1987 in music

Contents

1 Events

2 Albums released

3 Top hits on record

4 Other Singles

5 Published popular music

11.1 Grammy Awards
11.2 Country Music Association Awards
11.3 Eurovision Song Contest

12 Charts

12.1 List of No. 1 Hits
12.2 KROQ

Events

January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
January 16 - The Beastie Boys become the first act to be censored by American Bandstand.
January - Steve "Silk" Hurley's innovative "Jack Your Body" becomes the first house music record to top the UK singles chart.
February 6 - Sonny Bono announces his candidacy for mayor of Palm Springs, California
February 14–March 7 - Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer" is the #1 song. It would be 1987's Biggest hit song.
March 7 - The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! are released on Compact disc. Capitol Records decides to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes were available in the US.
March 9 - Carole King is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City
March 13 - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
March 13 - In the US, Bryan Adams "Heat of the Night" becomes the first single to be commercially released on cassette. Cassette singles become known as cassingles.
March 27 - Inspired by The Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert, U2 shoots a music video for the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in Los Angeles, California.
April 23 - Carole King sues the owner of her record company, Lou Adler, claiming that she is owed more than $400,000 in royalties. King also asks for rights to her old recordings.
September 25 - Matthew Garrison Chapman is born as the first child of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman. Lead Me On, Amy's 1988 album, is said to have been dedicated to Matt.
October 12 - Twisted Sister breaks up
October - electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart.
October 19 - Mötley Crüe release the song "You're All I Need" as a single. Its lyrics cause MTV to refuse to play its video. Radio stations never play the song either.
November 13 - Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on Late Night with David Letterman.

Social Distortion returns to record Prison Bound
Jane's Addiction's career begins
Public Enemy's career starts
Paul Oakenfold's career begins
Tori Amos' career begins
Danzig's career begins
Gin Blossoms forms
Mr. Big forms
Nirvana forms
Zebra breaks up
Wham! breaks up
Hüsker Dü breaks up
Jane's Addiction signs to Warner Bros
Winger signs to Atlantic Records
Kylie Minogue's recording career begins, when her cover version of the Little Eva hit The Loco-Motion spends seven weeks at number one in her native Australia and leads to a contract with UK based record producers Stock Aitken Waterman