# 2014 in music

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This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2014 in music.

## Specific locations

* African music
* American music
* Asian music
* Australian music
* Brazilian music
* British music
* Canadian music
* Chinese music
* Danish music
* European music (Continental Europe)
* Finnish music
* French music
* German music
* Indian music
* Irish music
* Japanese music
* Malaysian music
* Mongolian music
* North Korean music
* Norwegian music
* Philippine music
* Polynesian music
* South Korean music
* Swedish music
* Taiwanese music
* Vietnamese music
* World music

## Specific genres

* Classical
* Country
* Electronic
* Heavy metal
* Hip hop
* Jazz
* Latin
* Opera
* Pop
* Rock
* K-pop
* J-pop

## Awards

| Category/Organization | 2014 MTV Video Music Awards August 24, 2014 | 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards November 9, 2014 | American Music Awards of 2014 November 23, 2014 | 2015 Grammy Awards February 8, 2015 | 2015 Billboard Music Awards May 17, 2015 |
| Best Album | N/A | N/A | N/A | Morning Phase Beck | 1989 Taylor Swift |
| Best Song | N/A | "Problem" Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea | "Dark Horse" Katy Perry featuring Juicy J | "Stay with Me" Sam Smith | "All About That Bass" Meghan Trainor |
| Best Video | "Wrecking Ball" Miley Cyrus | "Dark Horse" Katy Perry featuring Juicy J | N/A | "Happy" Pharrell Williams | "Shake It Off" Taylor Swift |
| Best Artist | N/A | N/A | One Direction | Sam Smith | Taylor Swift |
| Best New Artist | Fifth Harmony | 5 Seconds of Summer | 5 Seconds of Summer | Sam Smith | Sam Smith |

## Bands formed

* Akdong Musician
* Antemasque
* American Wrestlers
* The Babe Rainbow
* Berry Good
* Cheat Codes
* FFS
* High4
* Hotshot
* LANY
* Lovelyz
* Lip Service
* Maddie & Tae
* Mamamoo
* Melody Day
* Missio
* No Devotion
* Oh Wonder
* Operation: Mindcrime
* Pale Waves
* Red Velvet
* Sonamoo
* Saint Asonia
* Sheer Mag
* Slaves
* Sofi Tukker
* Soul Glo
* Stereo Kicks
* Toheart
* Winner
* You+Me

## Bands reformed

* American Football
* Atreyu
* Babes In Toyland
* Basement
* Breaking Benjamin
* Constantines
* Copeland
* Deep Dish
* Despised Icon
* Design the Skyline
* Electric Light Orchestra (Now credited as Jeff Lynne's ELO)
* Erase Errata
* Failure
* Haste the Day
* L7
* The Libertines
* Luna
* The Matches
* Metro Station
* Midtown
* Mineral
* Nickel Creek
* OutKast
* Ride
* Saosin
* Sleater-Kinney
* Slowdive
* Trick Pony
* The Unicorns

## Bands on hiatus

* As I Lay Dying
* Darkside
* Dredg
* Foxy Shazam
* Furthur
* The Wanted
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs

## Bands disbanded

* Abandon All Ships
* The Allman Brothers Band
* Anberlin
* As Blood Runs Black
* Austrian Death Machine
* Beady Eye
* Beastie Boys
* Beneath the Sky
* The Blackout
* Bleeding Through
* Bomb the Music Industry!
* Brown Bird
* Camp Freddy
* Chimaira
* The Civil Wars
* Clipse
* Company of Thieves
* Crystal Castles
* Danity Kane
* The Dangerous Summer
* Eleventyseven
* For All Those Sleeping
* Guided by Voices
* HotCha
* Jethro Tull
* The Knife
* Lestat
* LFO
* The Luchagors
* Morning Parade
* The Move
* Orbital
* Nightmare Boyzzz
* Nachtmystium
* Pink Floyd
* The Rapture
* Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine
* Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
* Slaughterhouse
* Smith Westerns
* The Swellers
* Ten Second Epic
* There for Tomorrow
* Vista Chino
* Vivian Girls
* WC and the Maad Circle

## Deaths
### January

* 4 – Phil Everly (74), American musician (The Everly Brothers)
* 13 – Ronny Jordan (51), British guitarist.
* 18 – Dennis Frederiksen (62), American singer (Toto), (Survivor)
* 27 – Pete Seeger (94), American guitarist.

