2016 in European music
2016 in continental European music in geographical order.
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
Denmark
Finland
- Main article for Finnish music in 2016
- Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
- Finnish #1 singles2015, ''#1 albums''
Norway
Sweden
- Main article for Swedish music in 2016
- Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
- ''Swedish #1 singles and albums''
Netherlands
''Dutch #1 singles''Ireland
UK
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
''Italian number ones''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