1992 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.

Specific locations

 * 1992 in British music
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 * 1992 in South Korean music

Specific genres

 * 1992 in country music
 * 1992 in heavy metal music
 * 1992 in hip hop music
 * 1992 in Latin music
 * 1992 in jazz

January–February

 * January 11
 * Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to No. 1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s.
 * Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the United Nations cultural boycott.
 * January 16 – Mick Jagger attends the Hollywood première of his new movie, Freejack, at Mann's Chinese Theatre.
 * January 25 – The inaugural Big Day Out festival takes place in Sydney, Australia, headlined by Violent Femmes and Nirvana.
 * February 5 – New Kids on the Block interrupt their tour to perform on The Arsenio Hall Show in response to rumors that the group lip-synchs its concerts.
 * February 16 – Slavic music is featured at the Oulu Music Festival, with concerts and opera productions in Oulu, Finland, until February 26.
 * February 18 – Vince Neil leaves Mötley Crüe after 11 years as the band's lead singer, to spend more time on his career as a racing car driver.
 * February 24
 * Nirvana's Kurt Cobain marries Hole's Courtney Love.
 * The U.S. Postal Service unveils two potential designs for its proposed Elvis Presley postage stamp for fans to vote on. One design is of a young, 1950s Elvis, and the other is of a much older, 1970s Elvis. The young Elvis wins the vote, and the stamp is issued the following January.
 * February 25
 * Six major record companies reach an agreement to phase out the longbox form of compact disc packaging by April 1993, due to complaints that the packaging is environmentally wasteful.
 * The 34th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in New York, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. Natalie Cole's Unforgettable... with Love wins Album of the Year, while her "virtual duet" cover of "Unforgettable" with her late father, Nat King Cole, wins both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Marc Cohn wins Best New Artist.

March–April

 * March 10 – At the 1992 Soul Train Music Awards, Prince wins the "Heritage" award for lifetime achievement.
 * March 14 – Farm Aid Five takes place in Irving, Texas, USA, hosted by Willie Nelson. Artists performing at the event include John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Paul Simon. Approximately 40,000 people attend the event.
 * March 16 – Mariah Carey performs at MTV Unplugged, shows critics her 5-octave range, and gets rave reviews.
 * March 24 – A judge in Chicago, Illinois, USA, approves cash rebates of up to US$3 to anyone proving they bought Milli-Vanilli recordings prior to the beginning of the lip synching scandal on November 27, 1990.
 * April 1 – Billy Idol, on trial for punching a woman in the face, pleads no contest. Idol is fined and ordered to make public service announcements against alcohol and drug abuse.
 * April 20 – The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert takes place at Wembley Stadium in London, England. All proceeds go to AIDS research.
 * April 24 – David Bowie marries fashion model Iman.
 * April 30 – In Los Angeles, California, USA, Madonna's bustier is stolen from a display in Frederick's of Hollywood. A US$1,000 reward is offered for its return.

May–June

 * May 6
 * The first Europäisches Jugendchorfestival,(EJCF) (European Festival of Youth Choirs) is held in Basel, Switzerland. Organizers decide to make it a triennial event.
 * Rob Halford announces he is leaving Judas Priest.
 * Selena releases her album Entre A Mi Mundo which contains her first No. 1 hit, "Como La Flor".
 * May 7 – John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers leaves the band prior to the publication of a Rolling Stone magazine cover featuring them; he has to be digitally edited out of the photo. Frusciante returned to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1998.
 * May 9 – The 1992 Eurovision Song Contest, held at Malmö Isstadion in Malmö, Sweden, is won by Ireland's Linda Martin with the song "Why Me?", notably written by 1980 and 1987 winner Johnny Logan. At 41 years old, Martin becomes, and remains, the oldest woman to win the contest.
 * May 11 – A. R. Rahman's debut film Roja is released. The soundtrack is regarded as a milestone that changed the face of Tamil film music and subsequently contemporary Indian music. Time magazine's film critic, Richard Corliss, stated in 2005 that the "astonishing debut work parades Rahman's gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman," naming it one of the magazine's "10 Best Soundtracks" of all time.
 * June 5 – The Sata Häme Accordion Festival takes place until June 14 in Ikaalinen, Finland.
 * June 27
 * Michael Jackson starts the Dangerous World Tour, supporting his Dangerous album in Munich, Germany.
 * Guitarist Stefanie Sargent of up-and-coming punk rock band 7 Year Bitch dies of asphyxiation after returning home from a party in which she had drunk alcohol and taken a small amount of heroin. She was 24.
 * June 29 – The Northern Accordion Festival takes place in Tornio-Haaparanta, Finland, until July 5.

July–August

 * July 4
 * The BudaFest Summer Opera and Ballet Festival is launched in Budapest, Hungary.
 * Mark Heard suffers a heart attack while performing at the Cornerstone Festival in Illinois, USA. Heard goes to hospital immediately after finishing his set, but dies two weeks after being discharged in August.
 * July 10 – Seinäjoki (Finland) Tango Festival begins, running to July 12.
 * July 11 – "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses enters the world record books when it becomes the longest single, at 8 minutes, 57 seconds, to reach the US Top 20. The single's video has a budget of over US$1.5 million, becoming the most expensive at the time.
 * July 12 – Opening of the Chamber-Music Festival of Kuhmo, Finland (until July 26).
 * July 18 – Whitney Houston marries Bobby Brown.
 * July 28 – Ice-T announces that the controversial track "Cop Killer" is being pulled from Body Count's self-titled album.
 * August 2
 * Rozalla becomes the first artist from Zimbabwe to chart on the US Billboard magazine chart.
 * Former Beatle George Harrison tells Billboard magazine that he recently discovered that he was born on February 24, and not February 25 as he had thought for most of his life.
 * Haitian military authorities ban the playing of RAM's single "Fèy"; first performed at the Port-au-Prince Carnival in February, the song was widely interpreted as an anthem of support for exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
 * American pop-punk band Blink-182 form in the suburbs of San Diego, but are known as Blink until 1995.
 * August 3 – Lahti Organ Festival (Finland) begins, lasting until August 9.
 * August 5 – Jeff Porcaro, arguably the most highly regarded studio drummer in rock from the mid-'70s to the early '90s, dies aged 38 of a heart attack.
 * August 8 – During the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour, Metallica frontman James Hetfield is burned by a pyrotechnics blast during a concert at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, forcing the group to cancel the second hour of the show. Co-headliners Guns N' Roses take the stage, but walk off early with Axl Rose complaining of throat problems. The abbreviated show causes angry fans to riot in the streets of Montreal. The tour resumed on August 25, but with a guitar technician replacing Hetfield on guitar for the remainder of the tour.
 * August 14 – Opening of the Sibelius-Festival in Loviisa, Finland.
 * August 18 – Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, is born.
 * August 20 – Opening of the Helsinki Festival, with the theme: Music of the Baltics (orchestral and chamber-music concerts, opera productions, song recitals, ballet, theater, jazz, pop, and rock concerts) until September 6.

