1996 in music

Contents

1 Events

2 Albums released

3 Top hits

10.1 Grammy Awards
10.2 Country Music Association Awards
10.3 Eurovision Song Contest
10.4 Mercury Music Prize

11 Charts

11.1 KROQ
11.2 Triple J Hottest 100

Events

January 16 - Jamaican authorities open fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane. U2 singer Bono was also on the plane, but neither singer was injured.
January 18 - Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson.
January 28 - Chris Isaak makes a guest appearance on the television show Friends.
January 29 - Garth Brooks refuses to accept his American Music Award for "Favorite Overall Artist". Brooks says that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did.
February 4 - Former Milli-Vanilli member Rob Pilatus is hospitalized when a man hits him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood, California. Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car.
February 14 - The Artist Formerly Known As Prince marries backup singer Mayte Garcia.
February 20 - Snoop Doggy Dogg and his bodyguard are acquitted of first degree murder. The jury deadlocks on voluntary manslaughter charges and a mistrial is declared.
March 4 - The Beatles' second reunion song is released, as part of their first reuinion since the band's breakup 26 years earlier. The song is simply a finished version of a John Lennon demo from 1980; a song called Real Love.
March 13 - Ramones fans riot in Buenos Aires, Argentina after waiting all night for concert tickets only to find out that the show had been sold out.
March 16 - Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men ends its 16th consecutive week at No. 1 with "One Sweet Day". It is the longest consecutive week stay at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history.
March 18 - The Sex Pistols announce that they are reuniting for a 20th anniversary tour.
March 28 - Phil Collins announces that he is leaving Genesis to focus on his solo career.
April 3 - M.C. Hammer files for bankruptcy.
April 4 - The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia's widow, Deborah, scatter part of Garcia's ashes in the Ganges River in India.
April 15 - The remaining part of Jerry Garcia's ashes are scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
April 24 - This Train, Rick Elias, Jimmy A, Phil Keaggy, Carolyn Arends, Third Day & Ashley Cleveland perform a tribute concert for Rich Mullins at Nashville's Cafe Milano. Speakers included Reunion Records executive Terry Hemmings, record producer Reed Arvin, disc jockey Jon Rivers, & author Brennan Manning.
May - The Galway Early Music Festival is launched in Ireland.
May 8 - In Los Angeles, California, a judge rules against Tommy Lee and wife actress Pamela Anderson Lee in their attempt to keep Penthouse magazine from publishing still photos taken from an X-rated home movie which was stolen from their home.
July - The Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, is arrested for possession of a controlled substance. The other band members fire him because they said his "insidious battle with drugs and alcohol" had nearly ruined everything for the band.
August 6 - The Ramones play their last ever show at Lollapalooza.
Launch of the Proms in the Park event in London.
September 7 - Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot 4 times in Las Vegas, Nevada while leaving the MGM Grand hotel, after seeing the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon boxing match, in what is apparently a drive-by shooting.
September 12 - Controversy follows The Eagles when the band dedicates "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to Saddam Hussein at a United States Democratic Party fundraiser held in Los Angeles.
September 13 - Tupac Shakur died in hospital after his wounds from the Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand shooting.
November 8 - After having first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the film Hype!, a documentary on the Seattle grunge scene, opens to general audiences
Sheryl Crow's self titled album is banned from Wal-Mart stores because of the lyric "Watch out sister, watch out brother/watch our children while they kill each other/with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart Discount Stores".
The Monkees embark on their 30th Anniversary Reunion Tour
All Systems Go! forms
Chevelle forms
Dashboard Confessional forms
Linkin Park forms
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes forms
Orgy forms
Sublime disbands (due to the singer (Brad Nowell)'s death)
Coal Chamber's career begins
Jay-Z's musical career begins
Poison reunites
Singer Tori Amos is sued when a man crashes his car after being distracted by a billboard advertising her album; the billboard featured a photo of Amos breastfeeding a piglet.
David Bowie's single "Telling Lies" becomes the first song offered as a free digital download by a major record label (Virgin Records).
The Dutch goth metal band Within Temptation was formed.

