1999 in music

List of years in music (Table) … 1989 • 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 – 1999 – 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 … Related time period or subjects … 1996 • 1997 • 1998 – 1999 – 2000 • 2001 • 2002 … … 1960s • 1970s • 1980s – 1990s – 2000s • 2010s • 2020s … … 19th century – 20th century – 21st century … Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science more Contents 1 Events 1.1 Undated 2 Bands formed 3 Bands reformed 4 Bands disbanded 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 Singles 8 Top 10 selling albums of the year in USA 9 Acclaimed Music 9.1 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 1999 9.2 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs From 1999 10 Classical music 11 Opera 12 Musical theater 13 Deaths 14 Awards 14.1 Grammy Awards 14.2 Country Music Association Awards 14.3 Eurovision Song Contest 14.4 Mercury Music Prize 14.5 MTV Video Music Awards 14.6 Glenn Gould Prize 15 Charts 15.1 Triple J Hottest 100 16 See also 17 References // Events January 7 After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation. Paul McCartney attends the first of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia. January 11 - During the American Music Awards, Billy Joel is awarded the Special Award of Merit for his "inspired songwriting skills" and "exciting showmanship." January 12 - Britney Spears releases her debut album, ...Baby One More Time, which would go on to sell 24 million copies. The album hits number one on the charts. The title track and first single released from the album, also hits number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1999. January 26 - Foxy Brown releases her second album, Chyna Doll, and becomes the first female rapper to debut an album at number 1. February 14 - Elton John appears as himself in a special episode of the animated series The Simpsons February 15 - "Rolling Stones Day" is declared in Minnesota by Governor (and former Rolling Stones bodyguard) Jesse Ventura Rapper Big L is killed in Harlem. February 19 - Marilyn Manson files a defamation countersuit against former Spin Magazine editor Craig Marks, in response to a multi-million dollar lawsuit that Marks filed in January against the singer, the record label Nothing/Interscope, and Manson's bodyguard agency. February 20 - Trace Adkins performs his first concert following surgery for tendon damage and a broken ankle. Contrary to doctors orders, Adkins does not remain seated during the performance. February 23- Eminem's The Slim Shady LP is released. February 25 - The Artist Formerly Known as Prince files a lawsuit against nine Web sites for copyright and trademark infringement, claiming that the websites sell bootlegged recordings and offer unauthorized song downloads. March - The Bee Gees end their One Night Only tour in Sydney, Australia March 1 - Sony Music Distribution raises wholesale prices on audio Compact Discs by 8 cents March 2 - The House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Bob Dylan performs a concert at the club and is joined by U2's lead singer Bono for an encore of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". March 5 - Trauma Records files a $40 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the members of Bush for failing to deliver a new album. March 6 - A 67 year old George Jones is seriously injured in a car accident while on his way home. Jones' Lexus crashed into a bridge at about 1:30 p.m. It is later revealed that alcohol was a factor in the accident. March 10 - Hikaru Utada released her debut album First Love, selling 2,026,870 in its debut week. Two months later, First Love became the Japan's best-selling album of all time. March 15 - Marilyn Manson is injured when he slips and falls during a concert at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. Manson's performance is cut short. March 21 - Irish girl band B*Witched score their fourth consecutive #1 with Blame It On The Weatherman on the UK singles chart. They become the first band to have all their first four singles enter at the top simultaneously and set a new record. It is broken a year later by Irish boy band Westlife. Alice Cooper released a box set of his career, dedicating it to his late friend Glen Buxton. April 10 - A charity tribute concert for Linda McCartney is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Here, There and Everywhere: A Concert For Linda, features performances by Paul McCartney, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Sinéad O'Connor, and George Michael. Proceeds raised at the event went to animal rights causes. April 19 - Neil Young performs at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Due to a mistake by a Madison Square Garden staff member, the marquee read "Bob Dylan, Tonight at 8pm". Young jokingly introduced one of his guitar players as Bob Dylan during the show. April 20 - Billy Joel performs at Meadowlands in New Jersey. Joel announces that this would be his last public pop music concert. Joel also announces plans on devoting his future efforts to classical music. April 20 - Columbine High School massacre takes place in Jefferson County, Colorado. It sparks a widespread moral panic that ultimately tries to place the blame on violent media, including music perceived to be violent and/or connected to the newly demonized goth culture. American rocker Marilyn Manson receives the brunt of the blame, despite evidence that neither of the shooters were fans of his, and recludes, only to address the issue in the form of his fourth studio album. The finger is also pointed at German industrial