1993 In Music

Events

January-February

January 8 - The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992.

January 12 - Cream reunites for a performance at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles, California, USA. Other inductees include Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ruth Brown, The Doors, Van Morrison, and Sly & The Family Stone.

January 13 - Bobby Brown is arrested in Augusta, Georgia, USA for simulating a sex act onstage.[citation needed]

February 10 - Oprah Winfrey interviews Michael Jackson during a US television prime time special. It becomes one of the most watched interviews in television history and is Jackson's first in fourteen years.[citation needed]

February 14 - Harry Nilsson suffers a non-fatal heart attack.[citation needed]

March-April

March 4 - Patti LaBelle receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, USA.

March 6 - Whitney Houston's single "I Will Always Love You" posts its 14th week at number one in the USA, becoming the longest running number one single of all time.[citation needed]

March 22 - Depeche Mode becomes the first alternative British band to achieve the number one in U.S.A. on the Billboard 200, with the album Songs of Faith and Devotion.[citation needed]

Green Day signs a contract with Reprise Records.[citation needed]

April 12 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz.[citation needed]

April 16 - Paul McCartney headlines a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, USA to celebrate "Earth Day". Other performers included Ringo Starr, Steve Miller and Don Henley.

April 17 - The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs marries screenwriter Jay Roach in Los Angeles, California, USA.[citation needed]

April 21 - Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman marries Suzanne Accosta.[citation needed]

April 24 - Willie Nelson, John Cougar Mellencamp, Neil Young and more than 30 other artists perform at Farm Aid 6 in Ames, Iowa, USA.

April 29 - An animated version of Barry White appears on an episode of the US television cartoon series, The Simpsons.

May-June

May 31 - Oasis plays at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, UK supporting 18 Wheeler. Creation Records boss Alan McGee, who was among the audience, offered them their first contract after the show.[citation needed]

June 1 - Janet Jackson's janet. debuts at #1 becoming the first to do so by a female artist in the Soundscan era. The album's first single "That's the Way Love Goes" began the sixth week of its two month run at number one.

June 7 - On his 35th birthday, Prince announced that he is changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol. This led to him being called The Artist Formerly Known as Prince until 2000.[citation needed]

June 21 - Jamiroquai's debut album Emergency on Planet Earth goes straight to number one in the UK album charts, and stays there for four weeks.[citation needed]

June 22 - Liz Phair releases her acclaimed debut album Exile In Guyville.

July-August

July - European alternative singer Bjrk and pop princess Svetlana unite for the From Iceland To Moldova Tour. Both girls tour to the United States, UK, France, Japan and elsewhere.

July 17 Guns N' Roses play their final gig on their world famous Use Your Illusion tour, this will be the last time the original band play together on stage, they break up between 1993-1999

August 10 - Mayhem guitarist Euronymous is stabbed to death by Count Grishnackh in Oslo, Norway, causing the temporary end of Mayhem.[citation needed]

August 28 - Bruce Dickinson plays his final show with Iron Maiden (until his return in 1999). The show was broadcast on British television, and later released on VHS and dvd.[citation needed]

September-October

September - Ace of Base releases their record breaking debut album for Warner Bros. The Sign, also known as Happy Nation, and Happy Nation U.S Version. The previous year they also release the smash hit All That She Wants

October 17 - Savatage guitarist and co-founder Christopher Michael "Criss" Oliva killed in a car accident by a seven-time drunk driver.[citation needed]

November-December

A new opera house opens in Helsinki, Finland.[citation needed]

November 9 - Wu-Tang Clan releases their acclaimed album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

November 11 - Michael Jackson ends the Dangerous world tour in Mexico City,Mexico.

November 19 - Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder is arrested in New Orleans, USA on charges of public drunkenness after a bar room brawl.[citation needed]

Undated

Mike Starr quits Alice in Chains.

Jesper Strmblad leaves Ceremonial Oath while Anders Friden joins the band. That meant Anders left Dark Tranquillity.

The Pro Art Symphony Orchestra is founded in San Francisco, USA.

Michael Jackson denies child molestation charges in a four-minute statement that is broadcast live on television.[citation needed]

Natalie Merchant leaves 10,000 Maniacs after twelve years in the band.[citation needed]

New Order break up whilst on the tour for their album Republic, and apparently do not speak to each other for another 5 years.[citation needed]

Shania Twain signs her first contract with Mercury Records and releases her debut album Shania Twain.[citation needed]

Christian rock label Tooth and Nail Records is formed.

