2014 in music
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Specific locations
- African music
- American music
- Asian music
- Australian music
- Brazilian music
- British music
- Canadian music
- Chinese music
- Danish music
- European music (Continental Europe)
- Finnish music
- French music
- German music
- Indian music
- Irish music
- Japanese music
- Malaysian music
- Mongolian music
- North Korean music
- Norwegian music
- Philippine music
- Polynesian music
- Scandinavian music
- South Korean music
- Swedish music
- Taiwanese music
- Vietnamese music
- World music
Specific genres
Albums released
Awards
| Category/Organization | 2014 MTV Video Music Awards August 24, 2014 | 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards November 9, 2014 | American Music Awards of 2014 November 23, 2014 | 2015 Grammy Awards February 8, 2015 | 2015 Billboard Music Awards May 17, 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Album | N/A | N/A | N/A | Morning Phase Beck | 1989 Taylor 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
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.[1]
- 18 – Dennis Frederiksen (62), American singer (Toto), (Survivor)
- 27 – Pete Seeger (94), American guitarist.[2]
February
- 5 – Samantha Juste (69), English-American singer and television host.[3]
- 8 – Finbarr Dwyer (67), Irish accordionist and fiddler.[4]
- 16 – Raymond Louis Kennedy, 67, American pop-rock singer-songwriter
- 17
- Frank Wappat (84), British DJ and singer.[5]
- Bob Casale, (61), American guitarist and keyboardist (Devo).[6]
- 23 – Chip Damiani, (68), American drummer (The Remains)
- 24 – Franny Beecher (92), American guitarist.[7]
- 25
- Paco de Lucía (66), Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.[8]
- Peter Callander (74), English songwriter and record producer.[9]
March
- 5 – Dave Sampson (73), English singer.[10]
- 6 – Marion Stein (Thorpe) (87), British pianist.[11]
April
- 2 – Lyndsie Holland (75), English actress and singer.
- 7 – John Shirley-Quirk (83), British operatic bass-baritone.[12]
- 16 – Stan Kelly-Bootle (84), British songwriter, author and computer engineer.[13]
- 17 – Cheo Feliciano (78), Puerto Rican singer and composer (Joe Cuba Sextet)
- 18 – Brian Priestman (87), British conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).[14]
May
- 13 – Akihiro Yokoyama (49), Japanese thrash metal bassist (United)[15]
- 19 – Nima Varasteh (35), Iranian musician[16]
- 25 – Herb Jeffries (100), American singer and actor.[17]
June
- 18 – Horace Silver (85), American jazz pianist.[18]
- 21 – Jimmy C. Newman (86), country music singer.[19]
July
- 3 – Jesse Anderson (73), American blues singer-songwriter and musician.[20]
- 11 – Charlie Haden (76), American upright-bassist.[21]
- 19 – Lionel Ferbos (103), American trumpeter.[22]
- 24 – Christian Falk (52), Swedish record producer and musician.[23]
August
- 1 – Michael Johns (35), Australian singer and American Idol contestant.[24]
- 3 – Yvette Giraud (97), French singer and actress.[25]
- 15 – Svein Nymo (61), Norwegian violinist and composer.[26]
- 17 – Pierre Vassiliu (76), Swiss-born French singer.[27]
- 19 – Kåre Kolberg (78), Norwegian composer.[28]
- 23 – Inga Juuso (68), singer and actress.[29]
- 24 – Aldo Donati (66), Italian singer, composer and television personality, (cerebral hemorrhage)[30]
- 29
September
- 1 – Jimi Jamison (63), American singer (Survivor)
- 2 – Antonis Vardis (66), Greek composer and singer.[33]
- 8
- Magda Olivero (104), Italian soprano.[34]
- Gerald Wilson (96), American jazz trumpeter.[35]
- 12 – Joe Sample (75), American pianist.[36]
- 15 – Jackie Cain (86), American jazz singer (Jackie & Roy).[37]
- 17 – George Hamilton IV (77), American country music singer.[38]
- 18 – Kenny Wheeler (84), Canadian jazz composer, trumpeter and flugelhorn player.[39]
October
- 1 – Lynsey de Paul (66), English singer
- 10 – Olav Dale (55), Norwegian jazz saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader.[40]
- 16 – Tim Hauser (72), American jazz singer.[41]
- 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.[42]
November
- 6 – Maggie Boyle (57), British folk singer and musician (cancer).[43]
- 14 – Mike Burney (70), British jazz saxophonist.[44]
- 15 – Cherry Wainer (79), South African-born British organist (Lord Rockingham's XI).[45]
- 17
- Jeff Fletcher (36), British guitarist (Northern Uproar).[46]
- Jimmy Ruffin (78), American soul singer
- 20 – Arthur Butterworth (91), English composer and conductor.[47]
- 27 - Érick Bamy, 64, French singer and Johnny Hallyday's former backing vocalist from 1973 to 2000.
December
- 8 – Knut Nystedt (99), Norwegian composer.[26]
- 12 – John Persen (73), Norwegian composer.[48]
- 22 – Joe Cocker (70), English singer
- 24 – Buddy DeFranco (91), American jazz clarinetist.[49]
- 31 – Michael Kennedy (88), English writer on music.