1998 in music
Events
- July 11th: Coil-parade techno with Berlin
- August: with the festival Woodstock '98 , the organizers want to republish the success of Woodstock '93 , but the festival is wasted by the overflows of violence.
Principal albums of the year
- Let' S Talk About Coils - Céline Dion
- The Party Album - Vengaboys
- Donde estan los ladrones? - Shakira
- Titanic (soundtrack) - James Horner
- Ray Off Light - Madonna
- Helvetissä one syntisen taivas - Ajattara
- Engine - American Music Club
- Enquiry Symphony , - Apocalyptica
- Stigmata - Arch Enemy
- Hillside Album - Arnold
- Naked-Clear Sounds - Ash
- Time Capsules - The B-52' S, Compilation 1979-1992
- Stunt - Barenaked Ladies
- Meeting - Black Sabbath
- Nightfall in Middle-Earth - Blind Guardian
- Races off has Thousand Camels - BoA
- Head Shrinkin' Fun - The Bomboras
- Kingsize - The Boo Radleys
- Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg & Wilco
- Smitten - Buffalo Tom
- French - Buzzcocks
- Somewhere in the City - John Fixes
- Even My Sure Things Fall Through - Calexico
- Waulkroots - Capercaillie
- Sideral Torment - Carcariass
- Full Service One Waiting - Peter Case
- Clandestino - Manu Chao
- Uneasy Listening - Chumbawamba
- Tubthumper - Chumbawamba
- Greatest Hits - Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke, Compilation 1957-1963
- Give Yourself has Hand - Crash Test Dummies
- Dada - Dada
- Symphonic Screams - The Dandys
- The Singles 86-98 - Depeche Mode
- Spacey And Shakin' - Peter Droge
- Twistin' In The Wind - Joe Ely
- Out Of The Dark - Falco
- All The Pain Money Can Buy - Fastball
- Five Easy Parts - Five Easy Parts
- Premonition - John Fogerty
- Version 2.0 - Garbage
- Weird Bruise - Golden Smog
- Bring It One - Gomez
- Jubilee - Grant Lee Buffalo
- Summer Wine - Hazeldine, EP
- Digging You Up - Hazeldine
- Get Down - The Hi-Fives
- Wu-Wei - Hint
- To hoist - Howe
- The Hybirds - The Hybirds
- Hope Is Important - Idlewild
- What Is Not To Love - Imperial Teen
- Cracking Up - The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Independant Intavenshan: The Island Anthology - Linton Kwesi Johnson
- King Off The Delta Blues - Robert Johnson, republication CD
- Acme - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
- Follow The Leader - KoRn
- 5 - Lenny Kravitz
- This World Is Not My Home - Lone Justice, compilation
- Yew You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers
- Best Off Mano Negra - Mano Negra
- Trampoline - The Mavericks
- John Mellencamp - John Mellencamp
- Ophelia - Natalie Merchant
- The Last Dog And Pony Show - Bob Mould
- Soul' S Core - Shawn Mullins
- Street Trash - The New York Frauds, album recorded Live in 1973
- One Trip/One Noise - Black Desire
- Americana - Offspring
- Not Yew It Pleases Me - Graham Parker & The Rumors, Live recording of 1976-1977
- New Sheets - Possum Dixon
- Bubbling Up - The Primitives
- Dial “Me For Motherfucker - Pussy Galore
- Up - R.E.M.
- Fundamental - Bonnie Raitt
- Space Heater - The Reverend Horton Heat
- Fiction Lovesong, Fast Machines - The Discs
- Concert Classics - Roxy Music (live)
- Calling Dr. Strong - RRAF
- The Gaelic Collection - Runrig
- Have Sei You Es… - Santamaria
- To select Live - To select
- Feeling Strangely Fine - Semisonic
- Between Custom - Jules Shear
- Happy Hour - Shonen Knife
- Neo Wave - Silver Sun
- Sweater Me Up… … Drag Me Down - Silverjet
- Navy Blues - Sloan
- Virgin Stripes - Slowpoke
- Beauty And Sadness - The Smithereens, EP
- Candy From has Stranger - Soul Asylum
- 1 Douar - Alan Stivell
- Songs From The Pipe - The Surfers
- System off has Down - System off has Down
- In has Dog House - The Throwing Muses
- The Very Best Off Toots & The Maytals - Toots and the Maytals
- The Best Off U2 1980-1990 - U2
- 500 Miles - Gene Vincent, compilation
- Beautiful Diseases - Tom Waits
- Almost Young stag - Unbelievable Truth
- Faithless Street - Whiskeytown
- One Hot July - Tony Joe White
- Imagination - Brian Wilson
- Made in Coils - Zazie
- The Real One - 2 Live Crew
- Little Joe - 2 Live Crew
- Playing My Game - Lene Marlin
- Toto XX - Toto
Success of the year in France
- Beautiful - BO Notre-Dame
- the tribe of Dana - Manau
- To sing for those which are far from on their premises - Laam
- Your invitation - Louise Attaque
- My heart will go one - Céline Dion
- Yakalelo - Nomads
- Brother Louie 'republication) - Modern Talking
- You' Re my heart (republication) - Modern Talking
- Copa of Vida - Ricky Martin
- I will survives - Hermes House Band
- Where I' m Headed - Lene Marlin
- Together again - Janet Jackson
- Frozen - Madonna
- Simarik - Tarkan
- Mambo Jambo - John Scatman
- Clandestino - Manu Chao
Births
- the French group Lazuli
- the Portuguese group Santamaria
Principal deaths
- February 6th: Falco, Austrian singer - Carl Wilson, guitarist of the American rock group The Beach Boys
- April 5th: Cozy Powell - Whitesnake, Rainbow, Black Sabbath
- November 12th: Kenny Kirkland - Wynton Marsalis,
- May 2nd: Hide Japan Hideto Matsumoto, singer and guitarist.
Rewards
- X
Grammy Award S (the United States)
- February 25th: Bob Dylan receives three Grammy awards for Time Out Of My Mind
Price Juno (Canada)
- X
Price Felix (Quebec)
- List of the prizes winner of the Felix prices in 1998
Brit Awards (the United Kingdom)
- X
Victories of the music (France)
-
Artiste interprets male year: Florent Pagny
- Artiste interprets female year: Zazie
- Revelation of the Year: Lara Fabian
- Album of the year: the School of the microphone of money of IAM
- Album of traditional musics or musics of the world of the year: Finisterres of daN Ar Braz and the Heritage of the Celts
- Album of electronic musics, groove, dance of the year: 30 of Laurent Garnier
- Album of original music of cinema or television of the year: '' the English Patient '' of Gabriel Yared
- Song of the year: the Man in a hurry of Black Desire (author/type-setter: Bertrand Cantat/Black Desire - arranger: Andy Baker)
- Concert of the year: Sol in if with the Casino of Paris
- Video clip of the year: To know to like Florent Pagny (realizer: Sylvain Shepherdess)
| Random links: | Ethnonymy of Chad | Thréonine | Masi Oka | Otto Heckmann | Lough Mask | Station_de_Fallon,_Nevada |