20th January

Celine Dion is playing at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

On their The Getaway World Tour The Red Hot Chili Peppers play at The Scottrade Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Candlebox play at The Plug, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe, supported by Pete RG.

Joo Chan x So Yoon release a new single, No One Like You on Woollim Entertainment in South Korea, Asia.

On the Asian Leg of their WorldWired tour, Metallica play at AsiaWorld-Arena, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, Asia.

Incognito play the fourth of five nights at Blue Note, Milan, Italy, Europe.

Bret Michaels plays at The Heroes Ball, a Donald Trump Inaugural event, in The Warner Theater, Washington DC, USA. The hall is all but empty.

Kings Of Leon play at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA.

Tom Paxton plays at Buxton Opera House, Buxton, England, UK.

When Justin Bieber is asked by TMZ if he enjoys The Weeknd's music, he responds, ""Hell nah. That s**t's wack!" His opinion is thought to be somewhat influenced by the fact that his former girlfriend Selena Gomez is now dating The Weeknd.

Dashboard Confessional play at Irving Plaza, New York City, USA.

Glenn Hughes begins a British tour at The Riverside, Newcastle, England, UK, Europe.

Lukas Graham play at The Orpheum Theater, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Mastering engineer Sean Magee of Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, tweets that he has "cut a record for Elastica," a 90s Britpop group which has not worked together in twenty years. Rumours begin spreading that the group has re-formed.

Ronald 'Bingo' Mundy, tenor vocalist of The Marcels dies of pneumonia, aged 76, at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Mundy was a founder-member of the hit-making group with his high school friends in 1959.

Herman's Hermits and Peter Noone play at B.B. King's Blues Club, New York City, USA.

Twenty One Pilots play at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

Audioslave, the supergroup featuring Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and members of Rage Against The Machine, reunites onstage for the first time in nearly twelve years at the Anti-Inaugural Ball concert in The Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles, California, USA. The event is headlined by Prophets of Rage and also features performances by Jackson Browne, Vic Mensa, Jack Black and the Los Angeles Freedom Choir.

As Barack Obama's Presidency of the USA comes to an end, several music stars say their farewells. Rihanna posts a picture of Obama to Instagram along with the caption "worst break-up ever". Kendrick Lamar tweets "We really gonna miss you champ. The good you've done and opportunity’s you've given. Truly never know what we got til its gone. Thank u". One Republic write, "Goodbye Pres. Obama, thx for the service - u finally get to sleep in - SOAK IT UP!!" Lizzo describes Obama's departure as her "first heartbreak",and Bebe Rexha says, "You have a good heart".

Cage The Elephant play at The O2 Academy, Brixton, London, England, UK, Europe.

Austra (real name Katie Stelmanis) releases a new album, Future Politics, on Domino Records.

Following his inauguration in Washington DC, USA, Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America, dances his first dance as President with his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, to the song My Way, popularised in 1969 by Frank Sinatra.