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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.
Contents 1 Events 1.1 January–February 1.2 March–April 1.3 May–June 1.4 July–August 1.5 September–October 1.6 Unknown dates 2 Bands formed 3 Bands disbanded 4 Bands reformed 5 Albums released 5.1 January 5.2 February 5.3 March 5.4 April 5.5 May 5.6 June 5.7 July 5.8 August 5.9 September 5.10 October 5.11 November 5.12 December 5.13 Release Date Unknown 6 Biggest hit singles 7 Top hits 8 Other notable songs 9 Acclaimed Music 9.1 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 1994 9.2 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs from 1994 10 Classical music 11 Opera 12 Musical theater 13 Musical films 14 Births 15 Deaths 16 Awards 16.1 Filmfare Awards 16.2 Grammy Awards 16.3 Country Music Association Awards 16.4 Eurovision Song Contest 16.5 Mercury Music Prize 16.6 Juno Award 17 Charts 17.1 KROQ 17.2 Triple J Hottest 100 18 See also 19 References // Events This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2008) 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, California, 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. 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, California. Grace Slick pleads guilty to having pointed a shotgun at police officers on March 5. 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. 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. 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. 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 11 - Korn release their debut album Korn. It is often considered the first nu metal album. 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 TSOL, 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. Bands formed See Musical groups established in 1994 Bands disbanded See Musical groups disestablished in 1994 Bands reformed Circle Jerks (hiatus since 1989) King Crimson (since 1984) Albums released Contents: Top • January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December January Day Album Artist Notes 1 Hanging in the Balance Metal Church 4 Trashed Lagwagon - 7 Falling into You Cathy Sharon - 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 February Day Album Artist Notes 1 Blunted on Reality Fugees - Dookie Green Day - 2 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Pavement - 7 Motorcade of Generosity Cake - Troublegum Therapy? - 8 Paid Vacation Richard Marx - 9 Dreamspace Stratovarius - 17 Cheshire Cat Blink-182 - 21 In the Nightside Eclipse Emperor - 24 Hex Bark Psychosis - 24 The Principle of Evil Made Flesh Cradle of Filth Debut March Day Album Artist Notes 1 Mellow Gold Beck - Naïve/Hell to Go KMFDM - Bewitched Luna - Glow Raven - Yanni Live at the Acropolis Yanni - 4 Woke up with a Monster Cheap Trick - 7 Selected Ambient Works Volume II Aphex Twin 2x CD 8 Magnified Failure - Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt John Frusciante - Hard to Earn Gang Starr - Ringmaster Insane Clown Posse - Point Blank Nailbomb Debut The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails - Espresso Logic Chris Rea US Superunknown Soundgarden - 14 Forever Now Level 42 - Longing in Their Hearts Bonnie Raitt - 15 Unboxed Sammy Hagar Greatest Hits +2 new tracks The Seventh Sign Yngwie Malmsteen Europe Mötley Crüe Mötley Crüe - Far Beyond Driven Pantera - Son of Altered Beast Matthew Sweet EP 21 Essex Alison Moyet - 22 Amor Prohibido Selena - Stereopathic Soulmanure Beck - Fuck What You Think Main Source - Not a Moment Too Soon Tim McGraw - Vauxhall and I Morrissey - Naveed Our Lady Peace Debut New Plastic Ideas Unwound - Mind Blowin Vanilla Ice 24 Black Hand Inn Running Wild - 25 True Force Powerman 5000 Debut EP 28 Promenade The Divine Comedy - 29 This Toilet Earth GWAR - Groove Family Cyco Infectious Grooves - The Crow soundtrack Various Artists - 30 The Division Bell Pink Floyd UK 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 - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik OutKast - May Day Album Artist Notes 3 Middle Class Revolt The Fall - 4 Dark Funeral (EP) Dark Funeral - 9 The Very Best of Kenny G Kenny G Greatest Hits 10 Arrive All Over You Danielle Brisebois Debut Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star Sonic Youth - Diary Sunny Day Real Estate - Weezer ("Blue Album") Weezer - Last of the Independents The Pretenders - 17 I Say I Say I Say Erasure - A Night in San Francisco Van Morrison Live New Times Violent Femmes - 23 Ill Communication Beastie Boys - 24 The Sun Rises in the East Jeru the Damaja - Everyone Should Be Killed Anal Cunt - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Mayhem - Dulcinea Toad the Wet Sprocket - Nuttin' But Love Heavy D & the Boyz - 25 Humanimal Talisman - 31 Now I'm a Cowboy The Auteurs - Así Es Gerardo - Mortal Kombat: The Album The Immortals - 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 Same as It Ever Was House of Pain - Welcome to Sky Valley Kyuss - Tiger Bay Saint Etienne - Get Up on It Keith Sweat - Funkdafied Da Brat - 30 Love Gone Sour, Suspicion, and