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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.

[[File:Joan Jett - 1994 - 05.jpg|right|thumb|[[Joan Jett]] performing at [[Bumbershoot]] 1994.]]

==Specific locations==
*[[1994 in British music]]
*[[1994 in Norwegian music]]
*[[1994 in South Korean music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1994 in country music]]
*[[1994 in heavy metal music]]
*[[1994 in hip-hop|1994 in hip hop music]]
*[[1994 in Latin music]]
*[[1994 in jazz]]

==Events==
===January–February===
*[[January 19]] – [[Bryan Adams]] becomes the first major Western music star to perform in [[Vietnam]] since the end of the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gerosa |first=Melina |url=https://ew.com/article/1994/02/04/bryan-adams-performs-vietnam/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080108072811/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,301004,00.html |url-status=live |archive-date=January 8, 2008 |title=Bryan Adams performs in Vietnam |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=1994-02-04 |access-date=2016-07-23}}</ref>
*[[January 21]]–[[February 5]] – The [[Big Day Out]] festival takes place, again expanding from the previous year's venues to include the [[Gold Coast, Queensland]] and [[Auckland, New Zealand]]. The festival is headlined by [[Soundgarden]], [[Ramones]] and [[Björk]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/every-big-day-out-line-up/11539046 |title=The definitive guide to every Big Day Out line-up ever |work=ABC |date=September 30, 2019 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |first=Dan |last=Condon |archive-date=August 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804005504/https://www.abc.net.au/listen/doublej/music-reads/features/every-big-day-out-line-up/11539046 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[January 25]] – [[Alice in Chains]] release ''[[Jar of Flies]]'' which makes its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first EP to do so.
*[[January 29]] – [[The Supremes]]' [[Mary Wilson (singer)|Mary Wilson]] is injured when her [[Jeep]] hits a freeway median and flips over just outside [[Los Angeles]]. Her 14-year-old son was killed in the accident.
*[[February 1]] – [[Green Day]] release their breakthrough album ''[[Dookie (album)|Dookie]]'', ushering in the mid-1990s [[Punk rock|punk revival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1611344/green-days-dookie-15-years-later-still-a-genuine-punk-classic/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715072441/http://www.mtv.com/news/1611344/green-days-dookie-15-years-later-still-a-genuine-punk-classic/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |title=Green Day's Dookie: 15 Years Later, Still A Genuine Punk Classic |publisher=MTV |date=2009-05-13 |access-date=2016-07-23}}</ref> It later achieves diamond certification.
*[[February 7]] – [[Blind Melon]]'s lead singer [[Shannon Hoon]] is forced to leave the [[American Music Award]]s ceremony for disruptive behavior. He was later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/spadilla/sh/ |title=The Rock Cemetery: Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon) |website=Perso.wanadoo.es |access-date=2016-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428210356/http://perso.wanadoo.es/spadilla/sh/ |archive-date=April 28, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[February 11]] – The three surviving members of [[The Beatles]] reunite to begin recording additional music for unfinished [[John Lennon]]'s demos, presented to [[Paul McCartney]] by [[Yoko Ono]] with [[Jeff Lynne]] producing. The track, "[[Free As A Bird]]", is released as a single in late 1995 as part of the exhaustive [[Beatles Anthology]] project, reaching No. 2 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] and No. 6 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].
*[[February 14]] – [[Grateful Dead]] guitarist and frontman [[Jerry Garcia]] marries Deborah Koons.<ref>{{cite book|title=Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead|last=Lesh|first=Phil|year=2005|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|isbn=0-316-00998-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/searchingforsoun00lesh}}</ref>
*[[February 23]] – [[Eddie Van Halen]], [[Chris Isaak]], and [[B.B. King]] attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the [[Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas)|Hard Rock Hotel and Casino]]  in [[Paradise, Nevada]].
*[[February 26]] – The [[Sanremo Music Festival 1994|Sanremo Music Festival]] ends with [[Aleandro Baldi]] winning the "Big Artists" category for the song "Passerà".<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/02/27/vincono-baldi-bocelli.html | work = [[la Repubblica]] | language = it | access-date = 17 August 2011 | date = 27 February 1995 | author = Maria Pia Fusco | title = Vincono Baldi e Bocelli | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141129034006/http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/02/27/vincono-baldi-bocelli.html | archive-date = 29 November 2014 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

===March–April===
*[[March 1]]
**[[Selena]] becomes the first [[Tejano music]] singer to win a [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]].<ref name=marshall>{{cite book|editor-last=Stacy|editor-first=Lee|title=Mexico and the United States|year=2002|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|location=New York|isbn=0-7614-7402-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DSzyMGh8pNwC&q=Selena+Live%21&pg=PA746|access-date=October 14, 2020|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804005503/https://books.google.com/books?id=DSzyMGh8pNwC&q=Selena+Live!&pg=PA746#v=snippet&q=Selena%20Live!&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
**[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] play their final concert, in [[Munich]].
**The [[36th Annual Grammy Awards]] are presented in [[New York City|New York]], hosted by [[Garry Shandling]]. The [[The Bodyguard (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] from the 1992 film ''[[The Bodyguard (1992 film)|The Bodyguard]]'' wins [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]], while its lead single, [[Whitney Houston]]'s cover of "[[I Will Always Love You#Whitney Houston version|I Will Always Love You]]", wins [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year]]. The single version of "[[A Whole New World#Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle version|A Whole New World]]", performed by [[Peabo Bryson]] and [[Regina Belle]], wins [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]]. [[Toni Braxton]] wins [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist]].
**[[Frank Sinatra]] receives the [[Grammy Legend Award]]. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short. Other artists criticize the producer's decision during the show, and [[Billy Joel]] takes extra time to perform his song, "The River of Dreams", noting that he is wasting valuable air time.
*[[March 3]] – In Rome, Nirvana's [[Kurt Cobain]] lapses into a coma after overdosing on [[Rohypnol]] and champagne.
*[[March 5]] – [[Grace Slick]] is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her [[Tiburon, California]], home.<ref>{{cite book|last=Slick|first=Grace|author2=Andrea Cagan|title=Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir|publisher=Warner Books|date=1998-09-01|location=New York, New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/340 340–3]|isbn=978-0446523028|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/340}}</ref>
*[[March 7]] – The United States Supreme Court decision ''[[Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.]]''  rules that [[parody]] can qualify as [[fair use]]. The case was spurred by [[2 Live Crew]] releasing a parody of the [[Roy Orbison]] hit "[[Oh, Pretty Woman]]" without a license from the publishing firm [[Acuff-Rose Music]].
*[[March 8]] – [[Nine Inch Nails]] release their second studio album ''[[The Downward Spiral]]''. It would go on to sell over 3 million copies and be credited with helping bring industrial rock music into the mainstream.
*[[March 13]] – [[Selena]] releases her final Spanish album ''[[Amor Prohibido]]''. Its production had been delayed because of the launch of Selena's fashion clothing line and boutiques, and her "Selena Live!" tour in support of ''Live!''.<ref>{{cite video |people=(actor) [[Edward James Olmos]], (producers) [[Abraham Quintanilla Jr.]], Claribel Cuevas, Jeffrey Coulter, [[José Behar]], Ranal J. Edwards, (director) Cecilia Miniucchi, (writer) John Lannert |year=1997 |title=Selena Remembered |publisher=EMI Latin |location=Corpus Christi, Texas |time=60 }}</ref>
*[[March 18]]
**[[Courtney Love]] calls the police, fearing that her husband, [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana's]] [[Kurt Cobain]], is suicidal. Police confiscate four guns and 25 boxes of ammunition from Cobain's home.
**Bassist [[Darryl Jones]] replaces [[Bill Wyman]] in [[The Rolling Stones]].
*[[March 30]] – [[Pink Floyd]] embark on what would be their last world tour before their breakup. The record-breaking tour supports their ''[[The Division Bell|Division Bell]]'' album, with the band playing to 5,500,000 people in 68 cities and grossing over £150,000,000 (US$186,952,500).
*[[March 31]] – [[Madonna on Late Show with David Letterman]]: [[Madonna]] appears on the ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'', making headlines with her profanity-laced interview.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Tucker|first=Ken|title=Like Aversion: Madonna's shocking David Letterman interview – The pop-star's interview on the ''Late Show'' produces the show's highest ratings|url=http://www.ew.com/article/1994/04/15/madonnas-shocking-david-letterman-interview|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=26 January 2014|archive-date=February 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201225810/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,301834,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Robin Williams]] later describes the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman."
*[[April 8]] – The body of [[Kurt Cobain]], lead singer of [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], is found. [[Suicide of Kurt Cobain|Cobain's death]], three days before, is legally declared to be suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot.
**[[The Offspring]] release ''[[Smash (The Offspring album)|Smash]]'', which goes on to become the best selling independent album of all time and one of the most influential albums of the 90s.
*[[April 25]]
**[[Blur (band)|Blur]] releases ''[[Parklife]]'', their first album to reach No. 1 in UK, where it was certified quadruple platinum.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/platinum/platinumright.asp?rq=search_plat&r_id=20817&#93; |title=Platinum Awards Content |access-date=December 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220133205/http://www.bpi.co.uk/platinum/platinumRight.asp?rq=search_plat |archive-date=February 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
**[[Ad-Rock|Adam Horovitz]] of the [[Beastie Boys]] is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor [[River Phoenix]] in November 1993.
*[[April 26]] – [[Grace Slick]] pleads guilty to having pointed a shotgun at police officers on March 5.
*[[April 27]] – The legendary [[The Fillmore|Fillmore]] club reopens in San Francisco with a concert headlined by [[The Smashing Pumpkins]].
*[[April 30]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 1994|39th Eurovision Song Contest]] takes place in [[Dublin]], Ireland, which becomes the first-ever country to win three consecutive contests. Its winners are [[Paul Harrington (musician)|Paul Harrington]] and [[Charlie McGettigan]] with "Rock 'N' Roll Kids", written by [[Brendan Graham]]. The interval features the first-ever public performance of ''[[Riverdance]]'', featuring [[Michael Flatley]] and [[Jean Butler]], which developed into the world-famous stage show.<ref>{{cite web | last=Hayes | first=Cathy | url=http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Amazing-facts-about-the-Irish-dance-phenomenon-Riverdance.html | title=Amazing facts about the Irish dance phenomenon "Riverdance" | work=IrishCentral.com | date=29 January 2015 | access-date=15 July 2015 | archive-date=March 19, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319062733/http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/Amazing-facts-about-the-Irish-dance-phenomenon-Riverdance.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

===May–June===
* [[May 2]] – A Los Angeles jury finds [[Michael Bolton]], along with co-writer Andy Goldmark and [[Sony Music Entertainment (United States)|Sony Music Entertainment]], guilty of [[copyright infringement]] over the song "[[Love Is a Wonderful Thing (Michael Bolton song)|Love Is a Wonderful Thing]]". The song is ruled to be too similar to a song of the same name by [[The Isley Brothers]].
* [[May 3]] – [[The Rolling Stones]] arrive by yacht to a press conference in New York City to announce the [[Voodoo Lounge Tour]] kicking off in the summer.
* [[May 6]]
**[[Pearl Jam]] files a complaint against [[Ticketmaster]] with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business.
**To help promote his new album, [[Alice Cooper]] releases a three-part comic book that followed the album ''[[The Last Temptation (Alice Cooper album)|The Last Temptation]]''.
* [[May 9]]–13 – [[1994 International Rostrum of Composers]]
* [[May 10]]
** [[Tupac Shakur]] begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director [[Hughes brothers|Allen Hughes]] on the set of a video shoot.
** [[Weezer]] are introduced to the world with their self-titled debut, often referred to as the ''[[Weezer (1994 album)|Blue Album]]''. It would go on to become one of the most influential records of the 1990s spawning hits "[[Undone – The Sweater Song]]", "[[Buddy Holly (song)|Buddy Holly]]" and "[[Say It Ain't So]]".
* [[May 13]] – [[Jo Dee Messina]] and [[Aaron Tippin]] with [[Sony Music Entertainment (United States)|Sony]] label [[RCA Records]] and its country division, [[RCA Records Nashville|RCA Nashville]].
* [[May 26]] – [[Michael Jackson]] and [[Lisa Marie Presley]] are married in the Dominican Republic.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1924408&date=19940809 | title = One Theory On Michael-Lisa: It's All A Plot | newspaper = Washington Post | publisher = Seattle Times | date = August 9, 1994 | access-date = June 2, 2008 | first = Richard N. | last = Leiby | archive-date = May 19, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110519110407/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940809&slug=1924408 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
* [[May 27]] – [[Eagles (band)|The Eagles]] launch the Hell Freezes Over tour in Burbank, California. The reunion tour is the group's first since breaking up in 1980, but much is also made of the band becoming the first to charge over $100 per ticket for arena shows.
* [[June 7]] – [[Grace Slick]] is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three months' worth of [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.
* [[June 9]] – [[Lisa Lopes|Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes]] of [[TLC (group)|TLC]], in a domestic dispute with partner [[Andre Rison]], sets fire to his shoes; the fire ultimately spreads to the mansion they share and destroys it.
* [[June 21]] – [[George Michael]] loses his legal bid in a London court to be released from his contract with [[Sony Music Entertainment (United States)|Sony Records]].
* [[June 27]] – [[Aerosmith]] becomes the first major band to premiere a new song on the Internet. Over 10,000 [[CompuServe]] subscribers download the free track "Head First" within its first eight days of availability.

=== July–August ===
*[[July 12]]–16 – The [[Yoyo A Go Go]] punk and indie rock festival opens in [[Olympia, Washington]].
*[[July 30]]
**The [[Verbier Festival]] is launched.
**In keeping with the country's new constitution and the promotion of its native language, [[Moldova]] adopts ''[[Limba noastră]]'' as its new national anthem, replacing the anthem of Romania which was previously in use.
**[[Suede (band)|Suede]] announce that guitarist [[Bernard Butler]] has left the band following fractious recording sessions for their album ''[[Dog Man Star]]''.
*[[August 9]]
**[[Peter Maxwell Davies]] conducts the first performance of his [[Symphony No. 5 (Davies)|fifth symphony]] at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London, as part of [[The Proms]].<ref>{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Sutciffe|1994}}|reference=Sutcliffe, Tom. 1994. "Prom Premiere; Majestic Max". ''The Guardian'' (10 August): T4.}}</ref>
**[[Rich Mullins]] and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76-year-old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to [[Bogotá]], Colombia, with [[Compassion International]]. The two men visit the Ciudad Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
**Decca releases a recording of the 1949 première of [[Benjamin Britten]]'s ''[[Spring Symphony]]'' for the first time.
**[[Machine Head (band)|Machine Head]] release their first album ''[[Burn My Eyes]]'', which was a big success and becomes [[Roadrunner Records]]' best selling debut album.
*[[August 11]] – A [[compact disc]] copy of [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]'s album ''[[Ten Summoner's Tales]]'', released the previous year, becomes the first item securely purchased over the internet; the CD is sold for $12.48 plus shipping and handling fees.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lewis|first=Peter H.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/12/business/attention-shoppers-internet-is-open.html|title=Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=12 August 1994|access-date=28 September 2014|archive-date=September 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903095512/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/12/business/attention-shoppers-internet-is-open.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[August 12]]–14 – [[Woodstock '94]] is held in [[Saugerties (town), New York|Saugerties, New York]]. As with the original 1969 festival, attendance is swelled by a high number of gatecrashers, while heavy rains turn the festival grounds into a sea of mud. [[Nine Inch Nails]], [[Metallica]], [[Aerosmith]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[Crosby, Stills & Nash]], [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]], [[Peter Gabriel]], and [[Green Day]] are among the many performers.
*[[August 23]] – [[Jeff Buckley]] releases his single, critically acclaimed,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Timeless Influence of Jeff Buckley's Masterpiece |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a29755/jeff-buckley-grace/ |website=Esquire |date=23 August 2014 |access-date=August 3, 2024 |archive-date=August 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804005600/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a29755/jeff-buckley-grace/ |url-status=live }}</ref> full-length studio album ''[[Grace (Jeff Buckley album)|Grace]]''.
*[[August 30]]
**[[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] release their debut album ''[[Definitely Maybe]]''; it becomes the fastest selling debut album in the United Kingdom<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rapp |first1=Allison|title=Oasis Albums Ranked Worst to Best |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/oasis-albums-ranked/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=24 April 2024 |access-date=August 3, 2024 |archive-date=August 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804005529/https://ultimateclassicrock.com/oasis-albums-ranked/ |url-status=live }}</ref> until 1996, when ''[[Spice (Spice Girls album)|Spice]]'' by the [[Spice Girls]] would be released.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Sam |title=The top-selling debut albums in UK chart history have been revealed |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-top-selling-debut-albums-in-uk-chart-history-have-been-revealed-and-they-might-surprise-you-3329014 |website=NME |date=14 October 2022 |access-date=August 3, 2024 |archive-date=April 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404163521/https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-top-selling-debut-albums-in-uk-chart-history-have-been-revealed-and-they-might-surprise-you-3329014 |url-status=live }}</ref>
**[[Luis Miguel]] release ''[[Segundo Romance]]'', the best-selling Latin album of the 1990s by a male artist.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}} Four singles from the album were released; two of which reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Songs.<ref name="latinsongs">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/luis-miguel/chart-history/latin-songs|title=Luis Miguel&nbsp;– Chart history: Latin Songs|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=15 July 2014|archive-date=21 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121093625/https://www.billboard.com/artist/luis-miguel/chart-history/latin-songs/|url-status=live}}</ref> It received a [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]] and a ''Billboard'' Latin Music Award.<ref name="latingrammy">{{cite news|title=The 1995 Grammy winners|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/03/arts/the-1995-grammy-winners.html|work=[[New York Times]]|date=3 March 1995|access-date=9 October 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612044635/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/03/arts/the-1995-grammy-winners.html|archive-date=12 June 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="latBillboard">{{cite magazine| last = Lannert| first = John| date = 10 June 1995| title = Latin Music Conference| magazine = Billboard| publisher = Prometheus Global Media| page = LM-54| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0QsEAAAAMBAJ&q=india+dicen+que+soy+awards&pg=PA54| access-date = 9 October 2010| url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140702040910/http://books.google.com/books?id=0QsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54&dq=india+dicen+que+soy+awards&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iJovU4JssNLbBfnbgNgD&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAQ| archive-date = 2 July 2014| df = dmy-all}}</ref>

