• Spotify on-demand music streaming service launches in Sweden.

• Sonny Moore starts performing in Los Angeles clubs as Skrillex.

• Ibiza Rocks opens it’s doors in San Antonio.

• Cream expands its global reach with Creamfields festivals in Poland, Malta, Buenos Airies and the Czech Republic.

• Mainstream meets dance as Dizzee Rascal collaborates with Armand van Helden and P Diddy works wih Eric Morillo.

• Ultra Festival in Miami celebrates their 10th birthday with a huge 2 day festival.

• A fire at Universal Studios, California, destroys over 175,000 master tapes containing as many as half a million songs by 20th and 21st century artists, some of which had never been released or digitized. 

• Hours after performing in front of thousands of students in South Carolina, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM were seriously injured in a Learjet crash that killed four people, including the pilot.

• Rapper, Kanye West, wins Best International Male Solo Artist at The Brits.

• Mistajam joins Radio 1.

• The International Music Summit launches in Ibiza.

Notable Albums
 

• The Orb – ‘The BBC Sessions 1991-2001’ [Island]

• Portishead - Third [Island Records]

• Hot Chip: Made in the Dark [EMI/Astralwerks/DFA] 

• Pendulum - In Silico [Warner Bros]

• Sasha - Invol2ver [Global Underground]