- Feb 5 Heavy metal band Black Sabbath play their last concert in their home town Birmingham, England
Grammy Awards
Feb 12 59th Grammy Awards: Adele wins Best Song "Hello" and Best Album "25"
Adele
- Mar 21 Singer Wyclef Jean wrongly identified as a suspect, handcuffed and detained by LA county sheriff’s department
Hall of Fame
Apr 7 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Baez, Yes, Tupac Shakur, Journey, and Pearl Jam
Tupac Shakur
Album Release
Apr 14 Kendrick Lamar releases his fourth studio album "Damn" (2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music)
Kendrick Lamar
Agreement of Interest
May 1 Billy Corgan agrees to purchase the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
Billy Corgan
Album Release
May 12 Former One Direction singer Harry Styles releases his self-titled debut solo album
Harry Styles
- May 13 62nd Eurovision Song Contest: Portugal's Salvador Sobral wins singing "Amar Pelos Dois"
Music Concert
May 22 Suicide bombing at Manchester Arena, England, after Ariana Grande concert kills 22 and injures 59
Ariana Grande
Event of Interest
May 30 Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John reveals her breast cancer has returned after 25 years
Olivia Newton-John
- Jun 4 Ariana Grande headlines benefit concert for victims of her Manchester concert bombing, also featuring Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry
- Jun 6 Korean singer T.O.P is rushed to hospital after a suspected overdose while serving mandatory military service
- Jun 11 71st Tony Awards: "Dear Evan Hansen" best musical, "Oslo" best play
Event of Interest
Jul 21 Singer Justin Bieber barred from performing in China by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture citing his "bad behavior"
Justin Bieber
- Aug 3 Rapper Kidd Creole arrested and charged for stabbing to death a homeless man in New York City
Music Single
Aug 3 Camila Cabello releases her single "Havana" (biggest song worldwide 2018, 19 million copies sold)
Camila Cabello
Event of Interest
Aug 10 Taylor Swift testifies that DJ David Mueller groped her in court in Denver, Colorado
Taylor Swift
Event of Interest
Sep 14 Selena Gomez reveals she had a kidney transplant, because of lupus, donated by her friend Francia Rais
Selena Gomez
Emmy Awards
Sep 18 69th Emmy Awards: hosted by Stephen Colbert, "The Handmaid's Tale", Elisabeth Moss, Sterling K Brown, Julia Dreyfus, Donald Glover win
- Oct 1 Stephen Paddock shoots dead 58 people, injuring 489, at a concert in Las Vegas in the deadliest mass shooting in American history
- Oct 4 Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Carneige Hall one-handed due to injury with 14 year-old Maxim Lando playing his left hand for Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"
- Oct 7 Rapper Nelly arrested for rape in Auburn, Washington
- Oct 9 Vincent La Selva, American conductor (New York Grand Opera Company, 1973-2012)dies at 88 [1]
- Nov 7 Opera soprano Audrey Luna sings highest-ever note at Met Opera in New York, A above high C
Event of Interest
Nov 15 Country singer Blake Shelton wins People Magazine's sexiest man alive award
Blake Shelton
Event of Interest
Nov 18 Shawn Mendes is the first singer under 18 to get three No. 1 singles on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart
Shawn Mendes
- Dec 4 New York's Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after allegations of sexual misconduct
- Dec 5 Twitter reveals K-pop boy band BTS were the most tweeted-about celebrities in 2017
- Dec 7 Naples' pizza spinning given UNESCO intangible heritage status along with Germany's organ music, Kyrgystan's Kok boru and India's Kumbh festival
- Dec 9 Funeral for French rock star Johnny Hallyday draws hundreds of thousands onto Paris streets
Film Premier
Dec 9 "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" directed by Rian Johnson, starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Adam Driver premieres in Los Angeles
Event of Interest
Dec 17 "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" takes more than $450m worldwide in its opening weekend, 2nd largest opening in North America ($220m)
John Williams
Adam Driver
