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January

• James Nicholl, drummer of Pay*Ola became ill and was admitted to hospital. He made a full recovery.^{citation needed}
• January 11 to January 15 – MahlerFest XIX held in Boulder, Colorado, USA honoring Austrian composer Gustav Mahler.
• January 13 - Igor Cavalera goes on hiatus from Sepultura due to becoming a father.^{citation needed}
• January 13 - Mylène Farmer launched her Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy tour at Paris-Bercy, France. She gave 13 concerts which ended on January 29.
• January 16 – Frontman Rob Aston announces that the Transplants have disbanded shortly after their fall tour is cancelled.^{citation needed}
• January 24 – It was announced that popular British girl band All Saints are to regroup for a tour and album later in the year.^{citation needed}
• January 31 – American hardcore punk band Champion announces their impending breakup, with a final show scheduled for May.^[1]

February

• Alice in Chains reform with new singer William DuVall as the replacement for Layne Staley, who died of a drug overdose in April 2002.^{citation needed}
• February 1 – Vienna State Opera announced that Seiji Ozawa, a conductor who concurrently worked as a music director of the Opera, would have to cancel all of his performance commitments for 2006 due to ill-health^{citation needed}
• February 8 – The 48th annual Grammy Awards are handed out at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. Madonna opens the awards for a third time. U2 is the night's big winner, with five awards. Mariah Carey won three of her eight nominations. They were her first Grammys since the first time she was nominated back in 1991.^{citation needed}
• February 10 - White Lion/Black Label Society bassist James Lorenzo joins Megadeth as the replacement for James MacDonough (who was previously in Iced Earth).^{citation needed}
• February 18 – The Rolling Stones give a free concert to three million people in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^{citation needed}
• February 22 – The one billionth song was downloaded on ITunes; the song was "Speed of Sound" by Coldplay.^{citation needed}
• February 25 – The fourth annual Total Request Live awards are held in New York City, USA. Madonna wins the Lifetime Achievement Award and Bono wins the Most Inspired Artist/Humanitarian Award. Other winners include Fall Out Boy, Chris Brown, Mariah Carey, Ashlee Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Amanda Bynes, and My Chemical Romance. Performers included Ashlee Simpson and Chris Brown.^{citation needed}

March

• Bon Jovi's second single, "Who Says You Can't Go Home", from the album Have A Nice Day goes to number one in the U.S. Hot Country Charts for two weeks. This is the first time a rock band has achieved a number one hit in the US country charts.^{citation needed}
• March 5 – Three 6 Mafia became the first African American hip-hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Song and also became the first hip-hop artists to ever perform at the ceremony. The group was nominated for the song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from the Hustle & Flow film soundtrack.^{citation needed}
• March 11 – James Blunt, with his single "You're Beautiful", becomes the first British artist to top the US Billboard Hot 100 chart since Elton John with "Candle In The Wind 1997" almost nine years earlier.^{citation needed}
• March 22 – News reports are released that Aerosmith's lead singer Steven Tyler is ill and will require throat surgery. The band cancels the rest of their tour and goes on hiatus indefinitely until Tyler recovers.^{citation needed}
• March 28 T.I. released his fourth album King.

April

• April 1—April 2 - The Festival Imperial was held in the Autódromo La Guácima, in Alajuela, Costa Rica.
• April 4 - Hawk Nelson released their second album, Smile, It's the End of the World.
• April 11 - Proof is shot and killed outside a nightclub.^{citation needed}
• April 15 - Mary J. Blige's single "Be Without You" ends its 15th week at number one on the US Billboard R&B chart, making it the most successful R&B song in history.^{citation needed}
• April 20 – Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins confirms that the band are in the studio recording their first album since 2000's Machina/The Machines of God.^{citation needed}
• April 21—April 23 – The Terrastock 6 festival is held in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
• April 25 - American rock band, the Goo Goo Dolls, celebrate twenty successful years in the music industry with the release of Let Love In.
• April 29—April 30 – The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place in Indio, California, USA. Performers include Madonna, James Blunt, Kanye West, Depeche Mode, and Paul Oakenfold.

May

• May 1 - 1,581 guitarists simultaneously play Jimi Hendrix's song "Hey Joe" in the town square of Wrocław, Poland, breaking a Guinness world record.^[2]
• May 8 - Mor ve Otesi, a Turkish alternative rock band, release Büyük Düşler, their fifth studio album.
• May 10 - Roy Mayorga joins Stone Sour.^{citation needed}
• May 11 – Dave Baksh announces that he left Sum 41 to pursue his career with his second band Brown Brigade.^{citation needed}
• May 12—May 17 - Guns N' Roses play four warm-up shows at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, USA, preceding a European tour and shows across the U.S.^{citation needed}
• May 13
  • The Los Angeles, California, USA radio station KROQ airs the fourteenth annual Weenie Roast.
  • Drummer Ryan Vandeberghe announces that The Suicide Machines have broken up after 15 years of activity.^{citation needed}
• May 20 – Finnish monster rock band Lordi win the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah", the first hard rock and heavy metal song to win.^{citation needed}
• May 23 - Madonna begins her Confessions Tour in Los Angeles, USA. Tickets were sold out within minutes in North America, Europe, and Asia, resulting in new dates to be announced in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and London. The tour grossed more than US$260 million – the highest grossing tour in history by a female artist.^{citation needed}
• May 24 – Taylor Hicks wins the US television talent contest, American Idol, season 5. Katharine McPhee is the runner-up.^{citation needed}
• May 26 – Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have their first baby boy, Kingston James McGregor Rossdale.^{citation needed}