metal acts Rammstein and KMFDM, of whom the shooters were fans. This sensationalism gradually wanes in the years following, and all three music acts ironically achieve more mainstream acceptance in the U.S. than they had prior to the massacre. April 28 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame April 30 - Columbine High School massacre: Aerosmith visits Columbine High School shooting victim Lance Kirklin in a Colorado hospital before a concert in Denver, Colorado. Kirklin was one of 24 wounded in the April 20 shooting, 13 others were killed. May 1 - "The Paintings of Paul McCartney" exhibit opens at the Lyz Art Forum in Siegen, Germany. The exhibit features around 70 paintings created by the former Beatle. May 1 - Musical group Atari Teenage Riot starts a riot in Berlin with their anti-consumer and anti-government lyrics. The riot was stopped with concert goers pleading for peace from the Swat crew ruthlessly beating down pedestrians. This band is under the label Digital Hardcore Recordings. May 18 - The American music group, the Backstreet Boys release their multi-platinum 3rd studio album Millennium, that spawned four Top 40 Billboard singles, and would go on to be the best selling album of 1999. The album up to today has sold over 40 million copies and is one of the top selling 100 albums of all-time. June 1 - The American actress Jennifer Lopez releases her debut album On the 6, and the first single "If You Had My Love" peaked at one in U.S., Canada, and Australia. June 2 - Backstreet Boys smashes the old first-week sales record of Garth Brooks' 1.08 million, with (Millennium) which sold over 1.13 million in its first week and was the first album to sell over 500,000 copies at least 2 weeks. The album holds at No. 1 first-weeks sales record of the '90s. June 8 - Red Hot Chili Peppers release Californication this is the first album with John Frusciante in 8 years, the album goes on to sell 13 million copies worldwide. June 13 S Club 7 debut at #1 on the UK singles chart with their first single "Bring It All Back" and become the largest vocal group to enter at the top. June 15 Santana releases his best selling album Supernatural with the number one hits "Smooth" and "Maria Maria". June 22 - Limp Bizkit releases their second studio album titled Significant Other June 29 - Slipknot releases their debut studio album Slipknot. June - Adrian Erlandsson, Quits The Haunted. July 1 - The new Scottish Parliament is formally opened with a rock concert in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle and is headlined by Garbage, of which, lead singer Shirley Manson, is at the time one of the biggest music stars from Scotland. July 1 - The American actress Jennifer Lopez releases her debut album On the 6, and the first single "If You Had My Love" peaked at one in U.S., Canada, and Australia. July 3 - Indie rock icon Mark Sandman collapses on stage at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina, Latium, Italy (near Rome) while performing with Morphine. He is soon pronounced dead of a heart attack at the age of 46. Morphine immediately disbands. July 12 - Gregg Alexander issues a press release dissolving the New Radicals. July 23–25 - The highly anticipated Woodstock 99 festival takes place in Rome, New York. August 24 - Christina Aguilera releases her self titled debut album. The album and first single, "Genie in a Bottle", both went to number one on the charts. August 27–29 - The third Terrastock festival is held in London. September 21 - Trent Reznor releases the fourth Nine Inch Nails album, The Fragile after a five year hiatus to great critical acclaim. October 9- The lead single to Mariah Carey's ninth studio album Rainbow entilted Heartbreaker reaches #1 on the Billboard 100 becoming her 14th #1 single and also her 59th week a top the chart. When it stayed at #1 for a further week Carey surpassed The Beatles for the act with the most weeks spent at number one. The song also topped charts in Canada and New Zealand. October 19 - Eurythmics releases first album in 10 years, Peace. November Rock Star Gary Glitter jailed for four months for downloading pornographic images of children on the Internet. Australian independent record label Liberation Music is formed November 15 - Korn performs their entire Issues album at the Apollo Theater in New York city becoming the first rock band ever to perform at the Apollo. November 16 - Dr. Dre releases his second album, 2001; Korn releases their fourth studio album Issues. December 14 - BMI announces the most played songs on American radio and television in the 20th century [1] (full list) December 25 - "Smooth" by Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas becomes the final number-one single of the millennium. Undated Jesper Strömblad leaves Sinergy. Antero Manninen leaves Apocalyptica. Mase made his retirement. Bands formed 'See Musical groups established in 1999 Bands reformed The Animals Bands disbanded 88 Fingers Louie Ammonia Artificial Joy Club The Boo Radleys Boyzone (reformed in 2007) Braid (reforms temporarily in 2004) Cake Like Custard (one-off reunion in 2009) Devourment (reforms in 2001) East 17 (reforms in 2006) Far Genesis (reforms in 2006) Grant Lee Buffalo Infestdead The Jesus Lizard (reform in 2008) Kara's Flowers Kula Shaker (reform in 2004) Life of Agony (reform in 2003) Love & Rockets (reformed 2007-2009) Monster Voodoo Machine Morphine New Radicals October Tide (reform in 2009) Park Ave. Pavement (reform in 2010) Seaweed Thrush Hermit Tripping Daisy The Verve (reunited 2007–2009) Yummy Fur Albums released Contents: Top • January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December