This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2014 in music.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Albums released
Awards Category/Organization 2014 MTV Video Music AwardsAugust 24, 2014 2014 MTV Europe Music AwardsNovember 9, 2014 American Music Awards of 2014November 23, 2014 2015 Grammy AwardsFebruary 8, 2015 2015 Billboard Music AwardsMay 17, 2015 Best Album N/A N/A N/A Morning PhaseBeck 1989Taylor Swift Best Song N/A "Problem"Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea "Dark Horse"Katy Perry featuring Juicy J "Stay with Me"Sam Smith "All About That Bass" Meghan Trainor Best Video "Wrecking Ball"Miley Cyrus "Dark Horse"Katy Perry featuring Juicy J N/A "Happy"Pharrell Williams "Shake It Off" Taylor Swift Best Artist N/A N/A One Direction Sam Smith Taylor Swift Best New Artist Fifth Harmony 5 Seconds of Summer 5 Seconds of Summer Sam Smith Sam Smith
Bands formed
Akdong Musician Antemasque American Wrestlers The Babe Rainbow Berry Good The Beths Brockhampton Cafuné Cheat Codes Drain FFS Fiddlehead Finom Goose Great Grandpa Gunship High4 Hot Mulligan Hotshot I'm with Her LANY Lovelyz Lip Service Maddie & Tae Mamamoo Melody Day Men I Trust Michigander Missio No Devotion Oh Wonder Operation: Mindcrime Oso Oso Pale Waves Post Animal Red Velvet Remember Sports Sonamoo Saint Asonia Shame The Shelters Sheer Mag Slaughter Beach, Dog Slaves Sofi Tukker Soul Glo The Spirit of the Beehive Stereo Kicks Teenage Wrist Toheart Ultimate Painting Uranium Club The War and Treaty Winner You+Me
Bands reformed
Aiden American Football Atreyu Babes In Toyland Basement Breaking Benjamin Constantines Copeland Deep Dish Despised Icon Design the Skyline Electric Light Orchestra (Now credited as Jeff Lynne's ELO) Erase Errata Failure From Autumn to Ashes Haste the Day L7 The Libertines Luna The Matches Metro Station Midtown Mineral Nickel Creek OutKast Ride Saosin Sleater-Kinney Slowdive Trick Pony The Unicorns
Bands on hiatus As I Lay Dying Darkside Dredg Foxy Shazam Furthur The Wanted Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bands disbanded
Abandon All Ships The Allman Brothers Band Anberlin As Blood Runs Black Austrian Death Machine Beady Eye Beastie Boys Beneath the Sky The Blackout Bleeding Through Bomb the Music Industry! Brown Bird Camp Freddy Chimaira The Civil Wars Clipse Company of Thieves Crystal Castles Danity Kane The Dangerous Summer Eleventyseven For All Those Sleeping Guided by Voices HotCha Jethro Tull The Knife Lestat LFO The Luchagors Morning Parade The Move Orbital Nightmare Boyzzz Nachtmystium Pink Floyd The Rapture Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock Slaughterhouse Smith Westerns The Swellers Ten Second Epic There for Tomorrow Vista Chino Vivian Girls WC and the Maad Circle
Deaths
January 4 – Phil Everly (74), American musician (The Everly Brothers) 13 – Ronny Jordan (51), British guitarist. 18 – Dennis Frederiksen (62), American singer (Toto), (Survivor) 27 – Pete Seeger (94), American guitarist.
February 5 – Samantha Juste (69), English-American singer and television host. 8 – Finbarr Dwyer (67), Irish accordionist and fiddler. 16 – Raymond Louis Kennedy, 67, American pop-rock singer-songwriter 17 Frank Wappat (84), British DJ and singer. Bob Casale, (61), American guitarist and keyboardist (Devo). 23 – Chip Damiani, (68), American drummer (The Remains) 24 – Franny Beecher (92), American guitarist. 25 Paco de Lucía (66), Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer. Peter Callander (74), English songwriter and record producer.
March 5 – Dave Sampson (73), English singer. 6 – Marion Stein (Thorpe) (87), British pianist.
April 2 – Lyndsie Holland (75), English actress and singer. 7 – John Shirley-Quirk (83), British operatic bass-baritone. 16 – Stan Kelly-Bootle (84), British songwriter, author and computer engineer. 17 – Cheo Feliciano (78), Puerto Rican singer and composer (Joe Cuba Sextet) 18 – Brian Priestman (87), British conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).
May 13 – Akihiro Yokoyama (49), Japanese thrash metal bassist (United) 19 – Nima Varasteh (35), Iranian musician 25 – Herb Jeffries (100), American singer and actor.
June 18 – Horace Silver (85), American jazz pianist. 21 – Jimmy C. Newman (86), country music singer.
July 3 – Jesse Anderson (73), American blues singer-songwriter and musician. 11 – Charlie Haden (76), American upright-bassist. 19 – Lionel Ferbos (103), American trumpeter. 24 – Christian Falk (52), Swedish record producer and musician.
August 1 – Michael Johns (35), Australian singer and American Idol contestant. 3 – Yvette Giraud (97), French singer and actress. 15 – Svein Nymo (61), Norwegian violinist and composer. 17 – Pierre Vassiliu (76), Swiss-born French singer.Le chanteur Pierre Vassiliu est mort 19 – Kåre Kolberg (78), Norwegian composer. 23 – Inga Juuso (68), singer and actress. 24 – Aldo Donati (66), Italian singer, composer and television personality, (cerebral hemorrhage) 29 Jan Groth (68), Norwegian singer (Aunt Mary, Just 4 Fun), (cancer). Peret (79), Spanish singer, guitarist and composer.Muere a los 79 años el cantante Peret, padre de la rumba catalana
September 1 – Jimi Jamison (63), American singer (Survivor) 2 – Antonis Vardis (66), Greek composer and singer. 8 Magda Olivero (104), Italian soprano. Gerald Wilson (96), American jazz trumpeter. 12 – Joe Sample (75), American pianist. 15 – Jackie Cain (86), American jazz singer (Jackie & Roy). 17 – George Hamilton IV (77), American country music singer. 18 – Kenny Wheeler (84), Canadian jazz composer, trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
October 1 – Lynsey de Paul (66), English singer 10 – Olav Dale (55), Norwegian jazz saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader. 16 – Tim Hauser (72), American jazz singer. 20 - Tyson Stevens (29), vocals, additional guitar, bass guitar in Arizona Post Hardcore band Scary Kids Scaring Kids. 23 – Alvin Stardust (72), English singer 25 – Jack Bruce (71), Scottish bassist, composer and orchestra leader.
November 6 – Maggie Boyle (57), British folk singer and musician (cancer). 14 – Mike Burney (70), British jazz saxophonist. 15 – Cherry Wainer (79), South African-born British organist (Lord Rockingham's XI). 17 Jeff Fletcher (36), British guitarist (Northern Uproar). Jimmy Ruffin (78), American soul singer 20 – Arthur Butterworth (91), English composer and conductor. 27 - Érick Bamy, 64, French singer and Johnny Hallyday's former backing vocalist from 1973 to 2000.
December 8 – Knut Nystedt (99), Norwegian composer. 12 – John Persen (73), Norwegian composer. 22 – Joe Cocker (70), English singer 24 – Buddy DeFranco (91), American jazz clarinetist. 31 – Michael Kennedy (88), English writer on music.
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See also Timeline of musical events Women in music
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