1994 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.
Joan Jett performing at Bumbershoot 1994.
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January–February
- January 19 – Bryan Adams becomes the first major Western music star to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.[1]
- January 21–February 5 – The Big Day Out festival takes place, again expanding from the previous year's venues to include the Gold Coast, Queensland and Auckland in New Zealand. The festival is headlined by Soundgarden, Ramones and Björk.[2]
- January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which makes its US chart debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so.
- January 29 – The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside Los Angeles, USA. Wilson's 14-year-old son is killed in the accident.
- February 1 – Green Day release their breakthrough album Dookie, ushering in the mid-1990s punk revival.[3] Dookie eventually achieves diamond certification.
- February 7 – Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony because of his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone.[4]
- February 11 – The three surviving members of The Beatles secretly reunite to begin recording additional music for a few of John Lennon's old unfinished demos, presented to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono, with Jeff Lynne producing. The track, "Free As A Bird", is released as a single in late 1995 as part of the exhaustive Beatles Anthology project, reaching No. 2 in the UK and No. 6 in the United States.
- February 14 – Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia marries Deborah Koons.[5]
- February 23 – Eddie Van Halen, Chris Isaak, and B.B. King attend the ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino takes place in Paradise, Nevada, USA.
- February 26 – The Sanremo Music Festival ends with victory for Aleandro Baldi in the "Big Artists" category, for the song "Passerà"[6]
March–April
- March 1
- Selena becomes the first Tejano music singer to win a Grammy Award.[7]
- Nirvana play their final concert, in Munich.
- The 36th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in New York, hosted by Garry Shandling. The soundtrack from the 1992 film The Bodyguard wins Album of the Year, while its lead single, Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You", wins Record of the Year. The single version of "A Whole New World", performed by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, wins Song of the Year. Toni Braxton wins Best New Artist.
- Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Legend Award. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short. Other artists criticize the producer's decision during the show, and Billy Joel takes extra time to perform his song, The River of Dreams, noting that he is wasting valuable air time.
- March 3 – In Rome, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after overdosing on Rohypnol and champagne.
- March 5 – Grace Slick is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, California, home.[8]
- March 7 – The United States Supreme Court decision Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. rules that parody can qualify as fair use. The case was spurred by 2 Live Crew releasing a parody of the Roy Orbison hit "Oh, Pretty Woman" without a license from the publishing firm Acuff-Rose Music.
- March 8 – Nine Inch Nails release their second studio album The Downward Spiral. It would go on to sell over 3 million copies and be credited with helping bring industrial rock music into the mainstream.
- March 13 – Selena releases her final Spanish album Amor Prohibido. Its production had been delayed because of the launch of Selena's fashion clothing line and boutiques, and her "Selena Live!" tour in support of Live!.[9]
- March 18
- Courtney Love calls the police, fearing that her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, is suicidal. Police confiscate four guns and 25 boxes of ammo from Cobain's home.
- Bassist Darryl Jones replaces Bill Wyman in The Rolling Stones.
- March 22 - Pantera releases Far Beyond Driven, which becomes the heaviest album to hit number 1 on the Billboard 200.
- March 30 – Pink Floyd embark on what would be their last world tour before their breakup. The record-breaking tour supports their Division Bell album, with the band playing to 5,500,000 people in 68 cities and grossing over £150,000,000 (US$186,952,500).
- March 31 – Madonna on Late Show with David Letterman: Madonna appears on the Late Show with David Letterman, making headlines with her profanity-laced interview.[10] Robin Williams later describes the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman."
- April 8 – The body of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found. Cobain's death, three days before, is legally declared to be suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot.
- April 11 – The Offspring release Smash, which goes on to become the best selling independent album of all time and one of the most influential albums of the 90s.
- April 25
- Blur releases Parklife, its first album reaching No. 1 in UK, where it was certified "quadruple platinum".[11]
- Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor River Phoenix in November 1993.
- April 26 – Grace Slick pleads guilty to having pointed a shotgun at police officers on March 5.
- April 27 – The legendary Fillmore club reopens in San Francisco with a concert headlined by The Smashing Pumpkins.
- April 30 – The 39th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Dublin, Ireland, which becomes the first-ever country to win three consecutive contests. Its winners are Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan with "Rock 'N' Roll Kids", written by Brendan Graham. The interval features the first-ever public performance of Riverdance, featuring Michael Flatley and Jean Butler, which developed into the world-famous stage show.[12]
May–June
- May 2 – A Los Angeles jury finds Michael Bolton, along with co-writer Andy Goldmark and Sony Music Entertainment, guilty of copyright infringement over the song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing". The song is ruled to be too similar to a song of the same name by The Isley Brothers.
- May 3 – The Rolling Stones arrive by yacht to a press conference in New York City to announce the Voodoo Lounge Tour kicking off in the summer.
- May 6
- Pearl Jam files a complaint against Ticketmaster with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business.
- To help promote his new album, Alice Cooper releases a three-part comic book that followed the album The Last Temptation.
- May 9–13 – 1994 International Rostrum of Composers
- May 10
- Tupac Shakur begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.