Bands formed

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Bands disbanded

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Celtic Frost

Cutting Crew

The Darling Buds

Faster Pussycat(reform in 2001resent)

Firehose

The Gits

Happy Mondays

The Hard-Ons

The Hummingbirds

Information Society (reform in 2006)

Iris

Pixies (reform in 2004)

Naked City

Poison Idea

Sisters of Mercy

Skrewdriver

Thompson Twins

Triumph

X

Yellow Magic Orchestra

The Zorros

Bands reformed

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Albums released

Contents:

Top January February March April May June July August September October November December

January

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

11

The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs

Genesis

Live

12

No Cure for Cancer

Denis Leary

-

Blue Funk

Heavy D & the Boyz

-

19

The Wheel

Roseanne Cash

-

The Juliet Letters

Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet

-

Amon, Feasting the Beast

Deicide

Compilation

12 Inches of Snow

Snow

-

25

The Collection

Kenny G

Compilation

Barry Live in Britain

Barry Manilow

Live

26

Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Live

Let's Knife

Shonen Knife

-

February

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

1

Objection Overruled

Accept

-

Off the Ground

Paul McCartney

-

2

Star

Belly

-

In God We Trust

Brand Nubian

-

3

Earth 2

Earth

-

9

Where You Been

Dinosaur Jr

-

Spilt Milk

Jellyfish

-

15

Serenades

Anathema

-

16

Tabula Rasa

Einstrzende Neubauten

-

Sarsippius' Ark

Infectious Grooves

-

Body Exit Mind

New Fast Automatic Daffodils

-

Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.

2Pac

-

19

Happy Nation

Ace of Base

Europe only

22

New Wave

The Auteurs

-

Pablo Honey

Radiohead

-

23

Hard Workin' Man

Brooks & Dunn

-

Duran Duran ("The Wedding Album")

Duran Duran

-

Mr. Machinery Operator

fIREHOSE

-

Scenes from the Second Storey

The God Machine

-

Superstar Car Wash

Goo Goo Dolls

-

Joey Lawrence

Joey Lawrence

-

19 Naughty III

Naughty by Nature

-

Magic & Madness

Circus Of Power

-

Live: Right Here, Right Now

Van Halen

2x CD, Live

March

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

1

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

The Cranberries

-

9

Animals with Human Intelligence

Enuff Z'nuff

-

Are You Gonna Go My Way

Lenny Kravitz

-

Music

311

-

Numb

Hammerbox

-

The Best of Van Morrison Volume Two

Van Morrison

Compilation

So Tough

Saint Etienne

-

15

Coverdale-Page

Coverdale-Page

-

16

The Polyfuze Method

Kid Rock

-

I Hear Black

Overkill

-

21

Instant Replay

Pizzicato Five

Live

22

Songs of Faith and Devotion

Depeche Mode

-

A Real Live One

Iron Maiden

Live

Space Age Batchelor Pad Music

Stereolab

EP

23

This Time

Dwight Yoakam

-

Ahead of Their Time

The Mothers of Invention

-

25

Peligro

Shakira

-

29

Suede

Suede

-

30

Bacdafucup

Onyx

-

?

The Artistry of Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton

-

April

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

1

Now That's What I Call Music! 24

Various Artists

Compilation

6

Black Tie White Noise

David Bowie

-

Superjudge

Monster Magnet

-

Edge of Thorns

Savatage

-

Undertow

Tool

-

In My Time

Yanni

-

12

In Concert/MTV Plugged

Bruce Springsteen

Live

13

San Francisco Days

Chris Isaak

-

Today's Active Lifestyles

Polvo

-

20

Get a Grip

Aerosmith

-

Dive

Sarah Brightman

-

Jerky Boys

Jerky Boys

-

Toby Keith

Toby Keith

-

Earth and Sun and Moon

Midnight Oil

-

Pork Soda

Primus

-

Shania Twain

Shania Twain

-

26

The Infotainment Scan

The Fall

-

27

Exposed

Vince Neil

-

Porno for Pyros

Porno for Pyros

-

May

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

3

Republic

New Order

-

4

Thousand Roads

David Crosby

-

Which Doobie U B?

