Timeline of trends in music from the United States (1970-present)
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| Timeline of trends in music | |
|---|---|
| Before 1799 | 1800-1899 |
| 1900-1909 | 1910-1919 |
| 1920-1929 | 1930-1939 |
| 1940-1949 | 1950-1959 |
| 1960-1969 | 1970-1979 |
| 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 |
| 2000-present | |
| List of musical events | |
| United States (To 1930 - to 1970 - To present) | |
| Cuba | |
[edit] 1970s
[edit] 1970 in music
- Simon & Garfunkel release Bridge Over Troubled Water; this, along with releases from James Taylor (Sweet Baby James), Cat Stevens (Tea for the Tillerman) and Joni Mitchell (Ladies of the Canyon) help define the singer-songwriter tradition
- Taj Mahal releases Happy to Be Just Like I Am, a pioneering fusion of blues and African music, setting the stage for the development of rock-based world music
- Important country-influenced albums are released by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Déjà Vu, Merle Haggard (Okie from Muskogee), Creedence Clearwater Revival (Cosmo's Factory) and The Grateful Dead (American Beauty, Workingman's Dead) -- the beginning of a distinctly country rock sound
- The beginning of the success of a group of Afrocentric poets and musicians, including The Last Poets (The Last Poets) and Gil Scott-Heron (Small Talk at 125th and Lennox); this is an early forerunner of hip hop
- ZZ Top and the Allman Brothers Band invent southern rock out of country rock and folk-rock influences
- Smokey Robinson's The Tears of a Clown is an influential soft-pop album that mixes elements of vaudeville and classical music
[edit] 1971 in music
- Singer-songwriters like John Denver (Poems, Prayers and Promises), Van Morrison (Tupelo Honey), Joni Mitchell (Blue), Don McLean (American Pie), Elton John (Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across the Water), Billy Joel (Cold Spring Harbor), Cat Stevens (Teaser and the Firecat) and Carole King (Tapestry) release influential and popular albums
- Maranatha! and Love Song release The Everlastin' Livin' Jesus Concert and Love Song; this is the beginning of the popularization of Christian Contemporary Music (CCM)
- Funkadelic releases Maggot Brain, an early fusion of soul, funk and heavy metal; releases from Roberta Flack (Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway), Isaac Hayes (Black Moses) and Sly & the Family Stone (There's a Riot Goin' On) similarly influence the development of a more pop-oriented funk and soul
- Alice Cooper creates a distinctive kind of glam and heavy metal-influenced shock rock
- Salsa comes to be used to describe any kind of Cuban dance music in the country
[edit] 1972 in music
- Big Star draws on pioneers like Badfinger and The Raspberries to form power pop
- Neil Young's Harvest is the top-selling album in the United States and foreshadows the future popularity of country-rock
- Curtis Mayfield's Superfly (soundtrack to the Blaxploitation film of the same name) and Marvin Gaye's What's Going On are popular and help redefine soul music; most influentially, they add a socially aware tone to the lyrics
- Cuban immigrants in New York City and elsewhere invent salsa music, drawing on rumba, mambo, son and other Cuban forms, as well as Puerto Rican plena
[edit] 1973 in music
- Singer-songwriters Elton John (Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road), Jim Croce (I Got a Name), Roberta Flack (Killing Me Softly) and Billy Joel (Piano Man) release hugely successful albums and singles
- Philadelphia soul artists like The Delfonics ("I Don't Want to Make You Wait"), The O'Jays (Ship Ahoy) and The Stylistics (Rockin' Roll Baby) are extremely popular
- George Lucas releases a film called American Graffiti, which launches a teen genre of soundtrack-driven nostalgia films
[edit] 1974 in music
- Singer-songwriters like Jackson Browne (Late for the Sky), Elton John (Caribou), Joni Mitchell (Court and Spark), Randy Newman (Good Old Boys), Billy Joel (Piano Man), Harry Chapin (Verities and Balderdash) and Van Morrison (Veedon Fleece) are extremely popular
- Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy is an electronic-pop fusion influenced by post-modernism
- Patti Smith's "Hey Joe" is released; it is commonly considered the first punk single, while her "Piss Factory" is the foundation for New Wave; legendary punk band The Ramones begin performing
- Outlaw country's domination of the country music scene is exemplified by the chart success of Waylon Jennings (The Ramblin' Man, This Time), David Allan Coe (Once Upon a Rhyme, Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy), Merle Haggard ("Things Aren't Funny Anymore", "Old Man from the Mountain"), Kris Kristofferson (Spooky Lady's Sideshow) and Willie Nelson (Phases and Stages) this year
[edit] 1975 in music
