List of years in American music
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The following is a list of events and releases that happened in 2021 in music in the United States.

Notable events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Bands formed

Bands reformed

Bands disbanded

Albums released in 2021

January

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
1 Distant Bun B & Le$ Hip hop
J.T. Steve Earle
No Harm Done Josephine Foster
Circuit Boredom Ben Kweller Indie rock
Your Parents Are Sellouts That Handsome Devil
8 Greatest Hits Corrin Campbell
Heaux Tales (EP)[12] Jazmine Sullivan
American Soul Aaron Watson Country
15 AAR at the Movies (EP) The All-American Rejects Alternative rock
Fillmore West 1-31-71 Allman Brothers Band
Magic Mirror Pearl Charles
Catspaw Matthew Sweet
22 Sam Amidon Sam Amidon Folk
Melatonin Dreams BoyWithUke Alternative rock
Livin For Love Bill Champlin
Paranoia EP Maggie Lindemann
29 Dead Hand Control[13] Baio
I've Seen All I Need To See The Body
Family Album Lia Ices
OK Human[14] Weezer Rock

February

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
5 Medicine at Midnight[15] Foo Fighters
The Light Below Walking Papers
Flowers for Vases / Descansos Hayley Williams Folk
12 Life Rolls On Florida Georgia Line
I Only Want to Live Once John the Ghost Rock
It's A Beautiful Day And I Love You Jillette Johnson
Internet Killed the Rockstar Mod Sun
The Lucky Ones Pentatonix
Death by Rock and Roll The Pretty Reckless
On Earth, and in Heaven Robin Thicke R&B
19 The Sophtware Slump Grandaddy
Open Door Policy[16] The Hold Steady
Trauma Factory[17] Nothing, Nowhere
A Billion Little Lights Wild Pink
26 Little Oblivious Julien Baker
Life Support Madison Beer
The Shadow I Remember[18] Cloud Nothings
Dark River Lydia Luce
Single Album NOFX

March

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
5 Niratias Chevelle
You're Welcome A Day to Remember
When You See Yourself Kings of Leon Alternative rock
Conduit[19] The Spill Canvas
I Won't Care How You Remember Me Tigers Jaw
12 A History of Nomadic Behavior Eyehategod Sludge metal
This is This Grouplove
Spaceman Nick Jonas Pop
Topaz Israel Nash
The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy Rob Zombie
19 No Other Godz Before Me Agent Steel
Greatest Hits Vol 2 (Reissue) Papa Roach
26 El Dorado 24kGoldn
OK Orchestra AJR
The Bitter Truth Evanescence Hard rock
A Dream Away[20] The Juliana Theory
Tonic Immobility Tomahawk Alternative rock
sketchy.[21] Tune-Yards
My Savior[22] Carrie Underwood Gospel

April

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
2 Gary Bartz JID 006 Gary Bartz
Midlife Priceless Mark Bryan
Head of Roses Flock of Dimes
Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over[3] Demi Lovato Pop
Return of the Dragon Sacred Oath
9 Greatest Hits Live Ace Frehley
Trophies Apollo Brown
Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine Brockhampton
Fearless (Taylor's Version) (Re-recording)[4] Taylor Swift Country pop
16 Violence Unimagined Cannibal Corpse Death metal
Chemical Warfare[23] Escape the Fate
The Battle at Garden's Gate[24] Greta Van Fleet
Let the Bad Times Roll[25] The Offspring Punk rock
Liquid Tension Experiment 3 Liquid Tension Experiment Progressive metal
High Dive SHAED
Max Maco is Dead Right?[26] Two Feet
23 Into The Future (Reissue) Bad Brains
Heart & Soul Eric Church Country
Sweep It Into Space Dinosaur Jr.
Nurture Porter Robinson
The Rise & Fall of Loverboy Sir Sly
30 Love & Rage Carsie Blanton
Turn Up That Dial Dropkick Murphys Celtic punk
The Million Masks of God Manchester Orchestra
Shelley FKA DRAM Shelley
There Used To Be Horses Here Amy Speace

