1994 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.

Joan Jett performing at Bumbershoot 1994.

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Events

January–February

• January 19 – Bryan Adams becomes the first major Western music star to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.^[1]
• January 21–February 5 – The Big Day Out festival takes place, again expanding from the previous year's venues to include the Gold Coast, Queensland and Auckland in New Zealand. The festival is headlined by Soundgarden, Ramones and Björk.^[2]
• January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which makes its US chart debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so.
• January 29 – The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside Los Angeles, USA. Wilson's 14-year-old son is killed in the accident.
• February 1 – Green Day release their breakthrough album Dookie, ushering in the mid-1990s punk revival.^[3] Dookie eventually achieves diamond certification.
• February 7 – Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony because of his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon is later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone.^[4]
• February 11 – The three surviving members of The Beatles secretly reunite to begin recording additional music for a few of John Lennon's old unfinished demos, presented to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono, with Jeff Lynne producing. The track, "Free As A Bird", is released as a single in late 1995 as part of the exhaustive Beatles Anthology project, reaching No. 2 in the UK and No. 6 in the United States.
• February 14 – Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia marries Deborah Koons.^[5]
• February 23 – Eddie Van Halen, Chris Isaak, and B.B. King attend the ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino takes place in Paradise, Nevada, USA.
• February 26 – The Sanremo Music Festival ends with victory for Aleandro Baldi in the "Big Artists" category, for the song "Passerà".^[6]

March–April

• March 1
  • Selena becomes the first Tejano music singer to win a Grammy Award.^[7]
  • Nirvana play their final concert, in Munich.
  • The 36th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in New York, hosted by Garry Shandling. The soundtrack from the 1992 film The Bodyguard wins Album of the Year, while its lead single, Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You", wins Record of the Year. The single version of "A Whole New World", performed by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, wins Song of the Year. Toni Braxton wins Best New Artist.
  • Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Legend Award. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short. Other artists criticize the producer's decision during the show, and Billy Joel takes extra time to perform his song, "The River of Dreams", noting that he is wasting valuable air time.
• March 3 – In Rome, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma after overdosing on Rohypnol and champagne.
• March 5 – Grace Slick is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, California, home.^[8]
• March 7 – The United States Supreme Court decision Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. rules that parody can qualify as fair use. The case was spurred by 2 Live Crew releasing a parody of the Roy Orbison hit "Oh, Pretty Woman" without a license from the publishing firm Acuff-Rose Music.
• March 8 – Nine Inch Nails release their second studio album The Downward Spiral. It would go on to sell over 3 million copies and be credited with helping bring industrial rock music into the mainstream.
• March 13 – Selena releases her final Spanish album Amor Prohibido. Its production had been delayed because of the launch of Selena's fashion clothing line and boutiques, and her "Selena Live!" tour in support of Live!.^[9]
• March 18
  • Courtney Love calls the police, fearing that her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, is suicidal. Police confiscate four guns and 25 boxes of ammo from Cobain's home.
  • Bassist Darryl Jones replaces Bill Wyman in The Rolling Stones.
• March 22 - Pantera releases Far Beyond Driven, which becomes the heaviest album to hit number 1 on the Billboard 200.
• March 30 – Pink Floyd embark on what would be their last world tour before their breakup. The record-breaking tour supports their Division Bell album, with the band playing to 5,500,000 people in 68 cities and grossing over £150,000,000 (US$186,952,500).
• March 31 – Madonna on Late Show with David Letterman: Madonna appears on the Late Show with David Letterman, making headlines with her profanity-laced interview.^[10] Robin Williams later describes the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman."
• April 8 – The body of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found. Cobain's death, three days before, is legally declared to be suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot.
  • The Offspring release Smash, which goes on to become the best selling independent album of all time and one of the most influential albums of the 90s.
• April 25
  • Blur releases Parklife, their first album to reach No. 1 in UK, where it was certified quadruple platinum.^[11]
  • Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor River Phoenix in November 1993.
• April 26 – Grace Slick pleads guilty to having pointed a shotgun at police officers on March 5.
• April 27 – The legendary Fillmore club reopens in San Francisco with a concert headlined by The Smashing Pumpkins.
• April 30 – The 39th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Dublin, Ireland, which becomes the first-ever country to win three consecutive contests. Its winners are Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan with "Rock 'N' Roll Kids", written by Brendan Graham. The interval features the first-ever public performance of Riverdance, featuring Michael Flatley and Jean Butler, which developed into the world-famous stage show.^[12]

May–June

• May 2 – A Los Angeles jury finds Michael Bolton, along with co-writer Andy Goldmark and Sony Music Entertainment, guilty of copyright infringement over the song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing". The song is ruled to be too similar to a song of the same name by The Isley Brothers.
• May 3 – The Rolling Stones arrive by yacht to a press conference in New York City to announce the Voodoo Lounge Tour kicking off in the summer.
• May 6
  • Pearl Jam files a complaint against Ticketmaster with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business.
  • To help promote his new album, Alice Cooper releases a three-part comic book that followed the album The Last Temptation.
• May 9–13 – 1994 International Rostrum of Composers
• May 10
  • Tupac Shakur begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.
  • Weezer are introduced to the world with their self-titled debut, often referred to as the Blue Album. It would go on to become one of the most influential records of the 1990s spawning hits "Undone – The Sweater Song", "Buddy Holly" and "Say It Ain't So".
• May 13 – Jo Dee Messina and Aaron Tippin with Sony label RCA Records and it's country division, RCA Nashville.
• May 26 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley are married in the Dominican Republic.^[13]
• May 27 – The Eagles launch the Hell Freezes Over tour in Burbank, California. The reunion tour is the group's first since breaking up in 1980, but much is also made of the band becoming the first to charge over $100 per ticket for arena shows.
• June 7 – Grace Slick is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three months' worth of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.
• June 9 – Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC, in a domestic dispute with partner Andre Rison, sets fire to his shoes; the fire ultimately spreads to the mansion they share and destroys it.
• June 21 – George Michael loses his legal bid in a London court to be released from his contract with Sony Records.
• June 27 – Aerosmith becomes the first major band to premiere a new song on the Internet. Over 10,000 CompuServe subscribers download the free track "Head First" within its first eight days of availability.

July–August

• July 12–16 – The Yoyo A Go Go punk and indie rock festival opens in Olympia, Washington.
• July 30
  • The Verbier Festival is launched.
  • In keeping with the country's new constitution and the promotion of its native language, Moldova adopts Limba noastră as its new national anthem, replacing the anthem of Romania which was previously in use.
  • Suede announce that guitarist Bernard Butler has left the band following fractious recording sessions for their album Dog Man Star.
• August 9
  • Peter Maxwell Davies conducts the first performance of his fifth symphony at the Royal Albert Hall in London, as part of The Proms.^[14]
  • Rich Mullins and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76-year-old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá, Colombia, with Compassion International. The two men visit the Ciudad Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
  • Decca releases a recording of the 1949 première of Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony for the first time.
  • Machine Head release their first album Burn My Eyes, which was a big success and becomes Roadrunner Records' best selling debut album.
• August 11 – A compact disc copy of Sting's album Ten Summoner's Tales, released the previous year, becomes the first item securely purchased over the internet; the CD is sold for $12.48 plus shipping and handling fees.^[15]
• August 12–14 – Woodstock '94 is held in Saugerties, New York. As with the original 1969 festival, attendance is swelled by a high number of gatecrashers, while heavy rains turn the festival grounds into a sea of mud. Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Peter Gabriel, and Green Day are among the many performers.
• August 23 – Jeff Buckley releases his single, critically acclaimed,^[16] full-length studio album Grace.
• August 30
  • Oasis release their debut album Definitely Maybe; it becomes the fastest selling debut album in the United Kingdom^[17] until 1996, when Spice by the Spice Girls would be released.^[18]
  • Luis Miguel release Segundo Romance, the best-selling Latin album of the 1990s by a male artist.^{[citation needed]} Four singles from the album were released; two of which reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Songs.^[19] It received a Grammy Award and a Billboard Latin Music Award.^[20][21]

September–October

• September 6
  • José Cura wins the Operalia – International Plácido Domingo Opera Singer Competition.^[22]
  • Bad Religion release their eighth studio album (and proper major-label debut) Stranger than Fiction. This proved to be the last to feature founding guitarist/songwriter Brett Gurewitz for seven years, until his return. Gurewitz would be replaced by former Minor Threat / Dag Nasty / Junkyard guitarist Brian Baker, who turned down a touring job for R.E.M. at this time, and eventually becomes a permanent member of Bad Religion.
• September 8 – Richard A. Morse, lead male vocalist of RAM, narrowly escapes a kidnapping by armed men during the band's live performance at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; the attempted kidnapping was provoked by the performance of "Fèy", a RAM single banned nationwide by the military authorities.
• September 15 – A 1957 audio tape of John Lennon performing with The Quarrymen on the same night he met Paul McCartney fetches £78,500 at Sotheby's, London.^[23]
• October 12 – Jimmy Page and Robert Plant: No Quarter (Unledded) premieres on MTV. The "unplugged" concert special featuring the two former Led Zeppelin bandmates was filmed to accompany the release of the album of the same name.

