Editing 2000 in music (section)

==Events==
===January===
* [[January 1]]
**In [[New York City]], United States, at precisely midnight, [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] celebrates the start of the final year before the new [[millennium]] by playing his [[anthem]]ic "[[1999 (Prince song)|1999]]", in what he vows is the song's [[:wiktionary:finale#Noun|finale]].
**British composer [[John Tavener]] is knighted in the New Year's Honours List.
*[[January 11]]
**[[Gary Glitter]] is released from jail, two months before his sentence for downloading 4000 pornographic images of children ends.
**[[Sharon Osbourne]] quits as manager of [[Smashing Pumpkins]] after only three months. In a brash press release she announces she had to resign "for medical reasons: [[Billy Corgan]] was making me sick."<ref name="osbourne">{{cite web |url=http://www.soundspike.com/story2/437/billy-corgan-slammed-as-smashing-pumpkins-manager-quits/ |title=Billy Corgan Slammed As Smashing Pumpkins Manager Quits |first=Rob |last=Evans |date=January 11, 2000 |publisher=Soundspike |access-date=October 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102180916/http://www.soundspike.com/story2/437/billy-corgan-slammed-as-smashing-pumpkins-manager-quits/ |archive-date=November 2, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
**Singer [[Whitney Houston]] is caught with 15.2 grams of marijuana in her bag at a Hawaii airport. She boards her flight to San Francisco before police can arrive to arrest her.<ref name="houston">{{cite news |author=Baram |first=Marcus |last2=Baker |first2=K.C. |date=January 18, 2000 |title=Whitney Takes Flight Over Hawaii Pot Rap |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2000/01/18/whitney-takes-flight-over-hawaii-pot-rap/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]}}</ref>
*[[January 14]] – ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' reveals that the two children of [[Melissa Etheridge]] and her partner, Julie Cypher, were fathered by [[David Crosby]].
*[[January 18]] – Spencer Goodman is executed by lethal injection in [[Huntsville, Texas]], for the 1991 kidnap and murder of the wife of [[ZZ Top]] manager [[Bill Ham]]. Ham is present at the execution.
*[[January 21]]–[[February 6]] – The [[Big Day Out]] festival takes place in Australia and New Zealand, headlined by [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] and [[Nine Inch Nails]]. [[Mr. Bungle]] are originally named in the lineup, but are "kicked off" due to an ongoing dispute with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

===February===
*[[February 9]] – ''[[The Million Dollar Hotel]]'', a film co-written by [[U2]] lead singer [[Bono]], premieres at the 50th Berlinale ([[Berlin International Film Festival]]).
*[[February 11]] – [[Diana Ross]] divorces [[Arne Næss Jr.]], her husband of 14 years.
*[[February 16]] – ''The Silver Tassie'', an opera by [[Mark-Anthony Turnage]], receives its première at the London Coliseum, performed by the [[English National Opera]].
*[[February 23]] – At the [[42nd Annual Grammy Awards]], [[Santana (band)|Santana]] win a record 8 Grammys in one night, tying [[Michael Jackson]] who won 8 in 1984. Among the awards won are [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]] for ''[[Supernatural (Santana album)|Supernatural]]'' and [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]], both for "[[Smooth (Santana song)|Smooth]]" featuring [[Matchbox Twenty]] frontman [[Rob Thomas (musician)|Rob Thomas]]. [[Christina Aguilera]] won [[Best New Artist]].
*[[February 24]] – Italian motorcycle manufacturing company [[Aprilia]] wins a lawsuit filed against the [[Spice Girls]] over a sponsorship deal that fell apart when [[Geri Halliwell]] left the group.

===March===
*[[March 6]] – [[Foxy Brown (rapper)|Foxy Brown]] is injured in a car accident in [[Brooklyn]], New York, in which her car hit a fence. Police discover that Brown was driving with a suspended driver license and order her to appear in court in April. Brown's license was suspended for failing to appear in court for a parking violation.
*[[March 7]] – Heavy metal band [[Disturbed (band)|Disturbed]] release their debut studio album ''[[The Sickness]]''.
*[[March 11]] – [[311 (band)|311]] holds their first 3–11 Day concert at Tower Records in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
*[[March 13]] – [[Blink-182]] end their European tour early after guitarist/vocalist [[Tom DeLonge]] and drummer [[Travis Barker]] succumb to [[streptococcal pharyngitis|strep throat]].
*[[March 21]] – [[NSYNC]] rises to superstardom after the fast-paced sales of their second studio album ''[[No Strings Attached (NSYNC album)|No Strings Attached]]''.
*[[March 24]] – After violating a prior probation agreement by getting drunk, [[Ol' Dirty Bastard]] is ordered to undergo a 90-day diagnostic evaluation at the California Institute For Men in [[Chino, California]].

