2001 in music

1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits on record
4 Top 10 selling albums of the year
5 Classical music
6 Opera
7 Musical theater
8 Musical films
9 Births
10 Deaths
11 Awards
12 Charts
- 12.1 KROQ
- 12.2 Triple J Hottest 100

Events

January 1 – Hum disbands.
January 17 – Bass player Jason Newsted leaves Metallica after 14 years with the band.
January/February – Rush records Vapor Trails, which was released on May 14, 2002.
February – CFXJ (Flow 93.5), Canada's first urban music station, goes to air for the first time as a testing signal (its official debut is on March 1.) This is a breakthrough for Canadian hip hop and R&B musicians, who had previously faced significant barriers to getting exposure for their music.
February 13 – Peter Frampton receives the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
February 17 – Manic Street Preachers become the first western rock band to play in Cuba. (Fidel Castro was in attendance.)
March 1 – Collin Raye is awarded the Artist Humanitarian Award from Country Radio Broadcasters Inc. The award was given in recognition of Raye's work on behalf of a number of different charitable organizations including Child help USA, USA Weekend's Make a Difference Day and the Native American organization Hecel Oyakapi.
March 14 – The Court of Appeals in Rome finds Michael Jackson "not guilty" of plagiarism, reversing a decision made in 1999 by a lower court. Italian songwriter Albano Carrisi had claimed that Jackson's "Will You Be There" was a copy of his song "I Cigni Di Balaka."
March 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 replaces Max Bruch's violin concerto at #1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame.
April 4 – Original Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone and keyboardist Rod Argent, reunite for a two part performance at London's Jazz Cafe. This was the first time the two band members performed together in over 30 years.
April 24 and October 30 – Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson release albums in the same year, respectively. Janet releases "All For You" and Michael releases "Invincible". Both albums would hit #1 on the album charts.
May – The 4th EJCF in Basel was held. Next time was in 2004.
June 16 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 9th Annual of the Weenie Roast show with Blink-182, Coldplay, Crazy Town, The Cult, The Disturbed, Jane's Addiction, Linkin Park, The Living End, New Found Glory, Pennywise, Papa Roach, Stabbing Westward, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Sum 41 and 311.
October 20 – Concert For New York: A Tribute To Heroes airs on VH1, with performances by Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Billy Joel and others.
November – The governing body of the UK Singles Chart, Chart Information Network Ltd. (CIN), changes its name to The Official UK Charts Company.
Mariah Carey makes a number of unusual public appearances, including an unscheduled visit to MTV's Total Request Live. Rumors fly that the star had a mental breakdown.
Area One music festival brings together a variety of acts including Moby, Incubus, Outkast, New Order, Nelly Furtado, The Roots, Rinocerose, Paul Oakenfold, and Carl Cox.
Napster's popularity peaks
Elastica disband
Toadies disband
Apollo Sunshine forms
Audioslave forms
Die Trying forms
Franz Ferdinand forms
Revolution forms
The Underdog Project forms
Zebra forms again
Zwan forms