June

• June 1 – YoungbloodZ and their entourage were arrested on drugs and weapons charges in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.^[3] (dead link)^{citation needed}
• June 8 – Shakira's single "Hips Don't Lie" sells 266,500 downloads in its first week of availability, overtaking D4L's record of 175,000. "Hips Don't Lie" also breaks another record, gaining the greatest airplay in a single week with 9,657 plays, breaking Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" record of 9,582.^{citation needed}
• June 9
  • Nelly Furtado's new album, Loose is released and debuts at #1 with 219,000 copies sold, making it her first #1 album.^{citation needed}
  • Igor Cavalera leaves Sepultura because of artistic incompatibility. He becomes the third official member as well as the second Cavalera to leave.^{citation needed}
• June 14 - Shakira launches her Oral Fixation Tour in Zaragoza, Spain. The tour planned to have 100 shows on four continents.^{citation needed}.
• June 16—June 18 – Bonnaroo Music Festival takes place in Manchester, Tennessee, USA. Performers include Radiohead, Tom Petty, Phil Lesh and Friends, Beck, and Sasha.
• June 19 - The "Beautiful Goal" single by Paul Oakenfold was released.
• June 23 – Backstreet Boys band member Kevin Richardson leaves the group to pursue other interests.^{citation needed}

July

• Luciano Pavarotti is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.^{citation needed}
• July 1 – Glue Gun performed their first reunion concert at Harpers in Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA. It was the band's first performance since breaking up in 1996.
• July 4 – Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith perform with the Boston Pops Orchestra in an event televised nationally in the USA.^{citation needed}
• July 5 – The US television talent show, American Idol, begins its tour.^{citation needed}
• July 9 – Scooter released its live CD and DVD Excess All Areas, with recordings taken from the Who's Got The Last Laugh Now? tour.
• July 11 - Jean Dolabella replaces Igor Cavalera in Sepultura.^{citation needed}
• July 12 – Rivers Cuomo confirms that Weezer is now on hiatus again. Commenting on the band's future he said, "I'm not certain we'll ever make a record again, unless it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one."^{citation needed}
• July 29 - Stephanie McIntosh, former star of the Australian television soap opera, Neighbours, releases her debut single Mistake in Australia, where it became a top three hit.^{citation needed}
• July 30 – The last ever weekly version of the British television chart show, Top of the Pops, is broadcast.^{citation needed}

August

• August 1 – The 10th anniversary of television channel MTV2's launch and the 25th anniversary of MTV's launch.
• August 4 — August 6 – The Lollapalooza festival is held in Chicago, USA.
• August 25 - It was reported that Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton was undergoing treatment for throat cancer and would sit out the first half of the band's Route of All Evil Tour, the first time he would miss any shows in the band's history. Long time band friend, David Hull filled in for Hamilton until his return.^{citation needed}
• August 29
  • Jessi Malay releases her debut single "Gimme", featuring Lil Scrappy.
  • Method Man released their album 4:21...The day after.

September

• September 5 - The Mercury Music Prize is held in the UK, with Arctic Monkeys' debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not winning ahead of entries from acts such as Muse and Thom Yorke.^{citation needed}
• September 12 - Britney Spears gave birth to her second child, Jayden James.^{citation needed}
• September 19 - Ben Kweller releases his third solo album Ben Kweller on the label ATO Records.
• September 27 – Boy band, Five, announce they are to reunite, minus original bandmate Sean Conlon.^{citation needed}

October

• October 9
  • The Strokes' guitarist, Albert Hammond, Jr., released his solo album Yours to Keep on Rough Trade Records.
  • Violinist and opera singer, Logan Simpson is arrested for refusing to stop his car when a traffic light turns red.^{citation needed}
• October 10 – Justin Hawkins, lead singer of the band The Darkness announces he is leaving the band.^{citation needed}
• October 11 – After 25 years as an artist, "Weird Al" Yankovic finally gets his first top 10 hit, with "White & Nerdy".^{citation needed}
• October 15 – New York City music club CBGB closes after a lengthy rent dispute. Patti Smith performs the final show at the club that night.
• October 17 - The French singer Manu Chao performs in Colombia in front of 80,000 people.^{citation needed}
• October 24 – The Corrs release their greatest hits collection Dreams - The Ultimate Collection.
• October 25 – Guitarist Brian May announces on his web-site that Queen is returning to the studio for recording sessions. The new lineup, Queen + Paul Rodgers, features May, Paul Rodgers (the former lead vocalist of Free) and former Queen drummer Roger Taylor.^{citation needed}
• October 26 - Duran Duran lead guitarist Andy Taylor once again leaves the band after a series of disagreements surrounding their latest album, which was still incomplete by the year's end. Reasons given are his disapproval of the usage of both Timbaland and Justin Timberlake in the creation of the band's album. The band hires an interim guitarist to supplant Taylor, with no real replacement being announced.^{citation needed}
• October 30 – Keane released "Nothing In My Way", the first single to be released on a USB memory stick.^{citation needed}
• October 31 - The Who release Endless Wire, their first studio album for 24 years.