January Day Album Artist Notes 1 A Song for XX Ayumi Hamasaki Debut album 5 In Your Area Hawkwind - 7 Black the Sun Alex Lloyd - 9 The Fortune Interscope - 11 Unification Iron Savior - Hawkwind 1997 Hawkwind Live 12 By Your Side The Black Crowes - It's a Beautiful Thing Keith Murray - ...Baby One More Time Britney Spears Debut album Knock Knock Smog - The Power Vanessa Amorosi - 14:59 Sugar Ray - 19 The '90s Suck and So Do You Angry Samoans - Inside Out Anthrax EP I See a Darkness Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Live at Luther College Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds Live 25 Are You Shpongled? Shpongle - 26 Chyna Doll Foxy Brown - How to Measure a Planet? The Gathering - Colin James and the Little Big Band II Colin James - Dreaming Neon Black Nevermore - Apocalypse Dudes Turbonegro - 27 Theater of Salvation Edguy - Clarity Jimmy Eat World - 29 Science Fiction blackmail - February Day Album Artist Notes 1 Dialogue Blondie - Dialogue Four Tet - 2 Keep It Like a Secret Built to Spill - X-Ray Sierra Tom Cochrane - 9 Rare & Fatty Bad Manners Compilation Dosage Collective Soul - Sam Prekop Sam Prekop - Good Morning Spider Sparklehorse US 15 Anima Animus The Creatures - 16 Greatest Hits New Kids on the Block Compilation 17 Apple Venus Volume 1 XTC - Eien Zard - 22 The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One The Prodigy Compilation 23 ALL ALL EP The Slim Shady LP Eminem - Live at the Fillmore East Jimi Hendrix Live A Place in the Sun Lit - February Son Oleander - Things Fall Apart The Roots - The Hot Rock Sleater-Kinney - Blue Plate Specials Live The Specials Live FanMail TLC - Suicaine Gratifaction Paul Westerberg - 24 Dance Classics of Chaka Khan Chaka Khan Compilation 25 Eureka Jim O'Rourke - 27 Volume 1 CKY - March Day Album Artist Notes 1 Live and Enhanced Tonic Live 2 Spiritual Black Dimensions Dimmu Borgir - Universal Madness Madness Live 8 Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada Godspeed You! Black Emperor EP Live at the Hardback Hot Water Music Live Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts Kula Shaker - Neon Ballroom Silverchair - Performance and Cocktails Stereophonics - 9 Ravenous (OST) Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman Soundtrack Gedida Natacha Atlas - Pistolero Frank Black and the Catholics - If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits Cher Compilation Fuse Joe Henry - Back on Top Van Morrison - Everything Louder Than Everyone Else Motörhead Live Have a Nice Day Roxette - Summerteeth Wilco - 10 First Love Hikaru Utada - 15 13 Blur - Axxess & Ace Songs: Ohia - Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Edition Wings - 16 Who Else! Jeff Beck - Modern Life EB3 - Libido Buck-O-Nine - Shades 1968-1998 Deep Purple Box Set The Ideal Crash dEUS - 100% Ginuwine Ginuwine - Stay the Same Joe McIntyre Solo debut Burning London: The Clash Tribute Various Artists Tribute 22 Windowlicker Aphex Twin EP 23 Hempstead High A+ - The Original Bad Company Anthology Bad Company Compilation +4 new songs Finally BLACKstreet - Super Hits Brooks & Dunn Compilation Tonight Silk - Give Yourself a Hand Crash Test Dummies - Strange Behaviour Duran Duran Remix Compilation Instrument Soundtrack Fugazi Soundtrack Red Voodoo Sammy Hagar - Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida Elton John - Savage Land Mob Rules - @#!* Pulley - Wisconsin Death Trip Static-X - New Way to Be Human Switchfoot - Labour of Love III UB40 Covers 25 The Art of Storytelling Slick Rick - 29 Power Plant Gamma Ray - Come on Die Young Mogwai UK Now That's What I Call Music! 42 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation 30 No Gods, No Managers Choking Victim - The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture Various Artists Soundtrack April Day Album Artist Notes 4 Voices of Transgression – A 90s Retrospective Kreator Compilation 6 Heated Big Sugar US Buckcherry Buckcherry - Utopia Parkway Fountains of Wayne - We Kill Everything GWAR - 15 Minutes Nik Kershaw - Jordan Knight Jordan Knight Solo debut Thug Mentality 1999 Krayzie Bone - Tight Mindless Self Indulgence - I Am… Nas - Stupid Dream Porcupine Tree - Throttle Junkies Soil - 9 Fat Music Volume 4: Life in the Fat Lane Various Artists Compilation 10 Swear It Again Westlife UK Debut single 12 Carboot Soul Nightmares on Wax - Rides Reef - 13 Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits The Ataris - Eye II Eye Scorpions - 18 Tracks Bruce Springsteen - Dysfunction Staind - 16 What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? Echo & the Bunnymen - 19 Bury the Hatchet The Cranberries - 20 Monsters and Robots Buckethead - The Cars: Deluxe Edition The Cars Compilation The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Alice Cooper Box Set Snuffbox Immanence Ghost - Adios KMFDM - Endorama Kreator - Six Mansun US Greatest Hits 1984-1987 Reggie and the Full Effect - Holy Roller The Reverend Horton Heat Compilation 4 Nights at the Palais Royale Sloan Live The Earth Pressed Flat 10,000 Maniacs - Mule Variations Tom Waits - Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet Ghost - 26 Hatebreeder Children of Bodom - Fantômas Fantômas - 27 Black Sails EP AFI EP Take Your Shoes Off Robert Cray - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Ben Folds Five - Implode Front Line Assembly - Playing My Game Lene Marlin - Soundbombing II Various Artists Compilation May Day Album Artist Notes 4 Sonic Brew Black Label Society - Hopeless Romantic The Bouncing Souls - Point No. 1 Chevelle - The Matrix: Original Motion Picture Score Don Davis Soundtrack