This is a summary of the year 2024 in British music.

Events

January

• 1 January – BBC One sees in the New Year with the concert Rick Astley Rocks New Year's Eve. Rick Astley is joined by various guests, including Rylan Clark with whom he performs a rendition of the Dead of Alive track "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)".^[1]
• 3 January – Data from the British Phonographic Industry shows that female artists enjoyed a record year in the UK Singles Chart, with female artists or groups topping the charts for 31 of 52 weeks, the most since the charts began in 1952.^[2]
• 5 January – Indie rock band The Last Dinner Party are named the BBC Sound of 2024.^[3]
• 6 January – Music researcher Colin Jagger launches an appeal to find the whereabouts of the original score of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited, which was sold in 1915 and is believed to be lost.^[4]
• 7 January – At the 75th Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Foy Vance and Ed Sheeran win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for "A Beautiful Game", written for the final episode of the TV series Ted Lasso.^[5]
• 8 January – Roger Daltrey announces he will step down as curator of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust gigs held at the Royal Albert Hall following the 2024 events.^[6]
• 10 January – Stevie Spring is appointed Chair of the PRS for Music Board, succeeding Stephen Davidson, who will relinquish the role officially at the organisations' AGM.^[7]
• 11 January – Royal Mail issues a set of 15 stamps featuring the Spice Girls to celebrate their 30th anniversary, the first time a set of UK stamps have been dedicated to a female pop group.^[8]
• 22 January – Birmingham Royal Ballet announces simultaneously the departure of Koen Kessels as its music director on 30 June 2024, and the appointment of Paul Murphy as its next music director, effective 1 July 2024.^[9]
• 24 January –
  • Research published by the Music Venues Trust highlights the number of live music venues closing due to financial pressure, with 125 abandoning live music in 2023, half of those closing completely.^[10]
  • Raye is nominated for seven Brit Awards, setting a new record for the most number of nominations received by a single artist.^[11]
• 31 January – The rock band Nothing but Thieves play an exclusive gig for Radio X listeners at London's O2 Forum Kentish Town.^[12]

March

• 2 March – The 2024 Brit Awards are scheduled to take place at London's O2 Arena.^[13]

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Bands reformed

Classical works

• Jonathan Dove – Togetherness (for string quartet)^[14]
• Gavin Higgins – Horn Concerto^[15]
• Dani Howard – Ascent^[16]

New operas

British music awards

Charts and sales

Number-one singles

The singles chart includes a proportion for streaming.

Number-one albums

The albums chart includes a proportion for streaming.

Number-one compilation albums

The albums chart includes a proportion for streaming.

Deaths

• 4 January – David Soul, 80, American-born actor (Starsky & Hutch, Here Come the Brides) and singer ("Don't Give Up on Us").^[29]
• 5 January – Del Palmer, 71, English singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, and sound engineer.^[30]
• 7 January – Tony Clarkin, 77, English guitarist and songwriter (Magnum).^[31]
• 11 January – Annie Nightingale, 83, English radio DJ and television broadcaster^[32]
• 16 January – Laurie Johnson, 96, English composer and bandleader.^[33]
• 18 January – Ivan Moody, 59, British classical composer and musicologist.^[34]