November

• November 7 - Britney Spears files for divorce from husband Kevin Federline.^[4]
• November 8 – Nelly Furtado's publicist announces that Furtado will make a cameo appearance in the Portuguese soap opera Floribella.^{citation needed}
• November 11
  • Justin Timberlake's single "My Love" reaches number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.^[5]
  • Kylie Minogue resumes Showgirl - The Homecoming Tour in Sydney, Australia after a break of a year and a half resulting from undergoing treatment for breast cancer.^[6]
• November 16
  • The MTV Movie Awards Latin America 2006 are held. Performers at the event included Evanescence, Robbie Williams, Panda, Nelly Furtado, and Shakira.^{citation needed}
  • Snow Patrol became the first British band in 13 years to reach the top five of the US Billboard Hot 100.^[7]
  • Christina Aguilera announced she would make her acting debut in the US television crime series CSI:New York in February 2007.^{citation needed}
• November 24 - The American Music Awards are broadcast. Winners include Kelly Clarkson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shakira, Jamie Foxx, Nickelback, Sean Paul, Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, Faith Hill, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw and Mary J. Blige, Nelly Furtado, John Mayer, Fall Out Boy and Beyoncé performed at the event.^{citation needed}
• November 26 - Damien Leith wins the Australian television talent show, Australian Idol 2006, becoming the oldest winner of any Idol show in the world. He beat 16-year-old Jessica Mauboy.^{citation needed}
• November 27 – The Offspring announced that they were back in the studio recording their first album since 2003's Splinter.^[8]

December

• December 6
  • Beyoncé achieved her fourth number one single in the U.S. with "Irreplaceable".
  • December 6 was declared Dia de Shakira (Day of Shakira) by the mayor of Miami, USA.^{citation needed}
• December 13th - David Silveria goes on hiatus from Korn to manage his restaurant. There were reports that his departure was also due to a wrist Injury and that he may not rejoin the band.^{citation needed}
• December 31 - Social Deviantz release Bleaky Deky.

Bands formed

• Daughtry
• I
• The Luchagors
• Monrose
• Of the Opera
• Ride the Sky
• Rock Star Supernova

Bands disbanded

• 22-20s
• Acceptance
• Adequate Seven
• After School Special
• Arab Strap
• Audio Adrenaline
• The Banner (hiatus, then reformed later that year)
• The Beautiful Mistake (hiatus)
• The Blackout Pact
• Boysetsfire
• The Casket Lottery (hiatus)
• Cave In (hiatus)
• Centinex
• Champion
• Clor
• Cold
• The Corrs (hiatus)
• Day At The Fair
• Dead Moon
• Death from Above 1979
• A Dozen Furies
• Dropbox
• Eiffel 65
• Elefantes
• Escape Velocity (hiatus)
• E.Town Concrete
• Finch (hiatus)
• For Felix (hiatus)
• Frost (hiatus)
• Further Seems Forever
• Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
• High School Football Heroes
• Hope of the States
• If Hope Dies
• JJ72
• JR Ewing
• The Juliana Theory
• Kind of Like Spitting
• Le Tigre (hiatus)
• The Letters Organize
• Lillix (hiatus)
• Mest
• Mad Capsule Markets (hiatus)
• Marathon
• Midtown (hiatus)
• N'Versity
• The Organ
• Out Hud
• Peccatum
• Pedro the Lion
• A Perfect Circle (hiatus)
• Plonker
• The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower
• Preluders
• Rainer Maria
• Sleater-Kinney
• Stampin' Ground
• The String Cheese Incident
• The Suicide Machines
• Supersystem
• System of a Down (hiatus)
• Test Icicles
• This Day and Age
• Treble Charger (Texan)
• Trick Pony
• TRUSTcompany
• T.S.O.L.
• Van Halen (hiatus)
• Vendetta Red

Bands reformed

• The Afghan Whigs
• All Saints
• Alice in Chains
• Atheist
• Believer
• Blaque
• Blind Melon
• Bloodgood
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
• Buckcherry
• Cactus
• Chavez
• Deliverance
• Five
• Genesis (with Phil Collins)
• Gorilla Biscuits
• Information Society
• Immortal
• Jodeci
• Lifetime
• Meat Puppets
• Neighborhood Watch
• Ozma
• Take That
• X-Clan

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