2007 in music

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• 2007 in British music
• 2007 in hip hop
• 2007 in metal
• Albums released in 2007
• Musical groups established in 2007
• Record labels established in 2007

Events

• January
  • George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame. Imogen Cooper, John Rutter and Rod Stewart are awarded the CBE.
  • Rumours circulate that The Police will reunite for a tour after 23 years to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of "Roxanne". However, there are no plans for an album featuring new material. On January 30, the band announce that they would perform at the opening of the 49th annual Grammy Awards on February 11 and subsequently announce The Police Reunion Tour.
  • Rumours circulate that Timbaland may have appropriated his ringtone Block Party and the related beat to Nelly Furtado's "Do It." See 2007 Timbaland plagiarism controversy.
• February
  • February 7 — Frontman Billy Corgan reveals that The Smashing Pumpkins would finally release the first reunion album Zeitgeist on July 7th. This would be the band's first widely released album since 2000s Machina/The Machines of God with the last Smashing Pumpkins album Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music being restricted to only 25 copies upon initial release.
  • February 11 — the 49th Grammy Awards aired on CBS, presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
  • February 16 — American Rock band Audioslave break up after Chris Cornell leaves band because of "Musical Differences".
  • February 27 — American rock parody band Tenacious D released their movie, Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny on DVD.
  • February 28—it was announced that the American early 80s punk band Circle Jerks had released a new song, titled "I'm Gonna Live", which can also be heard on their Myspace page. Rumors are swirling that the band is also supposedly gearing up to release their follow-up to 1995's Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities.
• March
  • March 1 — Angela Hacker was voted by viewers to be the 2007 champion of the televised singing competition Nashville Star. By virtue of her win, she was signed to a record deal with Warner Bros. Records.
  • March 12 — Matchbook Romance announces that they are taking an indefinite hiatus, after ten years of their career, as all members decided to go their separate ways.
  • March 16 — Bad Religion revealed that their new album would be called New Maps of Hell.
  • March 21 — Toshimitsu Deyama announces that he has been recording with Yoshiki after ten years.
  • March 28 - Marques Houston's Veteran has entered the US Billboard 200 at #5, his highest chart position, selling almost 70,000 units in its first week and sold 830,000 copies.
• April
  • April 15 - Cluster reunites for first concert since 1996. A tour of Europe followed.
  • April 17 — Arcturus officially announced that they would be splitting up due to the fact that they were too busy with other matters to focus on progressing with the band.
  • April 19 — Joey Jordison of Slipknot becomes a Session Member of Korn.
  • April 22 — Patrick Wolf told fans on his message board that he was retiring from the music business. However, he later revoked this, saying that he will merely be on hiatus
  • April 23rd - Bevan Davies replaces Will Hunt due to his commitments of Dark New Day & Vince Neil as the other replacement drummer for Nick Oshiro of Static-X.
  • April 27 – April 29—Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Coachella, CA
• May
  • May 11—Guitarist Chickn posted a message on MySpace, confirming that D.I. would finally release the long-awaited first reunion album On the Western Front on August 7th. This would be their first official album featuring new material since 1994's State of Shock.
  • May 12 — The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was held in Helsinki, Finland. It was won by Serbia.
  • May 15 — Minutes To Midnight by Linkin Park sales more than 600,000 copies in the USA and more than 1,000,000 worldwide and to the date is the most selling album in the first week.
  • May 16 – May 20—The European Festival of Youth Choirs is currently being held in Basel, Switzerland.
  • May 19 — The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the fifteenth annual Weenie Roast. Bands that played there were: Linkin Park, Social Distortion, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Bravery, Silversun Pickups, The Killers → Incubus, Korn, Bad Religion, Rise Against, Tim Armstrong, Peter Bjorn and John, Tiger Army, and Plain White T's.
  • May 23 — Jordin Sparks of Arizona wins Season 6 of American Idol.
  • May 25 – May 28—Salzburg Festival
  • May 26 – May 27—Sasquatch! Music Festival
  • May 30 – June 5—The Peel Bay Festival Isle of Man TT
• June
  • June 4—Yoshiki announces that X Japan would reunite for a new tour and a single.
  • June 8 – June 10—Download Festival
  • June 14 – Daft Punk came back in Paris for a show, ten years after their last performance in the French capital.
  • June 22 – June 23—Radio Expres Festival - the first music festival of the best slovak radio station—Radio Expres
  • June 22 – June 25—Glastonbury Festival
  • June 26 - Spice Girls announce their reunion at the O2 in London in a press conference televised worldwide.
• July
  • June 29 – July 1—Heineken Open'er Festival took place in Babie Doły military airport, Gdynia, Poland. Confirmed bands that will play there are: Beastie Boys, Björk, Muse, The Roots, Sonic Youth, Bloc Party, LCD Soundsystem, Groove Armada, Dizzee Rascal, Laurent Garnier, Crazy P, The Strike Boys, Freeform Five.
• July
  • July 1 — The Concert for Diana in honour of Lady Diana's 46th birthday takes place in the Wembley Stadium in London.
  • July 7 — Live Earth, worldwide series of concerts to initiate action against global warming. Acts include: Linkin Park, Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Bon Jovi, Fall Out Boy, Shakira, John Mayer, Roger Waters, Beastie Boys, Duran Duran, Madonna, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, Spinal Tap, Jack Johnson, Lenny Kravitz, Metallica as well as the reunited bands The Police, Genesis, The Smashing Pumpkins and Crowded House.
  • July 7 – July 8—T In The Park, Oxegen 2007
  • July 17th - Joe Payne joins Divine Heresy.
  • July 27 — Atom Willard leaves The Offspring and is replaced by former Face to Face and Saves the Day drummer Pete Parada.
• August
  • August 4 – August 11—The Three Choirs Festival will be held at Gloucester.
  • August 11 – August 12—The eighth annual Summer Sonic Festival was held. Bands that played there were: Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Bloc Party, The Horrors, Interpol, The Offspring, Sum 41, Metallica and We Are Scientists.
  • August 24 – August 26—Carling Weekend—Reading and Leeds Festivals
  • August 31 – September 2—Electric Picnic 2007
  • August Bank Holiday (last weekend in August) —Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival
• September
  • September - Meegs Rascon of Glass Piñata states a possibility of a Coal Chamber reunion.
  • September 3 - My Chemical Romance lead singer, Gerard Way, marries Mindless Self Indulgence bassist, Lyn-Z, backstage at Projekt Revolution in Denver, Colorado
  • September 4 - Small Faces and Don Arden plaque unveiled at 52-55 Carnaby Street, London, England
  • September 8 - "Weird Al" Yankovic performs his 1,000th live show at Idaho Falls, Idaho.
  • September 9—Sonata Arctica will play for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico.
  • September 9—Britney Spears opened the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards held in the Palms Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • September 12 – October 1—Prague Autumn International Music Festival
  • September 20 – September 23—4th annual Decibel Festival, Seattle
  • September 22 – 29—35th North Wales International Music Festival will be held at St Asaph.
  • September 24—Patrick Watson's album Close to Paradise wins the Canadian Polaris Music Prize for 2007.