The Warriors EP P.O.D. - Undeniable Raven Symoné - 10 Remedy Basement Jaxx UK 11 Ricky Martin Ricky Martin Top Dogg Snoop Dogg - 17 The Maggot The Melvins - The Only Reason I Feel Secure Pedro the Lion EP 18 Black Sails in the Sunset AFI - Millennium Backstreet Boys - If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die Death By Stereo - Stop Staring At Me! Jerky Boys - Bigger than the Devil Stormtroopers of Death - Freedumb Suicidal Tendencies - The Hush Texas - Helldorado W.A.S.P. - Thug Ride White Dawg - Seven Wolfstone - 21 Stairway to Fairyland Freedom Call - Colony In Flames - 24 Saltwater Chicane - 25 A New Kind of Army Anti-Flag - Innamoramento Mylène Farmer - The Amazing Jeckel Brothers Insane Clown Posse - This Moment Is Mine Chanté Moore - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush Len - 30 Leitmotif dredg - 31 Mike + The Mechanics Mike + The Mechanics - June Day Album Artist Notes 1 Blaque Blaque - Enema of the State Blink-182 - 1st album to feature Travis Barker on drums No Angel Dido - 1011 Woodland The Fixx - Gorgeous Guttermouth - Venni Vetti Vecci Ja Rule - Shrinking Violet L.A. Guns - On the 6 Jennifer Lopez Debut album Play Moby - Straight Ahead Pennywise - Here Comes the Bride Spin Doctors - Short Music for Short People Various Artists Compilation 3 The Siket Disc Phish Internet 6 Cowboy Bebop Remixes: Music for Freelance Various Artists Compilation 7 Crowning of Atlantis Therion - 8 Her Wallpaper Reverie The Apples in Stereo - New World Disorder Biohazard - Stereo * Type A Cibo Matto - Get Skintight The Donnas - Synkronized Jamiroquai - In a Reverie Lacuna Coil - Dark Side of the Spoon Ministry - Terror Twilight Pavement - Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers - Astro Lounge Smash Mouth - Triptych The Tea Party - The Gathering Testament - 15 Erase the Slate Dokken - Schizophonic Geri Halliwell - Liquid Tension Experiment 2 Liquid Tension Experiment - Double Up Mase - Messenger Edwin McCain - Mirrorball Sarah McLachlan Live Supernatural Santana - [R]evolution Sister Machine Gun - This or That Sway & King Tech - Everything You Want Vertical Horizon - The White Stripes The White Stripes - 20 Euphoria Def Leppard - 21 Beware the Heavens Sinergy - Judgement Anathema - 22 A2G Blackalicious EP Surrender Chemical Brothers - Da Real World Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips - Hypocrisy Hypocrisy - Significant Other Limp Bizkit - Tuesday's Child Amanda Marshall - The RZA Hits RZA Compilation Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990-1998 Ween Live Punk-O-Rama Vol. 4 Various Artists Compilation 29 Nothing Safe: Best of the Box Alice in Chains Compilation Classics in the Key of G Kenny G Covers album One Guitar, No Vocals Leo Kottke - Soundpieces: Da Antidote Lootpack - Supersonic and Demonic Relics Mötley Crüe Rarities Compilation No Mercy No Remorse RBX - Slipknot Slipknot - Brave New World Styx - Running With Scissors "Weird Al" Yankovic - July Day Album Artist Notes 4 Act of Depression Underøath - 5 How I Learned to Love the Bootboys The Auteurs - On How Life Is Macy Gray UK 6 The Very Best of Dokken Dokken Greatest Hits Fenix*TX Fenix*TX - Can't Get There from Here Great White - Live at Woodstock Jimi Hendrix Live Ratt Ratt - 7 Fun 9 Takako Minekawa 12 Before The Calm Witness UK; Debut album 13 Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr Gang Starr Compilation Blue Green Orange I Mother Earth - California Mr. Bungle - Beware the Heavens Sinergy - Can't Stay Away Too Short - 18 Trepanation American Head Charge - Long Tall Weekend They Might Be Giants Internet 20 Burning Bridges Arch Enemy - Life of the Party The Planet Smashers - Tonight the Stars Revolt! Powerman 5000 - 27 Vaya At the Drive-In EP The Blues Eric Clapton Compilation The Writing's On The Wall Destiny's Child US Ignorance is Bliss Face to Face - Guerrilla Warfare Hot Boys - Alive in Athens Iced Earth Live At the Show MxPx Live Staying Power Barry White - 'Til the Medicine Takes Widespread Panic - Now That's What I Call Music! 2 (US series) Various Artists Compilation 29 Beneath the Surface GZA - The Melancholy Collection Millencolin Sweden; Compilation 30 The Ego Has Landed Robbie Williams Compilation August Day Album Artist Notes 3 Awesome Mix Tape vol. 6 The Pietasters - The Coming of Age Memphis Bleek - Do the Collapse Guided by Voices - Fly the Flag Down by Law - Forget About It Alison Krauss - 9 Westlife Westlife 10 The Burning Red Machine Head - Liberate Te Ex Inferis Zao - The Most Beautifullest Hits Keith Murray Compilation No Division Hot Water Music - 13 Echo Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 16 Juxtapose Tricky - 17 The 10 Year Limited Edition Anniversary Box Set Blur Box set Before You Were Punk 2 Various Artists Compilation Mary Mary J. Blige - Rough Harvest John Mellencamp - 23 The Bootlicker The Melvins - J-Tull Dot Com Jethro Tull - 24 A Little Bit of Mambo Lou Bega - The Austin Sessions Kris Kristofferson - Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera US Bitter Me'shell Ndegeocello - Bring Your Own Stereo Jimmie's Chicken Shack - Forever Puff Daddy - The Fundamental Elements of Southtown P.O.D. - LFO LFO - The Muse Elton John Soundtrack Oh! The Grandeur Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Slap-Happy L7 - Title of Record Filter - The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale Prince Compilation 30 The Abba Generation A*Teens Sweden A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy The Divine Comedy Greatest Hits Yesterday Went Too Soon Feeder - 31 Fly Dixie Chicks - Greatest Hits SWV Greatest Hits Live aus Berlin Rammstein