Overview of the events of 2008 in music
This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2008 in music . This year was the peak of record sales in the United States, with sales declining year on year since then.[ 1]
Specific locations
Specific genres
Events
January
February
February 8 – Michael Jackson 's Thriller album, the world's best-selling album of all time, is reissued as Thriller 25 executive producer .[ 7] February 10 – The 50th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, US.[ 8] Amy Winehouse wins five awards, including both Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Rehab ", along with Best New Artist . Herbie Hancock 's River: The Joni Letters Album of the Year .February 11 – After pleading no contest to a felony weapons charge, The Game was sentenced to 60 days in jail, 150 hours of community service, and three years of probation in connection with an incident where he was alleged to have brandished a gun at a basketball game in South Los Angeles in February 2007.[ 9] February 19 – System of a Down guitarist, Daron Malakian , tells MTV.com that the band is not likely to reform as he will be concentrating on his new project Scars on Broadway .[ 10] February 20 –25 – Viña del Mar International Song Festival is held in Chile.[ 11] February 23 – March 3 – The second annual Soundwave festival is held in Australia.[ 12] February 26 – The Return of the Spice Girls tour comes to a close in Toronto.[citation needed
March
April
April 1 – Scott Weiland 's departure from rock band Velvet Revolver becomes official.[ 20] Stone Temple Pilots , and tensions between him and the rest of Velvet Revolver, led to his departure.[ 21] April 5
April 12 – "Touch My Body" becomes Mariah Carey 's 18th number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, putting her into second place among artists with the most number 1 singles in the rock era, and first place as a solo artist, surpassing Elvis Presley.[citation needed April 13 – Justin Bieber officially signed to Def Jam Music GroupApril 15 – Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa officially proclaims Mariah Carey Day in Los Angeles, California, US.[ 22] Mariah Carey also releases E=MC² Billboard 200 albums chart with the highest first-week sales of her career.April 22 – Andrey Baranov of Russia wins First Prize in the Second Benjamin Britten International Violin Competition in London.[ 23]
May
May 3 – The sixth annual The Bamboozle festival opens at the Meadowlands Sports Complex , East Rutherford, New Jersey , US.[citation needed May 10 –11 – Garth Brooks inducted Carrie Underwood on Grand Ole Opry .
May 14 – The "Spirit of Change" Gospel Choir celebrates its tenth anniversary with the 20th Zündorfer Gospelnacht concert in the Catholic Parish Church of St. Mariae Geburt, in Zündorf.[ 25] May 21 – David Cook defeats David Archuleta to win season 7 of American Idol , in a contest decided by 97.5 million votes, a record for the show.[citation needed May 24 – 43 countries compete in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest final in Belgrade , Serbia, including newcomers San Marino and Azerbaijan.[ 26] Believe by Dima Bilan .May 24 –26 – The Sasquatch! Music Festival is held over Memorial Day weekend at The Gorge Amphitheatre in central Washington , US.[citation needed May 25 – The Slovak preliminary round of the first Bluegrass competition (toward the annual Czech Festival Banjo Jamboree) is held in Hviezdoslavovo námestie , Bratislava .[ 27] May 30 – June 1
June
July
August
August 1 –3 – The Lollapalooza music festival takes place in Chicago, Illinois, US.[citation needed August 8 – Chen Qigang is director of music for the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing.[ 42] Lin Miaoke , the performer of "Ode to the Motherland ", was miming to a recording by another girl, Yang Peiyi .[ 43] August 10 – Jimmy Dean and Eddie Fisher celebrate their 80th birthdays.August 12 –18 – Sziget Festival 2008 takes place in Budapest , Hungary.[citation needed August 13 – Jeff Singer quits Paradise Lost .[ 44] August 16 - Madonna celebrates her 50th birthday.August 19 – LeRoi Moore , saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band , dies from complications from an ATV accident suffered earlier in the summer.August 22 – Coke Live Music Festival opens in Poland, headlined by artists Sean Paul , Timbaland , and The Prodigy .[citation needed August 23
August 30
Filipino rock band Eraserheads hold their one-night-only reunion concert in the Fort open field, their first concert since 2001. After the 20-minute break, vocalist Ely Buendia is rushed to the hospital because of chest pain due to emotional stress.[citation needed