Funkdoobiest

-

Rid of Me

PJ Harvey

-

SlaughtaHouse

Masta Ace

-

Down with the King

Run-D.M.C.

-

10

Modern Life is Rubbish

Blur

-

Rancid

Rancid

-

11

Whatever

Aimee Mann

Debut

Out of Body

The Hooters

-

17

Emergency on Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

Debut, UK

18

janet.

Janet Jackson

US

Alive III

Kiss

Live

24

More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits

ABBA

Greatest Hits

25

Sound of White Noise

Anthrax

-

Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe

Fishbone

-

Me Amars

Ricky Martin

-

26

Charlie Parker on Dial: The Complete Sessions

Charlie Parker

-

31

The Daily Grind

No Use for a Name

EP

June

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

1

Gravity's Rainbow

Pat Benatar

-

Boces

Mercury Rev

-

Souvlaki

Slowdive

-

14 Shots to the Dome

LL Cool J

-

Far Gone

Love Battery

-

4

Pottymouth

Bratmobile

-

7

There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You

Palace Brothers

-

8

Too Long in Exile

Van Morrison

-

Last Action Hero soundtrack

Various Artists

-

11

Mood Swings

Harem Scarem

-

14

Mi Tierra

Gloria Estefan

-

19

Crazy Legs

Jeff Beck

-

21

Gold Against the Soul

Manic Street Preachers

-

22

Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid

Collective Soul

-

It Won't Be the Last

Billy Ray Cyrus

-

Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

The Flaming Lips

-

Experience the Divine

Bette Midler

Greatest Hits

Covenant

Morbid Angel

-

Exile in Guyville

Liz Phair

-

Here's to New Dreams

Raven-Symon

-

Elemental

Tears for Fears

-

24

Audience with the Mind

The House of Love

-

25

Mortal Kombat II: Music from the Arcade Game Soundtrack

Dan Forden

limited-time offer

28

Insanity and Genius

Gamma Ray

-

Live & Loud

Ozzy Osbourne

Live

29

Back to Broadway

Barbra Streisand

-

30

Individual Thought Patterns

Death

-

In on the Kill Taker

Fugazi

-

July

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

1

Walthamstow

East 17

Debut

5

Julius Caesar

Smog

-

6

Vagina Diner

Akinyele

Debut

No World Order

TR-i (Todd Rundgren)

-

Zooropa

U2

-

10

Yoreru Omoi

Zard

-

13

Debut

Bjrk

Debut

Svetlana

Svetlana

Debut

What Is a Rumpletilskin?

Rumpletilskinz

Debut

Altered Beast

Matthew Sweet

19

Debravation

Deborah Harry

UK

20

The Anthology

Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Compilation

Candlebox

Candlebox

-

Black Sunday

Cypress Hill

-

Picture of Health

The Headstones

-

Bargainville

Moxy Frvous

-

26

The Battle Rages On

Deep Purple

-

27

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

-

Fake Train

Unwound

-

Represent

Fat Joe

-

Promises and Lies

UB40

-

?

Tindersticks

Tindersticks

-

August

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

1

Now That's What I Call Music! 25

Various Artists

Compilation

3

Voice of Jamaica

Buju Banton

-

Da Bomb

Kris Kross

-

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

-

10

Emergency on Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

US

River of Dreams

Billy Joel

-

16

Breaking Things

ALL

-

17

Rise

Bad Brains

-

Over My Heart

Laura Branigan

-

Bloody Kisses

Type O Negative

-

24

Set the World on Fire

Annihilator

-

Kerosene Hat

Cracker

-

Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements

Stereolab

-

30

Tales of Ephidrina

Amorphous Androgynous

-

Skydancer

Dark Tranquillity

-

Unknown Road

Pennywise

-

31

Last Splash

The Breeders

-

In Pieces

Garth Brooks

-

Music Box

Mariah Carey

-

Earth Vs The Wildhearts

The Wildhearts

-

September

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

1

One Night in Time

Donovan

-

Shinola

Energy Orchard

-

2

Chaos A.D.

Sepultura

-

10

Icky Mettle

Archers of Loaf

-

14

August and Everything After

Counting Crows

-

Focus

Cynic

-

Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell

Meat Loaf

-

20

The Problem With Me

Seam

-

21

Recipe for Hate

Bad Religion

-

Show

The Cure

Live

Yes I Am

Melissa Etheridge

-

Concentration

Machines of Loving Grace

-

Houdini

The Melvins

-

In Utero

Nirvana

-

Face the Heat

Scorpions

-

22

Double Easy - The U.S. Singles

Happy Mondays

US-only Compilation

27

Very

Pet Shop Boys

-

28

Morbid Florist

Anal Cunt

-

Body & Soul

Rick Astley

-

Live Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Live

Cowgirl's Prayer

Emmylou Harris

-

Return of the Boom Bap

KRS-One

-

Icon

Paradise Lost

-

They're All Gonna Laugh at You!

Adam Sandler

-

Water

Saigon Kick

-

93 'til Infinity

Souls of Mischief

-

Faithlift

Spirit of the West

-

October

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

4

Wolverine Blues

Entombed

-

5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

-

Steppin' Out

Tony Bennett

Fred Astaire Tribute

The Body-Hat Syndrome

Digital Underground

-

Laid

James

-

So Tonight That I Might See

Mazzy Star

-

Alapalooza

"Weird Al" Yankovic

-

8

A Bigger Piece of Sky

Robert Earl Keen

-

10

C'est dj a

Alain Souchon

-

11

I'm Alive

Jackson Browne

-

Imaginary Friend

Th' Faith Healers

-

Everything Changes

Take That

-

12

Hey Man, Smell My Finger

George Clinton

-

Take Me as I Am

Faith Hill

-

Angst

KMFDM

-

Aurora Gory Alice

Letters To Cleo

-

Very Necessary

Salt-N-Pepa

-

18

Heartwork

Carcass

-

Together Alone

Crowded House

-

A Real Dead One

Iron Maiden

Live

19

Enta da Stage

Black Moon

-

Mexican Moon

Concrete Blonde

-

4-Track Demos

PJ Harvey

Demos

Vs.

Pearl Jam

-

Counterparts

Rush

-

Inhaler

Tad

-

22

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Sarah McLachlan

-

26

Paris

The Cure

Live

World Gone Wrong

Bob Dylan

-

Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew

Mudhoney

EP

Born to Choose

Various Artists

-

God Shuffled His Feet

Crash Test Dummies

-

Pussy Whipped

Bikini Kill

-

When My Heart Finds Christmas

Harry Connick, Jr.

-

November

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

1

The Red Shoes

Kate Bush

-

2

So Far So Good

Bryan Adams

Compilation

Find Your Way

Gabrielle

-

Duets

Frank Sinatra

-

The Yellow Shark

Frank Zappa

-

3

Angels Cry

Angra

-

8

Live at Donington

Iron Maiden

Live

9

Both Sides

Phil Collins

-

The Colour of My Love

Celine Dion

North America

Love Tara

Eric's Trip

-

Poetenes Evangelium

Morten Harket

-

Midnight Marauders

A Tribe Called Quest

-

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan

-

15

Flashback

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Compilation

16

Deluxe

Better Than Ezra

Swell Records; re-issued on Elektra in 1995

The One Thing

Michael Bolton

-

The Singles Collection

David Bowie

Compilation

Desire Walks On

Heart

-

Shock of the Hour

MC Ren

-

Black Reign

Queen Latifah

-

Romulus Hunt: A Family Opera

Carly Simon

-

Straight Up Sewaside

Das EFX

-

18

Montage

Kenny G

Compilation

21

Dreams Never Die

Tiffany

-

22

Nightcap

Jethro Tull

UK; archive recordings

23

The Sign

Ace of Base

North American/Japanese version of Happy Nation

"The Spaghetti Incident?"

Guns N' Roses

Covers album

Duets

Elton John

-

Live Shit: Binge & Purge

Metallica

Live

Gypsy

Bette Midler

Soundtrack

Doggystyle

Snoop Doggy Dogg

-

Squint

Steve Taylor

-

Haddaway

Haddaway

-

26

Live MCMXCIII

The Velvet Underground

Live

29

Bastards

Motrhead

-

?

Freedom

Yothu Yindi

-

December

Day

Album

Artist

Notes

1

Dubnobasswithmyheadman

Underworld

-

6

Songs of Faith and Devotion Live

Depeche Mode

Live

The Cross of Changes

Enigma

-

7

Lethal Injection

Ice Cube

-

Domino

Domino

-

8

Charlie Hunter Trio

Charlie Hunter Trio

-

9

Pop Smear

The Verve Pipe

-

21

Diary of a Mad Band

Jodeci

-

31

Now That's What I Call Music! 26

Various Artists

Compilation

?