===April===
*[[April 1]] – [[Ted Nugent]] angers Hispanic groups in Texas after onstage remarks he makes during a concert at the [[Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion]], in which he says that those who did not speak English should get out of America. He is banned from the venue as a result.<ref name="nugent">{{cite web |url=http://www.music.yahoo.ca/read/news/12026632 |title=Ted Nugent Still In Hot Water Over Houston Pro-English Statements |first=Craig |last=Rosen |date=July 20, 2000 |publisher=[[Yahoo! Music]] |access-date=October 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130101111651/http://www.music.yahoo.ca/read/news/12026632 |archive-date=January 1, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
*[[April 4]] – [[Mick Jagger]] attends the opening of an arts center named after him at Dartford Grammar School in southeast England.
*[[April 6]] – [[Shawn Colvin]], [[James Taylor]], [[Cyndi Lauper]], [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson]], [[Sweet Honey in the Rock]], [[Elton John]], [[Cassandra Wilson]], [[Wynonna Judd]], [[k.d. lang]], [[Bryan Adams]], and [[Mary Chapin Carpenter]] perform in New York as part of a tribute to [[Joni Mitchell]].
*[[April 12]] – [[Metallica]] files a lawsuit against the peer-to-peer service [[Napster]], as well as [[Yale University]], [[University of Southern California]] and [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]] for [[copyright]] infringement. Yale and Indiana are later dropped from the suit when they block access to Napster on campus computers.
* [[April 25]] – [[Nu metal]] band [[Papa Roach]] releases their second studio album, ''[[Infest (album)|Infest]]''.

===May===
*[[May 1]] – A $1.8 million civil fraud lawsuit is filed against [[Neil Young]] in Los Angeles Superior Court by a former ''[[Village Voice]]'' writer. The lawsuit charges that Young broke an agreement to have a biography written about him when he blocked the book's publication.
*[[May 3]] – 75-year-old tenor [[Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)|Carlo Bergonzi]] makes his final professional appearance at [[Carnegie Hall]], in a concert performance of ''[[Otello]]''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/05/movies/music-review-bergonzi-sings-just-2-acts-of-otello.html "Music Review; Bergonzi Sings Just 2 Acts of ''Otello''"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 5, 2000. Accessed 31 July 2014</ref> After two acts, he is replaced by an understudy.
*[[May 5]] – [[Rod Stewart]] undergoes an hour-long throat operation at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]] in Los Angeles to remove a growth on his thyroid, which turns out to be benign.
*[[May 6]] – [[John Mellencamp]] receives an honorary [[Doctor of Music]] degree as the commencement speaker for Indiana University's Class of 2000.
*[[May 7]] – [[Westlife]] releases their 2000 debut album with the release of their Billboard #1 hit single "[[Swear It Again]]", as the group's first and only single to have charted in the US.
*[[May 13]] – The 45th [[Eurovision Song Contest 2000|Eurovision Song Contest]] final, held in [[Stockholm]]'s [[Ericsson Globe|Globe Arena]], is won by [[Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest|Denmark]]'s [[Olsen Brothers]] and the song "[[Fly on the Wings of Love]]".
*[[May 16]] – [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] announces that he has changed his name back to Prince now that his publishing contract with [[Warner/Chappell Music|Warner/Chappell]] has expired. He had been known as an unpronounceable symbol, since 1993.<ref name="princename">{{cite web |url=http://www.sterlingpr.com/bringing-it-all-back-home-the-ultimate-decision-of-re-rebranding/ |title=Bringing It All Back Home: The Ultimate Decision of Re-Branding |first=Jordan|last=Hubert |date=November 1, 2011 |publisher=Sterling PR |access-date=October 15, 2012}}</ref>
*[[May 23]] – [[Eminem]] releases his third studio album [[The Marshall Mathers LP]] selling over 1.76 million copies in its first week, and becomes the fastest selling hip-hop album ever in first week sales.
*[[May 24]] – [[50 Cent]] is shot nine times in [[Queens]]. After spending time in hospital he returns to recording and performing.
*[[May 25]] – [[Eddie Van Halen]] begins treatment for prevention of tongue cancer at the [[M.D. Anderson Cancer Center|University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center]] in Houston, Texas.<ref name="vanhalen">{{cite web |url=http://vhnd.com/old/archive/0500.shtml |title=Edward Van Halen Fighting Cancer |date=May 26, 2000 |publisher=Van Halen News Desk |access-date=October 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729232448/http://vhnd.com/old/archive/0500.shtml |archive-date=July 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
*[[May 29]] – [[Michael Jackson]] and [[Mariah Carey]] are named the Best Selling Male and Female artist of the millennium at the World Music Awards in Monaco.

