See also: Timeline of musical events
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Overview of the events of 2013 in American music
List of years in American music
The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2013 in music in the United States.
Notable events [ ]
January [ ]
9 – Original Three Days Grace lead singer Adam Gontier leaves the band, citing health concerns[1]
10 – Six and a half years after releasing FutureSex/LoveSounds , Justin Timberlake announces his return to music with a new album titled The 20/20 Experience , and a summer tour with Jay-Z .
February [ ]
3 – Alicia Keys sings the National Anthem and Beyoncé performed during the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVII .
4 – Fall Out Boy announce their reformation with a new album and concert tour.[2]
10 — The 55th Annual Grammy Awards takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, hosted by LL Cool J . Dan Auerbach wins the most awards of the night with five. Mumford and Sons win Album of the Year with Babel , while Gotye 's "Somebody That I Used to Know ", featuring Kimbra , wins Record of the Year .
17 – Country singer Mindy McCready commits suicide at the age of 37[3]
27 – Stone Temple Pilots fire their lead singer, Scott Weiland [4]
March [ ]
15 – Justin Timberlake 's album, The 20/20 Experience , was released selling 968,000 copies in its first week. It became the best-selling album of the year in the U.S.
22 – My Chemical Romance break up after twelve years together[5]
April [ ]
2 – Bon Jovi member Richie Sambora announced his departure from the band just hours before a concert date scheduled in Calgary, Alberta
7 - The Academy of Country Music Awards took place, hosted by Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton .
New Kids on the Block released their first album in five years, 10
12 – Fall Out Boy released their first album in a little over four years, Save Rock and Roll .
14 – Founding Deftones bassist Chi Cheng passes away at age 42 after spending more than 4 years in a coma as a result of a 2008 car accident[6]
21 – Divinyls singer Chrissy Amphlett dies from breast cancer at the age of 53
May [ ]
2 – Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman dies from cirrhosis of the liver at age 49
16 – Candice Glover is crowned winner of American Idol (season 12) while Kree Harrison is named runner-up
18 – Chester Bennington of Linkin Park fame plays his first show as the singer for Stone Temple Pilots ; also STP's first concert since original singer Scott Weiland was terminated[7]
19 — The Billboard Music Awards took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas . Taylor Swift took home the most awards of the night with eight including Top Artist.
20 – The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek dies in Germany from bile duct cancer at age 74
22 – Thirty Seconds to Mars released their first album in four years, Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams .
June [ ]
18 — Cher make a historic return after eleven years of absence with "Woman's World ", the lead single of her twenty-fifth studio album Closer to the Truth which is released three months later.
25 — Stone Gossard released his first solo album in twelve years, Moonlander
July [ ]
4 – Jay Z released his first solo studio album in four years, Magna Carta Holy Grail , which sold over 550,000 copies in its first week.
30 – The Backstreet Boys released their first album in four years, In a World Like This . This is their first album with Kevin Richardson since Never Gone (2005).
August [ ]
25 — The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards were held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn . Justin Timberlake was awarded the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award , also performing a 15-minutes medley including a reunion with NSYNC , the first time in nine years. Miley Cyrus creates controversy by twerking at Robin Thicke 's crotch area, during a performance.
Katy Perry released her lead single "Roar " for her fourth studio album, Prism . The song reached number 1 and sold 9.9 million copies around the world.
30 — Nine Inch Nails released their first album in five years, Hesitation Marks .
September [ ]
20 – Cher released her first album in twelve years, Closer to the Truth , debuting at number three on the Billboard 200 (making it Cher's first highest-peaking solo album on the chart).
October [ ]
8 – Stone Temple Pilots released their High Rise EP, their only release to feature Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington on lead vocals.
14 – The Dismemberment Plan released their first album in twelve years, Uncanney Valley .
27 – Lou Reed , founding member of Velvet Underground, dies in Southampton, New York from liver disease at age 71.
29 – The teen pop rock band Jonas Brothers announced an indefinite hiatus following many disagreements. They announced a return in 2019.
November [ ]
5 – Eminem 's album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 , was released selling 792,000 copies in its first week, and was the second-best-selling album of the year in the U.S.
6 — The CMA Awards took place at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee .
19 — Reggie and the Full Effect released their first album in five years, No Country for Old Musicians
24 — The American Music Awards took place at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live .
December [ ]
6 — Master P released his first album in twelve years, The Gift .
13 – Beyoncé released her surprise fifth studio album, Beyoncé , a 'visual album' containing 14 songs and an accompanying music video for each song. The album debuts at #1 based on 3 days of digital sales, making Beyoncé the first female artist, and second artist overall to debut at the top spot with her first five studio efforts.
