2021 in European music
This article covers events in 2021 in continental European music, arranged in geographical order.
Events
- 1 January – The Vienna Philharmonic's annual Neujahrskonzert, conducted by Riccardo Muti, takes place without a live audience for the first time in the history of the concert, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 4 January – Dutch National Opera and Ballet announces that Stijn Schoonderwoerd will be its new general director, effective from 1 February.
- 22 February – Daft Punk, the French electronic music duo, breaks up after nearly 30 years together.
Scandinavia
Top hits
- Danish number-one hits of 2021
- Finnish number-one singles of 2021, Finnish number-one albums of 2021
- Norwegian number-one songs in 2020
- ''Swedish number-one singles and albums in 2021''
Netherlands
Germany
Switzerland and Austria
France
Italy
Eastern Europe/ Balkans
- List of Polish number-one singles of 2021
- Czech number-one songs of the 2020s
- ''Hungarian number-one singles of the 2020s''
Deaths
- 1 January
- *Carlos do Carmo, 81, Portuguese fado singer
- *Jan Vering, 65, German gospel singer
- 3 January – Tasso Adamopoulos, 76, Greek-French violist and pedagogue
- 4 January – Alexi Laiho, 41, Finnish death metal singer and guitarist
- 10 January – Thorleif Torstensson, 71, Swedish dansband singer, guitarist and saxophonist
- 16 January – Pave Maijanen, 70, Finnish rock keyboardist