==Eventos==
* 28 de fevereiro - Michael Jackson ganha um recorde de 8 Grammys pelo álbum Thriller, de 1982, incluindo "Álbum do Ano"; "Gravação do Ano", com "Beat It"; "Composição do Ano", com "Billie Jean"; e "Produtor Musical do Ano".
* Victory Tour, dos Jacksons. A turnê marcou a despedida de Jermaine, que não cantava com os irmãos há 8 anos.
* Guinness dos Recordes como o mais vendido da história.
* 14 de setembro - O primeiro MTV Video Music Awards é realizado no Radio City Music Hall, New York.
* 25 de Novembro 36 artistas pop de top do Reino Unido e Irlanda juntam-se num estúdio em Notting Hill para formar a Band Aid, e gravam o single "Do They Know It's Christmas", com o objectivo de angariar fundos para as vítimas da fome na Etiópia.
* 3 de setembro - É lançado o disco de Heavy Metal do Iron Maiden, Powerslave.

==Nascimentos==
{| 
|-
| | [[Junior Lima || cantor || Brasil ||
|-
| | [[Patrick Stump || cantor || EUA ||
|-
| | [[Luiza Possi || cantora || Brasil ||
|-
| | [[James Morrison (cantor)|James Morrison || cantor || Inglaterra || 
|-
| | [[Alizée || cantora || França ||
|-
| | [[Katie Melua || cantora || Georgia ||
|-
| | [[Avril Lavigne || cantora || Canadá ||
|-
| | [[Melody Thornton || cantora || EUA ||
|-
| | [[Lena Katina || cantora || Russia ||
|}

==Falecimentos==
{| 
|-
| | [[Codó (Clodoaldo de Brito), compositor e violonista || Brasil || 
|-
| | [[Ralph Kirkpatrick || músico, musicólogo e cravista || | n. [[1911
|-
| | [[Count Basie || músico e compositor de | [[EUA || n. 1904
|-
| | [[Leny Eversong || cantora de jazz e bossa nova || Brasil ||
|-
| | [[António Variações || músico || | n. [[1944
|-
| | [[Ronaldo Resedá || cantor ||  || n. 1945
|}

== Évènements ==
*1er avril : l'immense chanteur soul Marvin Gaye meurt tragiquement
*Police est numéro 1 et reçoit un MTV Award.
*24 avril : Annonce de la reformation du groupe Deep Purple, le groupe sortira deux mois plus tard l'album ''Perfect Strangers''.
*24 juin : sortie de l'album ''Born in the U.S.A.'' de Bruce Springsteen
*25 novembre : Le Band Aid enregistre ''Do they know it's Christmas time?''
* sortie du 1 album de Run DMC, intitulé ''Run DMC''. Ils sont les premiers à sampler un disque de hard-rock (de Black Sabbath) sur le morceau ''Rock Box''