• October
  • Placebo's drummer Steve Hewitt left the band, citing "personal and musical differences" as the cause of the split.
  • October 4 - Fred Mascherino announces his departure from Taking Back Sunday, to pursue his solo career called The Color Fred.
  • Godsmack goes on Hiatus.
  • October 18 — X Japan official site announces that the band will perform the song "I.V." (main theme of Saw IV) on October 22.
  • October 22 — X Japan performs for the first time in ten years and announces a concert in Tokyo in spring, followed by a world tour.
  • October 27 — Interpol, Yo La Tengo, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Horrors, TeddyBears and other bands will appear on the Manifest Festival, at Mexico City.
  • October 30 - Britney Spears releases her highly anticipated album Blackout.

• November
  • November 1 - MTV Europe Music Awards 2007
  • November 2 - Drummer of death metal band Decapitated, Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka, dies at 23 due to complications after automobile accident in Russia.
  • November 7th - Sevendust announces they will head into the studio by the end of November to work on their 7th studio Album entiled The 7th Chapter and gave a release date being March 4th, 2008.
  • November 10th - Powerman 5000 goes on Hiatus.
  • November 24th - Hawthorne Heights guitarist/backing vocalist Casey Calvert dies in his sleep at 26.
  • November 25th - Natalie Gauci became the winner of Australian Idol 2007 at the Sydney Opera House beating Matt Corby for the title.
  • November 27 - Harmonia reunited for their first concert since 1976 in Berlin.

