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- 2007 In British Music
- 2007 In Hip Hop
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- --- George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen 's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame. Imogen Cooper , John Rutter and Rod Stewart are awarded the CBE.
- ---Rumours circulate that .
- ---Rumours circulate that Timbaland may have appropriated his ringtone ''Block Party'' and the related beat to Nelly Furtado's " Do It ." ''See 2007 Timbaland Plagiarism Controversy ''.
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- --- February 7 —Frontman Billy Corgan reveals that The Smashing Pumpkins would finally release the first reunion album '' Zeitgeist '' on July 7 th.1 This would be the band's first widely released album since 2000s '' Machina/The Machines Of God '' with the last Smashing Pumpkins album '' Machina II/The Friends & Enemies Of Modern Music '' being restricted to only 25 copies upon initial release.
- --- February 11 —the 49th Grammy Awards aired on CBS , presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles .
- --- February 16 —American Rock band Audioslave break up after Chris Cornell leaves band because of "Musical Differences".
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- --- March 1 — Angela Hacker was voted by viewers to be the 2007 champion of the televised singing competition '' Nashville Star ''. By virtue of her win, she was signed to a record deal with Warner Bros. Records .
- --- March 12 — Matchbook Romance announces that they are taking an indefinite hiatus, after ten years of their career, as all members decided to go their separate ways.3
- --- March 16 — Bad Religion revealed that their new album would be called '' New Maps Of Hell ''.4
- --- March 21 — Toshimitsu Deyama announces that he has been recording with Yoshiki after ten years.
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- --- April 17 — Arcturus officially announced that they would be splitting up due to the fact that they were to busy with other matters to focus on progressing with the band.
- --- April 22 — Patrick Wolf told fans on his message board that he was retiring from the music business5. However, he later revoked this, saying that he will merely be on hiatus6
- --- April 27 – April 29 — Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in Coachella, CA
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- --- May 11 —Guitarist Chickn posted a message on MySpace , confirming that D.I. would finally release the long-awaited first reunion album '' On The Western Front '' on August 7 th.7 This would be their first official album featuring new material since 1994's '' State Of Shock ''.
- --- May 12 —The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was held in Helsinki , Finland . It was won by Serbia .
- --- May 15 — Minutes To Midnight of Linkin Park sales more than 600.000 copies in the USA and more than 1.000.000 worldwide and to the date is the most selling album in the first week.
- --- May 16 – May 20 —The European Festival Of Youth Choirs is currently being held in Basel , Switzerland .
- --- , Social Distortion , Interpol , Queens Of The Stone Age , 30 Seconds To Mars , The Bravery , Silversun Pickups ,
The Killers → Incubus , Korn , Bad Religion , Rise Against , Tim Armstrong , Peter Bjorn And John , Tiger Army , and Plain White T's .8
- --- May 23 — Jordin Sparks of Arizona wins Season 6 of American Idol .
- --- May 25 – May 28 — Salzburg Festival
- --- May 26 – May 27 — Sasquatch! Music Festival
- --- May 30 – June 5 —The Peel Bay Festival Isle Of Man TT
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- --- June 4 —Yoshiki announces that X Japan would reunite for a new tour and a single.
- --- June 8 – June 10 — Download Festival
- --- June 14 – Daft Punk came back in Paris for a show, ten years after their last performance in the french capital.
- --- June 14 — Heineken Jammin' Festival 's hosted shows from Idols Are Dead , Lauren Harris , Mastodon , Domine , Stone Sour , Slayer and Iron Maiden
- --- June 22 – June 23 — Radio Expres Festival - The First Music Festival Of The Best Slovak Radio Station — Radio Expres
- --- June 22 – June 25 — Glastonbury Festival
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- --- , Björk , Muse , The Roots , Sonic Youth , Bloc Party , LCD Soundsystem , Groove Armada , Dizzee Rascal , Laurent Garnier , Crazy P , The Strike Boys , Freeform Five .
- --- July 1 —The Concert For Diana in honour of Lady Diana's 46th birthday takes place in the Wembley Stadium in London.
- --- , Alicia Keys , Kanye West , Bon Jovi , Fall Out Boy , Shakira , John Mayer , Roger Waters , Beastie Boys , Duran Duran , Madonna , Foo Fighters , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Black Eyed Peas , Spinal Tap , Jack Johnson , Lenny Kravitz , Metallica as well as the reunited bands The Police , Genesis , The Smashing Pumpkins and Crowded House .
- --- July 7 – July 8 — T In The Park , Oxegen 2007
- August 4 – August 11 —The Three Choirs Festival will be held at Gloucester .
- , Avenged Sevenfold , Bloc Party , The Horrors , Interpol , The Offspring , Sum 41 , Metallica and We Are Scientists .9
- August Bank Holiday (last weekend in August)— Bryn Terfel 's Faenol Festival
- August 24 – August 26 — Carling Weekend — Reading And Leeds Festivals
- August 31 – September 2 — Electric Picnic 2007
- September 9 — Sonata Arctica will play for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- September 12 – October 1 — Prague Autumn International Music Festival
- September 20 – September 23 —4th annual Decibel Festival , Seattle
- September 22 – 29 —35th North Wales International Music Festival will be held at St Asaph .