May

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
7 Ashlyn Ashe
When God Was Great[27] The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Better Mistakes Bebe Rexha
Set In Stone Travis Tritt Country
Van Weezer[28] Weezer
Sincerely, Kentrell Youngboy Never Broke Again Hip hop
14 Delta Kream The Black Keys
Blood Juliana Hatfield
Where Have You Gone Alan Jackson Country
The Ides Of March Myles Kennedy
Road To The Sun Pat Metheny
Daddy's Home St. Vincent
20 TV Tai Verdes
21 Butter Miracle, Suite One (EP) Counting Crows Alternative rock
Harmony House Dayglow
January Flower Mat Kearney
Long Lost Lord Huron
Perfectly Preserved Love and Death
Sour Olivia Rodrigo
Body Language.[6] Blake Shelton Country
Scaled and Icy Twenty One Pilots
Greatest Hits Waterparks
28 You Hear Georgia Blackberry Smoke
Based on a True Story (EP) Brynn Cartelli Pop
Exodus DMX Hip hop
Doom Loop (Reissue) Mansions
The Waylon Sessions Shannon McNally
Reprise Moby
The Iceberg Oddisee Hip hop

June

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
4 Baptize Atreyu
The Course of the Inevitable Lloyd Banks Hip hop
Fever Dreams BoyWithUke Alternative rock
Book of My Blues Mark Collie Country
Blood in the Water Flotsam and Jetsam Thrash metal
Garbage Band Kids[29] Green Jellÿ
Soberish Liz Phair
Nowhere Generation Rise Against
Changephobia[30] Rostam
Welcome To Sparks Nevada Sun Kil Moon
11 Bodies AFI
Fistful of Metal (Reissue) Anthrax
Remedy Azure Ray
No Gods No Masters[31] Garbage Alternative rock
Jordi Maroon 5 Pop
Troubled Paradise Slayyyter
Path of Wellness[32] Sleater-Kinney
18 The Summer House Sessions Don Cherry
Aggression Continuum Fear Factory
Smoke and Mirrors Steve Cole
Gentle Man Rory Feek
Chering Is Caring Cher Strauberry
25 Ruthless Gary Allan Country
Below Beartooth
Planet Her Doja Cat
Grim Value (EP) Eve 6
Boy for Michigan John Grant
Fake Ideas Hurry
Every Window is a Mirror (EP) Joywave
What a Song Can Do (Chapter One) Lady A Country
Roundtable Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
The Golden Casket Modest Mouse
Dark In Here The Mountain Goats
Death of a Cheerleader Pom Pom Squad
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Saint Motel

July

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
2
Tell Me About Tomorrow Jxdn
Bushido Mello Music Group
Freedom Over Everything Vince Mendoza
Fist Full Of Devils Earl Slick
9 Mythopoetics Half Waif
Kings of Crunk Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz Hip hop
XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time The Maine
Twin Shadow Twin Shadow
Exit Wounds The Wallflowers
16 Smash Caveman Indie rock
Chicago at Carnegie Hall Complete Chicago Rock
Sling Clairo
The Best of Dirty Heads Dirty Heads
Fallen Embers Illenium
Sob Rock John Mayer
Inner Feelings Roy Porter
Good Morning America Lawrence Rothman
Hideaway[33] Wavves
Lately I Feel Everything[34] Willow Pop-punk
17 Hail Satin Dee Gees
23 Perpetual Burn Jason Becker
Downhill From Everywhere Jackson Browne
9th & Walnut Descendents
Watch Over Me Lissie
The Ghost and the Wall Joshua Radin
30 Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night Bleachers
Traveler's Blues Blues Traveler
Happier Than Ever Billie Eilish
ARETHA Box Set Aretha Franklin
Rise from the Ashes Live at the Shrine The Ghost Inside
Welcome 2 America Prince
The House Is Burning Isaiah Rashad Hip hop

August

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
3 Harmonizer Ty Segall
6 Mirror Mirror Chick Corea
A Czar Is Born Czarface
Fighting Words Ellen Foley
Already Dead Willie Mason
Lavatorium Sponge Alternative rock
Never Too Late to Call Paul Thorn
13 One in a Million (25th Anniversary Re-issue) Aaliyah
Blacktop Mojo Blacktop Mojo
Live from the Ryman & More Sheryl Crow
United States vs. Billie Holiday Andra Day
Ekundayo Inversions El Michels Affair
Pressure Machine The Killers Folk rock
Distant Populations Quicksand
My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider Suzie Ungerleider Alternative country
Pillows & Therapy Weathers
20 Colors II Between the Buried and Me
Infinite Granite Deafheaven
Maybe We Will Never Die Anderson East
The Body Remembers Debbie Gibson
The Horses and the Hounds James McMurtry
Have a Seat Maggie Rose
The Cry of The Heart Connie Smith
27 Need 3OH!3
The Bronx VI The Bronx
Pure Robben Ford
Umbra Grayscale
If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power Halsey
Human OneRepublic
In a Roomful of Blood With a Sleeping Tiger Bob Schneider
Annette Sparks
Glow On Turnstile

