2014 in music

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## Specific locations[edit]

* African music
* American music
* Asian music
* Australian music
* Brazilian music
* British music
* Canadian music
* Chinese music
* Danish music
* European music (Continental Europe)
* Finnish music
* French music
* German music
* Indian music
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* Japanese music
* Malaysian music
* Mongolian music
* North Korean music
* Norwegian music
* Philippine music
* Polynesian music
* South Korean music
* Swedish music
* Taiwanese music
* Vietnamese music
* World music

## Specific genres[edit]

* Classical
* Country
* Electronic
* Heavy metal
* Hip hop
* Jazz
* Latin
* Opera
* Pop
* Rock
* K-pop
* J-pop

## Albums released[edit]

Main article: List of 2014 albums

## Awards[edit]

Category/Organization | 2014 MTV Video Music Awards
August 24, 2014 | 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards
November 9, 2014 | American Music Awards of 2014
November 23, 2014 | 2015 Grammy Awards
February 8, 2015 | 2015 Billboard Music Awards
May 17, 2015

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Best Album | N/A | N/A | N/A | Morning Phase
Beck | 1989
Taylor Swift
Best Song | N/A | "Problem"
Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea | "Dark Horse"
Katy Perry featuring Juicy J | "Stay with Me"
Sam Smith | "All About That Bass"
Meghan Trainor
Best Video | "Wrecking Ball"
Miley Cyrus | "Dark Horse"
Katy Perry featuring Juicy J | N/A | "Happy"
Pharrell Williams | "Shake It Off"
Taylor Swift
Best Artist | N/A | N/A | One Direction | Sam Smith | Taylor Swift
Best New Artist | Fifth Harmony | 5 Seconds of Summer | 5 Seconds of Summer | Sam Smith | Sam Smith

## Bands formed[edit]

* Akdong Musician
* Antemasque
* American Wrestlers
* The Babe Rainbow
* Berry Good
* Cheat Codes
* FFS
* High4
* Hotshot
* LANY
* Lovelyz
* Lip Service
* Maddie & Tae
* Mamamoo
* Melody Day
* Missio
* No Devotion
* Oh Wonder
* Operation: Mindcrime
* Pale Waves
* Red Velvet
* Sonamoo
* Saint Asonia
* Sheer Mag
* Slaves
* Sofi Tukker
* Soul Glo
* Stereo Kicks
* Toheart
* Winner
* You+Me

## Bands reformed[edit]

* American Football
* Atreyu
* Babes In Toyland
* Basement
* Breaking Benjamin
* Constantines
* Copeland
* Deep Dish
* Despised Icon
* Design the Skyline
* Erase Errata
* Failure
* Haste the Day
* L7
* The Libertines
* Luna
* The Matches
* Metro Station
* Midtown
* Mineral
* Nickel Creek
* OutKast
* Ride
* Saosin
* Sleater-Kinney
* Slowdive
* Trick Pony
* The Unicorns

## Bands on hiatus[edit]

* As I Lay Dying
* Darkside
* Dredg
* Foxy Shazam
* Furthur
* The Wanted
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs

## Bands disbanded[edit]

* Abandon All Ships
* The Allman Brothers Band
* Anberlin
* As Blood Runs Black
* Austrian Death Machine
* Beady Eye
* Beastie Boys
* Beneath the Sky
* The Blackout
* Bleeding Through
* Bomb the Music Industry!
* Brown Bird
* Camp Freddy
* Chimaira
* The Civil Wars
* Clipse
* Company of Thieves
* Crystal Castles
* Danity Kane
* The Dangerous Summer
* Eleventyseven
* For All Those Sleeping
* Guided by Voices
* HotCha
* Jethro Tull
* The Knife
* Lestat
* LFO
* The Luchagors
* Morning Parade
* The Move
* Orbital
* Nightmare Boyzzz
* Nachtmystium
* Pink Floyd
* The Rapture
* Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine
* Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
* Slaughterhouse
* Smith Westerns
* The Swellers
* Ten Second Epic
* There for Tomorrow
* Vista Chino
* Vivian Girls
* WC and the Maad Circle

## Deaths[edit]

### January[edit]

* 4 – Phil Everly (74), American musician (The Everly Brothers)
* 13 – Ronny Jordan (51), British guitarist.[1]
* 18 – Dennis Frederiksen (62), American singer (Toto), (Survivor)
* 27 – Pete Seeger (94), American guitarist.[2]