Albums released

From Chaos – 311
The Definitive Collection – ABBA
Teen Spirit – A-Teens
Just Push Play – Aerosmith
10,000 Hz Legend – Air
ANThology – Alien Ant Farm
Underground Network – Anti-Flag
Wages of Sin – Arch Enemy
End Is Forever – The Ataris
drukqs – Aphex Twin
The Metal Opera – Tobias Sammet's Avantasia
The Process Of Belief – Bad Religion (released in the United States in 2002)
Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits – Barenaked Ladies
Long Stories Short – Bayside
This Is Where I Came In – Bee Gees
Vespertine – Björk
Lions – The Black Crowes
Take Off Your Pants And Jacket – Blink-182
How I Spent My Summer Vacation – The Bouncing Souls
Comfort Eagle – Cake
Follow the Reaper – Children of Bodom
Ten New Songs – Leonard Cohen
Wake Up And Smell The Coffee – The Cranberries
I Don't Care That You Don't Mind – Crash Test Dummies
Weathered – Creed
Greatest Hits – The Cure
Révolution 5° du Nom – Dalida (Remix album)
Everyday – Dave Matthews Band
The Best of Bruce Dickinson – Bruce Dickinson
Mutiny on the Bay – Dead Kennedys
Day of the Death – Death By Stereo (released in Europe in 2000)
Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia – Dimmu Borgir
The Sickness – The Disturbed
Sing Loud, Sing Proud – Dropkick Murphys
Sinner – Drowning Pool
Love and Theft – Bob Dylan
Mandrake – Edguy
Flirting with Twilight – Kurt Elling
Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise – Emperor
Girl – Eskimo Joe
In Search of Truth – Evergrey
Suburban Blight – F-Minus
Falconer – Falconer
Jaktens Tid – Finntroll
Enjoy Yourself – Frantic Flintstones
Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards – Lars Frederiksen
The Argument – Fugazi
No World Order – Gamma Ray
Gorillaz – Gorillaz
Light of Day, Day of Darkness – Green Carnation
International SuperHits! – Green Day
International SuperVideos! – Green Day (DVD Release)
Warning: – Green Day
Trace – Gridlock
Covered With Ants – Guttermouth
Live Insurrection – Rob Halford
Scattered, Smothered and Covered – Hootie & the Blowfish
Horror Show – Iced Earth
Morning View – Incubus
Mechanized Warfare – Jag Panzer
Arrival – Journey
The Essential Journey – Journey
Demolition – Judas Priest
Karma – Kamelot
Cocky – Kid Rock
Violent Revolution – Kreator
Unleashed Memories – Lacuna Coil
Lenny – Lenny Kravitz
V / Ecstatic Fanatic – Live
Roll On – The Living End
Wonders of the World – Long Beach Dub Allstars
Awakening the World – Lost Horizon
Word Of Mouf – Ludacris
Driving Rain – Paul McCartney
Greatest Hits – Tim McGraw
The World Needs A Hero – Megadeth
Destination Unknown – Mest
God Says No – Monster Magnet
Origin of Symmetry – Muse
The Big Combo – New Bomb Turks
No More Shall We Part – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Silver Side Up – Nickelback
Rock Steady – No Doubt
Conspiracy Of One – The Offspring
Blackwater Park – Opeth
Down To Earth – Ozzy Osbourne
Land Of The Free? – Pennywise
Anyone's For Doomsday – Powerman 5000
Freaked Out and Small – Presidents of the United States of America
Nuclear Fire – Primal Fear
Come Clean – Puddle Of Mudd
We Are Puss – Puss
Amnesiac – Radiohead
Mutter – Rammstein
Revolving Around The World – Revolution
My Heart Is In Your Hands – Revolution
Rain of a Thousand Flames – Rhapsody
Melody A.M. – Röyksopp
Poets and Madmen – Savatage
Laundry Service – Shakira
God Hates Us All – Slayer
IOWA – Slipknot
Pretty Together – Sloan
Greatest Hits (2-Disc) – The Smashing Pumpkins
Silence – Sonata Arctica
Spy Kids – Soundtrack
Break The Cycle – Staind
Sound-Dust – Stereolab
Is This It – The Strokes
Start Static – Sugarcult
All Killer No Filler – Sum 41
Live on the Edge of Forever – Symphony X
Toxicity- System of a Down
Secrets of the Runes – Therion
Mink Car – They Might Be Giants
From Chaos – 311
Lateralus – Tool
Communication & Conviction: Last Seven Years – The Tossers
It Doesn´t Matter – The Underdog Project
World of Glass – Tristania
Fuel For Life – The Turbo AC's
Product Of Television – UP SyNDROME
Final V.U. 1971–1973 – The Velvet Underground
Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: The Quine Tapes – The Velvet Underground
Weezer (2001) – Weezer
Don't Tell the Band – Widespread Panic
Swing When You're Winning – Robbie Williams
The Sinister Urge – Rob Zombie
Invincible – Michael Jackson
All for you – Janet Jackson

Top hits on record

"Ain't Nothing 'Bout You" – Brooks & Dunn
"(Upside down) bouncing off the ceiling" – A-Teens
"Crawling" – Linkin Park
"Hey Baby" – No Doubt
"Laissez-moi danser (By Cerrone)" – Dalida (Remix)
"I Hope You Dance" – Lee Ann Womack
"In The End" – Linkin Park
"Million Miles Away" – The Offspring
"My Baby" – Lil Romeo
"One Step Closer" – Linkin Park
Revolving Around The World – Revolution
"Spy Kids Theme" – Fonda
"Want You Bad" – The Offspring
"Whenever Wherever"/"Suerte" – Shakira

Top 10 selling albums of the year

Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
Shaggy – Hotshot
NSYNC – No Strings Attached
Enya – A Day Without Rain
Staind – Break The Cycle
Alicia Keys – Songs in A Minor
Destiny's Child – Survivor
Creed – Weathered
Soundtrack – O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Various Artists – Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 6

Classical music

Helmut Lachenmann – Grido (string quartet)
Peter Ruzicka – Trans – Requiem für Giuseppe Sinopoli

Opera

Theo Loevendie – Johnny & Jones

Musical theater

42nd Street Broadway revival opened at the Ford Center on May 2
A Class Act Broadway production opened at the Ambassador Theatre on March 11 and ran for 105 performances
Mamma Mia Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 18
The Producers Broadway production opened at St. James Theatre on April 19
Urinetown Broadway production opened at the Hudson Theatre on September 20 and ran for 965 performances