See also: 1999 in music, 2000 in music (UK), other events of 2000, 2001 in music, 2000s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Events

• John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List.
• January 14 - Rolling Stone magazine 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 kidnapped and murdering the wife of ZZ Top manager Bill Ham in 1991. Ham is present for the execution.
• 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 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 discovered that Brown was driving with a suspended drivers 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 the 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 smashes the old 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 30 - Eminem Sets the record for biggest Rap debut with 1.76 million albums sold. Eminem, a protege of Dr. Dre broke the old record of 803,000 in 1993 set by Snoop Doggy Dogg, another Dr. Dre protege.
• 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 doctorate of music as the commencement speaker for Indiana University's Class of 2000.
• 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.
• 3–5 November - The fourth Terrastock festival is held in Seattle.
• December 2 - The Smashing Pumpkins play their final concert, at the Metro club in Chicago
• The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released to much criticial acclaim. The film and its T-Bone Burnett produced soundtrack ignite a new found popularity of traditional American folk music and bluegrass.
• Rage Against The Machine's Tim Commerford is arrested for climbing on the set at MTV's Video Music Awards.
• The All-American Rejects form
• God Ate My Homework disbands
• Ned's Atomic Dustbin reunites by doing a couple shows

See also: 1999 in music, other events of 2000, 2001 in music, 2000s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Albums released

• 20th Century Masters- The Millenium Collection: The Best Of ABBA - ABBA
• ABBA Generation(US Released) - A-Teens
• Stiff Upper Lip - AC/DC
• Saints & Sinners - All Saints
• Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle (debut)
• Aquarius - Aqua
• Let It Burn - The Ataris
• Mi Reflejo - Christina Aguilera
• Black And Blue - Backstreet Boys
• The New America - Bad Religion
• Maroon - Barenaked Ladies
• 1 - The Beatles
• Selmasongs - Björk
• The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show: The Enema Strikes Back - Blink-182
• The Post Wave - Blue Meanies
• Hellos & Goodbye - Buck-O-Nine
• Crush - Bon Jovi
• Pop Trash - Duran Duran
• Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case
• Midian - Cradle of Filth
• Bloodflowers - The Cure
• Skull Bones - Cypress Hill
• Demons and Wizards - Demons and Wizards
• The Sickness - The Disturbed
• Cell - Dryft
• Superfast - Dynamite Hack
• Freedom - Sheena Easton
• Live in Chicago - Kurt Elling
• The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
• Something Like Human - Fuel
• If Then Else - The Gathering
• Moonchild - Debbie Gibson
• Stomping Ground - Goldfinger
• Warning: - Green Day
• 5.25 - Gridlock
• Awaking the Centuries - Haggard
• Resurrection - Rob Halford
• Renegade - Hammerfall
• This Time Around - Hanson
• The Dark Ride - Helloween
• Breathe - Faith Hill
• Clayman - In Flames
• Brave New World - Iron Maiden
• Thane to the Throne - Jag Panzer
• Fuse - Colin James
• Jellybean's House Party - Jellybean
• The Fourth Legacy - Kamelot
• Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler
• Borders and Boundaries - Less Than Jake
• Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
• The Distance to Here - Live
• Pic n Mix - Lolly
• Music - Madonna
• Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years - Megadeth
• Wasting Time - Mest
• Pay Attention - The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones
• Light Years - Kylie Minogue
• I Wanna Be With You - Mandy Moore
• New Tattoo - Mötley Crüe
• The Miracle Of Shame - Mr. T Experience
• No Strings Attached - 'N Sync
• Country Grammar - Nelly
• How To Meet Girls - Nerf Herder
• Dead Heart in a Dead World - Nevermore
• Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers
• The State - Nickelback
• Wishmaster - Nightwish
• Black Seeds of Vengeance - Nile
• Return of Saturn - No Doubt
• Pump Up the Valuum - NOFX
• Conspiracy Of One - The Offspring
• Vapor Transmission - Orgy
• The Hunter - Persuader
• Freaked Out And Small - Presidents of the United States of America
• Kid A - Radiohead
• Rancid (skull cover) - Rancid
• Promotional Copy - Reggie and the Full Effect
• Dawn of Victory - Rhapsody
• Rule 3:36 - Ja Rule
• MTV Unplugged - Shakira
• Folkemon - Skyclad
• Ain't Life Grand - Slash's Snakepit
• All Hands on the Bad One - Sleater-Kinney
• MACHINA/The Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
• Oops!...I Did It Again - Britney Spears
• Forever - Spice Girls
• Two Against Nature - Steely Dan
• Infinite - Stratovarius
• Half Hour Of Power - Sum 41
• V: The New Mythology Suite - Symphony X
• System of a Down - System of a Down
• NakedSelf - The The
• Salival - Tool (CD, VHS & DVD Set)
• All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
• White Pepper - Ween
• Live in the Classic City - Widespread Panic
• Sing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams
• Mother Earth - Within Temptation
• Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) - Marilyn Manson
• Beethoven's Last Night - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Top hits on record