- Weezer are introduced to the world with their self-titled debut, often referred to as the Blue Album. It would go on to become one of the most influential records of the 1990s spawning hits "Undone – The Sweater Song", "Buddy Holly" and "Say It Ain't So".
- May 26 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley are married in the Dominican Republic.[13]
- May 27 – The Eagles launch the Hell Freezes Over tour in Burbank, California. The reunion tour is the group's first since breaking up in 1980, but much is also made of the band becoming the first to charge over $100 per ticket for arena shows.
- June 7 – Grace Slick is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three months' worth of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.
- June 9 – Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC, in a domestic dispute with partner Andre Rison, sets fire to his shoes; the fire ultimately spreads to the mansion they share and destroys it.
- June 21 – George Michael loses his legal bid in a London court to be released from his contract with Sony Records.
- June 27 – Aerosmith becomes the first major band to premiere a new song on the Internet. Over 10,000 CompuServe subscribers download the free track "Head First" within its first eight days of availability.
July–August
- July 12–16 – The Yoyo A Go Go punk and indie rock festival opens in Olympia, Washington.
- July 30
- The Verbier Festival is launched.
- In keeping with the country's new constitution and the promotion of its native language, Moldova adopts Limba noastră as its new national anthem, replacing the anthem of Romania which was previously in use.
- Suede announce that guitarist Bernard Butler has left the band following fractious recording sessions for their album Dog Man Star.
- August 9
- Peter Maxwell Davies conducts the first performance of his fifth symphony at the Royal Albert Hall in London, as part of The Proms.[14]
- Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76-year-old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá, Colombia, with Compassion International. The two men visit the Ciudad Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
- Decca releases a recording of the 1949 première of Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony for the first time.
- Machine Head release their first album Burn My Eyes, which was a big success and becomes Roadrunner Records' best selling debut album.
- August 11 – A compact disc copy of Sting's album Ten Summoner's Tales, released the previous year, becomes the first item securely purchased over the internet; the CD is sold for $12.48 plus shipping and handling fees.
- August 12–14 – Woodstock '94 is held in Saugerties, New York. As with the original 1969 festival, attendance is swelled by a high number of gatecrashers, while heavy rains turn the festival grounds into a sea of mud. Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Peter Gabriel, and Green Day are among the many performers.
- August 23 – Jeff Buckley releases his single, critically acclaimed, full-length studio album Grace.
- August 30
- Oasis release their debut album Definitely Maybe; it becomes the fastest selling debut album in the United Kingdom until 2006 when it was beaten by the Arctic Monkeys' debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
- Luis Miguel release Segundo Romance, the best-selling Latin album of the 1990s by a male artist. Four singles from the album were released; two of which reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Songs. It received a Grammy Award and a Billboard Latin Music Award.
September–October
- September 6
- José Cura wins the Operalia – International Plácido Domingo Opera Singer Competition.[15]
- Bad Religion release their eighth studio album (and proper major-label debut) Stranger than Fiction. This proved to be the last to feature founding guitarist/songwriter Brett Gurewitz for seven years, until his return. Gurewitz would be replaced by former Minor Threat / Dag Nasty / Junkyard guitarist Brian Baker, who turned down a touring job for R.E.M. at this time, and eventually becomes a permanent member of Bad Religion.
- September 8 – Richard A. Morse, lead male vocalist of RAM, narrowly escapes a kidnapping by armed men during the band's live performance at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; the attempted kidnapping was provoked by the performance of "Fèy", a RAM single banned nationwide by the military authorities.
- September 15 – A 1957 audio tape of John Lennon performing with The Quarrymen on the same night he met Paul McCartney fetches £78,500 at Sotheby's, London.[16]
- October 11 – Korn, a nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, launches its self-titled debut album, peaking at No. 72 on the Billboard 200 and launching the nu metal sound.
- October 12 – Jimmy Page and Robert Plant: No Quarter (Unledded) premieres on MTV. The "unplugged" concert special featuring the two former Led Zeppelin bandmates was filmed to accompany the release of the album of the same name.
November–December
- November 20 – David Crosby undergoes a seven-hour liver transplant operation in Los Angeles.
- November 30 – The Breeders guitarist Kelley Deal is arrested at her Ohio home after accepting a private-courier package containing four grams of heroin.[17]
- December 2 – Warner Music Group acquires a 49 percent share of Seattle record label Sub Pop in a deal believed to be worth over $30 million.
- December 18 – Paul Oakenfold's legendary Goa Mix is first broadcast in the early hours of this day as a BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.
- December 19 – Aerosmith opens the 250-seat Mama Kin Music Hall in Boston, co-owned by the group, with a performance.
- December 31 – The twenty-third annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by Melissa Etheridge, The O'Jays, Salt-n-Pepa, Hootie & the Blowfish and Jon Secada.
Also in 1994
- Christoph von Dohnányi becomes principal guest conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra.
- Josep Pons becomes principal conductor of the City of Granada Orchestra.
- Christian Olde Wolbers replaces Andrew Shives in Fear Factory.
