2016 in European music

Events

• 13 February – All four members of British rock band Viola Beach, and their manager, are killed when their car crashes off a bridge and into a river in Södertälje, Sweden.
• 22 April – is forced to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest because of failure to repay an old debt.
• 14 May – win the Eurovision Song Contest, in Stockholm, Sweden, with the song "1944", performed by Jamala.

Scandinavia

• Main article for Scandinavian music in 2016

Denmark

• Main article for Danish music in 2016
• Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
• ''Danish #1s''

Finland

• Main article for Finnish music in 2016
• Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
• Finnish #1 singles2015, ''#1 albums''

Norway

• Main article for Norwegian music in 2016
• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
• ''Norway charts''

Sweden

• Main article for Swedish music in 2016
• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
• ''Swedish #1 singles and albums''

Netherlands

Ireland

• Main article for Irish music in 2016

UK

• Main article for British music in 2016

Germany

• German number ones
• EFF, a project of Felix Jaehn is immediately successful with their first single "Stimme".
• Kurdish-German rapper Azad, Bosse, Schiller, AnnenMayKantereit, all have #1 albums.

Switzerland and Austria

• ''Swiss #1s''

France

• French #1s
• Imany has a European hit with "Don't be so shy", with a #1 in Germany, Austria, Poland and Russia.

Italy

Eastern Europe/ Balkans

• List of Polish #1 singles
• Czech #1 singles
• ''Hungarian #1 singles''

Deaths

• 2 January – Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and actor, 69
• 9 January – Jānis Vaišļa, Latvian musician, 46
• 6 February – Eddy Wally, Belgian singer, 83
• 21 February – Piotr Grudziński, 40, Polish guitarist.
• 22 February – Hans Reffert, German musician and composer, 69
• 23 February – Johnny Murphy, Irish musician and actor, 72
• 5 March – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor and cellist, 86
• 5 March – François-Eudes Chanfrault, French composer, 41
• 22 April — Ojārs Grīnbergs, Latvian singer, 73
• 26 April – Gabriele Sima, Austrian opera singer, 61
• 29 April – Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ukrainian operatic baritone, 91
• 11 May – Peter Behrens, German drummer, actor, musician, and clown, 68
• 17 May – Huguette Dreyfus, French harpsichordist, 87Huguette Dreyfus, 87, French harpsichordist.
• 2 June – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1957 winner, 83
• 26 July – Roye Albrighton, German musician, 67
• 27 July – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer, 87
• 7 August – Dolores Vargas, Spanish singer, 80
• 22 August – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician, 94