• "Thong Song" - Sisqo
• "The Real Slim Shady" - Eminem
• "Oops!...I Did It Again" - Britney Spears
• "Bye Bye Bye " - NSYNC
• "Boyz-In-The-Hood" - Dynamite Hack
• "Breathe" - Faith Hill
• "Everything You Want" - Vertical Horizon
• "I Wanna Know" - Joe
• "Fly" - Dixie Chicks
• "Ex-Girlfriend" - No Doubt
• "Kryptonite" - 3 Doors Down
• "There She Goes" - Sixpence None The Richer
• "Who Let The Dogs Out" - Baha Men
• "The Fight Song" - Marilyn Manson

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2000 (USA)

Top 10 selling albums of the year (Soundscan)

1. NSYNC - No Strings Attached, 9,936,104 copies
2. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP, 7,921,107 copies
3. Britney Spears - Oops I Did It Again, 7,893,544 copies
4. Creed - Human Clay, 6,587,834 copies
5. Santana - Supernatural, 5,857,824 copies
6. Beatles - 1, 5,068,300 copies
7. Nelly - Country Grammar, Fo' Real , 5,067,529 copies
8. Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue , 4,289,865 copies
9. Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre 2001 , 3,992,311 copies
10. Destiny's Child - The Writings on the Wall , 3,802,165 copies

Classical music

• Stefano Gervasoni - Rigirio
• Karl Jenkins - Adiemus IV: the Eternal Knot
• Meyer Kupferman - Icon Symphony
• Peter Ruzicka - Traces for Clarinet and Orchestra
• John Tavener - Song of the Cosmos

Opera

• Michael Abels - Homies and Popz
• Carlisle Floyd - Cold Sassy Tree
• Jake Heggie - Dead Man Walking
• Sheila Silver - The Thief of Love

Musical theater

• Aida Broadway production
• The Dead Broadway production
• The Full Monty Broadway production
• Jane Eyre Broadway production
• The Music Man (Meredith Wilson) - Broadway revival
• Seussical Broadway production

Musical film

• The Fantasticks released September 22 starring Joel Grey

Births

Deaths

• February 12 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (70), U.S. vocal artist
• February 28 - George Siravo US arranger and saxophonist
• March 1 - Dennis Danell, Social Distortion (38), brain aneurysm
• March 7 - Pee Wee King (86), heart attack on February 28.
• March 20 - Gene "Eugene" Andrusco, actor, singer, of a brain aneurysm
• March 27 - Ian Dury (57), English rock musician
• April 27 - Vicki Sue Robinson, US disco singer
• May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal, flautist
• July 24 - Oscar Shumsky, violinist
• September 21 - Bengt Hambraeus , composer for organ
• September 26 - Carl Sigman, songwriter
• October 3 - Benjamin Orr, bassist, vocalist for American rock group The Cars
• October 10 - Julie London, 74, US singer and actress
• October 28 - Carlos Guastavino, composer
• October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
• December 24 - Nick Massi, 65, bass singer for the pop band The Four Seasons

Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Eric Clapton, Earth, Wind & Fire, Lovin' Spoonful, The Moonglows, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor
• Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Shirley Caesar, and The Oak Ridge Boys

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 2000

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 2000

Mercury Music Prize

• The Hour of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy wins.

Charts

Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 2000