Events in Music History in 2017

Feb 12 59th Grammy Awards: Adele wins Best Song "Hello" and Best Album "25"

Feb 22 Jay-Z becomes 1st rapper to be inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside Max Martin, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

Mar 1 Spanish-American singer Charo (66?) is revealed as a contestant on season 24 of Dancing with the Stars

Apr 1 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm

Apr 14 Kendrick Lamar releases his fourth studio album "DAMN." (2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music)

May 1 Billy Corgan agrees to purchase the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)

May 12 Former One Direction singer Harry Styles releases his self-titled debut solo album

May 22 Suicide bombing at Manchester Arena, England, after Ariana Grande concert kills 22 and injures 59

May 30 Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John reveals her breast cancer has returned after 25 years

Jun 12 Forbes release Top 100 highest-paid entertainers list - Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs at No.1 with earnings of $130 million

Jul 19 "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee becomes the most streamed song ever, played 4.6 billion times

Jul 21 Singer Justin Bieber barred from performing in China by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture citing his "bad behavior"

Aug 3 Camila Cabello releases her single "Havana" (biggest song worldwide 2018, 19 million copies sold)

Aug 10 Taylor Swift testifies, in Denver, Colorado court, that DJ David Mueller groped her

Sep 12 Lady Gaga confirms her battlle with chronic illness fibromyalgia

Sep 14 Selena Gomez reveals she had a kidney transplant, because of lupus, donated by her friend Francia Rais

Sep 29 Mercury Nashville Records releases "Now", the 5th studio album by Shania Twain, her first in 15 years

Oct 7 Rapper Nelly arrested for rape in Auburn, Washington

Oct 26 National Party of New Zealand found guilty of breaching the copyright of rapper Eminem's publisher and ordered to pay $413,000 for use of the song “Eminem Esque”

Nov 3 Jason Mraz makes his Broadway debut in the musical "Waitress"

Nov 15 American jazz and standards singer Tony Bennett receives Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C.

Nov 15 Country singer Blake Shelton wins People Magazine's sexiest man alive award

Nov 18 Shawn Mendes is the first singer under 18 to get three No. 1 singles on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart

Dec 31 Singer Lorde called a bigot in ad in Washington Post after cancelling show in Israel