This topic covers events and articles related to 2023 in music.
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Specific genres Classical Country Electronic Jazz Latin Heavy metal Hip-hop R&B Progressive rock Rock K-pop J-pop
Albums released
Awards 65th Annual Grammy Awards (USA) 2023 Billboard Music Awards (USA) 2023 Brit Awards (UK) 2023 Juno Awards (Canada) 2023 MAMA Awards (Asia) 2023 MTV Video Music Awards Japan (Japan) 2023 MTV Video Music Awards (USA) 2023 MTV Europe Music Awards (Europe) 37th Golden Disc Awards (South Korea)65th Japan Record Awards (Japan) Pulitzer Prize for Music (USA) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA)Mercury Prize (UK) Polar Music Prize (Sweden)2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards (USA) Polaris Music Prize (Canada)Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (Europe)32nd Seoul Music Awards (South Korea)
Bands formed
8Turn BB Girls Ave Mujica Babymonster BoyNextDoor Candy Tune DXTeen Evnne El7z Up Fantasy Boys Hori7on IMP. The Jet Boy Bangerz from Exile Tribe Kiss Kiss Kiss of Life LimeLight Loossemble Lun8 Mave: MiSaMo NCT Tokyo Primrose Riize TripleS Whom Gods Destroy Xikers Xodiac ¥$ Zerobaseone
Soloist debuts
Allie Sherlock Ayaka Fukuhara Chloe Stroll Chuu Halle Bailey Himika Akaneya Hwang Min-hyun Jang Ye-eun Jeffrey Ngai Jihyo Jimin Jinyoung Jisoo Joel Deleōn Josh Cullen Joohoney Jungkook Kaori Maeda Klavdia Petrivna Kylie Cantrall Lee Mi-joo Leigh-Anne Marife Yau Marco Ip Mayu Mineda Mayu Sagara Nako Misaki Nancy Kwai Ren Roksana Węgiel Roxy Dekker Sica Ho Shiori Tamai Swan Taeyong V Win Win Yeung
Bands reformed
3 Inches of Blood The Beatles (a one off recording) Blessthefall Bloodhound Gang Blur Bratmobile The Buggles Creed Crimson Glory The Dillinger Escape Plan Dogstar Fightstar Frankie Goes to Hollywood Girls Aloud Heavenly The Last Goodnight Love and Rockets Mallory Knox *NSYNC NX Zero Power Trip RBD Restart Savatage S Club Silent Siren Sublime The Soup Dragons Twisted Sister
Bands disbanded
The Agonist ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Anti-Flag Astro – Jinjin & Rocky Astro – Moonbin & Sanha Bandage Barnes & Barnes Betraying the Martyrs Bish Bjesovi Brave Girls Boysgroup B.O.L.T Camp Cope Candlebox Chancho en Piedra Clannad CNCO Coast Modern The Comet Is Coming D1ce Dawn Ray'd Died Pretty Dilly Dally Egoist Emerson String Quartet For Tracy Hyde GWSN Helvetia Injury Reserve Jars of Clay Kiss Kix Momoland Muncie Girls MS MR Palisades Palm Panic! at the Disco PRETTYMUCH The Regrettes Russkaja Screaming Females Skinny Puppy Snuper Sprain Strange Ranger VIXX LR Westkust
Bands on hiatus Blood Youth Blur DNCE The Mamas Walk the Moon
Deaths January 1 Gangsta Boo, 43, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia)Memphis rapper “Gangsta Boo” found dead, Three 6 Mafia group founder confirms Sebastian Marino, 57, American metal guitarist (Overkill, Anvil)Former Overkill And Anvil Guitarist Sebastian Marino Dead At 57 Fred White, 67, American funk drummer (Earth, Wind & Fire)Earth, Wind & Fire Drummer Fred White Dies at 67 2 Andrew Downes, 72, British classical composerAndrew Downes Obituary Kingsize Taylor, 83, British rock and roll singer and guitarist (Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes)Er war eine "Star-Club"-Legende: "Kingsize" Taylor gestorben 3 Joseph Koo, 91, Hong Kong film composer Notis Mavroudis, 77, Greek classical guitarist and composerΘρήνος για την ελληνική μουσική-Πέθανε ο μεγάλος συνθέτης και κιθαρίστας Νότης Μαυρουδής Alan Rankine, 64, Scottish post-punk keyboardist and guitarist (The Associates)Alan Rankine, founding member of the Associates, dies aged 64 4 Stan Hitchcock, 86, American country music singer and co-founder of CMTCountry-TV Singing Star Stan Hitchcock Passes Zoran Kalezić, 72, Serbian-Montenegrin folk singerPreminuo Zoran