=== September–October ===
*[[September 6]] 
**[[José Cura]] wins the Operalia – International [[Plácido Domingo]] Opera Singer Competition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.onefineart.com/artists/musicians/Jose-Cura |title=José Cura Argentinean Lebanese Tenor composer conductor, Classical Singer Lebanon |website=Onefineart.com |access-date=2016-07-23}}</ref> 
**[[Bad Religion]] release their eighth studio album (and proper major-label debut) ''[[Stranger Than Fiction (Bad Religion album)|Stranger than Fiction]]''. This proved to be the last to feature founding guitarist/songwriter [[Brett Gurewitz]] for seven years, until his return. Gurewitz would be replaced by former [[Minor Threat]] / [[Dag Nasty]] / [[Junkyard (band)|Junkyard]] guitarist [[Brian Baker (musician)|Brian Baker]], who turned down a touring job for [[R.E.M.]] at this time, and eventually becomes a permanent member of Bad Religion.
*[[September 8]] – [[Richard Auguste Morse|Richard A. Morse]], lead male vocalist of [[RAM (band)|RAM]], narrowly escapes a kidnapping by armed men during the band's live performance at the [[Hotel Oloffson]] in [[Port-au-Prince]], Haiti; the attempted kidnapping was provoked by the performance of "[[Fèy]]", a RAM single banned nationwide by the military authorities.
*[[September 15]] – A 1957 audio tape of [[John Lennon]] performing with [[The Quarrymen]] on the same night he met [[Paul McCartney]] fetches £78,500 at [[Sotheby's]], London.<ref name="RS #694inthenews">{{cite magazine |date=November 3, 1994 |title=In The News |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]  |issue=694 |page=32 }}</ref>
*[[October 12]] – ''Jimmy Page and Robert Plant: No Quarter (Unledded)'' premieres on MTV. The "unplugged" concert special featuring the two former [[Led Zeppelin]] bandmates was filmed to accompany the release of the [[No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded|album of the same name]].
*[[October 15]] – The [[OTI Festival 1994|23rd OTI Festival]], held at the [[Teatro Principal de València|Teatro Principal]] in [[Valencia]], Spain, is won by the song "{{lang|es|Canción despareja|i=no}}", written by Bibi Albert, and performed by Claudia Carenzio representing [[Argentina in the OTI Festival|Argentina]].

=== November–December ===
*[[November 20]] – [[David Crosby]] undergoes a seven-hour liver transplant operation in Los Angeles.
*[[November 30]] – [[The Breeders]] guitarist [[Kelley Deal]] is arrested at her Ohio home after accepting a private-courier package containing four grams of heroin.<ref name="RS #700inthenews">{{cite magazine |date=January 26, 1995 |title=In The News |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]  |issue=700 |page=25 }}</ref>
*[[December 2]] – [[Warner Music Group]] acquires a 49 percent share of Seattle record label [[Sub Pop]] in a deal believed to be worth over $30 million.
*[[December 18]] – [[Paul Oakenfold]]'s legendary [[The Goa Mix|Goa Mix]] is first broadcast in the early hours of this day as a BBC Radio 1 [[Essential Mix]].
*[[December 19]] – [[Aerosmith]] opens the 250-seat Mama Kin Music Hall in Boston, co-owned by the group, with a performance.
*[[December 31]] – The twenty-third annual [[Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve|New Year's Rockin' Eve]] special airs on ABC, with appearances by [[Melissa Etheridge]], [[The O'Jays]], [[Salt-N-Pepa]], [[Hootie & the Blowfish]] and [[Jon Secada]].

=== Also in 1994 ===
* [[Social Distortion]] manager Jim Guerinot forms the label [[Time Bomb Recordings]] in joint-venture agreement with [[Arista Records|Arista]]. The label actually exists mostly as an imprint for current releases from Social Distortion and solo albums by [[Mike Ness]], along with the administration of the label's back catalog.
* April – [[Jo Dee Messina]] signs to [[RCA Records]].
* Summer – [[Tony Wilson]] attempts to revive [[Factory Records]], in collaboration with London Records, as "Factory Too".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bUc4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT108 |title=Tony Wilson – You're Entitled to an Opinion But. . .: The High times and ... |author=David Nolan |date= August 2, 2010|publisher=John Blake |isbn=9781843582229 |access-date=2016-07-23}}</ref>

== Bands formed ==
* See [[:Category:Musical groups established in 1994|Musical groups established in 1994]]

== Bands disbanded ==
* See [[:Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1994|Musical groups disestablished in 1994]]

== Bands reformed ==
* See [[:Category:Musical groups reestablished in 1994|Musical groups reestablished in 1994]]

==Albums released==
{{See also|:Category:1994 albums}}

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| ''[[Philadelphia (film)#Soundtrack|Music from the Motion Picture Philadelphia]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Trashed (album)|Trashed]]'' || [[Lagwagon]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|10
| ''[[Get What You Deserve]]'' || [[Sodom (band)|Sodom]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|11
| ''[[She'd Give Anything]]'' || [[Boy Howdy (band)|Boy Howdy]] || EP
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|17
| ''Subject to Change'' || [[Gary Nichols]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"|18
| ''[[Antenna (ZZ Top album)|Antenna]]'' || [[ZZ Top]] ||-
|-
| ''[[A Constipated Monkey]]'' || [[Kurious]] ||- 
|-
| ''[[Dogman (King's X album)|Dogman]]'' || [[King's X]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Here It Is (Freddie Jackson album)|Here It Is]]'' || [[Freddie Jackson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[LL77]]'' || [[Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam|Lisa Lisa]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mirror Blue]]'' || [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Whiskey for the Holy Ghost]]'' || [[Mark Lanegan]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|24
| ''[[Dubnobasswithmyheadman]]'' || [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="10" style="text-align:center;"|25
| ''[[Jar of Flies]]'' || [[Alice in Chains]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Blunted on Reality]]'' || [[Fugees]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Best of Bachman–Turner Overdrive Live]]'' || [[Bachman–Turner Overdrive]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Cleansing (album)|Cleansing]]'' || [[Prong (band)|Prong]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Face the Music (New Kids on the Block album)|Face the Music]]'' || [[New Kids on the Block|NKOTB]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hips and Makers]]'' || [[Kristin Hersh]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Kickin' It Up]]'' || [[John Michael Montgomery]] ||-
|-
| ''Life Lover'' || [[Aaron Kwok]] || [[Chinese language|Chinese]] Compilation Album of [[w:zh:飛碟唱片|UFO Record]] Labels
|-
| ''[[Snuff the Punk]]'' || [[P.O.D.]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Too High to Die]]'' || [[Meat Puppets]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''[[Dies Irae (Noir Désir album)|Dies Irae]]'' || [[Noir Désir]] || Live
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|31
| ''[[Blackhawk (album)|Blackhawk]]'' || [[Blackhawk (band)|Blackhawk]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Cross Purposes]]'' || [[Black Sabbath]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hold on It Hurts]]'' || [[Cornershop (band)|Cornershop]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Under the Pink]]'' || [[Tori Amos]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="38" style="text-align:center; background:thistle; textcolor:#000;" | '''F<br />E<br />B<br />R<br />U<br />A<br />R<br />Y'''
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''[[Dookie]]'' || [[Green Day]] || Diamond (10+ million copies sold)
|-
| ''[[Back at Your Ass for the Nine-4]]'' || [[2 Live Crew]] ||-
|-
| ''Hank Flamingo'' || [[Hank Flamingo]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Reality Bites (soundtrack)|Reality Bites]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[What a Crying Shame]]'' || [[The Mavericks]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| ''SMAP 005'' || [[SMAP]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|7
| ''[[Brave (Marillion album)|Brave]]'' || [[Marillion]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Motorcade of Generosity]]'' || [[Cake (band)|Cake]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Troublegum]]'' || [[Therapy?]] ||-
|-
| ''[[24 Hour Revenge Therapy]]'' || [[Jawbreaker (band)|Jawbreaker]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[For Your Own Special Sweetheart]]'' || [[Jawbox]] ||-
|-
| ''[[No Doubt About It (album)|No Doubt About It]]'' || [[Neal McCoy]] ||-
|-
| ''Offering'' || [[Animal Bag]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Paid Vacation (album)|Paid Vacation]]'' || [[Richard Marx]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Some Old Bullshit]]'' || [[Beastie Boys]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Welcome to the Cruel World]]'' || [[Ben Harper]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|9
| ''[[Dreamspace]]'' || [[Stratovarius]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Prose Combat]]'' || [[MC Solaar]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|14
| ''[[Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain]]'' || [[Pavement (band)|Pavement]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hex (Bark Psychosis album)|Hex]]'' || [[Bark Psychosis]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|15
| ''[[Angelfish (album)|Angelfish]]'' || [[Angelfish (band)|Angelfish]] || North America
|-
| ''[[Moonlight Becomes You (album)|Moonlight Becomes You]]'' || [[Willie Nelson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pronounced Jah-Nay]]'' || [[Zhané]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Ungod]]'' || [[Stabbing Westward]] || Debut
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|17
| ''[[Transilvanian Hunger]]'' || [[Darkthrone]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|21
| ''[[In the Nightside Eclipse]]'' || [[Emperor (Norwegian band)|Emperor]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|22
| ''[[Beyond Flavor]]'' || [[Original Flavor]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Gangsta Funk]]'' || [[5th Ward Boyz]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ro Sham Bo (album)|Ro Sham Bo]]'' || [[The Grays (band)|The Grays]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Stereopathetic Soulmanure]]'' || [[Beck]] ||-
|-
| ''[[What Jail Is Like EP|What Jail Is Like]]'' || [[The Afghan Whigs]] || EP
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|23
| ''[[Hide Your Face]]'' || [[Hide (musician)|hide]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|24
| ''[[The Principle of Evil Made Flesh]]'' || [[Cradle of Filth]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|28
| ''[[Shock Me (EP)|Shock Me]]'' || [[Red House Painters]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Tiger Bay (album)|Tiger Bay]]'' || [[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Vikingligr Veldi]]'' || [[Enslaved (band)|Enslaved]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|?
| ''Forget Love Potion'' || [[Andy Lau]] || [[w:zh:飛碟唱片|UFO Record]] Semi-finale
|-
| ''Just Say You Love Me'' || [[Dave Wang|Dave Wong]] || [[w:zh:飛碟唱片|UFO Record]] Labels
|-
| rowspan="62" style="text-align:center; background:#98fb98; textcolor:#000;" |'''M<br />A<br />R<br />C<br />H'''
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''[[Robbin' the Hood]]'' || [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bewitched (Luna album)|Bewitched]]'' || [[Luna (1990s American band)|Luna]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Funky Headhunter]]'' || [[M.C. Hammer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Glow (Raven album)|Glow]]'' || [[Raven (British band)|Raven]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Live at the Acropolis]]'' || [[Yanni]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Mellow Gold]]'' || [[Beck]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Naïve/Hell to Go]]'' || [[KMFDM]] ||-
|-
| ''[[That Dog (album)|That Dog]]'' || [[That Dog]] || Debut
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| ''[[The 7th Blues]]'' || [[B'z]] || Double album
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|4
| ''[[A Total Letdown]]'' || [[Babyland]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|7
| ''[[Selected Ambient Works Volume II]]'' || [[Aphex Twin]] ||<ref name="warp-release">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118192738/http://warp.net/records/releases/aphex-twin/selected-ambient-works-volume-ii|archive-date=November 18, 2009 |url=http://warp.net/records/releases/aphex-twin/selected-ambient-works-volume-ii|access-date=7 February 2016|publisher=[[Warp (record label)|Warp]]|title=Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Volume II}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="11" style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[Brutal Youth]]'' || [[Elvis Costello]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Downward Spiral]]'' || [[Nine Inch Nails]] || 4× Platinum
|-
| ''[[Hard to Earn]]'' || [[Gang Starr]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Magnified]]'' || [[Failure (band)|Failure]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Martinis and Bikinis]]'' || [[Sam Phillips (musician)|Sam Phillips]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pirate Prude]]'' || [[Helium (band)|Helium]] || Debut EP
|-
| ''[[Point Blank (Nailbomb album)|Point Blank]]'' || [[Nailbomb]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Pop Heiress]]'' || [[Chainsaw Kittens]] ||- 
|-
| ''[[Ringmaster (album)|Ringmaster]]'' || [[Insane Clown Posse]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Superunknown]]'' || [[Soundgarden]] ||5× Platinum
|-
| ''[[Your Filthy Little Mouth]]'' || [[David Lee Roth]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|14
| ''[[The Door (Charlie Daniels album)|The Door]]'' || [[Charlie Daniels]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Forever Now (Level 42 album)|Forever Now]]'' || [[Level 42]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Vauxhall and I]]'' || [[Morrissey]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|15
| ''[[Chant (Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos album)|Chant]]'' || [[Benedictine]] Monks of [[Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos|Santo Domingo de Silos]] || ''Canto Gregoriano'' outside North America; re-release
|-
| ''Living Room'' || [[Cell (American band)|Cell]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mötley Crüe (album)|Mötley Crüe]]'' || [[Mötley Crüe]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Son of Altered Beast]]'' || [[Matthew Sweet]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Unboxed (Sammy Hagar album)|Unboxed]]'' || [[Sammy Hagar]] || Greatest Hits +2 new tracks
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|21
| ''[[Calculated]]'' || [[Heavens to Betsy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Essex (album)|Essex]]'' || [[Alison Moyet]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Talk (Yes album)|Talk]]'' || [[Yes (band)|Yes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Up to Our Hips]]'' || [[The Charlatans (English band)|The Charlatans]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;"|22
| ''[[Longing in Their Hearts]]'' || [[Bonnie Raitt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Amor Prohibido]]'' || [[Selena]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Woke Up with a Monster]]'' || [[Cheap Trick]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Above the Rim (soundtrack)|Above the Rim]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Brother Sister]]'' || [[Brand New Heavies]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Devil Hopping]]'' || [[Inspiral Carpets]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Far Beyond Driven]]'' || [[Pantera]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Fuck What You Think]]'' || [[Main Source]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hit the Highway]]'' || [[The Proclaimers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mind Blowin]]'' || [[Vanilla Ice]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Naveed (album)|Naveed]]'' || [[Our Lady Peace]] || Debut; Canadian release
|-
| ''[[New Plastic Ideas]]'' || [[Unwound]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Not a Moment Too Soon]]'' || [[Tim McGraw]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Brian Setzer Orchestra (album)|The Brian Setzer Orchestra]]'' || [[The Brian Setzer Orchestra]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|24
| ''[[Black Hand Inn]]'' || [[Running Wild (band)|Running Wild]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|25
| ''[[True Force]]'' || [[Powerman 5000]] || Debut EP
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|28
| ''[[The Division Bell]]'' || [[Pink Floyd]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Give Out But Don't Give Up]]'' || [[Primal Scream (band)|Primal Scream]] ||-
|-
| ''Now That's What I Call Music! 27'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| ''[[The Piano Concerto/MGV]]'' || [[Michael Nyman]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Promenade (The Divine Comedy album)|Promenade]]'' || [[The Divine Comedy (band)|The Divine Comedy]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|29
| ''[[The Crow (album)|The Crow]]'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| ''[[Groove Family Cyco]]'' || [[Infectious Grooves]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hoist (album)|Hoist]]'' || [[Phish]] || Gold
|-
| ''[[Talking Timbuktu]]'' || [[Ali Farka Touré]] with [[Ry Cooder]] ||-
|-
| ''[[This Toilet Earth]]'' || [[Gwar|GWAR]] ||-
|-
|  rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|?
| ''[[Panic On]]'' || [[Madder Rose]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rester vrai]]'' || [[Florent Pagny]] ||-
|}