Albums released

Elegy - Amorphis
Boys for Pele - Tori Amos
Richard D. James Album - Aphex Twin
1977 - Ash
Beats, Rhymes and Life - A Tribe Called Quest
Actual Fantasy - Ayreon
The Gray Race - Bad Religion
The Beatles Anthology, volume 2 - The Beatles
Odelay - Beck
Friction, Baby - Better Than Ezra
Three Snakes & One Charm - The Black Crowes
Nico - Blind Melon
One Fierce Beer Coaster - The Bloodhound Gang
The Great Escape - Blur
Fashion Nugget - Cake
Vile - Cannibal Corpse
Swansong - Carcass
First Band on the Moon - The Cardigans
Dance Into the Light - Phil Collins
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
Dusk and Her Embrace - Cradle of Filth
None So Vile - Cryptopsy
Wild Mood Swings - The Cure
Homework - Daft Punk
� ma mani�re - Dalida (remix album)
Slang - Def Leppard
Skunkworks - Bruce Dickinson
Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow
Sutras - Donovan
Death Threatz - MC Eith
Beat The Bastards - The Exploited
Face to Face - Face to Face (punk band)
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
Cat's Clause - The Germs
Gravity Kills - Gravity Kills (debut)
Frozen - Gridlock
Afterlife - The Godfathers
Teri Yakimoto - Guttermouth
The Dark Saga - Iced Earth
Jerky Boys 3 - Jerky Boys
Paradise in Me - K's Choice
Life Is Peachy - Korn
KRS-One - KRS-One
Victor - Alex Lifeson
As Good as Dead - Local H
Fever In Fever Out - Luscious Jackson
Louder Than Hell - Manowar
Load - Metallica
Breathe - Midnight Oil
Justus - The Monkees
Irreligious - Moonspell
High/Low - Nada Surf
Nerf Herder - Nerf Herder (debut)
Murder Ballads - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Curb - Nickelback
Hesher - Nickelback
Beacon Street Collection - No Doubt
Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
Dynamite - Stina Nordenstam
All We Got Iz Us - Onyx
The Great Southern Trendkill - Pantera
Good God's Urge - Porno for Pyros
Rocket - Primitive Radio Gods
Off Parole - Rappin' 4-Tay
One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Republica - Republica
Greatest Hits - Poison
Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine
...And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid
Da Villain in Black - MC Ren
Test for Echo - Rush
Roots - Sepultura
Pies Descalzos - Shakira
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
Call the Doctor - Sleater-Kinney
One Chord to Another - Sloan
The Process - Skinny Puppy
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps (debut)
Tha Doggfather - Snoop Dogg
White Light, White Heat, White Trash - Social Distortion
Irresistible Bliss - Soul Coughing
Down on the Upside - Soundgarden (final album before disbanding)
Resident Alien - Spacehog
Wax Ecstatic - Sponge
Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab
Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop - Stone Temple Pilots
Episode - Stratovarius
Sublime - Sublime (final album, released in just 2 months after frontman Brad Nowell's death)
Live Drug - Sun Dial
Regretfully Yours - Superdrag
Factory Showroom - They Might Be Giants
311 - 311
�nima - Tool
All Eyez on Me - 2Pac
Supercharged Straight to Hell - The Turbo AC's
Best of, Volume 1 - Van Halen
Running on Ice - Vertical Horizon
A Northern Soul - The Verve
Rock!!!!! - Violent Femmes
Pinkerton - Weezer
Bad Hair Day - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson
The Final Tic - Crucial Conflict

Top hits

"Novocaine for the Soul" - Eels
"Change the World" - Eric Clapton, written by Wayne Kirkpatrick, Gordon Kennedy and Tommy Sims, won a Grammy award for song of the year in 1997
"Angry Johnny" - Poe
"Free As A Bird" - The Beatles
"La Mamma" - Dalida (in�dit)
"L�-bas dans le noir" - Dalida (remix)
"Darla Dirladada" - Dalida (remix)
"Vapors" - Snoop Doggy Dogg
"Don't Look Back in Anger" - Oasis
"California Love" - Tupac Shakur / Dr. Dre
"Naked Eye" - Luscious Jackson
"Until It Sleeps" - Metallica
"King Nothing" - Metallica
"Hero Of The Day" - Metallica
"Mama Said" - Metallica
"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" - Primitive Radio Gods
"Tahitian Moon" - Porno for Pyros
"Guilty" - Gravity Kills
"Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine
"If You Could Only See" - Tonic
"What I Got" - Sublime
"How Do U Want It" - 2Pac
"6th Avenue Heartache" - The Wallflowers
"One Headlight" - The Wallflowers
"If It Makes You Happy" - Sheryl Crow
"Aeroplane" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Tonight, Tonight" - The Smashing Pumpkins
"Zero" - The Smashing Pumpkins
"Bullet With Butterfly Wings" - The Smashing Pumpkins
"Give Me One Reason" - Tracy Chapman
"People of the Sun" - Rage Against the Machine
"Macarena" - Los Del Rio
"Wash Away" - Vertical Horizon
"All Mixed Up" - 311
"Head Over Feet" - Alanis Morissette
"You Learn" - Alanis Morissette
"One Hand In My Pocket" - Alanis Morissette
"You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette
"Down" - 311
"Stupid Girl" - Garbage
"Can't Get You Off My Mind" - Lenny Kravitz
"I Want To Come Over" - Melissa Etheridge
"Professional Widow (Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)" - Tori Amos

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1996

Classical music

Mario Davidovsky - Quartetto No. 2 for oboe, violin, viola, violoncello
Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann - Homage a Nelson Mandela
John Pickard - Symphony no 3
Juan Maria Solare - Diez Estudios Esc�nicos

Opera

Peter Maxwell Davies - The Doctor of Myddfai

Musical theater

Chicago (Kander and Ebb) - Broadway revival
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Stephen Sondheim) - Broadway revival
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change off-Broadway production
The King and I (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - Broadway revival
Once upon a Mattress Broadway revival
Rent (Jonathan Larson) - Broadway production (originally off-Broadway}
State Fair Broadway production