The Buddha of Suburbia

David Bowie

Soundtrack

Release Date Unknown

(Aphabetical by artist)

Attitude - April Wine

What You Hear Is What You Get: The Best of Bad Company - Bad Company

Mr. Mention - Buju Banton

Golden Feelings - Beck

And the Forests Dream Eternally - Behemoth

Ultimate Alternative Wavers - Built to Spill

Blood Music - Chapterhouse

Shame + A Sin - Robert Cray

Near Death Experience- Cro-Mags

Tribal Thunder - Dick Dale

The Gods of Earth and Heaven - Army of Lovers

This Should Not Be - Bo Diddley

Original Dubliners - The Dubliners

UltraElectroMagneticPop! - The Eraserheads

The Serpentine Similar - Gastr del Sol

Great Big Sea - Great Big Sea

II D Extreme - II D Extreme (debut)

It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous - Hawkwind

Footsoldier in the Moonlight - Donnie Iris

Chronologie - Jean Michel Jarre

The Sound of Speed - The Jesus and Mary Chain

Bridges to Bert - Leftover Salmon

Far Gone - Love Battery

Desensitized - Pitchshifter

Greatest Hits - Richard Marx

Reason Street - Carolyne Mas

Shiva Space Machine - Me Mom & Morgentaler

Our Bodies Our Selves - The Mr. T Experience

Najgolemi Hitovi (Greatest Hits) - Ferus Mustafov

From the Vaults - Nazareth

Demoluca - Pezz (Billy Talent)

Espresso Logic - Chris Rea (UK)

Out the Shizzy - 7 Seconds

Kings & Queens - Sham 69

Piss! - Slank

Space Is the Place (soundtrack) - Sun Ra

Take the Leap! - Toyah

Promises and Lies - UB40

Here Come the Lords - Lords of the Underground

!!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! - New Bomb Turks

Top hits

"Again" - Janet Jackson

"Anya" - Deep Purple

"All for Love" - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting

"All That She Wants" - Ace of Base

"Alright" - Kris Kross featuring Supercat

"Amazing" - Aerosmith

"American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" - Garth Brooks

"Angel" - Jon Secada

"Anniversary" - Tony Toni Ton

"Another Sad Love Song" - Toni Braxton

"Award Tour" - A Tribe Called Quest

"Baby I'm Yours" - Shai

"Back Seat" - LL Cool J

"Bad Boys" - Inner Circle

"Bad Girl" - Madonna

"Bed of Roses" - Bon Jovi

"Better Than You" - Lisa Keith

"Bombtrack" - Rage Against the Machine

"Boom! Shake the Room" - Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince

"Both Sides Of The Story" - Phil Collins

"Break It Down Again" - Tears for Fears

"Breathe Again" - Toni Braxton

"Bullet In The Head" - Rage Against the Machine

"By The Time This Night Is Over" - Kenny G (with Peabo Bryson)

"Can We Talk" - Tevin Campbell

"Can't Get Enough of Your Love" - Taylor Dayne

"Can't Help Falling in Love" - UB40

"Cat's in the Cradle" - Ugly Kid Joe

"Check Yo Self" - Ice Cube featuring Das EFX

"Come Baby Come" - K7

"Come Inside" - Intro

"Come Undone" - Duran Duran

"Comforter" - Shai

"Creep" - Radiohead

"Cry for You" - Jodeci

"Cryin'" - Aerosmith

"The Crying Game" - Boy George

"Darla dirladada" - G.O. Culture

"Dazzey Duks" - Duice

"Dedicated" -R. Kelly and Public Announcement

"Deeper and Deeper" - Madonna

"Ditty" - Paperboy

"Don't Walk Away" - Jade

"Dre Day" - Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg

"Dreamlover"- Mariah Carey

"Dreams" - Gabrielle

"Enter The Wu- Tang: 36 Chamber"- The Wu-Tang Clan

"Everybody Hurts" - R.E.M.

"Far Behind" - Candlebox

"Feed the Tree" - Belly

"Fever" - Madonna

"Fields of Gold" - Sting

"Forever In Love" - Kenny G

"Freak Me" - Silk

"Gangsta Lean" - D.R.S.

