- Amy Winehouse Died. I am never getting over this.
- The final “Harry Potter” movie, the last of the series in its film incarnation, was released. Catharsis? Maybe. Sadness? Definitely.
- Katy Perry became the first woman to score five No. 1 songs from one album on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- A big summer for thrones: between Kanye West’s and Jay-Z’s blockbuster collaboration “Watch the Throne” and HBO’s fantasy series “Game of Thrones.”
- “The Book of Mormon”: The South Park creators’ musical’s original Broadway cast recording became the highest-charting Broadway cast album in over four decades.