17 – Tessanne Chin wins the fifth season of The Voice . Jacquie Lee is named runner-up. Will Champlin finishing third place.
Bands formed [ ]
Bands reformed [ ]
Black Flag
The Calling
Danity Kane
Failure
The Fall of Troy
Fall Out Boy
Medicine
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nine Inch Nails
The Postal Service
Rocket from the Crypt
TLC
Bands on hiatus [ ]
Ben Folds Five
Bloc Party
Evanescence [8]
Ghostland Observatory
Lifehouse
Mumford & Sons
The Walkmen
Bands disbanded [ ]
Albums released [ ]
January [ ]
Day
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
8
Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones
Black Veil Brides [12]
Glam metal heavy metal punk rock
Signed and Sealed in Blood
Dropkick Murphys
Celtic punk
Vessel
Twenty One Pilots
15
Long. Live. ASAP
ASAP Rocky
Hip hop
Fall Into Me
Katie Armiger
Country
Kidz Bop 23
Kidz Bop Kids
Beautiful
Teena Marie
R&B
Goldenheart
Dawn Richard [13]
22
Set You Free
Gary Allan
Country rock
The Acoustic Sessions: Volume One
Casting Crowns
True North
Bad Religion [14]
FIDLAR
FIDLAR
How Country Feels
Randy Houser
Country
Tim McGraw & Friends [15]
Tim McGraw
Country
My True Story
Aaron Neville [16]
R&B
Beta Love
Ra Ra Riot
True Believers
Darius Rucker [17]
Country
Reborn
Trapt
Vulnerable (II)
The Used [18]
Alternative rock
29
Love Songs
Destiny's Child [19]
R&B
A Messenger
Colton Dixon [20]
Christian alternative rock
Hummingbird
Local Natives [21]
Indie rock
No Fairy Tale
Lisa Loeb [22]
Give In
On An On
Sentimental Journey
Emmy Rossum
Love, Charlie
Charlie Wilson [23]
R&B
February [ ]
Date
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
5
The Afterman: Descension
Coheed and Cambria
Progressive rock
All That Echoes
Josh Groban
In Guards We Trust
Guards
Greatest Hits
Jewel [24]
Two Lanes of Freedom
Tim McGraw
Country
Conventional Weapons
My Chemical Romance
Punk rock alternative rock
Release the Panic
Red
Alternative metal
Now 45
Various artists
Pop
12
Eyrth, Wynd & Fyre
Cappadonna [25]
Hip hop
Barmageddon
Ras Kass [25]
Hip hop
19
Czarface
Czarface
Hip hop
The Dixie Dead [26]
Wednesday 13
Horror punk
26
Amok
Atoms for Peace
Black Gold
Kutt Calhoun
Hip hop
Need You Now
Plumb
March [ ]
Date
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
5
Spring Break…Here to Party
Luke Bryan
Country
This... Is Marcus Canty
Marcus Canty
R&B
People, Hell & Angels
Jimi Hendrix [27]
Welcome Oblivion
How to Destroy Angels
Post-industrial electronica
Nanobots
They Might Be Giants [28]
Like a Rose
Ashley Monroe
Country
The Beast in Its Tracks
Josh Ritter
Folk
Honky Tonk
Son Volt
Alternative country
12
Kings & Queens
Audio Adrenaline
What About Now
Bon Jovi
Rock
It Happens All the Time
Megan Hilty
Pop
All Around the World
Mindless Behavior
14
Trunk Muzik Returns
Yelawolf
Hip hop
15
Earth Rocker
Clutch
19
Specter at the Feast
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Same Trailer Different Park
Kacey Musgraves
Country
The RZA Presents Shaolin Soul Selection: Volume 1
Various Artists
The 20/20 Experience
Justin Timberlake
26
No Matter How Far
David Archuleta [29]
Pop
All That for This
Crystal Bowersox [30]
Folk rock
Collider
Cartel
Girl Who Got Away
Dido
Pop
I Am Not a Human Being II
Lil Wayne [31]
Hip hop
Native
OneRepublic [32]
The Nacirema Dream
Papoose [33]
East Coast hip hop
Wild & Free
A Rocket to the Moon
Black Out the Sun
Sevendust [34]
Heavy metal alternative metal
Based on a True Story…
Blake Shelton
Country
What You Don't See
The Story So Far
Pop punk
Comedown Machine
The Strokes [35]
Indie rock
Just Feels Good
Thompson Square
Country
Afraid of Heights
Wavves
April [ ]
Date
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
2
My Shame Is True
Alkaline Trio [36]
Punk rock
Pioneer
The Band Perry [37]
Country
Sempiternal
Bring Me the Horizon
Metalcore
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts
Cold War Kids [38]
Indie rock
En Peligro de Extinction
Intocable
RKives (rarities album)
Rilo Kiley
10
New Kids on the Block [39]
Wolf
Tyler, The Creator [40]
West Coast hip hop
Anatidaephobia
Watch The Duck
Trap electronic dubstep neo-soul
Right on Time
Gretchen Wilson [41]
Country