Bad Debt The Clarks - July Day Album Artist Notes 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 Mess Age Public Enemy - Natural Ingredients Luscious Jackson - When I Woke Rusted Root - Bakesale Sebadoh - Bust a Nut Tesla - Rubberneck Toadies - 26 House of Love Amy Grant - The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers - 29 Days in the Wake Palace - 30 Stranger Than Fiction Bad Religion - II Boyz II Men - Definitely Maybe Oasis Debut Twice Removed Sloan - Usher Usher Debut September Day Album Artist Notes 5 Change Giver Shed Seven UK release date; Debut album 6 LAND Land - 12 D.I. Go Pop Disco Inferno - Disco 2 Pet Shop Boys Remix album 13 four Blues Traveler - There's Nothing Wrong with Love Built to Spill - From the Cradle Eric Clapton Covers CD Friendly People Guttermouth - Ready to Die The Notorious B.I.G. - Autopilot The Samples - John Henry They Might Be Giants - 19 Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue - 20 Whip-Smart Liz Phair - Project Funk da World Craig Mack - 25 Speak Squeak Creak Melt-Banana - 26 Protection Massive Attack Thug Life: Volume 1 Tupac Shakur - 27 Brandy Brandy - Waitin' on Sundown Brooks & Dunn - In the Hot Seat Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Boomtown Toby Keith - The Great Subconscious Club K's Choice - Under the Table and Dreaming Dave Matthews Band - Monster R.E.M. - Ruby Vroom Soul Coughing - American Thighs Veruca Salt - Permanent Record: Al in the Box "Weird Al" Yankovic Box Set Chocolate and Cheese Ween - Pulp Fiction soundtrack Various Artists - ? The Best Mixes from the Album... Björk Remix October Day Album Artist Notes 1 Overdose Pizzicato Five - 3 No Need to Argue The Cranberries - Divine Intervention Slayer - 4 Death Row Accept - Stones in the Road Mary Chapin Carpenter - Awake Dream Theater - Night Music Joe Jackson - Greatest Hits: The Platinum Collection Barry Manilow Greatest Hits Question the Answers The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pisces Iscariot The Smashing Pumpkins Compilation of B-Sides/Unreleased material Low Testament - Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath Various Artists Black Sabbath tribute 10 King of the Kill Annihilator - 10 Dog Man Star Suede Singin' with the Big Bands Barry Manilow - Música de Rua Daniela Mercury - 13 Steam East 17 - 14 No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded Page and Plant - 17 The Return of the Space Cowboy Jamiroquai UK Dummy Portishead - 18 Cross Road Bon Jovi Greatest Hits Worst Case Scenario dEUS - Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Gloria Estefan Covers CD Whaler Sophie B. Hawkins - Stoner Witch The Melvins - Promised Land Queensrÿche - Scratch the Surface Sick of It All - Murder Was The Case soundtrack Various Artists Soundtrack 19 Humanimal Part 2 Talisman EP 20 The Sea and Cake The Sea and Cake - 21 Love or Nothing Miyuki Nakajima - 24 Starlite Walker Silver Jews - 25 Resurrection Common Sense - Geek the Girl Lisa Germano - Bedtime Stories Madonna - At Action Park Shellac - Wildhoney Tiamat - Nervous Breakdown Fu-Schnickens - 26 The Special Collectors Edition Blur Compilation of B-Sides 28 Tiny Tunes Millencolin - 31 Thank You For The Music ABBA Europe; Box Set ? Sacrifice Gary Numan - November Day Album Artist Notes 1 Big Ones Aerosmith Compilation Amorica The Black Crowes - The Good, the Bad & the Argyle The Bouncing Souls - Merry Christmas Mariah Carey Christmas songs Four Chords & Several Years Ago Huey Lewis & The News Covers of popular songs from the 50s & 60s Youthanasia Megadeth - MTV Unplugged in New York Nirvana Live Wildflowers Tom Petty - Letters Never Sent Carly Simon - 8 Higher Power Big Audio - Still Climbing Cinderella - Hell Freezes Over Eagles Live/Studio Lost in the Former West The Fatima Mansions - Athos Stephan Micus - The Main Ingredient Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World Keith Murray - 14 Parachute Guster - 15 Tical Method Man - Duets II Frank Sinatra - CrazySexyCool TLC - 21 Now That's What I Call Music! 29 Various Artists Compilation Don't Ask Tina Arena - 22 Box of Fire Aerosmith Box Set Miracles: The Holiday Album Kenny G Christmas Album The Black Album Prince Recorded 1986-'87 Behind Bars Slick Rick - 24 Blasphemy Made Flesh Cryptopsy - 29 My Life Mary J. Blige - December Day Album Artist Notes 1 For All Tid Dimmu Borgir - 5 Second Coming Stone Roses - Vitalogy Pearl Jam - 12 Rapid City Muscle Car Cherry Poppin' Daddies - 13 The Hits Garth Brooks Compilation Release Date Unknown Old Stuff, Part Two - Anal Cunt Frigate - April Wine Hell Paso (EP) - At the Drive-In A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight - Beck 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 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 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 That Dog. - that dog. Live!! New York City 10/14/94 - 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 Information Highway Revisited - New Bomb Turks Biggest hit singlesThe following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1994.
# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries 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 Top hits This section contains information which may be of unclear or questionable importance or relevance to the article's subject matter. Please help improve this article by clarifying or removing superfluous information. "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 "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 "Backwater" - Meat Puppets "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 "Come Out and Play" - The Offspring "Coming Back" - P.O.D. "Corduroy" - Pearl Jam "Closer" - Nine Inch Nails "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 "Everyday" - Phil Collins "Fantastic Voyage- Coolio "Found Out About You" - Gin Blossoms "Funkdafied" - Da Brat "Gin & Juice" - Snoop Doggy Dogg "Girls & Boys" - Blur "Getto Jam" - Domino "House Of Love" - Amy Grant "Human Nature" - Madonna "I Alone" - Live "I'll Make Love to You" - Boys 2 Men "I'll Remember" - Madonna "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 "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 "Live Forever" - Oasis "Longview" - Green Day "Loser" - Beck "Lost In America" - Alice Cooper "Love Is Strong" - Rolling Stones "Lucky One" - Amy Grant "Machinehead" - Bush "Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers "Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows "Mass Appeal" - Gangstarr "Never Lie" - Immature "No Excuses" - Alice in Chains "No Rain" - Blind Melon "PistolGrip Pump" - Volume 10 "Player's Ball" - Outkast "Rape Me" - Nirvana "Regulate" - Warren G featuring Nate Dogg "Return To Innocence" - Enigma "Sabotage" - Beastie Boys "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 "The Sign" - Ace of Base "Spoonman" - Soundgarden "Supersonic" - Oasis "Take a Bow" - Madonna "The Man Who Sold the World" - Nirvana "The Red Strokes" - Garth Brooks "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony "Tootsee Roll" - 69 Boyz "Trouble" - Shampoo "U Send Me Swingin'" - Mint Condition "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 Know How We Do It" - Ice Cube "You Want This" - Janet JacksonSee also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1994
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 Acclaimed Music AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 1994 Dummy — Portishead Grace — Jeff Buckley Definitely Maybe — Oasis Parklife — Blur The Downward Spiral — Nine Inch Nails Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain — Pavement Superunknown — Soundgarden Ill Communication — Beastie Boys Live Through This — Hole Illmatic — Nas MTV Unplugged in New York — Nirvana American Recordings — Johnny Cash Mellow Gold — Beck Music for the Jilted Generation — The Prodigy Ready to Die — The Notorious B.I.G. AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs from 1994 Live Forever — Oasis Girls and Boys — Blur Sabotage — Beastie Boys Waterfalls — TLC Black Hole Sun — Soundgarden Sour Times — Portishead Cut Your Hair — Pavement Supersonic — Oasis Buddy Holly — Weezer Closer — Nine Inch Nails Connection — Elastica Seether — Veruca Salt Regulate — Warren G This Is a Low — Blur Timeless — Goldie 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 piano3 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 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 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 Musical films The Lion King - animated feature film with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice That's Entertainment! III 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 yodeller 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 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 (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 - DJ Train, producer (smoke inhalation) June 29 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, 85 July 31 - Anne Shelton, British singer 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 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) 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 Filmfare Awards Kumar Sanu - Filmfare Best Male Playback Award Filmfare Best Music Director Awards - Rahul Dev Burman Grammy Awards Grammy Awards of 1994 Country Music Association Awards Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 1994 Mercury Music Prize Elegant Slumming - M People wins. Juno Award Rascalz - Juno Award Best rap album Charts KROQ KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1994 Triple J Hottest 100 Triple J Hottest 100, 1994 See also 1994 in music (UK) Record labels established in 1994 References ^ Rock Cemetery ^ Platinum Awards Content. BPI.co.uk. Retrieved on 9 September 2008. ^ Barnett, Rob (October 2000). "Review of Trio by David Diamond". http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/oct00/verderh3.htm. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
