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This is a summary of the year 2016 in British music.

Events

• 10 January – Rock icon David Bowie passes away of liver cancer, two days after the release of his final album; Bowie's illness had not been disclosed to the public until his death. Having stipulated that he did not want a funeral ceremony, Bowie is cremated two days later in New Jersey, USA, with arrangements for his ashes to be scattered in accordance with Buddhist rituals on the island of Bali.
• 13 January – Chetham's School of Music announces the appointment of Alun Jones as its new Head, effective September 2016.
• 28 January – Wigmore Hall live-streams performances for the first time.
• 4 February – The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla as its next music director, effective September 2016, with an initial contract of 3 years. She is the first female conductor to be named music director of the CBSO.
• 19 February – The Royal Philharmonic Society announces Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as the recipient of its 102nd Gold Medal.
• 24 February – The 2016 Brit Awards ceremony takes place at The O2, presented by Ant & Dec. David Bowie is awarded the "Brits Icon" award, a few weeks after his death. Actor Gary Oldman accepts the award on Bowie's behalf.
• 2 March – The Bridgewater Hall announces the appointment of Andrew Bolt as its new chief executive.
• 21 March – The Gloucester Cathedral Choir announces that it is to recruit girl choristers for the first time in its history, in April 2016.
• 22 March – Mark Wigglesworth announces his resignation as music director of English National Opera, effective at the end of the 2015–2016 season.
• 18 April – The Royal Northern College of Music announces the appointment of Sir John Tomlinson as its next president, for a term of 5 years, effective January 2017.
• 23 April – The London Woodwind Orchestra, the first professional woodwind orchestra in the UK, gives its debut performance at St John's Smith Square.
• 29 April – English National Opera announces the appointment of Daniel Kramer as its next artistic director, effective 1 August 2016.
• 12 May – The Stone Roses release their first new single in 21 years, "All For One", their first new material since their 2011 reformation.
• 14 May – The United Kingdom will compete in the final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden. This year's Joe and Jake will represent the United Kingdom with their song, You're Not Alone
• 15 May – Sheku Kanneh-Mason wins the 2016 BBC Young Musician of the Year award.
• 10–12 June – Download Festival 2016 takes place at Donington Park in Leicestershire. The Lemmy stage (named in honour of late Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister) was headlined by Rammstein, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, the Zippo encore stage by All Time Low, NOFX and Jane's Addiction, the Maverick stage by the Gutterdämmerung project by Bjorn Tagemose, Pennywise and Saxon, and the Dogtooth stage by Raging Speedhorn, Municipal Waste and Napalm Death.
• 12 June – Queen's Birthday Honours
  • Rod Stewart is made a Knight Bachelor.
  • Alison Balsom is awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE).
  • Brian Lang, Colin Lawson, Paul Lewis, John McLeod are each made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
• 13 June – The Royal Albert Hall announces that Chris Cotton, its current chief executive, is to retire.
• 24 June – Never heard during the composer's lifetime, Still Point by Daphne Oram receives its world premiere at St John's Smith Square, London, 67 years after Oram composed the work.
• 11 July – Release of Stand As One – Live at Glastonbury 2016, an album of live performances from the 2016 Glastonbury Festival in memory of Jo Cox, the MP recently killed in a violent attack; proceeds from the album will go towards helping Oxfam's work with refugees, Cox having worked for the charity for some years.
• 13 July – The Guildhall School of Music and Drama announces the appointment of Lynne Williams as its next principal, effective in 2017.
• 2 August – The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Dominic Parker as its new Director, in succession to Gavin Reid.
• 12 September – The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden announces the appointment of Oliver Mears as its next Director of Opera, effective March 2017.
• 8 October – The Wind in the Willows, a musical by Julian Fellowes with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, receives its world première at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth.
• 16 October – Singer-songwriter Peter Skellern, suffering from an inoperable brain tumour, is ordained as an Anglican priest by the Bishop of Truro.
• 21 October – English National Opera announces the appointment of Martyn Brabbins as its new music director, with immediate effect, with an initial contract through October 2020.
• 24 October – The Royal Albert Hall announces the appointment of Craig Hassall as its next chief executive, effective 2017.
• 4 November – The UK government announced withdrawal of funding support for the proposed new London Concert Hall.
• 7 December – Northern Ireland Opera announces the appointment of Walter Sutcliffe as its next artistic director, effective February 2017.
• 13 December – The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh announces that its chief executive, Adrian Harris, is to retire at the end of December 2016.
• 30 December – New Year's Honours 2017
  • Dame Evelyn Glennie is made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour.
  • Ray Davies, Jeffrey Tate and Bryn Terfel are each made a Knight Bachelor.
  • Lennox Mackenzie and Stephen Maddock are each made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
  • Iestyn Davies and Anthony Forbes are each made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