November–December

• November 20 – David Crosby undergoes a seven-hour liver transplant operation in Los Angeles.
• November 30 – The Breeders guitarist Kelley Deal is arrested at her Ohio home after accepting a private-courier package containing four grams of heroin.^[24]
• December 2 – Warner Music Group acquires a 49 percent share of Seattle record label Sub Pop in a deal believed to be worth over $30 million.
• December 18 – Paul Oakenfold's legendary Goa Mix is first broadcast in the early hours of this day as a BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.
• December 19 – Aerosmith opens the 250-seat Mama Kin Music Hall in Boston, co-owned by the group, with a performance.
• December 31 – The twenty-third annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by Melissa Etheridge, The O'Jays, Salt-N-Pepa, Hootie & the Blowfish and Jon Secada.

Also in 1994

• Social Distortion manager Jim Guerinot forms the label Time Bomb Recordings in joint-venture agreement with Arista. The label actually exists mostly as an imprint for current releases from Social Distortion and solo albums by Mike Ness, along with the administration of the label's back catalog.
• April – Jo Dee Messina signs to RCA Records.
• Summer – Tony Wilson attempts to revive Factory Records, in collaboration with London Records, as "Factory Too".^[25]

Bands formed

• See Musical groups established in 1994

Bands disbanded

• See Musical groups disestablished in 1994

Bands reformed

• Circle Jerks (hiatus since 1989)
• King Crimson (since 1984)
• Eagles (disbanded in 1980)

Albums released

See also: Category:1994 albums

January–March

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
J A N U A R Y	4	Music from the Motion Picture Philadelphia	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Trashed	Lagwagon	-
	10	Get What You Deserve	Sodom	-
	11	She'd Give Anything	Boy Howdy	EP
	17	Subject to Change	Gary Nichols	-
	18	Antenna	ZZ Top	-
		A Constipated Monkey	Kurious	-
		Dogman	King's X	-
		Here It Is	Freddie Jackson	-
		LL77	Lisa Lisa	-
		Mirror Blue	Richard Thompson	-
		Whiskey for the Holy Ghost	Mark Lanegan	-
	24	Dubnobasswithmyheadman	Underworld	-
	25	Jar of Flies	Alice in Chains	EP
		Blunted on Reality	Fugees	Debut
		Best of Bachman–Turner Overdrive Live	Bachman–Turner Overdrive	Live
		Cleansing	Prong	-
		Face the Music	NKOTB	-
		Hips and Makers	Kristin Hersh	-
		Kickin' It Up	John Michael Montgomery	-
		Life Lover	Aaron Kwok	Chinese Compilation Album of UFO Record Labels
		Snuff the Punk	P.O.D.	Debut
		Too High to Die	Meat Puppets	-
	27	Dies Irae	Noir Désir	Live
	31	Blackhawk	Blackhawk	-
		Cross Purposes	Black Sabbath	-
		Hold on It Hurts	Cornershop	-
		Under the Pink	Tori Amos	-
F E B R U A R Y	1	Dookie	Green Day	Diamond (10+ million copies sold)
		Back at Your Ass for the Nine-4	2 Live Crew	-
		Hank Flamingo	Hank Flamingo	-
		Reality Bites	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		What a Crying Shame	The Mavericks	-
	2	SMAP 005	SMAP	-
	7	Brave	Marillion	-
		Motorcade of Generosity	Cake	Debut
		Troublegum	Therapy?	-
		24 Hour Revenge Therapy	Jawbreaker	-
	8	For Your Own Special Sweetheart	Jawbox	-
		No Doubt About It	Neal McCoy	-
		Offering	Animal Bag	-
		Paid Vacation	Richard Marx	-
		Some Old Bullshit	Beastie Boys	-
		Welcome to the Cruel World	Ben Harper	Debut
	9	Dreamspace	Stratovarius	-
	14	Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	Pavement	-
		Hex	Bark Psychosis	-
	15	Angelfish	Angelfish	North America
		Moonlight Becomes You	Willie Nelson	-
		Pronounced Jah-Nay	Zhané	Debut
		Ungod	Stabbing Westward	Debut
	17	Transilvanian Hunger	Darkthrone	-
	21	In the Nightside Eclipse	Emperor	-
	22	Beyond Flavor	Original Flavor	-
		Gangsta Funk	5th Ward Boyz	-
		Ro Sham Bo	The Grays	Debut
		Stereopathetic Soulmanure	Beck	-
		What Jail Is Like	The Afghan Whigs	EP
	23	Hide Your Face	hide	Debut
	24	The Principle of Evil Made Flesh	Cradle of Filth	Debut
	28	Tiger Bay	Saint Etienne	-
		Vikingligr Veldi	Enslaved	Debut
	?	Forget Love Potion	Andy Lau	UFO Record Semi-finale
		Just Say You Love Me	Dave Wong	UFO Record Labels
		The New Great Adventure of Grand Deluxe Horizon	Aaron Kwok	Chinese 1st of 2nd The New Album of UFO Record Labels
M A R C H	1	Robbin' the Hood	Sublime	-
		Bewitched	Luna	-
		The Funky Headhunter	M.C. Hammer	-
		Glow	Raven	-
		Live at the Acropolis	Yanni	Live
		Mellow Gold	Beck	-
		Naïve/Hell to Go	KMFDM	-
		That Dog	That Dog	Debut
	2	The 7th Blues	B'z	Double album
	4	A Total Letdown	Babyland	-
	7	Selected Ambient Works Volume II	Aphex Twin	[26]
	8	Brutal Youth	Elvis Costello	-
		The Downward Spiral	Nine Inch Nails	4× Platinum
		Hard to Earn	Gang Starr	-
		Magnified	Failure	-
		Martinis and Bikinis	Sam Phillips	-
		Point Blank	Nailbomb	Debut
		Pop Heiress	Chainsaw Kittens	-
		Ringmaster	Insane Clown Posse	-
		Superunknown	Soundgarden	5× Platinum
		Your Filthy Little Mouth	David Lee Roth	-
	14	The Door	Charlie Daniels	-
		Forever Now	Level 42	-
		Vauxhall and I	Morrissey	-
	15	Chant	Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos	Canto Gregoriano outside North America; re-release
		Living Room	Cell	-
		Mötley Crüe	Mötley Crüe	-
		Son of Altered Beast	Matthew Sweet	EP
		Unboxed	Sammy Hagar	Greatest Hits +2 new tracks
	21	Essex	Alison Moyet	-
		Talk	Yes	-
	22	Longing in Their Hearts	Bonnie Raitt	-
		Amor Prohibido	Selena	-
		Woke Up with a Monster	Cheap Trick	-
		Above the Rim	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Brother Sister	Brand New Heavies	-
		Devil Hopping	Inspiral Carpets	-
		Far Beyond Driven	Pantera	-
		Fuck What You Think	Main Source	-
		Hit the Highway	The Proclaimers	-
		Mind Blowin	Vanilla Ice	-
		Naveed	Our Lady Peace	Debut; Canadian release
		New Plastic Ideas	Unwound	-
		Not a Moment Too Soon	Tim McGraw	-
		The Brian Setzer Orchestra	The Brian Setzer Orchestra	-
	24	Black Hand Inn	Running Wild	-
	25	True Force	Powerman 5000	Debut EP
	28	The Division Bell	Pink Floyd	-
		Give Out But Don't Give Up	Primal Scream	-
		Now That's What I Call Music! 27	Various Artists	-
		The Piano Concerto/MGV	Michael Nyman	-
		Promenade	The Divine Comedy	-
	29	The Crow	Various Artists	-
		Groove Family Cyco	Infectious Grooves	-
		Hoist	Phish	Gold
		Talking Timbuktu	Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder	-
		This Toilet Earth	GWAR	-

