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[edit] January–February
- January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so.
- January 29 – The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside of Los Angeles, USA. Wilson's 14-year old son is killed in the accident.
- February 1 – Green Day release their breakthrough album Dookie, ushering in the mid-1990s punk revival. Dookie eventually achieves diamond certification.
- February 7 – Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony because of his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone.[1]
- February 11 – The three surviving members of The Beatles secretly reunite to begin recording additional music for a few of John Lennon's old unfinished demos, presented to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono, with Jeff Lynne producing. The track, "Free As A Bird", is released as a single in late 1995 as part of the exhaustive Beatles Anthology project, reaching #2 in the UK and #6 in the United States.
- February 14 – The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia marries Deborah Koons.
- February 23 – Eddie Van Halen, Chris Isaak, and B.B. King attend the ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
[edit] March–April
- March 1
- Nirvana play their final concert in Munich.
- Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement award. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short and other artists, upset by this action, criticize the producer's decision during the show, including Billy Joel who takes extra time to perform his song, The River of Dreams, noting that he is wasting valuable air time.
- March 3 – In Rome, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after overdosing on Rohypnol and champagne.
- March 5 – Grace Slick is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, California home.
- March 18
- Courtney Love calls the police, fearing that her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, is suicidal. Police confiscate four guns and twenty-five boxes of ammo from Cobain's home.
- Bassist Darryl Jones replaces Bill Wyman in The Rolling Stones.
- March 22 – Selena releases her final Spanish album, entitled Amor Prohibido, a year before she is gunned down by her friend/employee.
- March 30 – Pink Floyd embark on what would be their last world tour before their breakup. The record-breaking tour supports their Division Bell album, with the band playing to 5,500,000 people in 68 cities and grossing over £150,000,000.
- March 31 – Madonna appears on The Late Show with David Letterman, making headlines for her foul-mouthed, profanity-laced interview. Robin Williams later describes the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman."
- April 8
- The body of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found. Cobain's death three days before, is legally declared to be suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot.
- The Offspring release their third album, Smash, which helps bring the 1990s punk scene into the mainstream and has been credited as the highest selling independent album of all time.
- April 25
- Blur releases Parklife, its first album reaching #1 in UK, where it was certified "quadruple platinum".[2]
- Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor River Phoenix in November 1993.
- April 26
- The legendary Fillmore club reopens in San Francisco.
- Grace Slick pleads guilty to having pointed a shotgun at police officers on March 5.
[edit] May–June
- May 6
- Pearl Jam files a complaint against Ticketmaster with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business.
- To help promote his new album, Alice Cooper releases a three-part comic book that followed the album The Last Temptation.
- May 9 – May 13 – 1994 International Rostrum of Composers
- May 10 – Tupac Shakur begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.
- May 10 – Weezer are introduced to the world with their self titled debut, often referred to as the Blue Album. It would go on to become one of the most influential records of the 1990s spanning hits "Undone - The Sweater Song", "Buddy Holly" and "Say It Ain't So".
- June 7 – Grace Slick is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three month's worth of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.
[edit] July–August
- July – The Verbier Festival is launched.
- July 30 – Suede announce that guitarist Bernard Butler has left the band following fractious recording sessions for their album Dog Man Star
- August – Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76-year-old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá, Colombia with Compassion International. The two men visit the Ciudad Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
- August 9 – Machine Head release their first album Burn My Eyes, which was a big success and becomes Roadrunner Records' best selling debut album.
- August 12 – August 14 – Woodstock '94
- August 23 – Jeff Buckley releases his single, critically acclaimed, full-length studio album Grace.
- August 30 – Oasis release their debut album Definitely Maybe, it becomes the fastest selling debut album in the United Kingdom at the time until 2006 when it was beaten by the Arctic Monkeys' debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
- August 30 – Luis Miguel release Segundo Romance, the best-selling Latin album of the 1990s by a male artist. Four singles from the album were released; two of which reached #1 on the Top Latin Songs. It received a Grammy Award and a Billboard Latin Music Award.