Television series

• 8 January – Launch of the first series of Lip Sync Battle: UK on Channel 5, a British version of the American musical comedy television show where celebrities lip sync battle each other to various popular songs.
• 9 January – Launch of the fifth series of The Voice UK, the last to be broadcast by the BBC.

Artists and groups reformed

• Arab Strap
• Bentley Rhythm Ace
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Spice Girls – GEM
• Super Furry Animals
• The Vapors
• The Zutons

Groups on hiatus

• Bombay Bicycle Club
• One Direction

Groups disbanded

• Allo Darlin'
• The Bad Shepherds
• Bolt Thrower
• The Business
• Cherry Ghost
• Dead or Alive
• Funeral for a Friend
• FVK
• The Enemy
• Kosheen
• Lush
• Maybeshewill
• Palma Violets
• Viola Beach (all lost their lives in a road accident)
• Vondelpark
• Wodensthrone

Classical works

• Julian Anderson – Incantesimi
• Sally Beamish
  • Chaconne (for organ)
  • A Shakespeare Masque (text by Carol Ann Duffy)
• Luke Bedford
  • Three Caves
  • In Black Bright Ink
• Judith Bingham – The Orchid and Its Hunters
• Harrison Birtwistle – Five Lessons in a Frame
• Mark David Boden – Ghyll
• Charlotte Bray
  • Agnus Dei
  • Stone Dancer
  • Falling in the Fire (for cello and orchestra)
• Diana Burrell – Concerto for Brass and Orchestra
• Paul Carr – Violin Concerto
• Chiu-yu Chou – Tongue
• Desmond Clarke
  • Viola Concerto
  • Xyla
• Anna Clyne – This Lunar Beauty
• Ronald Corp – "Behold, the sea"
• Tom Coult
  • Sonnet Machine
  • Spirit of the Staircase
• Laurence Crane – Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section
• Stephen Deazley (music) and Martin Riley (text) – The Rattler
• James Dillon – The Gates for string quartet and orchestra
• Richard Emsley – Strange Attractor
• Edmund Finnis – Parallel Colour
• Alissa Firsova
  • Paradisi Gloria
  • Bride of the Wind
• Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Game On (for piano and Commodore 64)
• Michael Zev Gordon – In the Middle of Things
• Tom Harrold
  • Nightfires
  • Raze
• Malcolm Hayes – Violin Concerto
• Morgan Hayes – Overture: The Kiss
• Piers Hellawell – Wild Flow
• Thomas Hyde – Piano Trio: after Picasso
• Patrick John Jones – Locks of the approaching storm
• Mica Levi – Signal Before War
• Zoë Martlew – Broad St. Burlesque
• Christian Mason – Isolarion III
• Benedict Mason – Horns Strings and Harmony
• David Matthews – Norfolk March
• Bayan Northcott – Concerto for Orchestra
• Ben Palmer – Flying in the Fire
• Roxanna Panufnik – Kyrie after Byrd
• Owain Park – Upheld by stillness
• Aaron Parker – After sunset fades
• Anthony Payne – Of Land, Sea and Sky
• Joseph Phibbs – Partita
• John Pickard – Symphony No 5
• Michael Pisaro – fields have ears (10)
• Sophya Polevaya – Carousel
• Francis Pott – Laudate Dominum
• John Powell – A Prussian Requiem
• Alwynne Pritchard – Rockaby
• Ryan Probert – Mattei
• Derek Rodgers – Clarinet Concerto
• Matt Rogers – We Happened to Travel
• David Sawer – April\March
• Frederick Scott – Toccata seconda
• Percy Sherwood – Concerto for violin and cello
• Howard Skempton – Piano Concerto
• Mark-Anthony Turnage – Strapless (ballet in one act, choreography by Christopher Wheeldon)
• Roderick Williams – Ave verum corpus re-imagined
• Scott Wilson – head-neck-chest-four-five-six-thing
• John Woolrich – Swan Song