April–June

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
A P R I L	1	Lunar Strain	In Flames	Debut
	4	Rusty	Rodan	-
	5	The Divine Comedy	Milla Jovovich	-
		Some Change	Boz Scaggs	-
		To the Death	M.O.P.	-
	8	Smash	The Offspring	6× Platinum and the best-selling independent label album of all time.
	11	Crash! Boom! Bang!	Roxette	-
		Sister Hazel	Sister Hazel	-
	12	All-4-One	All-4-One	-
		The Bleeding	Cannibal Corpse	-
		Live Through This	Hole	-
		Weight	Rollins Band	-
	18	Let Love In	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	-
		And She Closed Her Eyes	Stina Nordenstam	-
		His 'n' Hers	Pulp	-
		How to Make Friends and Influence People	Terrorvision	-
	19	Foolish	Superchunk	-
		Crookt, Crackt, or Fly	Gastr del Sol	-
		Illmatic	Nas	Debut
		In My Wildest Dreams	Kenny Chesney	-
		Well...	Katey Sagal	-
	21	Australian Melodrama	The Triffids	-
	25	Anarchy	Chumbawamba	-
		Mädchen	Lucilectric	Germany
		Parklife	Blur	-
		Santa Monica '72	David Bowie	UK, Live
	26	American Recordings	Johnny Cash	-
		A Date with The Smithereens	The Smithereens	-
		The Fatherless and the Widow	Sixpence None the Richer	-
		Last Day on Earth	John Cale and Bob Neuwirth	-
		Read My Mind	Reba McEntire	-
		Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik	OutKast	Debut
		This Is Me	Randy Travis	-
		Throwing Copper	Live	8× Platinum (US); 7× Platinum (Canada)
		Yank Crime	Drive Like Jehu	-
	29	Life in the Streets	Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark	-
M A Y	3	Middle Class Revolt	The Fall	-
		The Sweetest Illusion	Basia	-
		Where It All Begins	The Allman Brothers Band	-
	4	Dark Funeral	Dark Funeral	EP
	9	Last of the Independents	The Pretenders	-
		The Seventh Sign	Yngwie Malmsteen	Europe
		Far from Home	Traffic	-
		The Very Best of Kenny G	Kenny G	Greatest Hits
		Now I'm a Cowboy	The Auteurs	-
	10	Arrive All Over You	Danielle Brisebois	Debut
		Diary	Sunny Day Real Estate	-
		Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star	Sonic Youth	-
		Four Chords & Several Years Ago	Huey Lewis and The News	Covers of popular songs from the 1950s & '60s
		G. Love and Special Sauce	G. Love & Special Sauce	Gold (US)
		Swamp Ophelia	Indigo Girls	-
		Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof	Travis Tritt	-
		Weezer	Weezer	Debut; 3× Platinum (US), 2× Platinum (Canada)
	16	I Say I Say I Say	Erasure	-
	17	Boingo	Oingo Boingo	-
		New Times	Violent Femmes	-
		A Night in San Francisco	Van Morrison	Live
		Recently	Dave Matthews Band	Live EP
		Storyteller	Crystal Waters	-
	20	Teenager of the Year	Frank Black	-
	23	Seal	Seal	aka Seal II
		Street Angel	Stevie Nicks	-
		Lifeforms	Future Sound of London	-
	24	David Byrne	David Byrne	-
		De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas	Mayhem	-
		Dulcinea	Toad the Wet Sprocket	-
		Everyone Should Be Killed	Anal Cunt	-
		Fruitcakes	Jimmy Buffett	-
		Heart, Soul & a Voice	Jon Secada	-
		Nuttin' But Love	Heavy D & the Boyz	-
		The Sun Rises in the East	Jeru the Damaja	Debut
		The Woman's Boat	Toni Childs	-
	25	Hai no Diamond	Glay	Debut
		Humanimal	Talisman	-
	31	199Quad	69 Boyz	-
		Así Es	Gerardo	-
		Fear, Emptiness, Despair	Napalm Death	-
		Goodbye to the Age of Steam	Big Big Train	-
		Ill Communication	Beastie Boys	3× Platinum (US)
		The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Various Artists	-
		Mortal Kombat: The Album	The Immortals	-
	?	Love, Nancy	Nancy Wilson	-
		Dreamchild	Toyah	-
		Rester vrai	Florent Pagny	-
J U N E	4	Oh My Love	Zard	-
	6	Balls to Picasso	Bruce Dickinson	Europe; released in US on 26 July
		Bad Boys Inc	Bad Boys Inc	-
	7	Pride & Glory	Pride & Glory	-
		Purple	Stone Temple Pilots	-
		Gems	Patti LaBelle	-
		Regulate... G Funk Era	Warren G	Debut
		Walk On	Boston
		When Love Finds You	Vince Gill	-
	9	On and On	Masaharu Fukuyama	-
	8	Pandora's Toys	Aerosmith (compilation)	-
	10	Migratory Birds	Dave Wong	UFO Record Labels
	13	Split	Lush	-
		Aria	Asia	-
	14	Age Ain't Nothing but a Number	Aaliyah	Debut
		Pure and Simple	Joan Jett and the Blackhearts	-
		Suicidal for Life	Suicidal Tendencies	-
		Through the Fire	Peabo Bryson	-
		Turn It Upside Down	Spin Doctors	-
		Zingalamaduni	Arrested Development	-
	15	Deflowered	Pansy Division	-
	17	Temple Stone	Ghost	Live
	20	Genius and Brutality...Taste and Power	Brainbombs	-
	21	Betty	Helmet	-
		Bee Thousand	Guided by Voices	-
		Super Bad	Terminator X	-
		Creepin on ah Come Up	Bone Thugs-n-Harmony	EP
		Dance Naked	John Mellencamp	-
		Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved	Various Artists	Kiss tribute
		Let's Go	Rancid	-
	22	Surface of Pain	Masquerade	-
	26	Klaus Schulze Goes Classic	Klaus Schulze	-
	27	Keb' Mo'	Keb' Mo'	Debut
		One Foot In The Grave	Beck	-
	28	Funkdafied	Da Brat	Debut
		Get Up on It	Keith Sweat	-
		MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett	Tony Bennett	Live
		One Step Ahead of the Spider	MC 900 Ft. Jesus	-
		Same as It Ever Was	House of Pain	-
		Si Te Vas	Jon Secada	-
		Stand By for Pain	Widowmaker	-
		¡Viva Zapata!	7 Year Bitch	-
		Welcome to Sky Valley	Kyuss	-
		Who I Am	Alan Jackson	-
	30	Love Gone Sour, Suspicion, and Bad Debt	The Clarks	-

July–September

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
J U L Y	1	Year of the Dog	Wolfstone	-
	4	Music for the Jilted Generation	The Prodigy	-
	5	Cracked Rear View	Hootie & the Blowfish	Diamond (10 million+ copies sold)
		DGC Rarities Vol. 1	Various Artists	-
		Hot Boxing	Magnapop	-
		I Ain't Movin'	Des'ree	-
		Liquor in the Front	The Reverend Horton Heat	-
		Thirty Years of Maximum R&B	The Who	Box set
	7	SMAP 006: Sexy Six	SMAP	-
	8	Master of the Rings	Helloween	-
	11	Voodoo Lounge	The Rolling Stones	-
		Zopilote Machine	The Mountain Goats	-
	12	Cowboys in Love	Riders in the Sky	-
		Dewdrops in the Garden	Deee-Lite	-
		Uncle Sam's Curse	Above the Law	-
		downset.	downset.	-
		Grassroots	311	-
		Hungry for Stink	L7	-
		The Kansas Boxed Set	Kansas	Box set
		The Last Temptation	Alice Cooper	-
		Tales from the Thousand Lakes	Amorphis	-
	13	In the Trees	The Watchmen	Canada
	14	Roman Candle	Elliott Smith	-
		Tierra	L'Arc-en-Ciel	-
	15	W.F.O.	Overkill	-
	18	Parables for Wooden Ears	Powderfinger	Debut
		The Space Age Playboys	Warrior Soul	-
		Terminal Spirit Disease	At the Gates	-
	19	Chief Boot Knocka	Sir Mix-a-Lot	-
		For the Love of Strange Medicine	Steve Perry	-
		Harbinger	Paula Cole	-
		It Takes A Thief	Coolio	-
		Peep This	Jamie Foxx	Debut
		Portrait of an American Family	Marilyn Manson	Debut
		Punk in Drublic	NOFX	-
		We Come Strapped	MC Eiht	-
	25	Chocolate Synthesizer	Boredoms	Japan only
		Pandemonium	Killing Joke	-
		These Are Not Fall Colors	Lync	-
	26	Going Public	Newsboys	-
		Gringo Honeymoon	Robert Earl Keen	-
		Inside Out	Fates Warning	-
		Out of Range	Ani DiFranco	-
		Pawnshop Guitars	Gilby Clarke	-
	27	Adesso	Toshinori Yonekura	-
	29	Desire	Aaron Kwok	Chinese UFO Records
	?	The Happy Album	The Selecter	-
A U G U S T	1	Now That's What I Call Music! 28	Various Artists	Compilation
	2	Push Comes to Shove	Jackyl	-
		Creep wit' Me	Ill Al Skratch	Debut
		Love Spit Love	Love Spit Love	-
		Playtyme Is Over	Immature	-
		The Tractors	The Tractors	-
		Rotting Piñata	Sponge	-
		Whaler	Sophie B. Hawkins	-
	5	Prick	Melvins	-
	8	Frigate	April Wine	-
		Snivilisation	Orbital	-
	9	Autogeddon	Julian Cope	-
		Burn My Eyes	Machine Head	Debut
		Mars Audiac Quintet	Stereolab	-
		6 Feet Deep	Gravediggaz	Debut
	10	Living Under June	Jann Arden	Canada
	15	Grace	Jeff Buckley	Europe
	16	After the Storm	Crosby, Stills & Nash	-
		Blue House	Marcia Ball	-
		Come	Prince	-
		Handful of Rain	Savatage	-
		Jerky Boys 2	Jerky Boys	-
		Maybe You Should Drive	Barenaked Ladies	-
		Picture Perfect Morning	Edie Brickell	-
		Sleeps with Angels	Neil Young and Crazy Horse	-
		Stress: The Extinction Agenda	Organized Konfusion	-
	18	Hard Hats	Phil Beer	-
	19	The Business Trip	Hawkwind	Live
		Songs in the Key of Bree	Buck-O-Nine	-
	22	Dummy	Portishead	Debut
		Everyone's Got One	Echobelly	UK
		Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some	Cyndi Lauper	Compilation + new tracks
		Thirsty Work	Status Quo	-
	23	Bakesale	Sebadoh	-
		Bust a Nut	Tesla	-
		Cover Girl	Shawn Colvin	-
		Ken Mellons	Ken Mellons	-
		Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age	Public Enemy	-
		Natural Born Killers	Various Artists	Produced by Trent Reznor
		Natural Ingredients	Luscious Jackson	-
		Rhythm of Love	Anita Baker	-
		Rubberneck	Toadies	Debut
		Stoned & Dethroned	The Jesus and Mary Chain	-
		When I Woke	Rusted Root	-
		Without a Sound	Dinosaur Jr.	-
		House of Love	Amy Grant	-
	27	Stuck	Puddle of Mudd	-
	30	Definitely Maybe	Oasis	Debut 7× platinum
		The Holy Bible	Manic Street Preachers	-
		Secret World Live	Peter Gabriel	Live
		Down	The Jesus Lizard	-
		Days in the Wake	Palace Brothers	-
		Segundo Romance	Luis Miguel	-
		Fresh soundtrack	Various Artists	-
		II	Boyz II Men	-
		Twice Removed	Sloan	-
		Usher	Usher	Debut
S E P T E M B E R	5	Change Giver	Shed Seven	UK release date; Debut album
		Mamouna	Bryan Ferry	-
	6	Ain't Life Grand	Widespread Panic	-
		Born Dead	Body Count	-
		File Under: Easy Listening	Sugar	-
		Flesh	David Gray	-
		LAND	Land	-
		Stranger than Fiction	Bad Religion	-
		The Sporting Life	Diamanda Galás
		U.S.A.	Flatlinerz	-
	12	Universal Mother	Sinéad O'Connor	-
		From the Cradle	Eric Clapton	Covers album
		D.I. Go Pop	Disco Inferno	-
		Disco 2	Pet Shop Boys	Remix album
		The Shadowthrone	Satyricon	Remix album
	13	Autopilot	The Samples	-
		Four	Blues Traveler	-
		Friendly People	Guttermouth	-
		If I Were A Carpenter	Various Artists	Carpenters tribute
		John Henry	They Might Be Giants	-
		Ready to Die	The Notorious B.I.G.	Debut
		Red Hot + Country	Various Artists	Part of Red Hot Benefit series
		Release	Cop Shoot Cop	-
		Terry McBride & the Ride	McBride & the Ride	-
		There's Nothing Wrong with Love	Built to Spill	-
	19	Dos Dedos Mis Amigos	Pop Will Eat Itself	-
		Kylie Minogue	Kylie Minogue	-
	20	I See It Now	Tracy Lawrence	-
		Jamie Walters	Jamie Walters	Debut
		Mighty Joe Moon	Grant Lee Buffalo	-
		Project: Funk da World	Craig Mack	Debut
		Whip-Smart	Liz Phair	-
	26	In the Hot Seat	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	-
		My Iron Lung	Radiohead	EP
		Protection	Massive Attack	-
		The Best Mixes from the Album Debut for All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels	Björk	Remix
		Hot Trip to Heaven	Love & Rockets	-
		Thug Life: Volume 1	2Pac	-
	27	11 Tracks of Whack	Walter Becker	-
		American Thighs	Veruca Salt	Debut
		Boomtown	Toby Keith	-
		Brandy	Brandy	Debut
		Chocolate and Cheese	Ween	-
		Deliverance	Corrosion of Conformity	-
		Divine Intervention	Slayer	-
		The Glory of Gershwin	Larry Adler/Various Artists	Gershwin tribute
		The Great Subconscious Club	K's Choice	-
		I Love Everybody	Lyle Lovett	-
		Kermit Unpigged	The Muppets	-
		Monster	R.E.M.	-
		Permanent Record: Al in the Box	"Weird Al" Yankovic	Box Set
		Pulp Fiction	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Ruby Vroom	Soul Coughing	Debut
		Shade Business	PMD	-
		Songs	Luther Vandross	-
		Under the Table and Dreaming	Dave Matthews Band	Debut
		Waitin' on Sundown	Brooks & Dunn	-
	30	Greater Art	Lake of Tears	-
	?	Dis Unu Fi Hear	Beenie Man	-
		Atofio Hrysafi	Katy Garbi	-
		Speak Squeak Creak	Melt-Banana	-

