2011 in Asian music

Events

• May 9 – Chinese musician and composer Gao Xiaosong is arrested after causing a road accident in Beijing. He receives a six-month jail sentence and loses his place as a judge in the new China's Got Talent series.
• July 25 – China's Got Talent is broadcast for the first time, by Dragon Television.

Albums

• AKB48 – Koko ni Ita Koto
• Aynur Aydın – Emanet Beden
• Anne Curtis – Annebisyosa
• Dinesh Agrahari Deewana, Mamta Sharma and Indu Sonali – Jaan Marbu Ka
• Bülent Ersoy – Aşktan Sabıkalı
• Ethnix – Ga'aguim
• Gugun Blues Shelter – Satu Untuk Berbagi
• Leessang – Asura Balbalta
• Nima Rumba – Rangau Ki Ma
• Erik Santos – Awit Para Sa'yo
• Ali Zafar – ''Jhoom''

Classical

• Mehdi Hosseini – ''Monodies''

Opera

• The Chinese Orphan, by Lei Lei, with a libretto by Zou Jingzhi
• Dr. Sun Yat-sen, by Huang Ruo, with libretto by Candace Mui-ngam Chong. It is her first opera libretto,

Deaths

• January 3 – Suchitra Mitra, Indian singer, 86
• January 19 – Hira Devi Waiba, Nepali folk singer, 71
• January 24 – Bhimsen Joshi, Indian classical vocalist, 88
• February 8 – Roza Baglanova, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR, 89
• February 20 – Malaysia Vasudevan, Indian actor and playback singer, 66
• April 21 – Yoshiko Tanaka, Japanese actress and singer, 55
• April 29 – Vladimir Krainev, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, 67
• May 23 – Pilu Momtaz, Bangladeshi pop singer, 52
• May 31 – Ram Man Trishit, Nepali lyricist, 70
• June 5 – Azam Khan, Bangladeshi pop singer, 61
• June 14 – Asad Ali Khan, Indian musician, 74
• July 27 – Rei Harakami, Japanese musician, 40
• December 8 – Minoru Miki, 81, Japanese composer