===June===
*[[June 8]] – [[Sinéad O'Connor]] comes out as a lesbian in an interview with ''[[Curve (magazine)|Curve]]'' magazine.<ref name="oconnor">{{cite web |url=http://www.nyrock.com/worldbeat/06_2000/060800.asp |title=Sinead O'Connor Comes Out in an Interview with Curve, the U.S. Lesbian Magazine |date=June 8, 2000 |publisher=NY Rock |access-date=October 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215092506/http://www.nyrock.com/worldbeat/06_2000/060800.asp |archive-date=February 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
*[[June 17]] – [[Aaliyah]]'s "[[Try Again (Aaliyah song)|Try Again]]" reaches number one on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. It becomes the first airplay song in history to reach number one following new chart rules placed in 1998 that allowed airplay singles to chart for the first time.
*[[June 20]] – [[Britney Spears]] begins her [[Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour]], her first world tour, visiting North America, Europe and Brazil in support her sophomore album, [[Oops!... I Did It Again (album)|Oops!... I Did It Again]]. The tour was a commercial success and became the second highest-grossing tour by a solo artist in 2000, only behind [[Tina Turner]]'s [[Twenty Four Seven Tour|Twenty Four Seven retirement tour]].
*[[June 23]]–25 – The Experience Music Project, now the [[Museum of Pop Culture]], opens in Seattle.
*[[June 30]] – Nine people are crushed to death during [[Pearl Jam]]'s set at the [[Roskilde Festival]], in [[Roskilde]], Denmark.

===July–August===
*[[July 21]]–22 – [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] plays at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]]. The first of this night is featured on the double CD and the DVD ''[[Familiar to Millions]]''.
*[[July 26]] – A U.S. district judge orders the [[Napster]] to halt the trading of copyrighted music among its users, essentially ordering it shut down. A stay on the injunction is granted two days later, allowing the site to continue operating for the time being.<ref name="injunction">{{cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-243817.html |title=Court grants stay of Napster injunction |date=July 28, 2000 |website=[[CNET]] |access-date=October 15, 2012}}</ref>
*[[August 1]] – Experimental pop band [[Animal Collective]] release their debut album [[Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished]] under the name [[Avey Tare]] & [[Panda Bear (musician)|Panda Bear]].<ref name="anco">{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7940-spirit-theyre-gone-spirit-theyve-vanished/ |title=Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished |first=Brent|last=Sirota |date=August 1, 2000 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |access-date=April 16, 2020}}</ref>
*[[August 8]] – A coalition of 28 U.S. states file a lawsuit against the major record labels, accusing them of keeping the prices of CDs fixed at artificially high prices since 1995.<ref name="prices">{{cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-244195.html |title=States target record labels with price-fixing suit |first=John|last=Borland |date=August 8, 2000 |website=[[CNET]] |access-date=October 15, 2012}}</ref>
*[[August 11]] – [[Madonna]] gives birth to her second child, son Rocco. Film director [[Guy Ritchie]] is the father.
*[[August 14]] – Outside the [[2000 Democratic National Convention|Democratic National Convention]] in Los Angeles, [[Rage Against the Machine]] performs a free concert [[2000 Democratic National Convention protest activity#Rage Against the Machine concert|protesting the two-party system]]. In a chaotic scene after the performance, police forcibly disperse the crowd and several arrests are made.<ref name="dnccnn2">{{cite news | date=August 15, 2000 | title=Convention opens to protests, rubber bullets |publisher=CNN | url=http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/15/cvn..protests.ap/index.html | access-date=October 15, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070108212515/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/15/cvn..protests.ap/index.html |archive-date=January 8, 2007 }}</ref>
*[[August 16]] – Rapper [[Eminem]] files for divorce from wife Kim Mathers.
*[[August 20]] – [[Skinny Puppy]] reunite for a concert at the [[Doomsday Festival]] in [[Dresden]], Germany.
*[[August 22]] – Nu Metal band [[Mudvayne]] Released their debut studio album [[L.D. 50 (album)|L.D. 50]].