September–October

 * September 17 – Frank Zappa, in his final professional public appearance, conducts the Ensemble Modern at the Frankfurt Festival in Germany. Zappa, who is seriously ill with prostate cancer, receives a 20-minute ovation.
 * October 3 – Sinéad O'Connor stirs up controversy when she rips up a picture of the Pope on the US television show, Saturday Night Live.
 * October 16 – A massive Bob Dylan tribute concert is held at Madison Square Garden in New York. John Cougar Mellencamp, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, June Carter Cash, Johnny Cash and Tracy Chapman are among the many performers, but much attention becomes focused on Sinéad O'Connor, who is loudly booed by much of the audience in response to the Saturday Night Live incident two weeks earlier.
 * October 20 – Singer-songwriter Madonna releases her fifth studio album, Erotica, which became one of her most controversial albums to date due to overtly sexual content.
 * October 31
 * "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men posts a 12th consecutive week at No. 1 in the US charts, ending a 36-year record previously held by Elvis Presley. Boyz II Men's record was broken on March 6, 1993, by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You".
 * McTeague, an opera based on the Progressive Era-novel by Frank Norris, premieres at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

November–December

 * November 3 – The rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine releases their debut album.
 * November 9 – Australian-born singer Kylie Minogue ends her working relationship with UK songwriters and record producers Stock Aitken Waterman and the record label PWL.
 * November 15
 * Megan Jasper of Sub Pop creates the grunge speak hoax, tricking The New York Times into printing an article on supposed slang used in the grunge scene in Seattle, USA.
 * Ozzy Osbourne plays the final concert of his "retirement" tour at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, California. He is joined on stage by his three former Black Sabbath bandmates for a reunion performance. Black Sabbath opened the show with Rob Halford as lead vocalist, filling in for Ronnie James Dio who had left the band days earlier.
 * The Jacksons: An American Dream, a two-part miniseries based on the Jackson family, premieres on ABC.
 * November 17 – The soundtrack album of "The Bodyguard", Whitney Houston's debut film, is released. The album went on to be certified 18 times platinum by the RIAA and sell 45 million copies worldwide. To date the album is still the best selling soundtrack of all time and also one of the best selling albums of all time.
 * November 22 – Manchester-based post-punk and electronic music label Factory Records declares bankruptcy. The label had been placed in dire financial straits following the spending of most of their funds by Happy Mondays during the recording of their album Yes Please!, which would end up a commercial failure. Additionally, plans for a buyout from London Records folded when it was discovered that none of Factory's artists were actually signed onto the label; most of these artists, most notably New Order, would end up signing onto London Records anyhow following Factory's foreclosure.
 * December 3 – Bill Wyman announces he is quitting The Rolling Stones.
 * December 31
 * Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau announces his retirement from the stage to an audience at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
 * The twenty-first annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by TLC, Bell Biv DeVoe, Slaughter, Jon Secada, Village People and Barry Manilow.

Also in 1992

 * David Isberg quits Opeth from his vocalist position. Current guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt fills his position.
 * Vibe, a new magazine focusing on R&B and hip-hop music, launches with a special Fall preview issue.
 * The MP3 file format is developed as part of a video compression standard.

Bands formed

 * See Musical groups established in 1992

Bands disbanded

 * See Musical groups disestablished in 1992

Bands reformed

 * The Tubes
 * April Wine
 * Madness

Release date unknown

 * Adam 'n' Eve - Gavin Friday
 * Alice in Wonderland No. 4 - Randy Greif
 * An Evening With The Allman Brothers Band, First Set – Allman Brothers Band
 * Backstreet Of Desire - Willy de Ville
 * The Basics of Life - 4Him
 * Battle Cries - The Brave
 * Black Ticket Day – Ed Kuepper
 * Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion - Dr. John
 * Center Of The Universe – Giant Sand
 * Crooked Line - Nils Lofgren
 * Destination Paradise – Fischer-Z
 * Fireboy - Grant McLennan
 * Goin' Back to Dixie - John Hartford
 * Good Times - Chris Cacavas & The Junkyard Love
 * Groovus Maximus – Electric Boys
 * I, Jonathan - Jonathan Richman
 * I'll Find You There - The Kry
 * Infamous Angel - Iris Dement
 * In Search of Manny - Luscious Jackson


 * Letters To A Dream - Louis Tillett
 * Little Village - Little Village
 * Lusis - Mortal
 * Lysol – Melvins
 * Mercy - Bryan Duncan
 * Not Fade Away - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
 * Pick It Up - Hokus Pick Manouver
 * Pray for Rain - PFR
 * Pray Naked - The 77s
 * Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove with Willie Love – Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove with Willie Love
 * Scenic Routes – Lost Dogs
 * Shhh – Chumbawamba
 * Short Man's Room - Joe Henry
 * Six-Pack of Love - Peter Case
 * Snakes in the Playground - Bride
 * Tales of Wonder - White Heart
 * This Is Not The Way Home - The Cruel Sea
 * Through the Forest – Mad at the World
 * Too Much Fun - Green On Red
 * Turns Into Stone - Stone Roses
 * XX Years Live – Rez Band
 * SADDLE UP – First Arsch

Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1992.

