title: 2021 in European music
text: # 2021 in European music
  
  This article covers events in 2021 in continental European music, arranged in geographical order.
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1 January – The Vienna Philharmonic's annual Neujahrskonzert, conducted by Riccardo Muti, takes place without a live audience for the first time in the history of the concert, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  * 4 January – Dutch National Opera and Ballet announces that Stijn Schoonderwoerd will be its new general director (algemeen directeur), effective from 1 February.
  
  ## Scandinavia
  
  ### Top hits
  
  * Danish number-one hits of 2021
  * Finnish number-one singles of 2021, Finnish number-one albums of 2021
  * Norwegian number-one songs in 2020
  * Swedish number-one singles and albums in 2021
  
  ## Netherlands
  
  * Dutch number-one singles of 2021
  
  ## Germany
  
  * German number-one hits of 2021
  
  ## Switzerland and Austria
  
  * Swiss number-one hits of 2021
  
  ## France
  
  * French number-one hits of 2021
  
  ## Italy
  
  * Italian number-one hits of 2021
  
  ## Eastern Europe/ Balkans
  
  * List of Polish number-one singles of 2021
  * Czech number-one songs of the 2020s
  * Hungarian number-one singles of the 2020s
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1 January
     * Carlos do Carmo, 81, Portuguese fado singer
     * Jan Vering, 65, German gospel singer
  * 3 January – Tasso Adamopoulos, 76, Greek-French violist and pedagogue (from COVID-19)
  * 4 January – Alexi Laiho, 41, Finnish death metal singer and guitarist (Children of Bodom) (death announced on this date)
  * 10 January – Thorleif Torstensson, 71, Swedish dansband singer, guitarist and saxophonist (Thorleifs) (COVID-19)
  * 16 January – Pave Maijanen, 70, Finnish rock keyboardist (Hurriganes, Dingo)
  