- Bruce Springsteen makes the cover of Time and Newsweek on the same week, releases Born to Run, and breaks into the mainstream
- 1970s-style funk is at the height of its popularity with important releases from Parliament (Chocolate City), War (Why Can't We Be Friends?) and The Meters (Fire on the Bayou)
- The first radio stations with a Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) format begin broadcasting
- Country-oriented songs are popular, including releases from Linda Ronstadt (Prisoner in Disguise), John Denver ("Calypso", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", "I'm Sorry", "Sweet Surrender", "Sunshine on My Shoulders"), The Eagles (One of These Nights), Lynyrd Skynyrd (Nuthin' Fancy), Glen Campbell ("Rhinestone Cowboy") and B.J. Thomas ("(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song")
- Fusion jazz's golden age ends and contemporary jazz emerges
- Smokey Robinson's Quiet Storm is released, defining what comes to be known as easy listening
- Hercules Campbell revolutionizes the breakbeat and the developing hip hop genre
[edit] 1976 in music
- Rainbow's "Stargazer" is the first power metal recording
- Hard rock and heavy metal bands like Aerosmith (Rocks), AC/DC (High Voltage), Blue Öyster Cult (Agents of Fortune) and Judas Priest (Sin After Sin) release landmark albums that gain unprecedented success for heavy metal
- Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach is an early example of minimalism
- William Ackerman founds Windham Hill Records and helps invent New Age
- Ry Cooder's Chicken Skin Music (featuring Gabby Pahinui and Flaco Jiménez) is an early and innovative world music album
- The Eagles release Hotel California, one of the best-selling albums of the year and all time; this is the commercial peak of southern rock
- Blondie's debut, Blondie and Pere Ubu's Modern Dance solidify the New Wave sound in punk music, centered in New York City
- Soft, disco-oriented ballads by The Bee Gees (Children of the World, "You Should Be Dancing"), Bay City Rollers ("Saturday Night", "Money Honey"), Orleans ("Still the One"), The Doobie Brothers (Takin' It to the Streets), Starland Vocal Band ("Afternoon Delight"), Peter Frampton (Frampton Comes Alive) and Paul Simon ("50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", "Still Crazy After All These Years") are popular
- David Grisman invents the term newgrass
- Wanted: The Outlaws by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter is first country album to go platinum
- Grandmaster Flash begins DJing, soon adding new techniques like phasing and cutting to hip hop
[edit] 1977 in music
- DIY fanzines like Sniffin' Glue arise alongside punk rock
- The Sex Pistols release Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, kickstarting the punk rock movement in the UK, while the Ramones' Rocket to Russia helps break in punk in the US - art-punk bands like Television (Marquee Moon), Elvis Costello (My Aim Is True), The Damned (Machine Gun Etiquette), Richard Hell & the Voidoids (Blank Generation), UFO (Lights Out) and Talking Heads (Talking Heads: 77) also emerge
- The soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever (largely by the Bee Gees) is the dominant album of the year and helps cement disco as the most popular genre; CHIC also releases a pivotal disco album, Risque
- Pop and prog rock bands like Chicago (Chicago XI), Electric Light Orchestra (Out of the Blue), Jethro Tull (Songs from the Wood), Journey (Next), Kansas (Point of Know Return), Rush (A Farewell to Kings), Pink Floyd (Animals) and Steely Dan (Aja) release important and popular albums
- Hip hop DJ Grandwizard Theodore invents scratching
- Suicide's Suicide influentially mixes electronic music, rockabilly and punk rock
[edit] 1978 in music
- Important releases cement the sound of heavy metal and begin to move it towards the mainstream; this includes albums from Blue Öyster Cult (Some Enchanted Evening), Van Halen (Van Halen), Judas Priest (Stained Class, Killing Machine), Ace Frehley (Ace Frehley), Rush (Hemispheres) and Styx (Pieces of Eight)
- Brian Eno produces No New York, which cements the avant-garde sound of No Wave and includes material from bands like Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, DNA, Mars and James Chance and the Contortions
- The Germs' "Forming" is the first single of California's punk rock scene
[edit] 1979 in music
- Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead" marks the beginning of Gothic rock in the US; The Cure (Three Imaginary Boys), Joy Division (Unknown Pleasures) and Siouxsie & the Banshees (The Scream) move punk in the same direction in the UK
- The Sugarhill Gang releases what is commonly considered the first successful hip hop single, "Rapper's Delight"
- Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers' Bustin' Loose is released; this is the first go go record.
