20 – The Billboard Music Awards took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.17 – Donna Summer, known as "The Queen of Disco", dies of cancer at age 63.Tenacious D released her first album in six years, Rize of the Fenix.15 – Garbage released their first album in seven years, Not Your Kind of People.Tony Lucca and Chris Mann finishing third and fourth place respectively. 8 – Jermaine Paul wins the second season of The Voice.4 – Rapper Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies of cancer at the age of 47.1 – Pennywise releases All or Nothing, their first album to feature Ignite singer Zoli Téglás on lead vocals, following the August 2009 departure of original lead singer Jim Lindberg.
29 – Kevin Richardson rejoined the Backstreet Boys permanently, after roughly six years of departure.28 – Gotye became the first Belgian-Australian solo artist to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with " Somebody That I Used To Know".Drummer Derrick Frost also rejoins the band, replacing Tanner Wayne, who left with Bolmer in March. 26 – Chiodos' original lead singer, Craig Owens, rejoins the band after being let go in September 2009, replacing Brandon Bolmer, who departed Chiodos in March.10 – Counting Crows released their first album in four years, Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation).4 – Justin Bieber's single, " Boyfriend", has the second-highest first week sales of a new single, debuting at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, later on surpassed by Taylor Swift's " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" with 623,000 sales making Bieber the third highest first week sale.This was the last year Reba McEntire hosted until 2018. 1 – The Academy of Country Music Awards took place in Las Vegas.26 – Joan Osborne releases her first album in ten years, Bring It On Home.26 – Madonna releases her twelfth studio album MDNA, which becomes her eighth #1 album on the Billboard 200, debuting with 359,000 copies sold in the second week.It is her seventh consecutive top five single on the chart. Katy Perry's single " Part of Me" debuts at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming only the 20th song in history to debut atop the chart.3 – Adele becomes the first female artist to have three singles in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, and the first female artist to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously.29 – Davy Jones of the band The Monkees dies in Florida after suffering a severe heart attack at the age of 66.28 – Corrosion of Conformity releases her first album in seven years, Corrosion of Conformity.28 – Terrorizer releases their first album in six years, Hordes of Zombies.Kanye West and the Foo Fighters swept in their respective categories, with Kanye winning 4 Grammys and the Foo Fighters taking 5. 12 – Adele wins six awards at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards for her album 21, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year (the latter two for " Rolling in the Deep").Sales of her albums spike, and " I Will Always Love You" re-enters the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. Further investigations reveal cocaine in her system, but the cause of death is ruled as heart disease and drowning. 11 – Pop icon Whitney Houston is found dead at the age of 48 in her Los Angeles hotel room hours before a pre-Grammy party hosted by Clive Davis.Subsequently, " Give Me All Your Luvin'" becomes Madonna's 38th top ten hit and her 41st #1 hit on the dance charts. The twelve-minute performance becomes the most watched television event of all time, gathering a record 118 million viewers, six more than the game itself. 5 – During Super Bowl XLVI Kelly Clarkson performs the " National Anthem" and artists Madonna, LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., and Cee Lo Green perform at the halftime show.4 – Adele's single " Set Fire to the Rain" reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making her album, 21, the first album in history to have three #1 songs from the same album by a British female artist.20 – Etta James dies of leukemia at age 73.It is also only the third album in history to have six singles from the same album reach the top five on the Billboard Hot 100. 7 – Katy Perry's single " The One That Got Away" reaches #1 on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart, making her album, Teenage Dream, the first album in history to have seven songs from the same album reach #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
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