Editing 2001 in music (section)

===July===
*[[July 2]] 
**[[Willy Denzey]] makes his first appearance at [[Les Francofolies de La Rochelle]].
**[[Napster]] shuts down its entire network in order to comply with a court injunction ordering it to halt the trading of copyrighted files.<ref name="napster shutdown">{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jul/12/newmedia|title=Napster to stay offline |author=Amy Vickers |date=July 12, 2001 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=November 5, 2012}}</ref>
*[[July 7]] – [[Janet Jackson]] begins her [[All for You Tour]].
*[[July 9]] – [[Backstreet Boys]] put their ''[[Black & Blue (Backstreet Boys album)|Black & Blue]]'' summer tour on hold to allow [[AJ McLean]] to enter a rehabilitation facility to deal with alcoholism and depression.
*[[July 10]] – [[Dream Street]] releases their debut album, [[Dream Street (Dream Street album)|''Dream Street'']]
*[[July 16]] – [[Mariah Carey]] releases "[[Loverboy (Mariah Carey song)|Loverboy]]"; it eventually became the best-selling song of 2001.
*[[July 17]] – [[Aaliyah]] releases her third studio album ''[[Aaliyah (album)|Aaliyah]]''.
*[[July 17]]–22 – The fourth [[Yoyo A Go Go]] punk and indie rock festival opens in [[Olympia, Washington]].
*[[July 19]] – [[Ol' Dirty Bastard]] is sentenced to 2 to 4 years in prison for drug possession.
*[[July 21]] – The first annual [[Splendour in the Grass]] music festival is held in [[Byron Bay, New South Wales]], headlined by [[Powderfinger]].
*[[July 24]] – [[NSYNC]] releases their third studio album, [[Celebrity (album)|''Celebrity'']].
*[[July 25]] – [[Mariah Carey]] checks into a hospital for what a spokesperson terms "extreme exhaustion". Carey had exhibited several incidents of bizarre behavior during the previous week, including performing a strange striptease during an unscheduled visit to [[MTV]]'s ''[[Total Request Live]]'' and posting a rambling message on her website in which she wrote, "I don't know what's going on with life".<ref name="carey">{{cite news |author=Fink |first=Mitchell |last2=Macmillan |first2=Alissa |date=July 28, 2001 |title=Summer In The City Kin Helping To Carey Diva's Load |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2001/07/28/summer-in-the-city-kin-helping-to-carey-divas-load/ |access-date=2025-04-23 |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]}}</ref>
*[[July 30]] – [[The Strokes]] release their debut album ''[[Is This It]]''.