===April–June===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="41" style="text-align:center; background:#ffa07a; textcolor:#000;"| '''A<br />P<br />R<br />I<br />L'''
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''[[Lunar Strain]]'' || [[In Flames]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|4
| ''[[Rusty (Rodan album)|Rusty]]'' || [[Rodan (band)|Rodan]] ||-
|-
| ''WhatFunLifeWas'' || [[Bedhead (band)|Bedhead]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The White Birch (album)|The White Birch]]'' || [[Codeine (band)|Codeine]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|5
| ''[[The Divine Comedy (Milla Jovovich album)|The Divine Comedy]]'' || [[Milla Jovovich]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Shimmer (Surgery album)|Shimmer]]'' || [[Surgery (band)|Surgery]] ||- 
|-
| ''[[Some Change]]'' || [[Boz Scaggs]] ||-
|-
| ''[[To the Death (M.O.P. album)|To the Death]]'' || [[M.O.P.]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[Only One Moon]]'' || [[Prairie Oyster]] || Canada
|-
| ''[[Smash (The Offspring album)|Smash]]'' || [[The Offspring]] || 6× Platinum and the best-selling independent label album of all time.
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|11
| ''[[Crash! Boom! Bang!]]'' || [[Roxette]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sister Hazel (album)|Sister Hazel]]'' || [[Sister Hazel]]||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|12
| ''[[All-4-One (All-4-One album)|All-4-One]]'' || [[All-4-One]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Bleeding (album)|The Bleeding]]'' || [[Cannibal Corpse]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Live Through This]]'' || [[Hole (band)|Hole]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Weight (album)|Weight]]'' || [[Rollins Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sugartooth (album)|Sugartooth]]'' || [[Sugartooth]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|18
| ''[[Let Love In (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album)|Let Love In]]'' || [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]] ||-
|-
| ''[[And She Closed Her Eyes]]'' || [[Stina Nordenstam]] ||-
|-
| ''[[His 'n' Hers]]'' || [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]] ||-
|-
| ''[[How to Make Friends and Influence People]]'' || [[Terrorvision]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|19
| ''[[Foolish (album)|Foolish]]'' || [[Superchunk]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Crookt, Crackt, or Fly]]'' || [[Gastr del Sol]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Illmatic]]'' || [[Nas]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[In My Wildest Dreams]]'' || [[Kenny Chesney]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Well...]]'' || [[Katey Sagal]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|21
| ''[[Australian Melodrama]]'' || [[The Triffids]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|25
| ''[[Anarchy (Chumbawamba album)|Anarchy]]'' || [[Chumbawamba]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mädchen (album)|Mädchen]]'' || [[Lucilectric]] || Germany
|-
| ''[[Parklife]]'' || [[Blur (band)|Blur]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Santa Monica '72]]'' || [[David Bowie]] || UK, Live
|-
| rowspan="9" style="text-align:center;"|26
| ''[[American Recordings (album)|American Recordings]]'' || [[Johnny Cash]] ||-
|-
| ''[[A Date with The Smithereens]]'' || [[The Smithereens]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Fatherless and the Widow]]'' || [[Sixpence None the Richer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Last Day on Earth (album)|Last Day on Earth]]'' || [[John Cale]] and [[Bob Neuwirth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Read My Mind (album)|Read My Mind]]'' || [[Reba McEntire]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik]]'' || [[OutKast]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[This Is Me (Randy Travis album)|This Is Me]]'' || [[Randy Travis]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Throwing Copper]]'' || [[Live (band)|Live]] || 8× Platinum (US); 7× Platinum (Canada) 
|-
| ''[[Yank Crime]]'' || [[Drive Like Jehu]] || - 
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|29
| ''[[Life in the Streets]]'' || [[Prince Ital Joe]] & [[Mark Wahlberg|Marky Mark]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="48" style="text-align:center; background:thistle; textcolor:#000;" | '''M<br />A<br />Y'''
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|3
| ''[[Middle Class Revolt]]'' || [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Sweetest Illusion]]'' || [[Basia]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Where It All Begins]]'' || [[The Allman Brothers Band]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|4
| ''[[Dark Funeral (EP)|Dark Funeral]]'' || [[Dark Funeral]] || EP
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|9
| ''[[Last of the Independents]]'' || [[The Pretenders]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Seventh Sign (album)|The Seventh Sign]]'' || [[Yngwie Malmsteen]] || Europe
|-
| ''[[Far from Home (Traffic album)|Far from Home]]'' || [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Very Best of Kenny G]]'' || [[Kenny G]] || Greatest Hits
|-
| ''[[Now I'm a Cowboy]]'' || [[The Auteurs]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|10
| ''[[Arrive All over You|Arrive All Over You]]'' || [[Danielle Brisebois]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Diary (Sunny Day Real Estate album)|Diary]]'' || [[Sunny Day Real Estate]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star]]'' || [[Sonic Youth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Four Chords & Several Years Ago]]'' || [[Huey Lewis and The News]] || Covers of popular songs from the 1950s & '60s
|-
| ''[[G. Love and Special Sauce (album)|G. Love and Special Sauce]]'' || [[G. Love & Special Sauce]] || Gold (US)
|-
| ''[[Swamp Ophelia]]'' || [[Indigo Girls]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof]]'' || [[Travis Tritt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Weezer (1994 album)|Weezer]]'' || [[Weezer]] || Debut; 3× Platinum (US), 2× Platinum (Canada)
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|16
| ''[[I Say I Say I Say]]'' || [[Erasure (duo)|Erasure]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|17
| ''[[Boingo (album)|Boingo]]'' || [[Oingo Boingo]] ||-
|-
| ''[[New Times (album)|New Times]]'' || [[Violent Femmes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[A Night in San Francisco]]'' || [[Van Morrison]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Recently (EP)|Recently]]'' || [[Dave Matthews Band]] || Live EP
|-
| ''[[Storyteller (Crystal Waters album)|Storyteller]]'' || [[Crystal Waters]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[Teenager of the Year (album)|Teenager of the Year]]'' || [[Frank Black]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|23
| ''[[Seal (1994 album)|Seal]]'' || [[Seal (musician)|Seal]] || aka ''Seal II''
|-
| ''[[Street Angel (album)|Street Angel]]'' || [[Stevie Nicks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lifeforms (The Future Sound of London album)|Lifeforms]]'' || [[The Future Sound of London|Future Sound of London]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="9" style="text-align:center;"|24
| ''[[David Byrne (album)|David Byrne]]'' || [[David Byrne]] ||-
|-
| ''[[De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas]]'' || [[Mayhem (band)|Mayhem]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dulcinea (album)|Dulcinea]]'' || [[Toad the Wet Sprocket]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Everyone Should Be Killed]]'' || [[Anal Cunt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Fruitcakes (album)|Fruitcakes]]'' || [[Jimmy Buffett]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Heart, Soul & a Voice]]'' || [[Jon Secada]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Nuttin' But Love]]'' || [[Heavy D & the Boyz]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Sun Rises in the East]]'' || [[Jeru the Damaja]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[The Woman's Boat]]'' || [[Toni Childs]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|25
|''[[Hai to Diamond|Hai no Diamond]]''
|[[Glay]]
|Debut
|-
| ''[[Humanimal (album)|Humanimal]]'' || [[Talisman (band)|Talisman]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|31
| ''[[199Quad]]'' || [[69 Boyz]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Así Es (Gerardo album)|Así Es]]'' || [[Gerardo Mejía|Gerardo]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Fear, Emptiness, Despair]]'' || [[Napalm Death]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Goodbye to the Age of Steam]]'' || [[Big Big Train]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ill Communication]]'' || [[Beastie Boys]] || 3× Platinum (US)
|-
| ''[[The Lion King (1994 soundtrack)|The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| ''[[Mortal Kombat: The Album]]'' || [[The Immortals (band)|The Immortals]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Way to Blue]]'' || [[Nick Drake]] || Compilation 
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center|?
| ''[[Love, Nancy]]''|| [[Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)|Nancy Wilson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dreamchild (album)|Dreamchild]]'' || [[Toyah Willcox|Toyah]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="47" style="text-align:center; background:#98fb98; textcolor:#000;" |'''J<br />U<br />N<br />E'''
| style="text-align:center;"|4
| ''[[Oh My Love (album)|Oh My Love]]'' || [[Zard]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|6
| ''[[Balls to Picasso]]'' || [[Bruce Dickinson]] || Europe; released in US on 26 July
|-
| ''Bad Boys Inc'' || [[Bad Boys Inc]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|7
| ''[[Pride & Glory (album)|Pride & Glory]]'' || [[Pride & Glory (band)|Pride & Glory]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Purple (Stone Temple Pilots album)|Purple]]'' || [[Stone Temple Pilots]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Gems (Patti LaBelle album)|Gems]]'' || [[Patti LaBelle]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Regulate... G Funk Era]]'' || [[Warren G]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Walk On (Boston album)|Walk On]]'' || [[Boston (band)|Boston]]
|-
| ''[[When Love Finds You]]'' || [[Vince Gill]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|9
| ''On and On'' || [[Masaharu Fukuyama]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[Pandora's Toys]]'' || [[Aerosmith]] (compilation) ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|10
| ''Migratory Birds'' || [[Dave Wang|Dave Wong]] || [[w:zh:飛碟唱片|UFO Record]] Labels
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|13
| ''[[Split (Lush album)|Split]]'' || [[Lush (band)|Lush]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Aria (Asia album)|Aria]]'' || [[Asia (band)|Asia]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"|14
| ''[[Age Ain't Nothing but a Number]]'' || [[Aaliyah]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Pure and Simple (Joan Jett album)|Pure and Simple]]'' || [[Joan Jett and the Blackhearts]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Simpatico (Velocity Girl album)|Simpatico]]'' || [[Velocity Girl]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Suicidal for Life]]'' || [[Suicidal Tendencies]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Through the Fire (Peabo Bryson album)|Through the Fire]]'' || [[Peabo Bryson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Turn It Upside Down]]'' || [[Spin Doctors]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Zingalamaduni]]'' || [[Arrested Development (group)|Arrested Development]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|15
| ''[[Deflowered]]'' || [[Pansy Division]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|17
| ''[[Temple Stone]]'' || [[Ghost (1984 band)|Ghost]] || Live
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[Carnival of Light (album)|Carnival of Light]]'' || [[Ride (band)|Ride]] ||-
|-
| ''Genius and Brutality...Taste and Power'' || [[Brainbombs]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"|21
| ''[[Betty (Helmet album)|Betty]]'' || [[Helmet (band)|Helmet]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bee Thousand]]'' || [[Guided by Voices]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Super Bad (Terminator X album)|Super Bad]]'' || [[Terminator X]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Creepin on ah Come Up]]'' || [[Bone Thugs-n-Harmony]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Dance Naked]]'' || [[John Mellencamp]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved]]'' || Various Artists || [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] tribute
|-
| ''[[Let's Go (Rancid album)|Let's Go]]'' || [[Rancid (band)|Rancid]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|22
| ''Surface of Pain'' || [[Masquerade (Swedish band)|Masquerade]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|26
| ''[[Klaus Schulze Goes Classic]]'' || [[Klaus Schulze]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''[[Keb' Mo' (album)|Keb' Mo']]'' || [[Keb' Mo']] || Debut
|-
| ''[[One Foot in the Grave (album)|One Foot In The Grave]]'' || [[Beck]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="10" style="text-align:center;" |28
| ''[[Funkdafied]]'' || [[Da Brat]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Get Up on It]]'' || [[Keith Sweat]] ||-
|-
| ''[[MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett]]'' || [[Tony Bennett]] || Live
|-
| ''[[One Step Ahead of the Spider]]'' || [[MC 900 Ft. Jesus]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Same as It Ever Was]]'' || [[House of Pain]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Si Te Vas (album)|Si Te Vas]]'' || [[Jon Secada]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stand By for Pain]]'' || [[Widowmaker (Dee Snider band)|Widowmaker]] ||-
|-
| ''[[¡Viva Zapata!]]'' || [[7 Year Bitch]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Welcome to Sky Valley]]'' || [[Kyuss]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Who I Am (Alan Jackson album)|Who I Am]]'' || [[Alan Jackson]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|30
| ''[[Love Gone Sour, Suspicion, and Bad Debt]]'' || [[The Clarks]] ||-
|}