- Sometime in December—The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ will air the eighteenth annual Acoustic Christmas
- October 27 — Interpol , Yo La Tengo , The Whitest Boy Alive , The Horrors , TeddyBears and other bands will appear on the Manifest Festival, at Mexico City.
- December 31 — Nelly Furtado 's Warner Bros. Records -based single, "All Good Things (Come To An End)", first appears on Mix 106.5 (Sydney), MIX 101.1 (Melbourne), Vega 95.3 (Sydney), Vega 91.5 (Melbourne) and the Rest of the MIX FM stations.
All releases are an LP unless otherwise stated and are listed alphabetically by album name for each release date and unspecified date.
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- &2 Weeks on the Chart in 2007
- ³ Weeks in the top ten in 2007
- A—First No. 1 Billboard song for that artist.
- —Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
(The following are accurate sales of albums while they have been within the top 40, on the UWC)
- January 1 — Del Reeves , American country singer, 74
- January 6 — Pete Kleinow , American steel gutairist of Flying Burrito Brothers , 72
- January 8 — Mercedes Murciano , Cuban member of Miami Sound Machine , 49. Correct spelling. Death from pneumonia.
- January 13 — Michael Brecker , popular US jazz saxophonist of the post-Coltrane era, 57
- January 17 —Uwe Nettlebeck, German producer and founder of progressive rock band Faust , age unknown
- January 18 — Brent Liles , original bassist of the influential American punk band Social Distortion , 43
- January 19 — Denny Doherty , Canadian singer-songwriter of The Mamas & The Papas , 66
- January 22 — Disco D , an American music producer and composer.
- January 28 — Karel Svoboda , composer, 68
- January 31 — Kirka Babitzin , singer, former Eurovision representative for Finland, 56
- February 1 — Gian Carlo Menotti , composer, 95
- February 6 — Billy Henderson , American vocalist with The Spinners , known in the UK as The Detroit Spinners , 67
- February 8 — Anna Nicole Smith , porn actress, 39
- --- Joe Hunter , American pianist and bandleader ( The Funk Brothers ), 79
- February 4 — Ilya Kormiltsev , Russian songwriter ( Nautilus Pompilius ), 47
- February 6 —Frankie Laine, American singer, 93
- February 15 — Ray Evans , American songwriter, 92
- February 18 —John "Bam Bam" Lane, American drummer ( Bill Haley And The Comets ), 76
- February 19 — Janet Blair , American actress and singer, 85
- February 23 — Donnie Brooks , American pop singer, 71
- February 23 — Ian Wallace , British drummer ( King Crimson ), 60
- February 28 — Billy Thorpe , British-born Australian rock performer, 60
- March 9 — Brad Delp , American lead singer of 1970s AOR band Boston , 55
- March 19 — Luther Ingram , American singer, 69
- April 5 — Mark St. John , American guitarist ( KISS , White Tiger ), 51
- April 9 — Egon Bondy , Czech singer and songwriter ( Plastic People Of The Universe ), 77
- April 10 — Dakota Staton , US jazz vocalist, 74
- April 14 — Don Ho , Hawaiian musician, 76
- April 17 — Kitty Carlisle , US actress and singer, 96
- April 25 — Bobby "Boris" Pickett , US singer, 69
- April 26 —San Fadyl, American drummer ( The Ladybug Transistor ), 31
- April 27 — Mstislav Rostropovich , Russian cellist and conductor, 80
- April 30 — Zola Taylor , American female vocalist with The Platters , 69
- --- April 30 — Grégory Lemarchal , French singer, 23
- --- Zola Taylor , American singer ( The Platters ), 69
- May 06 — Đorđe Novković , Croatian songwriter, 63
- May 20 — Ben Weisman , pianist/composer of several Elvis Presley film songs, 95
- May 27 — Izumi Sakai , Japanese singer ( Zard ), 40
- June 1 — Tony Thompson , American singer ( Hi-Five ), 36
- June 4 — Freddie Scott , American singer, 74
- June 8 — Nellie Lutcher , US jazz and pop singer and pianist, 94
- June 18 — Hank Medress , American singer ( The Tokens ), 67
- June 24 — Natasja , Danish / Jamaican reggae singer, 33
- June 29 —George McCorkle, American guitarist ( Marshall Tucker Band )
- July 2 — Hy Zaret , US lyricist, 98
- July 3 — Boots Randolph , American saxophonist, 80
- July 4 — Bill Pinkney , American vocalist; last original member of The Drifters , 81.
- July 5 — George Melly , Jazz vocalist/broadcaster, 80.
- July 8 — Jindřich Feld , Czech composer, 82
- July 11 — Rod Lauren , US singer and actor, 67
- July 15 —Kelly Johnson, British guitarist ( Girlschool ), 49
- July 23 — Ron Miller , Motown songwriter/producer, 74
- July 29 —Trevor Hudson, American bassist ( Bottom Of The Hudson ), 27
- August 4 — Lee Hazlewood , American singer and songwriter, 78
- August 10 — Anthony Wilson , music entrepreneur, founder of factory Records, 57
- August 12 — Merv Griffin , US band singer, television producer and land developer, 82
- August 16 — Max Roach , American jazz drummer, 83
- September 6 — Luciano Pavarotti , Italian tenor, 72
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