4
Paint the Sky
Bradley Joseph [42]
Contemporary instrumental smooth jazz Neoclassical (New Age)
9
Device
Device
Industrial metal heavy metal
Three Chords and a Half Truth
Face to Face
Punk rock
The Road Less Traveled
Jake Miller
Hip hop
Wheelhouse
Brad Paisley
Country
Paramore
Paramore
Should've Gone to Bed (EP )
Plain White T's
Pop rock
Found
Rival Schools
Hotel California
Tyga [43]
Hip hop
Wakin' on a Pretty Daze
Kurt Vile
Indie rock
Rough
Chuck Wicks
Country
15
Strawberries and Cream
Ninja Sex Party
16
Standoff
Casey Donahew band
Country
In the Marrow
Dead Confederate
Save Rock and Roll
Fall Out Boy [44]
The Terror
The Flaming Lips
Twelve Reasons to Die
Ghostface Killah [45]
Hip hop
Ghost on Ghost
Iron & Wine
Indicud
Kid Cudi [46]
Alternative hip hop
Free the Universe
Major Lazer
Rat Farm
Meat Puppets
Heroes for Sale
Andy Mineo
Christian hip hop
Let's Face the Music and Dance
Willie Nelson
Country
As It Is On Earth
Spacehog
Alternative rock
Legendary
The Summer Set
Pop punk
Desperate Ground
The Thermals [47]
Mosquito
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Alternative rock
22
I Love You.
The Neighbourhood
Alternative rock indie pop
23
Illumination Ritual
The Appleseed Cast [48]
Side Effects of You
Fantasia Barrino [49]
R&B
Prisoner of Conscious
Talib Kweli [50]
Alternative hip hop
Reincarnated
Snoop Lion [51]
Reggae
Tate Stevens
Tate Stevens [51]
Country
#willpower
will.i.am [52]
Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Rob Zombie
Alternative Rock
30
Such Hot Blood
The Airborne Toxic Event
Life on a Rock
Kenny Chesney [53]
Country
Authentic
LL Cool J
Hip hop
The Pop Underground
Andrew McMahon
Me, You & the Music
Jessica Sanchez
The Hands That Thieve
Streetlight Manifesto
Wake Up
Youngblood Hawke
May [ ]
Date
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
7
2.0
98 Degrees
Pop
More Than Just a Dream
Fitz and the Tantrums [54]
Golden
Lady Antebellum [55]
Mother
Natalie Maines [56] [57]
Rock
Annie Up
Pistol Annies [58]
Country
Volume 3
She & Him [59] [60]
Indie pop alternative country
14
Love Will...
Trace Adkins
Country
American Love LP [61]
Bad Rabbits
One of Us Is the Killer
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Ungrateful
Escape the Fate
Lip Lock
Eve [62]
Hip hop
The Features [63]
The Features [64]
Demi
Demi Lovato
Pop
Love Is Everything
George Strait [65]
Country
Modern Vampires of the City
Vampire Weekend [66] [67]
The Greatest Generation
The Wonder Years
Pop punk
21
Excuse My French
French Montana [68]
East Coast hip hop
Trouble Will Find Me [69]
The National
Indie rock
Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams
Thirty Seconds to Mars [70]
Experimental rock
28
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Alice in Chains [71]
Heavy metal
Wrote a Song for Everyone
John Fogerty [72]
IV Play
The-Dream [73]
Contemporary R&B
Almost Home
Kid Ink
Hip Hop
29
Stop the Bleeding
Sponge
Alternative rock
31
From the Hills Below the City
Houndmouth
June [ ]
Date
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
4
Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole
George Benson
Jazz
In a Tidal Wave of Mystery
Capital Cities
Forever Halloween
The Maine
Super Collider (album)
Megadeth
Heavy metal hard rock thrash metal
Evil Friends
Portugal. The Man
...Like Clockwork
Queens of the Stone Age
Stoner rock
Spitfire
LeAnn Rimes [74]
Country
Nightingale Floors
Rogue Wave
Indie rock
Feel
Sleeping With Sirens
Post-hardcore
11
Saaab Stories
Action Bronson
Hip hop
Fear Inside Our Bones
The Almost
24/Seven
Big Time Rush
Pop
Every Man Should Know
Harry Connick Jr. [75]
Sunbather
Deafheaven
Magnetic
Goo Goo Dolls [76]
Damage
Jimmy Eat World [77]
Alternative rock
The Wack Album
The Lonely Island [78]
Southeastern
Jason Isbell
Better
Chrisette Michelle
Victim to Villain
New Years Day
18
Omens
3OH!3
Dark of the Daylight
The Crash Kings
Alternative rock hard rock
Fashionably Late
Falling in Reverse
Anthem
Hanson [79]
Pop rock
Born Sinner
J. Cole [80]
Hip hop
Watching Movies with the Sound Off
Mac Miller
Hip hop
Waiting for the Dawn
The Mowgli's
Talk a Good Game
Kelly Rowland
Yeezus
Kanye West
Hip hop
25
J.A.C.K.