### February[edit]

* 5 – Samantha Juste (69), English-American singer and television host.[3]
* 8 – Finbarr Dwyer (67), Irish accordionist and fiddler.[4]
* 16 – Raymond Louis Kennedy, 67, American pop-rock singer-songwriter
* 17
* Frank Wappat (84), British DJ and singer.[5]
* Bob Casale, (61), American guitarist and keyboardist (Devo).[6]
* 23 – Chip Damiani, (68), American drummer (The Remains)
* 24 – Franny Beecher (92), American guitarist.[7]
* 25
* Paco de Lucía (66), Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.[8]
* Peter Callander (74), English songwriter and record producer.[9]

### March[edit]

* 5 – Dave Sampson (73), English singer.[10]
* 6 – Marion Stein (Thorpe) (87), British pianist.[11]

### April[edit]

* 2 – Lyndsie Holland (75), English actress and singer.
* 7 – John Shirley-Quirk (83), British operatic bass-baritone.[12]
* 16 – Stan Kelly-Bootle (84), British songwriter, author and computer engineer.[13]
* 17 – Cheo Feliciano (78), Puerto Rican singer and composer (Joe Cuba Sextet)
* 18 – Brian Priestman (87), British conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).[14]

### May[edit]

* 13 – Akihiro Yokoyama (49), Japanese thrash metal bassist (United)[15]
* 25 – Herb Jeffries (100), American singer and actor.[16]

### June[edit]

* 18 – Horace Silver (85), American jazz pianist.[17]
* 21 – Jimmy C. Newman (86), country music singer.[18]

### July[edit]

* 3 – Jesse Anderson (73), American blues singer-songwriter and musician.[19]
* 11 – Charlie Haden (76), American upright-bassist.[20]
* 19 – Lionel Ferbos (103), American trumpeter.[21]
* 24 – Christian Falk (52), Swedish record producer and musician.[22]

### August[edit]

* 1 – Michael Johns (35), Australian singer and American Idol contestant.[23]
* 3 – Yvette Giraud (97), French singer and actress.[24]
* 15 – Svein Nymo (61), Norwegian violinist and composer.[25]
* 17 – Pierre Vassiliu (76), Swiss-born French singer.[26]
* 19 – Kåre Kolberg (78), Norwegian composer.[27]
* 23 – Inga Juuso (68), singer and actress.[28]
* 24 – Aldo Donati (66), Italian singer, composer and television personality, (cerebral hemorrhage)[29]
* 29
* Jan Groth (68), Norwegian singer (Aunt Mary, Just 4 Fun), (cancer).[30]
* Peret (79), Spanish singer, guitarist and composer.[31]

### September[edit]

* 1 – Jimi Jamison (63), American singer (Survivor)
* 2 – Antonis Vardis (66), Greek composer and singer.[32]
* 8
* Magda Olivero (104), Italian soprano.[33]
* Gerald Wilson (96), American jazz trumpeter.[34]
* 12 – Joe Sample (75), American pianist.[35]
* 15 – Jackie Cain (86), American jazz singer (Jackie & Roy).[36]
* 17 – George Hamilton IV (77), American country music singer.[37]
* 18 – Kenny Wheeler (84), Canadian jazz composer, trumpeter and flugelhorn player.[38]

### October[edit]

* 1 – Lynsey de Paul (66), English singer
* 10 – Olav Dale (55), Norwegian jazz saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader.[39]
* 16 – Tim Hauser (72), American jazz singer.[40]
* 20 \- Tyson Stevens (29), vocals, additional guitar, bass guitar in Arizona Post Hardcore band Scary Kids Scaring Kids.
* 23 – Alvin Stardust (72), English singer
* 25 – Jack Bruce (71), Scottish bassist, composer and orchestra leader.[41]

### November[edit]

* 6 – Maggie Boyle (57), British folk singer and musician (cancer).[42]
* 14 – Mike Burney (70), British jazz saxophonist.[43]
* 15 – Cherry Wainer (79), South African-born British organist (Lord Rockingham's XI).[44]
* 17
* Jeff Fletcher (36), British guitarist (Northern Uproar).[45]
* Jimmy Ruffin (78), American soul singer
* 20 – Arthur Butterworth (91), English composer and conductor.[46]

### December[edit]

* 8 – Knut Nystedt (99), Norwegian composer.[25]
* 12 – John Persen (73), Norwegian composer.[47]
* 22 – Joe Cocker (70), English singer
* 24 – Buddy DeFranco (91), American jazz clarinetist.[48]
* 31 – Michael Kennedy (88), English writer on music.

## Musical films[edit]

* God Help the Girl
* Whiplash

## See also[edit]

* Timeline of musical events
* Women in music

## References[edit]

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2. ^ Pareles, Jon (January 28, 2014). "Pete Seeger, Champion of Folk Music and Social Change, Dies at 94". The New York Times. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
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