October–December

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
O C T O B E R
	1	Purgatory Afterglow	Edge of Sanity	-
	3	No Need to Argue	The Cranberries	7× Platinum (US); 5× Platinum (Canada/Europe)
	4	Awake	Dream Theater	-
		Christmas Spirit	Donna Summer	Christmas
		Danzig 4	Danzig	-
		Death Row	Accept	-
		Greatest Hits: The Platinum Collection	Barry Manilow	Compilation
		The Icon Is Love	Barry White	-
		Low	Testament	-
		Lucacentric	Lucas	-
		Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath	Various Artists	Black Sabbath tribute
		Night Music	Joe Jackson	-
		Pisces Iscariot	The Smashing Pumpkins	Compilation of B-Sides/Unreleased material
		Question the Answers	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	-
		Stones in the Road	Mary Chapin Carpenter	-
	10	Dog Man Star	Suede	-
		King of the Kill	Annihilator	-
		The Cult	The Cult	-
		Música de Rua	Daniela Mercury	-
		Singin' with the Big Bands	Barry Manilow	-
	11	Bumpin'	Dis-n-Dat	-
		Clerks	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Colouz Uv Sound	Simple E	-
		Country 'til I Die	John Anderson	-
		D Generation	D Generation	-
		Korn	Korn	Debut
		Millennium	Front Line Assembly	-
	14	Renaissance: The Mix Collection	Sasha and Digweed	Mix album
	17	The Return of the Space Cowboy	Jamiroquai	UK
		Requiem	Bathory	-
		Steam	East 17	-
	18	Blowout Comb	Digable Planets	-
		Cross Road	Bon Jovi	Compilation
		The Diary	Scarface	-
		Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me	Gloria Estefan	Covers CD
		Genocide & Juice	The Coup	-
		Law of the Jungle	Various artists	Compilation
		Murder Was the Case	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Promised Land	Queensrÿche	-
		Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's	The Go-Go's	Compilation +3 new tracks
		Scratch the Surface	Sick of It All	-
		Stoner Witch	Melvins	-
		Word...Life	O.C.	Debut
		Worst Case Scenario	Deus	-
	19	Humanimal Part 2	Talisman	EP
	20	The Sea and Cake	The Sea and Cake	-
	21	Future Listening!	Towa Tei	-
		Love or Nothing	Miyuki Nakajima	-
		Tears Laid in Earth	The 3rd and the Mortal	-
	22	Landscapes	Shun	-
		Neulainen Jerkunen	Absoluuttinen Nollapiste	-
	23	Burn or Bury	Milk Cult	-
	24	At Action Park	Shellac	-
		The Best of Chris Rea	Chris Rea	-
		Barangay Apo	Apo Hiking Society	-
		Firin' in Fouta	Baaba Maal	-
		Home	Deep Blue Something	RainMaker release
		Mr. Moonlight	Foreigner	-
		Oyster	Heather Nova	-
		Sacrifice	Gary Numan	-
		Starlite Walker	Silver Jews	-
		Toward the Within	Dead Can Dance	Live
	25	Bedtime Stories	Madonna	-
Bright Red		Laurie Anderson	-
Geek the Girl		Lisa Germano	-
Nervous Breakdown		Fu-Schnickens	-
Resurrection		Common Sense	-
Time		Mercyful Fate	-
Turbulent Indigo		Joni Mitchell	-
Voodoo-U		Lords of Acid	-
Wildhoney		Tiamat	-
26	Mother	Luna Sea	-
	Pokinatcha	MxPx	-
	The Special Collectors Edition	Blur	Compilation of B-Sides
27	Personligt	Carola Häggkvist	-
28	Gang Affiliated	Gospel Gangstaz	-
	Merry Christmas	Mariah Carey	Christmas songs
	Same Old Tunes	Millencolin	-
31	The Best of Sade	Sade	Compilation
	Thank You For The Music	ABBA	Europe; Box Set
?	Overdose	Pizzicato Five	-
	San Francisco	American Music Club	-
N O V E M B E R	1	Amorica	The Black Crowes	-
		Big Ones	Aerosmith	Compilation
		The Good, the Bad, and the Argyle	The Bouncing Souls	-
		Healing Hands of Time	Willie Nelson	-
		Letters Never Sent	Carly Simon	-
		Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Album: A Rock Adventure	Ron Wasserman	-
		MTV Unplugged in New York	Nirvana	Live
		Sixteen Stone	Bush	Debut; 6× Platinum
		Wildflowers	Tom Petty	-
		Youthanasia	Megadeth	-
	3	Giant Robot	Buckethead	-
	4	Psyche	PJ & Duncan	-
	7	No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded	Page and Plant	Live
		Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994	Sting	Compilation +2 new tracks
		Amber	Autechre	[27]
	8	A Low Down Dirty Shame	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Athos	Stephan Micus	-
		Endless Summer: Donna Summer's Greatest Hits	Donna Summer	Compilation +2 new tracks
		Hell Freezes Over	Eagles	Live/Studio
		Higher Power	Big Audio	-
		Lookin' Back at Myself	Aaron Tippin	-
		Lost in the Former West	The Fatima Mansions	-
		The Main Ingredient	Pete Rock & CL Smooth	-
		The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World	Keith Murray	-
		None	Meshuggah	EP
		Still Climbing	Cinderella	-
		Woodstock 94	Various Artists	-
	14	Bizarre Fruit	M People	-
		More Pink: The B-Sides	Tori Amos	Australia/New Zealand
		A Very Special Season	Diana Ross	Christmas
	15	Ass, Gas, or Cash (No One Rides for Free)	K-Dee	-
		CrazySexyCool	TLC	Diamond status, 23 million+ copies sold
		Duets II	Frank Sinatra	-
		Fate (with Utha Likumahuwa crying-saxophone and Harvey Malaiholo composer)	Andy Lau	UFO Record Finale
		Tical	Method Man	-
	21	Don't Ask	Tina Arena	-
		Now That's What I Call Music! 29	Various Artists	Compilation
		Pulse	Megumi Hayashibara	-
		The Songs of Distant Earth	Mike Oldfield	-
	22	Behind Bars	Slick Rick	-
		The Black Album	Prince	Recorded 1986–'87
		Bootlegs & B-Sides	Ice Cube	Compilation
		Box of Fire	Aerosmith	Box Set
		Dare Iz a Darkside	Redman	-
		Laura Pausini	Laura Pausini	-
		Miracles: The Holiday Album	Kenny G	Christmas Album
		Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt	John Frusciante	-
		Vitalogy	Pearl Jam	-
	25	Blasphemy Made Flesh	Cryptopsy	-
	26	Frost	Enslaved	-
	28	Haunted Dancehall	The Sabres of Paradise	-
	29	The Impossible Bird	Nick Lowe	-
		My Life	Mary J. Blige	-
	30	Live at the BBC	The Beatles	Recorded 1963–65
	?	Och du tände stjärnorna	Thorleifs	-
Rivermaya		Rivermaya	-
D E C E M B E R	1	For all tid	Dimmu Borgir	-
	5	Second Coming	The Stone Roses	UK
	6	Ambushed	Da Bush Babees	-
		Non-Fiction	Black Sheep	-
		The Sweetest Days	Vanessa Williams	-
	12	Fishing for Luckies	The Wildhearts	-
		Rapid City Muscle Car	Cherry Poppin' Daddies	-
	13	The Hits	Garth Brooks	Compilation
		Interview with the Vampire	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Maná en Vivo	Maná	Live
	19	Jimmy Eat World	Jimmy Eat World	Debut
	20	Keep the Fire Burnin'	Dan Hartman	Compilation +2 new tracks
	21	Heavy Metal Hippies	Loudness	-

