This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2016 in music.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Albums released
Significant performances March 25 – British rock and roll band, The Rolling Stones become the first foreign rock band to perform in Cuba, which was documented in their 2016 concert film, The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon.
Awards
58th Annual Grammy Awards Billboard Music Awards 31st Golden Disc Awards 58th Japan Record Awards Mnet Asian Music Awards MTV Video Music Awards MTV Europe Music Awards The 4th V Chart Awards Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 26th Seoul Music Awards
Bands formed
3B junior The Aces Altın Gün Amyl and the Sniffers AOA Cream Astro The Band Camino Batten Girls BEJ48 Bis Blackpink Bolbbalgan4 BoybandPH Boys Generally Asian The Bug Club Chai Chelmico CocoSori Confidence Man Cosmic Girls Crumb Dreamcar DYGL The East Light Exo-CBX Ezra Collective Fake Fruit FEMM FlowBack Gang Parade Geese GNZ48 Gone Is Gone Gugudan Hanabie. The Hu Higher Power Hiragana Keyakizaka46 I.B.I I.O.I I Dont Know How but They Found Me Imfact Japanese Breakfast June's Diary Just Mustard Kard Keyakizaka46 KNK Loona Lovelytheband Magdalena Bay The Magpie Salute Mamalarky Mandy, Indiana Måneskin The Marías MASC Midland MOBB Model/Actriz Momoland Musubizm Mt. Joy Nation of Language National Youth Orchestra of China NCT NCT 127 Nightly Nice As Fuck Nine Muses A Ocean Park Standoff Off On Off OnePixcel Pentagon Pillow Queens PrettyMuch Prophets of Rage Poppin'Party Pyxis Ranky Tanky The Red Clay Strays Regional Justice Center Reol Reyna Tropical Rock A Japonica SeeYouSpaceCowboy ShuuKaRen SF9 SiIvaGunner Sinsaenum The Sixth Lie Sleep Token Smerz Sorry Sports Team Tempalay Terror Jr Unnies Valley Victon VIMIC Voisper Vromance Water from Your Eyes Wilderado The World Standard Why Don't We Yahyel Zenbu Kimi no Sei da.
Soloist debuts
645AR Agust D Alex the Astronaut Asaka Ayaka Sasaki Billie Eilish Bobby Celeste Danna Paola Danny Worsnop Dean Dermot Kennedy Derrick Monasterio Dodie Ella Mai Elo Enisa Nikaj Era Istrefi Eunji Fei Finneas Gemma Grandson Gretta Ray Gun Hash Swan Hòa Minzy Hyoyeon Jang Dongwoo JC de Vera Jessica Jung Jessie Reyez Jenyer Jimin Jorja Smith Joy Crookes Jungah Jung Seung-hwan Justhis Jvcki Wai Kanna Hashimoto Kiana Ledé Kim Sejeong Kwak Jin-eon Kwon Jin-ah Laura Marano Lee Hyun-woo Liza Soberano Lolo Zouaï Louis Tomlinson Luna Mino Mint Momoka Ariyasu Mone Kamishiraishi Nana Ou-yang Niall Horan Noah Cyrus Olivia O'Brien PH-1 Punchnello Raye Raveena Aurora Ricky Montgomery Ryeowook Sam Kim Sandeul Shenseea Sofia Carson Suga Subin Tini Taichi Mukai Tessa Violet Thunder Tiffany Tom Grennan Uru Yesung Yezi Ylona Garcia Yoochun Woohyun Zayn
Bands reformed
ABBA At the Drive-In Abandon All Ships The Anniversary Arab Strap Bash & Pop Belly Blake Babies A Different Breed of Killer Eric B. & Rakim Galactic Cowboys Game Theory G.R.L Guided by Voices Jet Le Tigre Letters to Cleo Misfits (featuring Glenn Danzig) Nasty Savage The Number Twelve Looks Like You Pendulum Piebald P.S. Eliot Rainbow Sechs Kies A Thorn for Every Heart The Revolution The Righteous Brothers Spice Girls – GEM Super Furry Animals Temple of the Dog A Thorn for Every Heart Thursday Tickle Me Pink The Union Underground The Vapors Wolf Parade The Zutons
Bands on hiatus Camera Obscura Chiodos Coal Chamber Man Overboard Middle Class Rut One Direction We Are the In Crowd Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bands disbanded