Live Risk Megadeth - Vitamin C Vitamin C - ? Sound Asleep EP Evanescence - September Day Album Artist Notes 2 The Avenger Amon Amarth - 3 Au Cœur Du Stade Celine Dion Live 6 Only Yazoo Yazoo Compilation 7 Riot, Riot, Upstart Agnostic Front - Chamber Music Coal Chamber - 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields Box Set Ecliptica Sonata Arctica - Seven Year Itch: 1982-1989 Platinum Blonde Compilation The Ultra Zone Steve Vai - 8 Beyond the Veil Tristania - 9 Gettin' High on Your Own Supply Apollo 440 UK 12 Between the Bridges Sloan - 13 Yellow Submarine Songtrack The Beatles Soundtrack One From The Modern Ocean Colour Scene - Sang pour sang Johnny Hallyday - 14 Felons & Revolutionaries Dope - Beautiful Midnight Matthew Good Band - Nigga Please Ol' Dirty Bastard - Avenue B Iggy Pop - Q2K Queensrÿche - Ruff Ryders' First Lady Eve (rapper) - A Single History: 1991–1997 Unwound Compilation 20 Blazing the Crop Rae & Christian Compilation Metalhead Saxon UK The Ladder Yes UK 21 To Venus and Back Tori Amos Double Album:1 Studio, 1 Live The Greatest Hits - Volume 1 The Beach Boys Compilation The Greatest Hits - Volume 2 The Beach Boys Compilation Tightrope Brooks & Dunn - Euphoria Morning Chris Cornell - The Sweetest Punch Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell - Live at the Wiltern CPR Live Burn to Shine Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - I'll Take Care Of You Mark Lanegan - The Fragile Nine Inch Nails - Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch Our Lady Peace Canada Stan and Judy's Kid Adam Sandler - Going for Gold Shed Seven Compilation Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night Stereolab - 22 King of the Nordic Twilight Luca Turilli - Inside Wants Out John Mayer EP Melvin Flynt - Da Hustler Noreaga - Time Third Day - Underground Vol. 2: Club Memphis Three 6 Mafia - Beaucoup Fish Underworld - 27 A Different Beat Gary Moore - 28 Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool Tony Bennett - Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines Garth Brooks - Human Clay Creed - Calculating Infinity The Dillinger Escape Plan - Temperamental Everything but the Girl - Something To Write Home About The Get Up Kids - Lost and Gone Forever Guster - Come On Now Social Indigo Girls - LB IV Life Lost Boyz - Blackout! Method Man & Redman - The Time Machine Alan Parsons - Ghost Town Live The Specials Live Brand New Day Sting - Black Diamond Angie Stone US Balance Swollen Members - XXX ZZ Top - 29 Awake and Breathe B*Witched - Supergrass Supergrass - October Day Album Artist Notes 1 No Time for Love Eighteen Visions EP Now That's What I Call Music! 43 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation 4 Hooray for Boobies The Bloodhound Gang Europe 'hours...' David Bowie - From Here to Eternity: Live The Clash Live I Hate Myself Interscope - Run Devil Run Paul McCartney - S Club S Club 7 - Showbiz Muse - 5 All Hallow's EP AFI EP Synchronistic Wanderings Pat Benatar Compilation Breakdown Melissa Etheridge - Colour Moving and Still Chantal Kreviazuk - The Distance to Here Live - More Betterness! No Use for a Name - Christmas the Cowboy Way Riders in the Sky Christmas Golden Arms Redemption U-God - 11 Nightlife Pet Shop Boys - 12 Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton Eric Clapton Compilation BBC Sessions Cocteau Twins - Total Abandon: Live in Australia Deep Purple Live The Marshall Suite The Fall - Black On Both Sides Mos Def - Otherworld Lunasa - Where I Wanna Be Donell Jones - Immortalized Spice 1 - In Reverse Matthew Sweet - Soundsystem 311 - I Want It All Warren G - The Private Years Yanni Compilation Against Da Grain YoungBloodZ - 13 Millionaires James - 18 Flying Without Wings Westlife UK Rise Gabrielle UK Solo Journey Bradley Joseph - Still Life Opeth - I Wanna Be Santa Claus Ringo Starr Christmas Suicide Pact - You First Therapy? UK 19 Honey to the B Billie - Peace Eurythmics - Bloodthirst Cannibal Corpse - Washed Up! Catch 22 EP Los grandes éxitos en español Cypress Hill - Symphony No. 1 Joe Jackson - Internal Affairs Pharoahe Monch - Nothing Gold Can Stay A New Found Glory - This Christmas 98 Degrees Christmas Modified Save Ferris - God Save the Smithereens The Smithereens - Rock Art and the X-Ray Style Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Keith Urban Keith Urban - Give 'Em the Boot II Various Artists Compilation 25 Sunday 8PM / Saturday 3AM Faithless - Turn It on Again: The Hits Genesis Compilation Leaders Not Followers Napalm Death EP Live from a Shark Cage Papa M - Xeneizes Quarashi - Steptacular Steps - 26 Aktapuss Akinyele - The Aquabats! vs. the Floating Eye of Death! The Aquabats! - The Science of Things Bush - Looking Forward Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - The Lost Files Digital Underground Compilation Emergency & I The Dismemberment Plan - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory Dream Theater - Make Yourself Incubus - Hidden Stash Kottonmouth Kings - A Guided Tour of Chicago The Lawrence Arms - The Days of Our Nights Luna - Only God Can Judge Me Master P - RéCréation Florent Pagny Double cover album LeAnn Rimes LeAnn Rimes - All Systems Go 2 Rocket from the Crypt - No. 4 Stone Temple Pilots - Tiger Army Tiger Army - American Made Music to Strip By Rob Zombie Remix Introducing IMx IMx - 28 Tokyo Warhearts Children of Bodom Live November Day Album Artist Notes 1 Ether~Electrified Porch Music Carbon Leaf - Blank-Wave Arcade The Faint - Of Someday Shambles Jebediah - Wonderful Madness - Paul McCartney's Working Classical Paul McCartney - Westlife Westlife - Fire and Skill: The Songs of the Jam