===July–September===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="47" style="text-align:center; background:#ffa07a; textcolor:#000;" | '''J<br />U<br />L<br />Y'''
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''[[Year of the Dog (Wolfstone album)|Year of the Dog]]'' || [[Wolfstone]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|4
| ''[[Music for the Jilted Generation]]'' || [[The Prodigy]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|5
| ''[[Cracked Rear View]]'' || [[Hootie & the Blowfish]] || Diamond (10 million+ copies sold)
|-
| ''[[DGC Rarities Vol. 1]]'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| ''[[Hot Boxing]]'' || [[Magnapop]] ||-
|-
| ''[[I Ain't Movin']]'' || [[Des'ree]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Liquor in the Front]]'' || [[The Reverend Horton Heat]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Thirty Years of Maximum R&B]]'' || [[The Who]] || Box set
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|7
| ''SMAP 006: Sexy Six'' || SMAP ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[Master of the Rings]]'' || [[Helloween]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|11
| ''[[Voodoo Lounge]]'' || [[The Rolling Stones]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Zopilote Machine]]'' || [[The Mountain Goats]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="9" style="text-align:center;"|12
| ''[[Cowboys in Love]]'' || [[Riders in the Sky (band)|Riders in the Sky]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dewdrops in the Garden]]'' || [[Deee-Lite]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Uncle Sam's Curse]]'' || [[Above the Law (group)|Above the Law]] ||-
|-
| ''[[downset. (album)|downset.]]'' || [[downset.]] ||Debut
|-
| ''[[Grassroots (album)|Grassroots]]'' || [[311 (band)|311]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hungry for Stink]]'' || [[L7 (band)|L7]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Kansas Boxed Set]]'' || [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] || Box set
|-
| ''[[The Last Temptation (Alice Cooper album)|The Last Temptation]]'' || [[Alice Cooper]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tales from the Thousand Lakes]]'' || [[Amorphis]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|13
| ''[[In the Trees]]'' || [[The Watchmen (band)|The Watchmen]] || Canada
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |14
| ''[[Roman Candle (album)|Roman Candle]]'' || [[Elliott Smith]] ||-
|-
|''[[Tierra (L'Arc-en-Ciel album)|Tierra]]''
|[[L'Arc-en-Ciel]]
| -
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|15
| ''[[W.F.O.]]'' || [[Overkill (band)|Overkill]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|18
| ''[[Parables for Wooden Ears]]'' || [[Powderfinger]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[The Space Age Playboys]]'' || [[Warrior Soul]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Terminal Spirit Disease]]'' || [[At the Gates]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|19
| ''[[Chief Boot Knocka]]'' || [[Sir Mix-a-Lot]] ||-
|-
| ''[[For the Love of Strange Medicine]]'' || [[Steve Perry (musician)|Steve Perry]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Harbinger (Paula Cole album)|Harbinger]]'' || [[Paula Cole]] ||-
|-
| ''[[It Takes a Thief (album)|It Takes A Thief]]'' || [[Coolio]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Peep This]]'' || [[Jamie Foxx]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Portrait of an American Family]]'' || [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Punk in Drublic]]'' || [[NOFX]] ||-
|-
| ''[[We Come Strapped]]'' || [[MC Eiht]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|25
| ''[[Chocolate Synthesizer]]'' || [[Boredoms]] || Japan only
|-
| ''[[Pandemonium (Killing Joke album)|Pandemonium]]'' || [[Killing Joke]] ||-
|-
| ''[[These Are Not Fall Colors]]'' || [[Lync]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|26
| ''[[Going Public (Newsboys album)|Going Public]]'' || [[Newsboys]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Gringo Honeymoon]]'' || [[Robert Earl Keen]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Inside Out (Fates Warning album)|Inside Out]]'' || [[Fates Warning]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Out of Range (album)|Out of Range]]'' || [[Ani DiFranco]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pawnshop Guitars]]'' || [[Gilby Clarke]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''Adesso'' || [[Toshinori Yonekura]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|29
| ''Desire'' || [[Aaron Kwok]] || [[Chinese language|Chinese]] [[w:zh:飛碟唱片|UFO Records]]
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |?
| ''[[The Happy Album]]'' || [[The Selecter]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="59" style="text-align:center; background:thistle; textcolor:#000;"| '''A<br />U<br />G<br />U<br />S<br />T'''
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''Now That's What I Call Music! 28'' || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"|2
| ''[[Push Comes to Shove (Jackyl album)|Push Comes to Shove]]'' || [[Jackyl]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Creep wit' Me]]'' || [[Ill Al Skratch]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Love Spit Love (album)|Love Spit Love]]'' || [[Love Spit Love]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Playtyme Is Over]]'' || [[IMx|Immature]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Tractors (album)|The Tractors]]'' || [[The Tractors]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rotting Piñata]]'' || [[Sponge (band)|Sponge]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Whaler (album)|Whaler]]'' || [[Sophie B. Hawkins]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|5
| ''[[Prick (Melvins album)|Prick]]'' || [[Melvins]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[Frigate (album)|Frigate]]'' || [[April Wine]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Snivilisation]]'' || [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|9
| ''[[Autogeddon]]'' || [[Julian Cope]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Burn My Eyes]]'' || [[Machine Head (band)|Machine Head]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Mars Audiac Quintet]]'' || [[Stereolab]] ||-
|-
| ''[[6 Feet Deep]]'' || [[Gravediggaz]] || Debut
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|10
| ''[[Living Under June]]'' || [[Jann Arden]] || Canada
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|15
| ''[[Grace (Jeff Buckley album)|Grace]]'' || [[Jeff Buckley]] || Europe
|-
| rowspan="9" style="text-align:center;"|16
| ''[[After the Storm (Crosby, Stills & Nash album)|After the Storm]]'' || [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young|Crosby, Stills & Nash]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Blue House (album)|Blue House]]'' || [[Marcia Ball]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Come (Prince album)|Come]]'' || [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Handful of Rain]]'' || [[Savatage]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Jerky Boys 2]]'' || [[Jerky Boys]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Maybe You Should Drive]]'' || [[Barenaked Ladies]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Picture Perfect Morning]]'' || [[Edie Brickell]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sleeps with Angels]]'' || [[Neil Young]] and [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stress: The Extinction Agenda]]'' || [[Organized Konfusion]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|18
| ''[[Hard Hats]]'' || [[Phil Beer]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|19
| ''[[The Business Trip]]'' || [[Hawkwind]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Songs in the Key of Bree]]'' || [[Buck-O-Nine]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|22
| ''[[Dummy (album)|Dummy]]'' || [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Everyone's Got One]]'' || [[Echobelly]] || UK
|-
| ''[[Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some]]'' || [[Cyndi Lauper]] || Compilation + new tracks
|-
| ''[[Thirsty Work]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="15" style="text-align:center;"|23
| ''[[Bakesale]]'' || [[Sebadoh]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bust a Nut]]'' || [[Tesla (band)|Tesla]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Clumsy (Samiam album)|Clumsy]]'' || [[Samiam]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Cover Girl (Shawn Colvin album)|Cover Girl]]'' || [[Shawn Colvin]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ken Mellons (album)|Ken Mellons]]'' || [[Ken Mellons]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age]]'' || [[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Natural Born Killers (soundtrack)|Natural Born Killers]]'' || Various Artists || Produced by [[Trent Reznor]]
|-
| ''[[Natural Ingredients]]'' || [[Luscious Jackson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rhythm of Love (Anita Baker album)|Rhythm of Love]]'' || [[Anita Baker]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rubberneck (album)|Rubberneck]]'' || [[Toadies]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Stoned & Dethroned]]'' || [[The Jesus and Mary Chain]] ||-
|-
| ''[[When I Woke]]'' || [[Rusted Root]] ||-
|-
| ''[[When Fallen Angels Fly]]'' || [[Patty Loveless]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Without a Sound]]'' || [[Dinosaur Jr.]] ||-
|-
| ''[[House of Love (Amy Grant album)|House of Love]]'' || [[Amy Grant]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''[[Stuck (Puddle of Mudd EP)|Stuck]]'' || [[Puddle of Mudd]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="10" style="text-align:center;"|30
| ''[[Definitely Maybe]]'' || [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] || Debut 7× platinum
|-
| ''[[The Holy Bible (album)|The Holy Bible]]'' || [[Manic Street Preachers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Secret World Live]]'' || [[Peter Gabriel]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Down (The Jesus Lizard album)|Down]]'' || [[The Jesus Lizard]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Days in the Wake]]'' || [[Will Oldham|Palace Brothers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Segundo Romance]]'' || [[Luis Miguel]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Fresh (1994 film)#Soundtrack|Fresh soundtrack]]'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| ''[[II (Boyz II Men album)|II]]'' || [[Boyz II Men]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Twice Removed]]'' || [[Sloan (band)|Sloan]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Usher (album)|Usher]]'' || [[Usher (musician)|Usher]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="63" style="text-align:center; background:#98fb98; textcolor:#000;"|'''S<br />E<br />P<br />T<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|5
| ''[[Change Giver]]'' || [[Shed Seven]] ||UK release date; Debut album
|-
| ''[[Mamouna]]'' || [[Bryan Ferry]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|6
| ''[[Ain't Life Grand (Widespread Panic album)|Ain't Life Grand]]'' || [[Widespread Panic]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Born Dead]]'' || [[Body Count (band)|Body Count]] ||-
|-
| ''[[File Under: Easy Listening]]'' || [[Sugar (American band)|Sugar]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Flesh (album)|Flesh]]'' || [[David Gray (British musician)|David Gray]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Land (Land album)|LAND]]'' || [[Land (band)|Land]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stranger Than Fiction (Bad Religion album)|Stranger than Fiction]]'' || [[Bad Religion]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Sporting Life (album)|The Sporting Life]]'' ||[[Diamanda Galás]]
|-
| ''[[U.S.A. (Flatlinerz album)|U.S.A.]]'' || [[Flatlinerz]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|12
| ''[[Universal Mother]]'' || [[Sinéad O'Connor]] ||-
|-
| ''[[From the Cradle]]'' || [[Eric Clapton]] || Covers album
|-
| ''[[D.I. Go Pop]]'' || [[Disco Inferno (band)|Disco Inferno]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Disco 2]]'' || [[Pet Shop Boys]] || Remix album
|-
| ''[[The Shadowthrone]]'' || [[Satyricon (band)|Satyricon]] || Remix album
|-
| rowspan="11" style="text-align:center;"|13
| ''[[Autopilot (album)|Autopilot]]'' || [[The Samples]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Break of Dawn (Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock album)|Break of Dawn]]'' || [[Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Four (Blues Traveler album)|Four]]'' || [[Blues Traveler]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Friendly People]]'' || [[Guttermouth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[If I Were a Carpenter (tribute album)|If I Were A Carpenter]]'' || Various Artists || [[The Carpenters|Carpenters]] tribute
|-
| ''[[John Henry (album)|John Henry]]'' || [[They Might Be Giants]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ready to Die]]'' || [[The Notorious B.I.G.]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Red Hot + Country]]'' || Various Artists || Part of [[Red Hot Organization|Red Hot]] Benefit series
|-
| ''[[Release (Cop Shoot Cop album)|Release]]'' || [[Cop Shoot Cop]] ||- 
|-
| ''[[Terry McBride & the Ride]]'' || [[McBride & the Ride]] ||-
|-
| ''[[There's Nothing Wrong with Love]]'' || [[Built to Spill]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|19
| ''[[Dos Dedos Mis Amigos]]'' || [[Pop Will Eat Itself]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Kylie Minogue (album)|Kylie Minogue]]'' || [[Kylie Minogue]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Vs the Greatest of All Time]]'' || [[Archers of Loaf]] || EP
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[I See It Now]]'' || [[Tracy Lawrence]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Jamie Walters (album)|Jamie Walters]]'' || [[Jamie Walters]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Mighty Joe Moon]]'' || [[Grant Lee Buffalo]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Project Funk da World|Project: Funk da World]]'' || [[Craig Mack]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Whip-Smart]]'' || [[Liz Phair]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|23
| ''[[Atofio Hrysafi]]'' || [[Katy Garbi]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|25
| ''[[Dis Unu Fi Hear]]'' || [[Beenie Man]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Speak Squeak Creak]]'' || [[Melt-Banana]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|26
| ''[[In the Hot Seat]]'' || [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[My Iron Lung]]'' || [[Radiohead]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Protection (Massive Attack album)|Protection]]'' || [[Massive Attack]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Best Mixes from the Album Debut for All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels]]'' || [[Björk]] || Remix
|-
| ''[[Hot Trip to Heaven]]'' || [[Love and Rockets (band)|Love & Rockets]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Thug Life: Volume 1]]'' || [[Tupac Shakur|2Pac]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="19" style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''[[11 Tracks of Whack]]'' || [[Walter Becker]] ||-
|-
| ''[[American Thighs]]'' || [[Veruca Salt (band)|Veruca Salt]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Boomtown (Toby Keith album)|Boomtown]]'' || [[Toby Keith]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Brandy (album)|Brandy]]'' || [[Brandy (entertainer)|Brandy]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Chocolate and Cheese]]'' || [[Ween]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Deliverance (Corrosion of Conformity album)|Deliverance]]'' || [[Corrosion of Conformity]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Divine Intervention (Slayer album)|Divine Intervention]]'' || [[Slayer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Glory of Gershwin]]'' || [[Larry Adler]]/Various Artists || Gershwin tribute
|-
| ''[[The Great Subconscious Club]]'' || [[K's Choice]] ||-
|-
| ''[[I Love Everybody]]'' || [[Lyle Lovett]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Kermit Unpigged]]'' || [[The Muppets]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Monster (R.E.M. album)|Monster]]'' || [[R.E.M.]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Permanent Record: Al in the Box]]'' || [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] || Box Set
|-
| ''[[Pulp Fiction (soundtrack)|Pulp Fiction]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Ruby Vroom]]'' || [[Soul Coughing]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Shade Business]]'' || [[PMD (rapper)|PMD]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Songs (Luther Vandross album)|Songs]]'' || [[Luther Vandross]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Under the Table and Dreaming]]'' || [[Dave Matthews Band]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Waitin' on Sundown]]'' || [[Brooks & Dunn]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|30
| ''[[Greater Art]]'' || [[Lake of Tears]] ||-
|-
|}