Release date unknown

Acoustic - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Another Thought - Arthur Russell Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Bjesovi – Bjesovi Blue Room – Unwritten Law The Church Within – The Obsessed Churn – Seven Mary Three Clocking Out Is for Suckers – Drake Tungsten Danzón (Dance On) – Arturo Sandoval Obaa Sima – Ata Kak Dial Hard – Gotthard - Gulfam – Hariharan Halo in a Haystack – Converge Hellig Usvart – Horde I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle – Portastatic Imagínate – Menudo

Ja još spavam u tvojoj majici – Ceca K... jego mać – Sedes Mi Forma De Sentir – Pedro Fernández Naghmet Hob – Najwa Karam Nefarious (EP) – Spoon Nek'af uzhas, nek'af at – Hipodil Old Stuff, Part Two – Anal Cunt Patashnik – Biosphere Peter Frampton – Peter Frampton Potatoes for Christmas (EP) – Papa Roach Puno't Dulo – The Dawn Quick – Far Safe Sex Designer Drugs & the Death of Rock 'N' Roll – Baby Chaos Soda Pop-Rip Off – Slant 6 Sour – Ours Spit Burger Lottery – Jimmie's Chicken Shack Television - Dr. John Tortoise - Tortoise Unboxed – Free Kitten The Walls We Bounce Off Of - John Hartford

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions.^[28] in the charts of 1994.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart entries
1	Bruce Springsteen	Streets of Philadelphia	1994		Austria 1 – Apr 1994, Norway 1 – Feb 1994, Poland 1 – Feb 1994, Germany 1 – Mar 1994, Republic of Ireland 1 – Mar 1994, Oscar in 1993, UK 2 – Mar 1994, Switzerland 2 – Mar 1994, Italy 3 of 1994, France 4 – Feb 1994, Holland 6 – Feb 1994, RYM 6 of 1994, Sweden 7 – Feb 1994, US BB 9 of 1994, Europe 29 of the 1990s, US BB 30 of 1994, Australia 30 of 1994, US CashBox 49 of 1994, POP 63 of 1994, AFI 68, Germany 74 of the 1990s, WXPN 837
2	Bryan Adams & Rod Stewart & Sting	All For Love	1994	/	US BB 1 of 1994, Sweden 1 – Dec 1993, Austria 1 – Feb 1994, Switzerland 1 – Jan 1994, Norway 1 – Jan 1994, Poland 1 – Dec 1993, Germany 1 – Jan 1994, Republic of Ireland 1 – Jan 1994, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Apr 1994, UK 2 – Jan 1994, Holland 3 – Jan 1994, US BB 9 of 1994, Italy 9 of 1994, Australia 10 of 1994, US CashBox 22 of 1994, POP 25 of 1994, Germany 87 of the 1990s
3	Rednex	Cotton-Eyed Joe	1994		UK 1 – Dec 1994, US BB 1 of 1995, Holland 1 – Aug 1994, Sweden 1 – Aug 1994, Austria 1 – Oct 1994, Switzerland 1 – Oct 1994, Norway 1 – Oct 1994, Germany 1 – Jan 1995, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Mar 1995, POP 1 of 1995, Germany 18 of the 1990s, US BB 25 of 1995, Australia 41 of 1995, Party 54 of 2007, Scrobulate 72 of party
4	All-4-One	I Swear	1994		US BB 1 of 1994, Holland 1 – Jul 1994, Austria 1 – Aug 1994, Switzerland 1 – Jul 1994, Germany 1 – Jul 1994, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Jul 1994, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Nov 1994, UK 2 – Jun 1994, Norway 2 – Jul 1994, Australia 2 of 1994, US CashBox 3 of 1994, Sweden 3 – Aug 1994, US BB 7 of 1994, Poland 14 – Jul 1994, Germany 39 of the 1990s, OzNet 657
5	Mariah Carey	Without You	1994		UK 1 – Feb 1994, Holland 1 – Feb 1994, Sweden 1 – Feb 1994, Austria 1 – Apr 1994, Switzerland 1 – Apr 1994, Poland 1 – Feb 1994, Germany 1 – Mar 1994, Republic of Ireland 1 – Feb 1994, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Apr 1994, US BB 3 of 1994, Norway 3 – Mar 1994, US CashBox 15 of 1994, Australia 15 of 1994, Germany 25 of the 1990s, POP 37 of 1994

Top 40 Chart hit singles

Song title	Artist(s)	Release date(s)	US	UK	Highest chart position	Other Chart Performance(s)
"100% Pure Love"	Crystal Waters	April 1994	11	15	2 (Australia)	See chart performance entry
"21st Century (Digital Boy)"	Bad Religion	1994	n/a	41	1 (Hungary)	11 (U.S. Billboard Alternative Airplay - Hungary [Single Top 40]) - 32 (Austria) - 41 (Germany)
"About a Girl (Unplugged)"	Nirvana	October 1994	n/a	185	1 (Iceland)	See chart performance entry
"Absolutely Fabulous"	Pet Shop Boys	June 1994	n/a	6	2 (Australia, New Zealand)	See chart performance entry
"All I Wanna Do"	Sheryl Crow	April 1994	2	4	1 (Australia, Canada)	See chart performance entry
"All I Want for Christmas Is You"	Mariah Carey	October 1994	1	1	1 (26 countries)	See chart performance entry
"Always"	Bon Jovi	September 1994	4	2	1 (6 countries)	See chart performance entry
"Always"	Erasure	April 1994	20	4	1 (Israel, Lithuania)	See chart performance entry
"Amor Prohibido"	Selena	April 1994	n/a	n/a	1 (Mexico)	See chart performance entry
"An Angel"	The Kelly Family	June 1994	n/a	69	1 (Austria)	2 (Austria, Switzerland) - 5 (Ireland) - 40 (Netherlands)
"Another Day"	Whigfield	August 1994	n/a	7	3 (Denmark, Italy)	See chart performance entry
"Any Time, Any Place"	Janet Jackson	May 1994	2	13	2 (United States)	See chart performance entry
"Anytime You Need a Friend"	Mariah Carey	May 1994	12	8	1 (Finland)	See chart performance entry
"Around the World"	East 17	May 1994	n/a	3	1 (Israel)	See chart performance entry
"Away from Home"	Dr. Alban	May 1994	n/a	42	2 (Finland, Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)	See chart performance entry