"Get Away" - Bobby Brown

"Getto Jam" - Domino

"Girl, I've Been Hurt" - Snow

"Girl U For Me" - Silk

"Give In to Me" - Michael Jackson feat. Slash

"Go West" - Pet Shop Boys

"Hat 2 Da Back" - TLC

"Have I Told You Lately" - Rod Stewart

"Heart-Shaped Box" - Nirvana

"Hero" - Mariah Carey

"Hey Jealousy" - Gin Blossoms

"Hey Mr. D.J." - Zhan

"Hip Hop Hooray" - Naughty by Nature

"Hopelessly" - Rick Astley

"Human Behaviour" - Bjrk

"I Don't Wanna Fight" - Tina Turner

"I Feel You" - Depeche Mode

"I Get Around" - 2 Pac

"I Have Nothing"- Whitney Houston

"(I Know I Got) Skillz" - Shaquille O'Neal

"I Will Always Love You"- Whitney Houston

"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" - Meat Loaf

"I'll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)" - Expos

"I'll Sleep While I'm Dead" - Bon Jovi

"I'm Every Woman"- Whitney Houston

"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" - The Proclaimers

"I'm So Into You" - SWV

"If" - Janet Jackson

"If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" - Sting

"If I Had No Loot" - Tony Toni Ton!

"In These Arms" - Bon Jovi

"Informer" - Snow

"Insane in the Brain" - Cypress Hill

"It Was a Good Day" - Ice Cube

"Jessie" - Joshua Kadison

"Just Kickin' It" - Xscape

"Knockin Da' Boots" - H-Town

"Lately" - Jodeci

"Let Me Ride" - Dr. Dre featuring George Clinton

"Linger" - The Cranberries

"Livin' on the Edge" - Aerosmith

"Looking Through Patient Eyes" - PM Dawn

"Love Can Move Mountains" - Celine Dion

"Love Don't Love You" - En Vogue

"Love Is" - Vanessa L. Williams and Brian McKnight

"Love Shoulda Brought You Home" - Toni Braxton

"Love Song for a Vampire" - Annie Lennox

"Man on the Moon" - R.E.M.

"Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Theme" - Frets on Fire

"More and More" - Captain Hollywood Project

"Mr. Vain" - Culture Beat

"Mr. Wendal" - Arrested Development

"My Opportunity" - Svetlana

"Never Keeping Secrets" - Babyface

"Never Should've Let You Go" - Hi-Five

"Nothin' My Love Can't Fix" - Joey Lawrence

"No Mistakes" - Patty Smyth

"No Ordinary Love" - Sade

"No Rain" - Blind Melon

"Nuthin' But a "G" Thang" - Dr Dre featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg

"On the Sea" - Vertical Horizon

"One Last Cry" - Brian McKnight

"One Woman" - Jade

"Only" - Anthrax

"Oh, the Guilt" - Nirvana

"Ooh Child" - Dino

"Ordinary World" - Duran Duran

"Passin' Me By" - The Pharcyde

"Pets" - Porno for Pyros

"Please Forgive Me" - Bryan Adams

"Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots

"The Power of Love" - Celine Dion

"Quality Time" - Hi-Five

"Queen Of The Night" - Whitney Houston

"Rain" - Madonna

"Reason to Believe" - Rod Stewart (with Ronnie Wood)

"Real Muthaphuckkin G's" - Eazy E

"The Red Strokes" - Garth Brooks

"Regret" - New Order

"Return of the Crazy One" - Digital Underground

"Right Here/Human Nature" - SWV

"The Right Kind of Love" - Jeremy Jordan

"The River of Dreams" - Billy Joel

"Rooster" - Alice in Chains

"Ruffneck" - MC Lyte

"Run to You" - Whitney Houston

"Runaway Train" - Soul Asylum

"Said I Loved You...But I Lied" - Michael Bolton

"Seven" - Prince & The New Power Generation

"She Don't Use Jelly" - The Flaming Lips

"Shoop" - Salt-N-Pepa

"Show Me Love" - Robin S.