### February

* 5 – Samantha Juste (69), English-American singer and television host.
* 8 – Finbarr Dwyer (67), Irish accordionist and fiddler.
* 16 – Raymond Louis Kennedy, 67, American pop-rock singer-songwriter
* 17
** Frank Wappat (84), British DJ and singer.
** Bob Casale, (61), American guitarist and keyboardist (Devo).
* 23 – Chip Damiani, (68), American drummer (The Remains)
* 24 – Franny Beecher (92), American guitarist.
* 25
** Paco de Lucía (66), Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.
** Peter Callander (74), English songwriter and record producer.

### March

* 5 – Dave Sampson (73), English singer.
* 6 – Marion Stein (Thorpe) (87), British pianist.

### April

* 2 – Lyndsie Holland (75), English actress and singer.
* 7 – John Shirley-Quirk (83), British operatic bass-baritone.
* 16 – Stan Kelly-Bootle (84), British songwriter, author and computer engineer.
* 17 – Cheo Feliciano (78), Puerto Rican singer and composer (Joe Cuba Sextet)
* 18 – Brian Priestman (87), British conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).

### May

* 13 – Akihiro Yokoyama (49), Japanese thrash metal bassist (United)
* 25 – Herb Jeffries (100), American singer and actor.

### June

* 18 – Horace Silver (85), American jazz pianist.
* 21 – Jimmy C. Newman (86), country music singer.

### July

* 3 – Jesse Anderson (73), American blues singer-songwriter and musician.
* 11 – Charlie Haden (76), American upright-bassist.
* 19 – Lionel Ferbos (103), American trumpeter.
* 24 – Christian Falk (52), Swedish record producer and musician.

### August

* 1 – Michael Johns (35), Australian singer and American Idol contestant.
* 3 – Yvette Giraud (97), French singer and actress.
* 15 – Svein Nymo (61), Norwegian violinist and composer.
* 17 – Pierre Vassiliu (76), Swiss-born French singer.
* 19 – Kåre Kolberg (78), Norwegian composer.
* 23 – Inga Juuso (68), singer and actress.
* 24 – Aldo Donati (66), Italian singer, composer and television personality, (cerebral hemorrhage)
* 29
** Jan Groth (68), Norwegian singer (Aunt Mary, Just 4 Fun), (cancer).
** Peret (79), Spanish singer, guitarist and composer.

### September

* 1 – Jimi Jamison (63), American singer (Survivor)
* 2 – Antonis Vardis (66), Greek composer and singer.
* 8
** Magda Olivero (104), Italian soprano.
** Gerald Wilson (96), American jazz trumpeter.
* 12 – Joe Sample (75), American pianist.
* 15 – Jackie Cain (86), American jazz singer (Jackie & Roy).
* 17 – George Hamilton IV (77), American country music singer.
* 18 – Kenny Wheeler (84), Canadian jazz composer, trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

### October

* 1 – Lynsey de Paul (66), English singer
* 10 – Olav Dale (55), Norwegian jazz saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader.
* 16 – Tim Hauser (72), American jazz singer.
* 20 - Tyson Stevens (29), vocals, additional guitar, bass guitar in Arizona Post Hardcore band Scary Kids Scaring Kids.
* 23 – Alvin Stardust (72), English singer
* 25 – Jack Bruce (71), Scottish bassist, composer and orchestra leader.

### November

* 6 – Maggie Boyle (57), British folk singer and musician (cancer).
* 14 – Mike Burney (70), British jazz saxophonist.
* 15 – Cherry Wainer (79), South African-born British organist (Lord Rockingham's XI).
* 17
** Jeff Fletcher (36), British guitarist (Northern Uproar).
** Jimmy Ruffin (78), American soul singer
* 20 – Arthur Butterworth (91), English composer and conductor.
* 27 - Érick Bamy, 64, French singer and Johnny Hallyday's former backing vocalist from 1973 to 2000.

### December

* 8 – Knut Nystedt (99), Norwegian composer.
* 12 – John Persen (73), Norwegian composer.
* 22 – Joe Cocker (70), English singer
* 24 – Buddy DeFranco (91), American jazz clarinetist.
* 31 – Michael Kennedy (88), English writer on music.

## Musical films

* God Help the Girl
* Whiplash