2NE1 3rdeyegirl 4Minute Agalloch Allo Darlin' Aiden Bane Blood on the Dance Floor Bolt Thrower Boom Boom Satellites Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Dead or Alive Dream Eagles Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) The Enemy Fearless Vampire Killers Finch For Today Funeral for a Friend FVK Giant Sand Girugamesh G.L.O.S.S. Gnashing of Teeth Gossip Graveyard Iona I, the Breather Jack Ü Joey + Rory Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings La Ley A Lighter Shade of Brown Lionheart Lush Majical Cloudz Marion Matchbook Romance Maybeshewill Mischief Brew Motion City Soundtrack Mudvayne Nektar Nomeansno P.M. Dawn The Presidents of the United States of America Rainbow Sally Shapiro Thee Satisfaction School of Seven Bells SMAP Sockweb Sorry About Dresden Spirit of the West The Stooges Suicide Trailer Choir Transit Twisted Sister Viola Beach Wodensthrone You, Me, and Everyone We Know Youth Lagoon
Deaths January 1 Gilbert Kaplan, (74), American conductor and businessman, cancer.Gilbert Kaplan, conductor – obituary Mark B, (45), British hip-hop record producer.UK hip-hop producer Mark B has died Gilberto Mendes, (93), Brazilian composer.Gilberto Mendes (1922–2016): Sailing in the Ocean of Creativity 2 – Rino Salviati, (93), Italian singer, guitarist and actor.Roma, addio a Rino Salviati, voce e chitarra di "Prigioniero di un sogno" 3 Paul Bley (83), Canadian jazz pianist. Jason Mackenroth (46), American rock drummer (Rollins Band, Mother Superior), prostate cancer.Jason Mackenroth, Former Rollins Band Drummer, Dies at 46 4 Long John Hunter, (84), American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.El Paso music legend Long John Hunter dies Achim Mentzel, (69), German musician and television presenter.German entertainer Achim Mentzel dies at 69 5 Pierre Boulez, (90), French composer and conductor.Pierre Boulez – obituary Nicholas Caldwell, (71), American R&B singer (The Whispers).We Remember: Nick Caldwell of the Whispers Dies at 71 Hanna-Marie Weydahl, (93), Norwegian pianist.Hanna-Marie Weydahl 7 Kitty Kallen, (94), American singer ("Little Things Mean a Lot").Kitty Kallen, Big Band Singer of ‘Bésame Mucho,’ Dies at 94 Troy Shondell, (76), American singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.Troy Shondell, Singer of 'This Time (We're Really Breaking Up),' Dies at 76 8 Otis Clay, (73), American R&B and soul singer ("Tryin' to Live My Life Without You", "The Only Way Is Up"), heart attack.Soul legend Otis Clay dies at 73 Red Simpson, (81), American country singer-songwriter ("I'm a Truck"), complications from a heart attack.Bakersfield Sound pioneer Red Simpson dies at 81 Brett Smiley, (60), American singer-songwriter. 10 – David Bowie, (69), English songwriter and artist. 14 – Jane Stuart Smith, (90), American operatic soprano, hymnologist, and author. 17 Carina Jaarnek (53), Swedish singer and Dansband artist (cerebral haemorrhage). Dale Griffin (67), British rock drummer (Mott the Hoople, Mott, British Lions). 18 – Glenn Frey (67), American guitarist and vocalist (The Eagles).Glenn Frey, guitarist for the Eagles, dies at 67 – The Washington Post 25 – Leif Solberg (101), Norwegian composer and organist. 26 T.J. Tindall (65), American guitarist (MFSB) Black (53), Pop/new wave singer-songwriter, Traffic accident 28 Signe Toly Anderson (74), American vocalist (Jefferson Airplane). Paul Kantner (74), American guitarist and vocalist (Jefferson Airplane).Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74 – SFGate
February 3 – Maurice White (74), founder of Earth, Wind and Fire. 4 Bobby Caldwell (68), American rock keyboardist (Terry Knight and the Pack) Ulf Söderblom (85), Finnish conductor. 13 Viola Beach, English indie rock band, car accident Kristian "Kris" Leonard (20), guitar and vocals River Reeves (19), guitar Tomas Lowe (27), bass Jack Dakin (19), drums Craig Tarry (32), band manager 15 Joyce Paul (78), American country music singer Vanity (57), American singer 19 – Harald Devold (51), Norwegian saxophonist (cancer). 20 – Ove Verner Hansen (85), Danish actor and opera singer (cardiac arrest). 22 – Sonny James (87), American country music singer-songwriter. 24 – Lennie Baker (69), American rock and roll saxophonist and singer (Sha Na Na) 29 – Josefin Nilsson (46), Swedish singer.
