January 10 – Pakistani singer-songwriter Jawad Ahmad releases a protest song, ""Kisana", on social media, drawing attention to a farmers' protest movement in India and Pakistan.[1]
March 18 – Mumbai-based composer Joseph Conrad Mendoza is accused of borrowing the music and lyrics for his song "We Can Achieve" from "Count on me, Singapore", a national song composed by Hugh Harrison in 1986. Singapore's Ministry of Culture, holders of the copyright on the song, dispute Mendoza's claim that he wrote the song in the early 1980s and lost the original tapes in a flood.[2]
May 2 – The BBC selects Chinese-born percussionist Fang Zhang as the BBC Young Musician of 2020.[3]
June – Iwan Fals wins the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 Telkomsel Awards. Other award winners include Tulus, Raisa and Noah.[4]
^"キュウソネコカミ、ミニアルバム "モルモットラボ" 全曲トレーラーを公開" [Kyuso Nekokami releases trailer for all songs of mini album "Mormot Lab"]. Barks (in Japanese). January 1, 2021. Retrieved February 7, 2021.