Kalezić! Pevač izgubio bitku s najtežom bolešću! Beeyar Prasad, 61, Indian film lyricistLyricist, poet Beeyar Prasad passes away 5 Mark Capps, 54, American sound engineerGrammy-Winning Recording Engineer Shot and Killed by Police SWAT Team in Nashville Gordy Harmon, 79, American R&B and soul singer (The Whispers)Musician Gordy Harmon, founding member of The Whispers, dies at 79 in Los Angeles 6 Jeff Blackburn, 77, American rock guitarist and songwriter (Blackburn & Snow, Moby Grape)Jeff Blackburn – Co-Autor von 'My My, Hey Hey' – gestorben Danny Kaleikini, 85, American Hawaiian pop singerLegendary Hawaii entertainer Danny Kaleikini dies at age 85 7 – Aleksandr Kharchikov, 73, Russian folk singer-songwriterУмер бард Александр Харчиков 8 – Slim Newton, 90, Australian country music singer-songwriter 9 Séamus Begley, 73, Irish folk fiddler and accordionistRenowned trad musician Séamus Begley dies age 73 Dick Flood, 90, American country music singer-songwriterRIP Okefenokee Joe Magnar Mangersnes, 84, Norwegian classical organist and choral conductorMagnar Mangersnes er død Yoriaki Matsudaira, 91, Japanese classical composer作曲家・生物物理学者の松平頼暁さん死去 前衛的な作風生涯貫く 10 Jeff Beck, 78, British rock guitarist (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, Beck, Bogert & Appice, The Honeydrippers)Jeff Beck, one of the guitar masters of the rock era, dies at 78 Dennis Budimir, 84, American jazz and rock guitarist (The Wrecking Crew)Passings José Evangelista, 79, Spanish classical composerFallece en Montreal el compositor valenciano José Evangelista 11 – Yukihiro Takahashi, 70, Japanese electronic and rock drummer and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sadistic Mika Band, METAFIVE)YMO高橋幸宏さん死去 70歳 20年脳腫瘍摘出 懸命リハビリも 伝説のテクノサウンド ドラムで支え 12 Robbie Bachman, 69, Canadian rock drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)Robbie Bachman, Drummer of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Dead at 69 Lisa Marie Presley, 54, American country rock singer-songwriterLisa Marie Presley, Daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, Dead at 54: 'The Most Strong and Loving Woman' Laylaw, American hip hop record producer. 13 Keith Beaton, 72, American R&B singer (Blue Magic)Legendary Blue Magic singer Keith Beaton dies at 72 Ray Cordeiro, 98, Hong Kong disc jockey (RTHK Radio 3)‘World's most durable DJ’ ‘Uncle’ Ray Cordeiro, a warm voice in the late night hours to generations in Hong Kong, dies at 98 14 – Matthias Carras, 58, German pop singerSchlagersänger Matthias Carras ist tot 15 Doris, 75, Swedish pop singerArtisten Doris Svensson är död – blev 75 år gammal Bruce Gowers, 82, British music video directorBruce Gowers, Director on Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody” Music Video and ‘American Idol,’ Dies at 82 C. J. Harris, 31, American country singer'American Idol' Alum C.J. Harris Dead at 31 Vakhtang Kikabidze, 84, Georgian singerActor, Singer and Politician Vakhtang Kikabidze Dead at 84 16 – Johnny Powers, American rockabilly singer and guitaristObituary for John L. Pavlik 17 Van Conner, 55, American alternative rock bassist (Screaming Trees)Van Conner, Screaming Trees Co-Founder and Bassist, Dies at 55 Manana Doijashvili, 75, Georgian classical pianistიანისტი მანანა დოიჯაშვილი გარდაიცვალა Leon Dubinsky, 81, Canadian folk composer Renée Geyer, 69, Australian pop singerCelebrated Australian singer Renée Geyer has died, aged 69 Larry Morris, 75, New Zealand garage rock singer (Larry's Rebels)Auckland music legend Larry Morris dies, leaving behind a half century of music Richard Oesterreicher, 90, Austrian jazz guitarist and conductorRichard Oesterreicher gestorben 18 David Crosby, 81, American folk rock singer-songwriter (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)David Crosby, Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash Co-Founder, Dies at 81 Victor Rasgado, 63, Mexican classical pianist and composerFallece el compositor Víctor Rasgado Gary Smith, American record producerGary Smith, Pixies / Blake Babies producer and Fort Apache Studios owner, has died (death announced on this date) Marcel Zanini, 99, Turkish-born French jazz clarinetistMort à 99 ans du musicien de jazz français Marcel Zanini 19 – Alex Napier, 75, English hard rock drummer (Uriah Heep)Alex Napier – RIP, Uriah Heep's Original Drummer 20 Stella Chiweshe, 76, Zimbabwean folk mbira playerZimbabwean Mbira Music Legend Mbuya Stella Chiweshe Passes Away Loïc Guguen, French opera singerDécès du baryton Loïc Guguen Nick Todd, 87, American pop singerObituary Nick Boone June 1, 1935 – January 20, 2023 21 – B.G., the Prince of Rap, 57, American rapperFrankfurter Dance-Legende und Jam El Mar Schützling verstorben 22 Easley Blackwood Jr., 89, American classical and electronic composer and pianistIn Memoriam: Easley Blackwood, Jr. Lin Brehmer, 68, American disc jockey and radio personality (WXRT)Chicago radio's Lin Brehmer has died at 68 Zhanna Pliyeva, 73, Georgian classical composer and pianistНе стало Народной артистки Южной Осетии Жанны Плиевой 23 Carol Sloane, 85, American jazz singerCarol Sloane, jazz singer of late-blooming acclaim, dies at 85 Top Topham, 75, English blues rock guitarist (The Yardbirds)Anthony ‘Top’ Topham, the Original Yardbirds Guitarist, Dead At Age 75 26 Dean Daughtry, 76, American rock keyboardist (The Candymen, Classics IV, Atlanta Rhythm Section)Dean Daughtry, Co-Founder of Atlanta Rhythm Section, Dead at 76 Peter McCann, 74, American songwriter and singerHit Songwriter Peter McCann Dies At Age 74 27 – Floyd Sneed, 80, Canadian rock drummer (Three Dog Night)Three Dog Night Drummer, Floyd Sneed, Dies at 80 28 Odd Børre, 83, Norwegian pop singerDen tidligere artisten Odd Børre er død David Challinor, Australian indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sounds Like Sunset)Vale David Challinor Barrett Strong, 81, American R&B singer-songwriterBarrett Strong, Motown stalwart who sang ‘Money,' dies at 81 Tom Verlaine, 73, American art punk singer-songwriter and guitarist (Television)Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73 29 Heddy Lester, 72, Dutch pop singerMallemolen-zangeres Heddy Lester (72) overleden Gabriel Tacchino, 88, French classical pianistLe grand pianiste Gabriel Tacchino, disciple de Poulenc, s'est éteint 31 Donnie Marsico, 68, American rock singer (The Jaggerz)Obituary: Don J. Marsico, singer for Sweet Breeze, dies at 68 Charlie Thomas, 85, American R&B singer (The Drifters)Charlie Thomas, longtime member of The Drifters, dies at 85
February 1 Lucy Quintero, 74, Panamanian folk singerFallece la cantante Lucy Quintero a los 74 años George Zukerman, 95, Canadian classical bassoonistGeorge Zukerman - February 1st, 2023 2 Butch Miles, 78, American jazz drummerButch Miles (1944–2023) Tim Quy, 61, English post-punk percussionist and keyboardist (Cardiacs)ORGAN: Sad news today, the passing of Tim Quy, Cardiacs beloved percussionist and performer extraordinaire... 3 – Paul Janovitz, 54, American alternative rock singer and guitarist (Cold Water Flat)Paul Janovitz July 3, 1968 - February 3, 2023 4 – Vani Jairam, 77, Indian playback singerVeteran singer Vani Jayaram passes away 5 Phil Spalding, 65, English rock bassist (GTR, Original Mirrors, Toyah)Phil Spalding Passed Away Lillian Walker, 78, American R&B singer (The Exciters)Lillian Walker-Moss, co-founder of "Tell Him" hitmakers The Exciters, dies 7 Mendelson Joe, 78, Canadian folk singer-songwriterMendelson Joe, Canadian Singer-Songwriter, Visual Artist and Activist, Dies at 78 Steve Sostak, 49, American experimental rock singer and saxophonist (Sweep the Leg Johnny)Sweep The Leg Johnny's Steve Sostak Dead At 49 (death announced on this date) 8