Other Chart hit singles
• "A Deeper Love" - Clivillés & Cole

• "America: What Time Is Love?" - The KLF

• "Atesle Barut" – Sertab Erener

• "Baby-Baby-Baby" – TLC (#2 US)

• "Baby Got Back" – Sir Mix-a-Lot (#1 US, #8 AUS)

• "Baker Street" – Undercover (#2 UK, IRL, BE, SWI, #3 AUT, NLD)

• "Barcelona" – Freddie Mercury (#2 UK, NLD, NZ, #3 IRL)

• "Be My Baby" – Vanessa Paradis (#2 BE, #5 FR, #6 UK, IRL)

• "Be Quick or Be Dead" – Iron Maiden (#2 UK, #3 NOR)

• "Because the Night" – Co.Ro & Tarlisa (#1 IT, SP, #6 FR, #8 BE)

• "The Best Things in Life Are Free" – Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson (#2 AUS, UK, #6 IRL, NZ)

• "Boss Drum" – The Shamen

• "Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)" – Mint Condition (#6 US)

• "Breath of Life" – Erasure (#7 FIN, #8 IRL, UK)

• "Ça ne change pas un homme" – Johnny Hallyday (#7 FR)

• "Caroline" – MC Solaar (#4 FR)

• "Cash City" – Luc de Larochellière (#1 QUE, #11 FR)

• "Come and Talk to Me" – Jodeci

• "Come as You Are" – Nirvana (#3 NZ, #7 IRL, #9 UK)

• "Como la Flor" – Selena (#6 US Latin)

• "Connected" – Stereo MCs (#5 AUT, #6 SWI, #8 SWE)

• "Could It Be Magic" – Take That (#3 UK, IRL, #8 BE)

• "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" – Sophie B. Hawkins (#3 NOR, #5 US, #7 AUS)

• "Das Boot" – U 96 (#1 AUT, GER, NOR, #4 NLD, #5 SWE)

• "Diamonds and Pearls" – Prince (#3 US)

• "Deeply Dippy" – Right Said Fred (#1 UK, IRL, #6 AUT)

• "Didi" – Khaled	(#9 FR, #10 BE)

• "Die da!?" – Die Fantastischen Vier (#1 AUT, SWI, #2 GER)

• "Do I Have to Say the Words?" – Bryan Adams (#2 CAN)

• "Do It to Me" - Lionel Richie

• "Don't Be Aggressive" – Sandra (#7 NOR, #8 FIN)

• "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" – Elton John & George Michael (#1 FR, NLD, NOR, US)

• "Don't Talk Just Kiss" – Right Said Fred (#2 GER, #3 UK, #4 FIN, SWE)

• "Don't You Want Me" – Felix (#1 FIN, IT, SP, SWI)

• "Drive" – R.E.M.	(#4 IRL, #7 CAN)

• "Driven by You" – Brian May (#6 UK, #9 US)

• "Dur dur d'être bébé !" – Jordy (#1 FR, SP, #2 FIN, #3 AUT, BE, NLD)

• "Ebeneezer Goode" – The Shamen (#1 UK, IRL, #2 NOR, #8 FIN)

• "El Visa" – Cheb Hasni (ALG)

• "End of the Road" – Boyz II Men

• "Erotica" – Madonna (#1 ITA, #2 NOR, #3 US, UK, SWE, NZ, #4 AUS, IRE, SPA, #8 SWI)

• "Even Better Than the Real Thing" – U2 (#3 CAN, IRL, #8 AUT, NLD)

• "Everything About You" – Ugly Kid Joe (#3 UK, #5 IRL, NLD, NOR, #9 US)

• "Everytime We Touch" – Maggie Reilly (#1 NOR, #5 AUT)

• "Free Your Mind" – En Vogue (#8 US)

• "Friday I'm In Love" – The Cure (#3 CAN, #4 IRL, #6 UK)

• "Give It Up" – The Good Men

• "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" - En Vogue

• "God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II" - Kiss

• "Goodnight Girl" – Wet Wet Wet (#1 UK, IRL)

• "Hazard" – Richard Marx	(#1 AUS, #3 CAN, #6 SWE)

• "Heading for a Fall" – Vaya Con Dios	(#1 BE, #3 NLD, #5 SWI)

• "Heal the World" – Michael Jackson (#1 POL, #2 FR, IRL, UK, ZIM)

• "Heaven Sent" – INXS

• "High" – The Cure (#8 UK)

• "Hold on My Heart" – Genesis (#1 CAN)

• "House of Love" – East 17 (#1 FIN, SWE, #3 JAP, #6 GER)

• "How Do You Do!" – Roxette (#1 NOR, #2 AUT, NLD, GER, SWE, SWI)

• "How Do You Talk to an Angel" – The Heights	(#1 US, #2 CAN, #3 AUS)

• "Human Touch" – Bruce Springsteen (#1 NOR, SP, #4 FIN, IRL, SWE, SWI)

• "Humpin' Around" – Bobby Brown (#1 AUS, #2 NZ, #3 US)

• "I Can't Dance" – Genesis (#1 BE, NLD, #2 AUT, #3 CAN)

• "I Don't Care" - Shakespears Sister

• "I Drove All Night" – Roy Orbison (#7 UK)

• "I Still Believe in You" – Cliff Richard (#7 UK)

• "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" – U96 	(#3 SWI, #4 GER, #6 AUT)