Forever the Sickest Kids
Zero
Hawthorne Heights
Pick Up Your Head
Middle Class Rut
Alternative rock
Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche [81]
Heavy metal progressive metal
Rise
Skillet [82]
Christian rock alternative rock hard rock
In a Warzone
Transplants
rock
The Gifted
Wale
Hip hop
July [ ]
August [ ]
September [ ]
Day
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
1
Savage Life 4ever
Webbie
Hip hop
3
Bad Blood
Blood on the Dance Floor [115]
Love and War
Tamar Braxton [116]
R&B
Yours Truly
Ariana Grande [117]
Love in the Future
John Legend [118]
Hesitation Marks
Nine Inch Nails [119]
Peace
Vista Chino [120]
Stoner rock
9
MDNA World Tour
Madonna
Pop
10
B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time
2 Chainz [121]
Southern hip hop
Feels Like Home
Sheryl Crow
Country
The Standards
Gloria Estefan
Back 2 Life
Sean Kingston [122]
The Electric Lady
Janelle Monáe [123]
All I Want
The Reverb Junkie [124]
Fuse
Keith Urban [125]
Country
17
Wise Up Ghost
Elvis Costello and The Roots [126]
We Are Tonight
Billy Currington [127]
Country
Bookmarks
Five for Fighting
Pop rock
Spreading Rumours
Grouplove
Alternative rock indie pop
From Here to Now to You
Jack Johnson
Fight for My Soul
Jonny Lang
Self Made Vol. 3
Maybach Music Group [128]
Hip hop
MGMT
MGMT
Psychedelic rock
Off the Beaten Path
Justin Moore
Country
Loud Like Love
Placebo [129]
Alternative rock
Saves the Day
Saves the Day
A.M.
Chris Young
Country
Zendaya
Zendaya
24
Closer to the Truth
Cher [130]
Tattoos
Jason Derulo [131]
Suffering from Success
DJ Khaled [132]
Hip hop
Dream Theater
Dream Theater [133]
Progressive metal
Shout!
Gov't Mule
Hard rock
The Bluegrass Album
Alan Jackson [134]
Bluegrass
Get Wet
Krewella
Mechanical Bull
Kings of Leon [135]
Ludaversal
Ludacris [136]
Not What You Expected
Mest
Through the Never
Metallica
Heavy metal
To All the Girls...
Willie Nelson [137]
Country
Louder
R5
Pop Rock
Rise
A Skylit Drive
Post-hardcore
30
Redneck Crazy
Tyler Farr
Country
M.O.
Nelly [138]
The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2
Justin Timberlake [139]
October [ ]
Day
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
1
Deltron Event II
Deltron 3030 [140]
Alternative hip hop
Days Are Gone
Haim
Indie pop
Unvarnished
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts [141]
Hard rock
8
Common Courtesy
A Day To Remember
Before It Caves
A Loss For Words
Pop-punk
Fortress
Alter Bridge
Rock
Magpie and the Dandelion
The Avett Brothers
Old
Danny Brown
Alternative hip hop
Melophobia [142]
Cage the Elephant
Alternative rock garage rock
Bangerz
Miley Cyrus [143]
Pop
Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song
Amos Lee
The Paradigm Shift
Korn
Monsters in the Closet
Mayday Parade
Crickets
Joe Nichols
country
Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!