[edit] September–October
- September – José Cura wins the Operalia – International Plácido Domingo Opera Singer Competition [1].
- September 6 – Bad Religion release their eighth studio album (and proper major-label debut) Stranger than Fiction. This proved to be the last to feature founding guitarist/songwriter Brett Gurewitz for seven years, until his return. Gurewitz would be replaced by former Minor Threat/Dag Nasty guitarist Brian Baker, who turned down a touring job for R.E.M. at this time, and eventually becomes a permanent member of Bad Religion.
- September 8 – Richard A. Morse, lead male vocalist of RAM, narrowly escapes a kidnapping by armed men during the band's live performance at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; the attempted kidnapping was provoked by the performance of "Fèy", a RAM single banned nationwide by the military authorities.
- October 4 – Dream Theater release their third studio album Awake.
- October 4 – Korn releases their debut album Korn.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Christian Olde Wolbers replaces Andrew Shives in Fear Factory.
- Jeff Burrows signs a Cymbal deal with Sabian.
- ALL part ways with their original home Cruz Records, and sign a recording contract with Interscope (though they shortly leave that label after releasing an album in the following year).
- The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland and bassist Greg Kriesel form the label Nitro Records, an incubator for successful punk artists such as AFI. The label later releases albums from classic punk bands, including The Damned and T.S.O.L., and also reissues the first Offspring album.
- Social Distortion manager Jim Guerinot forms the label Time Bomb Recordings in joint-venture agreement with Arista. The label actually exists mostly as an imprint for current releases from Social Distortion and solo albums by Mike Ness, along with the administration of the label's back catalog.
- Moldova adopts Limba noastră as its new national anthem.
- Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge release CD in 1994 Acappella (album)
[edit] Bands formed
[edit] Bands disbanded
[edit] Bands reformed
- Circle Jerks (hiatus since 1989)
- King Crimson (since 1984)
- The Beatles, via archival recordings for the "Beatles Anthology" documentary film.
[edit] Albums released
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[edit] January
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanging in the Balance | Metal Church | - |
| 4 | Trashed | Lagwagon | - |
| 7 | Falling into You | Cathy Sharon | - |
| 18 | Whiskey for the Holy Ghost | Mark Lanegan | - |
| 24 | Face the Music | NKOTB | - |
| 25 | Jar of Flies | Alice in Chains | EP |
| Best of Bachman–Turner Overdrive Live | Bachman–Turner Overdrive | Live | |
| Too High to Die | Meat Puppets | - | |
| Kickin' It Up | John Michael Montgomery | - | |
| Snuff the Punk | P.O.D. | Debut | |
| 28 | Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre | Current 93 | - |
| 31 | Under the Pink | Tori Amos | – |
| Cross Purposes | Black Sabbath | UK | |
| Hold on It Hurts | Cornershop | - | |
| Dial Hard | Gotthard | Switzerland |
[edit] February
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
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| 1 | Blunted on Reality | Fugees | - |
| Dookie | Green Day | Diamond (15 million+ copies sold) | |
| 2 | Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | Pavement | - |
| 7 | Motorcade of Generosity | Cake | Debut |
| Troublegum | Therapy? | - | |
| 8 | Paid Vacation | Richard Marx | - |