• "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston

• "I'd Die Without You" - P.M. Dawn

• "If I Ever Fall in Love" – Shai (#4 AUS, #5 NZ)

• "If You Asked Me To" – Celine Dion (#1 CAN)

• "If You Go Away" – New Kids on the Block (#4 NOR, #6 CAN, #9 UK)

• "I'll Be There" – Mariah Carey (#1 US, CAN, NLD)

• "I'm Doing Fine Now" - The Pasadenas

• "I'm Too Sexy" – Right Said Fred (#1 US)

• "In Bloom" – Nirvana (#7 IRL)

• "In the Closet" – Michael Jackson (#2 IT, SP, #4 IRL, #5 AUS, NZ, #6 US)

• "In the Still of the Nite (I'll Remember)" - Boyz II Men

• "Iron Lion Zion" – Bob Marley	(#2 NZ, SWE, #3 FR, #5 BE, UK)

• "It Only Takes a Minute" – Take That 	(#7 UK)

• "It Will Make Me Crazy" – Felix (#1 FIN, #3 SWI, #4 IRL)

• "It's a Fine Day" – Opus III (#2 SP, #5 UK, #6 IRL)

• "It's My Life" – Dr Alban (#1 AUT, BE, GER, IT, NLD, SWE)

• "It's Probably Me" – Sting & Eric Clapton (#1 IT, #2 FR)

• "Jam" – Michael Jackson (#1 SP, #2 NZ, #5 IRL)

• "James Brown Is Dead" – L.A. Style (#1 BE, NLD, SP, #2 SWI)

• "Joy" – François Feldman	(#1 FR)

• "Jump" – Kris Kross (#1 AUS, FIN, IRL, NZ, SWI, US)

• "Jump Around" – House of Pain	(#3 US, NZ)

• "Just Another Day" – Jon Secada (#2 CAN, NLD, SWI)

• "Justified & Ancient" – The KLF (#1 AUT, FIN, NZ, SWE)

• "Keep the Faith" – Bon Jovi (#1 NOR, #3 SWI, #4 NZ)

• "Killing in the Name" – Rage Against the Machine

• "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" – Guns N' Roses (#1 IRL, #2 UK)

• "Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)" – Tears For Fears (#8 IT)

• "Layla" (unplugged) – Eric Clapton (#1 CAN, JAP)

• "Le Chat" – Pow woW (#1 FR)

• "Les Mariés de Vendée" – Anaïs & Didier Barbelivien (#2 FR, #4 BE)

• "Let's Get Rocked" – Def Leppard (#2 NOR, UK, #3 SWI)

• "Lithium" – Nirvana (#3 FIN, #5 IRE)

• "Life Is a Highway" – Tom Cochrane (#1 CAN, #2 AUS, NZ)

• "Live and Learn" – Joe Public (#4 US)

• "Love Is in the Air" (Ballroom mix) – John Paul Young

• "LSI (Love Sex Intelligence)" – The Shamen (#4 SWE, #6 UK)

• "The Magic Friend" – 2 Unlimited (#1 FIN, #3 IRL, #4 BE)

• "Make It Happen" - Mariah Carey

• "Man on the Moon" – R.E.M. (#4 CAN)

• "Midlife Crisis" – Faith No More (#9 AUT, #10 UK)

• "A Million Love Songs" – Take That (#7 UK)

• "Mr. Wendal" – Arrested Development (#2 NZ, #4 UK, #6 US)

• "My Destiny" – Lionel Richie

• "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" – En Vogue (#2 US, #4 UK)

• "My Name Is Prince" – Prince (#7 UK)

• "Never Let Her Slip Away" – Undercover

• "Nothing Else Matters" – Metallica (#3 IRL, NOR, #5 BE, NLD, SWI, #6 AUT, UK)

• "November Rain" – Guns N' Roses (#3 IRL, NLD, US)

• "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" – Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg	(#2 US)

• "On a Ragga Tip" – SL2 (#2 UK, NLD, #3 IRL)

• "The One" – Elton John (#1 CAN, #3 FR, NOR)

• "One" – U2 (#1 CAN, IRL, #3 NZ)

• "One Love" – Dr. Alban (#3 IRL, #7 FIN, GER, #8 BE)

• "Open Sesame" – Leila K (#1 BE, #2 NLD, #3 IT)

• "Open Your Mind" – U.S.U.R.A.	(#2 IT, #3 AUT, SWI, #5 NLD)

• "Out of Space" – The Prodigy (#3 NLD, #5 UK, #6 IRL)

• "Paradoxal Système" – Laurent Voulzy (#10 FR)

• "Parce qu'on est jeunes" – Benny B feat. DJ Daddy K (#2 BE, #5 FR)

• "Pas d'ami (comme toi)" – Stephan Eicher (#7 FR)

• "People Everyday" – Arrested Development	(#2 UK, #6 AUS, FR, SWE)

• "Phorever People" – The Shamen

• "Piece of My Heart" – Erma Franklin

• "Please Don't Go" – Double You (#1 BE, NLD, SP)

• "Please Don't Go" – KWS

• "Remember the Time" – Michael Jackson	(#1 NZ, #2 BE, CAN)

• "Revolution" - Arrested Development

• "Rhythm is a Dancer" – Snap!