"The Sign" - Ace of Base

"Simple Life" - Elton John

"Slam" - Onyx

"Sleeping Satellite" - Tasmin Archer

"Slow Sex" - Shabba Ranks (featuring Johnny Gill)

"Sober" - Tool

"Symphony of Destruction" - Megadeth

"That's the Way Love Goes" - Janet Jackson

"Two Princes" - Spin Doctors

"Weak" - SWV

"Whoomp! (There It Is)" - Tag Team

"Will You Be There" - Michael Jackson

Top Ten Selling Albums of the Year

The Bodyguard - Whitney Houston

Breathless - Kenny G

Unplugged- Eric Clapton

janet. - Janet Jackson

Some Gave All - Billy Ray Cyrus

The Chronic - Dr. Dre

Pocket Full Of Kryptonite - Spin Doctors

Ten - Pearl Jam

The Chase - Garth Brooks

Core - Stone Temple Pilots

Classical music

John Adams - Violin Concerto

Luciano Berio - Rage and Outrage

Pierre Boulez - ...explosante-fixe... (fourth version)

Alvin Curran - VSTO (string quartet)

Michael Daugherty - Bizarro

Mario Davidovsky - Shulamit's Dream for soprano and orchestra

David Diamond - Symphony No. 11

Jol-Franois Durand - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Lorenzo Ferrero

Introito (from "Requiem per le vittime della mafia")

Maschere (incidental music)

Krzysztof Penderecki - Polish Requiem (revised version)

Harold Schiffmann - Sestetto Concertato

Karlheinz Stockhausen Helikopter-Streichquartett

Takashi Yoshimatsu - Concerto for Trombone, Op. 55, Orion Machine

Opera

Daron Hagen - Shining Brow

Theo Loevendie - Gassir, the Hero

Michael Nyman - Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs

Randolph Peters - Nosferatu

Karlheinz Stockhausen Dienstag aus Licht

Musical theater

Annie Warbucks     off-Broadway production

Blood Brothers (Willy Russell) - Broadway production

Cyrano     Broadway production

The Goodbye Girl     Broadway production

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat     Broadway revival

Kiss of the Spiderwoman     Broadway production

My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe) - Broadway revival

She Loves Me     Broadway revival

Deaths

January 6

Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpet virtuoso and co-founder of bebop, 76

Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer, 54

January 15 - Sammy Cahn, songwriter

February 26 - Pina Carmirelli, violinist, founder member of the Boccherini Quintet, 78

March 3 - Carlos Montoya, guitarist, 89

March 28 - Buddy Red Bow Lakota country and western singer, 44

March 31 - Mitchell Parish, 92, US lyric writer

April 23 - Daniel Jones, composer, 80

April 30 - Mick Ronson, guitarist (liver cancer)

May 30 - Sun Ra, jazz composer

June 5 - Conway Twitty (real name: Harold Jenkins) country rock singer

July 7 - Mia Zapata, The Gits, 28

July 14 Lo Ferr, French singer, songwriter and composer

July 19 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born American violinist and conductor

August 5 - Eugen Sucho, Slovak composer, 84

August 7 - Roy Budd, jazz pianist and film composer, 46 (brain haemorrhage)

August 10 - ystein Aarseth, aka Euronymous, black metal guitarist of Mayhem fame, 25 (murdered)

September 9 - Helen O'Connell

September 22 - Maurice Abravanel, conductor

October 23 - Elena Nicolai, opera singer

October 31 - River Phoenix, actor and singer of Aleka's Attic, 23 (drug overdose)

November 3 - Lon Theremin, inventor of the Theremin musical instrument

November 6 - Torsten Fenslau, 29, (Culture Beat)

November 22 Anthony Burgess, composer

November 30 - David Houston (singer)

December 1 - Ray Gillen, former vocalist for Black Sabbath and Badlands

December 4 - Frank Zappa, "Mothers of Invention" musician/composer (prostate cancer)

December 5 - Doug Hopkins, guitarist and songwriter for Gin Blossoms

December 12 - Joan Cross, operatic soprano

Awards

The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The Animals, The Band, Duane Eddy, The Grateful Dead, Elton John, John Lennon, Bob Marley and Rod Stewart

Filmfare Awards

Kumar Sanu - Filmfare Best Male Playback Award

Alka Yagnik & Ila Arun win the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award

Grammy Awards

Grammy Awards of 1993

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1993

Mercury Music Prize

Suede - Suede wins.

Glenn Gould Prize

Oscar Peterson (laureate), Benny Green (protg)

Charts

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1993.