===October–December===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="87" style="text-align:center; background:#ffa07a; textcolor:#000;" | '''O<br />C<br />T<br />O<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''[[Overdose (album)|Overdose]]'' || [[Pizzicato Five]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Purgatory Afterglow]]'' || [[Edge of Sanity]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|3
| ''[[No Need to Argue]]'' || [[The Cranberries]] || 7× Platinum (US); 5× Platinum (Canada/Europe)
|-
| rowspan="13" style="text-align:center;"|4
| ''[[Awake (Dream Theater album)|Awake]]'' || [[Dream Theater]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Christmas Spirit (Donna Summer album)|Christmas Spirit]]'' || [[Donna Summer]] || Christmas
|-
| ''[[Danzig 4]]'' || [[Danzig (band)|Danzig]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Death Row (album)|Death Row]]'' || [[Accept (band)|Accept]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Greatest Hits: The Platinum Collection]]'' || [[Barry Manilow]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[The Icon Is Love]]'' || [[Barry White]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Low (Testament album)|Low]]'' || [[Testament (band)|Testament]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lucacentric]]'' || [[Lucas Secon|Lucas]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath]]'' || Various Artists || [[Black Sabbath]] tribute
|-
| ''[[Night Music (Joe Jackson album)|Night Music]]'' || [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pisces Iscariot]]'' || [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] || Compilation of B-Sides/Unreleased material
|-
| ''[[Question the Answers]]'' || [[The Mighty Mighty Bosstones]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stones in the Road]]'' || [[Mary Chapin Carpenter]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|10
| ''[[Dog Man Star]]'' || [[Suede (band)|Suede]] ||-
|-
| ''[[King of the Kill]]'' || [[Annihilator (band)|Annihilator]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Cult (album)|The Cult]]'' || [[The Cult]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Música de Rua]]'' || [[Daniela Mercury]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Singin' with the Big Bands]]'' || [[Barry Manilow]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|11
| ''[[Bumpin' (Dis-n-Dat album)|Bumpin']]'' || [[Dis-n-Dat]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Clerks (soundtrack)|Clerks]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Colouz Uv Sound]]'' || [[Simple E]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Country 'til I Die]]'' || [[John Anderson (musician)|John Anderson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[D Generation (album)|D Generation]]'' || [[D Generation]] || -
|-
| ''[[Korn (album)|Korn]]'' || [[Korn]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Millennium (Front Line Assembly album)|Millennium]]'' || [[Front Line Assembly]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Orange (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album)|Orange]]'' || [[Jon Spencer Blues Explosion]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|14
| ''[[Renaissance: The Mix Collection]]'' || [[Sasha and Digweed]] || Mix album
|-
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|17
| ''[[Move Me (Nazareth album)|Move Me]]'' || [[Nazareth (band)|Nazareth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Return of the Space Cowboy]]'' || [[Jamiroquai]] || UK
|-
| ''[[Requiem (Bathory album)|Requiem]]'' || [[Bathory (band)|Bathory]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Steam (East 17 album)|Steam]]'' || [[East 17]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;"|18
| ''[[Blowout Comb]]'' || [[Digable Planets]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Cross Road (album)|Cross Road]]'' || [[Bon Jovi]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[The Diary (Scarface album)|The Diary]]'' || [[Scarface (rapper)|Scarface]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me]]'' || [[Gloria Estefan]] || Covers CD
|-
| ''[[Genocide & Juice]]'' || [[The Coup]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Law of the Jungle (album)|Law of the Jungle]]'' || Various artists || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Murder Was the Case]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Promised Land (Queensrÿche album)|Promised Land]]'' || [[Queensrÿche]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Return to the Valley of The Go-Go's]]'' || [[The Go-Go's]] || Compilation +3 new tracks
|-
| ''[[Scratch the Surface]]'' || [[Sick of It All]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stoner Witch]]'' || [[Melvins]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Trailer (album)|Trailer]]'' || [[Ash (band)|Ash]] || Mini Album
|-
| ''[[Word...Life]]'' || [[O.C. (rapper)|O.C.]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Worst Case Scenario (album)|Worst Case Scenario]]'' || [[Deus (band)|Deus]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|19
| ''[[Humanimal (album)|Humanimal Part 2]]'' || [[Talisman (band)|Talisman]] || EP
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[The Sea and Cake (album)|The Sea and Cake]]'' || [[The Sea and Cake]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|21
| ''[[Future Listening!]]'' || [[Towa Tei]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Love or Nothing]]'' || [[Miyuki Nakajima]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tears Laid in Earth]]'' || [[The Third and the Mortal|The 3rd and the Mortal]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|22
| ''Landscapes'' || [[Shun (band)|Shun]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Neulainen Jerkunen]]'' || [[Absoluuttinen Nollapiste]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|23
| ''[[Burn or Bury]]'' || [[Milk Cult]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="10" style="text-align:center;"|24
| ''[[At Action Park]]'' || [[Shellac (band)|Shellac]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Best of Chris Rea]]'' || [[Chris Rea]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Barangay Apo]]'' || [[Apo Hiking Society]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Firin' in Fouta]]'' || [[Baaba Maal]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Home (Deep Blue Something album)|Home]]'' || [[Deep Blue Something]] || RainMaker release
|-
| ''[[Mr. Moonlight (album)|Mr. Moonlight]]'' || [[Foreigner (band)|Foreigner]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Oyster (Heather Nova album)|Oyster]]'' || [[Heather Nova]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sacrifice (Gary Numan album)|Sacrifice]]'' || [[Gary Numan]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Starlite Walker]]'' || [[Silver Jews]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Toward the Within]]'' || [[Dead Can Dance]] || Live
|-
| rowspan="10" style="text-align:center;"|25
| ''[[Bedtime Stories (Madonna album)|Bedtime Stories]]'' || [[Madonna]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bright Red]]'' || [[Laurie Anderson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Geek the Girl]]'' || [[Lisa Germano]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hospital (album)|Hospital]]'' || [[Gary Young (drummer)|Gary Young]] || Solo Debut
|-
| ''[[Nervous Breakdown (Fu-Schnickens album)|Nervous Breakdown]]'' || [[Fu-Schnickens]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Resurrection (Common album)|Resurrection]]'' || [[Common (rapper)|Common Sense]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Time (Mercyful Fate album)|Time]]'' || [[Mercyful Fate]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Turbulent Indigo]]'' || [[Joni Mitchell]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Voodoo-U]]'' || [[Lords of Acid]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Wildhoney (Tiamat album)|Wildhoney]]'' || [[Tiamat (band)|Tiamat]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|26
|''[[Mother (Luna Sea album)|Mother]]'' || [[Luna Sea]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pokinatcha]]'' || [[MxPx]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Special Collectors Edition]]'' || [[Blur (band)|Blur]] || Compilation of B-Sides
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''Personligt'' || [[Carola Häggkvist]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|28
| ''[[Gang Affiliated]]'' || [[Gospel Gangstaz]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album)|Merry Christmas]]'' || [[Mariah Carey]] || Christmas songs
|-
| ''[[Same Old Tunes]]'' || [[Millencolin]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|31
| ''[[The Best of Sade]]'' || [[Sade (band)|Sade]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Thank You for the Music (album)|Thank You For The Music]]'' || [[ABBA]] || Europe; Box Set
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|?
| ''[[San Francisco (American Music Club album)|San Francisco]]'' || [[American Music Club]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="59" style="text-align:center; background:thistle; textcolor:#000;"| '''N<br />O<br />V<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''[[Amorica]]'' || [[The Black Crowes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Big Ones]]'' || [[Aerosmith]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[The Good, the Bad, and the Argyle]]'' || [[The Bouncing Souls]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Healing Hands of Time]]'' || [[Willie Nelson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Letters Never Sent]]'' || [[Carly Simon]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Love and Honor (album)|Love and Honor]]'' || [[Ricky Van Shelton]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Album: A Rock Adventure]]'' || [[Ron Wasserman]] ||-
|-
| ''[[MTV Unplugged in New York]]'' || [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Out in L.A.]]'' || [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] || Compilation 
|-
| ''[[Sixteen Stone]]'' || [[Bush (British band)|Bush]] || Debut; 6× Platinum
|-
| ''[[Wildflowers (Tom Petty album)|Wildflowers]]'' || [[Tom Petty]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Youthanasia]]'' || [[Megadeth]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|3
| ''[[Giant Robot (Buckethead album)|Giant Robot]]'' || [[Buckethead]] || -
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|4
| ''[[Psyche (album)|Psyche]]'' || [[Ant & Dec|PJ & Duncan]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|7
| ''[[No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded]]'' || [[Page and Plant]] ||Live
|-
| ''[[Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994]]'' || [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] || Compilation +2 new tracks
|-
| ''[[Amber (Autechre album)|Amber]]'' || [[Autechre]] ||<ref name="warp-amber">{{cite web|url=http://warp.net/records/releases/autechre/amber|work=[[Warp Records]]|title=Autechre: Amber|access-date=August 17, 2014|archive-date=August 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090520/http://warp.net/records/releases/autechre/amber|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[A Low Down Dirty Shame (soundtrack)|A Low Down Dirty Shame]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Athos (album)|Athos]]'' || [[Stephan Micus]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Endless Summer: Donna Summer's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Donna Summer]] || Compilation +2 new tracks
|-
| ''[[Hell Freezes Over]]'' || [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] || Live/Studio
|-
| ''[[Higher Power (Big Audio Dynamite album)|Higher Power]]'' || [[Big Audio Dynamite|Big Audio]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lookin' Back at Myself]]'' || [[Aaron Tippin]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lost in the Former West]]'' || [[The Fatima Mansions]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Main Ingredient (Pete Rock & CL Smooth album)|The Main Ingredient]]'' || [[Pete Rock & CL Smooth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World]]'' || [[Keith Murray (rapper)|Keith Murray]] ||-
|-
| ''[[None (Meshuggah EP)|None]]'' || [[Meshuggah]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Still Climbing (Cinderella album)|Still Climbing]]'' || [[Cinderella (band)|Cinderella]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Woodstock 94 (album)|Woodstock 94]]'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|14
| ''[[Bizarre Fruit]]'' || [[M People]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Under the Pink|More Pink: The B-Sides]]'' || [[Tori Amos]] || Australia/New Zealand
|-
| ''[[A Very Special Season]]'' || [[Diana Ross]] || Christmas
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|15
| ''[[Ass, Gas, or Cash (No One Rides for Free)]]'' || [[K-Dee]] ||-
|-
| ''[[CrazySexyCool]]'' || [[TLC (group)|TLC]] || Diamond status, 23 million+ copies sold
|-
| ''[[Duets II (Frank Sinatra album)|Duets II]]'' || [[Frank Sinatra]] ||-
|-
| ''Fate'' (with [[w:id:Utha Likumahuwa|Utha Likumahuwa]] crying-[[saxophone]] and [[w:id:Harvey Malaiholo|Harvey Malaiholo]] composer) || [[Andy Lau]] || [[w:zh:飛碟唱片|UFO Record]] Finale
|-
| ''[[Tical (album)|Tical]]'' || [[Method Man]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|21
| ''[[Bonsai Superstar]]'' || [[Brainiac (band)|Brainiac]]
|-
| ''[[Don't Ask]]'' || [[Tina Arena]] ||-
|-
| ''Now That's What I Call Music! 29'' || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Pulse (Megumi Hayashibara album)|Pulse]]'' || [[Megumi Hayashibara]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Songs of Distant Earth (album)|The Songs of Distant Earth]]'' || [[Mike Oldfield]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="9" style="text-align:center;"|22
| ''[[Behind Bars (Slick Rick album)|Behind Bars]]'' || [[Slick Rick]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Black Album (Prince album)|The Black Album]]'' || [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] || Recorded 1986–'87
|-
| ''[[Bootlegs & B-Sides]]'' || [[Ice Cube]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Box of Fire]]'' || [[Aerosmith]] || Box Set
|-
| ''[[Dare Iz a Darkside]]'' || [[Redman (rapper)|Redman]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Laura Pausini (1994 album)|Laura Pausini]]'' || [[Laura Pausini]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Miracles: The Holiday Album]]'' || [[Kenny G]] || Christmas Album
|-
| ''[[Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt]]'' || [[John Frusciante]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Vitalogy]]'' || [[Pearl Jam]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2"  style="text-align:center;"|25
| ''[[Blasphemy Made Flesh]]'' || [[Cryptopsy]] ||-
|-
| ''Manhole'' || [[Manhole (band)|Manhole]] || Debut album<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tyer |first=Brad |date=November 24, 1994 |title=Punk, but Not Stupid |url=https://www.houstonpress.com/music/punk-but-not-stupid-6572532?showFullText=true |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=[[Houston Press]] |language=en}}</ref> 
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|26
| ''[[Frost (album)|Frost]]'' || [[Enslaved (band)|Enslaved]] ||-
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|28
| ''[[Haunted Dancehall]]'' || [[The Sabres of Paradise]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|29
| ''[[The Impossible Bird]]'' || [[Nick Lowe]] ||-
|-
| ''[[My Life (Mary J. Blige album)|My Life]]'' || [[Mary J. Blige]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|30
| ''[[Live at the BBC (The Beatles album)|Live at the BBC]]'' || [[The Beatles]] || Recorded 1963–65
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|?
| ''[[Och du tände stjärnorna]]'' || [[Thorleifs]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="13" style="text-align:center; background:#98fb98; textcolor:#000;" |'''D<br />E<br />C<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| ''[[For all tid]]'' || [[Dimmu Borgir]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|5
| ''[[Second Coming (The Stone Roses album)|Second Coming]]'' || [[The Stone Roses]] || UK
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|6
| ''[[Ambushed (album)|Ambushed]]'' || [[Da Bush Babees]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Non-Fiction (Black Sheep album)|Non-Fiction]]'' || [[Black Sheep (group)|Black Sheep]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Sweetest Days]]'' || [[Vanessa Williams]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|12
| ''[[Fishing for Luckies]]'' || [[The Wildhearts]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rapid City Muscle Car]]'' || [[Cherry Poppin' Daddies]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|13
| ''[[The Hits (Garth Brooks album)|The Hits]]'' || [[Garth Brooks]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Interview with the Vampire (soundtrack)|Interview with the Vampire]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Maná en Vivo]]'' || [[Maná]] || Live
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|19
| ''[[Jimmy Eat World (1994 album)|Jimmy Eat World]]'' || [[Jimmy Eat World]] || Debut
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[Keep the Fire Burnin' (Dan Hartman album)|Keep the Fire Burnin']]'' || [[Dan Hartman]] || Compilation +2 new tracks
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|21
|''[[Heavy Metal Hippies]]''
|[[Loudness (band)|Loudness]]
| -
|-
|}

===Release date unknown===
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
* ''[[Acoustic (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album)|Acoustic]]'' - [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]]
* ''Another Thought'' - [[Arthur Russell]]
* ''[[Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (album)|Big Bad Voodoo Daddy]]'' –  [[Big Bad Voodoo Daddy]]
* ''[[Bjesovi (album)|Bjesovi]]'' – [[Bjesovi]]
* ''[[Blue Room (Unwritten Law album)|Blue Room]]'' – [[Unwritten Law]]
* ''[[The Church Within]]'' – [[The Obsessed]]
* ''[[Churn (Seven Mary Three album)|Churn]]'' – [[Seven Mary Three]]
* ''[[Clocking Out Is for Suckers]]'' – [[Drake Tungsten]] 
* ''[[Danzón (Dance On)]]'' – [[Arturo Sandoval]]
* ''[[Obaa Sima]]'' – Ata Kak
* ''[[Dial Hard]]'' – [[Gotthard (band)|Gotthard]]
* ''[[Gulfam (album)|Gulfam]]'' – [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]]
* ''[[Halo in a Haystack]]'' – [[Converge (band)|Converge]]
* ''[[Hellig Usvart]]'' – [[Horde (band)|Horde]]
* ''[[I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle]]'' – [[Portastatic]]
* ''[[Imagínate (Menudo album)|Imagínate]]'' – [[Menudo (group)|Menudo]]
* ''[[Ja još spavam u tvojoj majici]]'' – [[Ceca (singer)|Ceca]]
{{col-2}}
* ''[[K... jego mać]]'' – [[Sedes (band)|Sedes]]
* ''[[Mi Forma De Sentir]]'' – [[Pedro Fernández (singer)|Pedro Fernández]]
* ''[[Naghmet Hob]]'' – [[Najwa Karam]]
* ''[[Nek'af uzhas, nek'af at]]'' – [[Hipodil]]
* ''[[Old Stuff, Part Two]]'' – [[Anal Cunt]]
* ''[[Parallel Universe (4hero album)|Parallel Universe]]'' – [[4hero]]
* ''[[Patashnik]]'' – [[Biosphere (musician)|Biosphere]]
* ''[[Peter Frampton (album)|Peter Frampton]]'' – [[Peter Frampton]] 
* ''[[Puno't Dulo]]'' – [[The Dawn (band)|The Dawn]]
* ''[[Quick (album)|Quick]]'' – [[Far (band)|Far]]
* ''[[Safe Sex Designer Drugs & the Death of Rock 'N' Roll]]'' – [[Baby Chaos]]
* ''[[Soda Pop-Rip Off]]'' – [[Slant 6]]
* ''[[Spit Burger Lottery]]'' – [[Jimmie's Chicken Shack]]
* ''[[Television (Dr. John album)|Television]]'' - [[Dr. John]]
* ''[[Tortoise (album)|Tortoise]]'' - [[Tortoise (band)|Tortoise]]
* ''[[Unboxed (Free Kitten album)|Unboxed]]'' – [[Free Kitten]]
* ''[[Unknown Territory (Dick Dale album)|Unknown Territory]]'' – [[Dick Dale]]
* ''[[The Walls We Bounce Off Of]]'' - [[John Hartford]]
{{col-end}}

== Biggest hit singles ==
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tsort.info/music/yr1994.htm |title=Songs from the Year 1994 |website=Tsort.info |access-date=2016-07-23 |archive-date=July 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720162300/http://tsort.info/music/yr1994.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
in the charts of 1994.

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! # 
! Artist
! Title
! Year
! Country
! Chart entries
|-
| 1 || [[Bruce Springsteen]] || [[Streets of Philadelphia]] || 1994 || {{flagicon|US}} || Austria 1 – Apr 1994, Norway 1 – Feb 1994, Poland 1 – Feb 1994, Germany 1 – Mar 1994, Republic of Ireland 1 – Mar 1994, Oscar in 1993, UK 2 – Mar 1994, Switzerland 2 – Mar 1994, Italy 3 of 1994, France 4 – Feb 1994, Holland 6 – Feb 1994, RYM 6 of 1994, Sweden 7 – Feb 1994, US BB 9 of 1994, Europe 29 of the 1990s, US BB 30 of 1994, Australia 30 of 1994, US CashBox 49 of 1994, POP 63 of 1994, AFI 68, Germany 74 of the 1990s, WXPN 837
|-
| 2 || [[Bryan Adams]] & [[Rod Stewart]] & [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] || [[All for Love (song)|All For Love]] || 1994 || {{flagicon|Canada}} / {{flagicon|UK}} || US BB 1 of 1994, Sweden 1 – Dec 1993, Austria 1 – Feb 1994, Switzerland 1 – Jan 1994, Norway 1 – Jan 1994, Poland 1 – Dec 1993, Germany 1 – Jan 1994, Republic of Ireland 1 – Jan 1994, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Apr 1994, UK 2 – Jan 1994, Holland 3 – Jan 1994, US BB 9 of 1994, Italy 9 of 1994, Australia 10 of 1994, US CashBox 22 of 1994, POP 25 of 1994, Germany 87 of the 1990s
|-
| 3 || [[Rednex]] || [[Cotton Eye Joe (Rednex song)|Cotton-Eyed Joe]] || 1994 || {{flagicon|Sweden}} || UK 1 – Dec 1994, US BB 1 of 1995, Holland 1 – Aug 1994, Sweden 1 – Aug 1994, Austria 1 – Oct 1994, Switzerland 1 – Oct 1994, Norway 1 – Oct 1994, Germany 1 – Jan 1995, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Mar 1995, POP 1 of 1995, Germany 18 of the 1990s, US BB 25 of 1995, Australia 41 of 1995, Party 54 of 2007, Scrobulate 72 of party
|-
| 4 || [[All-4-One]] || [[I Swear]] || 1994 || {{flagicon|US}} || US BB 1 of 1994, Holland 1 – Jul 1994, Austria 1 – Aug 1994, Switzerland 1 – Jul 1994, Germany 1 – Jul 1994, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Jul 1994, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Nov 1994, UK 2 – Jun 1994, Norway 2 – Jul 1994, Australia 2 of 1994, US CashBox 3 of 1994, Sweden 3 – Aug 1994, US BB 7 of 1994, Poland 14 – Jul 1994, Germany 39 of the 1990s, OzNet 657
|-
| 5 || [[Mariah Carey]] || [[Without You (Badfinger song)#Mariah Carey version|Without You]] || 1994 || {{flagicon|US}} || UK 1 – Feb 1994, Holland 1 – Feb 1994, Sweden 1 – Feb 1994, Austria 1 – Apr 1994, Switzerland 1 – Apr 1994, Poland 1 – Feb 1994, Germany 1 – Mar 1994, Republic of Ireland 1 – Feb 1994, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Apr 1994, US BB 3 of 1994, Norway 3 – Mar 1994, US CashBox 15 of 1994, Australia 15 of 1994, Germany 25 of the 1990s, POP 37 of 1994
|}

==Top 40 Chart hit singles==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
! <big>Song title</big> 
! <big>Artist(s)</big> 
! <big>Release date(s)</big> 
! <big>[[Billboard Hot 100|US]]</big>
! <big>[[UK Singles Chart|UK]]</big>
! <big>Highest chart position</big>
! <big>Other Chart Performance(s)</big>
|-
||"[[100% Pure Love]]" || [[Crystal Waters]] || {{Date table sorting|041994}}|April 1994 || 11 || 15 || 2 (Australia) || [[100% Pure Love#Charts and certifications|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[21st Century (Digital Boy)]]" || [[Bad Religion]] || {{Date table sorting|001994}}|1994 || n/a || 41 || 1 (Hungary) || 11 (U.S. Billboard Alternative Airplay - Hungary [Single Top 40]) - 32 (Austria) - 41 (Germany)
|-
||"[[About a Girl (Nirvana song)|About a Girl (Unplugged)]]" || [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] || {{Date table sorting|011994}}|October 1994 || n/a || 185 || 1 (Iceland) || [[About a Girl (Nirvana song)#Chart positions|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[Absolutely Fabulous (song)|Absolutely Fabulous]]" || [[Pet Shop Boys]] || {{Date table sorting|061994}}|June 1994 || n/a || 6 || 2 (Australia, New Zealand) || [[Absolutely Fabulous (song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[All I Wanna Do (Sheryl Crow song)|All I Wanna Do]]" || [[Sheryl Crow]] || {{Date table sorting|041994}}|April 1994 || 2 || 4 || 1 (Australia, Canada) || [[All I Wanna Do (Sheryl Crow song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[All I Want for Christmas Is You]]" || [[Mariah Carey]] || {{Date table sorting|101994}}|October 1994 || 1 || 1 || 1 [[All I Want for Christmas Is You#Charts|(26 countries)]] || [[All I Want for Christmas Is You#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[Always (Bon Jovi song)|Always]]" || [[Bon Jovi]] || {{Date table sorting|091994}}|September 1994 || 4 || 2 || 1 [[Always (Bon Jovi song)#Charts|(6 countries)]] || [[Always (Bon Jovi song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[Always (Erasure song)|Always]]" || [[Erasure (duo)|Erasure]] || {{Date table sorting|041994}}|April 1994 || 20 || 4 || 1 (Israel, Lithuania) || [[Always (Erasure song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[Amor Prohibido (song)|Amor Prohibido]]" || [[Selena]] || {{Date table sorting|041994}}|April 1994 || n/a || n/a || 1 (Mexico) || [[Amor Prohibido (song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[An Angel]]" || [[The Kelly Family]] || {{Date table sorting|061994}}|June 1994 || n/a || 69 || 1 (Austria) || 2 (Austria, Switzerland) - 5 (Ireland) - 40 (Netherlands)
|-
||"[[Another Day (Whigfield song)|Another Day]]" || [[Whigfield]] || {{Date table sorting|081994}}|August 1994 || n/a || 7 || 3 (Denmark, Italy) || [[Another Day (Whigfield song)#Charts and certifications|See chart performance entry]]  
|-
||"[[Any Time, Any Place]]" || [[Janet Jackson]] || {{Date table sorting|051994}}|May 1994 || 2 || 13 || 2 (United States) ||
[[Any Time, Any Place#Charts and certifications|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[Anytime You Need a Friend]]" || [[Mariah Carey]] || {{Date table sorting|051994}}|May 1994 || 12 || 8 || 1 (Finland) ||
[[Anytime You Need a Friend#Charts and certifications|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[Around the World (East 17 song)|Around the World]]" || [[East 17]] || {{Date table sorting|051994}}|May 1994 || n/a || 3 || 1 (Israel) || [[Around the World (East 17 song)|See chart performance entry]]
|-
||"[[Away from Home]]" || [[Dr. Alban]] || {{Date table sorting|051994}}|May 1994 || n/a || 42 || 2 (Finland, Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) || [[Away from Home#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|}

