The year 2008 in music is full of events, albums released by major artists and bands, and hit singles.
Events
January
February
March
- March 2 - Blind musician and actor Jeff Healey dies of cancer.
- March 2 - Marilyn Manson's world tour, Rape of the World, came to an end.
- March 7 - The Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2008 occurred in Jakarta, Indonesia.[5]
- March 7-16 - The 2008 South By Southwest[6] Conference and Festivals in Austin, Texas.
- March 20 - The new Eagles tour to support their latest album, Long Road Out of Eden, begins.
- March 25-29 - The Miami Winter Music Conference[7] was held in Miami Beach Resort & Spa, Miami, Florida, USA
- March 26th - Clint Lowery returns and replaces Sonny Mayo in Sevendust.
- March 27 - British sensation Leona Lewis tops the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with her debut single "Bleeding Love". Lewis becomes the first solo British female to rule over the USA since Kim Wilde in 1987.
- March 27 - Def Leppard begins the first leg of their world tour in support of their latest album Songs from the Sparkle Lounge.
- March 28 - Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash hinted in an interview with Classic Rock magazine that their singer Scott Weiland would be out of the band at the end of the current tour, but that they would continue without him.[8]
April
- April 1 - Scott Weiland's departure from Velvet Revolver becomes official,[9] although it is not clear whether the band will continue without Weiland as no official statement from Weiland or the remaining Velvet Revolver members has been issued. Weiland's reunion with his former band Stone Temple Pilots and tensions between Weiland and the rest of VR led to his departure.
- April 2 - Mariah Carey's new single, "Touch My Body", from her upcoming album E=MC², is officially confirmed as her eighteenth number-one single in the United States. This feat makes Carey the artist with second most number-one hit singles in history, behind the Beatles with twenty.
- April 2 - Madonna's new single, "4 Minutes", from her upcoming album Hard Candy, is officially confirmed as her thirty-seventh top-ten single in the United States. This feat makes Madonna the artist with the most top-ten hit singles in history. Hard Candy marked the last studio album under Madonna's long-time contract with both Warner Bros. Records and Warner Music
- April 5 - The reunited Face to Face perform together for the first time in four-and-a-half-years at The Bamboozle Left.[1]
- April 7 - The newly reunited 90s rock band Stone Temple Pilots hold a press conference announcing a 65-date reunion tour and play for the first time since 2002 at a small, private show in Los Angeles.
- April 15 - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proclaimed April 15 officially as "Mariah Carey day" in Los Angeles. It was in part of celebrating Carey's eighteenth number one single, "Touch My Body" [10].
- April 17 - Leona Lewis continues her success in North America by reaching number one on the Billboard 200, with Spirit selling around 205,000 copies in its first week on sale. Lewis becomes the first British woman to go straight to the top the album charts with a debut album.
- April 19-20 - The Festival Imperial 2008 will be held in Autódromo La Guácima in Alajuela, Costa Rica.
- April 19 - Donna Summer became the first artist to have a song reach number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in every decade since the charts' inception in 1974, as "I'm a Fire" ascends to the chart's top spot in the magazine's April 19th issue.
- April 25 -April 27 - The Empire State Building was lit up in Mariah Carey's motif colors — lavender, pink, and white — in celebration of her achievements in the world of music. Carey is the first person in history to be honored in this event [11].
- April 26 - The MTV Australia Awards 2008 took place in Sydney, Australia.
- April 25-27 - The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was held in Indio, California.
May
Expected events
May
- May 17 - The sixteenth annual KROQ Weenie Roast will be held at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California. Bands that will play there are: Metallica, The Offspring, The Raconteurs, Rise Against, Bad Religion, Pennywise, The Bravery, Scars on Broadway, Seether, Flogging Molly, Atreyu, MGMT, Flobots and Ludo.
- May 24-26 - The 2008 Sasquatch! Music Festival will be held Memorial Day weekend at the Gorge in central Washington.
- May - The 53rd Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
- May/June - Lisbon, Portugal Rock In Rio Lisboa 2008, in Parque da Bela Vista, Chelas (Lisbon)
June
July
- July 3 - 6 - The Rothbury Music Festival will be held in Rothbury, Michigan.
- T in The Park (Scotland) - UK festival held over weekend in July.
- July 4 - 6 - next 3-day edition of Heineken Open'er Festival in Gdynia, Poland. Ticket sale started on the 1st of October 2007. The announced artists to perform in this edition of festival are The Chemical Brothers, M.I.A., Gentleman, Massive Attack, CocoRosie, Sex Pistols, The Raconteurs, Goldfrapp, The Cribs, Jay-Z, Interpol, Erykah Badu, Fischerspooner, DJ Vadim, Fujiya & Miyagi, Róisín Murphy, DeVotchKa and Editors. Beirut cancelled their show.
- July 10 - 13 - EXIT Festival 08 is to be held on Petrovaradin Fortress, in Novi Sad, Serbia.
- July 11 - 13 - The OXEGEN music festival will take place in Kildare, Ireland.
- July 11 - 13 - The All Good Music Festival will be held in Masontown, West Virginia.
- July 23 - 26 - The 10,000 Lakes Festival will be held in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.
- July 31 to August 2 - The reunited Carcass will play at the German heavy metal festival Wacken Open Air.[13] This will be their first live performance since their original break up in 1995.
August
- August 8-10 - third edition of Off Festival in Mysłowice, Poland. The announced artists to perform in this edition of festival are Of Montreal, Clinic, British Sea Power, James Chance & The Contortions, Renton, Muchy, Caribou, Motion Trio and Waglewski Fisz Emade.
- Lollapalooza will take place from the 1st to the 3rd in Grant Park, Chicago.
- Virgin Festival will take place in Baltimore from the 9th to 10th at Pimlico Race Course.
- Stufstock Festival will take place from 14th to 16th in Vama Veche, Romania.
- V Festival will take place on 16th and 17th simultaneously at Weston Park, Staffordshire, UK and Hylands Park, Chelmsford, UK
- Reading and Leeds Festival will take place from the 22nd to the 24th.
- Madonna (entertainer) opens her Sticky and Sweet Tour on August 23 in Cardiff, Wales.
- 2008 MTV Video Music Awards will be held on August 31.
September
Slipknot Touring this summer before NEW ALBUM hits stores
October
November
December
Bands formed
Bands reformed
Bands disbanded
Albums released
All releases are an LP unless otherwise stated.
Mulitple albums in same day should be arranged alphabetically by album's name.
Other release dates in other countries may apply.
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