• "Ride the Bullet" - Army of Lovers

• "Rien que de l'eau" – Véronique Sanson (#6 FR)

• "Rump Shaker" – Wreckx-n-Effect (#2 US)

• "Runaway Train" – Elton John & Eric Clapton (#10 IT)

• "Run to You" – Rage

• "Save the Best for Last" – Vanessa L. Williams (#1 US, AUS)

• "Sesame's Treet" – Smart E's 	(#2 UK, #4 IRL, NZ, #6 AUS)

• "Sexy MF" – Prince (#4 UK, #5 AUS)

• "Shake Your Head" - Was (Not Was)

• "Shame, Shame, Shame" - Izabella Scorupco

• "She's Playing Hard to Get" – Hi-Five	(#5 US)

• "Sleeping Satellite" – Tasmin Archer	(#1 UK)

• "Smells Like Teen Spirit" – Nirvana

• "Something Good" – Utah Saints (#4 UK, IRL)

• "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" – Patty Smyth & Don Henley (#2 US)

• "Song of Ocarina" – Jean-Philippe Audin & Diego Modena	(#1 FR)

• "Starship Edelweiss" – Edelweiss

• "Stay" – Shakespears Sister (#1 UK)

• "Step It Up" – Stereo MC's

• "Suzette" – Dany Brillant (#3 FR)

• "Sweat (A La La La La Long)" – Inner Circle (#1 BE, GER, NLD, NZ, SWI, #2 AUS, AUT, SWE)

• "Sweet Lullaby" – Deep Forest

• "Symphony of Destruction" – Megadeth

• "Take a Chance on Me" – Erasure (#1 UK)

• "Tears in Heaven" – Eric Clapton (#1 ARG, BRA, CAN, DEN, IRL, JAP, NZ, NOR, POL, TAI)

• "Temple of Love" – The Sisters of Mercy (#3 UK, #5 GER)

• "Tennessee" – Arrested Development	(#6 US)

• "Tetris" - Doctor Spin

• "This Used to Be My Playground" – Madonna (#1 US, CAN, FIN, IT, SWE)

• "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven" – Bryan Adams (#1 CAN, #8 UK)

• "Three Little Pigs" – Green Jellÿ (#5 UK, #6 AUS)

• "To Be with You" – Mr. Big

• "Too Funky" – George Michael (#2 IT, NOR, #3 AUS, NLD)

• "Too Much Love Will Kill You" – Brian May (#5 UK)

• "Twilight Zone" – 2 Unlimited

• "Under the Bridge" – Red Hot Chili Peppers (#1 AUS, BE, NLD, #2 US)

• "Viva Las Vegas" – ZZ Top (#7 SWE, #8 IRL)

• "Walking on Broken Glass" – Annie Lennox (#1 CAN, #8 UK, IRL)

• "We All Need Love" – Double You (#2 BE, #6 GER, #7 SWI)

• "We Got a Love Thang" – CeCe Peniston

• "Weather with You" – Crowded House (#7 UK)

• "What About Your Friends" – TLC (#7 US)

• "When I Look Into Your Eyes" – FireHouse

• "Wherever I May Roam" – Metallica (#1 FIN, #2 NOR)

• "Who Is It" – Michael Jackson (#3 POL, #5 AUT, BE, #6 CAN, IRL)

• "Who Needs Love Like That" (Remix) – Erasure	(#8 IRL)

• "A Whole New World" – Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle (#1 US, #6 CAN)

• "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" – U2 (#4 IRL, #5 CAN, SWI, #8 FIN)

• "Why" – Annie Lennox	(#1 IT, #5 UK, IRL, #6 NOR, SWI)

• "Why Me?" – Linda Martin

• "Wishing on a Star" – The Cover Girls

• "Workaholic" – 2 Unlimited (#2 FIN, IRL, #4 NLD, UK)

• "Would?" – Alice in Chains

• "Would I Lie to You?" – Charles & Eddie (#1 AUT, GER, NZ, UK)

• "You" – Ten Sharp (#1 FR, NOR, SWE)

• "You Bring On the Sun" – Londonbeat (#5 NLD, #6 GER)

• "You Showed Me" – Salt-n-Pepa (#5 NLD, #7 BE, IRL)

Other Notable singles
• "Boss Drum" - The Shamen

• "Male Monster from the Id" - The Chills

• "Ripple" - The Church

• Trapped in a Box" - No Doubt

• "The Way I Made You Feel" - Ed Kuepper

Top ten best albums of the year
All albums have been named albums of the year for their hits in the charts.


 * 1) R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
 * 2) Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
 * 3) Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
 * 4) Alice in Chains – Dirt
 * 5) Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
 * 6) Dr. Dre – The Chronic
 * 7) Faith No More – Angel Dust
 * 8) Sublime – 40 Oz. To Freedom
 * 9) Sonic Youth – Dirty
 * 10) Beastie Boys – Check Your Head

Classical music

 * Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen – Arctic Landscape for Military Band
 * Milton Babbitt
 * Septet, but Equal
 * Counterparts for brass quintet
 * Leonardo Balada
 * Symphony No. 4 Lausanne
 * Celebracio for orchestra
 * Mario Davidovsky – Synchronisms No. 10 for guitar and electronic sounds
 * Lorenzo Ferrero
 * La ruta de Cortés (symphonic poem)
 * Movimento americano
 * Poi andro in America
 * Peter Gahn – Auch ohne Sprache, for guitar
 * Philip Glass – Symphony No. 1 Low
 * Vagn Holmboe – Svaerm for string quartet (partially arranged from earlier violin duos)
 * Elena Kats-Chernin – Clocks
 * Ka Nin Chan – Saxophone Quartet
 * Andreas Kunstein
 * String Quartet No. 1
 * 10 Epigrams for Toy Piano
 * Witold Lutosławski – Symphony No. 4
 * James MacMillan – Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (concerto for percussion and orchestra)
 * William Mathias – Flute Concerto
 * Younghi Pagh-Paan – U-MUL
 * Krzysztof Penderecki – Symphony No. 5 Korean
 * Alwynne Pritchard – Glimpsed Most Clearly from the Corner of Your Eye, for seven cellos
 * Roger Reynolds – Kokoro, for solo violin
 * David Sawer – Byrnan Wood
 * Kurt Schwertsik
 * Uluru, Op. 64 for orchestra
 * Baumgesänge, Op. 65 for orchestra
 * Drei späte Liebeslieder, Op. 66 for cello and piano
 * Human Existence, for voice and chamber ensemble
 * John Serry Sr. – The Lord's Prayer, for organ & chorus
 * Karlheinz Stockhausen – Signale zur Invasion, for trombone and electronic music, or unaccompanied trombone
 * Joan Tower – Violin Concerto
 * Malcolm Williamson – Requiem for a Tribe Brother
 * Iannis Xenakis – La Déesse Athéna (Oresteïa III) (1992), for baritone solo and mixed ensemble of 11 instruments

Opera

 * Antonio Braga – 1492 epopea lirica d'America
 * Karel Goeyvaerts – Aquarius
 * Ingvar Lidholm – Ett drömspel
 * Jukka Linkola – Elina

Musical theater

 * Crazy for You – Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre and ran for 1622 performances
 * Falsettos – Broadway production opened at the John Golden Theatre and ran for 487 performances
 * Guys and Dolls – Broadway revival
 * Jelly's Last Jam – Broadway production opened at the Virginia Theatre and ran for 569 performances
 * The Most Happy Fella – Broadway revival

Musical films

 * Aladdin – Animated feature film by Walt Disney Animation Studios
 * Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads
 * Celibidache – You Don't Do Anything, You Just Let It Evolve (documentary by Jan Schmidt-Garre)
 * Chnam Oun 16
 * Khiladi
 * The Muppet Christmas Carol
 * Musketeers Twenty Years After
 * Pure Country
 * Roja – Tamil Indian film by Mani Ratnam
 * Un cœur en hiver, featuring music by Maurice Ravel

Soundtracks

 * Aladdin Academy Award winner for Best Song and Best Film Score
 * Batman Returns – score Danny Elfman
 * The Bodyguard – Whitney Houston
 * Boomerang – Boyz II Men, Tribe Called Quest, P.M. Dawn, Babyface
 * Bram Stoker's Dracula
 * Coneheads – Paul Simon, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Cool World – David Bowie, The Cult, Ministry, Moby, Brian Eno
 * Deep Cover – Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg
 * Far and Away – score by John Williams
 * Juice – Naughty by Nature, Too Short, EPMD, Cypress Hill
 * The Last of the Mohicans – score by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman
 * Lethal Weapon 3 – Eric Clapton, Sting
 * Malcolm X – Arrested Development (group), Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles
 * Mambo Kings – Los Lobos, Linda Ronstadt, Tito Puente
 * Medicine Man – score by Jerry Goldsmith
 * Mo' Money – Color Me Badd, Public Enemy, Bell Biv DeVoe, Janet Jackson
 * Rush – Eric Clapton
 * Singles – Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jimi Hendrix, Soundgarden
 * Sister Act – Etta James, Whoopi Goldberg, C+C Music Factory
 * South Central – Scarface, Cameo (band), Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
 * Toys – Tori Amos, Enya, Frankie Goes to Hollywood
 * Wayne's World – Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath

Births

 * January 2 – Alden Richards, Filipino actor, model and singer
 * January 5 - Suki Waterhouse, English actress, singer-songwriter and model
 * January 7 – Børns, American singer and songwriter
 * January 12 - Jaguar Jonze, Taiwanese Australian independent musician, singer songwriter, multi - instrumentalist and activist
 * January 16 – Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer
 * January 19 – Mac Miller, American rapper, singer, record producer, musician (d. 2018)
 * January 20 – Maria Harfanti, Indonesian social activist, pianist, and beauty pageant titleholder
 * January 21 – Emma Birdsall, Australian singer-songwriter, contestant on The Voice Australia
 * January 25 - Jordan Stephens, English musician, actor, and presenter. He is best known for being one half of Rizzle Kicks, and for presenting the ITV2 panel show Don't Hate the Playaz.
 * January 28 – Simone Egeriis, Danish singer
 * January 31 – Christopher Nissen, Danish singer
 * February 3 – Milo, American rapper and producer
 * February 7 – Jain (singer), French musician and singer-songwriter.
 * February 9 – Avan Jogia, Canadian actor and singer
 * February 14 – Elley Duhé, American singer-songwriter
 * February 16 – Sega Bodega, Irish-Scottish music producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and co-head/founder of record label
 * February 17 – Marika Hackman, English vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter.
 * February 23 – Tabitha Nauser, Singaporean pop and r&b singer and musician
 * February 29 – Majesty Rose, American singer
 * March 6 – Sarah De Bono, Australian singer-songwriter, contestant on The Voice Australia
 * March 9 – Cornelia Jakobs, Swedish singer-songwriter (Love Generation)
 * March 7 – Im Hyun-sik (singer), South Korean singer-songwriter
 * March 10 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer
 * March 17 - Ozuna, Latin singer
 * March 14
 * Jasmine Murray, American singer
 * Kash Doll, American rapper
 * March 24 - Jeremy Rosado, American singer
 * April 3 – Young M.A., American rapper
 * April 4 – Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer-songwriter
 * April 6 - Joy Oladokun, American singer-songwriter
 * April 9 - Joshua Ledet, American singer
 * April 10 - Stella Donnelly, Australian indie rock singer-songwriter.
 * April 11 – Naya, Lebanese singer
 * April 16 – Ronnie Flex, Dutch rapper
 * April 18 – Chloe Bennet, Chinese American singer, actress and activist
 * April 22 – Dyro, Dutch DJ, producer and musician
 * April 23
 * Syd (singer), American singer, songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, and audio engineer
 * Zelim Bakaev, Chechen singer
 * April 26 – Jon Cozart, American musician and comedian (Dodie, Malinda Kathleen Reese, Thomas Sanders)
 * April 27 – Allison Iraheta, American singer
 * May 8- Chelcee Grimes, British singer-songwriter and footballer
 * May 6
 * Baekhyun, Korean singer (EXO, SuperM)
 * Vanesa Gabriela Leiro, Argentine actress and singer
 * May 10 – Jake Zyrus (formerly Charice Pempengco), Filipino singer
 * May 12 – Malcolm David Kelley, American rapper and actor
 * May 15 – Clark Beckham, American singer
 * May 19
 * Sam Smith, English singer-songwriter and activist
 * Moses Sumney, Ghanaian-American singer
 * Marshmello, American electronic dance music producer and DJ. (Anne-Marie, Selena Gomez)
 * Lainey Wilson, American country singer
 * May 21 – Chloe Angelides, American singer, songwriter and producer
 * May 23 – Jinny Ng, Hong Kong Cantopop singer
 * June 2 - Ethan Slater. American singer, actor and composer (worked with: Lilli Cooper, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh and Keala Settle)
 * June 4 - Nothing,Nowhere, American rapper, singer and songwriter
 * June 14 – Princess Nokia, American rapper of Afro-Puerto Rican and Taíno descent
 * June 20 – Sage the Gemini, American rapper (The HBK Gang)
 * June 21 – Max Schneider, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * June 25 – Dorian Electra, American singer-songwriter, musician, video and visual artist
 * June 26
 * Melanie Amaro, American singer
 * Jennette McCurdy, American (Former actress) singer-songwriter, author, film maker and podcaster
 * June 30
 * Lynx and Lamb Gaede
 * Danielle Wade, Canadian actress and singer
 * July 1 – Caleb Nott, New Zealand musician, producer and songwriter (Broods)
 * July 2 – William Singe, Australian rapper, singer-songwriter and youtuber
 * July 3
 * Maasa Sudo, Japanese singer
 * Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress and singer
 * July 5
 * Daisuke Sakuma, Japanese singer (Snow Man)
 * Mirna Radulović, Serbian singer-songwriter
 * July 8 – Sky Ferreira, American singer, songwriter, model, and actress
 * July 10
 * Angel Haze, American rapper, activist and singer-songwriter
 * Clara Luciani, French Singer
 * Harloe, American singer and songwriter
 * July 11 – Karise Eden, Australian singer and activist
 * July 13 – Rich the Kid, American rapper
 * July 14 – Brytiago, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter
 * July 15 - Porter Robinson, American DJ, record producer, and singer-songwriter
 * July 18 – Bishop Briggs, British singer-songwriter and musician
 * July 19 – Ellie Rowsell, English singer-songwriter and musician (lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Wolf Alice).
 * July 22 – Selena Gomez, American actress, television producer, advocate, businesswoman and singer-songwriter (Friend and collaborator of: Taylor Swift & Britney Spears, lead member of Selena Gomez & the Scene, collaborator with Julia Michaels & Demi Lovato)
 * July 27 – Tory Lanez, Canadian rapper, songwriter, producer
 * August 2 – Charli XCX, British singer-songwriter, advocate, record executive, businesswoman, music video director and musician
 * August 4
 * S-X, British singer
 * Tiffany Evans, American singer
 * August 12 – Cara Delevingne, British singer/musician/actor/writer
 * August 13 - Erika Henningsen, American singer and actress
 * August 18 – Frances Bean Cobain, American artist, model, creator, activist, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
 * August 19 - Feid, Colombian singer
 * August 20 – Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter, actor, advocate, philanthropist, entrepreneur, author and businessperson
 * August 25
 * Emily Warren, American singer/songwriter, producer
 * Kaytranada, Haitian-Canadian DJ and record producer
 * August 27
 * Kim Petras, German singer-songwriter
 * Blake Jenner, American actor & singer
 * August 29 – Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer, songwriter and musician
 * September 2
 * Madilyn Bailey, American singer and songwriter.
 * Rae Morris, British singer and songwriter
 * September 9 - Leah Kate, American singer-songwriter
 * September 11
 * Desireé Bassett, American guitarist and recording artist
 * MacKenzie Bourg, American singer
 * September 12 – Shigga Shay, Singaporean rapper
 * September 15 – Camélia Jordana, French singer
 * September 16
 * Nick Jonas, musician and member of the American band Jonas Brothers, solo artist, songwriter, singer, musician, actor, businessman (dated: Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Delta Goodrem, Married:Priyanka Chopra, brother of Joe Jonas)
 * Jack Roche, English singer and actor and member of band Push Baby and previous dated Jesy Nelson
 * September 17 - Blxst, American rapper
 * September 18 – Joji (musician), Japanese (Australian) singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, former Internet personality and comedian
 * September 25 - Teddy Swims, American singer-songwriter
 * October 5
 * Rupi Kaur, Canadian-Punjabi poet and performer
 * Mercedes Lambre, Argentine actress, singer, dancer, and model
 * October 10 – Gabrielle Aplin, English singer and songwriter
 * October 7 – Grace Bawden, Australian independent classical crossover singer,
 * October 11 – Cardi B, American rapper/singer/songwriter
 * October 16 – Anson Kong, Hong Kong singer (MIRROR)
 * October 19 – Lewis Watson (musician), English singer-songwriter. (Dodie Clark)
 * October 20 - Liis Lemsalu, Estonian singer
 * October 22
 * Carrie Hope Fletcher, English singer-songwriter, actress, author (friend of Emma Blackery)
 * 21 Savage, Rapper and songwriter
 * October 24 - Leroy Clampitt, formerly known as Big Taste, is a producer, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Pirongia, New Zealand, based in Los Angeles, California. (Worked with: Madison Beer, Sabrina Carpenter, Broods, Ashe, Carlie Hanson)
 * October 26 – Lido (musician), Norwegian record producer, singer, and songwriter, frequent collaborator with Halsey
 * October 30 – Greeicy Rendón, Colombian actress and singer
 * November 3 - Jamie McDell, alt-country award-winning guitarist and singer-songwriter from Auckland, New Zealand.
 * November 5 – Ming Bridges, Australian Singaporean singer-songwriter, actress and model
 * November 12 – Giulietta, Australian singer-songwriter and dancer
 * Erika Costell, American singer-songwriter and musician
 * November 19 – Tove Styrke, Swedish singer-songwriter
 * November 20 – Jer Lau, Hong Kong singer (MIRROR)
 * November 21
 * Conor Maynard, British singer
 * Davido, Nigerian singer
 * November 23 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter, actress, performer and activist (formerly lead character on Disney musical comedy: Hannah Montana, worked with and supported Britney Spears)
 * November 26 - Anuel AA, Latin singer
 * November 27 – Chanyeol, Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer (EXO)
 * December 3 - JT (rapper),
 * December 4 – Jin, South Korean singer-songwriter and member of BTS
 * December 8
 * Katie Stevens, American singer
 * Yui Yokoyama, Japanese singer and actress
 * December 9 – Maelyn Jarmon, American musician, winner of The Voice, Team John Legend
 * December 12 – Austin Jones, American singer and youtuber
 * December 14 – Tori Kelly, American musician, singer and songwriter
 * December 18 – Bridgit Mendler, American actress and singer
 * December 24 - Dhurata Dora, Kosovo-Albanian singer
 * December 26 – Jade Thirlwall, English singer-songwriter, dancer and member of Little Mix, activist, businesswoman
 * December 28 – Gordi (musician), Australian folktronica singer/songwriter

Deaths

 * January 14 – Jerry Nolan, drummer for The New York Dolls, 45
 * January 15 – Dee Murray, bassist for Elton John, 45 (cancer)
 * January 17 – Charlie Ventura, tenor saxophonist and bandleader, 75
 * January 23 – Marie-Thérèse Gauley, French opera singer prominent at the Opéra-Comique, 88
 * January 27 – Allan Jones, singer and actor, 84
 * January 29 – Willie Dixon, blues singer-songwriter and musician, 76
 * February 12 – Stella Roman, operatic soprano, 87
 * February 21 – Jane Pickens Langley of the Pickens Sisters
 * March 4 – Mary Osborne, jazz guitarist, 70 (liver cancer)
 * March 8 – Champ Butler, American singer, 65
 * March 10 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer, 67
 * March 20 – Georges Delerue, composer, 66
 * March 21 – Shaik Dawood Khan, tabla virtuoso, 75
 * March 27 – Harald Sæverud, composer, 95
 * April 4 – Arthur Russell, cellist and disco musician, 40 (AIDS)
 * April 20 – Johnny Shines, guitarist, 76
 * April 25 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer, 26 (pulmonary edema)
 * April 27 – Olivier Messiaen, composer, 83
 * April 30 – Toivo Kärki, composer, arranger and producer, 76
 * May 7 – Tiny Timbrell, guitarist, 75
 * May 12 – Sylvia Syms, American singer, 74
 * May 17 – Lawrence Welk, accordion player and bandleader, 89
 * May 23 – Joyce Barker, operatic soprano, 60
 * June 3 – Ettore Campogalliani, music teacher and composer, 89
 * June 8 – Alfred Uhl, composer, 83
 * June 18 – Peter Allen, Australian songwriter, 48 (AIDS)
 * June 20 – Sir Charles Groves, conductor, 77
 * July 4 – Ástor Piazzolla, tango musician and composer, 71
 * July 5 – Paul Hackman, Canadian musician, 38 (car accident)
 * July 21 – Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist, 82
 * July 25 – Alfred Drake, US singer and actor, 77
 * July 26 – Mary Wells, Motown singer, 49 (laryngeal cancer)
 * July 29 – William Mathias, composer, 57
 * August 2 – Michel Berger, French composer and songwriter, 44 (heart attack)
 * August 5 – Jeff Porcaro, drummer, Toto, 38 (heart attack)
 * August 12 – John Cage, U.S. composer, 79
 * August 16 – Mark Heard, U.S. singer, 40 (heart attack)
 * September 19 – Sir Geraint Evans, operatic baritone, 70
 * October 3 – Peter Klein, lyric tenor, 85
 * October 5 – Eddie Kendricks, singer, (The Temptations) 52 (lung cancer)
 * October 7 – Harold Truscott, composer, pianist, broadcaster and writer on music, 78
 * October 25 – Roger Miller, singer, 56 (lung cancer)
 * November 10 – Hilda Hölzl, operatic soprano, 65
 * November 13 – Ronnie Bond (The Troggs), 52
 * November 14 – Teddy Riley, New Orleans jazz trumpeter and bandleader
 * November 21 – Severino Gazzelloni, flautist
 * November 23 – Roy Acuff, "King of Country Music", fiddler, 89
 * November 27 – Daniel Santos, singer and composer of bolero
 * November 29 – Paul Ryan, singer, songwriter and record producer, 44 (cancer)
 * December 9 – Cesar Gonzmart, violinist, 72
 * December 10 – Kate Buchdahl, violinist, 28 (Hodgkin's lymphoma)
 * December 15 – Otto Lington, composer, orchestra leader and violinist, 89
 * December 21
 * Philip Farkas, horn player, 78
 * Albert King, blues guitarist and singer, 69
 * Nathan Milstein, violinist, 88
 * December 26 – Nikita Magaloff, pianist, 80

Awards

 * Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees: George Jones and Frances Preston
 * 1992 Country Music Association Awards
 * Eurovision Song Contest 1992
 * Filmfare Best Male Playback Award: Awarded to Kumar Sanu
 * 34th Annual Grammy Awards
 * 34th Japan Record Awards
 * Mercury Music Prize: Awarded to Primal Scream for Screamadelica
 * Ramon Magsaysay Award: Awarded to Ravi Shankar
 * 1992 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards: First prize awarded to "暗戀你" sung by Jacky Cheung
 * Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Bobby Blue Bland, Booker T. and the M.G.s, Johnny Cash, The Isley Brothers, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Sam & Dave, and The Yardbirds