• December
  • December 8-9 — The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ aired the eighteenth annual Acoustic Christmas. Bands that played are: Linkin Park, Bad Religion, Angels & Airwaves, Rise Against, Avenged Sevenfold, Serj Tankian, Paramore, Modest Mouse, Jimmy Eat World, Spoon, Feist, The Shins, Silversun Pickups and Muse.
  • December 10 - In London: Led Zeppelin reunited for their first show in 25 years.

Bands formed

• Girls' Generation
• Nunatak
• S.K.I.N.
• Wonder Girls
• Sixx:A.M.
• The Phil Morgan Experience
• Zapetroid
• Bundle Of ID

Bands disbanded

• 28 Days
• 5ive
• Adair
• Adelphi
• Aereogramme
• Allister (hiatus)
• Amity
• Amsterband (changed name to Ha Ha Tonka after people confused them with other bands)
• Arcturus
• Audio Adrenaline
• Audioslave
• The Beautiful South
• BeForU
• Bleed The Dream
• Blindspott
• The Blood Brothers
• Calico System
• Capdown
• Carnival in Coal
• Cauterize
• Chinese Happy
• Choke
• Controlling the Famous
• Crush Luther
• The Cooper Temple Clause
• Damiera (on hiatus in April 2007, reformed with new members in June 2007)
• Devin Townsend Band
• The Distillers
• The Divorce
• Dog Fashion Disco
• Dogs Die In Hot Cars (split at the end of 2006, but this was not announced until September 2007)
• The Early November (indefinite hiatus)
• Eighteen Visions
• Even So
• The Explosion
• Five Star
• The Fugees
• G4
• Good Riddance
• Hidden in Plain View
• Hot Cross
• Hot Rod Circuit
• I Killed the Prom Queen
• The Immediate
• Imperanon
• The Junior Varsity
• Jurassic 5
• Jump5
• Larrikin Love
• Last Tuesday
• Latterman
• Liberty X
• The Little Flames
• Le Tigre (on hiatus since late 2006, but officially announced split in January 2007)
• Los Abandoned
• Los Hermanos (indefinite hiatus)
• Matchbook Romance (indefinite hiatus)
• Mendeed
• Morning Runner
• Moonshine Still
• Much the Same
• The Nervous Return
• New Order (confirmed by Peter Hook via MySpace.com)
• Nickel Creek (hiatus)
• Number One Fan
• None More Black
• Park
• A Perfect Murder
• Piebald
• Planes Mistaken for Stars
• Pretty Girls Make Graves
• Purified in Blood
• Push to Talk
• Reverend Bizarre
• Rheostatics
• Rory
• Rufio
• Rooster
• Sandy & Junior
• Scarlet
• Scars of Tomorrow (name change to The Hollowed)
• Send More Paramedics
• Spineshank
• Spitalfield
• Strapping Young Lad
• Sullivan (band)
• The Track Record
• U.G.K.
• U.S. Maple
• Vaux
• Waking Ashland
• With Passion

Bands re-formed

• Ace of Base
• Aqua
• Asia
• At The Gates (a few European summer festivals in 2008)
• B2k (reality show reunion)
• Blur
• Boyzone (one-off performance)
• Breach (one-off performance)
• Carcass (a few European summer festivals in 2008)
• Cluster
• Crazy Town
• Crowded House
• The Dismemberment Plan (two-performance reunion)
• Dispatch (three-performance reunion)
• Element Eighty
• Eve 6
• Extreme
• Finch (two-performance reunion)
• Genesis
• Harmonia
• Héroes del Silencio
• Hot Water Music (reunion tour)
• James
• The Jesus and Mary Chain
• Hombres G (Spain)
• Kris Kross
• Led Zeppelin (one-off performance)
• Leftover Salmon (two-performance reunion)
• Luna Sea (one-off performance)
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• My Bloody Valentine
• No Angels
• Oblivion Dust
• The Police
• Possessed
• Rage Against the Machine
• Scooch
• Sex Pistols
• Siam Shade (one performance)
• Slint
• Soda Stereo (tour through Latin America and the US)
• Spice Girls (hits album and one-tour reunion)
• Spinal Tap
• Squeeze
• Squirrel Nut Zippers
• Suffokate (members of All Shall Perish)
• Swervedriver
• Timbiriche
• Trust Company
• Unanimated
• The Verve
• Versus
• White Lion
• Yellow Magic Orchestra
• X Japan

