![]() ![]() ![]() The single is a worldwide hit, peaking at #2 on US Billboard Hot 100 and becoming her first single to enter the charts at #1 in the UK. February 23 – " Frozen", the first single from Madonna's eighth studio album, Ray of Light, is released.February 21 – Misia makes her official CD debut with the single " Tsutsumikomu Yō ni.".February 19 – The Stray Cats reunite for a benefit show for the Carl Perkins Foundation at House of Blues in Los Angeles, USA.February 15 – Sir Edward Elgar's unfinished Third Symphony, completed by Anthony Payne, is performed for the first time at the Royal Festival Hall, London, UK.Former Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford publicly reveals his homosexuality for the first time in an interview with MTV.Subbulakshmi becomes the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award. January 31 – The Presidents of the United States of America play a farewell show in their hometown of Seattle.Namie Amuro's first greatest hits album, 181920, is released.At the same time, he grows out his hair and shaves off his moustache, radically changing his signature look. "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia.The business move is widely criticized in the media as "payola", but the controversy serves to further increase publicity for the band. Interscope Records pays a radio station in Portland, Oregon, USA, $5000 to play the Limp Bizkit single " Counterfeit" fifty times.This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998. ![]()
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