- Casper's "Groovy Ghost Show" is the first recorded hip hop from Chicago, while Jocko Henderson's "Rhythm Talk" is the first recorded hip hop from Philadelphia
- Talking Heads' Fear of Music creates a fusion of New Wave and funk called techno-funk
- The B-52's innovate a fusion of New Wave and dance music to great popular acclaim
[edit] 1980s
[edit] 1980 in music
- Alternative rock and post punk artists like Joy Division (Closer), The Specials (More Specials) and U2 (Boy) achieve some popularity with influential releases; they are accompanied by popular punk and New Wave releases from Devo (Freedom of Choice), Talking Heads (Remain in Light), The Pretenders (Pretenders), The Clash (London Calling) and The Jam (Sound Affects)
- Hank Sapoznik, The Klezmorim, Kapelye, Andy Statman and the Klezmer Conservatory Band emerge at the forefront of a klezmer revival among Jews in Israel, the US and UK.
- Artists like Wilfrido Vargas help popularize merengue, drawing on a large Dominican minority internationally in cities like New York
- Talking Heads' Remain in Light is the beginning of worldbeat music
- Casper's "Groovy Ghost Show" is the beginning of recorded hip hop from Chicago
- Hardcore punk rock begins its golden age, centered in California and Washington DC, while hardcore fusion genres are created by The Cramps' Songs the Lord Taught Us (voodoobilly) and Bad Brains' Pay to Cum (reggae-punk)
[edit] 1981 in music
- Pop musicians Phil Collins (Face Value), Rick Springfield Working Class Dog), Hall & Oates (Private Eyes) and Carpenters (Made in America) are extremely popular and dominate the year's sound
- Peter Gabriel (Peter Gabriel (3)), Brian Eno (My Life in the Bush of Ghosts), David Byrne (The Catherine Wheel) and Bob Marley (Uprising) help to popularize world music; Marley dies this year
- MTV first airs
- Grandmaster Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel" changes DJing
- Captain Rapp and Disco Daddy's "Gigolo Rapp" is the beginning of recorded West Coast rap
- Juan Atkins revolutionizes techno music
- Hüsker Dü and The Replacements arise at the forefront at Minneapolis scene, fusing punk and pop
[edit] 1982 in music
- The unexpected chart success of The Clash (Combat Rock), The Go-Go's (The Beauty and the Beat) and The Bangles (All Over the Place) reflect an increasing popularization of punk-influenced pop music
- Iron Maiden releases the highly influential heavy metal album, The Number Of The Beast
- Afrika Bambaataa releases Planet Rock, an early hip hop album that mixed rapping with electronic beats; it became one of the most influential hip hop recordings of the decade, influenced countless genres, including the emerging electro hop and Miami bass scenes
- House music emerges from the club scene in Chicago and Detroit; a hip hop-influenced variant, hip house, also emerges
- Sonic Youth invents noise rock
- R.E.M. brings Athens, Georgia's folk-rock and jangle pop scene to national audiences
- Violent Femmes brings a roots rock sound to the punk scene, creating a style sometimes known as folk-punk
[edit] 1983 in music
- Several bands important in the future development and popularization of thrash metal form, including Megadeth, Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers; Metallica's Kill 'Em All was especially important, defining speed metal
- heavy metal begins its run of mainstream chart success with hair metal and pop bands like Mötley Crüe (Shout at the Devil), Whitesnake (Saints & Sinners), Van Halen (Diver Down), W.A.S.P. (Animal (Fuck like a Beast))), Quiet Riot (Metal Health) and Def Leppard (Pyromania) being most popular.
