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- John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List.
- Gary Glitter is released from jail in January, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.
- January 1- At exactly midnight EST in New York City, Prince plays his classic song "1999" to celebrate the new century, and then vows to never play it again.
- 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. Goodman was convicted of kidnapping and murdering the wife of ZZ Top manager Bill Ham in 1991. Bill is present for the execution.
- February 7 - Hip-Hop MC and multi-platinum selling artist Big Pun dies of an apparent heart attack at the age of 28.
- February 9 - The Million Dollar Hotel, a film co-written by U2 lead singer Bono, premieres at the 50th Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival). The film stars Mel Gibson and Milla Jovovich.
- February 11 - Diana Ross divorces her husband of 14 years
- February 16 - The Silver Tassie, an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage, premieres at the London Coliseum, performed by the English National Opera.
- February 24 - Italian motorcycle manufacturing company Aprilla SpA wins a lawsuit filed against The Spice Girls over a sponsorship deal that fell apart when Geri Halliwell left the group.
- February 23 - At the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards, in a shocking surprise Christina Aguilera wins Best New Artist besting pop rival Britney Spears.
- February 26 - Australian Rock 'n' Roll band AC/DC releases new studio album Stiff Upper Lip, their first since 1995's Ballbreaker.
- February 28 - Songwriter Stan Penrige files a lawsuit against the rock band KISS, the band's publishing company and Universal Music Group, claiming that he had not received millions of dollars in publishing royalties that he was owed for the song "Beth".
- March 1 - Social Distortion guitarist Dennis Danell dies of an apparent brain aneurysm.
- March 6 - 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 13 - Blink-182 ends its European tour after singer & guitarist Tom Delonge and drummer Travis Barker succumb to strep throat.
- 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.
- March 28 - Jimmy Page wins a lawsuit filed against Ministry magazine. The magazine claimed that Page had contributed to the death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham by wearing a Satanic robe and chanting spells while Bonham was dying and choking on his vomit. The magazine apologizes and offers to pay Page's legal bills. Page donates the money received from the case to the Action for Brazil's Children Trust.
- April 6 - Shawn Colvin, James Taylor, Cyndi Lauper, Richard Thompson, Sweet Honey, 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 4 - Mick Jagger attends the opening of an arts center at Dartford Grammar School in southeast England which was named after him.
- April 12 - Metallica files a lawsuit against Napster, Yale University, University of Southern California and Indiana University for copyright infringement. Yale and Indiana are later dropped from the suit when they block access to Napster on campus computers.
- April - *NSYNC breaks the previous record of 1.1 million with a 2.4 million debut of No Strings Attached, which is also the first album to sell over 800,000 copies at least 2 weeks.
- 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 4 - Letters To Cleo plays their last concert in Boston; they disband the following month.
- May 5 - Rod Stewart undergoes an hour long throat operation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California 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 13 - Eurovision Song Contest final in Sweden
- May 16 - Britney Spears's second LP, Oops!… I Did It Again sells 1.3 million copies in its debut week, making it the highest debut by a female artist in US history.
- May 30 - Eminem's second LP, The Marshall Mathers LP sells 1.76 million copies on its debut week, becoming the fastest selling rap album ever according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Produced by Dr. Dre, the album breaks the previous record of 803,000 copies set by Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, produced by Dr. Dre too.
- June 13 - Rock band Bon Jovi release their highly anticipated album Crush, their first album in almost five years.
- June 30 - Nine people are crushed to death during Pearl Jam's set at the Roskilde Festival, in Roskilde, Denmark.
- July 21 and July 22 - Oasis plays at Wembley Stadium. The first of this night is featured on the double CD and the DVD Familiar to Millions.
- August 20 - Skinny Puppy reunite for a concert at the Doomsday Festival in Dresden, Germany.
- September 7 - Rage Against the Machine's Tim Commerford is arrested for climbing on the set at MTV's Video Music Awards.
- September 18 - Madonna releases her album, Music, which hits number one on the album charts and becomes Madonna's first number one album since her 1989's Like a Prayer album.
- September 23 - Isaac Stern celebrates his 80th birthday together with his 40th anniversary as President of Carnegie Hall.
- October - The Beatles release a hardcover book version of The Beatles Anthology, containing newly published photos and interviews with band members. The book went straight to the top of the New York Times bestsellers list.
- October 17 - Limp Bizkit release Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water selling over a million copies in it first week of release which broke the record for a rock album.
- 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 released their debut album, Hybrid Theory.
- 3–5 November - The fourth Terrastock festival is held in Seattle.
- 16–21 November - The Backstreet Boys embarks on 6 continents in just 100 hours.
- December 2 - The Backstreet Boys debuts with 1.6 million with Black & Blue and becomes the first artists in history to achieve back-to-back million-plus first week sales. Also sells 5 million worldwide and sets a record for the best International Sales Week in History.
- December - Tripp Eisen formerly of Dope replaces Koichi Fukuda in Static-X.
- December 2 - The Smashing Pumpkins play their final concert, at the Metro Club in Chicago.
- December 5- Daft Punk's "One More Time" is released and made #61 on the US Hot 100 songs.
- December 22 - Madonna marries film director Guy Ritchie, at Skibo Castle in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland with Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, Sting, George Clooney, Jon Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Rupert Everett and others in attendance.
- The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released to much critical acclaim. The film and its T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack ignite a new found popularity of traditional American folk music and bluegrass.
- Ned's Atomic Dustbin reunites by doing a couple shows.
- Deporitaz releases Outsmart his first album, on MP3.com.
- Koichi Fukuda leaves Static-X because of extensive touring, loss of family time and to pursue other musical opportunities.
- Frank Delgado officially joins Deftones.
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