===September===
*[[September 7]] – [[Rage Against the Machine]]'s [[Tim Commerford]] is arrested for climbing on the set at MTV's ''[[MTV Video Music Awards|Video Music Awards]]'' after his band lost the award for "Best Rock Video" to [[Limp Bizkit]]. The director of Rage's "[[Sleep Now in the Fire]]" video, [[Michael Moore]], suggests Commerford was probably "just bored" by the show.<ref name="ratm">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rage-against-the-machine-explain-bassists-actions-20000908 |title=Rage Against the Machine Explain Bassist's Actions |first=Maureen|last=Herman |date=September 8, 2000 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=October 15, 2012}}</ref> [[NSYNC]] performed their hit single "[[Bye Bye Bye]]".
*[[September 11]]- Successful British girl group [[Sugababes]] release their debut single 'Overload'.
*[[September 13]] – The first [[Latin Grammy Award]]s are held.
*[[September 23]] – [[Isaac Stern]] celebrates his 80th birthday together with his 40th anniversary as President of [[Carnegie Hall]].
*[[September 26]] – [[Pearl Jam]] releases twenty-five live albums, each taken from a different show on their European tour, as the initial part of the [[Pearl Jam Official Bootlegs]] series.

===October===
*[[October 1]] – [[Midnight Oil]] perform their single "[[Beds are Burning]]" at the closing of the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] dressed in outfits clearly displaying the word "Sorry" in reference to Australian Prime Minister [[John Howard]]'s refusal to apologise to the [[Stolen Generation]].
*[[October 2]] – [[Radiohead]] release their fourth studio album, ''[[Kid A]]''. While highly anticipated in the leadup to its release, the album is met with polarized responses from fans and critics as a result of its shift from the densely-layered [[alternative rock]] of [[OK Computer|its 1997 predecessor]] in favor of [[electronica]]-tinged [[post-rock]]. However, its reputation would grow more unanimously positive over the years, eventually being regarded by music analysts as one of the greatest albums of all time.
*[[October 3]] – [[Green Day]] release their sixth album ''[[Warning (Green Day album)|Warning]]''. Despite positive reviews from critics, it would end up a commercial disappointment compared to their previous efforts.
*[[October 5]]
** [[The Beatles]] release a hardcover book version of ''[[The Beatles Anthology (book)|The Beatles Anthology]]'', containing newly published photos and interviews with band members. The book went straight to the top of the ''[[New York Times Bestseller List]]''.
**[[EMI]] and [[Warner Music Group]] withdraw their application to the European Commission for a proposed $20 billion merger due to regulators' concerns. The merger would have concentrated 80% of the European music business into the hands of just four major labels.<ref name="merger">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/956567.stm |title=EMI, Time Warner abandon merger |date=October 5, 2000 |publisher=BBC |access-date=October 15, 2012}}</ref>
*[[October 18]] – [[Zack de la Rocha]] leaves [[Rage Against the Machine]] saying that the band's decision-making process has completely failed.
*[[October 24]] – [[Linkin Park]] release their debut album ''[[Hybrid Theory]]''. It has reached [[RIAA certification|diamond certification]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]], with 11 million units as of 2017, making it the [[List of best-selling albums of the 21st century|best-selling rock album of the 21st century]].
*[[October 31]] – [[Napster]] and [[BMG Music]] announce a partnership that would change the website into a subscription-based service offering legal downloads.<ref name="napster-bmg">{{cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/2000/10/31/bizbuzz/napster/index.htm |title=Napster, BMG in music pact |date=October 31, 2000 |publisher=CNN |access-date=October 15, 2012}}</ref>

===November–December===
*[[November 5]] – The fourth [[Terrastock]] festival is held in [[Seattle]].
*[[November 18]] – A new musical adaptation of [[Georg Büchner]]'s ''[[Woyzeck]]'' by [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]] and [[Tom Waits]] opens in Copenhagen.
*[[November 21]] - The [[Backstreet Boys]] experience back-to-back sales after the release of their 4th/3rd album [[Black & Blue (Backstreet Boys album)|Black & Blue]].
*[[December 2]]
**[[Tripp Eisen]] formerly of [[Dope (band)|Dope]] replaces [[Koichi Fukuda]] in [[Static-X]].
**[[The Smashing Pumpkins]] played what was to be their final concert at the Metro Club in Chicago. The band would reunite in 2005.
*[[December 22]]
**[[Madonna]] marries film director [[Guy Ritchie]], at [[Skibo Castle]] in [[Dornoch]], [[Sutherland]], Scotland with [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], [[Stella McCartney]], [[Sting (musician)|Sting]], [[George Clooney]], [[Jon Bon Jovi]], [[Celine Dion]], [[Bryan Adams]], [[Rupert Everett]] and others in attendance.
**The [[Coen brothers]] film, ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' is released, scored by a [[T-Bone Burnett]]-produced soundtrack that revives the popularity of traditional American folk music and bluegrass.
*[[December 31]] – [[Chris Robinson (singer)|Chris Robinson]] of [[The Black Crowes]] marries actress [[Kate Hudson]].