 1971-1973 - The Velvet Underground
*Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: The Quine Tapes - The Velvet Underground
*Weezer - Weezer
*World of Our Own - Westlife
*Don't Tell the Band - Widespread Panic
*Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams
*Magnification - Yes
*The Sinister Urge'' - Rob Zombie

Hot Hits

*"A Little Respect" - Wheatus
*"All For You" - Janet Jackson
*"Bad Ambassador" - The Divine Comedy
*"Bootylicious" - Destiny's Child
*"Buck Rogers" - Feeder
*"Candy" - Ash
*"Celebrity" - 'N Sync
*"Chop Suey!" - System of a Down
*"Clint Eastwood" - Gorillaz
*"Crystal" - New Order
*"Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)" - Train
*"Electric Avenue (remix)" - Eddy Grant
*"Elevation" - U2
*"Eternity/The Road To Mandalay" - Robbie Williams
*"Falling" - Alicia Keys
*"Get Ur Freak On" - Missy Elliott
*"Handbags and Gladrags" - Stereophonics
*"Hard To Explain" - The Strokes
*"Have A Nice Day" - Stereophonics
*"Here With Me" - Dido
*"Hunter" - Dido
*"I Don't Want A Lover (remix)" - Texas
*"I Want Love" - Elton John
*"I'm Real" - Jennifer Lopez
*"Imitation Of Life" - R.E.M.
*"Inner Smile" - Texas
*"Island in the Sun"- Weezer
*"It's Been Awhile"- Staind
*"Jaded" - Aerosmith
*"Juxtapose" - Super Furry Animals
*"Knives Out" - Radiohead
*"Lady Marmalade"- Christina Aguilera
*"Last Nite" - The Strokes
*"Love What You Do" - The Divine Comedy
*"Mr. Writer" - Stereophonics
*"19-2000" - Gorillaz
*"Ocean Spray" - Manic Street Preachers
*"One Minute Man" - Missy Elliott (featuring Ludacris and Trina)
*"Out Of Reach" - Gabrielle
*"Pissing In The Wind" - Badly Drawn Boy
*"Pyramid Song" - Radiohead
*"Ramp! (The Logical Song)" - Scooter (band)
*"Rock The Boat" - Aaliyah
*"Sail Away" - David Gray
*"Shining Light" - Ash
*"Short Skirt - Long Jacket" - Cake
*"Side" - Travis
*"Sing" - Travis
*"Smooth Crimiinal" - Alien Ant Farm
*"So Why So Sad" - Manic Street Preachers
*"Step On My Old Size Nines" - Stereophonics
*"Stop Your Crying" - Spiritualized
*"Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" - U2
*"Survivor" - Destiny's Child
*"Teenage Dirtbag" - Wheatus
*"Thank You" - Dido
*"This Year's Love" - David Gray
*"Up On The Downside" - Ocean Colour Scene
*"Walk On" - U2
*"With Arms Wide Open" - Creed

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2001 (USA)

Hot Albums

#Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory#Shaggy - Hotshot#Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue#Enya - A Day Without Rain#Janet Jackson - All For You#Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor#Destiny's Child - Survivor#Creed - Weathered#Soundtrack - O Brother, Where Art Thou?#Staind - Break The Cycle

Classical music

*Leonardo Balada - Cello Concerto No. 2 New Orleans
*Osvaldas Balakauskas - Symphony No. 5
*John Corigliano - Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra
*George Crumb - Unto the Hills for soprano, percussion quartet and piano
*Joël-François Durand - Athanor for orchestra
*Helmut Lachenmann - Grido (string quartet)
*Peter Ruzicka - Trans - Requiem für Giuseppe Sinopoli

Opera

*Theo Loevendie - Johnny & Jones

Musical theater

42nd Street     Broadway revival opened at the Ford Center on May 2
A Class Act     Broadway production opened at the Ambassador Theatre on March 11 and ran for 105 performances
Mamma Mia     Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 18
The Producers     Broadway production opened at St. James Theatre on April 19
Urinetown     Broadway production opened at the Hudson Theatre on September 20 and ran for 965 performances