American Idol Season 7 runner-up David Archuleta's debut single "Crush " scores the highest debut of a song on the Billboard Hot 100American Idol finalist not performed on the show. The track opened at No. 2 after selling 166,000 downloads in its first week of release.[citation needed August 31 – Chrome Division fires Eddie Guz.[citation needed
September
September 6 – Six members of The Specials re-unite at the Bestival as a 'Surprise Act'. They use the name "Terry Hall and Friends", because Jerry Dammers , who owns the band's name, did not participate.[citation needed September 7 – The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards are presented at Paramount Studios , Hollywood . Britney Spears ' wins Video of the Year , Best Pop Video , and Best Female Video for "Piece of Me ". Christina Aguilera also made her return to music since giving birth to her first child with the debut of her single Keeps Gettin' Better .[citation needed September 9 – Jessica Simpson releases her first album in two years, Do You Know Billboard Country Charts and at No. 4 in the Billboard 200[citation needed September 10 – The 22nd Annual ARIA Music Awards are held in Sydney, Australia, recognizing Australian music in 2008. Dance-punk group The Presets win Album of the Year.[citation needed September 11 – Christian Älvestam leaves Scar Symmetry .[citation needed September 12 – Season 4 of the Finnish talent contest, Idols [citation needed September 15 – Kris Drever , John McCusker and Roddy Woomble release Before the Ruin [citation needed September 18
September 19 – "Only by the Night" the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Kings of Leon, released worldwide in September 2008. – Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) survive a plane crash that claims four lives.[ 47] September 20 – P!nk scores her first solo number-one hit in her native US, with "So What ".[citation needed September 21
September 24 – Within Temptation release the Black Symphony Metropole Orchestra and guest musicians.[citation needed September 25 – Paul McCartney performs at Tel Aviv park, his first performance in Israel since The Beatles were banned from the country in 1965.[citation needed
October
October 1 – Tina Turner leaves semi-retirement to embark on her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour [ 48] October 5 – Stephanie Jeong wins the Second Prize (no First Prize is awarded) in the Premio Paganini international violin competition in Genoa .[ 49] October 7 – Spotify on-demand music streaming service launches in Sweden.October 10 – The Fourth Waakirchener Zither Festival takes place in Waakirchen , Bavaria.[ 50] October 12 – Opening of the VII Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra, in Rome and the Vatican City (until November 30).[ 51] October 16 – Britney Spears sets a new record for the biggest jump to number one on the Billboard Hot 100Womanizer ". It is Spears' first American number one since her debut single "...Baby One More Time ".[ 52] Kelly Clarkson ). It also garners first-week download sales of 286,000, the biggest opening-week tally by a female artist.October 18 – Rihanna scores her fifth number one song on the Billboard Hot 100T.I. 's "Live Your Life ", which follows "SOS ", "Umbrella ", "Take a Bow ", and "Disturbia "), becoming the leading solo female artist with the most number ones to have charted in this decade until Beyoncé Knowles breaks her record (as a solo artist).[ 53] Justin Bieber signed with L.A. Reid Island Records
November
November 1 –9 – The Southbank Centre in London, UK presents "Klang: A Tribute to Stockhausen ", a festival curated by Oliver Knussen , with a series of concerts focusing on works from the composer's last decade, including the world premieres of Urantia Zodiac for Orchestra [ 54] November 2 – The Fauxharmonic Orchestra loses in its debut confrontation with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra in a Bargemusic concert.[ 55] November 4 – Bhimsen Joshi is selected to receive the Bharat Ratna , India 's highest civilian honour.[ 56] November 6 – Michael Tilson Thomas makes his Philadelphia Orchestra subscription-concert conducting debut.[ 57] November 17 – Korean violinist Hyun-Su Shin wins First Prize in the Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competition in Paris[ 58] November 23 – 13 years after his disappearance, Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards is declared dead in absentia .