| 9 | Dreamspace | Stratovarius | - |
| 17 | Cheshire Cat | Blink-182 | Debut |
| 21 | In the Nightside Eclipse | Emperor | - |
| 24 | Hex | Bark Psychosis | - |
| 24 | The Principle of Evil Made Flesh | Cradle of Filth | Debut |
[edit] March
[edit] April
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Rusty | Rodan | - |
| 5 | The Divine Comedy | Milla Jovovich | - |
| 7 | To the Death | M.O.P. | - |
| 8 | Smash | The Offspring | - |
| 9 | Crash! Boom! Bang! | Roxette | - |
| 12 | All-4-One | All-4-One | - |
| The Bleeding | Cannibal Corpse | - | |
| Live Through This | Hole | - | |
| Weight | Rollins Band | - | |
| 18 | Foolish | Superchunk | - |
| How to Make Friends and Influence People | Terrorvision | - | |
| And She Closed Her Eyes | Stina Nordenstam | - | |
| 19 | Crookt, Crackt, or Fly | Gastr del Sol | - |
| Illmatic | Nas | Debut | |
| 21 | Let Love In | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | - |
| Australian Melodrama | The Triffids | - | |
| 25 | Parklife | Blur | - |
| Santa Monica '72 | David Bowie | UK, Live | |
| Mädchen | Lucilectric | Germany | |
| 26 | Throwing Copper | Live | 8x Platinum (US); 7x Platinum (Canada) |
| Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik | OutKast | Debut |
[edit] May
[edit] June
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Balls to Picasso | Bruce Dickinson | Europe; released in US on 7/26 |
| 4 | Oh My Love | Zard | - |
| 7 | Walk On | Boston | - |
| Regulate...G Funk Era | Warren G | - | |
| Purple | Stone Temple Pilots | - | |
| 14 | Zingalamaduni | Arrested Development | - |
| Pure and Simple | Joan Jett and the Blackhearts | - | |
| Turn It Upside Down | Spin Doctors | - | |
| Suicidal for Life | Suicidal Tendencies | - | |
| Age Ain't Nothing but a Number | Aaliyah | - | |
| 15 | Deflowered | Pansy Division | - |
| 17 | Temple Stone | Ghost | Live |
| 20 | Genius and Brutality...Taste and Power | Brainbombs | - |
| Bee Thousand | Guided by Voices | - | |
| 21 | Creepin on ah Come Up | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony | EP |
| Let's Go | Rancid | - | |
| 27 | One Foot In The Grave | Beck | - |
| Keb' Mo' | Keb' Mo' | Debut | |
| 28 | Funkdafied | Da Brat | - |
| Same as It Ever Was | House of Pain | - | |
| Who I Am | Alan Jackson | - | |
| Welcome to Sky Valley | Kyuss | - | |
| Tiger Bay | Saint Etienne | - | |
| Get Up on It | Keith Sweat | - | |
| 30 | Love Gone Sour, Suspicion, and Bad Debt | The Clarks | - |
[edit] July
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year of the Dog | Wolfstone | - |
| 4 | Music for the Jilted Generation | The Prodigy | - |
| 5 | Cracked Rear View | Hootie & the Blowfish | - |
| I Ain't Movin' | Des'ree | - | |
| 11 | Voodoo Lounge | The Rolling Stones | - |
| 12 | Tales from the Thousand Lakes | Amorphis | - |
| The Last Temptation | Alice Cooper | - | |
| Downset | Downset | - | |
| The Kansas Boxed Set | Kansas | Box set | |
| Hungry for Stink | L7 | - | |
| Cowboys in Love | Riders in the Sky | - | |
| Grassroots | 311 | - | |
| 13 | The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Various Artists | - |
| 14 | Roman Candle | Elliott Smith | - |
| 18 | Terminal Spirit Disease | At the Gates | - |
| Parables for Wooden Ears | Powderfinger | Debut | |
| 19 | Portrait of an American Family | Marilyn Manson | Debut |
| Punk in Drublic | NOFX | - | |
| W.F.O. | Overkill | - | |
| For the Love of Strange Medicine | Steve Perry | - | |
| It Takes A Thief | Coolio | - | |
| 25 | Chocolate Synthesizer | Boredoms | Japan only |
| These Are Not Fall Colors | Lync | - | |