- ALL part ways with their original home Cruz Records, and sign a recording contract with Interscope (though they shortly leave that label after releasing an album in the following year).
- The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland and bassist Greg Kriesel form the label Nitro Records, an incubator for successful punk artists such as AFI. The label later releases albums from classic punk bands, including The Damned and T.S.O.L., and also reissues the first Offspring album.
- Social Distortion manager Jim Guerinot forms the label Time Bomb Recordings in joint-venture agreement with Arista. The label actually exists mostly as an imprint for current releases from Social Distortion and solo albums by Mike Ness, along with the administration of the label's back catalog.
- Summer – Tony Wilson attempts to revive Factory Records, in collaboration with London Records, as "Factory Too".[18]
- Former Wolfsbane lead singer Blaze Bayley auditions and is hired by Iron Maiden.
Bands formed
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Bands disbanded
- See Musical groups disestablished in 1994
Bands reformed
- Circle Jerks (hiatus since 1989)
- King Crimson (since 1984)
- Eagles (disbanded in 1980)
Albums released
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Release date unknown
Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions.[21] in the charts of 1994.
| # | Artist | Title | Year | Country | Chart entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruce Springsteen | Streets of Philadelphia | 1994 |  | Austria 1 – Apr 1994, Norway 1 – Feb 1994, Poland 1 – Feb 1994, Germany 1 – Mar 1994, Republic of Ireland 1 – Mar 1994, Oscar in 1993, UK 2 – Mar 1994, Switzerland 2 – Mar 1994, Italy 3 of 1994, France 4 – Feb 1994, Holland 6 – Feb 1994, RYM 6 of 1994, Sweden 7 – Feb 1994, US BB 9 of 1994, Europe 29 of the 1990s, US BB 30 of 1994, Australia 30 of 1994, US CashBox 49 of 1994, POP 63 of 1994, AFI 68, Germany 74 of the 1990s, WXPN 837 |
| 2 | Bryan Adams & Rod Stewart & Sting | All For Love | 1994 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} /  | US BB 1 of 1994, Sweden 1 – Dec 1993, Austria 1 – Feb 1994, Switzerland 1 – Jan 1994, Norway 1 – Jan 1994, Poland 1 – Dec 1993, Germany 1 – Jan 1994, Republic of Ireland 1 – Jan 1994, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Apr 1994, UK 2 – Jan 1994, Holland 3 – Jan 1994, US BB 9 of 1994, Italy 9 of 1994, Australia 10 of 1994, US CashBox 22 of 1994, POP 25 of 1994, Germany 87 of the 1990s |
| 3 | Rednex | Cotton-Eyed Joe | 1994 |  | UK 1 – Dec 1994, US BB 1 of 1995, Holland 1 – Aug 1994, Sweden 1 – Aug 1994, Austria 1 – Oct 1994, Switzerland 1 – Oct 1994, Norway 1 – Oct 1994, Germany 1 – Jan 1995, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Mar 1995, POP 1 of 1995, Germany 18 of the 1990s, US BB 25 of 1995, Australia 41 of 1995, Party 54 of 2007, Scrobulate 72 of party |
| 4 | All-4-One | I Swear | 1994 | | US BB 1 of 1994, Holland 1 – Jul 1994, Austria 1 – Aug 1994, Switzerland 1 – Jul 1994, Germany 1 – Jul 1994, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Jul 1994, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Nov 1994, UK 2 – Jun 1994, Norway 2 – Jul 1994, Australia 2 of 1994, US CashBox 3 of 1994, Sweden 3 – Aug 1994, US BB 7 of 1994, Poland 14 – Jul 1994, Germany 39 of the 1990s, OzNet 657 |
| 5 | Mariah Carey | Without You | 1994 | | UK 1 – Feb 1994, Holland 1 – Feb 1994, Sweden 1 – Feb 1994, Austria 1 – Apr 1994, Switzerland 1 – Apr 1994, Poland 1 – Feb 1994, Germany 1 – Mar 1994, Republic of Ireland 1 – Feb 1994, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Apr 1994, US BB 3 of 1994, Norway 3 – Mar 1994, US CashBox 15 of 1994, Australia 15 of 1994, Germany 25 of the 1990s, POP 37 of 1994 |