- Some West Coast rap artists begin to achieve local stardom; these include Ice-T
- DJ Marley Marl's technical innovations influence hip hop and Electro, and future genres of electronic music (including techno)
- The Clark Sisters' "You Bring the Sunshine" is a crossover hit and marks the beginning of the popularization of the Detroit Sound in gospel music
- R. Carlos Nakai's Changes launches a revitalization of Native American flute music; this was a major influence on New Age music
- The Paisley Underground arises in Los Angeles
- Suicidal Tendencies fuses hardcore punk with heavy metal
[edit] 1984 in music
- Tina Turner (Private Dancer), Madonna (Like a Virgin) and Cyndi Lauper (She's So Unusual) dominate the year's sound with dance-oriented singles and ballads of female empowerment
- Stryper's The Yellow and Black Attack is the first Christian metal album and sets the stage for later Christian artists in punk, hip hop and other genres
- The peak of electro hop begins with artists like Egyptian Lover and World Class Wreckin' Cru
- Releases from Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys begin fusing hip hop and rock and roll/heavy metal
- Van Halen's "Jump" is the first heavy metal song to top Billboard's pop charts
- New Age music begins to enter the mainstream
[edit] 1985 in music
- Aerosmith begins its return to popular acceptance with Done with Mirrors
- Chart success helps to jumpstart the careers of Sting (The Dream of the Blue Turtles), Wham! (Make It Big) and Prince (Around the World in a Day)
- Live Aid starts the trend for charity festivals and records, and catapults a number of notable acts to prominence, such as U2, Simple Minds and Phil Collins
- Releases by Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), John Fogerty (Centerfield), Rick Springfield (Tao) and John Cougar Mellencamp (Scarecrow) reflect a popular emphasis on heartland roots rock and roll
- European New Wave pop musicians European like a-ha (Hunting High and Low) and Simple Minds (Once Upon a Time, "Don't You (Forget About Me)") achieve their greatest success in the United States
- The end of the golden age of hardcore punk rock
- Releases by Hüsker Dü (New Day Rising), The Replacements (Tim), R.E.M. (Fables of the Reconstruction) and Talking Heads (Little Creatures) help define alternative rock
- Rappers like LL Cool J (Radio) and Kurtis Blow (America) help bring rap closer to the mainstream than ever before; LL Cool J is especially known for organizing rap into traditional song structures
- Zydeco musicians like Rockin' Sidney (My Zydeco Shoes Got the Zydeco Blues, "My Toot Toot") and Buckwheat Zydeco (Waitin' for My Ya-Ya) engender a brief surge in zydeco's popularity
- The mainstream success of Amy Grant (Straight Ahead, Unguarded) begins, marking the peak of popularity for Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)
- Green River begins to define the burgeoning Seattle grunge music scene
- Ice-T's "6N' Da Mornin'" is the first nationally successful West Coast rap single, and is often considered the beginning of modern gangsta rap
[edit] 1986 in music
- Paul Simon's Graceland with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens launches the mainstream popularity of world music
- Country musicians like Dwight Yoakam (Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.,), Randy Travis (Storms of Life) and George Strait (#7) bring about a honky tonk revival.
