Sources: USA Today
The Recording Academy of the United States announces five new Grammy Award categories for 2027, including Best Asian Pop Music Performance, and revises eligibility rules for Best New Artist, increasing the maximum number of prior submissions from three to four. 2026-06-16
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its 2025 inductees, including English band Bad Company, American groups Outkast and Soundgarden, artists Cyndi Lauper and Carol Kaye, and more. 2025-04-27
The American pop star Madonna agrees on a settlement with her former husband Guy Ritchie over their son. 2016-09-7
Musical innovator and fourteen-time Grammy Award winning producer Phil Ramone dies at the age of 79. 2013-03-30
American 1950s pop singer Patti Page, best known for the "Tennessee Waltz" and "(How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window" dies in Encinitas, California. 2013-01-1
Swedish pop music singer Loreen wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with her song "Euphoria". 2012-05-26
Fires rage through Dakar after Senegal's top court rules that President Abdoulaye Wade can run for a third term in office next month and prevents his best-known opponent, Grammy Award-winning musician Youssou N'Dour, from running against him. 2012-01-28
Romanian pop singer Mădălina Manole commits suicide by poisoning. 2010-07-14