Top 40 Chart hit singles
Other chart hit singles
- "Baby, Come Back" – Pato Banton & UB40
- "Baby, I Love Your Way" – Big Mountain (#1 Denmark, Spain and Sweden)
- "Back & Forth" – Aaliyah (#5 US)
- "Basket Case" – Green Day (#3 Sweden, #7 UK)
- "Because of Love" – Janet Jackson
- "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" – Selena (#8 Mexico)
- "Big Yellow Taxi" – Amy Grant
- "Black Hole Sun" – Soundgarden (#1 Iceland, #5 Canada)
- "Buddy Holly" – Weezer
- "Bump n' Grind" – R. Kelly
- "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" – Elton John
- "Chains" – Tina Arena (#4 Australia, #6 UK)
- "Cigarettes & Alcohol" – Oasis
- "Circle of Life" – Elton John
- "Closer" – Nine Inch Nails (#3 Australia)
- "Come On You Reds" – The Manchester United Football Squad (#1 UK and Denmark)
- "Cornflake Girl" – Tori Amos
- "Confide in Me" – Kylie Minogue
- "Cotton-Eyed Joe" – Rednex
- "Crazy" – Aerosmith
- "C.R.E.A.M." – Wu-Tang Clan
- "Creep" – TLC
- "Dedicated to the One I Love" – Bitty McLean
- "Dimension Divertida" – Paco Pil (#1 Spain)
- "Dissident" – Pearl Jam
- "Donde Quiera Que Estés" – Barrio Boyzz & Selena
- "Don't Follow" – Alice in Chains
- "Don't Turn Around" – Ace of Base
- "Doop" – Doop
- "Dreams" – The Cranberries
- "Dreams (Will Come Alive)" – 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor
- "Dromen zijn bedrog" – Marco Borsato (#1 Netherlands)
- "Drop Dead Beautiful" – Six Was Nine (#1 in South Africa, #3 in Iceland)
- "Dry County" – Bon Jovi
- "Eins, Zwei, Polizei" – Mo-Do (#1 Austria, Germany and Italy)
- "Endless Love" – Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey
- "Everybody" – DJ BoBo
- "Everybody Gonfi-Gon" – 2 Cowboys
- "Everybody on the Floor (Pump It)" – Tokyo Ghetto Pussy
- "Everyday" – Phil Collins
- "Everything Changes" – Take That
- "Fade into You" – Mazzy Star
- "Fantastic Voyage" – Coolio
- "Feel the Heat of the Night" – Masterboy
- "Feeling So Real" – Moby
- "Flava In Ya Ear" – Craig Mack
- "Flying High" – Captain Hollywood Project (#3 Europe)
- "Forever Young" - Interactive
- "Found Out About You" – Gin Blossoms (#3 Canada)
- "Fotos y Recuerdos" – Selena
- "Foule sentimentale" – Alain Souchon (#1 France)
- "Funkdafied" – Da Brat
- "Games People Play" – Inner Circle (#4 New Zealand, #7 Sweden and Switzerland)
- "Gin & Juice" – Snoop Doggy Dogg
- "Girls & Boys" – Blur
- "Give Me All Your Love" – Magic Affair (#3 Finland, #4 Denmark)
- "Gotta Get Away" – The Offspring
- "Happy Nation" – Ace of Base (#1 Denmark, Finland, France, Israel)
- "Here Comes the Hotstepper" – Ini Kamoze (#1 New Zealand and US)
- "Hold On" - Jamie Walters (#2 Sweden, #3 Norway)
- "Hyper Hyper" – Scooter (#1 Spain, #2 Austria and Germany)
- "I Alone" – Live
- "I Like to Move It" – Reel 2 Real
- "I Show You Secrets" – Pharao (#3 Finland, #5 Austria)
- "I Stay Away" – Alice in Chains
- "I Wanna Be Down" – Brandy
- "If I Only Knew" - Tom Jones
- "I'll Make Love to You" – Boyz II Men
- "I'll Remember" – Madonna
- "I'll Stand by You" – The Pretenders
- "I'll Take You There" - General Public
- "In Your Room" – Depeche Mode
- "Infected" – Bad Religion
- "Inside" – Stiltskin
- "Inside Your Dreams" – U96 (#1 Finland, #9 Switzerland)
- "Interstate Love Song" – Stone Temple Pilots (#2 Iceland)
- "Is This the Love" – Masterboy
- "It Takes Me Away" – Marusha (#3 Germany)
- "It's Alright" – East 17 (#1 Australia, Ireland and Israel)
- "It's a Rainy Day" – Ice MC
- "Je danse le Mia" – IAM
- "Jessie" – Joshua Kadison
- "Juicy" – Notorious B.I.G.