| Whaler | Sophie B. Hawkins | - | |
| 26 | Out of Range | Ani DiFranco | - |
| Gringo Honeymoon | Robert Earl Keen | - | |
| Going Public | Newsboys | - |
[edit] August
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now That's What I Call Music! 28 | Various Artists | Compilation |
| 2 | Playtyme Is Over | Immature | - |
| 9 | Autogeddon | Julian Cope | - |
| Burn My Eyes | Machine Head | Debut | |
| Mars Audiac Quintet | Stereolab | - | |
| 16 | Maybe You Should Drive | Barenaked Ladies | - |
| Picture Perfect Morning | Edie Brickell | - | |
| Jerky Boys 2 | Jerky Boys | - | |
| Come | Prince | - | |
| Handful of Rain | Savatage | - | |
| 23 | Grace | Jeff Buckley | - |
| Without a Sound | Dinosaur Jr | - | |
| Stoned & Dethroned | The Jesus and Mary Chain | - | |
| Muse Sick-n-Hour Age Mess | Public Enemy | - | |
| Natural Ingredients | Luscious Jackson | - | |
| When I Woke | Rusted Root | - | |
| Bakesale | Sebadoh | - | |
| Bust a Nut | Tesla | - | |
| Rubberneck | Toadies | Debut | |
| 26 | House of Love | Amy Grant | - |
| The Holy Bible | Manic Street Preachers | - | |
| 29 | Days in the Wake | Palace | - |
| 30 | Segundo Romance | Luis Miguel | - |
| Stranger Than Fiction | Bad Religion | - | |
| II | Boyz II Men | - | |
| Definitely Maybe | Oasis | Debut | |
| Twice Removed | Sloan | - | |
| Usher | Usher | Debut |
[edit] September
[edit] October
[edit] November
[edit] December
| Day | Album | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For All Tid | Dimmu Borgir | - |
| 5 | Second Coming | The Stone Roses | - |
| Vitalogy | Pearl Jam | - | |
| 6 | Sixteen Stone | Bush | Debut; 6x Platinum |
| 12 | Rapid City Muscle Car | Cherry Poppin' Daddies | - |
| 13 | The Hits | Garth Brooks | Compilation |
[edit] Release date unknown
- Old Stuff, Part Two – Anal Cunt
- Frigate – April Wine
- Hell Paso (EP) – At the Drive-In
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
- Goodbye to the Age of Steam – Big Big Train
- Dingleberry Haze (EP) – Bloodhound Gang
- Giant Robot – Buckethead
- Harbinger – Paula Cole
- Halo in a Haystack – Converge
- Storyteller – Crystal Waters
- Promises – Bo Diddley
- Everyone's Got One – Echobelly
- Quick – Far
- Flesh – David Gray
- The Business Trip – Hawkwind
- Jimmy Eat World – Jimmy Eat World
- Acappella – Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge
- Pandemonium – Killing Joke
- Superstar – Len
- The Best of – Hank Marvin and The Shadows
- Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect? (EP) – Modest Mouse
- Murmurs – The Murmurs
- Love, Nancy – Nancy Wilson
- Fear, Emptiness, Despair – Napalm Death
- Move Me – Nazareth
- Information Highway Revisited – New Bomb Turks
- Sour – Ours
- Rester vrai – Florent Pagny
- Potatoes for Christmas (EP) – Papa Roach
- Pigeonhed – Pigeonhed
- I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle – Portastatic
- Life in the Streets – Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark
- Stuck – Puddle of Mudd
- The Best of Chris Rea – Chris Rea
- Rivermaya – Rivermaya
- Churn – Seven Mary Three
- Rotting Piñata – Sponge
- Nefarious (EP) – Spoon
- Ungod – Stabbing Westward
- Robbin' the Hood – Sublime
- Green World (demo) – The Suicide Machines
- Live!! New York City October 14, 1994 – They Might Be Giants
- Dreamchild – Toyah
- When You're a Tuesday Girl – The Tuesdays
- Clocking Out Is For Suckers – Drake Tungsten
- Blue Room – Unwritten Law
- Isolationism – Various Artists
- Now That's What I Call Music! 27 – Various Artists
- Socialism, Sexism & Sexuality – White Town
[edit] Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1994.