Top hits on record in the world

The following are accurate points of singles while they have been within the top 40, on the UWC, during the chart year 2007 (starting the second week of 2007 until the first week of 2008):

Position	Single Title	Artist	Country	Points	Highest Position
1	"Umbrella"	Rihanna feat. Jay-Z		8,160,000	1
2	"Say It Right"	Nelly Furtado		7,315,000	2
3	"Big Girls Don't Cry"	Fergie		7,201,000	1
4	"The Sweet Escape"	Gwen Stefani feat. Akon		6,697,000	1
5	"Makes Me Wonder"	Maroon 5		5,872,000	1
6	"The Way I Are"	Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E.		5,729,000	2
7	"Girlfriend"	Avril Lavigne		5,560,000	1
8	"What Goes Around...Comes Around"	Justin Timberlake		5,163,000	2
9	"Hey There Delilah"	Plain White T's		4,936,000	5
10	"Grace Kelly"	Mika		4,763,000	4

Best sold records in the world

The best sold records in 2007 according to UWC. Some records were released in 2006, their total sales are behind their sales in 2007 (plus the estimated +7,5% that UWC doesn't cover).

Position	Album Title	Artist	Country	Sales	Total Sales	Highest Position
1	"Back to Black"	Amy Winehouse		5,510,000	6,353,000	2
2	"High School Musical 2 (soundtrack)"	High School Musical 2		4,705,000	5,057,000	1
3	"Minutes To Midnight"	Linkin Park		4,705,000	5,348,000	1
4	"Loose"	Nelly Furtado		4,308,000	7,806,000	1
5	"Life In Cartoon Motion"	Mika		4,240,000	4,657,000	2
6	"The Best Damn Thing"	Avril Lavigne		4,122,000	4,965,000	1
7	"Long Road Out Of Eden"	The Eagles		4,077,000	4,377,000	1
8	"Noël"	Josh Groban		4,055,000	4,359,000	1
9	"Call Me Irresponsible"	Michael Bublé		3,875,000	4,260,000	5
10	"FutureSex/LoveSounds"	Justin Timberlake		3,842,000	8,602,000	4

Musical film

• The musical, Sweeney Todd, was adapted as a major motion picture (under the title Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) by Tim Burton featuring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Christopher Lee, Alan Rickman and Sasha Baron Cohen in key roles. It was released December 21, 2007.

• Hairspray - an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, itself adapted from John Waters' 1988 comedy film. It was released July 20, 2007.

• Across the Universe a musical which tells a love story during war times, using adapted versions of music from The Beatles. It was widely released October 12, 2007.

Musical theater

• Curtains (Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb Book: Rupert Holmes) Broadway production opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on March 22

