Editing 2000 in music (section)

===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.