| # | Artist | Title | Year | Country | Chart entries |
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| 1 | Bruce Springsteen | Streets of Philadelphia | 1994 |  |
Austria 1 – Apr 1994, Norway 1 – Feb 1994, Poland 1 – Feb 1994, Germany 1 – Mar 1994, Éire 1 – Mar 1994, Oscar in 1993, UK 2 – Mar 1994, Switzerland 2 – Mar 1994, Italy 3 of 1994, France 4 – Feb 1994, Holland 6 – Feb 1994, RYM 6 of 1994, Sweden 7 – Feb 1994, US BB 9 of 1994, Europe 29 of the 1990s, US BB 30 of 1994, Australia 30 of 1994, US CashBox 49 of 1994, POP 63 of 1994, AFI 68, Germany 74 of the 1990s, WXPN 837 |
| 2 | Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting | All For Love | 1994 |  /  |
US BB 1 of 1994, Sweden 1 – Dec 1993, Austria 1 – Feb 1994, Switzerland 1 – Jan 1994, Norway 1 – Jan 1994, Poland 1 – Dec 1993, Germany 1 – Jan 1994, Éire 1 – Jan 1994, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Apr 1994, UK 2 – Jan 1994, Holland 3 – Jan 1994, US BB 9 of 1994, Italy 9 of 1994, Australia 10 of 1994, US CashBox 22 of 1994, POP 25 of 1994, Germany 87 of the 1990s |
| 3 | Rednex | Cotton Eye Joe | 1994 |  |
UK 1 – Dec 1994, US BB 1 of 1995, Holland 1 – Aug 1994, Sweden 1 – Aug 1994, Austria 1 – Oct 1994, Switzerland 1 – Oct 1994, Norway 1 – Oct 1994, Germany 1 – Jan 1995, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Mar 1995, POP 1 of 1995, Germany 18 of the 1990s, US BB 25 of 1995, Australia 41 of 1995, Party 54 of 2007, Scrobulate 72 of party |
| 4 | All-4-One | I Swear | 1994 | |
US BB 1 of 1994, Holland 1 – Jul 1994, Austria 1 – Aug 1994, Switzerland 1 – Jul 1994, Germany 1 – Jul 1994, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Jul 1994, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Nov 1994, UK 2 – Jun 1994, Norway 2 – Jul 1994, Australia 2 of 1994, US CashBox 3 of 1994, Sweden 3 – Aug 1994, US BB 7 of 1994, Poland 14 – Jul 1994, Germany 39 of the 1990s, OzNet 657 |
| 5 | Mariah Carey | Without You | 1994 | |
UK 1 – Feb 1994, Holland 1 – Feb 1994, Sweden 1 – Feb 1994, Austria 1 – Apr 1994, Switzerland 1 – Apr 1994, Poland 1 – Feb 1994, Germany 1 – Mar 1994, Éire 1 – Feb 1994, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Apr 1994, US BB 3 of 1994, Norway 3 – Mar 1994, US CashBox 15 of 1994, Australia 15 of 1994, Germany 25 of the 1990s, POP 37 of 1994 |
[edit] Top hits
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- "21st Century (Digital Boy)" – Bad Religion
- "90's Girl" – BlackGirl
- "100% Pure Love" – Crystal Waters
- "About a Girl (Unplugged)" – Nirvana
- "A Girl Like You" – Edwyn Collins
- "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number" - Aaliyah
- "All Apologies – Nirvana
- "All For Love" – Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
- "All I Have to Do is Dream"/"Miss You Nights" – Cliff Richard and Phil Everly/Cliff Richard
- "All I Wanna Do" – Sheryl Crow
- "All That She Wants" – Ace of Base
- "Always" – Bon Jovi
- "Always" – Erasure
- "Amazing" – Aerosmith
- "Another Night" – M.C. Sar & the Real McCoy
- "Any Time, Any Place" – Janet Jackson
- "Asshole" – Denis Leary
- "Basket Case" – Green Day
- 'Baby, I Love Your Way" - Big Mountain
- "Backwater" – Meat Puppets
- "Back & Forth" - Aaliyah
- "Back in the Day" – Ahmad
- "Bedtime Story" – Madonna
- "Big Empty" – Stone Temple Pilots
- "Better Man" – Pearl Jam
- "Big Poppa" – Notorious B.I.G.