Other chart hit singles

• "Baby, Come Back" – Pato Banton & UB40
• "Baby, I Love Your Way" – Big Mountain (#1 Denmark, Spain and Sweden)
• "Back & Forth" – Aaliyah (#5 US)
• "Be Happy" – Mary J. Blige
• "Basket Case" – Green Day (#3 Sweden, #7 UK)
• "Because of Love" – Janet Jackson
• "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" – Selena (#8 Mexico)
• "Big Yellow Taxi" – Amy Grant
• "Black Hole Sun" – Soundgarden (#1 Iceland, #5 Canada)
• "Buddy Holly" – Weezer
• "Bump n' Grind" – R. Kelly
• "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" – Elton John
• "Carry Me Home" - Gloworm
• "Chains" – Tina Arena (#4 Australia, #6 UK)
• "Cigarettes & Alcohol" – Oasis
• "Circle of Life" – Elton John
• "Closer" – Nine Inch Nails (#3 Australia)
• "Come On You Reds" – The Manchester United Football Squad (#1 UK and Denmark)
• "Cornflake Girl" – Tori Amos
• "Confide in Me" – Kylie Minogue
• "Cotton-Eyed Joe" – Rednex
• "Crazy" – Aerosmith
• "C.R.E.A.M." – Wu-Tang Clan
• "Creep" – TLC
• "Dedicated to the One I Love" – Bitty McLean
• "Dimension Divertida" – Paco Pil (#1 Spain)
• "Dissident" – Pearl Jam
• "Donde Quiera Que Estés" – Barrio Boyzz & Selena
• "Don't Follow" – Alice in Chains
• "Don't Turn Around" – Ace of Base
• "Doop" – Doop
• "Do You Wanna Get Funky" - C+C Music Factory
• "Dreams" – The Cranberries
• "Dreams (Will Come Alive)" – 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor
• "Dromen zijn bedrog" – Marco Borsato (#1 Netherlands)
• "Drop Dead Beautiful" – Six Was Nine (#1 in South Africa, #3 in Iceland)
• "Dry County" – Bon Jovi
• "Eins, Zwei, Polizei" – Mo-Do (#1 Austria, Germany and Italy)
• "Endless Love" – Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey
• "Everybody" – DJ BoBo
• "Everybody Gonfi-Gon" – 2 Cowboys
• "Everybody on the Floor (Pump It)" – Tokyo Ghetto Pussy
• "Everyday" – Phil Collins
• "Everything Changes" – Take That
• "Fade into You" – Mazzy Star
• "Fantastic Voyage" – Coolio
• "Feel the Heat of the Night" – Masterboy
• "Feeling So Real" – Moby
• "Flava In Ya Ear" – Craig Mack
• "Flying High" – Captain Hollywood Project (#3 Europe)
• "Forever Young" - Interactive
• "Found Out About You" – Gin Blossoms (#3 Canada)
• "Fotos y Recuerdos" – Selena
• "Foule sentimentale" – Alain Souchon (#1 France)
• "Funkdafied" – Da Brat
• "Games People Play" – Inner Circle (#4 New Zealand, #7 Sweden and Switzerland)
• "Gin & Juice" – Snoop Doggy Dogg
• "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" - Urge Overkill
• "Girls & Boys" – Blur
• "Give Me All Your Love" – Magic Affair (#3 Finland, #4 Denmark)
• "Gotta Get Away" – The Offspring
• "Happy Nation" – Ace of Base (#1 Denmark, Finland, France, Israel)
• "Here Comes the Hotstepper" – Ini Kamoze (#1 New Zealand and US)
• "Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)" - Cyndi Lauper
• "Hold On" - Jamie Walters (#2 Sweden, #3 Norway)
• "Hyper Hyper" – Scooter (#1 Spain, #2 Austria and Germany)
• "I Alone" – Live
• "I Like to Move It" – Reel 2 Real
• "I Show You Secrets" – Pharao (#3 Finland, #5 Austria)
• "I Stay Away" – Alice in Chains
• "I Wanna Be Down" – Brandy
• "If I Only Knew" - Tom Jones
• "I'll Make Love to You" – Boyz II Men
• "I'll Remember" – Madonna
• "I'll Stand by You" – The Pretenders
• "I'll Take You There" - General Public
• "I Love Saturday" - Erasure
• "In Your Room" – Depeche Mode
• "Infected" – Bad Religion
• "Inside" – Stiltskin
• "Inside Your Dreams" – U96 (#1 Finland, #9 Switzerland)
• "Interstate Love Song" – Stone Temple Pilots (#2 Iceland)
• "Is This the Love" – Masterboy
• "It Takes Me Away" – Marusha (#3 Germany)
• "It's Alright" – East 17 (#1 Australia, Ireland and Israel)
• "It's a Rainy Day" – Ice MC
• "I Will Survive (La La La)" - Hermes House Band
• "Je danse le Mia" – IAM
• "Jessie" – Joshua Kadison
• "Juicy" – Notorious B.I.G.
• "La solitudine" – Laura Pausini (#1 Belgium, Italy and Netherlands)
• "Let the Beat Control Your Body" – 2 Unlimited
• "Let the Beat Go On" – Dr. Alban
• "Let the Dream Come True" – DJ BoBo
• "Live Forever" – Oasis
• "Living in Danger" – Ace of Base
• "Longview" – Green Day
• "Look Who's Talking" – Dr Alban
• "Loser" – Beck
• "Lost in America" – Alice Cooper
• "Love Ain't Here Anymore" – Take That
• "Love Is All Around" – Wet Wet Wet (#1 UK)
• "Love Is Strong" – Rolling Stones
• "Love Religion" – U96
• "Love Song" – Mark 'Oh (#5 Germany, #8 Switzerland)
• "Love Spreads" – The Stone Roses
• "Lucky One" – Amy Grant
• "Mädchen" – Lucilectric
• "Mamá Yo Quiero" - King África
• "Mary Jane's Last Dance" – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (#5 Canada)
• "Mass Appeal" – Gangstarr
• "(Meet) The Flintstones" – The B-52's
• "Mishale" - Andru Donalds
• "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" – Crash Test Dummies
• "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" – Prince
• "Move It Up" – Cappella (#6 Finland, Netherlands)
• "Move on Baby" – Cappella (#1 Europe)
• "Mr. Jones" – Counting Crows (#1 Canada)
• "Never Lie" – Immature (#5 US)
• "No Excuses" – Alice in Chains
• "No Good (Start the Dance)" – The Prodigy (#1 Finland, Greece)
• "No More (I Can't Stand It)" – Maxx
• "No Me Queda Mas" – Selena
• "No One" – 2 Unlimited
• "Now and Forever" – Richard Marx (#6 Canada, #7 US)
• "Omen III" – Magic Affair
• "On Bended Knee" – Boyz II Men
• "Only One Road" – Celine Dion
• "Penso Positivo" – Jovanotti (#2 Italy)
• "Please Come Home for Christmas" - Bon Jovi
• "The Real Thing" – 2 Unlimited
• "The Real Thing" – Tony Di Bart
• "Regulate" – Warren G & Nate Dogg
• "Renaissance" - M People
• "Return to Innocence" – Enigma (#1 Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Zimbabwe, #2 Denmark, #3 UK)
• "The Ride" – Basic Element
• "Right Beside You" – Sophie B. Hawkins (#7 Canada, #8 Switzerland)
• "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" - Meat Loaf
• "Rock My Heart" – Haddaway (#1 Israel, #4 Finland)
• "Rocks" - Primal Scream
• "Run Away" – Real McCoy (#3 US, #4 Australia, Finland, #5 Zimbabwe)
• "Run to the Sun" – Erasure
• "Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
• "Saturday Night" – Whigfield
• "Secret" – Madonna
• "Seether" – Veruca Salt
• "Self Esteem" – The Offspring (#1 Iceland, Norway, Sweden, #3 Finland)
• "Sensualité" – Axelle Red (#2 France, #6 Belgium)
• "Set the World on Fire" – E-Type
• "Seven Seconds" – Neneh Cherry & Youssou N'dour (#1 Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland)
• "Shine" – Aswad (#4 Iceland, #5 UK)
• "Shine" – Collective Soul
• "Short Dick Man" – 20 Fingers & Gillette (#1 France, Italy)
• "Si Una Vez" – Selena
• "Sight for Sore Eyes" - M People
• "The Sign" – Ace of Base
• "Sleeping in My Car" – Roxette
• "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" – Marusha
• "Spin the Black Circle" – Pearl Jam
• "Spoonman" – Soundgarden
• "Stay Another Day" – East 17
• "Stay (I Missed You)" – Lisa Loeb
• "Stay Together" – Suede
• "Strani amori" – Laura Pausini
• "Streets of Philadelphia" – Bruce Springsteen
• "Strong Enough" – Sheryl Crow
• "Sukiyaki" – 4 P.M. (#3 Australia, #8 US)
• "Summer in the City" – Joe Cocker
• "Supernova" – Liz Phair
• "Supersonic" – Oasis
• "Sure" – Take That
• "Sure Shot" – Beastie Boys
• "Swamp Thing" – The Grid
• "Sweet Dreams" – La Bouche (#1 Europe)
• "Sweets for My Sweet" – C. J. Lewis (#3 UK)
• "Take a Bow" – Madonna
• "Tears Don't Lie" – Mark 'Oh
• "Techno Cumbia" – Selena
• "There is a Star" – Pharao
• "Things Can Only Get Better" – D Ream
• "Think About the Way" – Ice MC
• "Think Twice" – Celine Dion
• "This D.J." – Warren G
• "This Is the Way" – E-Type
• "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
• "Touch" – Basic Element (#3 Sweden, #7 Finland, #9 Denmark)
• "Trouble " – Shampoo
• "Turn the Beat Around" – Gloria Estefan
• "Twist and Shout" – Chaka Demus & Pliers
• "U & Me" – Cappella
• "U R the Best Thing (Perfecto Remix)" - D:Ream
• "Undone - The Sweater Song" – Weezer
• "United" – Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark
• "What's My Name" – Snoop Doggy Dogg
• "Welcome to Paradise" – Green Day
• "Welcome to Tomorrow (Are You Ready?)" – Snap! (#1 Finland, #4 Belgium, #6 UK)
• "What's up" – DJ Miko
• "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" – R.E.M.
• "Whatta Man" – Salt-n-Pepa & En Vogue
• "When I Come Around" – Green Day
• "When We Dance" - Sting
• "White Dove" - Scorpions
• "Wild Night" – John Mellencamp & Me'shell Ndegeocello
• "Without You" – Mariah Carey
• "Yesterday, When I Was Mad" - Pet Shop Boys
• "You Don't Know How It Feels" - Tom Petty
• "You Mean the World to Me" - Toni Braxton
• "You Want This" – Janet Jackson
• "Zombie" – The Cranberries