- "La solitudine" – Laura Pausini (#1 Belgium, Italy and Netherlands)
- "Let the Beat Control Your Body" – 2 Unlimited
- "Let the Beat Go On" – Dr. Alban
- "Let the Dream Come True" – DJ BoBo
- "Live Forever" – Oasis
- "Living in Danger" – Ace of Base
- "Longview" – Green Day
- "Look Who's Talking" – Dr Alban
- "Loser" – Beck
- "Lost in America" – Alice Cooper
- "Love Ain't Here Anymore" – Take That
- "Love Is All Around" – Wet Wet Wet (#1 UK)
- "Love Is Strong" – Rolling Stones
- "Love Religion" – U96
- "Love Song" – Mark 'Oh (#5 Germany, #8 Switzerland)
- "Lucky One" – Amy Grant
- "Mädchen" – Lucilectric
- "Mamá Yo Quiero" - King África
- "Mary Jane's Last Dance" – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#5 Canada)
- "Mass Appeal" – Gangstarr
- "(Meet) The Flintstones" – The B-52's
- "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" – Crash Test Dummies
- "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" – Prince
- "Move It Up" – Cappella (#6 Finland, Netherlands)
- "Move on Baby" – Cappella (#1 Europe)
- "Mr. Jones" – Counting Crows (#1 Canada)
- "Never Lie" – Immature (#5 US)
- "No Excuses" – Alice in Chains
- "No Good (Start the Dance)" – The Prodigy (#1 Finland, Greece)
- "No More (I Can't Stand It)" – Maxx
- "No Me Queda Mas" – Selena
- "No One" – 2 Unlimited
- "Now and Forever" – Richard Marx (#6 Canada, #7 US)
- "Omen III" – Magic Affair
- "On Bended Knee" – Boyz II Men
- "Only One Road" – Celine Dion
- "Penso Positivo" – Jovanotti (#2 Italy)
- "Please Come Home for Christmas" - Bon Jovi
- "The Real Thing" – 2 Unlimited
- "The Real Thing" – Tony Di Bart
- "Regulate" – Warren G & Nate Dogg
- "Renaissance" - M People
- "Return to Innocence" – Enigma (#1 Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Zimbabwe, #2 Denmark, #3 UK)
- "The Ride" – Basic Element
- "Right Beside You" – Sophie B. Hawkins (#7 Canada, #8 Switzerland)
- "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" - Meat Loaf
- "Rock My Heart" – Haddaway (#1 Israel, #4 Finland)
- "Rocks" - Primal Scream
- "Run Away" – Real McCoy (#3 US, #4 Australia, Finland, #5 Zimbabwe)
- "Run to the Sun" – Erasure
- "Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
- "Saturday Night" – Whigfield
- "Secret" – Madonna
- "Seether" – Veruca Salt
- "Self Esteem" – The Offspring (#1 Iceland, Norway, Sweden, #3 Finland)
- "Sensualité" – Axelle Red (#2 France, #6 Belgium)
- "Set the World on Fire" – E-Type
- "Seven Seconds" – Neneh Cherry & Youssou N'dour (#1 Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland)
- "Shine" – Aswad (#4 Iceland, #5 UK)
- "Shine" – Collective Soul
- "Short Dick Man" – 20 Fingers & Gillette (#1 France, Italy)
- "Si Una Vez" – Selena
- "Sight for Sore Eyes" - M People
- "The Sign" – Ace of Base
- "Sleeping in My Car" – Roxette
- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" – Marusha
- "Spin the Black Circle" – Pearl Jam
- "Spoonman" – Soundgarden
- "Stay Another Day" – East 17
- "Stay (I Missed You)" – Lisa Loeb
- "Stay Together" – Suede
- "Strani amori" – Laura Pausini
- "Streets of Philadelphia" – Bruce Springsteen
- "Strong Enough" – Sheryl Crow
- "Sukiyaki" – 4 P.M. (#3 Australia, #8 US)
- "Summer in the City" – Joe Cocker
- "Supersonic" – Oasis
- "Sure" – Take That
- "Swamp Thing" – The Grid
- "Sweet Dreams" – La Bouche (#1 Europe)
- "Sweets for My Sweet" – C. J. Lewis (#3 UK)
- "Take a Bow" – Madonna
- "Tears Don't Lie" – Mark 'Oh
- "Techno Cumbia" – Selena
- "There is a Star" – Pharao
- "Things Can Only Get Better" – D Ream
- "Think About the Way" – Ice MC
- "Think Twice" – Celine Dion
- "This D.J." – Warren G
- "This Is the Way" – E-Type
- "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
- "Touch" – Basic Element (#3 Sweden, #7 Finland, #9 Denmark)
- "Trouble " – Shampoo
- "Turn the Beat Around" – Gloria Estefan
- "Twist and Shout" – Chaka Demus & Pliers
- "U & Me" – Cappella
- "U R the Best Thing (Perfecto Remix)" - D:Ream
- "Undone - The Sweater Song" – Weezer
- "United" – Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark
- "What's My Name" – Snoop Doggy Dogg
- "Welcome to Paradise" – Green Day
- "Welcome to Tomorrow (Are You Ready?)" – Snap! (#1 Finland, #4 Belgium, #6 UK)
- "What's up" – DJ Miko
- "Whatta Man" – Salt-n-Pepa & En Vogue
- "When I Come Around" – Green Day
- "When We Dance" - Sting
- "White Dove" - Scorpions
- "Wild Night" – John Mellencamp & Me'shell Ndegeocello
- "Without You" – Mariah Carey
- "You Mean the World to Me" - Toni Braxton
- "You Want This" – Janet Jackson
- "Zombie" – The Cranberries
Notable singles
| Song title | Artist(s) | Release date(s) | Other Chart Performance(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| "In Your Room" | Depeche Mode | January 1994 | See chart performance entry |
Other Notable singles
- "In the Neighbourhood" - Sisters Underground
Top ten best albums of the year
All albums have been named albums of the year for their hits in the charts.[22]
Classical music
- Thomas Beveridge – Yizkor Requiem
- George Crumb – Quest for guitar, soprano saxophone, harp, double bass, and percussion (two players)
- Richard Danielpour – Cello Concerto
- Mario Davidovsky – Festino for guitar, viola, violoncello, contrabass
- Peter Maxwell Davies – Symphony No. 5
- David Diamond – Trio for violin, clarinet and piano[23]
- Lorenzo Ferrero