- 2 Live Crew's 2 Live Crew Is Who We Are begins the popularization of Miami bass
- Mr. T Experience and Green Day found a punk-pop scene based in Berkeley
- John Trudell's Aka Graffiti Man launches the field of Navajo spoken word poetry
[edit] 1987 in music
- U2 (The Joshua Tree) and R.E.M. (Document) release albums that signify a move back towards politically and socially aware music
- The term world music is first used as a marketing category to describe several dozen kinds of folk music from around the world; the term immediately draws criticism from artists like David Byrne and other critics
- Guns N' Roses releases Appetite for Destruction and dominate the American music scene for the year with an arena rock and thrash metal-influenced sound; in Europe, Celtic Frost's (Into the Pandemonium) influence and sales peak
- Ian MacKaye's Embrace LP Embrace and Rites of Spring's EP All Through a Life are said to be the beginning of emo music, based around MacKaye's Washington DC label, Dischord Records
- Guy's Guy is often considered the beginning of New Jack Swing
- Los Lobos' "La Bamba" and Linda Ronstadt's Canciones de Mi Padre surprise success revitalizes Mexican-Texan music
- Operation Ivy fuses hardcore punk and ska
[edit] 1988 in music
- End of the golden era of East Coast rap, including Eric B. & Rakim (Follow the Leader) and Slick Rick (The Great Adventures of Slick Rick)
- Releases from Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation) and Jane's Addiction (Nothing's Shocking) begin to bring indie rock towards the grunge explosion
- k.d. lang (Shadowland) and Tracy Chapman (Tracy Chapman) release albums that help to kickstart a new female singer-songwriter scene
- Industrial music begins to move into the mainstream with the success of bands like Ministry (The Land of Rape and Honey), My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (I See Good Spirits & I See Bad Spirits), Skinny Puppy (VIVISect VI), Front 242 (Front by Front) and Nine Inch Nails (pretty hate machine)
- Debut singles by Gang Starr ("Words I Manifest") and Stetsasonic ("Talkin' All That Jazz") are often considered the beginning of jazz rap
[edit] 1989 in music
- Slint's Tweez is considered the beginning of post-rock
- N.W.A. releases Straight Outta Compton, defining gangsta rap and bringing it out of urban ghettos to mainstream audiences; De La Soul releases 3 Feet High and Rising, a pivotal album in the development of alternative rap later in the next decade, while Kool G Rap's Road to the Riches defines what eventually is known as Mafioso rap
- Clint Black's Killin' Time sweeps country music, reflecting a move towards pop-oriented country
- Bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Mother's Milk), Faith No More (The Real Thing) and Fishbone (Truth and Soul) bring funk metal to its commercial pinnacle. Many of these bands, along with Anthrax, Ice-T and others also fuse hardcore hip hop with thrash metal and similar influences
- Psychic TV's Towards Thee Infinite Beat is the peak of the industrial-trance phenomenon
[edit] 1990s
[edit] 1990 in music
- Hip hop and indie rock begin to influence metal, with pivotal releases by Primus (Frizzle Fry), Jane's Addiction (Ritual de lo Habitual), Anthrax (Persistence of Time), The Sisters of Mercy (Vision Thing), Pantera (Cowboys from Hell) and Megadeth (Rust in Peace) revitalizing the genre
- 2 Live Crew's Nasty As They Wanna Be sets off a firestorm of controversy after it is banned in a Florida town as being "obscene"; the law is later overturned
[edit] 1991 in music
- Codeine's Frigid Stars is the beginning of Slowcore
- Releases by Melvins (Bullhead), Nirvana (Nevermind), Pearl Jam (Ten), Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger), Smashing Pumpkins (Gish) and Temple of the Dog (Temple of the Dog) solidify the sound of grunge in pop music
- Garth Brooks' mainstream success with his third LP, Ropin' the Wind, sets the stage for the pop-country of the rest of the decade; it is the first country album to debut at #1 on the pop charts
- A group of jam bands inspired by the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers Band start to become popular, drawing upon rock-oriented predecessors like Spin Doctors, Widespread Panic and Blues Traveler, mixing their sound with worldbeat and other influences; these include Phish (A Picture of Nectar), Dave Matthews Band, Rusted Root and Ben Harper, among others.