Notable singles

Song title	Artist(s)	Release date(s)	Other Chart Performance(s)
"In Your Room"	Depeche Mode	January 1994	See chart performance entry

Other Notable singles

• "In the Neighbourhood" - Sisters Underground

Top ten best albums of the year

All albums have been named albums of the year for their hits in the charts.^[29]

1. TLC – CrazySexyCool
2. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
3. Weezer – Weezer
4. Portishead – Dummy
5. Nirvana – MTV Unplugged In New York
6. Green Day – Dookie
7. Nas – Illmatic
8. Blur – Parklife
9. Soundgarden – Superunknown
10. Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral

Classical music

• Thomas Beveridge – Yizkor Requiem
• George Crumb – Quest for guitar, soprano saxophone, harp, double bass, and percussion (two players)
• Richard Danielpour – Cello Concerto
• Mario Davidovsky – Festino for guitar, viola, violoncello, contrabass
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Symphony No. 5
• David Diamond – Trio for violin, clarinet and piano^[30]
• Lorenzo Ferrero
  • Paesaggio con figura for small orchestra
  • Portrait for string quartet
• Osvaldo Golijov – The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
• Vagn Holmboe – Symphony No. 13, M.362 (begun 1993)
• Guus Janssen – Klotz, for violin, hi-hat and small ensemble
• Karl Jenkins – Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary
• Wojciech Kilar – Reign Over Us, Christ, for voice and piano
• Oliver Knussen – Horn Concerto
• György Kurtág – Stele
• Morten Lauridsen – O magnum mysterium^[31]
• Frederik Magle – Concerto for organ and orchestra The Infinite Second
• Thea Musgrave – Journey through a Japanese Landscape, for marimba and wind
• Tristan Murail – L'esprit des dunes
• Michael Nyman – Concerto for Trombone
• Einojuhani Rautavaara – Symphony No. 7 Angel of Light
• Steve Reich
  • City Life
  • Bagoya Marimbas
• Robert Simpson – String Quintet No. 2 (1991–94)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Weltraum (electronic music from Freitag aus Licht)
• Boris Tishchenko – Symphony No. 7
• Charles Wuorinen
  • Lightenings VIII, for soprano and piano
  • Piano Quintet
  • Christes Crosse, for soprano and piano
  • Percussion Quartet
  • Guitar Variations
  • Windfall, for wind ensemble

Opera

• Peter Maxwell Davies – The Doctor of Myddfai
• Jonathan Dove – Siren Song
• Vivian Fine – Memoirs of Uliana Rooney
• Adam Guettel – Floyd Collins
• Nicholas Lens – The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Flamma Flamma – The Fire Requiem
• Tobias Picker – Emmeline, libretto by JD McClatchy
• Alice Shields – Apocalypse
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Freitag aus Licht (completed; not staged until 1996)

Jazz

Main article: 1994 in jazz

Musical theater

• Beauty and the Beast – Broadway production opened at the Palace Theatre and ran for 5461 performances
• Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein) – Broadway revival
• Damn Yankees (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) – Broadway revival
• Grease – Broadway revival
• Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) – Broadway revival
• Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd Webber) – Broadway production opened at the Minskoff Theatre and ran for 977 performances

Musical films

• Aag Aur Chingari
• Andaz, with music by Bappi Lahiri
• Airheads
• Backbeat
• Chaand Kaa Tukdaa, starring Sridevi^[32]
• Fear of a Black Hat
• Gandugali, with music by Sadhu Kokila.^[33]
• Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies
• Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, with music by Raamlaxman^[34]
• Immortal Beloved, biopic of Ludwig van Beethoven
• The Lion King – animated feature film with songs by Elton John and Tim Rice
• Min fynske barndom, biopic of composer Carl Nielsen^[35]
• Sukham Sukhakaram, with music by Ravindra Jain.^[36]
• The Swan Princess – animated feature film
• That's Entertainment! III
• Thumbelina – animated feature film.

Births

• January 6 – Catriona Gray, Australian model, presenter, singer and beauty queen
• January 13 – Asta, Australian singer-songwriter
• January 14 – Kai, Korean singer and dancer (EXO)
• January 18
  • Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer^[37]
  • Jiyoung, South Korean singer and actress^[38]
• January 23 – Vera Blue, Australian indie singer-songwriter
• January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer and rapper
• February 1
  • Skylar Laine, American singer-songwriter
  • Harry Styles, British musician, singer-songwriter, activist, (pop singer of boy band One Direction) (worked with Taylor Swift, Mabel, Stevie Nicks, Kacey Musgraves)
• February 3 – Orla Gartland, Irish singer, songwriter and YouTuber (member of band Fizz)
• February 8 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer
• February 10 – Seulgi, Korean singer and dancer (Red Velvet)
• February 14
  • Paul Butcher, American actor and singer
  • Becky Hill, English singer and songwriter
• February 16 – Ava Max, American singer-songwriter
• February 17 – Angie Miller, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• February 18 – J-Hope, South Korean rapper, songwriter, dancer and record producer, member of BTS
• February 21 – Wendy, Korean singer (Red Velvet)
• February 22 – Rachael Leahcar, (Italian) Australian multi lingual singer-songwriter, musician, performer, writer, runner, composer, and runner composer (The Voice (Australia)) (team and toured with Delta Goodrem)
• February 23 – Little Simz, English rapper, singer and actress
• February 24 – Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper
• February 28 – Jake Bugg, English singer-songwriter and musician
• March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
• March 3 - Sam Asghari, Iranian-American actor, dancer, fitness guru, businessman, business owner and model (Formerly married & muse to Britney Spears)
• March 10 – Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican Latin trap and reggaeton singer.
• March 11 – Jace Chan, Hong Kong singer and actress
• March 12 – Christina Grimmie, American singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, actress and YouTuber (d. 2016)
• March 14 – Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer and DJ
• March 15 – Lynn Gunn, American musician (PVRIS)
• March 16
  • Connie Glynn, English author, YouTuber, former influencer, and member of snaggletooth, a "Very haunted" band. (Former name of blog: Noodlerella, worked with Evan Edinger & Dodie)
  • Camilo, Colombian singer, musician and songwriter. (Married to Evaluna Montaner)
• March 17 – Amber Holcomb, American singer
• March 19 – Fletcher, American actress, singer, and songwriter.
• March 20 – R'Bonney Gabriel, American model, fashion designer and beauty pageant
• March 22 – Dax, Canadian rapper
• March 28
  • Dreezy, American hip hop recording artist, rapper, musician
  • Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas, twin English country-pop musicians
  • Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper
• March 29 – Sulli, singer and actress (d. 2019)^[39]
• April 1 – Ella Eyre, English singer-songwriter
• April 4 – Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer
• April 9 – Bladee, Swedish rapper, singer, songwriter, fashion designer and member of the musical group Drain Gang.
• April 11 – Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer-songwriter, winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2019
• April 12
  • Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer
  • Sehun, Korean singer, rapper and actor (EXO)^[40]
• April 18 – Aminé, American rapper, singer and songwriter
• April 24 – Jordan Fisher, American singer, dancer and actor
• April 25
  • Sam Fender, English actor, singer-songwriter, musician and activist
  • Maggie Rogers, American singer-songwriter and record producer
• April 26 - Michael Pollack, American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
• May 1 - Kacy Hill, American singer-songwriter, producer and former model
• May 5 – Celeste, American-born British singer
• May 7 - Laurel (musician). British musician
• May 11 - Howard Lawrence of EDM House garage band, Disclosure
• May 17 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina actress, singer, television personality
• May 24 – Dimash Kudaibergen, Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• May 25 -
  • Royal & the Serpent, American singer and songwriter
  • Nathan Dawe, English DJ and producer (Annie-Marie, Little Mix, Ella Henderson)
• May 28 – Alec Benjamin, American musician
• May 30 - Madeon, French musician, DJ, songwriter, singer and music producer
• May 31 - Lil Aaron, American rapper, singer and songwriter
• June 4 – Olivia Somerlyn, known as LIVVIA, American pop singer-songwriter
• June 14 – Scarlxrd, British rapper and songwriter
• June 18 – Takeoff, American rapper (Migos) (d. 2022)
• June 22 - Louta (musician), Argentine performing musician, producer, songwriter, and disc-jockey
• June 25 - Egor Kreed, Russian rapper
• June 27 - Malinda Kathleen Reese, American stage actress, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter, comedian, YouTuber, and activist (Founder, Leader, Creator of Twisted Translations/ Google Translate Sings / Translator Fails)
• July 4
  • Era Istrefi, Kosovar singer
  • Amaarae, A Ghanaian-American pop, afrobeat, alte, R&B singer
• July 5 – Sơn Tùng M-TP, Vietnamese singer-songwriter
• July 7
  • Ashton Irwin, Australian drummer and singer-songwriter (5 Seconds of Summer)
• July 9 - SG Lewis, English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer (Tove Lo)
• July 10 – Angel Haze, American rapper and singer
• July 11 – Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter, model, and musician
• July 14 - Bibi Bourelly, German-American singer-songwriter
• July 17 – Kali Uchis, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, record producer, music video director, and fashion designer
• July 31 – Lil Uzi Vert, American rapper, singer, songwriter
• August 2 – Jacob Collier, British musician, singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist
• August 8 – Lauv (Ari Leff), American singer-songwriter and record producer
• August 9 – King Von, American rapper (d. 2020)
• August 11 – Alejandro Aranda, American singer
• August 16 – Áine Cahill, Irish singer-songwriter
• August 17 – Phoebe Bridgers, American indie rock singer-songwriter, musician and artist^[41]
• August 18 – Bobby Andonov, Australian singer-songwriter and actor
• August 22 – Jimilian, Danish singer
• August 28 – Felix Jaehn, German/Dutch DJ and record producer
• August 29 - Courtney Stodden, American media personality, model and singer
• August 30 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer^[42]
• August 31 - MoStack British Rapper and Singer (worked with: Anne-Marie)
• September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer
• September 12 – RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer, member of BTS
• September 17
  • Taylor Ware, American singer and yodeler
  • Chen Yihan, Chinese pianist and composer
• September 22
  • Emily Burns, English musician and singer-songwriter
  • G Flip, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, musician, drummer and activist
• September 23 – Zolita, American singer-songwriter, director, photographer and activist
• September 28 – Trevor Daniel, American singer-songwriter
• September 29 – Halsey, American singer-songwriter, artist and activist^[43]
• October 1 – Alfredo Olivas, Mexican singer
• October 2 – Shekhinah, South African singer-songwriter
• October 4 – Sarah Aarons, Australian singer, songwriter, musician
• October 15 – Sebastián Yatra, Colombian singer
• October 24 – Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer^[44] (member of Boygenius)
• October 15 – Lil' Kleine, Dutch musician
• November 3 – Ella Mai, English singer and songwriter
• November 4 – keshi, American singer
• November 6 – Speaker Knockerz, American rapper and record producer (d. 2014)
• November 7 – Haruna Iikubo, Japanese actress and singer (Morning Musume)
• November 8 – Lauren Alaina, American country music singer, songwriter and actress
• November 9 – MNEK, British singer-songwriter and record producer
• November 24 – Reece Mastin, winner of The X Factor (Australia), rock-soul-blues singer-songwriter, and musician (English born, Australian)
• November 26 – Emma Portner, American dancer and choreographer
• November 28 – Bonnie Anderson, Australian singer-songwriter
• December 2 – Laura Les, American music producer and singer-songwriter (100 gecs)
• December 13 – Ibeyi (Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz), twin French singer-songwriters
• December 18 = Slowthai, British rapper (married to and worked with:Anne-Marie)
• December 19
  • Michele Bravi, Italian singer
  • Nathan Evans, Scottish musician
• December 21, Thelma Plum, an Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist and musician
• Unknown: Ny Oh, a New Zealand folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