===Other chart hit singles===
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
*"[[Baby, Come Back (The Equals song)|Baby, Come Back]]" – [[Pato Banton]] & [[UB40]]
*"[[Baby, I Love Your Way]]" – [[Big Mountain (band)|Big Mountain]] (#1 Denmark, Spain and Sweden)
*"[[Back & Forth (Aaliyah song)|Back & Forth]]" – [[Aaliyah]] (#5 US)
*"[[Be Happy (Mary J. Blige song)|Be Happy]]" – [[Mary J. Blige]]
*"[[Basket Case (song)|Basket Case]]" – [[Green Day]] (#3 Sweden, #7 UK)
*"[[Because of Love]]" – [[Janet Jackson]]
*"[[Bidi Bidi Bom Bom]]" – [[Selena]] (#8 Mexico)
*"[[Big Yellow Taxi]]" – [[Amy Grant]]
*"[[Black Hole Sun]]" – [[Soundgarden]] (#1 Iceland, #5 Canada)
*"[[Buddy Holly (song)|Buddy Holly]]" – [[Weezer]]
*"[[Bump n' Grind (R. Kelly song)|Bump n' Grind]]" – [[R. Kelly]]
*"[[Can You Feel the Love Tonight]]" – [[Elton John]]
*"[[Carry Me Home (Gloworm song)|Carry Me Home]]" - [[Gloworm]] 
*"[[Chains (Tina Arena song)|Chains]]" – [[Tina Arena]] (#4 Australia, #6 UK)
*"[[Cigarettes & Alcohol]]" – [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]
*"[[Circle of Life]]" – [[Elton John]]
*"[[Closer (Nine Inch Nails song)|Closer]]" – [[Nine Inch Nails]] (#3 Australia)
*"[[Come On You Reds]]" – The Manchester United Football Squad (#1 UK and Denmark)
*"[[Cornflake Girl]]" – [[Tori Amos]]
*"[[Confide in Me]]" – [[Kylie Minogue]]
*"[[Cotton-Eyed Joe]]" – [[Rednex]]
*"[[Crazy (Aerosmith)|Crazy]]" – [[Aerosmith]]
*"[[C.R.E.A.M.]]" – [[Wu-Tang Clan]]
*"[[Creep (TLC song)|Creep]]" – [[TLC (band)|TLC]]
*"[[Dedicated to the One I Love]]" – [[Bitty McLean]]
*"Dimension Divertida" – Paco Pil (#1 Spain)
*"[[Dissident (song)|Dissident]]" – [[Pearl Jam]]
*"[[Donde Quiera Que Estés]]" – [[Barrio Boyzz]] & [[Selena]]
*"[[Don't Follow]]" – [[Alice in Chains]]
*"[[Don't Turn Around]]" – [[Ace of Base]]
*"[[Doop (song)|Doop]]" – [[Doop (band)|Doop]]
*"[[Do You Wanna Get Funky]]" - [[C+C Music Factory]]
*"[[Dreams (The Cranberries song)|Dreams]]" – [[The Cranberries]]
*"[[Dreams (Will Come Alive)]]" – [[2 Brothers on the 4th Floor]]
*"[[Dromen zijn bedrog]]" – [[Marco Borsato]] (#1 Netherlands)
*"[[Drop Dead Beautiful (song)|Drop Dead Beautiful]]" – Six Was Nine (#1 in South Africa, #3 in Iceland)
*"[[Dry County (song)|Dry County]]" – [[Bon Jovi]]
*"[[Eins, Zwei, Polizei]]" – [[Mo-Do]] (#1 Austria, Germany and Italy)
*"[[Endless Love (song)|Endless Love]]" – [[Luther Vandross]] and [[Mariah Carey]]
*"[[Everybody (DJ BoBo song)|Everybody]]" – [[DJ BoBo]]
*"[[Everybody Gonfi-Gon]]" – [[2 Cowboys]]
*"[[Everybody on the Floor (Pump It)]]" – [[Tokyo Ghetto Pussy]]
*"[[Everyday (Phil Collins song)|Everyday]]" – [[Phil Collins]]
*"[[Everything Changes (Take That song)|Everything Changes]]" – [[Take That]]
*"[[Fade into You]]" – [[Mazzy Star]]
*"[[Fantastic Voyage (Coolio song)|Fantastic Voyage]]" – [[Coolio]]
*"[[Feel the Heat of the Night]]" – [[Masterboy]]
*"[[Feeling So Real]]" – [[Moby]]
*"[[Flava In Ya Ear]]" – [[Craig Mack]]
*"[[Flying High (Captain Hollywood Project song)|Flying High]]" – [[Captain Hollywood Project]] (#3 Europe)
*"[[Forever Young (Alphaville song)|Forever Young]]" - [[Interactive (band)|Interactive]]
*"[[Found Out About You]]" – [[Gin Blossoms]] (#3 Canada)
*"[[Fotos y Recuerdos]]" – [[Selena]]
*"[[Foule sentimentale]]" – [[Alain Souchon]] (#1 France)
*"[[Funkdafied]]" – [[Da Brat]]
*"[[Games People Play (Joe South song)|Games People Play]]" – [[Inner Circle (reggae band)|Inner Circle]] (#4 New Zealand, #7 Sweden and Switzerland)
*"[[Gin & Juice]]" – [[Snoop Dogg|Snoop Doggy Dogg]]
*"[[Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon]]" - [[Urge Overkill]]
*"[[Girls & Boys (Blur song)|Girls & Boys]]" – [[Blur (band)|Blur]]
*"[[Give Me All Your Love (Magic Affair song)|Give Me All Your Love]]" – [[Magic Affair]] (#3 Finland, #4 Denmark)
*"[[Gotta Get Away (The Offspring song)|Gotta Get Away]]" – [[The Offspring]]
*"[[Happy Nation (song)|Happy Nation]]" – [[Ace of Base]] (#1 Denmark, Finland, France, Israel)
*"[[Here Comes the Hotstepper]]" – [[Ini Kamoze]] (#1 New Zealand and US)
*"[[Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)]]" - [[Cyndi Lauper]]
*"Hold On" - [[Jamie Walters]] (#2 Sweden, #3 Norway)
*"[[Hyper Hyper]]" – [[Scooter (band)|Scooter]] (#1 Spain, #2 Austria and Germany)
*"[[I Alone]]" – [[Live (band)|Live]]
*"[[I Like to Move It]]" – [[Reel 2 Real]]
*"[[I Show You Secrets]]" – [[Pharao (band)|Pharao]] (#3 Finland, #5 Austria)
*"[[I Stay Away]]" – [[Alice in Chains]]
*"[[I Wanna Be Down]]" – [[Brandy Norwood|Brandy]]
*"[[If I Only Knew (song)|If I Only Knew]]" - [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]]
*"[[I'll Make Love to You]]" – [[Boyz II Men]]
*"[[I'll Remember]]" – [[Madonna]]
*"[[I'll Stand by You]]" – [[The Pretenders]]
*"[[I'll Take You There]]" - [[General Public]] 
*"[[I Love Saturday]]" - [[Erasure (duo)|Erasure]]
*"[[In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)|In Your Room]]" – [[Depeche Mode]]
*"[[Infected (song)|Infected]]" – [[Bad Religion]]
*"[[Inside (Stiltskin song)|Inside]]" – [[Stiltskin]]
*"[[Inside Your Dreams]]" – [[U96]] (#1 Finland, #9 Switzerland)
*"[[Interstate Love Song]]" – [[Stone Temple Pilots]] (#2 Iceland)
*"[[Is This the Love]]" – [[Masterboy]]
*"It Takes Me Away" – [[Marusha]] (#3 Germany)
*"[[It's Alright (East 17 song)|It's Alright]]" – [[East 17]] (#1 Australia, Ireland and Israel)
*"[[It's a Rainy Day]]" – [[Ice MC]]
*"I Will Survive (La La La)" - [[Hermes House Band]]
*"[[Je danse le Mia]]" – [[IAM (band)|IAM]]
*"[[Jessie (Joshua Kadison song)|Jessie]]" – [[Joshua Kadison]]
*"[[Juicy (The Notorious B.I.G. song)|Juicy]]" – [[Notorious B.I.G.]]
*"[[La solitudine]]" – [[Laura Pausini]] (#1 Belgium, Italy and Netherlands)
*"[[Let the Beat Control Your Body]]" – [[2 Unlimited]]
*"[[Let the Beat Go On]]" – [[Dr. Alban]]
*"[[Let the Dream Come True]]" – [[DJ BoBo]]
*"[[Live Forever (Oasis song)|Live Forever]]" – [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]
*"[[Living in Danger]]" – [[Ace of Base]]
*"[[Longview (song)|Longview]]" – [[Green Day]]
*"[[Look Who's Talking (song)|Look Who's Talking]]" – [[Dr Alban]]
*"[[Loser (Beck song)|Loser]]" – [[Beck]] 
*"[[Lost in America (Alice Cooper song)|Lost in America]]" – [[Alice Cooper]]
*"[[Love Ain't Here Anymore]]" – [[Take That]]
*"[[Love Is All Around (The Troggs song)|Love Is All Around]]" – [[Wet Wet Wet]] (#1 UK)
*"[[Love Is Strong]]" – [[Rolling Stones]]
*"[[Love Religion]]" – [[U96]]
*"[[Love Song (Mark 'Oh song)|Love Song]]" – [[Mark 'Oh]] (#5 Germany, #8 Switzerland)
*"[[Love Spreads]]" – [[The Stone Roses]]
*"[[Lucky One (Amy Grant song)|Lucky One]]" – [[Amy Grant]]
*"[[Mädchen (song)|Mädchen]]" – [[Lucilectric]]
*"Mamá Yo Quiero" - King África
*"[[Mary Jane's Last Dance]]" – [[Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers]] (#5 Canada)
*"[[Mass Appeal (song)|Mass Appeal]]" – [[Gangstarr]]
*"[[(Meet) The Flintstones]]" – [[The B-52's]]
*"[[Mishale]]" - [[Andru Donalds]]
*"[[Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm]]" – [[Crash Test Dummies]]
*"[[The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Prince song)|The Most Beautiful Girl in the World]]" – [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]
*"[[Move It Up]]" – [[Cappella (Eurodance group)|Cappella]] (#6 Finland, Netherlands)
*"[[Move on Baby]]" – [[Cappella (Eurodance group)|Cappella]] (#1 Europe)
*"[[Mr. Jones (Counting Crows song)|Mr. Jones]]" – [[Counting Crows]]  (#1 Canada)
*"[[Never Lie]]" – [[IMx|Immature]] (#5 US)
*"[[No Excuses (Alice in Chains song)|No Excuses]]" – [[Alice in Chains]]
*"[[No Good (Start the Dance)]]" – [[The Prodigy]] (#1 Finland, Greece)
*"[[No More (I Can't Stand It)]]" – [[Maxx (band)|Maxx]]
*"[[No Me Queda Mas]]" – [[Selena]]
*"[[No One (2 Unlimited song)|No One]]" – [[2 Unlimited]]
*"[[Now and Forever (Richard Marx song)|Now and Forever]]" – [[Richard Marx]] (#6 Canada, #7 US)
*"[[Omen III (song)|Omen III]]" – [[Magic Affair]]
*"[[On Bended Knee]]" – [[Boyz II Men]]
*"[[Only One Road]]" – [[Celine Dion]]
*"Penso Positivo" – [[Jovanotti]] (#2 Italy)
*"[[Please Come Home for Christmas]]" - [[Bon Jovi]]
*"[[The Real Thing (2 Unlimited song)|The Real Thing]]" – [[2 Unlimited]]
*"[[The Real Thing (Tony Di Bart song)|The Real Thing]]" – [[Tony Di Bart]]
*"[[Regulate (song)|Regulate]]" – [[Warren G]] & [[Nate Dogg]]
*"[[Renaissance (M People song)|Renaissance]]" - [[M People]]
*"[[Return to Innocence]]" – [[Enigma (German band)|Enigma]] (#1 Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Zimbabwe, #2 Denmark, #3 UK)
*"[[The Ride (Basic Element song)|The Ride]]" – [[Basic Element (music group)|Basic Element]]
*"[[Right Beside You (Sophie B. Hawkins song)|Right Beside You]]" – [[Sophie B. Hawkins]] (#7 Canada, #8 Switzerland)
*"[[Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through]]" - [[Meat Loaf]]
*"[[Rock My Heart]]" – [[Haddaway]] (#1 Israel, #4 Finland)
*"[[Rocks (song)|Rocks]]" - [[Primal Scream]]
*"[[Run Away (Real McCoy song)|Run Away]]" – [[Real McCoy]] (#3 US, #4 Australia, Finland, #5 Zimbabwe)
*"[[Run to the Sun]]" – [[Erasure (duo)|Erasure]]
*"[[Sabotage (Beastie Boys song)|Sabotage]]" – [[Beastie Boys]]
*"[[Saturday Night (Whigfield song)|Saturday Night]]" – [[Whigfield]]
*"[[Secret (Madonna song)|Secret]]" – [[Madonna]]
*"[[Seether (song)|Seether]]" – [[Veruca Salt (band)|Veruca Salt]]
*"[[Self Esteem (song)|Self Esteem]]" – [[The Offspring]] (#1 Iceland, Norway, Sweden, #3 Finland)
*"[[Sensualité]]" – [[Axelle Red]] (#2 France, #6 Belgium)
*"[[Set the World on Fire (E-Type song)|Set the World on Fire]]" – [[E-Type (musician)|E-Type]]
*"[[7 Seconds (song)|Seven Seconds]]" – [[Neneh Cherry]] & [[Youssou N'dour]] (#1 Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland)
*"[[Shine (Aswad song)|Shine]]" – [[Aswad (band)|Aswad]] (#4 Iceland, #5 UK)
*"[[Shine (Collective Soul song)|Shine]]" – [[Collective Soul]]
*"[[Short Dick Man]]" – [[20 Fingers]] & [[Gillette (singer)|Gillette]] (#1 France, Italy)
*"[[Si Una Vez]]" – [[Selena]]
*"[[Sight for Sore Eyes]]" - [[M People]]
*"[[The Sign (song)|The Sign]]" – [[Ace of Base]]
*"[[Sleeping in My Car]]" – [[Roxette]]
*"[[Somewhere Over the Rainbow]]" – [[Marusha]]
*"[[Spin the Black Circle]]" – [[Pearl Jam]]
*"[[Spoonman]]" – [[Soundgarden]]
*"[[Stay Another Day]]" – [[East 17]]
*"[[Stay (I Missed You)]]" – [[Lisa Loeb]]
*"[[Stay Together (Suede song)|Stay Together]]" – [[Suede (band)|Suede]]
*"[[Strani amori]]" – [[Laura Pausini]]
*"[[Streets of Philadelphia]]" – [[Bruce Springsteen]]
*"[[Strong Enough (Sheryl Crow song)|Strong Enough]]" – [[Sheryl Crow]]
*"[[Sukiyaki (song)|Sukiyaki]]" – [[4 P.M. (group)|4 P.M.]] (#3 Australia, #8 US)
*"[[Summer in the City (song)|Summer in the City]]" – [[Joe Cocker]]
*"[[Supernova (Liz Phair song)|Supernova]]" – [[Liz Phair]]
*"[[Supersonic (Oasis song)|Supersonic]]" – [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]
*"[[Sure (Take That song)|Sure]]" – [[Take That]]
*"[[Sure Shot]]" – [[Beastie Boys]]
*"[[Swamp Thing (The Grid song)|Swamp Thing]]" – [[The Grid]]
*"[[Sweet Dreams (La Bouche song)|Sweet Dreams]]" – [[La Bouche]] (#1 Europe)
*"[[Sweets for My Sweet]]" – [[C. J. Lewis]] (#3 UK)
*"[[Take a Bow (Madonna song)|Take a Bow]]" – [[Madonna]]
*"[[Tears Don't Lie]]" – [[Mark 'Oh]]
*"[[Techno Cumbia]]" – [[Selena]]
*"[[There is a Star]]" – [[Pharao (band)|Pharao]]
*"[[Things Can Only Get Better (D:Ream song)|Things Can Only Get Better]]" – [[D Ream]]
*"[[Think About the Way]]" – [[Ice MC]]
*"[[Think Twice (Celine Dion song)|Think Twice]]" – [[Celine Dion]]
*"[[This D.J.]]" – [[Warren G]]
*"[[This Is the Way (E-Type song)|This Is the Way]]" – [[E-Type (musician)|E-Type]]
*"[[Thuggish Ruggish Bone]]" – [[Bone Thugs-N-Harmony]]
*"Touch" – [[Basic Element (music group)|Basic Element]] (#3 Sweden, #7 Finland, #9 Denmark)
*"[[Trouble (Shampoo song)|Trouble]] " – [[Shampoo (band)|Shampoo]]
*"[[Turn the Beat Around]]" – [[Gloria Estefan]]
*"[[Twist and Shout]]" – [[Chaka Demus & Pliers]]
*"[[U & Me]]" – [[Cappella (Eurodance group)|Cappella]]
*"U R the Best Thing (Perfecto Remix)" - [[D:Ream]]
*"[[Undone - The Sweater Song]]" – [[Weezer]]
*"[[United (Prince Ital Joe and Marky Mark song)|United]]" – [[Prince Ital Joe]] & [[Marky Mark]]
*"[[What's My Name? (Snoop Doggy Dogg song)|What's My Name]]" – [[Snoop Dogg|Snoop Doggy Dogg]]
*"[[Welcome to Paradise]]" – [[Green Day]]
*"[[Welcome to Tomorrow (Are You Ready?)]]" – [[Snap!]] (#1 Finland, #4 Belgium, #6 UK)
*"[[What's Up? (4 Non Blondes song)|What's up]]" – [[DJ Miko]]
*"[[What's the Frequency, Kenneth?]]" – [[R.E.M.]]
*"[[Whatta Man]]" – [[Salt-n-Pepa]] & [[En Vogue]]
*"[[When I Come Around]]" – [[Green Day]]
*"[[When We Dance]]" - [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]
*"[[Gyöngyhajú lány|White Dove]]" - [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]]
*"[[Wild Night]]" – [[John Mellencamp]] & [[Me'shell Ndegeocello]]
*"[[Without You (Badfinger song)|Without You]]" – [[Mariah Carey]]
*"[[Yesterday, When I Was Mad]]" - [[Pet Shop Boys]]
*"[[You Don't Know How It Feels]]" - [[Tom Petty]]
*"[[You Mean the World to Me (Toni Braxton song)|You Mean the World to Me]]" - [[Toni Braxton]]
*"[[You Want This]]" – [[Janet Jackson]]
*"[[Zombie (The Cranberries song)|Zombie]]" – [[The Cranberries]]
}}