- Paesaggio con figura for small orchestra
- Portrait for string quartet
- Osvaldo Golijov – The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
- Vagn Holmboe – Symphony No. 13, M.362 (begun 1993)
- Guus Janssen – Klotz, for violin, hi-hat and small ensemble
- Karl Jenkins – Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary
- Wojciech Kilar – Reign Over Us, Christ, for voice and piano
- Oliver Knussen – Horn Concerto
- György Kurtág – Stele
- Morten Lauridsen – O magnum mysterium[24]
- Frederik Magle – Concerto for organ and orchestra The Infinite Second
- Thea Musgrave – Journey through a Japanese Landscape, for marimba and wind
- Tristan Murail – L'esprit des dunes
- Michael Nyman – Concerto for Trombone
- Einojuhani Rautavaara – Symphony No. 7 Angel of Light
- Steve Reich
- City Life
- Bagoya Marimbas
- Robert Simpson – String Quintet No. 2 (1991–94)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Weltraum (electronic music from Freitag aus Licht)
- Boris Tishchenko – Symphony No. 7
- Charles Wuorinen
- Lightenings VIII, for soprano and piano
- Piano Quintet
- Christes Crosse, for soprano and piano
- Percussion Quartet
- Guitar Variations
- Windfall, for wind ensemble
Opera
- Peter Maxwell Davies – The Doctor of Myddfai
- Vivian Fine – Memoirs of Uliana Rooney
- Adam Guettel – Floyd Collins
- Nicholas Lens – The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Flamma Flamma – The Fire Requiem
- Tobias Picker – Emmeline, libretto by JD McClatchy
- Alice Shields – Apocalypse
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Freitag aus Licht (completed; not staged until 1996)
Jazz
Musical theater
- Beauty and the Beast – Broadway production opened at the Palace Theatre and ran for 5461 performances
- Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein) – Broadway revival
- Damn Yankees (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) – Broadway revival
- Grease – Broadway revival
- Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) – Broadway revival
- Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd Webber) – Broadway production opened at the Minskoff Theatre and ran for 977 performances
Musical films
- Aag Aur Chingari
- Andaz, with music by Bappi Lahiri
- Airheads
- Backbeat
- Chaand Kaa Tukdaa, starring Sridevi[25]
- Fear of a Black Hat
- Gandugali, with music by Sadhu Kokila.[26]
- Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies
- Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, with music by Raamlaxman[27]
- Immortal Beloved, biopic of Ludwig van Beethoven
- The Lion King – animated feature film with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice
- Min fynske barndom, biopic of composer Carl Nielsen[28]
- Sukham Sukhakaram, with music by Ravindra Jain.[29]
- The Swan Princess – animated feature film
- That's Entertainment! III
- Thumbelina – animated feature film.
Births
- January 13 – Asta, Australian singer-songwriter
- January 14 – Kai, Korean singer and dancer (EXO)
- January 18
- January 23 – Vera Blue, Australian indie singer-songwriter
- January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer and rapper
- February 1
- Skylar Laine, American singer-songwriter
- Harry Styles, British musician, singer-songwriter, activist, (pop singer of boy band One Direction) (worked with Taylor Swift, Mabel, Stevie Nicks, Kacey Musgraves)
- February 3 – Orla Gartland, Irish singer, songwriter and YouTuber
- February 8 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer
- February 10 – Seulgi, Korean singer and dancer (Red Velvet)
- February 14
- Paul Butcher, American actor and singer
- Becky Hill, English singer and songwriter
- February 16 – Ava Max, American singer-songwriter
- February 17 – Angie Miller, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- February 18 – J-Hope , South Korean rapper, songwriter, dancer and record producer, member of BTS
- February 21 – Wendy, Korean singer (Red Velvet)
- February 22 – Rachael Leahcar, (Italian) Australian multi lingual singer-songwriter, musician, performer, writer, runner, composer, and runner composer (The Voice (Australia)) (team and toured with Delta Goodrem)
- February 23 – Little Simz, English rapper, singer and actress
- February 24 – Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper
- February 28 – Jake Bugg, English singer-songwriter and musician
- March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
- March 3 - Sam Asghari, Iranian-American actor, dancer, fitness guru, businessman, business owner and model (Formerly married & muse to Britney Spears)
- March 10 – Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican Latin trap and reggaeton singer.
- March 11 – Jace Chan, Hong Kong singer and actress
- March 12 – Christina Grimmie, American singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, actress and YouTuber (d. 2016)
- March 13 – Zella Day, American singer, songwriter and musician
- March 14 – Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer and DJ
- March 15 – Lynn Gunn, American musician (PVRIS)
- March 16
- Connie Glynn, English author, former influencer, and member of snaggletooth, a "Very haunted" band.
- Camilo (singer), Colombian singer, musician and songwriter. (Married to Evaluna Montaner)
- March 19 – Fletcher, American actress, singer, and songwriter.