September

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
3 Mercury – Act 1 Imagine Dragons
The Forgotten Edge Molly Lewis Acoustic
Amputechture (Reissue) The Mars Volta Progressive rock
Last of the Better Days Ahead Charlie Parr
All the Brilliant Things Skyzoo Hip hop
10 God is Partying Andrew W.K.
Live at Roadburn 2013 (live album) Elder
No Way Out But Through[35] Face to Face
The Rain Just Follows Me[36] Hawthorne Heights
Star–Crossed Kacey Musgraves
Thank You Diana Ross
Texis[37] Sleigh Bells
K Bay Matthew E. White
17 Lindsey Buckingham Lindsey Buckingham
Wolves Candlebox
Dearly Beloved Daughtry
One Way Out Melissa Etheridge
1984 Neon Christ
29: Written in Stone Carly Pearce Country
Swan Song The Plot in You
DOG BOY ZillaKami
Montero Lil Nas X Hip hop
Horizons/East[38] Thrice
24 Lifeforms[39] Angels & Airwaves
This is How the World Ends[40] Badflower
New Age Norms 3[41] Cold War Kids
We Weren't Here Film School Indie rock
Letting Go Hayden Pedigo
Forgiving It All Christopher Paul Stelling
Our Bande Apart Third Eye Blind Alternative rock
Downtown Rockers (Reissue) Tom Tom Club
The Beautiful Liar X Ambassadors

October

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
1 Distant Fires[42] Heiress
Let Me Do One More[43] Illuminati Hotties Indie pop
Trying Not To Think About It Jojo
Error Boy Lil Lotus
The Metallica Blacklist Metallica
American Nights (Reissue) Plain White T's
8 WORD?[44] Atmosphere Hip hop
Amanita (Reissue) Bardo Pond
A Very Darren Crissmas[45] Darren Criss
Open Mouth, Open Heart Destroy Boys
SuperBlue Kurt Elling
Geist Shannon Lay
Mercurial World Magdalena Bay
Revived Remixed Revisited Reba McEntire Country
Huffy We Are Scientists
Illusory Walls The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
15 Could It Get Better Than This The 502s
When Christmas Comes Around...[11] Kelly Clarkson
3rd Degree - The Raising Gemini Syndrome
Orange Print Larry June Hip hop
Flash (Reissue) Moving Sidewalks
Juno Remi Wolf
The Comeback[46] Zac Brown Band Country
22 A Dream About Love (EP) Circa Survive
A View from the Top of the World Dream Theater Progressive metal
Mr. Christmas[47] Brett Eldredge
Radical Every Time I Die
Hayday Feeble Little Horse Indie rock
Ånomåly[48] Fuel
Far In Helado Negro
My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket
The Good Fight Oddisee Hip hop
Sympathy for Life Parquet Courts
Dye Together Pangea
Civilian + Cut All The Wires 2009-11 Wye Oak
29 Ocean to Ocean Tori Amos
The Phantom Tomorrow Black Veil Brides
Hushed and Grim Mastodon
Into The Mystery Needtobreathe
Book They Might Be Giants
I Don't Live Here Anymore The War on Drugs
Kin Whitechapel
31 Yum Yum Bedlam Insane Clown Posse
Still Sucks Limp Bizkit Nu metal