==Notable singles==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
! <big>Song title</big> 
! <big>Artist(s)</big> 
! <big>Release date(s)</big> 
! <big>Other Chart Performance(s)</big>
|-
|"[[In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)|In Your Room]]" || [[Depeche Mode]] || {{Date table sorting|011994}}|January 1994 || [[In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)#Charts|See chart performance entry]]
|}

===Other Notable singles===
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
*"In the Neighbourhood" - [[Sisters Underground]]
}}

== Top ten best albums of the year ==
All albums have been named albums of the year for their hits in the charts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1994 |title=Best albums of 1994 |publisher=besteveralbums |year=2005 |access-date=December 31, 2011 |archive-date=August 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814172229/http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1994 |url-status=live }}</ref>

# [[TLC (group)|TLC]] – ''[[CrazySexyCool]]''
# [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] – ''[[Definitely Maybe]]''
# [[Weezer]] – ''[[Weezer (1994 album)|Weezer]]''
# [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]] – ''[[Dummy (album)|Dummy]]''
# [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] – ''[[MTV Unplugged In New York]]''
# [[Green Day]] – ''[[Dookie (album)|Dookie]]''
# [[Nas]] – ''[[Illmatic]]''
# [[Blur (band)|Blur]] – ''[[Parklife]]''
# [[Soundgarden]] – ''[[Superunknown]]''
# [[Nine Inch Nails]] – ''[[The Downward Spiral]]''

== Classical music ==
* [[Thomas Beveridge]] – ''Yizkor Requiem''
* [[George Crumb]] – ''Quest'' for guitar, soprano saxophone, harp, double bass, and percussion (two players)
* [[Richard Danielpour]] – Cello Concerto
* [[Mario Davidovsky]] – ''Festino'' for guitar, viola, violoncello, contrabass
* [[Peter Maxwell Davies]] – [[Symphony No. 5 (Davies)|Symphony No. 5]]
* [[David Diamond (composer)|David Diamond]] – Trio for violin, clarinet and piano<ref>{{cite web|title=Review of Trio by David Diamond|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/oct00/verderh3.htm|date=October 2000|access-date=March 17, 2009|last=Barnett|first=Rob|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804005504/http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/oct00/verderh3.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Lorenzo Ferrero]]
**''Paesaggio con figura'' for small orchestra
**''Portrait'' for string quartet
* [[Osvaldo Golijov]] – ''The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind''
* [[Vagn Holmboe]] – Symphony No. 13, M.362 (begun 1993)
* [[Guus Janssen]] – ''Klotz'', for violin, hi-hat and small ensemble
* [[Karl Jenkins]] – ''[[Adiemus (song)|Adiemus]]: Songs of Sanctuary''
* [[Wojciech Kilar]] – ''Reign Over Us, Christ'', for voice and piano
* [[Oliver Knussen]] – Horn Concerto
* [[György Kurtág]] – ''[[Stele (Kurtág)|Stele]]''
* [[Morten Lauridsen]] – ''[[O magnum mysterium (Lauridsen)|O magnum mysterium]]''<ref>{{cite web| url = https://music.usc.edu/mortenlauridsen/celebrating-morten-lauridsen-o-magnum-mysterium/| title = Celebrating Morten Lauridsen – "O Magnum Mysterium"| publisher = USC [[Thornton School of Music]]| access-date = 9 April 2023| archive-date = April 9, 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230409101838/https://music.usc.edu/mortenlauridsen/celebrating-morten-lauridsen-o-magnum-mysterium/| url-status = live}}</ref>
* [[Frederik Magle]] – Concerto for organ and orchestra ''The Infinite Second''
* [[Thea Musgrave]] – ''Journey through a Japanese Landscape,'' for marimba and wind
* [[Tristan Murail]] – ''L'esprit des dunes''
* [[Michael Nyman]] – Concerto for Trombone
* [[Einojuhani Rautavaara]] – Symphony No. 7 ''Angel of Light''
* [[Steve Reich]]
** [[City Life (Reich)|City Life]]
** ''Bagoya Marimbas''
* [[Robert Simpson (composer)|Robert Simpson]] – String Quintet No. 2 (1991–94)
* [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] – ''[[Freitag aus Licht#Individual works from Freitag|Weltraum]]'' (electronic music from ''[[Freitag aus Licht]]'')
* [[Boris Tishchenko]] – Symphony No. 7
* [[Charles Wuorinen]]
** ''Lightenings VIII'', for soprano and piano
** Piano Quintet
** ''Christes Crosse'', for soprano and piano
** Percussion Quartet
** ''Guitar Variations''
** ''Windfall,'' for wind ensemble

== Opera ==
* [[Peter Maxwell Davies]] – ''[[The Doctor of Myddfai]]''
* [[Jonathan Dove]] – ''[[Siren Song (Dove)|Siren Song]]''
* [[Vivian Fine]] – ''Memoirs of Uliana Rooney''
* [[Adam Guettel]] – ''Floyd Collins''
* [[Nicholas Lens]] – ''[[The Accacha Chronicles]] Trilogy: [[Flamma Flamma|Flamma Flamma – The Fire Requiem]]''
* [[Tobias Picker]] – ''[[Emmeline (opera)|Emmeline]],'' libretto by [[JD McClatchy]]
* [[Alice Shields]] – ''Apocalypse''
* [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] – ''[[Freitag aus Licht]]'' (completed; not staged until 1996)

== Jazz ==
{{Main|1994 in jazz}}

== Musical theater ==
* ''[[Beauty and the Beast (theatrical production)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' – Broadway production opened at the [[Palace Theatre (New York City)|Palace Theatre]] and ran for 5461 performances
* ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'' ([[Richard Rodgers|Rodgers]] & [[Oscar Hammerstein II|Hammerstein]]) – Broadway revival
* ''[[Damn Yankees]]'' ([[Richard Adler]] and [[Jerry Ross (composer)|Jerry Ross]]) – Broadway revival
* ''[[Grease (musical)|Grease]]'' – Broadway revival
* ''[[Show Boat]]'' ([[Jerome Kern]] and Oscar Hammerstein II) – Broadway revival
* ''[[Sunset Boulevard (musical)|Sunset Boulevard]]'' ([[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]) – Broadway production opened at the [[Minskoff Theatre]] and ran for 977 performances

== Musical films ==
* ''[[Aag Aur Chingari]]''
* ''[[Andaz (1994 film)|Andaz]]'', with music by [[Bappi Lahiri]]
* ''[[Airheads]]''
* ''[[Backbeat (film)|Backbeat]]''
* ''[[Chaand Kaa Tukdaa]]'', starring [[Sridevi]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Chaand Kaa Tukdaa - Synopsis |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-details/chaand-kaa-tukdaa/movieshow/61321760.cms |access-date=2 July 2020 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=19 August 1994 |archive-date=December 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201143914/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-details/chaand-kaa-tukdaa/movieshow/61321760.cms |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Fear of a Black Hat]]''
* ''[[Gandugali]]'', with music by [[Sadhu Kokila]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mio.to//album/Gandugali+%281994%29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029201557/http://mio.to/album/Gandugali+(1994)|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 29, 2014|title=Gandugali (1994) – Sadhu Kokila|website=Mio.to}}</ref>
* ''[[Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies]]''
* ''[[Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!]]'', with music by [[Raamlaxman]]<ref name=bb>{{cite web | url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=350 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630112621/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=350 | archive-date=30 June 2013 | title=The Biggest Blockbusters Ever In Hindi Cinema | website=Box Office India| access-date=28 April 2013}}</ref>
* ''[[Immortal Beloved (1994 film)|Immortal Beloved]]'', biopic of [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]
* ''[[The Lion King]]'' – animated feature film with songs by [[Elton John]] and [[Tim Rice]]
* ''[[Carl, My Childhood Symphony|Min fynske barndom]]'', biopic of composer [[Carl Nielsen]]<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Sundholm|author2=Isak Thorsen|author3=Lars Gustaf Andersson|title=Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ae4QqlUDt9wC&pg=PA106|date=31 August 2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5524-3|pages=106|access-date=August 28, 2020|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804005505/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ae4QqlUDt9wC&pg=PA106|url-status=live}}</ref> 
* ''[[Sukham Sukhakaram]]'', with music by [[Ravindra Jain]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.malayalachalachithram.com/movie.php?i=2758|title=Sukham Sukhakaram|access-date=2014-10-01|website=Malayalachalachithram.com|archive-date=July 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723083717/https://www.malayalachalachithram.com/movie.php?i=2758|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' – animated feature film
* ''[[That's Entertainment!]] III''
* ''[[Thumbelina (1994 film)|Thumbelina]]'' – animated feature film.

