Events in Music
Music Awards
May 5 34th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw win
Garth Brooks
Faith Hill
- May 18 "Millennium" 3rd studio album by Backstreet Boys is released
Film Release
May 19 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, directed by George Lucas, starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Liam Neeson is released in cinemas
- May 29 44th Eurovision Song Contest: Charlotte Nilsson for Sweden wins singing "Take Me to Your Heaven" in Jerusalem
Weddings in Music
- May 1 "Dixie Chicks" singer Emily Erwin (26) weds singer-songwriter Charlie Robison (34) at Lone Star State in Texas
Deaths in Music
- May 10 Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)
- May 17 Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian record producer and musician (b. 1949)
- May 18 Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
- May 18 Freddy Randall, English jazz trumpeter, dies at 78
- May 21 Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12) (b. 1979)
- May 26 Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)