Events in Music
- Jul 2 Singers Cheryl and Liam Payne announce they are splitting up after two years
- Jul 5 English rapper Stormzy announces partnership with Penguin Books, an imprint called #Merky Books
Event of Interest
Jul 18 Cliff Richard wins privacy case against the BBC, for reporting he was being investigated over historic child sexual assaults

Cliff Richard
Event of Interest
Jul 24 Singer Demi Lovato is hospitalized after a drug overdose in Los Angeles

Demi Lovato
Event of Interest
Jul 26 Sir Paul McCartney performs a secret gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began

Paul McCartney
Deaths in Music
- Jul 1 Dame Gillian Lynne [Pyrke], British dancer, choreographer and actress, known for Broadway work on "Cats" and "The Phantom of the Opera," dies at 92
- Jul 2 Alan Longmuir, Scottish pop-rock musician (Bay City Rollers), dies at 70
- Jul 3 William "Bill" Watrous, American jazz trombonist, dies at 79
- Jul 3 Richard Swift, American singer and songwriter (The Black Keys), dies at 41
- Jul 7 Paul Fetler, American composer, dies at 98
- Jul 8 Tab Hunter [Arthur Andrew Kelm], American actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust) and singer (Young Love), dies of complications of deep vein thrombosis at 86
- Jul 8 Oliver Knussen, British composer (Where the Wild Things Are, Chicara), dies at 66
- Jul 8 Alan Johnson, American 3-time Emmy Award-winning choreographer (Springtime for Hitler, West Side Story), dies at 81
- Jul 29 Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter (Astigmatic), dies of complication from lung cancer at 76