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1996 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that occurred in 1996.

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Events

January

February

March

April

May

  • May 8
    • The Galway Early Music Festival is launched in Ireland.
    • A judge rules against Tommy Lee and wife, actress Pamela Anderson Lee, in their attempt to keep Penthouse from publishing still photos taken from an X-rated home movie that was stolen from their home in Los Angeles.
  • May 11 – A 17-year-old fan is crushed in the festival seating section at a concert by The Smashing Pumpkins in Dublin, Ireland, despite the presence of 110 security guards and repeated admonishments from the band telling the crowd to stop surging towards the stage. The fan dies of her injuries the next day, and the band cancels that night's show in Belfast as a result.[24]
  • May 18 – The 1996 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway, is won by Irish singer Eimear Quinn, with the song "The Voice". It is Ireland's record seventh, and most recent, win at Eurovision.
  • May 25Sublime lead singer Bradley Nowell dies of a heroin overdose at age 28.
  • May 30Depeche Mode leader Dave Gahan is arrested upon his release from hospital, having overdosed on a heroin and cocaine 'speedball' in a Los Angeles hotel room and been pronounced clinically dead for two minutes in an ambulance. Gahan is ordered by the court to complete a nine-month rehabilitation.

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Also in 1996

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Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Bands on hiatus

Bands reunited

Albums released

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July–September

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October–December

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Biggest hit singles

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The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1996.

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Top 40 Chart hit singles

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Notable singles

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Classical music

Opera

Jazz

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

Awards

Charts

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