== Principaux albums de l'année ==
*''Balls to the Wall'' - Accept
*''Anthrax
*''March Of the Saint'' - Armored Saint
*''Love at First Sting'' - Scorpions
*''All Over the Place'' - The Bangles
*''Black N' Blue'' - Black N' Blue
*''Bon Jovi'' - Bon Jovi
*''Endeavour To Persevere'' - The Barracudas
*''The Big Gap'' - The Barracudas
*''Tonight'' - David Bowie
*''Alchemy'' - Dire Straits
*''A Bride Abattue'' - Les Calamités
*''John Cale comes alive'' - John Cale
*''Heartbeat City'' - The Cars
*''Morbid Tales'' - Celtic Frost
*''Run Better Run'' - Cheepskates
*''17'' - Chicago
*''Like this'' - The dB's
*''Death Cult (futur The Cult)
*''Some Great Reward'' - Depeche Mode
*''Perfect Strangers'' - Deep Purple
*''The Longest Day'' - The Del Fuegos
*''Difford and Tilbrock'' - Difford and Tilbrock
*''The Last in Line'' - Dio
*''Tooth And Nail'' - Dokken
*''Arena'' (live) - Duran Duran
*''Wings of Tomorrow'' - Europe
*''All Fired Up'' - Fastway
*''Fixed Up'' - Fixed Up
*''American Beat'' - The Fleshtones
*''Dancin' On The Edge'' - Lita Ford
*''Agent provocateur'' - Foreigner
*''Talk Show'' - The Go-Go's
*''Great White'' - Great White
*''See You In Hell'' - Grim Reaper
*''The Las Vegas Story'' - Gun Club
*''Big Bam Boom'' - Hall & Oates
*''VOA'' - Sammy Hagar
*''Walkin' The Razor's Edge'' - Helix
*''Building the Perfect Beast'' - Don Henley
*''Stonehage romeos'' - Hoodoo Gurus
*''Five'' - The Inmates
*''Powerslave'' - Iron Maiden
*''Dream Street'' - Janet Jackson
*''Heart Don't Lie'' - LaToya Jackson
*''Zoolook'' - Jean Michel Jarre
*''Fervor'' - Jason and the Scorchers
*''Breaking Hearts'' - Elton John
*''Making History'' - Linton Kwesi Johnson
*''Slave of Emotion'' - Bruce Joyner and the Plantations
*''Defenders of the faith'' - Judas Priest
*''Animalize'' - KISS
*''The Blitz'' - Krokus
*''She's So Unusual'' - Cyndi Lauper
*''Cypress'' - Let's Active
*''Too Young To Love Me'' - Little Bob Story
*''Live (album, Little Bob Story)'' - Little Bob Story
*''Native Sons'' - The Long Ryders
*''How Will the Wolf Survive?'' - Los Lobos
*''Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit'' - Nick Lowe
*''Like a Virgin'' - Madonna
*''Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force
*''Legend: Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers'' - Bob Marley & the Wailers
*''Give My Regards to Broad Street'' - Paul McCartney
*''Ride The Lightning'' - Metallica
*''No Remorse'' - Motörhead
*''Party Girls-Broken Poets'' - Elliott Murphy
*''Give Daddy The Knife Cindy'' - Naz Nomads and The Nightmares
*''Fire is coming'' - The Neighborhoods
*''Temptation Pays Double'' - The Nomads
*''Penetrator'' - Ted Nugent
*''Remains'' - The Only Ones
*''Pressure Drop'' - Oku Onuora
*''To Beat Or Not To Beat'' - Paul Collins' Beat
*''The Honeydrippers: Volume One'' - Robert Plant
*''Learning to crawl'' - The Pretenders
*''Prince
*''Queen
*''Red Roses For Me'' - The Pogues
*''The Warning'' - Queensryche
*''Condition Critical'' - Quiet Riot
*''Out of the Cellar'' - Ratt
*''Red Hot Chili Peppers'' - Red Hot Chili Peppers
*''Reckoning'' - R.E.M.
*''Too Tough to Die'' - The Ramones
*''Let It Be'' - The Replacements
*''Rush
*''Sade
*''Io Domenico'' - Michel Sardou
*''Love at First Sting'' - Scorpions
*''Really Gone'' - The Shakers
*''The Smiths'' (février) et ''Hatful of Hollow'' (novembre) - The Smiths
*''A Can Of Bees'' - The Soft Boys
*''Special Aka
*''Born in the U.S.A.'' - Bruce Springsteen
*''Exotic Hotshots'' - Sugar Ray Ford
*''Real Live'' - Sunnyboys
*''Midnight Mission'' - The Textones
*''Frenetic Dancing'' - Les Thugs
*''Isolation'' - Toto
*''Private Dancer'' - Tina Turner
*''Triumph
*''Jungle'' - Dwight Twilley
*''Stay Hungry'' - Twisted Sister
*''U2
*''1984'' - Van Halen
*''Couldn't Stand The Weather'' - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
*''Hallowed Ground'' - Violent Femmes
*''No Brakes'' - John Waite
*''Warlock
*''W.A.S.P.'' - W.A.S.P.
*''In Rock We Trust'' - Y&T
*''Line of Fire'' - The Headpins
*''Victory'' - The Jacksons
*''The Top'' - The Cure
*  Falco

== Les succès de l'année en France ==
* ''Besoin de rien, envie de toi'' - Peter et Sloane
* ''Maman a tort'' - Mylène Farmer
* ''Femme libérée'' - Cookie Dingler
* ''Débranche'' - France Gall
* ''Envole moi'' - Jean-Jacques Goldman
* ''Still loving you'' - Scorpions
* ''Self control'' - Laura Branigan
* ''Owner of a lonely heart'' - Yes
* ''Jump'' - Van Halen
* ''I just called to say I love you'' - Stevie Wonder
* ''Toute première fois'' - Jeanne Mas

== Naissances ==
* 27 mai : Byz, rappeur suédois
* 21 août : Alizée, chanteuse française
* 27 septembre : Avril Lavigne, chanteuse canadienne

== Décès ==
*  : britannique, 55 ans
* 21 janvier : Jackie Wilson, chanteuse de soul, 49 ans après huit ans de coma
*  : Marvin Gaye, chanteur américain, 45 ans
* 26 avril : Count Basie, musicien de jazz américain
* 25 juillet : Big Mama Thornton, chanteuse de blues.
* 9 décembre : Razzle (Nicholas Dingley), batteur d'Hanoi Rocks

== Récompenses ==
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