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Adele's Rolling In The Deep becomes the biggest-selling digital song of all time by a woman in the USA - and the second-biggest overall. With 99,000 copies sold in the week ending February 26, Rolling In The Deep's cumulative sales rise to 6.68m, overtaking Lady Gaga's Poker Face [6.62m].
Kylie Minogue arrives at Sydney Airport, Sydney, Australia, Oceania, to begin preparations for her upcoming Mardi Gras performance.
Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen become the first two recipients of PEN New England's Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The awards are presented by Paul Simon.
Seventeen year old African-American teenager Trayvon Martin is shot dead by community watch member George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, USA. Zimmerman claims to have shot Martin in self-defence but there is no hard evidence to support the claim. Zimmerman will eventually be charged and tried on charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter, but a jury will acquit him in July 2013. Trayvon's death will be memorialised in the 2012 song Everybody's Son by Unitas Quick, based on a poem by Saira Viola.
Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye featuring Kimbra is the current No1 Single in the UK.
It is reported that tickets for Madonna's upcoming concert at Türk Telekom Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, Europe, scheduled to take place on June 7, are already nearly sold out just two days after going on sale.
Attack Attack! play at The Chance, Poughkeepsie, New York State, USA.
Part Of Me by Katy Perry is the current No1 single in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA.
The Static Jacks play at The Roadhouse, Manchester, UK.
On their Made In Germany tour, Rammstein play at The O2, Dublin, Ireland.
The Drums play at the O2 Academy, Liverpool, UK.
On their Fallen Empires tour, Snow Patrol play at The Mitsubishi Electric Halle, Dusseldorf, Germany, Europe.