- "Big Yellow Taxi" – Amy Grant
- "Black Hole Sun" – Soundgarden
- "Born To Roll" – Masta Ace
- "Buddy Holly (song)" – Weezer
- "Bump n' Grind" - R. Kelly
- "Can You Feel The Love Tonight – Elton John
- "Cigarettes & Alcohol - Oasis
- "Circle of Life" – Elton John
- "Come Out and Play" – The Offspring
- "Coming Back" – P.O.D.
- "Corduroy" – Pearl Jam
- "Closer" – Nine Inch Nails
- "Cotton-Eyed Joe - Rednex
- "Crazy" – Aerosmith
- "C.R.E.A.M- Wu-Tang Clan
- "Creep" – TLC
- "Cut Your Hair" – Pavement
- "Deuces Are Wild" – Aerosmith
- "Don't Turn Around" – Ace of Base
- "Dreams" - The Cranberries
- "Everyday" – Phil Collins
- "Everybody" - DJ BoBo
- "Fantastic Voyage- Coolio
- "Found Out About You" – Gin Blossoms
- "Funkdafied" – Da Brat
- "Gin & Juice" – Snoop Doggy Dogg
- "Girls & Boys" – Blur
- "Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon" - Urge Overkill
- "Getto Jam" – Domino
- "Happy Nation" - Ace of Base
- "House Of Love" – Amy Grant
- "Human Nature" – Madonna
- "I Alone" – Live
- "I'll Make Love to You" – Boyz II Men
- "I'll Remember" – Madonna
- "I'll Stand by You" - The Pretenders
- "I Like to Move It" – Reel 2 Real
- "I Stay Away" – Alice in Chains
- "I Swear" – All-4-One
- "I'm Broken" – Pantera
- "Infected" – Bad Religion
- "Interstate Love Song" – Stone Temple Pilots
- "It Ain't Hard to Tell" – Nas
- "It's Alright" – East 17
- "It's Me" – Alice Cooper
- "I Used to Love H.E.R." – Common
- "I Wanna Be Down" – Brandy
- "Je danse le Mia" – IAM
- "Juicy" – Notorious B.I.G.
- "Keep Ya Head Up" – 2Pac
- "(Lay Your Head On My) Pillow" – Tony! Toni! Tone!
- "Let the Dream Come True" – DJ BoBo
- "Let the Beat Control Your Body" - 2 Unlimited
- "Live Forever" – Oasis
- "Longview" – Green Day
- "Look Who's Talking" - Dr Alban
- "Loser" – Beck (released in 1993)
- "Lost In America" – Alice Cooper
- "Love Is All Around" - Wet Wet Wet
- "Love Is Strong" – Rolling Stones
- "Lucky One" – Amy Grant
- "Machinehead" – Bush
- "Mary Jane's Last Dance" – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- "Move on Baby" - Capella
- "Mr. Jones" – Counting Crows
- "Mass Appeal" – Gangstarr
- "Never Lie" – Immature
- "No Excuses" – Alice in Chains
- "No One" - 2 Unlimited
- "On Bended Knee" - Boyz II Men
- "PistolGrip Pump" – Volume 10
- "Player's Ball" – Outkast
- "Regulate" – Warren G featuring Nate Dogg
- "Return To Innocence" – Enigma
- "Right Beside You" - Sophie B. Hawkins
- "Run Away - Real McCoy
- "Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
- "Saturday Night" - Whigfield
- "Say You'll Be Mine" – Amy Grant
- "Secret" – Madonna
- "Seether" – Veruca Salt
- "Self Esteem" – The Offspring
- "Sensualité" – Axelle Red
- "Seven Seconds" – Neneh Cherry & Youssou N'dour
- "Sleeping In My Car" – Roxette
- "Slow Wine" – Tony! Toni! Tone!