#

Artist

Title

Year

Country

Chart Entries

1

Meatloaf

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

1993

UK 1 - Oct 1993, US BB 1 of 1993, Holland 1 - Oct 1993, Austria 1 - Nov 1993, Switzerland 1 - Nov 1993, Norway 1 - Oct 1993, Germany 1 - Jan 1994, ire 1 - Oct 1993, New Zealand 1 for 5 weeks Sep 1993, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Dec 1993, Sweden 2 - Oct 1993, Poland 5 - Nov 1993, Australia 5 of 1993, France 10 - Sep 1993, US BB 15 of 1993, Europe 20 of the 1990s, Germany 28 of the 1990s, US CashBox 32 of 1994, POP 34 of 1993, Belgium 210 of all time, OzNet 375

2

UB40

I Can't Help Falling in Love With You

1993

UK 1 - May 1993, US BB 1 of 1993, US CashBox 1 of 1993, Holland 1 - May 1993, Sweden 1 - Jun 1993, Austria 1 - Jul 1993, New Zealand 1 for 11 weeks Jun 1993, Australia 1 for 7 weeks Oct 1993, Switzerland 2 - Jun 1993, Germany 2 - Jun 1993, Australia 3 of 1993, Norway 4 - Jun 1993, US BB 6 of 1993, POP 6 of 1993, France 10 - May 1993, Poland 12 - Aug 1993, Scrobulate 48 of reggae, Germany 85 of the 1990s, Italy 88 of 1993, OzNet 836

3

Four Non Blondes

What's Up?

1993

Holland 1 - Jul 1993, Sweden 1 - Aug 1993, Austria 1 - Aug 1993, Switzerland 1 - Jul 1993, Norway 1 - Jul 1993, Poland 1 - Jul 1993, Germany 1 - Jul 1993, ire 1 - Jul 1993, UK 2 - Jun 1993, Italy 8 of 1993, Australia 10 of 1993, US BB 14 of 1993, Germany 17 of the 1990s, US BB 31 of 1993, Scrobulate 46 of 90s, US CashBox 50 of 1993, RYM 61 of 1993, Europe 62 of the 1990s, POP 67 of 1993, Belgium 209 of all time

4

Snow

Informer

1993

US BB 1 of 1993, Sweden 1 - Mar 1993, Switzerland 1 - Apr 1993, Norway 1 - Apr 1993, Germany 1 - Apr 1993, ire 1 - Apr 1993, New Zealand 1 for 3 weeks May 1993, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Sep 1993, UK 2 - Mar 1993, Holland 2 - Mar 1993, Austria 3 - May 1993, Australia 6 of 1993, US CashBox 9 of 1993, US BB 13 of 1993, POP 51 of 1993, Germany 52 of the 1990s, Italy 68 of 1993

5

Haddaway

What is Love?

1993

US BB 1 of 1993, Holland 1 - Apr 1993, France 1 - Apr 1993, Austria 1 - May 1993, Switzerland 1 - Apr 1993, Norway 1 - Apr 1993, ire 1 - Jul 1993, POP 1 of 1993, UK 2 - Jun 1993, Sweden 2 - Mar 1993, Germany 2 - Mar 1993, Scrobulate 4 of 90s, Italy 5 of 1993, Germany 10 of the 1990s, US BB 11 of 1993, RYM 154 of 1993

Top 5 albums of 1993

According To Acclaimed Music.net

1. In Utero Nirvana

2. Debut Bjrk

3. Siamese Dream Smashing Pumpkins

4. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan

5. Exile In Guyville Liz Phair

Triple J Hottest 100

Main article: Triple J Hottest 100, 1993

Other Notable Singles Released

"All Apologies"/"Rape Me" - Nirvana

"Another Body Murdered" - Faith No More & Boo-Yaa TRIBE

"Beautiful Son" - Hole

"Daughter" - Pearl Jam

"Pets" - Porno For Pyros

"Down in a Hole" - Alice in Chains

"Soul to Squeeze" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

See also

1993 in music (UK)

Record labels established in 1993

References

^ http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/artofthestamp/SubPage table images/artwork/rarities/Elvis Ballot/elvisballot.htm

^ Cream: Classic Artists. [DVD]. Emperor Media Holdings. 2005. 

^ "Whacking Day". The Simpsons. 1993-04-29. No. 20, season 4.

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