== Births ==
*[[January 6]] – [[Catriona Gray]], Australian model, presenter, singer and beauty queen
*[[January 8]] – [[Tanika Anderson]], Australian actress, singer and performer ([[Hi-5 (Australian group)|Hi-5]])
*[[January 13]] – [[Asta (musician)|Asta]], Australian singer-songwriter
*[[January 14]] – [[Kai (entertainer, born 1994)|Kai]], Korean singer and dancer ([[Exo (group)|EXO]])
*[[January 18]]
**[[Minzy]], South Korean singer, rapper and dancer<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ|title=K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution|last=Russell|first=Mark|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|year=2014|isbn=978-1-4629-1411-1|page=77|access-date=October 3, 2016|archive-date=May 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527064350/https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
**[[Kang Ji-young|Jiyoung]], South Korean singer and actress<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Russell|title=K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution|page=94|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ|date=29 April 2014|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|isbn=978-1-4629-1411-1}}</ref>
*[[January 23]] – [[Vera Blue]], Australian indie singer-songwriter
*[[January 28]] – [[Maluma (singer)|Maluma]], Colombian singer and rapper
*[[February 1]]
**[[Skylar Laine]], American singer-songwriter
**[[Harry Styles]], British musician, singer-songwriter, activist, (pop singer of boy band [[One Direction]]) (worked with Taylor Swift, Mabel, Stevie Nicks, Kacey Musgraves)
*[[February 3]] – [[Orla Gartland]], Irish singer, songwriter and YouTuber (member of band [[Fizz]]) 
*[[February 8]] – [[Nikki Yanofsky]], Canadian singer
*[[February 10]] – [[Kang Seul-gi|Seulgi]], Korean singer and dancer ([[Red Velvet (group)|Red Velvet]])
*[[February 14]]
**[[Paul Butcher (actor)|Paul Butcher]], American actor and singer
**[[Becky Hill]], English singer and songwriter
*[[February 16]] 
**[[Ava Max]], American singer-songwriter
**[[Shae (singer)|Shae]], Indonesian actress and singer
*[[February 17]] – [[Angie Miller (American singer)|Angie Miller]], American singer-songwriter and pianist
*[[February 18]] – [[J-Hope]], South Korean rapper, songwriter, dancer and record producer, member of [[BTS]]
*[[February 21]] – [[Wendy (singer)|Wendy]], Korean singer ([[Red Velvet (group)|Red Velvet]])
*[[February 22]] – [[Rachael Leahcar]], (Italian) Australian multi lingual singer-songwriter, musician, performer, writer, runner, composer, and runner composer (''The Voice'' (Australia)) (team and toured with [[Delta Goodrem]])
*[[February 23]] – [[Little Simz]],  English rapper, singer and actress
*[[February 24]] – [[Earl Sweatshirt]], American rapper
*[[February 28]] – [[Jake Bugg]], English singer-songwriter and musician
*[[March 1]] – [[Justin Bieber]], Canadian singer
*[[March 3]] - [[Sam Asghari]], Iranian-American actor, dancer, fitness guru, businessman, business owner and model (Formerly married & muse to [[Britney Spears]])
*[[March 10]] – [[Bad Bunny]],  Puerto Rican Latin trap and reggaeton singer.
*[[March 11]] – [[Jace Chan]], Hong Kong singer and actress
*[[March 12]] – [[Christina Grimmie]], American singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, actress and YouTuber (d. 2016)
*[[March 14]] – [[Ansel Elgort]], American actor, singer and DJ 
*[[March 15]] – Lynn Gunn, American musician ([[PVRIS]]) 
*[[March 16]] 
** [[Connie Glynn]], English author, YouTuber, former influencer, and member of snaggletooth, a "Very haunted" band. (Former name of blog: Noodlerella, worked with [[Evan Edinger]] & [[Dodie]]) 
** [[Camilo (singer)|Camilo]], Colombian singer, musician and songwriter. (Married to [[Evaluna Montaner]]) 
*[[March 17]] – [[Amber Holcomb]], American singer
*[[March 19]] – [[Fletcher (singer)|Fletcher]], American actress, singer, and songwriter.
*[[March 20]] – [[R'Bonney Gabriel]], American model, fashion designer and beauty pageant
*[[March 22]] – [[Dax (rapper)|Dax]], Canadian rapper
*[[March 28]]
**[[Dreezy]], American hip hop recording artist, rapper, musician
**Catherine and Lizzy [[Ward Thomas (band)|Ward Thomas]], twin English country-pop musicians
**[[Jackson Wang]], Hong Kong rapper 
*[[March 29]] – [[Sulli]], singer and actress (d. 2019)<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Russell|title=K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ|date=April 29, 2014|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|isbn=978-1-4629-1411-1|access-date=November 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527064350/https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ|archive-date=May 27, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[April 1]] – [[Ella Eyre]], English singer-songwriter
*[[April 4]] – [[Risako Sugaya]], Japanese singer
*[[April 9]] – [[Bladee]], Swedish rapper, singer, songwriter, fashion designer and member of the musical group [[Drain Gang]].
*[[April 11]] – [[Duncan Laurence]], Dutch singer-songwriter, winner of [[Eurovision Song Contest 2019]]
*[[April 12]]
**[[Airi Suzuki]], Japanese singer
**[[Oh Se-hun|Sehun]], Korean singer, rapper and actor ([[Exo (group)|EXO]])<ref name="tena_EXO-">{{Cite web | title = EXO-K: My name is 카이, 세훈 | trans-title = EXO-K: My name is Kai, Sehun | author = Hwang Hyo-jin | work = TenAsia | date = May 1, 2012 | access-date = July 4, 2016 | url = http://tenasia.hankyung.com/archives/14268 | language = ko | archive-date = August 17, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160817230614/http://tenasia.hankyung.com/archives/14268 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
*[[April 18]] – [[Aminé (rapper)|Aminé]], American rapper, singer and songwriter
*[[April 24]] – [[Jordan Fisher]], American singer, dancer and actor
*[[April 25]]
**[[Sam Fender]], English actor, singer-songwriter, musician and activist
**[[Maggie Rogers]], American singer-songwriter and record producer
*[[April 26]] - [[Michael Pollack (musician)|Michael Pollack]],  American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
*[[May 1]] - [[Kacy Hill]], American singer-songwriter, producer and former model 
*[[May 5]] – [[Celeste (singer)|Celeste]], American-born British singer
*[[May 7]] - [[Laurel (musician)]]. British musician
*[[May 11]] - Howard Lawrence of EDM House garage band, [[Disclosure (band)|Disclosure]]
*[[May 17]] – [[Julie Anne San Jose]], Filipina actress, singer, television personality
*[[May 24]] – [[Dimash Kudaibergen]], Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
*[[May 25]] - 
** [[Royal & the Serpent]], American singer and songwriter
** [[Nathan Dawe]], English DJ and producer (Annie-Marie, Little Mix, Ella Henderson) 
*[[May 28]] – [[Alec Benjamin]], American musician
*[[May 30]] - [[Madeon]], French musician, DJ, songwriter, singer and music producer
*[[May 31]] - [[Lil Aaron]], American rapper, singer and songwriter 
*[[June 4]] – [[Olivia Somerlyn]], known as LIVVIA, American pop singer-songwriter
*[[June 14]] – [[Scarlxrd]], British rapper and songwriter
*[[June 18]] – [[Takeoff (rapper)|Takeoff]], American rapper ([[Migos]]) (d. 2022)
* [[June 22]] - [[Louta (musician)]],  Argentine performing musician, producer, songwriter, and disc-jockey
*[[June 25]] - [[Egor Kreed]], Russian rapper
*[[June 27]] - [[Malinda Kathleen Reese]], American stage actress, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter, comedian, YouTuber, and activist (Founder, Leader, Creator of Twisted Translations/ Google Translate Sings / Translator Fails)
*[[July 4]] 
** [[Era Istrefi]], Kosovar singer
** [[Amaarae]], A Ghanaian-American pop, afrobeat, alte, R&B singer 
*[[July 5]] – [[Sơn Tùng M-TP]], Vietnamese singer-songwriter
*[[July 7]]
**[[Ashton Irwin]], Australian drummer and singer-songwriter ([[5 Seconds of Summer]])
*[[July 9]] - [[SG Lewis]],  English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer ([[Tove Lo]])
*[[July 10]] – [[Angel Haze]], American rapper and singer
*[[July 11]] – [[Nina Nesbitt]], Scottish singer-songwriter, model, and musician
*[[July 14]] - [[Bibi Bourelly]], German-American singer-songwriter 
*[[July 17]] – [[Kali Uchis]],  Colombian-American singer-songwriter, record producer, music video director, and fashion designer
*[[July 31]] – [[Lil Uzi Vert]], American rapper, singer, songwriter
*[[August 2]] – [[Jacob Collier]], British musician, singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist
*[[August 8]] – [[Lauv]] (Ari Leff), American singer-songwriter and record producer
*[[August 9]] – [[King Von]], American rapper (d. 2020)
*[[August 11]] – [[Alejandro Aranda]], American singer
*[[August 16]] – [[Áine Cahill]], Irish singer-songwriter
*[[August 17]] – [[Phoebe Bridgers]], American indie rock singer-songwriter, musician and artist<ref>{{Cite web|title=Phoebe Lucille Bridgers, Born 08/17/1994 in Orange County, California|url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/phoebe_lucille_bridgers_born_1994_22745290|access-date=October 14, 2020|website=[[California Birth Index]]|archive-date=October 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016170819/https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/phoebe_lucille_bridgers_born_1994_22745290|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[August 18]] – [[Bobby Andonov]], Australian singer-songwriter and actor
*[[August 22]] – [[Jimilian]], Danish singer
*[[August 28]] – [[Felix Jaehn]], German/Dutch DJ and record producer
*[[August 29]] - [[Courtney Stodden]], American media personality, model and singer
*[[August 30]] – [[Kwon So-hyun]], South Korean actress and singer<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Russell|title=K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution|page=85|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ|date=29 April 2014|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|isbn=978-1-4629-1411-1}}</ref> 
*[[August 31]] - [[MoStack]] British Rapper and Singer (worked with: [[Anne-Marie]]) 
*[[September 1]] – [[Bianca Ryan]], American singer
*[[September 12]] – [[RM (rapper)|RM]], South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer, member of [[BTS]]
*[[September 17]]
**[[Taylor Ware]], American singer and yodeler
**[[Chen Yihan]], Chinese pianist and composer
*[[September 22]]
**[[Emily Burns]], English musician and singer-songwriter
**[[G Flip]], Australian singer-songwriter, producer, musician, drummer and activist 
*[[September 23]] – [[Zolita]], American singer-songwriter, director, photographer and activist
*[[September 28]] – [[Trevor Daniel (singer)|Trevor Daniel]], American singer-songwriter
*[[September 29]] – [[Halsey (singer)|Halsey]], American singer-songwriter, artist and activist<ref>{{cite news |date=October 15, 2017 |first=Bobby |last=Olivier |url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2017/10/halsey_concert_review_2017_hopeless_nj_prudential.html |title=N.J. pop star Halsey was magnetic in her largest home-state concert yet |website=NJ.com|access-date=October 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015191104/http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2017/10/halsey_concert_review_2017_hopeless_nj_prudential.html |archive-date=October 15, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[October 1]] – [[Alfredo Olivas]], Mexican singer 
*[[October 2]] – [[Shekhinah (singer)|Shekhinah]], South African singer-songwriter
*[[October 4]] – [[Sarah Aarons]], Australian singer, songwriter, musician
*[[October 15]] – [[Sebastián Yatra]], Colombian singer
*[[October 24]] – [[Krystal Jung]], American-South Korean singer<ref>{{cite web|title=The birth of Chrystal Jung|url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/chrystal_soo_jung_born_1994_23001837|website=[[California Birth Index]]|access-date=December 26, 2020|archive-date=December 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202235227/https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/chrystal_soo_jung_born_1994_23001837|url-status=live}}</ref> (member of [[Boygenius]]) 
*[[October 15]] – [[Lil' Kleine]], Dutch musician
*[[October 30]] - [[Maro (Portuguese singer)]], Portuguese singer and songwriter
*[[November 3]] – [[Ella Mai]], English singer and songwriter
*[[November 4]] – [[Keshi (singer)|keshi]], American singer
*[[November 6]] – [[Speaker Knockerz]], American rapper and record producer (d. 2014)
*[[November 7]] – [[Haruna Iikubo]], Japanese actress and singer ([[Morning Musume]])
*[[November 8]] – [[Lauren Alaina]], American country music singer, songwriter and actress
*[[November 9]] – [[MNEK]], British singer-songwriter and record producer
*[[November 24]] – [[Reece Mastin]], winner of ''The X Factor'' (Australia), rock-soul-blues singer-songwriter, and musician (English born, Australian)
*[[November 26]] – [[Emma Portner]], American dancer and choreographer
*[[November 28]] – [[Bonnie Anderson (singer)|Bonnie Anderson]], Australian singer-songwriter
*[[December 2]] – [[Laura Les]], American music producer and singer-songwriter ([[100 gecs]])
*[[December 13]] – [[Ibeyi]] (Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz), twin French singer-songwriters
*[[December 18]] – [[Slowthai]], British rapper{{citation needed|date=August 2025}}  
*[[December 19]]
**[[Michele Bravi]], Italian singer
**[[Nathan Evans (singer)|Nathan Evans]], Scottish musician
*[[December 21]] – [[Thelma Plum]], Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist and musician
*''unknown date'' – [[Ny Oh]], Britih-born New Zealand folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ludlow, Naomi, 1994– |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/39413242 |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
*[[January 4]] – [[R. D. Burman]], music director, 54<ref>{{cite book|title=Manorama Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KuptAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Manorama Publishing House|page=92|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804010019/https://books.google.com/books?id=KuptAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[January 6]] – [[Harold Sumberg]], violinist, 88
*[[January 15]]
** [[Harry Nilsson]], singer, songwriter, 52 (heart attack)<ref>{{cite book|author=Talevski, Nick|page=464,465 |year=2006|title=Knocking on Heaven's Door: Rock Obituaries|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=1846090911}}</ref>
** [[Georges Cziffra]], pianist, 72<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Gillespie|author2=Anna Gillespie|title=Notable Twentieth-century Pianists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rB8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-29695-6|page=194|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804010007/https://books.google.com/books?id=rB8KAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[January 22]] – [[Rhett Forrester]], American singer-songwriter, 37 (shot)
*[[January 25]] – [[Mary Bertha Rawlinson|Bertha Rawlinson]], New Zealand opera singer, composer and music teacher, 83
*[[January 30]] – [[Rudolf Schwarz (conductor)|Rudolf Schwarz]], conductor, 88
*[[February 5]] – [[Tiana Lemnitz]], operatic soprano, 96
*[[February 7]] – [[Witold Lutosławski]], composer, 81
*[[February 8]] – [[Raymond Scott]], composer and bandleader, 85
*[[February 19]] – [[Micho Russell]], Irish tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore, 79
*[[February 22]] – [[Papa John Creach]], blues violinist, 76<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/23/obituaries/papa-john-creach-a-violinist-versed-in-pop-dies-at-76.html "Papa John Creach, A Violinist Versed In Pop, Dies at 76"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016020013/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/23/obituaries/papa-john-creach-a-violinist-versed-in-pop-dies-at-76.html |date=October 16, 2017 }} ''[[New York Times]]'' (February 23, 1994)</ref>
*[[February 24]]
**[[Jean Sablon]], French singer, 87
**[[Dinah Shore]], singer, actress, 77<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJoHAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-0254-0|page=160|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804010008/https://books.google.com/books?id=yJoHAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[March 3]] – [[Karel Kryl]], Czech folk singer, 49<ref>{{cite book|author=Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences|title=SVU Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kiMoAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences|page=15|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=August 4, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804010008/https://books.google.com/books?id=kiMoAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[March 6]] – [[Yvonne Fair]], African-American singer, 51
*[[March 13]] – [[Danny Barker]], jazz musician and composer, 85
*[[March 16]] – [[Nicolas Flagello]], composer, 66<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/17/obituaries/nicolas-flagello-66-american-composer.html|website=The New York Times|title=Nicolas Flagello, 66, American Composer|date=March 17, 1994|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404181851/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/17/obituaries/nicolas-flagello-66-american-composer.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[March 18]] – [[Ephraim Lewis]], soul and R&B singer, 26
*[[March 22]] – [[Dan Hartman]], singer, 42 (brain tumour)
*[[March 23]] – [[Donald Swann]], pianist, composer and entertainer ([[Flanders and Swann]]), 70
*[[April 5]]
**[[Rowland Greenberg]], Norwegian jazz trumpeter, 73
**[[Kurt Cobain]], singer & guitarist ([[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]), 27 (self-inflicted shotgun wound)
*[[April 7]] – [[Lee Brilleaux]], British R&B singer ([[Dr. Feelgood (band)|Dr. Feelgood]]), 41 (cancer)
*[[April 19]] – [[Larry Davis (blues musician)|Larry Davis]], blues singer and guitarist, 57
*[[May 23]] – [[Joe Pass]], jazz guitarist, 65 (liver cancer)
*[[May 25]] – [[Eric Gale]], jazz guitarist, 55 (lung cancer)
*[[May 26]] – [[Sonny Sharrock]], jazz guitarist, 53
*[[May 27]] – [[Red Rodney]], bop trumpeter, 66
*[[May 29]] – [[Oliver Jackson (musician)|Oliver Jackson]], jazz drummer, 61
*[[May 31]]
**[[Uzay Heparı]], Turkish composer, music producer, songwriter and actor, 24 (motorcycle accident)
**[[Herva Nelli]], operatic soprano, 85
*[[June 4]]
**Derek Leckenby, guitarist ([[Herman's Hermits]]), 51
**[[Earle Warren]], saxophonist, 79
*[[June 11]] – [[Robert Beadell]], composer, 68
*[[June 14]] – [[Henry Mancini]], composer, 70
*[[June 15]] – [[Manos Hadjidakis]], composer, 68
*[[June 16]] – [[Kristen Pfaff]], bass guitarist ([[Hole (band)|Hole]]), 27 (heroin overdose)
*[[June 25]]
**[[Kin Vassy]], songwriter, performer, co-lead singer and guitarist of [[The First Edition (band)|The First Edition]] 1969–72 (lung cancer), 50
**[[DJ Train]], producer (smoke inhalation)
*[[June 29]] – [[Kurt Eichhorn]], conductor, 85
*[[July 2]] – [[Marion Williams]], gospel singer, 66
*[[July 31]] – [[Anne Shelton (singer)|Anne Shelton]], British singer, 70
*[[August 6]] – [[Domenico Modugno]], Italian singer and songwriter, 66
*[[September 2]] – [[Roy Castle]], musician and all-round entertainer, 62 (lung cancer)
*[[September 3]] – [[Major Lance]], R&B singer, 55
*[[September 6]]
**[[Nicky Hopkins]], session musician, keyboardist, 50 (complications from intestinal surgery)
**[[Max Kaminsky (musician)|Max Kaminsky]], jazz trumpeter and bandleader, 85
*[[September 7]] – [[Eric Crozier]], librettist, 79
*[[September 13]] – [[John Stevens (drummer)|John Stevens]], jazz musician
*[[September 20]] – [[Jule Styne]], songwriter, 88
*[[September 24]] – [[Urmas Alender]], singer, 40 (drowned in [[MS Estonia]] sinking)
*[[September 29]] – [[Cheb Hasni]], Algerian Raj musician, 26 (murdered)
*[[October 4]] – [[Danny Gatton]], guitarist, 49
*[[October 19]] – [[Martha Raye]], singer and comedian, 88
*[[October 22]]
**[[Jimmy Miller]], record producer, 52
**[[Shlomo Carlebach (musician)|Shlomo Carlebach]], Jewish songwriter
*[[October 26]] – [[Wilbert Harrison]], R&B singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player, 65
*[[October 27]] – [[Robert White (guitarist)|Robert White]], Motown session guitarist, 57
*[[October 31]]
**[[Lester Sill]], record executive, 76
**[[Erling Stordahl]], Norwegian singer, 71
*[[November 4]] – [[Fred "Sonic" Smith]], MC5 guitarist, 46 (heart attack)
*[[November 7]] – [[Shorty Rogers]], jazz trumpeter, 70
*[[November 11]] – [[Elizabeth Maconchy]], composer, 87
*[[November 18]] – [[Cab Calloway]], jazz and scat singer, 86
*[[November 21]] – [[Juancho Rois]], Colombian [[vallenato]] musician, accordionist, and composer, 35 (plane crash)
*[[November 28]] – [[Vic Legley]], Belgian violist and composer of French birth, 79
*[[December 8]] – [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]], bossa nova composer and songwriter, 67
*[[December 10]] – [[Garnett Silk]], reggae singer, 28 (house fire)
*[[December 23]] - [[Dan Hamilton (musician)|Dan Hamilton]], singer ([[Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds]]), 48

== Awards ==
* The following artists are inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]: [[John Lennon]], [[Elton John]], [[Grateful Dead]], [[The Band]], [[Bob Marley]], [[Duane Eddy]], [[Rod Stewart]], and [[The Animals]]
* Inductees of the [[Gospel Music Association|GMA]] [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]] include [[Tennessee Ernie Ford]]

=== Filmfare Awards ===
* [[Kumar Sanu]] – [[Filmfare Best Male Playback Award]]
* [[Filmfare Best Music Director Awards]] – [[Rahul Dev Burman]]

=== Grammy Awards ===
* [[36th Annual Grammy Awards]]

=== Country Music Association Awards ===
* [[1994 Country Music Association Awards]]

=== Eurovision Song Contest ===
* [[Eurovision Song Contest 1994]]

=== Mercury Music Prize ===
* ''[[Elegant Slumming]]'' – [[M People]] wins.

=== Juno Award ===
* ''[[Rascalz]]'' – [[Juno Award]] Best rap album

==Charts==
* [[List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1994]]
* [[1994 in British music#Charts]]
* [[List of Oricon number-one singles of 1994]]

===KROQ===
* [[KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns|KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1994]]

===Triple J Hottest 100===
* [[Triple J Hottest 100, 1994]]

==See also==
* [[1994 in British music]]
* [[:Category:Record labels established in 1994|Record labels established in 1994]]

==References==
===Citations===
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