- "Stay (I Missed You) – Lisa Loeb
- "Stay Another Day" - East 17
- "Streets of Philadelphia" - Bruce Springsteen
- "The Sign" – Ace of Base
- "Spoonman" – Soundgarden
- "Supersonic" – Oasis
- "Sweet Dreams" - La Bouche
- "Take a Bow" – Madonna
- "The Man Who Sold the World" – Nirvana
- "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" - Prince
- "The Real Thing - 2 Unlimited
- "The Red Strokes" – Garth Brooks
- "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
- "Tootsee Roll" – 69 Boyz
- "Trouble" – Shampoo
- "U Send Me Swingin'" – Mint Condition
- "Undone - The Sweater Song" – Weezer
- "Until I Fall Away" – Gin Blossoms
- "What's My Name"- Snoop Doggy Dogg
- "Waterfalls" – TLC
- "Welcome to Paradise" – Green Day
- "What Would You Say" – Dave Matthews Band
- "When I Come Around" – Green Day
- "Without You" – Mariah Carey
- "You Gotta Be" - Des'ree
- "You Know How We Do It" – Ice Cube
- "You Want This" – Janet Jackson
- "Zombie" - The Cranberries
See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1994
[edit] Other notable songs
- "El Sitio de Mi Recreo" w.m. Antonio Vega
- "Mukkabla" w. Vaali m. A. R. Rahman
- "Stjärnorna" w. Mikael Littwold m. Peter Bertilsson
[edit] Top ten best albums of the year
All albums been named albums of the year for their hits in the charts.[3]
- Jeff Buckley - Grace
- Oasis - Definitely Maybe
- Weezer - Weezer
- Portishead - Dummy
- Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
- Green Day - Dookie
- Nas - Illmatic
- Blur - Parklife
- Soundgarden - Superunknown
- Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
[edit] Classical music
- Thomas Beveridge – Yizkor Requiem
- George Crumb – Quest for guitar, soprano saxophone, harp, double bass, and percussion (two players)
- Richard Danielpour – Cello Concerto
- Mario Davidovsky – Festino for guitar, viola, violoncello, contrabass
- David Diamond – Trio for violin, clarinet and piano[4]
- Lorenzo Ferrero
- Portrait for string quartet
- Paesaggio con figura for small orchestra
- Five Easy Pieces for piano
- Vagn Holmboe – Symphony No. 13, M.362 (begun 1993)
- Karl Jenkins – Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary
- Oliver Knussen – Horn Concerto
- György Kurtág – Stele
- Tristan Murail – L'esprit des dunes
- Michael Nyman – Concerto for Trombone
- Einojuhani Rautavaara – Symphony No. 7 Angel of Light
- Steve Reich – City Life; Nagoya Marimbas
- Robert Simpson – String Quintet No. 2 (1991–4)
- Boris Tishchenko – Symphony No. 7
[edit] Opera
- Giovanni Bertolani (orchestrated by Francesco Germini) – Matilde
- Vivian Fine – Memoirs of Uliana Rooney
- Adam Guettel – Floyd Collins
- Nicholas Lens – The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Flamma Flamma – The Fire Requiem
[edit] Musical theater
- Beauty and the Beast – Broadway production
- Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein) – Broadway revival
- Damn Yankees (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) – Broadway revival
- Grease – Broadway revival
- Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) – Broadway revival
- Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd Webber) – Broadway production
[edit] Musical films
- The Lion King – animated feature film with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice
- That's Entertainment! III
[edit] Births
- February 8 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer
- March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
- April 4 – Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer
- April 12 – Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer
- September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer
- September 17 – Taylor Ware, American singer and yodeler
- October 13 - Faisal Jamal, German drummer
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 – Harold Sumberg, violinist, 88
- January 15 – Harry Nilsson, singer, songwriter, 52 (heart attack)
- January 17 – Georges Cziffra, pianist, 72
- February 7 – Witold Lutosławski, composer, 81
- February 24 – Dinah Shore, singer, actress, 77
- March 6 – Yvonne Fair, African-American singer, 51
- March 13 – Danny Barker, jazz musician, composer
- March 16 – Nicolas Flagello, composer, 66
- March 22 – Dan Hartman, 42, singer (brain tumour)
- March 23 – Donald Swann, pianist, composer and entertainer (Flanders and Swann), 70
- April 5 – Kurt Cobain, 27, singer & guitarist, (self-inflicted shotgun wound) (Nirvana)
- June 11 – Robert Beadell, composer, 68
- June 14 – Henry Mancini, composer, 70
- June 15 – Manos Hadjidakis, composer, 68
- June 16 – Kristen Pfaff, bass guitarist(Hole), 27 (heroin overdose)
- June 25 – Kin Vassy, songwriter, performer, co-lead singer and guitarist of The First Edition 1969–72 (lung cancer), 50
- June 25 – DJ Train, producer (smoke inhalation)
- June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, 85
- July 31 – Anne Shelton, British singer, 70
- August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter, 66
- September 2 – Roy Castle, musician and all-round entertainer, 62 (lung cancer)
- September 6 – Nicky Hopkins, session musician, keyboardist, 50 (complications from intestinal surgery)
- September 13 – John Stevens, jazz musician
- September 20 – Jule Styne, songwriter, 88
- September 24 – Urmas Alender, singer, 40 (drowned in MS Estonia sinking)
- September 29 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian Raj musician, 26 (murdered)
- October 19 – Martha Raye, singer and comedienne, 88
- October 22 – Shlomo Carlebach, Jewish songwriter
- November 4 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, MC5 guitarist, 45 (heart attack)
- November 7 – Shorty Rogers, jazz trumpeter, 70
- November 11 – Elizabeth Maconchy, composer, 87
- November 18 – Cab Calloway, jazz and scat singer, 86
- November 28 – Vic Legley, Belgian violist and composer of French birth, 79
- December 8 – Antonio Carlos Jobim, bossa nova composer and songwriter
- December 10 – Garnett Silk, reggae singer, 28 (house fire)
[edit] Awards
- The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Ruth Brown, Cream, Creedance Clearwater Revival, The Doors, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Etta James, Van Morrison, and Sly and the Family Stone
- Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Tennessee Ernie Ford
[edit] Filmfare Awards
- Kumar Sanu – Filmfare Best Male Playback Award
- Filmfare Best Music Director Awards – Rahul Dev Burman
[edit] Grammy Awards
[edit] Country Music Association Awards
[edit] Eurovision Song Contest
[edit] Mercury Music Prize
- Elegant Slumming – M People wins.
[edit] Juno Award
- Rascalz – Juno Award Best rap album
[edit] Charts
[edit] KROQ
[edit] Triple J Hottest 100
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Rock Cemetery
- ^ Platinum Awards Content. BPI.co.uk. Retrieved on September 9, 2008.
- ^ "Best albums of 1994". besteveralbums. 2005. http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1994. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
- ^ Barnett, Rob (October 2000). "Review of Trio by David Diamond". http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/oct00/verderh3.htm. Retrieved March 17, 2009.
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