2013 in music

Specific locations

Specific genres

Albums released

Highest critically reviewed albums (Metacritic)

Awards

Bands formed

• Band-Maid
• Beach Slang
• Big Data
• Blossoms
• Brothers Osborne
• BTS
• Bully
• The Cadillac Three
• Cherry Glazerr
• Childbirth
• Crying
• Fight or Flight
• From Ashes to New
• Great Good Fine Ok
• G.R.L.
• I Prevail
• Japanese Breakfast
• Joe Russo's Almost Dead
• Julian Casablancas+The Voidz
• Let's Eat Grandma
• Little Big
• Lisa Prank
• Mrs. Green Apple
• The Pizza Underground
• Pup
• The Rails
• Rae Sremmurd
• Rainbow Kitten Surprise
• Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
• Royal Blood
• Run the Jewels
• Sorority Noise
• Sunflower Bean
• Sylvan Esso
• Viola Beach
• You Are Number Six
• Zeal & Ardor

  Bands reformed

• All Saints
• Black Flag
• The Calling
• Danity Kane
• Daughters
• Failure
• The Fall of Troy
• Fall Out Boy
• Jurassic 5
• King Crimson
• Medicine
• Neutral Milk Hotel
• Nine Inch Nails
• The Postal Service
• Rocket from the Crypt
• TLC
• Violent Femmes

  Bands disbanded

• A Life Once Lost
• A Tribe Called Quest
• Allstar Weekend
• A Rocket to the Moon
• Asobi Seksu
• Attack Attack!
• Azari & III
• The Calling
• The Chariot
• Charlie Brown Jr.
• Churchill
• The Click Five
• Comadre
• Dolly Rockers
• Dr. Acula
• E for Explosion
• Gifts From Enola
• Girls Aloud
• Go Radio
• God Forbid
• Great Big Sea
• Honor Society
• Jonas Brothers
• Kid Dynamite
• Klymaxx
• Lostprophets
• Madina Lake
• The Mars Volta
• My Chemical Romance
• New Boyz
• The New Power Generation
• The Postal Service
• S.C.U.M
• Sharks
• Static-X
• Sunny Day Real Estate
• Supercute!
• Swedish House Mafia
• Tribes
• Underoath
• Weapon
• Wild Flag
• Woe, Is Me

  Deaths

January

• 1 – Patti Page, American pop and country music singer
• 4 – Sammy Johns, American country music singer-songwriter
• 19 – Steve Knight, American musician
• 26 – Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, American funk singer and guitarist
• 30 – Patty Andrews, American singer

  February

• 4 – Reg Presley, British singer and songwriter
• 6 – Mo-Do, Italian musician
• 11
• * Rick Huxley, English musician
• * Kevin Peek, Australian musician
• 16
• * Stanley Knight, American guitarist
• * Tony Sheridan, English rock and roll singer, early collaborator with The Beatles
• 18
• * Kevin Ayers, English psychedelic rock songwriter and musician
• * Damon Harris, American soul and R&B singer
• 27 – Van Cliburn, American pianist

  March

• 1 – Jewel Akens, American R&B singer
• 3 – Bobby Rogers, American soul singer and songwriter
• 7
• * Kenny Ball, English jazz trumpeter
• * Peter Banks, English rock guitarist
• * Claude King, American country music singer

  April

• 3 – Chris Bailey, Australian bass guitarist
• 8 – Annette Funicello, American actress and singer
• 9 – Emilio Pericoli, Italian singer
• 21 – Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer
• 22
• * Richie Havens, American folk singer and guitarist
• * Nathaniel Romerson, American R&B singer
• 26 – George Jones, American country music singer and songwriter

  May

• 1 – Chris Kelly, American rap artist
• 7
• * Peter Rauhofer, Austrian DJ, remixer and record producer
• * Romanthony, American DJ, record producer and singer
• 17 – Alan O'Day, American singer-songwriter
• 18 – Marek Jackowski, Polish rock musician
• 20
• * Ray Manzarek, American rock musician
• * Zach Sobiech, American pop singer and viral video performer
• 21 – Trevor Bolder, British musician
• 24 – Lorene Mann, American country music singer and songwriter
• 25 – Tyrone Brunson, American musician

  June

• 4 – Joey Covington, American musician
• 5 – Don Bowman, American comedian, country singer and songwriter
• 14 – Tom Tall, American rockabilly singer
• 19 – Slim Whitman, American country singer-songwriter
• 21 – Mary Love, American soul and gospel singer
• 23 – Bobby Bland, American blues and soul singer
• 24
• * Puff Johnson, American pop singer and songwriter
• * Alan Myers, American rock drummer

  July

• 4 – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer and actress
• 13 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer
• 26 – J.J. Cale, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter

  August

• 5 – George Duke, American jazz fusion keyboardist
• 8 – Jack Clement, American record and film producer, songwriter and singer
• 10 – Eydie Gormé, American singer
• 13
• * Jon Brookes, English rock drummer
• * Tompall Glaser, American country music singer
• 14 – Allen Lanier, American rock keyboardist and guitarist

  September

• 9 – Forrest, American singer
• 12 – Joan Regan, British traditional pop singer
• 15 – Jackie Lomax, English guitarist and singer-songwriter
• 16 – Mac Curtis, American rockabilly singer
• 17 – Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer
• 25 – Billy Mure, American guitarist

  October

• 8
• * Larry Verne, American singer
• * Philip Chevron, Irish musician
• 10
• * Jan Kuehnemund, American musician
• * Cal Smith, American country music singer
• 19 – Noel Harrison, British singer and actor
• 20 – Leon Ashley, American country music singer
• 26 – Al Johnson, American soul singer
• 27 – Lou Reed, American rock musician and songwriter
• 30 – Pete Haycock, English guitarist
• 31 – Bobby Parker, American blues-rock guitarist

  November

• 2 – Jack Alexander, Scottish folk singer and pianist
• 6 – Clyde Stacy, American rockabilly singer and guitarist
• 11 – Bob Beckham, American music publisher and country singer
• 29
• * Dick Dodd, American musician
• * Oliver Cheatham, American R&B singer

  December

• 2 – Junior Murvin, Jamaican reggae singer
• 16 – Ray Price, American country music singer
• 23 – Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist