2016 in European music

2016 in continental European music in geographical order.

Events

 * 13 February – All four members of British rock band Viola Beach, and their manager, are killed when their car crashes off a bridge and into a river in Södertälje, Sweden.
 * 22 April – is forced to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest because of failure to repay an old debt.
 * 14 May – win the Eurovision Song Contest, in Stockholm, Sweden, with the song "1944", performed by Jamala.

Scandinavia

 * Main article for Scandinavian music in 2016

Denmark

 * Main article for Danish music in 2016
 * Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
 * Danish #1s

Finland

 * Main article for Finnish music in 2016
 * Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
 * Finnish #1 singles2015, #1 albums

Norway

 * Main article for Norwegian music in 2016
 * Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
 * Norway charts

Sweden

 * Main article for Swedish music in 2016
 * Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
 * Swedish #1 singles and albums

Netherlands
Dutch #1 singles

Ireland

 * Main article for Irish music in 2016

UK

 * Main article for British music in 2016

Germany

 * German number ones
 * EFF, a project of Felix Jaehn is immediately successful with their first single "Stimme".
 * Kurdish-German rapper Azad, Bosse, Schiller, AnnenMayKantereit, all have #1 albums.

Switzerland and Austria

 * Swiss #1s

France

 * French #1s
 * Imany has a European hit with "Don't be so shy", with a #1 in Germany, Austria, Poland and Russia.

Italy
Italian number ones

Eastern Europe/ Balkans

 * List of Polish #1 singles
 * Czech #1 singles
 * Hungarian #1 singles

Deaths

 * 2 January – Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and actor, 69
 * 9 January – Jānis Vaišļa, Latvian musician (Pirates of the Sea), 46 (cardiac amyloidosis)
 * 6 February – Eddy Wally, Belgian singer, 83
 * 21 February – Piotr Grudziński, 40, Polish guitarist (Riverside).
 * 22 February – Hans Reffert, German musician and composer, 69
 * 23 February – Johnny Murphy, Irish musician and actor (The Commitments), 72
 * 5 March – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor and cellist, 86
 * 5 March – François-Eudes Chanfrault, French composer, 41
 * 22 April — Ojārs Grīnbergs, Latvian singer, 73
 * 26 April – Gabriele Sima, Austrian opera singer, 61
 * 29 April – Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ukrainian operatic baritone, 91
 * 11 May – Peter Behrens, German drummer, actor, musician, and clown, 68
 * 17 May – Huguette Dreyfus, French harpsichordist, 87 Huguette Dreyfus, 87, French harpsichordist.
 * 2 June – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1957 winner, 83
 * 26 July – Roye Albrighton, German musician (Nektar), 67
 * 27 July – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer, 87
 * 7 August – Dolores Vargas, Spanish singer, 80
 * 22 August – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician, 94