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On their The E.N.D. World Tour, The Black Eyed Peas play at the T In The Park Festival, Balado, Kinross, Scotland, UK.
On their Circle Tour, Bon Jovi play at New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, supported by Train, Gavin DeGraw, OneRepublic and Kid Rock.
Jon Bon Jovi tears a calf muscle during a concert at New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, but manages to complete the set, including an encore of Livin' On A Prayer.
All Ends, Amy's Ashes, Degraded, DevilDriver, Grand Magus, Jorn, Meshuggah, 
Carlos Santana proposes to his drummer, Cindy Blackman, onstage during a concert at the Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Cindy accepts.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner rules that Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University student ordered to pay $675,000 for copyright infringement, need only pay one tenth of that fine. The judge states that the fine was "unconstitutionally excessive." . Tenenbaum had downloaded and shared music files to millions of people by uploading the files onto P2P networks including Napster and Limewire.
Half-year figures for 2010 published by 
It is reported that, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the single track download market in the USA dropped by 0.2% to 597.4m units in the first half of the year.
Echo And The Bunnymen, Eminem, Faithless, Julian Casablancas, Mumford And Sons, Newton Faulkner, Paolo Nutini, The Prodigy, Thirty Seconds to Mars and We Are Scientists play in The Oxegen Festival, Punchestown Racecourse, Naas, Ireland, Europe.
Rihanna, Ke$ha and Travie McCoy play at The Verizon Arena, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
The three-day-long Marlbourgh Jazz Festival 2010 begins in Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK. Acts appearing over the three days of the event include The Birmingham Blues Friends, featuring Steve "Big Man" Clayton, Led Bib, The Red Stripe Band, Teddy White's Pignose, The Kit Downes Trio, Lemongrove, Gabby Young, The Shez Raja Collective, YolanDa Brown and her Trio, The Eduardo Niebla Trio, The Jive Aces, Bulawayo, Chimanimani, The Filthy Six, Umdumo Wesizwe, New Tricks, The Beats and Pieces Big Band, and The Charlotte Glasson Quintet.
Justin Timberlake goes out jogging in the West Village, New York City, USA, wearing a Grateful Dead t-shirt.
Cheryl Cole, suffering from malaria contracted while holidaying in Tanzania, Africa, is discharged from intensive care at University College, London, England, UK, and transfers to a private clinic.
US financial magazine Forbes reports that Jay-Z is the world's wealthiest rapper with an estimated income of $35m during the past year.
Mumford And Sons and Laura Marling play at the month-long iTunes festival in The Roundhouse Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.
The Ornette Coleman Quartet, Norah Jones, The Pat Metheny Group, Tower Of Power, Marcus Miller, Earth Wind And Fire, Corinne Bailey Rae and others play on the first day of the three-day-long North Sea Jazz festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Europe.
Joan Jett and Hole play at LeBreton Flats, Ottawa, Canada.
Deftones, Gossip, Hurts, Jet, The Manic Street Preachers, Mão Morta, Skunk Anansie, The Bloody Beetroots, The Gossip and The Maccabees play on the second of three days of the Optimus Alive 2010 festival, Passeio Marítimo de Algés, Oeiras, Portugal, Europe.
Pete Doherty is photographed while out enjoying the sunshine in Paris, France, Europe, with friends. The photgraphs cause quite a stir because the night before, Doherty had cancelled a solo gig at the Theatre De Verdure De Nice, in Nice, France, claiming that he had been admitted to hospital.
During his 
China's Ministry of Culture issues a notice listing 68 online music sites which have violated the ministry's regulations and failed to obtain the necessary operating license. Before the end of the month, more than twenty of the sites listed will close down.
The Sonisphere '10 festival, a two-day event, begins at Getafe Open Air, Madrid, Spain, Europe. Artists appearing on this, the first day include Faith No More, Slayer, Saxon, W.A.S.P., Porcupine Tree and Bullet For My Valentine.
Following protests from the Cyprus Action Network of America, Jennifer Lopez cancels an upcoming politically-sensitive concert at the opening of the Cratos Premium Hotel in Cyprus, Europe. Her action will provoke threats of a $40 million lawsuit from the hotel management.