November 24 – The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra announces the appointment of Pinchas Zukerman as principal guest conductor, to begin in January 2009.[ 59]
December
December 9 – Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon say that Blur will reunite for a concert at Hyde Park on July 3, 2009. Tickets for the concert sell out within two minutes of release, and Blur announce another date on July 2, 2009.[ 60] [ 61] December 11 – Elliott Carter celebrates his 100th birthday.December 13 – Beyoncé Knowles scores her fifth number one song on the Billboard Hot 100Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) ", which followed "Crazy in Love ", "Baby Boy ", "Check on It ", and "Irreplaceable ", tying with Rihanna as the leading solo female artist with the most number ones to have charted in this decade .[ 53] December 22 – Live Nation announce that Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour is the highest-grossing tour for a solo artist, with US$280 million in ticket sales and 2,350,282 fans attending the 58 shows during the three-leg tour across Europe and the Americas.[ 62]
See Category:Musical groups reestablished in 2008
Bands disbanded
See Musical groups disestablished in 2008
Bands on hiatus
Albums released
Best-selling albums globally & United States The best-selling records in 2008 according to IFPI :[ 68]
The best-selling albums in the United States:[ 69]
Songs released in 2008
Hit records
United States
Singles which have ranked within Top 10 within the Billboard Hot 100 Hits (excludes those that were #1 in the UK)
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2008
United Kingdom
UK Official Top 75 No. 1 Hits
Australia
Australia Official Top 50 No. 1 Hits
Australia Official Top 50 Hits – Singles which have ranked within Top 20
Other international hits
Classical music
Instrumental music
Birke J. Bertelsmeier – Quartettstück for string quartetMartin Bresnick – Joaquin is Dreaming Elliott Carter
Concerto for flute and orchestra
Duetto for violin and cello (first of the Due Duetti )
Tinntinabulation , for percussion sextetWind Rose , for wind ensembleJoël-François Durand – Le Tombeau de Rameau , for flute, viola and harpLorenzo Ferrero
Freedom Variations , for trumpet and chamber ensemble2 Agosto. Prima variazione (from Quatro variazioni su un tema di Banchieri ), for organ and orchestraJennifer Higdon – Violin Concerto Mehdi Hosseini – Concerto for String Quartet and Chamber Orchestra Wojciech Kilar –
Paschalis Hymn for mixed choir a cappellaTe Deum , for 4 solo voices, choir and orchestraVeni Creator , for mixed choir and string orchestraArvo Pärt – Symphony No. 4 Anno Schreier – Berceuse for violin, clarinet, alto-saxophone and piano
Tan Dun – Piano Concerto The Fire
Opera
Other
Elliott Carter
On Conversing with Paradise , for baritone and chamber orchestraPoems of Louis Zukofsky , for mezzo-soprano and clarinetKarl Jenkins
Musical films
Musical television
Deaths
January
January 3 – Henri Chopin , 85, French sound poetJanuary 10 – Dave Day, 66 (heart attack), American guitarist (The Monks )January 11 – Pete Candoli , 84 (prostate cancer ), American jazz trumpeterJanuary 13 – Sergejus Larinas , 51, Russian tenor January 17 – Madeleine Michaud, 105, French librettist January 19
January 20 – Tommy McQuater , 93, British jazz trumpeterJanuary 25 – Evelyn Barbirolli , 97, British oboistJanuary 30 – Miles Kington , 66, British bassist
February
February 3 – Jackie Orszaczky , 59, Hungarian jazz bass-guitarist and composerFebruary 4 – Tata Güines , 77, Cuban percussionist and composerFebruary 9 – Scot Halpin , 54, American drummerFebruary 10
February 13 – Henri Salvador , 90 (ruptured aneurysm), French singerFebruary 15 – Willie P. Bennett , 56 (heart attack), Canadian folk singer-songwriterFebruary 19
February 21
Joe Gibbs , 65 (heart attack), Jamaican record producerNeil Chotem , 87, Canadian conductor and composerFebruary 24 – Larry Norman , 60, American musicianFebruary 25 – Stephen "Static Major" Garrett , 33, American rapperFebruary 26 – Buddy Miles , 60, American drummer (Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys)February 27
February 28
March
March 2 – Jeff Healey , 41 (cancer), Canadian blues guitaristMarch 3
March 4 – Leonard Rosenman , 83 (heart attack), American composerMarch 10 – Dennis Irwin , 56, American double-bass playerMarch 12 – Alun Hoddinott , 78, British composerMarch 13 – Bill Bolick , 90, country musician (The Blue Sky Boys)March 15 – Mikey Dread , 53 (brain tumor ), Jamaican reggae musician and broadcasterMarch 16
March 21
March 22 – Cachao López , 89 (kidney failure), Cuban bassistMarch 23 – Neil Aspinall , 66 (lung cancer), British music industry executiveMarch 29 – Allan Ganley , 77, British jazz drummerMarch 30 – Sean LeVert , 39, American vocalist (LeVert )
April
April 6 – Larry Brown, 63 (respiratory condition), American vocalist (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes )April 15
