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1 January: Musicians honoured in the Queen's New Year Honours list include conductor ANTONIO PAPPANO (knighthood), record producer STEVE LILLYWHITE (CBE), composer and conductor Rev RONALD CORP (OBE) and RALPH ALLWOOD (MBE), former director of music at Eton College.
7 January: 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. 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.
4 February: 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.
5 February: Artists Madonna, LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., and Cee Lo Green perform at the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show. 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. Subsequently, "Give Me All Your Luvin'" becomes Madonna's 38th top ten hit and her 41st #1 hit on the dance charts.
11 February: Pop icon Whitney Houston is found dead at the age of 48 in her Los Angeles hotel room at approximately 3:55 PST after running late for a pre-Grammy party hosted by Clive Davis. Further investigations reveal cocaine in her system, but the cause of death is ruled as heart disease and drowning. Sales of her albums spike, and "I Will Always Love You" re-enters the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100.
12 February: Adele wins six Grammy awards for her album 21, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year. Bon Iver wins Best New Artist. Kanye West and the Foo Fighters swept in their respective categories, with Kanye winning 4 Grammys and the Foo Fighters taking 5.
29 February: Davy Jones of the band The Monkees dies in Florida after suffering a severe heart attack at the age of 66.
3 March:

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.
Katy Perry's single "Part of Me" debuts at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming only the 21st song in history to debut atop the chart. It is her seventh consecutive top five single on the chart.

26 March: 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.
4 April: 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.
26 April: Chiodos' original lead singer, Craig Owens, rejoins the band after being let go in September 2009, replacing Brandon Bolmer, who departed Chiodos in March.
29 April: Kevin Richardson rejoined the Backstreet Boys permanently, after roughly six years of departure.
1 May: 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.
4 May: Rapper Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies of cancer at the age of 47.
17 May: Donna Summer dies of cancer at age 63.
20 May: Bee Gees member Robin Gibb dies at the age of 62 after losing his battle with cancer.
29 May: Doc Watson dies after complications from abdominal surgery at age 89.
4 June: A Diamond Jubilee Concert is held outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall, London, organised by BBC Events as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Performers include GARY BARLOW, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, GRACE JONES, ALFIE BOE, Sir CLIFF RICHARD, Sir TOM JONES, SHIRLEY BASSEY and STEVIE WONDER.
16 June: Musicians honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours list include Gary Barlow (OBE), violinist Tasmin Little (OBE) and Gareth Malone (OBE).
27 July: On the opening day of the 2012 Summer Olympics, at 8.15, Martin Creed's controversial work "All The Bells", is performed by the bells of London.
1 August:

No Use for a Name frontman Tony Sly dies at the age of 41.
Snoop Dogg officially changes his name to Snoop Lion.

9 August: The Monkees announce that Michael Nesmith will rejoin the band for a 12 city tour of the U.S.
12 August: The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, also known by the title "A Symphony of British music", takes place at London's Olympic Stadium. Performers include Take That, One Direction, The Spice Girls,Madness, George Michael, Julian Lloyd Webber, Pet Shop Boys, Ray Davies, Annie Lennox, Kaiser Chiefs and Emeli Sandé.
28 August: TobyMac debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with his sixth full-length studio album Eye on It. The album was the first Christian release since 1997 to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
21 September: Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day gets angry at the iHeartRadio Festival for the tour promoters cutting there performance short to extend time for Usher's performance, then says lots of F Bombs, then smashes guitar and enters rehab the next day.
22 October: Taylor Swift released her anticipated album, Red (Taylor Swift Album). The album sold 1,208,000 copies in its first week in the U.S, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, the second highest debut for a female artist.