| | George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame. Imogen Cooper, John Rutter and Rod Stewart are awarded the CBE. |
| | Rumours circulate that The Police will reunite for a tour after 23 years to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of "Roxanne". However, there are no plans for an album featuring new material.[1][2] On January 30, the band announce that they would perform at the opening of the 49th annual Grammy Awards on February 11[3] and subsequently announce The Police Reunion Tour. |
| | Rumours circulate that Timbaland may have appropriated his ringtone Block Party and the related beat to Nelly Furtado's "Do It." See 2007 Timbaland plagiarism controversy. |
| | On February 7, frontman Billy Corgan reveals that The Smashing Pumpkins would finally release the first reunion album Zeitgeist on July 7th.[4] This would be the band's first widely released album since 2000s Machina/The Machines of God with the last Smashing Pumpkins album Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music being restricted to only 25 copies upon initial release. |
| | On February 11, the 49th Grammy Awards aired on CBS, presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. |
| | On February 16 American Rock band Audioslave break up after Chris Cornell leaves band because of "Musical Differences". |
| | On February 27 American rock parody band Tenacious D released their hit movie, Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny on DVD. |
| | On February 28, it was announced that the American early 80s punk band Circle Jerks had released a new song, titled "I'm Gonna Live", which can also be heard on their Myspace page.[5] Rumors are swiriling that the band is also supposedly gearing up to release their follow-up to 1995's Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities. |
| | On March 1, Angela Hacker was voted by viewers to be the 2007 champion of the televised singing competition Nashville Star. By virtue of her win, she was signed to a record deal with Warner Bros. Records. |
| | On March 12, Matchbook Romance announces that they are taking an indefinite hiatus, after ten years of their career, as all members decided to go their separate ways.[6] |
| | On March 16, Bad Religion revealed that their new album would be called New Maps of Hell.[7] |
| | April 27 - April 29 - Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Coachella, CA |
| | Sometime in May - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ will air the fifteenth annual Weenie Roast. |
| | May 12 - The final of the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Helsinki, Finland. |
| | May 16-May 20 - The European Festival of Youth Choirs will be held in Basel, Switzerland. |
| | May 25-May 28 - Salzburg Festival |
| | May 30-June 5 - The Peel Bay Festival Isle of Man TT |
| | July 7 - Live Earth, worldwide series of concerts to initiate action against global warming. |
| | August 4-August 11 - The Three Choirs Festival will be held at Gloucester. |
| | August Bank Holiday (last weekend in August) - Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival |
| | September 12-October 1 - Prague Autumn International Music Festival |
| | September 22-29 - 35th North Wales International Music Festival will be held at St Asaph. |