- A Tribe Called Quest's Low-End Theory revolutionizes alternative rap, paving the way for its diversification of styles in the late 1990s
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers release their successful album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, definitively bringing funk rock into the mainstream.
[edit] 1992 in music
- Kyuss (Blues for the Red Sun) and Monster Magnet (Spine of God) help invent stoner metal
- Dr. Dre releases The Chronic, setting the tone and pace for gangsta rap in the rest of the decade, a slow, stoned West Coast rap called G Funk; Ice T's band Body Count loses their record deal with Warner Bros. Records after the song "Cop Killer" ignites controversy
- The success of Arrested Development's 3 Years, 5 Months and Two Days in the Life of... paves the way for the mainstream acceptance of southern rap, such as OutKast and Goodie Mob, and, eventually Master P and Juvenile
- The hip hop crew WithOut Rezervation found the WOR festival in order to help Native American music reach younger audiences; Robby Bee & the Boyz From the Rez' Reservation of Education is an influential Native American hip hop album. The same year, the Joaquin Brothers played at Carnegie Hall, which is the high point in popularity for waila (a Tohono O'odham genre also known as chicken scratch)
- Rage Against the Machine debuts an energetic fusion of heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop
- Atari Teenage Riot create digital hardcore by fusing techno and hardcore punk
[edit] 1993 in music
- Beck's "Loser" is a wildly popular folk-hip hop and indie rock fusion
- The Supreme Court legalizes animal sacrifice in Santería, sparking a revival of religious music among Cubans in New York City, Miami and elsewhere
- Snoop Dogg (back then Snoop Doggy Dogg) released his debut album Doggystyle.
[edit] 1994 in music
- Punk pop breaks into the mainstream, with releases from The Offspring (Smash), Green Day (Dookie) and Rancid (Let's Go) achieving massive chart success
- Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" is often cited as the last major hit of the grunge-era
- After several years of domination by the West Coast, East Coast hip hop returns to critical acclaim and popular success with Nas' Illmatic and the Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die; Master P's underground hit The Ghetto Is Trying to Kill Me! marks the emergence of No Limit's stable of New Orleans-based hip hop artists; Da Brat's Funkdafied is the first hip hop album by a woman to go platinum.
- Nine Inch Nails release their critically and commercially successful second album The Downward Spiral, one of the most influential industrial rock releases.
[edit] 1995 in music
- Canadian female singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette achieves international success with her 'debut' album Jagged Little Pill. The record achieves platinum sales and renews interest in female songwriters, affording the success of Sheryl Crow and Shania Twain
- Beck (Odelay), Tool (Ænima), Sepultura (Roots) and KoЯn (Life Is Peachy) release metal-influenced albums that dominate the year's sound in popular music
- Third wave ska and ska punk become popular, especially by bands like No Doubt (Tragic Kingdom), Rancid (...And Out Come the Wolves), The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones (Question the Answers), Reel Big Fish (Everything Sucks) and Sublime (40 Oz. to Freedom)
- Mafioso rap, a largely underground phenomenon, peaks with Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Mobb Deep's The Infamous and AZ's Do or Die
[edit] 1996 in music
- Industrial music achieves its greatest mainstream success with Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar
- dc Talk's "Jesus Freak" is the first rock song to win the Dove Award for song of the year; this is the first time a non-traditional genre won the award for best Christian-themed song
- The Fugees' The Score is a massive hit; the album's blend of reggae and hip hop is the beginning of an upsurge in western popularity for island music, presaging the future rise of Beenie Man, Buju Banton and Bounty Killer, among others.
- Nu Metal's place is affirmed in popular music with the release of Korn's "Life Is Peachy".