Panic! at the Disco
Alternative rock power pop
Frame by Frame
Cassadee Pope
Soy el Mismo
Prince Royce
My Name Is My Name
Pusha T
Hip hop
Bitter Rivals
Sleigh Bells
The Finer Things
State Champs
Pop punk
High Rise (EP )
Stone Temple Pilots
Alternative rock hard rock
Page Avenue: 10 Years and Counting
Story of the Year
Acoustic
My Independence
Erika Van Pelt
Pop rock
11
NEW
Paul McCartney
Pop rock
15
A Mary Christmas
Mary J. Blige [144]
Make a Move
Gavin DeGraw [145]
Let's Be Still
The Head and the Heart
See You Tonight
Scotty McCreery [146]
Country
Last Patrol
Monster Magnet [147]
Stoner metal
To All the Girls...
Willie Nelson
Country
Lightning Bolt
Pearl Jam [148]
Alternative rock hard rock
Vengeance Falls
Trivium [149]
22
Burials
AFI [150]
Alternative rock
12 Stories
Brandy Clark
Country
Better Together
Fifth Harmony [151]
Prism
Katy Perry [152]
Pop
29
Wrapped in Red
Kelly Clarkson [153]
Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas
Duck Dynasty
Christmas
Night Time, My Time
Sky Ferreira [154]
Everything is Debatable
Hellogoodbye
Pop punk indie pop alternative rock
Drinks After Work
Toby Keith
Country
The Flood and the Mercy
Ed Kowalczyk
Recharged
Linkin Park
It Goes Like This
Thomas Rhett
Country
Corsicana Lemonade
White Denim
November [ ]
Day
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
5
The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Eminem [155]
Hip hop
Antiphon
Midlake
Alternative
PTX, Vol. II
Pentatonix [156]
A cappella
11
ARTPOP
Lady Gaga [157]
The Woman I Am
Kellie Pickler [158]
Country
Winter Loverland
Tamar Braxton
Christmas
12
Let It Snow: A Holiday Collection
Jewel
Christmas
See the Light
Less Than Jake
weRwe Records: Volume One
Various Artists [159]
Mult-genre
19
Homecoming
Sammy Adams
Hip hop
Baptized
Daughtry
The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2
Five Finger Death Punch
Rock
No Country for Old Musicians
Reggie and the Full Effect
25
Foreverly
Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones
Folk
Danielle Bradbery
Danielle Bradbery [160]
Country
26
Knock Madness
Hopsin [161]
Hip hop
December [ ]
Date
Title
Artist
Genre(s)
3
Britney Jean
Britney Spears [162]
10
Because the Internet
Childish Gambino
Hip hop
13
BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé [163]
Celestial Skies
This World
World Contemporary Christian progressive rock
16
Somewhere Somehow
We the Kings
Pop punk
17
Underground Luxury
B.o.B
Hip hop
Starbomb
Starbomb
Top hits on record [ ]
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Hits
"Locked Out of Heaven " – Bruno Mars (4 weeks in 2013, 2 weeks in 2012)
"Thrift Shop " – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz (6 weeks)
"Harlem Shake " – Baauer (5 weeks)
"When I Was Your Man " – Bruno Mars (1 week)
"Just Give Me a Reason " – Pink feat. Nate Ruess (3 weeks)
"Can't Hold Us " – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton (5 weeks)
"Blurred Lines " – Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell (12 weeks)
"Roar " – Katy Perry (2 weeks)
"Wrecking Ball " – Miley Cyrus (3 weeks)
"Royals " – Lorde (9 weeks)
"The Monster " – Eminem feat. Rihanna (2 weeks in 2013, 2 weeks in 2014)
See also: List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2013 (U.S.)