Various Artists Tribute 2 It All Comes Down to This Bane - Bleach Bleach - Rainbow Mariah Carey - This Desert Life Counting Crows - 6:66 Satan's Child Danzig - Scream for Me Brazil Bruce Dickinson Live There Is Nothing Left To Lose Foo Fighters - Making the Road Hi-Standard - Joy: A Holiday Collection Jewel Christmas Tha Block Is Hot Lil Wayne - Shapeshifter Marcy Playground - Northern Star Melanie C - The Battle of Los Angeles Rage Against the Machine - Dirty Harriet Rah Digga - The Roots Come Alive The Roots Live Love and the Russian Winter Simply Red - 8 Magic Hour Cast - Invincible Five UK There Is Nothing Left to Lose Foo Fighters - Glastonbury 90 Hawkwind Live Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2 Hawkwind Live Greatest Hits III Queen Compilation Abbamania Various Artists Tribute 9 It Just Gets Worse Anal Cunt - When the Pawn... Fiona Apple - The Gift of Game Crazy Town - The Exchange Against All Authority/The Criminals Split EP Darrin's Coconut Ass: Live from Omaha Goldfinger Live Metal Jukebox Helloween Covers Breathe Faith Hill - marillion.com Marillion - Alanis Unplugged Alanis Morissette Live Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic Prince - Affirmation Savage Garden - Greatest Hits Sublime Compilation Live at Sturgis 38 Special Live Sugar Tonic - 10 Loveppears Ayumi Hamasaki - 12 The Corrs Unplugged The Corrs Live The Last Tour on Earth Marilyn Manson Live 15 The Road to Hell: Part 2 Chris Rea - 16 Return of the Killer A's Anthrax Compilation To the Teeth Ani DiFranco - Timeless: The Classics Vol. 2 Michael Bolton Covers album All the Way… A Decade of Song Celine Dion Compilation 2001 Dr. Dre - Greatest Hits of the 20th Century Béla Fleck and the Flecktones Compilation Reload Tom Jones - Faith: A Holiday Album Kenny G Holiday Issues Korn - Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha Kurupt - Love Liberty Disco Newsboys - Immobilarity Raekwon - Cut Carefully and Play Loud Rocket from the Crypt EP Willennium Will Smith - SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century Sonic Youth - The Chosen Ones Stratovarius Compilation Ödemarkens Son Vintersorg - 19 Sweet Kisses Jessica Simpson - 20 1999 Remixes Jamiroquai Box Set 22 Now That's What I Call Music! 44 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation 23 The Sounds of Science Beastie Boys Compilation Midnite Vultures Beck - Garth Brooks and the Magic of Christmas Garth Brooks Christmas IX Equilibrium Emperor - Live Era: '87-'93 Guns N' Roses Live Enrique Enrique Iglesias - Early Days: Best of Led Zeppelin Volume One Led Zeppelin Compilation Alchemy Yngwie Malmsteen - Listener Supported Dave Matthews Band Live S&M Metallica Live Grey Dawn October Tide Nastradamus Nas - The Decline NOFX EP Amplified Q-Tip - Live They Might Be Giants Live Blue Third Eye Blind - Viva Wisconsin Violent Femmes Live 29 Complete '79: Collectors Series Volume 1 Hawkwind Live 30 The Greatest Hits Cher Compilation The Fragile Art of Existence Control Denied - The Mystery of the Whisper The Crüxshadows - Europop Eiffel 65 US The Master Rakim - Unleash the Dragon Sisqo - December Day Album Artist Notes 7 Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park Sheryl Crow Live Mimosa Fun Lovin' Criminals Compilation At the Heart of Winter Immortal - Kaleidoscope Kelis - Magnolia Aimee Mann Soundtrack So Real Mandy Moore - Methods Of Mayhem Methods Of Mayhem - Resurrection Vice Squad - 9 Born Again Notorious B.I.G. - 13 Tha G-Code Juvenile - Songs from the Last Century George Michael Covers album 14 Don't Mind If I Do Culture Club - Still I Rise 2Pac and Outlawz - 21 ...And Then There Was X DMX - World Party Goodie Mob - Best of the Specials The Specials Compilation Everything Is Healing Nicely Frank Zappa - 28 Singles of the 90s Ace of Base Compilation Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter Jay-Z - Release Date Unknown American Girl - Juice Newton Face Down - Serial Joe Simple Pleasure - Tindersticks Where We Stand - Yellowcard Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1999.

# Artist Title Year Chart Entries 1 Britney Spears Baby One More Time 1999 UK 1 - Feb 1999, US BB 1 of 1999, Holland 1 - Jan 1999, Sweden 1 - Jan 1999, Austria 1 - Mar 1999, Switzerland 1 - Feb 1999, Norway 1 - Feb 1999, Australia 1 of 1999, Germany 1 - Feb 1999, Éire 1 - Feb 1999, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1999, Australia 1 for 9 weeks Jun 1999, Poland 3 - Mar 1999, France 6 - Jan 1999, Italy 7 of 1999, US BB 29 of 1999, POP 29 of 1999, Germany 41 of the 1990s, Scrobulate 91 of upbeat, RYM 95 of 1998, OzNet 814, Acclaimed 875 2 Lou Bega Mambo No 5 (A Little Bit of ...) 1999 UK 1 - Sep 1999, Holland 1 - Jun 1999, Austria 1 - May 1999, Switzerland 1 - May 1999, Norway 1 - Jun 1999, Germany 1 - May 1999, Éire 1 - Aug 1999, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Sep 1999, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Jan 2000, Australia 3 of 1999, Italy 3 of 1999, POP 3 of 1999, Poland 4 - Jul 1999, US BB 4 of 1999, US BB 4 of 1999, Party 04 of 1999, Sweden 5 - Aug 1999, Germany 11 of the 1990s, RYM 189 of 1999 3 Eiffel 65 Blue (Da Ba Dee) 1999 UK 1 - Sep 1999, Holland 1 - Jul 1999, Sweden 1 - Aug 1999, Austria 1 - Aug 1999, Switzerland 1 - Jul 1999, Norway 1 - Aug 1999, Germany 1 - Jul 1999, Éire 1 - Sep 1999, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Nov 1999, Australia 1 for 9 weeks Mar 2000, Poland 1 for 2 weeks Jan 2000, US BB 6 of 2000, Italy 16 of 1999, Australia 20 of 1999, Germany 20 of the 1990s, US BB 32 of 1999, Party 103 of 1999, RYM 185 of 1998 4 TLC No Scrubs 1999 US BB 1 of 1999, Éire 1 - May 