[edit] 1997 in music
- Groups like Hanson (Middle of Nowhere) and the Spice Girls (Spiceworld) signal a move towards dance-oriented pop influenced by Europop
- The death of the Notorious B.I.G., months after the murder of Tupac Shakur, marks the beginning of the end of the East Coast vs. West Coast rivalry in hip hop as hip hop genres begin to splinter and diversify; Puff Daddy & the Family's No Way Out and Mase's Harlem World cement Bad Boy Records as the biggest label on the East Coast, while Death Row Records disintegrates
- Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike release Sacred Path: Healing Songs of the Native American Church, which features an innovative, modernized version of traditional Peyote Songs
[edit] 1998 in music
- Lauryn Hill sweeps the Grammys for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; the album is a harbinger of the return of 1970s-style soul music, as well as an influential nu soul release
- DMX's It's Dark and Hell Is Hot revitalizes the critical viability of East Coast gangsta hip hop
[edit] 1999 in music
- High sales from Kid Rock (Devil Without a Cause), TLC (Fanmail), the Backstreet Boys (Backstreet's Back, Millennium), Limp Bizkit, (Significant Other) and Britney Spears (...Baby One More Time) show a popular emphasis in the US on pop- and hip hop-oriented acts.
- Blink-182's "Enema of the State" starts the second pop punk explosion of the 90s.
[edit] 2000s
[edit] 2000 in music
- Pop albums dominate the charts and set records for sales - *NSYNC (No Strings Attached), Britney Spears (Oops!... I Did It Again), Nelly (Country Grammar), Backstreet Boys (Black & Blue), Creed (Human Clay), Destiny's Child (The Writing's on the Wall), Faith Hill (Breathe), Bon Jovi (Crush) and No Doubt (Return of Saturn) release top-selling albums
- O Brother Where Art Thou (soundtrack) is a surprise success, bringing bluegrass to the fringes of the mainstream
- Grunge rock dies, but the more commercial post-grunge remains strong as of 2005.
[edit] 2001 in music
- Napster's popularity peaks
- Nu metal hits its peak of viability with the success of Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Korn, and Limp Bizkit.The release from System of a Down (Toxicity) alternative metal which has a little nu metal influence takes the metal scene in a new direction; Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory is the top-selling album of the year in the United States
[edit] 2002 in music
- Several hyped garage rock and alternative country artists break into the mainstream, at least partially -- The Vines (Highly Evolved), The Strokes (Is This It?), The White Stripes (White Blood Cells), The Hives (Veni Vidi Vicious), Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) and Ryan Adams (Gold, Demolition) achieve sales unheard of for such bands in recent times.
- Pop punk starts to soar up the charts as Avril Lavigne releases "Let Go" simultaneously with Good Charlotte's "The Young and the Hopeless" and Simple Plan's "No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls".
[edit] 2003 in music
- Lil Jon's "crunk" style of Southern hip hop becomes nationally popular.
- Garage rock from The White Stripes, The Vines, and The Hives rises to popularity.
- The alternative goth-rock band Evanescence explodes into the mainstream with ultra-popular single "Bring Me to Life" featured on their album Fallen. They go on to receive two Grammies and a 6X Platinum RIAA certification of Fallen.
[edit] 2004 in music
- Alternative rock enters mainstream after a five year break
- A massive 1980s comeback in music take place, especially in artists such as Franz Ferdinand and Interpol.
[edit] 2005 in music
- A pop punk and metal fusion called emo, led by the likes of Hawthorne Heights, Fall Out Boy, Taking Back Sunday and My Chemical Romance gains popularity sparking interest of similar genres Screamo and Emocore
[edit] 2006 in music
- Teen pop and singer songwriter, along with urban music gradually becomes the new face of Top 40 music.
[edit] 2007 in music
DJ Drama and DJ Cannon, both legendary hip-hop mixtape producers were arrested January 16, 2007 on RICO charges for selling CDs (in this case, mix CDs) that were not labelled with a publisher's address. His recording studio has been raided for investigation. All the CDs waiting to be sold will be destroyed while the other CD and mixtapes are being confiscated for investigation.