- March 22 – Dax, Canadian rapper
- March 28
- Dreezy, American hip hop recording artist, rapper, musician
- Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas, twin English country-pop musicians
- Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper
- March 29 – Sulli, singer and actress (d. 2019)[32]
- April 1 – Ella Eyre, English singer-songwriter
- April 4 – Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer
- April 9 – Bladee, Swedish rapper, singer, songwriter, fashion designer and member of the musical group Drain Gang.
- April 11 – Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer-songwriter, winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2019
- April 12
- Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer
- Sehun, Korean singer, rapper and actor (EXO)[33]
- April 18 – Aminé, American rapper, singer and songwriter
- April 24 – Jordan Fisher, American singer, dancer and actor
- April 25
- Sam Fender, English actor, singer-songwriter, musician and activist
- Maggie Rogers, American singer-songwriter and record producer
- April 26 - Michael Pollack, American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
- May 5 – Celeste, American-born British singer
- May 7 - Laurel (musician). British musician
- May 11 - Howard Lawrence of EDM House garage band, Disclosure
- May 17 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina actress, singer, television personality
- May 24 – Dimash Kudaibergen, Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
- May 25 -
- Royal & the Serpent, American singer and songwriter
- Nathan Dawe, English DJ and producer (Annie-Marie, Little Mix, Ella Henderson)
- May 28 – Alec Benjamin, American musician
- May 30 - Madeon, French DJ and record producer
- May 31 - Lil Aaron, American rapper, singer and songwriter
- June 4 – Olivia Somerlyn, known as LIVVIA, American pop singer-songwriter
- June 14 – Scarlxrd, British rapper and songwriter
- June 25 - Egor Kreed, Russian rapper
- June 27 - Malinda Kathleen Reese, American stage actress, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter, comedian, YouTuber, and activist (Founder, Leader, Creator of Twisted Translations/ Google Translate Sings / Translator Fails)
- July 4
- Era Istrefi, Kosovar singer
- Amaarae, A Ghanaian-American pop, afrobeat, alte, R&B singer
- July 5 – Sơn Tùng M-TP, Vietnamese singer-songwriter
- July 7
- Ashton Irwin, Australian drummer and singer-songwriter (5 Seconds of Summer)
- July 9 - SG Lewis, English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer (Tove Lo)
- July 10 – Angel Haze, American rapper and singer
- July 11 – Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter, model, and musician
- July 14 - Bibi Bourelly, German-American singer-songwriter
- July 17 – Kali Uchis, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, record producer, music video director, and fashion designer
- July 31 – Lil Uzi Vert, American rapper, singer, songwriter
- August 2 – Jacob Collier, British musician, singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist
- August 8 – Lauv (Ari Leff), American singer-songwriter and record producer
- August 9 – King Von, American rapper (d. 2020)
- August 16 – Áine Cahill, Irish singer-songwriter
- August 17 – Phoebe Bridgers, American indie rock singer-songwriter, musician and artist[34]
- August 18 – Bobby Andonov, Australian singer-songwriter and actor
- August 22 – Jimilian, Danish singer
- August 28 – Felix Jaehn, German/Dutch DJ and record producer
- August 29 - Courtney Stodden, American media personality, model and singer
- August 30 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer[35]
- August 31 - MoStack British Rapper and Singer (Anne-Marie)
- September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer
- September 12 – RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer, member of BTS
- September 17
- Taylor Ware, American singer and yodeler
- Chen Yihan, Chinese pianist and composer
- September 22
- Emily Burns, English musician and singer-songwriter
- G Flip, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, musician, drummer and activist
- September 23 – Zolita, American singer-songwriter, director, photographer and activist
- September 28 – Trevor Daniel, American singer-songwriter
- September 29 – Halsey, American singer-songwriter, artist and activist[36]
- October 1 – Alfredo Olivas, Mexican singer
- October 2 – Shekhinah, South African singer-songwriter
- October 4 – Sarah Aarons, Australian singer, songwriter, musician
- October 15 – Sebastián Yatra, Colombian singer
- October 24 – Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer[37]
- October 15 – Lil' Kleine, Dutch musician
- November 3 – Ella Mai, English singer and songwriter
- November 4 – keshi, American singer
- November 6 – Speaker Knockerz, American rapper and record producer (d. 2014)
- November 8 – Lauren Alaina, American country music singer, songwriter and actress
- November 9 – MNEK, British singer-songwriter and record producer
- November 24 – Reece Mastin, winner of The X Factor (Australia), rock-soul-blues singer-songwriter, and musician (English born, Australian)
- November 26 – Emma Portner, American dancer and choreographer