Deaths

• January 4 – R. D. Burman, music director, 54^[45]
• January 6 – Harold Sumberg, violinist, 88
• January 15
  • Harry Nilsson, singer, songwriter, 52 (heart attack)^[46]
  • Georges Cziffra, pianist, 72^[47]
• January 22 – Rhett Forrester, American singer-songwriter, 37 (shot)
• January 25 – Bertha Rawlinson, New Zealand opera singer, composer and music teacher, 83
• January 30 – Rudolf Schwarz, conductor, 88
• February 5 – Tiana Lemnitz, operatic soprano, 96
• February 7 – Witold Lutosławski, composer, 81
• February 8 – Raymond Scott, composer and bandleader, 85
• February 19 – Micho Russell, Irish tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore, 79
• February 22 – Papa John Creach, blues violinist, 76^[48]
• February 24
  • Jean Sablon, French singer, 87
  • Dinah Shore, singer, actress, 77^[49]
• March 3 – Karel Kryl, Czech folk singer, 49^[50]
• March 6 – Yvonne Fair, African-American singer, 51
• March 13 – Danny Barker, jazz musician and composer, 85
• March 16 – Nicolas Flagello, composer, 66^[51]
• March 18 – Ephraim Lewis, soul and R&B singer, 26
• March 22 – Dan Hartman, singer, 42 (brain tumour)
• March 23 – Donald Swann, pianist, composer and entertainer (Flanders and Swann), 70
• April 5
  • Rowland Greenberg, Norwegian jazz trumpeter, 73
  • Kurt Cobain, singer & guitarist (Nirvana), 27 (self-inflicted shotgun wound)
• April 7 – Lee Brilleaux, British R&B singer (Dr. Feelgood), 41 (cancer)
• April 19 – Larry Davis, blues singer and guitarist, 57
• May 23 – Joe Pass, jazz guitarist, 65 (liver cancer)
• May 25 – Eric Gale, jazz guitarist, 55 (lung cancer)
• May 26 – Sonny Sharrock, jazz guitarist, 53
• May 27 – Red Rodney, bop trumpeter, 66
• May 29 – Oliver Jackson, jazz drummer, 61
• May 31
  • Uzay Heparı, Turkish composer, music producer, songwriter and actor, 24 (motorcycle accident)
  • Herva Nelli, operatic soprano, 85
• June 4
  • Derek Leckenby, guitarist (Herman's Hermits), 51
  • Earle Warren, saxophonist, 79
• June 11 – Robert Beadell, composer, 68
• June 14 – Henry Mancini, composer, 70
• June 15 – Manos Hadjidakis, composer, 68
• June 16 – Kristen Pfaff, bass guitarist (Hole), 27 (heroin overdose)
• June 25
  • Kin Vassy, songwriter, performer, co-lead singer and guitarist of The First Edition 1969–72 (lung cancer), 50
  • DJ Train, producer (smoke inhalation)
• June 29 – Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, 85
• July 2 – Marion Williams, gospel singer, 66
• July 31 – Anne Shelton, British singer, 70
• August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter, 66
• September 2 – Roy Castle, musician and all-round entertainer, 62 (lung cancer)
• September 3 – Major Lance, R&B singer, 55
• September 6
  • Nicky Hopkins, session musician, keyboardist, 50 (complications from intestinal surgery)
  • Max Kaminsky, jazz trumpeter and bandleader, 85
• September 7 – Eric Crozier, librettist, 79
• September 13 – John Stevens, jazz musician
• September 20 – Jule Styne, songwriter, 88
• September 24 – Urmas Alender, singer, 40 (drowned in MS Estonia sinking)
• September 29 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian Raj musician, 26 (murdered)
• October 4 – Danny Gatton, guitarist, 49
• October 19 – Martha Raye, singer and comedian, 88
• October 22
  • Jimmy Miller, record producer, 52
  • Shlomo Carlebach, Jewish songwriter
• October 26 – Wilbert Harrison, R&B singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player, 65
• October 27 – Robert White, Motown session guitarist, 57
• October 31
  • Lester Sill, record executive, 76
  • Erling Stordahl, Norwegian singer, 71
• November 4 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, MC5 guitarist, 46 (heart attack)
• November 7 – Shorty Rogers, jazz trumpeter, 70
• November 11 – Elizabeth Maconchy, composer, 87
• November 18 – Cab Calloway, jazz and scat singer, 86
• November 21 – Juancho Rois, Colombian vallenato musician, accordionist, and composer, 35 (plane crash)
• November 28 – Vic Legley, Belgian violist and composer of French birth, 79
• December 8 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, bossa nova composer and songwriter, 67
• December 10 – Garnett Silk, reggae singer, 28 (house fire)
• December 23 - Dan Hamilton, singer (Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds), 48

Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: John Lennon, Elton John, Grateful Dead, The Band, Bob Marley, Duane Eddy, Rod Stewart, and The Animals
• Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Tennessee Ernie Ford

Filmfare Awards

• Kumar Sanu – Filmfare Best Male Playback Award
• Filmfare Best Music Director Awards – Rahul Dev Burman

Grammy Awards

• 36th Annual Grammy Awards

Country Music Association Awards

• 1994 Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1994

Mercury Music Prize

• Elegant Slumming – M People wins.

Juno Award

• Rascalz – Juno Award Best rap album

Charts

• List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1994
• 1994 in British music#Charts
• List of Oricon number-one singles of 1994

KROQ

• KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1994

Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 1994

See also

• 1994 in British music
• Record labels established in 1994