Billboard Hot 100 Hits – Singles which have ranked within Top 20
"22 " – Taylor Swift (#20)
"23 " – Mike Will Made It feat. Miley Cyrus , Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J (#11)
"#Beautiful " – Mariah Carey feat. Miguel (#15)
"#thatPower " – will.i.am feat. Justin Bieber (#17)
"All Me " – Drake feat. 2 Chainz and Big Sean (#20)
"Applause " – Lady Gaga (#4)
"Beauty and a Beat " – Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj (#5)
"Berzerk " – Eminem (#3)
"Best Song Ever " – One Direction (#2)
"Blurred Lines " – Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell (#1)
"Bound 2 " – Kanye West (#12)
"Boys 'Round Here " – Blake Shelton feat. Pistol Annies and Friends (#12)
"Burn " – Ellie Goulding (#13)
"Can't Hold Us " – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton (#1)
"Carry On " – fun. (#20)
"Catch My Breath " – Kelly Clarkson (#19)
"Clarity " – Zedd feat. Foxes (#8)
"Come & Get It " – Selena Gomez (#6)
"Counting Stars " – OneRepublic (#3)
"Crash My Party " – Luke Bryan (#18)
"Cruise " – Florida Georgia Line feat. Nelly (#4)
"Cups (Pitch Perfect's "When I'm Gone") " – Anna Kendrick (#6)
"Dark Horse " – Katy Perry feat. Juicy J (#17)
"Daylight " – Maroon 5 (#7)
"Demons " – Imagine Dragons (#6)
"Diamonds " – Rihanna (#2 in 2013, #1 in 2012)
"Diana " – One Direction (#11)
"Die Young " – Kesha (#6 in 2013, #2 in 2012)
"Do What U Want " – Lady Gaga feat. R. Kelly (#13)
"Don't Stop the Party " – Pitbull feat. TJR (#17)
"Don't You Worry Child " – Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin (#6)
"Dope " – Lady Gaga (#8)
"Feel This Moment " – Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera (#8)
"Fuckin' Problems " – ASAP Rocky feat. Drake , Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz (#8)
"Gangnam Style " – PSY (#6 in 2013, #2 in 2012)
"Gentleman " – PSY (#5)
"Get Lucky " – Daft Punk feat. Pharrell (#2)
"Girl on Fire " – Alicia Keys feat. Nicki Minaj (#12 in 2013, #11 in 2012)
"Gone " – Kanye West feat. Cam'ron and Consequence (#18)
"Harlem Shake " – Baauer (#1)
"Heart Attack " – Demi Lovato (#10)
"Heartbreaker " – Justin Bieber (#13)
"Here's to Never Growing Up " – Avril Lavigne (#20)
"Ho Hey " – The Lumineers (#3)
"Hold On, We're Going Home " – Drake feat. Majid Jordan (#4)
"Holy Grail " – Jay-Z feat. Justin Timberlake (#4)
"Home " – Phillip Phillips (#6)
"I Cry " – Flo Rida (#8 in 2013, #6 in 2012)
"I Knew You Were Trouble " – Taylor Swift (#2)
"I Love It " – Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX (#7)
"I Need Your Love " – Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding (#16)
"I Want Crazy " – Hunter Hayes (#19)
"I Will Wait " – Mumford & Sons (#12)
"It's Time " – Imagine Dragons (#15)
"Just Give Me a Reason " – Pink feat. Nate Ruess (#1)
"Let Her Go " – Passenger (#9)
"Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself) " – Ne-Yo (#15 in 2013, #6 in 2012)
"Little Drummer Boy " – Pentatonix (#13)
"Little Talks " – Of Monsters and Men (#20)
"Locked Out of Heaven " – Bruno Mars (#1)
"Lolly " – Maejor Ali feat. Juicy J and Justin Bieber (#19)
"Love Me " – Lil Wayne feat. Drake and Future (#9)
"Love Somebody " – Maroon 5 (#10)
"Mama's Broken Heart " – Miranda Lambert (#20)
"Midnight Memories " – One Direction (#12)
"Mirrors " – Justin Timberlake (#2)
"My Nigga " – YG feat. Jeezy and Rich Homie Quan (#19)
"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) " – Fall Out Boy (#13)
"One More Night " – Maroon 5 (#7 in 2013, #1 in 2012)
"One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks) " – One Direction (#13)
"Pour It Up " – Rihanna (#19)
"Power Trip " – J. Cole feat. Miguel (#19)
"Radioactive " – Imagine Dragons (#3)
"Rap God " – Eminem (#7)
"Roar " – Katy Perry (#1)
"Royals " – Lorde (#1)
"Safe and Sound " – Capital Cities (#8)
"Sail " – AWOLNATION (#17)
"Same Love " – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert (#11)
"Say Something " – A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera (#4)
"Scream & Shout " – will.i.am feat. Britney Spears (#3)
"Some Nights " – fun. (#13 in 2013, #3 in 2012)
"Started from the Bottom " – Drake (#6)
"Stay " – Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko (#3)
"Stay the Night " – Zedd feat. Hayley Williams of Paramore (#19)
"Story of My Life " – One Direction (#6)
"Suit & Tie " – Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z (#3)