March 3 – Gavin Christopher, 66, American R&B singer-songwriter and producer"One Step Closer To You" singer Gavin Christopher dies 5 – Jimmy Henderson, 61, American guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas) 8 – George Martin, (90), English producer. 9 Ray Griff (75), Canadian country singer-songwriter, (aspiration pneumonia). Naná Vasconcelos (71), Brazilian percussionist. 10 Keith Emerson (71), English pianist and keyboardist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer). Ernestine Anderson (87), American jazz and blues singer 12 Tommy Brown (84), American R&B singer Jimmie Snell, 69, American soul and pop singer (Limmie & Family Cookin') 13 – Sidney Mear, (97), American trumpeter.Sidney E. Mear 14 – Peter Maxwell Davies, (81), English composer and conductor 18 – Ned Miller (90), American singer-songwriter 22 – Phife Dawg, (45), American rap musician (A Tribe Called Quest), complications from diabetes. 23 – James Jamerson, Jr., 58, American bass player (Chanson) 24 – Peter Anders, 74, American singer-songwriter (The Trade Winds) and record producer 26 – David Baker, 84, American symphonic jazz composer
April 2 – Gato Barbieri, (83), Argentine jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.Latin Jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri dies at age 83 3 – Bill Henderson, (90), American jazz vocalist and actor (Clue, City Slickers, White Men Can't Jump), cancer.Bill Henderson, Jazz Vocalist and Actor, Dies at 90 6 – Merle Haggard, (79), American singer-songwriter ("Okie from Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", "Carolyn"), Grammy winner (1984, 1998, 1999), complications from pneumonia.Merle Haggard, country music legend, dies at 79 13 – Mariano Mores, (98), Argentine tango composer and pianist. 21 Prince, (57), American musician.Prince, singer and superstar, dies at 57 at Paisley Park Lonnie Mack, (74), American rock, blues, and country singer-songwriter guitarist, natural causes."Lonnie mack Services, Burial, in Hometown This Week", http://eaglecountryonline.com/local-article/lonnie-mack-services-burial-in-hometown-this-week/ 24 Billy Paul, (81), American soul singer. Papa Wemba, (66), Congolese singer and musician. Jan Henrik Kayser, (81), Norwegian pianist.
May 1 – Sydney Onayemi (78), Nigerian-born Swedish DJ.Disco-legendaren Sydney Onayemi död 4 – Olle Ljungström (54), Swedish singer and guitarist.Olle Ljungström (54) er død 6 – Candye Kane, (54), American blues singer and entertainer 9 Jim Manolides (76), American rock and roll bassist (The Frantics) Riki Sorsa (63), Finnish singer.Riki Sorsa on kuollut 14 – Lasse Mårtenson (81), Finnish singerLasse Mårtenson har avlidit 16 – Fredrik Norén (75), Swedish jazz drummerJazzmusikern Fredrik Norén död (death announced on this date) 17 – Guy Clark, (74), American folk and country music singer-songwriter 19 – John Berry, (52), American guitarist (Beastie Boys) 21 – Nick Menza, (51), American instrumentalist, former drummer for the band MegadethFormer Megadeth drummer Nick Menza dies after collapsing on stage | Music | The Guardian 30 – Thomas Fekete, (27), American guitarist (Surfer Blood)
June 2 – Freddie Wadling (64), Swedish singer and songwriter. 3 – Dave Swarbrick, (75), British folk musician and singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention), emphysema. 4 – Bobby Curtola, (73), Canadian singer.Bobby Curtola, Former Canadian Teen Idol, Dies at 73 5 – Phyllis Curtin, (94), American soprano. 6 – Rolf Schweizer, (80), German composer.Baden verliert bedeutenden Kirchenmusiker: Rolf Schweizer im Alter von 80 Jahren gestorben 8 Vladislav Yankovsky, (64), Russian musician (Novosibirsk Youth Symphony Orchestra).Умер известный новосибирский музыкант и дирижер (фото) Terje Fjærn (73), Norwegian orchestra conductor ("La det swinge").Terje Fjærn er død 9 – J. Reilly Lewis, (71), American choral conductor and Baroque music specialist, heart attack.RIP: J. Reilly Lewis, 1944–2016 10 Habib, (63), Iranian singer, heart attack.حبیب محبیان درگذشت