This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1964.
Specific locations
1964 in British music
1964 in Norwegian music
Specific genres
1964 in country music
1964 in jazz
Events
January 1 – The first episode of the long-running weekly pop music show Top of the Pops airs on BBC TV in the U.K. The first programme is produced in Manchester and the first two acts featured are Dusty Springfield with "I Only Want to Be with You" and The Rolling Stones with "I Wanna Be Your Man". January 3 – Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England, is shown on The Jack Paar Show in the U.S. January 10 – Introducing... The Beatles, the first album by The Beatles to be released in the United States, comes out on Chicago's Vee-Jay Records, preceding Capitol Records' release of Meet the Beatles!, scheduled for January 20. January 13 – Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin' is released on Columbia Records. January 15 – Vee Jay Records files a lawsuit against Capitol Records and Swan Records over manufacturing and distribution rights to Beatles albums on the U.S. On April 9, Capitol Records is granted an injunction restraining Vee Jay Records from further manufacturing, distributing or advertising recordings by the Beatles. January 18 – The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts in the U.S. for the first time.