1999, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Apr 1999, Australia 1 for 7 weeks Aug 1999, UK 3 - Apr 1999, Holland 3 - Mar 1999, Australia 4 of 1999, Switzerland 5 - Apr 1999, Germany 5 - Apr 1999, France 6 - Mar 1999, Norway 7 - Apr 1999, US BB 12 of 1999, Sweden 19 - Mar 1999, Poland 21 - Apr 1999, Austria 30 - May 1999, Italy 30 of 1999, POP 33 of 1999, Scrobulate 52 of rnb, RYM 55 of 1999, Acclaimed 268, Germany 302 of the 1990s, RIAA 361 5 Bloodhound Gang The Bad Touch 1999 Sweden 1 - Oct 1999, France 1 - Sep 1999, Norway 1 - Nov 1999, Germany 1 - Jan 2000, Éire 1 - May 2000, Austria 3 - Sep 1999, UK 4 - Apr 2000, Switzerland 4 - Sep 1999, Italy 15 of 2000, Holland 17 - Oct 1999, US BB 18 of 2000, POP 18 of 2000, Poland 24 - Oct 1999, Australia 41 of 2000, RYM 41 of 1999, US BB 52 of 2000, Scrobulate 66 of fun, Germany 98 of the 1990s, Party 98 of 1999 Top Singles "All or Nothing" - Cher "Absolutely Everybody" - Vanessa Amorosi (debut) "All Star" - Smash Mouth "Aller plus haut" - Tina Arena "Almost Doesn't Count - Brandy "American Woman" - Lenny Kravitz "Amazed" - Lonestar "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" - Silverchair "Angel" - Sarah McLachlan "Angel of Mine" - Monica "Au Nom de la rose" - Moos "...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears (debut) "Back At One" - Brian McKnight "Bailamos" - Enrique Iglesias "Bawitdaba" - Kid Rock "Beautiful Stranger" - Madonna "Believe" - Cher "Big Big World" - Emilia "Black Balloon" - Goo Goo Dolls "Blue Monday" - Orgy "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" - Eiffel 65 "Born to make you happy" - Britney Spears "Bring It All Back" - S Club 7 "Bring It All To Me" - Blaque "Burning Down the House" - Tom Jones featuring The Cardigans "Candy" - Mandy Moore "Can't Fight the Moonlight" - LeAnn Rimes "The Carpet Crawlers 1999" - Genesis "Cherish the Day" - Sade "Desert Rose" - Sting "Dizzy" - Goo Goo Dolls "Don't Say You Love Me" - M2M "Down So Long" - Jewel "Everlasting Night" - Dannii Minogue "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" - Baz Luhrmann "Everything You Want" - Vertical Horizon "Every Morning" - Sugar Ray "Falling Away From Me" - KoЯn "Flying Without Wings" - Westlife (UK) "Freak on a Leash" - KoЯn "Freestyler" - Bomfunk MC's "Flat Beat" - Mr. Oizo "Genie in a Bottle" - Christina Aguilera (debut) "Guerrilla Radio" - Rage Against the Machine "Have You Ever?" - Brandy "Heartbreak Hotel" - Whitney Houston, Faith Evans, & Kelly Price "Heartbreaker" - Mariah Carey "Hello Time Bomb" - Matthew Good Band "Honey to the Bee" - Billie "How to Rob" - 50 Cent "I Need To Know" - Marc Anthony "I Knew I Loved You" - Savage Garden "I Wanna Love You Forever" - Jessica Simpson (debut) "I Want It That Way" - Backstreet Boys "I Will Remember You" - Sarah McLachlan "If I Let You Go" - Westlife (UK) "If You Had My Love" - Jennifer Lopez "Larger Than Life" - Backstreet Boys "Kiss Me" - Sixpence None the Richer "Kiss of Life" - Sade "Last Kiss" - Pearl Jam "Learn to Fly" - Foo Fighters "Lit Up" - Buckcherry "Livin' la Vida Loca" - Ricky Martin "Load Me Up" - Matthew Good Band "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" - Lou Bega "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" - Shania Twain "Maria" - Blondie "The Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard "The Miracle" - Cliff Richard "My Name Is" - Eminem "My Own Worst Enemy" - Lit "Never Be the Same Again" - Melanie C feat. Lisa Lopes "Never Let You Go" - Third Eye Blind "Nothing Really Matters" - Madonna "No Scrubs" - TLC "Nookie" - Limp Bizkit "Nothing Is Real but the Girl" - Blondie "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" - The Offspring "Praise You" - Fatboy Slim "S Club Party" - S Club 7 "Scar Tissue" - Red Hot Chili Peppers "She Wants You" - Billie "She's So High" - Tal Bachman "Sleep Now in the Fire" - Rage Against the Machine "Slide" - Goo Goo Dolls "Smooth" - Santana feat. Rob Thomas "Someday" - Sugar Ray "Sometimes" - Britney Spears "Steal My Sunshine" - Len "Strong Enough" - Cher "Swear It Again" - Westlife (UK) (debut) "Take a Picture" - Filter "Tender" - Blur "The Animal Song" - Savage Garden "The Bad Touch" - Bloodhound Gang "Thank ABBA for the Music" - Steps, Tina Cousins, Cleopatra, B*Witched, Billie "That Don't Impress Me Much" - Shania Twain "The World Is Not Enough" - Garbage "Then the Morning Comes" - Smash Mouth "There She Goes" - Sixpence None the Richer "Tu ne m'as pas laissé le temps" - David Hallyday "Unpretty" - TLC "Waiting for Tonight" - Jennifer Lopez "What a Girl Wants" - Christina Aguilera "What It's Like" - Everlast "What's My Age Again?" - Blink-182 "When the Heartache Is Over" - Tina Turner "When Worlds Collide" - Powerman 5000 "Where My Girls At" -702 "Wild Wild West" - Will Smith featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee "(You Drive Me) Crazy" - Britney Spears "You'll Be in My Heart" - Phil Collins "You're a God" - Vertical Horizon "You're Still the One" - Shania Twain "You Get What You Give" - New Radicals See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1999 Top 10 selling albums of the year in USA Backstreet Boys - Millennium Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time Shania Twain - Come on Over 1 'N Sync - *NSYNC Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin Limp Bizkit - Significant Other Santana - Supernatural TLC - FanMail Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause Acclaimed Music AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 1999 The Soft Bulletin — The Flaming Lips 69 Love Songs — The Magnetic Fields Agaetis Byrjun — Sigur Rós Play — Moby I See a Darkness — Bonnie "Prince" Billy The Slim Shady LP — Eminem Remedy — Basement Jaxx Summerteeth — Wilco Mule Variations — Tom Waits Black on Both Sides — Mos Def Midnite Vultures — Beck The Man Who — Travis 13 — Blur Californication — Red Hot Chili Peppers Things Fall Apart — The Roots AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs From 1999 My Name Is — Eminem No Scrubs — TLC Window Licker — Aphex Twin ...Baby One More Time — Britney Spears Smooth — Santana feat. Rob Thomas I Want It That Way — Backstreet Boys Beautiful Stranger — Madonna Red Alert — Basement Jaxx Flat Beat — Mr. Oizo Say My Name — Destiny's Child Got Your Money — Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis Hey Boy Hey Girl — The Chemical Brothers Caught Out There — Kelis Race for the Prize — The Flaming Lips Sing it Back — Moloko Classical music Samuel Adler - Viola Concerto Leonardo Balada - Piano Concerto No. 3 Michael Daugherty - Hell's Angels Lorenzo Ferrero Glamorama Spies Presagios (symphonic poem) El encuentro (symphonic poem) La matanza del Templo Mayor (symphonic poem) Carlo Forlivesi - Requiem Patrick Hawes - The Call (song cycle) Joe Jackson - Symphony No. 1 Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace John Kinsella - Symphony No. 8: Into the New Millennium Richard Payne - Saxophone Concerto Opera William Bolcom - A View from the Bridge Deborah Drattell - Festival of Regrets Daron Hagen - Bandanna John Harbison - The Great Gatsby Nicholas Lens - The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Terra Terra - The Aquarius Era Anthony Snyder - Sodomy Musical theater Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin) - Broadway revival Fame - The Musical London production Kiss Me, Kate (Cole Porter) - Broadway revival Mamma Mia! (ABBA) - London production My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe) - London revival Saturday Night Fever Broadway production Deaths January 2 - Rolf Liebermann (88), composer January 23 - "Prince" Lincoln Thompson (49), reggae musician February 3 - Gwen Guthrie (48), singer February 4 - Kenneth C. Burns (68), country musician February 12 - Toni Fisher (67), singer February 15 Lamont "Big L" Coleman (24), rapper, gunshot Agnes Bernelle (75), actress and singer February 16 - Necil Kâzım Akses (90), Turkish composer (date of death from this contemporary newspaper) March 3 - Dusty Springfield (59), singer, breast cancer March 4 - Eddie Dean (91), country music artist, actor March 12 - Yehudi Menuhin (92), violinist and musical director March 13 - Bidu Sayão (97), Brazilian opera singer March 26 - Ananda Shankar (50), Indian classical musician and composer, cardiac arrest March 29 - Joe Williams (80), jazz singer April 3 - Lionel Bart (68), songwriter and composer April 6 - Red Norvo (91), jazz musician April 14 - Anthony Newley (67), songwriter, actor and singer April 16 - Skip Spence (52), musician (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer April 25 Roger Troutman (47), R&B singer, gunshot wounds Larry Troutman (54), R&B percussionist, suicide after killing younger brother Kemi Olusanya (35), British drum and bass duo Kemistry & Storm, freak highway accident April 26 - Adrian Borland (41), English singer, songwriter, guitarist (The Sound), suicide April 27 - Al Hirt (76), New Orleans trumpeter April 30 - Darrell Sweet (51), drummer (Nazareth), heart attack May 14 - William Tucker, guitarist, Ministry, suicide by slitting own throat May 26 - Paul Sacher (93), Swiss conductor June 5 - Mel Tormé, (73), singer June 15 - Fausto Papetti, (76), Italian Famous Musician June 21 - Kami, (26), Japanese drummer for Malice Mizer, subarachnoid hemorrhage June 27 - Sven Einar Englund, (83), Finnish composer July 3 - Mark Sandman, (46), alternative rock musician, member of Morphine, heart attack July 6 Benny Bell, (93), musician Joaquín Rodrigo (97), Spanish composer July 11 - Helen Forrest, (82), big band singer July 17 - Kevin Wilkinson, (41) August 3 - Lesley Pitts (30), music publicist August 20 - Bobby Sheehan (31), bassist for Blues Traveler, drug overdose September 10 - Alfredo Kraus (72), opera singer October 4 - Art Farmer (71), jazz trumpeter October 6 - Amalia Rodrigues (79), Portuguese singer October 9 - Milt Jackson (76), jazz vibraphonist October 10 - Robert Wright (90), songwriter and librettist October 16 - Ella Mae Morse, (75), singer October 19 - Harry Bannink (70), Dutch songwriter October 26 - Rex Gildo (63), German singer October 28 - Robert Linn (74), composer and teacher November 18 - Doug Sahm (58), country and rock musician December 3 - Scatman John (57), pop musician December 6 - Todd Barnes (34), TSOL December 10 - Rick Danko (56), rock singer in The Band December 17 - Grover Washington Jr. (66), American saxophonist December 26 - Curtis Mayfield (57), singer/composer Awards The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Billy Joel, Curtis Mayfield, Paul McCartney, Del Shannon, Dusty Springfield, Bruce Springsteen and The Staple Singers Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include The Fairfield Four and Second Chapter of Acts Grammy Awards Grammy Awards of 1999 Country Music Association Awards Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 1999 Mercury Music Prize Ok - Talvin Singh wins. MTV Video Music Awards 1999 MTV Video Music Awards Glenn Gould Prize Yo-Yo Ma (laureate), Wu Man (protégé) Charts Triple J Hottest 100 Triple J Hottest 100, 1999 Pop Culture Madness 1999 Pop Music Chart See also 1999 in music (UK) Category:Record labels established in 1999 References ^ Billboard.com - Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - The Billboard 200