"Summertime Sadness " – Lana Del Rey and Cedric Gervais (#6)
"Survival " – Eminem (#16)
"Sweater Weather " – The Neighbourhood (#14)
"Sweet Nothing " – Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch (#10)
"Swimming Pools (Drank) " – Kendrick Lamar (#20 in 2013, #17 in 2012)
"That's My Kind of Night " – Luke Bryan (#15)
"The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) " – Ylvis (#6)
"The Monster " – Eminem feat. Rihanna (#1)
"The Other Side " – Jason Derulo (#18)
"The Way " – Ariana Grande feat. Mac Miller (#9)
"Thrift Shop " – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz (#1)
"Timber " – Pitbull feat. Kesha (#2)
"Treasure " – Bruno Mars (#5)
"Try " – Pink (#9)
"Unconditionally " – Katy Perry (#14)
"U.O.E.N.O. " – Rocko feat. Future and Rick Ross (#20)
"Wagon Wheel " – Darius Rucker (#15)
"Wake Me Up! " – Avicii (#4)
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together " – Taylor Swift (#17 in 2013, #1 in 2012)
"We Can't Stop " – Miley Cyrus (#2)
"We Own It (Fast & Furious) " – 2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa (#16)
"When I Was Your Man " – Bruno Mars (#1)
"White Walls " – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Schoolboy Q and Hollis (#15)
"Work Bitch " – Britney Spears (#12)
"Wrecking Ball " – Miley Cyrus (#1)
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2013
Deaths [ ]
January 1 – Patti Page , 85, country singer ("Tennessee Waltz ")
January 4 – Sammy Johns , 66, country singer-songwriter
January 7 – Sam Pace, 68, R&B singer (The Esquires )
January 11 – Jimmy O'Neill , 73, radio and television host
January 18 – Bobby Bennett , 74, R&B singer (The Famous Flames )
January 19 – Steve Knight , 77, keyboardist (Mountain )
January 20 – Bob Engemann, 77, singer (The Lettermen )
January 22 – Tony Douglas , 83, country singer
January 25 – Gregory Carroll , 83, singer-songwriter and producer
January 26 – Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner , 69, R&B singer (The Ohio Players )
January 30
Patty Andrews , 94, pop singer (The Andrews Sisters )
Ann Rabson , 67, singer, pianist, and guitarist
February 5 – Paul Tanner , 95, big band trombonist (Glenn Miller Orchestra )
February 16 – Stanley Knight, 64, rock guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas )
February 17 – Mindy McCready , 37, country music singer ("Guys Do It All the Time ")
February 18 – Damon Harris , 62, R&B singer (The Temptations )
February 21 – Cleotha Staples , 78, gospel singer (The Staple Singers )
February 25 – Dan Toler , 64, guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band )
February 27
Van Cliburn , 78, pianist
Richard Street , 70, R&B singer (The Temptations )
February 28 – DJ Ajax , 41, Australian techno musician and producer
March 1
March 3 – Bobby Rogers , 73, R&B singer-songwriter (The Miracles )
March 4 – Fran Warren , 87, pop singer
March 7 – Claude King , 90, country singer-songwriter ("Wolverton Mountain ")
March 8
Ricardo da Force , 45, English dance vocalist and rapper (The KLF , N-Trance )
Sammy Masters , 82, rockabilly musician
March 12 – Clive Burr , 56, English metal drummer (Iron Maiden )
March 14 – Jack Greene , 83, country singer ("There Goes My Everything ")
March 16
Bobby Smith , 76, R&B singer (The Spinners )
Jason Molina , 39, folk singer-songwriter
March 19 – Floyd "Buddy" McRae, 85, singer (The Chords )
March 20 – Eddie Bond , 79, rockabilly singer and guitarist
March 24 – Deke Richards , 68, songwriter
March 26 – Margie Alexander , 64, gospel and soul singer
April 6 – Don Shirley , 86, jazz pianist and composer
April 8 – Annette Funicello , 70, actress and pop singer ("Tall Paul ")
April 11 – Jonathan Winters , 87, stand-up comedian, actor and recording artist
April 13 – Chi Cheng , 42, metal and alternative bassist (Deftones )
April 15 – Scott Miller , 53, alternative singer-songwriter (Game Theory , The Loud Family )
April 17 – George Perkins , 70, singer
April 22 – Nathaniel Romerson, 75, R&B singer (The Ballads )
April 21 – Chrissy Amphlett , 53, Australian rock singer (Divinyls )
April 22 – Richie Havens , 72, folk singer ("Here Comes the Sun ")
April 26 – George Jones , 81, country singer ("He Stopped Loving Her Today ")
May 1 – Chris Kelly , 34, rapper (Kris Kross )
May 2 – Jeff Hanneman , 49, metal guitarist (Slayer )
May 7 – Romanthony , 46, electronic dance singer and producer ("One More Time ")