November

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
5 Good for You Houndmouth
The Solution Is Restless Joan As Police Woman
So Many Me Michael League
Queens of The Summer Hotel Aimee Mann
The Future[49] Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Valentine Snail Mail
Mantis (Reissue) Umphrey's McGee
12 Macon Jason Aldean Country
Bloodless Claire Cronin
Acoustic Flipsyde
Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined Beverly Glenn-Copeland
An Evening with Silk Sonic Silk Sonic
Red (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift
Sick Sesh Teenage Bottlerocket
HEIGHTS[50] Walk the Moon
19 Bloodmoon: I Converge & Chelsea Wolfe
Marriage Deap Vally
Walk Like Me Robert DeLong Electronic
Persona Non Grata Exodus Thrash metal
Everything Pale Blue Annie Hart
What It Means to Fall Apart[51] Mayday Parade
Deciphering The Message Makaya McCraven
26 Doom Crew Inc. Black Label Society
Ascension Codes Cynic
Arise Dan Sartain Arise Dan Sartain
Live and Rare Helmet
In Concert (Reissue) Marvin Peterson

December

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
3 Wild Type Droid Failure
Against the World Hanson
Glowing Lantern The Mother Hips
December's Here New Found Glory
The Odd Tape (Reissue) Oddisee Hip hop
Echo Of Mice & Men Metalcore
Peace Meter Marissa Paternoster
10 A Beautuiful Revolution Vol. 2 Common Hip hop
The BBC Sessions Green Day
Keys Alicia Keys R&B
Moral Hygiene Ministry
Unexpected Marie Osmond
17 Fear Streets Parts 1–3 Marco Beltrami Classical
Gong Splat John Dwyer
Big Moon William Hooker
Live Life Fast Roddy Ricch Hip hop
At My Piano Brian Wilson
24 NOIR (Reissue) Blue Sky Black Death
Great Zeppelin (Reissue) Great White
And I Return To Nothingness Lorna Shore
Magic Nas Hip hop
Hitler Wears Hermes Eight Westside Gunn Hip hop
31 Pearl (Reissue) Janis Joplin
Wok World Marty Baller & Hell Rell Hip hop
Mourning Noise Mourning Noise
Radiant Moon Watchtower
Judas and the Black Messiah Various Artists Hip hop

Top songs on record

Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Songs

Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 Hits

All songs that reached the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the year, complete with peak chart placement.

Deaths

  • January 1 – Misty Morgan, 75, country music singer
  • January 7 –
  • January 8 – Ed Bruce, 81, country music singer, songwriter
  • January 11 –
  • January 13 –
  • January 14 –
    • Duranice Paice, 62, gospel singer
    • Larry Willoughby, 73, country music singer, songwriter
  • January 16 –
    • Jason Cope, 43, country music guitarist
    • Phil Spector, 81, record producer, pop musician and songwriter
  • January 17 –
  • January 18 – Jimmie Rodgers, 87, pop singer
  • January 21 – Randy Parton, 67, country music singer, songwriter
  • January 22 – James Purify, 76, R&B singer (James & Bobby Purify)
  • January 24 – Tom Stevens, 64, alternative country music bassist
  • January 29 – Grady Gaines, 86, blues saxophonist
  • January 30 – Double K, 43, rapper (People Under the Stairs)
  • February 2 – Aaron Wegelin, indie rock drummer
  • February 3 –
  • February 4 –
  • February 5 – Douglas Miller, 71, gospel singer
  • February 7 – Elliot Mazer, 79, record producer and audio engineer
  • February 8 – Mary Wilson, 76, soul singer (The Supremes)[52]
  • February 9 –
    • Chick Corea, 79, jazz keyboardist and composer
    • Cedrick Cotton, 46, R&B singer
  • February 10 – Lee Sexton, 92, bluegrass banjoist
  • February 12 – Milford Graves, 79, jazz drummer
  • February 14 – Ari Gold, 47, R&B singer
  • February 16 – Carman, 65, contemporary Christian singer
  • February 18 –
  • February 19 –
  • February 20 – Gene Taylor, 68, rock keyboardist
  • February 26 – Bob James, 68, hard rock singer
  • February 28 – Ian North, 68, power pop singer and guitarist
  • March 1 – Ralph Peterson Jr., 58, jazz drummer
  • March 2 – Mark Goffeney, 51, rock bassist
  • March 3 – Duffy Jackson, 67, jazz drummer
  • March 4 – Barbara Ess, 72, post-punk multi-instrumentalist
  • March 5 – Michael Stanley, 72, rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • March 11 –
  • March 14 –
    • Reggie Warren, 52, R&B singer
    • Taylor Dee, 33, country music singer
  • March 17 –
    • Matt Miller, 34, indie rock keyboardist
    • Freddie Redd, 92, jazz keyboardist
    • Corey Steger, 42, metalcore guitarist
  • March 18 – Paul Jackson, 73, jazz fusion bassist
  • March 19 – Gary Leib, 65, new wave keyboardist
  • March 20 – Dan Sartain, 39, garage rock and rockabilly singer-songwriter
  • March 23 – Don Heffington, 70, roots rock drummer
  • March 25 – Tavish Maloney, 24, emo guitarist
  • March 26 – Brett Bradshaw, 50, glam metal drummer
  • April 2 – Morris Dickerson, 71, funk bassist and singer
  • April 9 – DMX, 50, rapper, songwriter and actor
  • April 10 – Bob Petric, indie rock guitarist
  • April 14 – Rusty Young, 75, country rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • April 16 – Mike Mitchell, 77, rock guitarist
  • April 17 – Black Rob, 51, rapper
  • April 18 – Paul Oscher, 71, blues singer
  • April 19 – Jim Steinman, 73, rock lyricist, composer, pianist, and record producer
  • April 21 – Joe Long, 88, pop rock bassist
  • April 23 – Shock G, 57, rapper (Digital Underground)
  • April 25 – Denny Freeman, 76, blues guitarist
  • April 29 –
  • April 30 – John Dee Holeman, 92, Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, songwriter
  • May 1 – Wondress Hutchinson, 56, dance singer
  • May 2 – Tommy West, 78, music producer and singer-songwriter
  • May 3 – Lloyd Price, 88, singer-songwriter and businessman
  • May 6 – Pervis Staples, 85, gospel singer
  • May 8 – Curtis Fuller, 86, jazz trombonist
  • May 13 –
  • May 15 – Mario Pavone, 80, jazz pianist
  • May 16 – Patsy Bruce, 81, country songwriter
  • May 17 – Neal Ford, 78, psychedelic rock singer
  • May 19 – Alix Dobkin, 80, folk singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • May 20 – Roger Hawkins, 75, rock and soul drummer
  • May 24 –
    • John Davis, 66, dance pop music singer
    • Samuel E. Wright, 74, pop singer and actor
  • May 29 -
  • May 31 – Lil Loaded, 20, rapper
  • June 3 – Karla Burns, 66, opera singer
  • June 7 – David C. Lewis, soft rock and new age keyboardist
  • June 8 – Dean Parrish, 79, soul singer
  • June 9 – Juan Nelson, 62, blues rock bassist
  • June 18 – Gift of Gab, 50, rapper (Blackalicious)
  • June 20 –
  • June 23 – Ellen McIlwaine, 75, psychedelic rock and blues singer, guitarist
  • June 26 –
  • June 28 – Burton Greene, 84, free jazz pianist
  • July 1 – Bryan St. Pere, 52, alternative rock drummer
  • July 4 – Sanford Clark, 85, rockabilly singer
  • July 9 – Andrew Williams, 49, Christian rock drummer
  • July 10 –
    • Byron Berline, 77, bluegrass fiddler
    • Chris Hutka, 35, post-hardcore singer
  • July 11 – Juini Booth, 73, jazz bassist
  • July 14 –
    • Gary Corbett, 63, blues rock keyboardist
