Events 4–5 January – The 39th Golden Disc Awards are held in Fukuoka, Japan, to recognise achievements in South Korean music. Winners included Aespa and Seventeen. 16 January – The PPMF 2024 Ryan Cayabyab Awards ceremony is held at the BGC Arts Center in Manila. The award honors two OPM icons: recipients are singers Celeste Legaspi and Odette Quesada. 19 January – The annual Wish 107.5 Music Awards are held at the Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines. 12 August – Sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar stars in a Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, including the live première of three compositions from her recorded albums.
Musical films Dhumketu (Bengali), with music by Anupam Roy, Nilayan Chatterjee and Indraadip Dasgupta Rangga & Cinta (Indonesia), with music by Anto Hoed and Melly Goeslaw Sinagtala (Philippines), with music by Francis Reyes Tu Meri Poori Kahani (Hindi), with music by Anu Malik
Deaths 2 January – Ferdi Tayfur, 79, Turkish singer, actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter 9 January – P. Jayachandran, 80, Indian playback singer 27 January – Emilia Contessa, 67, Indonesian singer and actress (heart attack) 2 February – Barbie Hsu, 48, Taiwanese singer and actress (pneumonia) 7 February – Song Dae-kwan, 78, South Korean trot singer 15 February – Pratul Mukhopadhyay, 82, Indian singer and songwriter 21 February – Khalil Fong, 41, Hong Kong singer and songwriter 9 March – Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, 76, Indian classical musician and composer 11 March – Ayumi Ishida, 76, Japanese actress and singer 17 March – Mankombu Gopalakrishnan, 77/78, Indian lyricist 25 March – Sanjida Khatun, 91, Bangladeshi musicologist 26 March – Shushama Das, 94, Bangladeshi folk singer 6 April – Pongsri Woranuch, 85, Thai luk thung singer 10 April – Titiek Puspa, 87, Indonesian singer and songwriter 12 April – Pilita Corrales, 85, Filipina singer and songwriter 27 May – Freddie Aguilar, 72, Filipino musician and singer-songwriter 1 July – Hamdan ATT, 79, Indonesian dangdut singer 13 July – Yunita Ababiel, 61, Indonesian dangdut singer 18 July – M. K. Muthu, 77, Indian actor, playback singer and politician 1 August – Arif Babayev, 87, Azerbaijani singer 9 August – NoB, 61, Japanese singer (kidney cancer) 11 August – Hemanta Dutta, Indian lyricist, 83 13 September – Akiko Tsuruga, 58, Japanese jazz musician and composer 19 September – Zubeen Garg, 52, multilingual Indian singer and multi-instrumentalist (scuba diving accident) 1 October – Thế Hiển, 69, Vietnamese musician 21 October – Davey Langit, 38, Filipino singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (spondylodiscitis) 3 November – Dipak Sarma, 57, Indian flute player (liver disease) 17 November – Humane Sagar, 34, Indian playback singer (liver failure) 4 December – Budoy Marabiles, 54, Filipino reggae singer (Junior Kilat)
See also 2025 in music
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