May 11 – Ollie Mitchell , 86, trumpet player (The Wrecking Crew )
May 17 – Alan O'Day , 72, singer-songwriter
May 20
Ray Manzarek , 74, rock organist (The Doors ) and record producer
Zach Sobiech , 18, singer-songwriter
May 21
Raymond Reid, 60, trombonist (Crown Heights Affair )
Bob Thompson , 88, composer, arranger, and orchestra leader
May 24 – Lorene Mann , 76, country music singer and songwriter
May 25
May 26 – Clarence Burke, Jr , 64, soul singer (The Five Stairsteps )
May 29 – Marvin Junior , 77, R&B singer (The Dells )
May 31 – Shelbra Bennett, 66, singer (The Soul Children )
June 2
June 4
Joey Covington , 67, rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane , Jefferson Starship , Hot Tuna )
Cornelius "Nini" Harp, 73, singer (The Marcels )
Jim Sundquist, 75, guitarist (The Fendermen )
June 5
Don Bowman , 75, country music singer
Marshall Sewell, 75, bass singer (The Edsels )
June 6 – Elaine Laron , 83, songwriter
June 11 – Johnny Smith , 90, jazz guitarist
June 14 – Tom Tall , 75, rockabilly singer
June 15 – Robert Morris "B.J." Jones (70), rock guitarist (Sweathog )
June 17 – Carmen Carrozza , 92, accordionist
June 19 – Slim Whitman , 90, country singer-songwriter ("Secret Love ")
June 21 – Mary Love , 69, soul and gospel singer
June 23
Bobby Bland , 83, soul and blues singer ("That's the Way Love Is " )
Little Willie Littlefield , 81, singer-songwriter and pianist
June 24
Puff Johnson , 40, singer-songwriter
Alan Myers , 58, new wave drummer (Devo )
June 27 – Paul Giacalone, 73, singer (The Fireflies )
July 1 – Texas Johnny Brown , 85, singer-songwriter and guitarist
July 8 – Brett Walker , 51, songwriter and producer
July 9 – Jim Foglesong , 90, record producer
July 11 – Charles Pope, 76, R&B singer (The Tams )
July 16 – T-Model Ford , (exact age unknown; believed to be in early 90s), blues guitarist and singer
July 21 – Faye Hunter , 59, alternative bassist (Let's Active )
July 23 – Dominguinhos , 72, composer, accordionist, and singer
July 26 – J.J. Cale , 74, blues singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Cocaine ")
August 1 – Toby Saks , 71, cellist
August 3 – Les Cooper , 92, doo wop musician
August 4 – Tim Wright , experimental rock bassist (Pere Ubu , DNA )
August 5 – George Duke , 67, jazz and funk keyboardist
August 8 – Jack Clement , 82, country singer-songwriter
August 10
August 13 – Tompall Glaser , 79, country singer
August 14 – Allen Lanier , 67, rock keyboardist and guitarist (Blue Öyster Cult )
August 19 – Cedar Walton , 79, hard-bop jazz pianist
August 20 – Marian McPartland , 95, jazz pianist and radio broadcaster (Piano Jazz )
August 23 – Joey LaCaze , 42, metal drummer (Eyehategod )
September 1 – Joe Kelley, 67, guitarist and bassist (The Shadows of Knight )
September 9 – Forrest , 60, singer
September 16 – Mac Curtis , 74, rockabilly singer
September 17 – Marvin Rainwater , 88, country and rockabilly singer and songwriter
September 25 – Billy Mure , 97, guitarist
September 30 – Zulema , 66, singer and songwriter
October 8 – Larry Verne , 79, singer
October 10
Jan Kuehnemund , 51, hard rock guitarist (Vixen )
Cal Smith , 81, country music singer
October 15 – Gloria Lynne , 83, jazz singer
October 20 – Leon Ashley , 77, country singer
October 26 – Al Johnson , 65, R&B singer (The Unifics )
October 27 – Lou Reed , 71, rock singer-songwriter (The Velvet Underground )
October 30 – Pete Haycock , 62, musician (Climax Blues Band ) and film score composer
October 31 – Bobby Parker , 76, blues-rock guitarist, singer and songwriter
November 6
Lee Crystal, drummer (Joan Jett and the Blackhearts )
Clyde Stacy , 77, rockabilly singer
November 11 – Bob Beckham , 86, country singer
November 29
Oliver Cheatham , 65, R&B singer ("Get Down Saturday Night ")
Dick Dodd , 68, drummer and singer (The Standells )
December 2 – Rex Garvin , 73, singer-songwriter and keyboard player
December 8 – John Wyker, 68, songwriter (Sailcat )
December 11 – Tommy Ruger, 67, drummer (The Nightcrawlers )
December 16 – Ray Price , 87, country singer-songwriter ("Crazy Arms ")
December 20 – Lord Infamous , 40, rapper (Three 6 Mafia )
December 23 – Yusef Lateef , 93, jazz musician
December 29 – Benjamin Curtis , 35, alternative guitarist and songwriter (Secret Machines , School of Seven Bells , Tripping Daisy )
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