    • Jeff LaBar, 58, glam metal and blues rock guitarist (Cinderella)
  • July 16 – Biz Markie, 57, rapper
  • July 17 – Robby Steinhardt, 71, progressive rock singer and violinist (Kansas)
  • July 19 – Chuck E. Weiss, 76, blues rock singer-songwriter
  • July 21 – Clarence McDonald, 76, pianist, composer, arranger and producer
  • July 25 – Count M'Butu, 75, blues rock percussionist (The Derek Trucks Band)
  • July 26 –
  • July 27 – Willie Winfield, 91, doo-wop singer
  • July 28 – Dusty Hill, 72, rock singer and bassist (ZZ Top)
  • July 29 – Gonzoe, 45, rapper (Kausion)
  • August 1 – Paul Cotton, 78, country rock singer
  • August 3 – Kelli Hand, 56, techno DJ
  • August 4 –
  • August 7 – Dennis Johnson, 70, saxophonist
  • August 9 – Chucky Thompson, 53, record producer
  • August 11 –
  • August 12 – Ronnell Bright, 91, jazz pianist
  • August 13 –
  • August 17 – Squeak, 26, hip hop producer
  • August 20 –
  • August 21 –
  • August 22 – Eric Wagner, doom metal singer
  • August 26 – Kenny Malone, 83, country music drummer
  • August 29 –
    • John Drake, 74, rock singer
    • Ron Bushy, 79, psychedelic rock drummer
  • August 30 – Lee Williams, 75, gospel singer
  • September 1 – Carol Fran, 87, soul blues singer and pianist
  • September 5 – Rickie Lee Reynolds, 72, rock guitarist
  • September 7 – Warren Storm, 84, swamp pop singer and drummer
  • September 8 – Susan Anway, 70, indie rock singer
  • September 12 – Don Maddox, 90, country singer
  • September 13 – George Wein, 95, jazz pianist
  • September 15 – Leonard Gibbs, 73, jazz percussionist
  • September 16 – Jane Powell, 92, pop singer
  • September 20 –
    • Sarah Dash, 76, R&B and funk singer
    • Warner Williams, 91, blues guitarist
  • September 22 – Bob Moore, 88, country music bassist
  • September 23 – Sue Thompson, 96, pop and country singer
  • September 24 – Pee Wee Ellis, 80, jazz and soul saxophonist
  • September 26 – George Frayne IV, 77, country rock singer and keyboardist
  • September 27 – Andrea Martin, 49, R&B singer and songwriter
  • September 28 –
  • September 29 – Mike Renzi, 80, jazz pianist and conductor
  • September 30 – Carlisle Floyd, 95, opera composer
  • October 1 – Raymond Gniewek, 89, classical violinist
  • October 8 – Jem Targal, 74, psychedelic rock bassist
  • October 9 – Dee Pop, 65, post-punk drummer
  • October 11 – Deon Estus, 65, R&B bassist and singer
  • October 14 –
  • October 15 – Regi Hargis, 70, funk guitarist and singer
  • October 16 – Ron Tutt, 83, rock drummer
  • October 17 – Bruce Gaston, 74, classical instrumentalist
  • October 21 –
    • Tommy DeBarge, 64, funk bassist and singer
    • Robin McNamara, 74, pop rock singer-songwriter
  • October 22 – Jay Black, 82, pop rock singer
  • October 24 –
  • October 26 – Rose Lee Maphis, 98, country singer
  • October 27 – William Shelby, 65, funk keyboardist
  • November 1 –
  • November 2 – Ronnie Wilson, 73, funk instrumentalist
  • November 8 – Margo Guryan, pop singer-songwriter
  • November 10 – Mike Gresema, 56, hard rock drummer
  • November 11 – John Goodsall, 68, progressive rock and jazz guitarist
  • November 13 – Philip Margo, 79, doo-wop singer
  • November 17 –
  • November 18 − Slide Hampton, 89, jazz trombonist
  • November 20 − Billy Hinsche, 70, pop singer, guitarist and keyboardist
  • November 21 − Yul Anderson, 63, blues and gospel singer, guitarist and pianist
  • November 22 − Joanne Shenandoah, 63, folk singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • November 24 − Marilyn McLeod, 82, R&B singer and songwriter
  • November 26 − Stephen Sondheim, 91, film and theater composer and lyricist
  • December 1 – Alvin Lucier, 90, experimental composer and sound artist
  • December 4 − Stonewall Jackson, 89, country music singer
  • December 7 − Greg Tate, 63, multi-genre guitarist and music critic
  • December 8 −
    • Gil Bridges, 80, rock saxophonist
    • Barry Harris, 91, jazz pianist
    • Ralph Tavares, 79, R&B singer
  • December 9 − David Lasley, 74, pop and R&B singer
  • December 10 − Michael Nesmith, 78, rock and country singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Monkees)
  • December 13 − Joe Simon, 85, R&B and soul singer
  • December 15 − Hub, 62, hip hop bassist (The Roots)
  • December 16 − Wanda Young, 78, R&B singer
  • December 18 − Kangol Kid, 55, rapper (UTFO)
  • December 19 − Drakeo the Ruler, 28, rapper
  • December 20 − Paul Mitchell, 53, R&B singer
  • December 24 − J.D. Crowe, 84, bluegrass banjo player
  • December 25 − Tiffini Hale, 54, pop singer (The Party)
  • December 30 − Stephen J. Lawrence, 82, television composer

See also

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