April 17 – Danny Federici , 58 (melanoma ), American rock multi-instrumentalist (E Street Band )April 20
April 21 – Al Wilson , 68, American singerApril 22 – Paul Davis , American singer-songwriterApril 24
April 25 – Humphrey Lyttelton , 86, British jazz musicianApril 26 – Henry Brant , 94, American composerApril 27 – Frances Yeend , 95, American soprano April 29 – Micky Waller , 66, British drummer
May
May 4 – Kishan Maharaj , 84, Indian tabla playerMay 5 – Jerry Wallace , 79 (congestive heart failure ), American country music singerMay 6 – Franz Jackson , 95, American jazz saxophonistMay 8
May 10 – Leyla Gencer , 79, Turkish soprano May 11
May 15
May 17 – Wilfrid Mellers , 94, British musicologist and composerMay 21 – Siegmund Nissel , 86, Austrian violinistMay 23 – Utah Phillips , 73 (heart disease), American folk singer-songwriterMay 24 – Jimmy McGriff , 72 (multiple sclerosis ), American jazz organistMay 25 – Camu Tao , 30 (lung cancer), rapper May 26 – Earle Hagen , 88, American composerMay 28 – Danny Moss , 80, British jazz saxophonistMay 30
June
June 1 – Al Jones , 62, British folk musicianJune 2 – Bo Diddley , 79 (heart failure), American rock and roll and blues singer, songwriter and guitaristJune 4 – Bill Finegan , 91, American jazz pianist and arrangerJune 8 – Šaban Bajramović , 72 (heart attack), Serbian Romani musicianJune 12 – Danny Davis , 83 (heart attack), American band leaderJune 14
June 16 – Margaret Kitchin , 94, Swiss pianistJune 17 – Cyd Charisse , 86 (heart attack), American dancer and actressJune 24 – Ira Tucker , 83 (cardiovascular disease ), American gospel singer (The Dixie Hummingbirds )June 27
June 30 – Ángel Tavira , 83 (kidney complications), Mexican violinist and composer
July
July 1 – Mel Galley , 60 (esophagus cancer ), British guitarist (Whitesnake , Trapeze , Finders Keepers and Phenomena )July 2 – Natasha Shneider , 52 (cancer), Russian keyboardist and vocalistJuly 3
July 6 – Bobby Durham , 71, American jazz drummerJuly 7 – Hugh Mendl , 88, British record producerJuly 13 – Gerald Wiggins , 86, American jazz pianistJuly 16 – Jo Stafford , 90 (congestive heart failure ), American singerJuly 18
July 20 – Artie Traum , 65, American folk musician and composerJuly 22 – Joe Beck , 62 (lung cancer), American jazz guitaristJuly 24 – Norman Dello Joio , 95, American composerJuly 25
July 27 – Horst Stein , 80, German conductorJuly 28 – Wendo Kolosoy , 83, Congolese rumba musicianJuly 31 – Lee Young , 94, American jazz drummer and singer
August
August 3
August 4 – Nicola Rescigno , 92, Italian American conductorAugust 5
August 10
August 11 – Don Helms , 81, American steel guitaristAugust 12 – Donald Erb , 81, American composerAugust 14 – Lita Roza , 82, British singerAugust 15 – Jerry Wexler , 91, American producerAugust 16
August 18 – Pervis Jackson , 70, American R&B singer (The Spinners )August 19 – LeRoi Moore , 46, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band )August 20 – Phil Guy , 68, American blues guitaristAugust 21
August 25 – Pehr Henrik Nordgren , 64, Finnish composerAugust 31 – Jerry Reed , 71, American country musician
September
September 2 – Arne Domnérus , 83, Swedish jazz saxophonistSeptember 6 – Nicole Lai , 34 (skin cancer), Singaporean singerSeptember 7
September 8
September 10 – Vernon Handley , 77, British conductorSeptember 12
September 15 – Richard Wright , 65, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd )September 16
September 18
September 19
Earl Palmer , 84, American drummer, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of FameDick Sudhalter , 70, American jazz trumpeter and criticSeptember 20 – Nappy Brown , 78, American blues singerSeptember 22 – Connie Haines , 87, American singerSeptember 24 – Vice Vukov , 72, Croatian singerSeptember 25 – Horațiu Rădulescu , 66, Romanian composerSeptember 26
October
October 1 – Nick Reynolds , 75, American folk musicianOctober 3 – Johnny "J" , 39, American songwriter, music producer and rapperOctober 4
October 9 – Gidget Gein , 39, American bassist (Marilyn Manson )October 10
October 11
October 13 – Gus Chambers , 52, British vocalistOctober 15 – Frankie Venom, 51, Canadian vocalist (Teenage Head )October 17 – Levi Stubbs , 72, American vocalist (The Four Tops )October 18
October 24 – Merl Saunders , 74, American musician[ 70] October 27 – Ray Ellis , 85, American musician[ 71] October 29 – Mike Baker , 45, American singer (Shadow Gallery )[ 72] October 31 – Frank Navetta , 46, American punk rock guitarist (Descendents )[ 73]
November
November 1
November 4
November 7 – Jody Reynolds , 75, American singerNovember 10
November 12 – Mitch Mitchell , 61, British drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience )November 22 – MC Breed , 37, American rapperNovember 23 – Richard Hickox , 60, British conductorNovember 24
November 26 – Pekka Pohjola , 56, Finnish composerNovember 30 – Munetaka Higuchi , 49, Japanese drummer (Loudness )
December
See also
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