2001 in music.html



See also:

• 2001 in music (UK)
• Musical groups established in 2001
• Record labels established in 2001

Events

• January 1
  • Comeback of Guns N' Roses in House of Blues
  • Hum disbands.
• January 17 - Bass player Jason Newsted leaves Metallica after 14 years with the band.
• January 26
  • Crowrd crush occurs during the a set by Limp Bizkit at the Sydney Big Day Out music festival. One girl is killed and the band subsequently left the country after threats were made to their safety.
• 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 1 - Jennifer Lopez becomes first female and artist to have both a number one album J.Lo and a number one movie The Wedding Planner in the same week.
• 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.) They did not tour however, meaning that the unsigned British rock band Sandstone Veterans are still the only band from the Western World to play a tour over there.
• 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 24 - John Connolly of Sevendust marries his wife Lori Kirkley.
• March 28 -
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 replaces Max Bruch's violin concerto at #1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame.
  • Two super-mega hit albums : Hikaru Utada's Distance and Ayumi Hamasaki's A BEST were released on exactly the same date. Their debut week sales were 3,002,720 and 2,874,870, respectively, setting the world's #1 and #2 one-week album sales records.¹
• March 31 - Famous singer for 1992's I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston and husband Bobby Brown are banned for life from Hollywood's Bel Air hotel and arrested 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 1 - Huey Lewis and the News makes a comeback with their album Plan B, their first album of new material in a decade.
• May - The 4th EJCF in Basel was held. Next time was in 2004.
• June 2 - Christina Aguilera scores her fourth number one single on the Billboard 100 for "Lady Marmalade" a collaboration with Lil' Kim, Mya, and Pink. The video for the song won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year.
• June 12 - Electric Light Orchestra's first album released in 15 years, since Balance Of Power, is titled 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.
• August 13 - 2 weeks before its official release Spider One of Powerman 5000 pulls Anyone for Doomsday? off the market due to sounding like their previous record Tonight the Stars Revolt!. Later on he released the album on their website. 6 years later it's partially on iTunes.
• August 25 - A Cessna 402 aircraft carrying 9 people, including R&B singer Aaliyah, crashes in the Bahamas, killing all aboard.
• August 28 - Slipknot releases their second studio album Iowa.
• September 4 - The second studio album from Armenian-American band System of a Down, Toxicity, is released worldwide. After the 9/11 attacks, the single Chop Suey! is put on the List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• September 10-11 - Blink-182 originally started shooting a video for the song Stay Together for the Kids on September 10, 2001, and originally featured the band playing in a derelict house. The next day when they went to finish the video, the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City occurred. They decided to shoot another video for the song a few weeks later.
• September 11- Gerard Way witnesses the 9/11 attacks and is inspired to start a band, which later becomes My Chemical Romance, in which Way is the lead singer.
• September 11 - Mariah Carey releases her tenth album, Glitter, the soundtrack for the movie with the same name.
• September 21 - America: A Tribute to Heroes airs uninterrupted on all major networks. The solemn concert, only 10 days after the September 11 attacks, included performances by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Celine Dion, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Dave Matthews, Faith Hill, Mariah Carey, and others.
• October - Burton C. Bell gets into a fight with his bandmate Dino Cazares about a manager they fired. This was the event that triggered the demise of Fear Factory.
• October 16 - Michael Jackson releases his album's special edition of his albums Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad and Dangerous.
• October 20 - The Concert for New York City airs on VH1, with performances by Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi The Who, Billy Joel and others.
• October 20 - Volunteers For America benefit concert is held in Atlanta, Georgia, MC was Drew Carey with performances by Edgar Winter Group, Mark Farner, Jack Blades, John Waite, The Knack, Eddie Money, Peter Frampton, Survivor, Kansas, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and others.
• October 21 - United We Stand: What More Can I Give benefit concert is held at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C., with performances by Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, James Brown, Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, and others.
• October 21 - Volunteers For America, benefit concert is held at Smirnoff StarPlex in Dallas, Texas, MC was Drew Carey with performances by Edgar Winter Group, Mark Farner, Jack Blades, John Waite, The Knack, Eddie Money, Peter Frampton, Survivor, Kansas, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Bad Company, and others.
• October 23 - Incubus releases their third full-length major label album entitled Morning View. It debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at the #2 spot (266,000 copies were sold in its first week). This was the highest ever placement for Incubus. At the same time, "Wish You Were Here" was at #2 on the Modern Rock Charts, and "Drive" sat at #48 on the Hot 100 chart.
• October 25 - Quarashi performs a live concert with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra (the band, Botnleðja also performed) in the Háskólabíó in Reykjavík, Iceland, which is notable for being the first time that a rap act performed a live concert with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. Quarashi performed seven songs from their (at the time) upcoming album, Jinx.
• October 31 - After 10 Years, Al 3 & Dorian 27 leave Powerman 5000. It is speculated they left due towards Spider One's decision to pull Anyone for Doomsday?.
• 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 on July 19 [1]
• 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
• The Republic of France awards Jean-Yves Thibaudet the honour of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
• Deporitaz releases Microwave this CD, his second album, on MP3.com.
• December 1 - Backstreet Boys releases its classic hits album, Greatest Hits: Chapter One

Bands formed

• Alexisonfire
• The All-American Rejects
• Apollo Sunshine
• Apostle of Hustle
• Audioslave
• Bear vs. Shark
• The Black Keys
• Black Stone Cherry
• Busted
• capsule
• The Chalets
• Chin Up Chin Up
• Chiodos
• Circus Devils
• Desaparecidos
• Die Trying
• The Early November
• Emery
• Fall Out Boy
• Franz Ferdinand
• The Format
• Hawthorne Heights
• Head of Femur
• Hella
• Jet
• The Hidden Cameras
• Kaddisfly
• Kutless
• The Like
• Los Embarasados
• The Mars Volta
• MewithoutYou
• Million Dead
• The Mint Chicks
• My American Heart
• My Chemical Romance
• Norma Jean
• No Secrets
• Perfume
• The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower
• The Postal Service
• Railroad Earth
• Ratatat
• The Raveonettes
• The Reindeer Section
• Rock Kills Kid
• Shout Out Louds
• Sikth
• Smokey & Miho
• Sparta
• A Static Lullaby
• The Thrills
• Tilly and the Wall
• TV on the Radio
• Tokio Hotel (Then known as Devilish)
• The Underdog Project
• The Zutons
• WarCry
• Zwan

Bands disbanded

• Aqua
• At the Drive-In
• Cool For August
• Devourment (reformed in 2002)
• Elastica
• Five (reformed in 2006)
• LAND
• La Bouche
• Malice Mizer (indefinite hiatus)
• Murder City Devils
• Pilfers
• Pizzicato Five
• Savage Garden
• Skunk Anansie
• Spice Girls (reformed in 2007)
• Steps
• Sunny Day Real Estate
• ThaMuseMeant (reformed in 2003)
• Toadies
• Weta
• Backstreet Boys (Hiatus)

Bands reformed

• Army of Lovers
• Devourment
• Electric Light Orchestra (with new members except for original members, Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy)
• Level 42
• The Monkees
• Roxy Music
• Zebra

Albums released

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