Musical television

• Miss Marie Lloyd starring Jessie Wallace and Richard Armitage

Deaths

• January 1—Del Reeves, American country singer, 74
• January 6—Pete Kleinow, American steel gutairist of Flying Burrito Brothers, 72
• January 8—Mercedes Murciano, Cuban member of Miami Sound Machine, 49. Correct spelling. Death from pneumonia.
• January 13—Michael Brecker, popular US jazz saxophonist of the post-Coltrane era, 57
• January 17—Uwe Nettlebeck, German producer and founder of progressive rock band Faust, age unknown
• January 18—Brent Liles, original bassist of the influential American punk band Social Distortion, 43
• January 19—Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter of The Mamas & the Papas, 66
• January 22—Disco D, an American music producer and composer.
• January 28—Karel Svoboda, composer, 68
• January 31—Kirka Babitzin, singer, former Eurovision representative for Finland, 56
• February 1—Gian Carlo Menotti, composer, 95
• February 4—Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian songwriter (Nautilus Pompilius), 47
• February 6
  • Billy Henderson, American vocalist with The Spinners, known in the UK as The Detroit Spinners, 67
  • Frankie Laine, American singer, 93
• February 8—Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader (The Funk Brothers), 79
• February 15—Ray Evans, American songwriter, 92
• February 18—John "Bam Bam" Lane, American drummer (Bill Haley & His Comets), 76
• February 19—Janet Blair, American actress and singer, 85
• February 23
  • Donnie Brooks, American pop singer, 71
  • Ian Wallace, British drummer (King Crimson), 60
• February 28—Billy Thorpe, British-born Australian rock performer, 60
• March 7—Frigyes Hidas, Hungarian composer, 88
• March 9—Brad Delp, American lead singer of 1970s AOR band Boston, 55
• March 19—Luther Ingram, American singer, 69
• April 5—Mark St. John, American guitarist (Kiss, White Tiger), 51
• April 9—Egon Bondy, Czech singer and songwriter (Plastic People of the Universe), 77
• April 10—Dakota Staton, US jazz vocalist, 74
• April 14—Don Ho, Hawaiian musician, 76
• April 17—Kitty Carlisle, US actress and singer, 96
• April 25—Bobby "Boris" Pickett, US rapper, "Monster Mash", 69
• April 26—San Fadyl, American drummer (The Ladybug Transistor), 31
• April 27—Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor, 80
• April 30
  • Zola Taylor, American female vocalist with The Platters, 69
  • Grégory Lemarchal, French singer, 23
• May 06—Đorđe Novković, Croatian songwriter, 63
• May 20—Ben Weisman, pianist/composer of several Elvis Presley film songs, 95
• May 27—Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard), 40
• June 1—Tony Thompson, American singer (Hi-Five), 36
• June 4—Freddie Scott, American singer, 74
• June 8—Nellie Lutcher, US jazz and pop singer and pianist, 94
• June 18—Hank Medress, American singer (The Tokens), 67
• June 24—Natasja, Danish / Jamaican reggae singer, 33
• June 29—George McCorkle, American guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band)
• July 2—Hy Zaret, US lyricist, 98
• July 3—Boots Randolph, American saxophonist, 80
• July 4—Bill Pinkney, American vocalist; last original member of The Drifters, 81.
• July 5—George Melly, Jazz vocalist/broadcaster, 80.
• July 8—Jindřich Feld, Czech composer, 82
• July 11—Rod Lauren, US singer and actor, 67
• July 15—Kelly Johnson, British guitarist (Girlschool), 49
• July 23—Ron Miller, Motown songwriter/producer, 74
• July 29—Trevor Hudson, American bassist (Bottom of the Hudson), 27
• August 4—Lee Hazlewood, American singer and songwriter, 78
• August 10—Anthony Wilson, music entrepreneur, founder of factory Records, 57
• August 12—Merv Griffin, US band singer, television producer and land developer, 82
• August 16—Max Roach, American jazz drummer, 83
• September 6—Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, 71
• September 9 - Hughie Thomasson, American guitarist, 55
• September 10 - Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician, 31
• September 11
  • Willie Tee, American singer/songwriter, 63
  • Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (Weather Report), 75
• September 12 - Bobby Byrd, soul/funk singer, 73
• September 15 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan composer, pianist and conductor, 79
• September 25 — Patrick Bourque, member of Emerson Drive, 29
• October 16 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer, 26
• October 17 - Teresa Brewer, American singer, 76
• October 18 - Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician, 43
• October 24 - Petr Eben, Czech composer
• October 28 - Porter Wagoner, American country singer, 80
• October 30 - Robert Goulet, American singer, 73
• November 2 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer for death metal band Decapitated, 23
• November 6 - Hank Thompson, American country singer and guitarist, 82
• November 12 - Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, Swiss singer, 90
• November 16 - Grethe Kausland, Norweigen singer, 60
• November 19
  • Paul Brodie, Canadian saxophonist, 73
  • Kevin DuBrow, American rock singer, Quiet Riot, 52
  • Wiera Gran, Polish singer, 91
• November 20 - Ernest "Doc" Paulin, American jazz musician, 100
• November 23 - Frank Guarrera, American singer, Metropolitan Opera, 83
• November 24 - Casey Calvert, American guitarist, Hawthorne Heights, 26
• November 27 - Cecil Payne, American saxophonist, 84
• November 28
  • Fred Chichin, French musician, Les Rita Mitsouko, 53
  • Ashley Titus, South African rapper, 37
• November 29 - Jim Nesbitt, American country singer, 75
• December 4 - Pimp C, American Southern rapper, UGK, 33
• December 5 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German avant-garde composer, 79
• December 12 - Ike Turner, rock-and-roll architect and former husband of Tina Turner, 76
• December 16:
  • Dan Fogelberg, American singer/guitarist, 56
  • Harald Genzmer, German composer and teacher, 98
• December 21 - Ruth Wallis, US singer
• December 23 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke, 82
• December 25 - Pat Kirkwood, English actress and singer, 86
• December 26 - Joe Dolan, Irish singer, 68

See also

• Albums released in 2007
• List of 'years in music'