Opera

• Figaro Gets a Divorce by Elena Langer (libretto by David Pountney) is premièred on 21 February 2016 by Welsh National Opera in Cardiff.
• Found and Lost by Emily Hall is premièred at the Corinthia Hotel London in January 2016.
• Other premieres:
  • Thomas Adès and Tom Cairns – The Exterminating Angel
  • Iain Bell (music), David Antrobus and Emma Jenkins (libretto) – In Parenthesis
  • David Bruce and Glyn Maxwell – Nothing
  • Nicholas Jackson – The Rose and the Ring
  • Hannah Kendall and Tessa McWatt – The Knife of Dawn
  • Stuart MacRae and Louise Welsh – The Devil Inside
  • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – The Hogboon
  • Mark Simpson and Melanie Challenger – Pleasure
  • Philip Venables – 4.48 Psychosis

Musical theatre

• Fantastic Mr Fox by Sam Holcroft, with music by Arthur Darvill.
• Half a Sixpence, co-created by Cameron Mackintosh with book by Julian Fellowes and music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe (also including several songs by David Heneker from the 1963 musical based on the same story.
• The Wind in the Willows by Julian Fellowes, with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe

Musical films

• Sing Street

Film scores and incidental music

Film

• Erran Baron Cohen & David Buckley – Grimsby
• Charlie Mole – Dad's Army
• Rachel Portman – Their Finest

Television

• Debbie Wiseman – Dickensian

British music awards

• Brit Awards – see 2016 Brit Awards

Charts and sales

For the first time in the history of the singles chart, the top three positions were occupied by the same artist. In the chart ending 14 January 2016, Justin Bieber was at number one with "Love Yourself", number two with "Sorry" and number three with "What Do You Mean?".

In the chart ending 4 February, David Bowie matched an album chart record of having 12 albums simultaneously in the top 40, a record set by Elvis Presley following his death in 1977. His album Best of Bowie also became the first ever album to reach number one due to streaming.

In the chart ending 3 November, Elvis Presley broke a record for most number-one albums for a solo artist when his album The Wonder Of You reached number one.

Number-one singles

The singles chart includes a proportion for streaming.

Number-one albums

The albums chart includes a proportion for streaming.

Number-one compilation albums

Best-selling singles

Best-selling albums

Notes:

1. Reached number 1 in 2015
2. Reached number 1 in 2015
3. Reached number 7 in 2015
4. Reached number 1 in 2015
5. Reached number 1 in 2015
6. Reached number 2 in 2015
7. Reached number 1 in 2015
8. Reached number 1 in 2014
9. Reached number 1 in 2015
10. Reached number 1 in 2011
11. Reached number 1 in 1984
12. Reached number 1 in 2015
13. Reached number 1 in 2015
14. Reached number 3 in 2015
15. Reached number 1 in 2014
16. Reached number 1 in 2014
17. Reached number 1 in 2007
18. Reached number 1 in 2011

