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1994 Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York album, taken from a performance a year earlier, is finally released. The album tops the charts in many countries, including the US, UK and Australia.
1994 Mariah Carey's album Merry Christmas is released. By the end of the year, it has sold over 3 million copies in America, becoming one of the most popular Christmas albums of all time.More
1992 Pearl Jam play Neil Young's Bridge School benefit concert for the first time. The event takes place at the Shoreline Amphitheater outside of San Francisco.
1988 Slick Rick releases his debut album, The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick, featuring the influential rap hit "Children's Story."More
1985 The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) agrees to some demands made by another initialed organization, the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). As a result, any album deemed to contain offensive lyrics must be issued with a warning label, or the lyrics must be printed on the sleeve. Most record companies go with the labels, which don't seem to hurt sales.More
1979 Bob Dylan debuts the songs from his new album, a Christian polemic called Slow Train Coming, on the first night of his new tour in San Francisco, California. A shocked audience boos the new material throughout the set.
1969 Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds" hits #1 in America, giving him his first chart-topper since "Good Luck Charm" in 1962. It's his last #1 in the US.
1968 George Harrison releases Wonderwall Music, becoming the first member of The Beatles to release a solo album.
1 NOVEMBER
In Music History
2024 The Collins Dictionary names "brat" the 2024 word of the year, a nod to the cultural impact of the Charli XCX album Brat, which redefined it to mean "characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude."
2022 Migos rapper Takeoff, 28, is shot and killed outside a bowling alley in Houston, Texas.
2008 Yma Sumac, a Peruvian soprano who rose to fame in the '50s, dies of colon cancer at age 86. The spotlight shone on her again when her song "Ataypura" was featured in the 1998 comedy The Big Lebowski.
2008 Def Jam executive Shakir Stewart dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 34.
2008 R&B singer Nathaniel Mayer, whose first hit was 1962's "Village Of Love," dies at age 64 in Detroit, Michigan, after suffering a series of strokes.
2008 Jimmy Carl Black (drummer, vocalist for Mothers Of Invention) dies of lung cancer at age 70.
2006 Apple Computer launches a new mini-store within the US version of the iTunes Music Store dedicated to Latin music and entertainment. iTunes Latino features top Latin music, music videos, television shows, audiobooks and podcasts.
2005 Skitch Henderson, original bandleader for The Tonight Show (hosted by Steve Allen) and founder of The New York Pops orchestra, dies at age 87.
2005 Black Sabbath is inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame by Brian May of Queen. The band plays "Paranoid" at the ceremony and Ozzy moons the crowd, feeling that they aren't rocking hard enough.
2004 Terry Knight, original manager and producer for Grand Funk Railroad, is murdered by his teenage daughter's boyfriend, Donald A. Fair. Knight, age 61, was stabbed to death when he tried to breakup an argument over Fair's drug use.
2004 EMI pays tribute to Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who celebrates 50 years recording for the company. In a rare appearance at a private party at EMI's London headquarters, Rostropovich is presented with a golden Neumann microphone and a plaque commemorating the 100 recordings he has made with the company since 1954.
2000 Ben Folds Five announce their breakup. Folds continues as a solo artist.
1999 Celine Dion is inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame during the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Gold Ribbon Awards gala in Montreal. Dion joins Bryan Adams and Anne Murray for the accolade.
1999 With getting music over the internet still a novel concept and technical challenge, Third Eye Blind offer their single "Anything" exclusively online. It's free, but can only be played for three weeks.
Xania Monet Proves AI Artists Can Be Radio Stars
2025Xania Monet makes history as the first-known AI artist to appear on a Billboard airplay chart when her viral R&B ballad "How Was I Supposed To Know?" debuts at #30 on Adult R&B Airplay - a sign that radio stations are playing AI-generated music.
Xania Monet's popularity draws controversy from critics who claim that AI artists are taking opportunities away from real ones, especially when news breaks of Monet's multimillion-dollar record deal with Hallwood Media. But there is a real person behind the fake persona. Mississippi poet Telisha Nikki Jones wrote the lyrics for "How Was I Supposed To Know?," along with the other 23 tracks on her debut Unfolded album, but used the AI music program Suno to generate the music. "Xania is an extension of me," she tells CBS Mornings in a 2025 interview. "So I look at her as a real person." Like other AI artists, Monet first gained traction on streaming sites, where the gospel tune "Let Go, Let God" also went viral, but her leap to radio marks a significant shift in the industry's acceptance of artificial intelligence and how its artists are marketed. Monet even has her own manager, Romel Murphy, whose strategy is to promote his AI client like any other artist. "If you had a, let's say, traditional, artist and were a label and marketing executive, radio would be a piece of the promotion strategy," he tells Billboard. "We're interested in bringing the music to as many people as possible."
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