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Beat music
Beat music, also British beat or Merseybeat, is an early-1960s UK rock genre from Liverpool blending rock & roll, R&B, and skiffle; the Beatles' Merseybeat sound led the British Invasion.
Beat Saber
Beat Saber: VR rhythm game by Beat Games (Prague, formerly Hyperbolic Magnetism), Early Access May 2018, acquired by Facebook's Oculus in 2019. Players slash color-coded blocks with sabers; scoring rewards swing form, not timing; 6M+ users, top-grossing VR app.
Beat Shazam
Beat Shazam is a Fox musical game show, premiering May 25, 2017, hosted by Jamie Foxx with daughter Corinne Foxx as DJ; created by Jeff Apploff and Wes Kauble, it has teams of two identify hit songs, with the winning team facing the Shazam app for up to $1 million.
Beat Street
Beat Street is a 1984 Orion Pictures musical drama directed by Stan Lathan, produced by Harry Belafonte, about South Bronx DJ, breakdancing, and graffiti artists in early hip-hop culture; its gold-certified soundtrack and international influence distinguish it.
Beat the Chasers
Beat the Chasers, also known as The Super Chase, is a British quiz show. It pits a single contestant against a panel of Chasers in a timed head-to-head race.
Beat Up Chanels
Beat Up Chanels (BEAT UP CHANEL$) is Slayyyter's August 1, 2025 electroclash single on RECORDS/Columbia, lead single of WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, produced by Austin Corona and Wyatt Bernard, 3:18, 134 BPM. Distinct from Eva Ora's 2025 album of a similar name.
Beata Klein
Beata Klein is a Swedish venture capitalist and former Partner at Creandum in Berlin, known for B2B SaaS investing and Creandum's €25 million Series A in Sereact.
Beata MonaLisa
Beata MonaLisa, real name Beata Mona Lisa Ernman Andersson (born 2005), is a Swedish pop singer and actress, sister of Greta Thunberg and daughter of Malena Ernman; known for Forever Piaf and her debut album as BEA.
Beata Olsson
Beata Karin Eleonora Olsson (born 2001) is a Swedish forward at Liverpool in the WSL, formerly Enköping, Uppsala, Florida State, AIK, and Kristianstads DFF; record six goals in her first eight WSL starts.
Beata Szydło
Beata Szydło (née Kusińska), Polish PiS politician, prime minister 2015–2017, deputy prime minister 2017–2019, and since 2019 an ECR Member of the European Parliament from Poland, ITRE committee member and chair of the Polish ECR delegation.
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is a Franco-Rwandan writer of novels, short stories, and poetry whose work centers on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, memory, and exile between generations.
Beatbot (Xingmai Chuangxin)
星迈创新 (Beatbot) is a Chinese robotics startup founded in Suzhou in July 2022 that makes high-end cordless, AI-driven robotic pool-cleaning robots, selling in 38 countries.
Beatbot (Xingmai Innovation)
Beatbot, known in Chinese press as Xingmai Innovation (星迈创新), is a Chinese consumer-robotics company founded in Suzhou in July 2022 that makes high-end cordless robotic pool cleaners.
Beatboxing
Beatboxing, also called human beatboxing, is a musical art form using the voice to mimic percussion and drum machines, originating in 1970s New York hip-hop.
Beate Anders Gummelt
Beate Anders Gummelt (Helga-Beate, born 1968, Leipzig) is a German race walker; 1989 World Cup winner, 1991 World Indoor 3000 m walk champion, three-time Olympian (1992, 1996, 2000), later a Neuruppin teacher.
Beate I. Escher
Beate I. Escher, also known as Beate Escher, is a German environmental toxicologist who heads the Department of Cell Toxicology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig.
Beate Kampmann
Beate Kampmann is a German pediatrician and vaccinologist who, since 2023, has been Professor of Global Health at Charité Berlin, known for research on childhood tuberculosis and maternal immunization.
Beate Meinl-Reisinger
Beate Meinl-Reisinger is an Austrian politician of NEOS who has been Federal Minister for European and International Affairs since March 2025, after leading the party's parliamentary group from 2018.
Beate Schramm
Beate Schramm (born 1966) is a German rower, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the women's quadruple sculls for East Germany, and four-time world double sculls champion (1986, 1989, 1990, 1991); 12th in single sculls at Barcelona 1992.
Beate Schwer
Beate Schwer is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, on the faculty since 1997, who studies gene expression in budding and fission yeast.
Beater (hunting)
Beater (hunting): a person on a driven shoot who walks in a line through cover, flushing gamebirds toward the Guns. British tradition from the 1796 battue; lines of 3 to 40, plus stops and flankers.
Beatie Edney
Beatie Edney (Beatrice Emma Edney, born 1962) is an English actress, daughter of Sylvia Syms, known as Heather MacLeod in Highlander (1986), Prudie in Poldark (2015–2019), and roles in In the Name of the Father, Andor, and The Pearl Comb.
Beatification
Beatification is the act by which the pope permits public veneration of a deceased Christian as "Blessed," the middle stage between Servant of God and saint.
Beatitudes
The Beatitudes, also called Macarisms, are the blessing sayings of Jesus that open the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:3–12 and the Sermon on the Plain in Luke 6:20–26.
Beatlemania
Beatlemania is the term for the intense fan frenzy surrounding The Beatles. It was popularized by the British press in October 1963 and became a worldwide phenomenon.
Beatles '65
Beatles '65 is the Beatles' fifth Capitol Records album, released in the US and Canada on 15 December 1964. Compiled from Beatles for Sale plus I'll Be Back and the I Feel Fine/She's a Woman single, it jumped from number 98 to number one on Billboard, the chart's highest such move.
Beatles for Sale
Beatles for Sale is the fourth studio album by the Beatles, released by Parlophone on 4 December 1964 and number one in the UK for 11 weeks.
beatMario
beatMARIO (ビートまりお) is a Japanese doujin musician, composer, and vocalist who leads the circle COOL&CREATE, best known for Touhou arrangements such as "Help me, ERINNNNNN!!" and "Night of Knights".
Beatmatching
Beatmatching is the DJ technique of adjusting a track's playback speed so its beats align with a track already playing, pioneered by Francis Grasso in 1960s New York clubs.
Beatnik
Beatnik: media stereotype of the Beat Generation, coined by Herb Caen on April 2, 1958 from "Beat" plus the Sputnik-derived suffix "-nik"; a beret-and-bongos caricature the Beats themselves rejected, superseded by "hippie" in the 1960s.