- November 28 – Bonnie Anderson, Australian singer-songwriter
- December 2 – Laura Les, American music producer and singer-songwriter (100 gecs)
- December 13 – Ibeyi (Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz), twin French singer-songwriters
- December 18 = Slowthai, British rapper (Anne-Marie)
- December 19
- Michele Bravi, Italian singer
- Nathan Evans, Scottish musician
- December 21, Thelma Plum, an Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist and musician
- Unknown: Ny Oh, a New Zealand folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Deaths
- January 4 – R. D. Burman, music director, 54[38]
- January 6 – Harold Sumberg, violinist, 88
- January 15
- Harry Nilsson, singer, songwriter, 52 (heart attack)[39]
- Georges Cziffra, pianist, 72[40]
- January 22 – Rhett Forrester, American singer-songwriter, 37 (shot)
- January 25 – Bertha Rawlinson, New Zealand opera singer, composer and music teacher, 83
- January 30 – Rudolf Schwarz, conductor, 88
- February 5 – Tiana Lemnitz, operatic soprano, 96
- February 7 – Witold Lutosławski, composer, 81
- February 8 – Raymond Scott, composer and bandleader, 85
- February 19 – Micho Russell, Irish tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore, 79
- February 22 – Papa John Creach, blues violinist, 76[41]
- February 24
- Jean Sablon, French singer, 87
- Dinah Shore, singer, actress, 77[42]
- March 3 – Karel Kryl, Czech folk singer, 49[43]
- March 6 – Yvonne Fair, African-American singer, 51
- March 13 – Danny Barker, jazz musician and composer, 85
- March 16 – Nicolas Flagello, composer, 66[44]
- March 18 – Ephraim Lewis, soul and R&B singer, 26
- March 22 – Dan Hartman, singer, 42 (brain tumour)
- March 23 – Donald Swann, pianist, composer and entertainer (Flanders and Swann), 70
- April 5
- Rowland Greenberg, Norwegian jazz trumpeter, 73
- Kurt Cobain, singer & guitarist (Nirvana), 27 (self-inflicted shotgun wound)
- April 7 – Lee Brilleaux, British R&B singer (Dr. Feelgood), 41 (cancer)
- April 19 – Larry Davis, blues singer and guitarist, 57
- May 23 – Joe Pass, jazz guitarist, 65 (liver cancer)
- May 25 – Eric Gale, jazz guitarist, 55 (lung cancer)
- May 26 – Sonny Sharrock, jazz guitarist, 53
- May 27 – Red Rodney, bop trumpeter, 66
- May 29 – Oliver Jackson, jazz drummer, 61
- May 31
- Uzay Heparı, Turkish composer, music producer, songwriter and actor, 24 (motorcycle accident)
- Herva Nelli, operatic soprano, 85
- June 4 – Earle Warren, saxophonist, 79
- June 11 – Robert Beadell, composer, 68
- June 14 – Henry Mancini, composer, 70
- June 15 – Manos Hadjidakis, composer, 68
- June 16 – Kristen Pfaff, bass guitarist (Hole), 27 (heroin overdose)
- June 25
- Kin Vassy, songwriter, performer, co-lead singer and guitarist of The First Edition 1969–72 (lung cancer), 50
- DJ Train, producer (smoke inhalation)
- June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, 85
- July 2 – Marion Williams, gospel singer, 66
- July 31 – Anne Shelton, British singer, 70
- August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter, 66
- September 2 – Roy Castle, musician and all-round entertainer, 62 (lung cancer)
- September 3 – Major Lance, R&B singer, 55
- September 6
- Nicky Hopkins, session musician, keyboardist, 50 (complications from intestinal surgery)
- Max Kaminsky, jazz trumpeter and bandleader, 85
- September 7 – Eric Crozier, librettist, 79
- September 13 – John Stevens, jazz musician
- September 20 – Jule Styne, songwriter, 88
- September 24 – Urmas Alender, singer, 40 (drowned in MS Estonia sinking)
- September 29 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian Raj musician, 26 (murdered)
- October 4 – Danny Gatton, guitarist, 49
- October 19 – Martha Raye, singer and comedian, 88
- October 22
- Jimmy Miller, record producer, 52
- Shlomo Carlebach, Jewish songwriter
- October 26 – Wilbert Harrison, R&B singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player, 65
- October 27 – Robert White, Motown session guitarist, 57
- October 31
- Lester Sill, record executive, 76
- Erling Stordahl, Norwegian singer, 71
- November 4 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, MC5 guitarist, 46 (heart attack)
- November 7 – Shorty Rogers, jazz trumpeter, 70
- November 11 – Elizabeth Maconchy, composer, 87
- November 18 – Cab Calloway, jazz and scat singer, 86
- November 21 – Juancho Rois, Colombian vallenato musician, accordionist, and composer, 35 (plane crash)
- November 28 – Vic Legley, Belgian violist and composer of French birth, 79
- December 8 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, bossa nova composer and songwriter, 67
- December 10 – Garnett Silk, reggae singer, 28 (house fire)
Awards
- The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: John Lennon, Elton John, Grateful Dead, The Band, Bob Marley, Duane Eddy, Rod Stewart, and The Animals
- Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Tennessee Ernie Ford
Filmfare Awards
Grammy Awards
Country Music Association Awards
Eurovision Song Contest
Mercury Music Prize
- Elegant Slumming – M People wins.
Juno Award
- Rascalz – Juno Award Best rap album
See also
- 1994 in British music
- Record labels established in 1994
References
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