Deaths

• 4 January – Robert Stigwood, Australian-born band manager (Bee Gees, Cream) and film producer (Grease, Saturday Night Fever), 81 (death announced on this date)
• 10 January – David Bowie, singer-songwriter and actor, 69
• 17 January – Dale Griffin, drummer (Mott the Hoople), 67 (Alzheimer's disease)
• 24 January – Jimmy Bain, Scottish bassist (Rainbow, Dio), 68
• 26 January – Colin Vearncombe (aka Black), singer-songwriter, 53 (head injuries sustained in a traffic collision)
• 9 February – Roy Harris, folk singer, 82
• 13 February – Members of Viola Beach:
  • Kris Leonard, 20, singer and guitarist
  • Jack Dakin, 19, drummer
  • Tomas Lowe, 27, bassist
  • River Reeves, 19, guitarist
  • Craig Tarry, 32, manager (road accident)
• 16 February – Gwyneth George, concert cellist and music academic, 95
• 18 February – Brendan Healy, 59, actor and musician
• 19 February – Vi Subversa, musician (Poison Girls), 80
• 25 February – John Chilton, jazz musician and writer, 83
• 1 March – Louise Plowright, musical theatre actress, 59 (pancreatic cancer)
• 8 March – Sir George Martin, Grammy-winning producer and composer, 90
• 9 March – Jon English, English-born Australian musician and actor, 66 (complications from surgery)
• 10 March – Keith Emerson, keyboardist (Emerson, Lake and Palmer), 71 (self-inflicted gunshot wound)
• 14 March – Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composer and conductor, Master of the Queen's Music (2004–2014), 81
• 4 April – Royston Nash, conductor, 82
• 12 April – Alan Loveday, violinist, 88
• 15 April – Guy Woolfenden, composer and conductor, 78
• 25 May – Peggy Spencer, dancer and choreographer, 95
• 31 May – Tim Feild, musician (The Springfields), 82
• 3 June – Dave Swarbrick, folk musician and singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention), 75
• 14 June – Henry McCullough, guitarist (Paul McCartney & Wings), 72
• 22 June
  • Mike Hart, singer-songwriter, 72
  • Harry Rabinowitz, composer and conductor, 100
• 2 July – David Patrick Gedge, organist, 77
• 13 July – Steven Young, musician (Colourbox, M/A/R/R/S), 53
• 17 July – Fred Tomlinson, singer (The Two Ronnies, Monty Python's Flying Circus), composer ("The Lumberjack Song") and critic, 88
• 24 July – Keith Gemmell, saxophonist, clarinetist (Audience), 68
• 26 July – Paul Robertson, violinist and leader of the Medici String Quartet, 63
• 29 July – Ken Barrie, voice actor and singer, 83
• 30 July – Nigel Gray, record producer (Outlandos d'Amour), 69
• 14 August – Neil Black, oboist, 84
• 19 August – Derek Smith, jazz pianist, 85 (death announced on this date)
• 22 August – Gilli Smyth, singer (Gong), 83
• 28 August – John Stenhouse, orchestral bass clarinetist, 74
• 12 September – Hidayat Inayat Khan, composer and conductor, 99
• 30 September – Michael Casswell, guitarist, 53
• 2 October
  • Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist, 92
  • Thomas Round, opera singer, 100
• 5 October – Rod Temperton, songwriter, producer and musician (Heatwave), 68
• 7 October – Anne Pashley, Olympic athlete and opera singer, 80
• 23 October – Pete Burns, singer (Dead or Alive), 57 (cardiac arrest)
• 7 November – Sir Jimmy Young, singer and DJ, 95
• 11 November – George Reynolds, orchestral trumpeter, 78
• 22 November – Craig Gill, drummer (Inspiral Carpets), 44
• 1 December – Micky Fitz, punk singer (The Business) (death announced this date)
• 7 December – Greg Lake, singer, musician, producer (King Crimson), (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), 69 (cancer)
• 24 December – Rick Parfitt, singer, musician, (Status Quo), 68 (septicaemia)
• 25 December – George Michael, singer, 53

See also

• 2016 in British radio
• 2016 in British television
• 2016 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 2016

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249. "David Bowie, the Legendary Musician, Has Died at 69". New York Times. 11 January 2016. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
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256. "John Chilton, Grammy award-winning jazz writer, dies". The Telegraph. 25 February 2016.
257. "Louise Plowright dies aged 59".
258. "George Martin, Producer and Arranger for The Beatles, Dies at 90". Billboard.
259. "Tributes flow for 'Aussie rock legend' Jon English". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 March 2016.
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263. "English composer and Sibford Ferris resident Guy Woolfenden dies". Banbury Guardian. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
264. "Peggy Spencer, star of Come Dancing, dies aged 95". BBC News. 26 May 2016.
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271. "Doctor who recorded The Police albums in Leatherhead dies". 3 August 2016.
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283. The Business Frontman Micky Fitz Dies After Battle With Cancer

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