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Music of Nier
Music of Nier: video game music of Square Enix's NieR series, composed by Keiichi Okabe's studio MONACA with vocals by Emi Evans in invented 'chaos language'; soundtracks for Gestalt/Replicant (2010), Automata (2017), Re[in]carnation, plus arrangement albums and concerts.
Music of Nigeria
Music of Nigeria (Naija music, Nigerian music): traditional Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Niger Delta traditions plus highlife, juju, fuji, Fela Kuti's Afrobeat and modern Afrobeats, a Lagos-rooted scene with Billboard and Grammy recognition since 2022.
Music of South Africa
Music of South Africa: indigenous, colonial, and apartheid-era traditions (marabi, kwela, mbaqanga, isicathamiya, "Mbube"), plus post-1994 kwaito, gqom, and amapiano, now the country's leading global export.
Music of Spain
Music of Spain, also known as Spanish Music, is the body of classical, folk, and popular traditions in the Iberian country. It spans from medieval works to modern flamenco.
Music of Star Wars
Music of Star Wars: the orchestral scores of the franchise, chiefly John Williams's nine episodic scores from 1977 on, built on Wagnerian leitmotifs such as the Main Title, Force theme, and Imperial March, plus later composers like Göransson and Giacchino.
Music of The Bear
Music of The Bear covers the FX series' soundtrack: Christopher Storer and Josh Senior as hands-on supervisors, dad-rock and Chicago needle drops (Refused, Wilco, R.E.M., Taylor Swift), and the 2026 final-season original score by Christian Lundberg, produced by Hans Zimmer.
Music of the Heart
Music of the Heart (1999) is a Wes Craven drama starring Meryl Streep as violin teacher Roberta Guaspari of East Harlem, based on the documentary Small Wonders; Metascore 54, Oscar-nominated Streep, $14.9M gross.
Music of The Lord of the Rings film series
The music of The Lord of the Rings film series is Howard Shore's orchestral score for Peter Jackson's trilogy of Tolkien adaptations, released from 2001 to 2003.
Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom
Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, also called brony music, is fan-made music inspired by the 2010 show composed by Daniel Ingram. It began 2010–2011 with Eurobeat Brony, peaked 2011–2013, spans EDM to orchestral, and persists via compilations like Ponies at Dawn.
Music of the Philippines
Music of the Philippines (OPM, Pinoy pop, kundiman, kulintang): the archipelago's musical traditions in three layers, indigenous Asian, Spanish-European, and American-influenced, from gangsa and kulintang gong ensembles to UNESCO-recognized hudhud and darangen chants and contemporary indie and P-pop scenes.
Music of the Spheres (Coldplay album)
Music of the Spheres is Coldplay's ninth studio album, released 15 October 2021, produced by Max Martin, a 12-track sci-fi concept album with BTS and Selena Gomez, UK number one, Metacritic 55, followed by the Music of the Spheres World Tour.
Music of the Spheres World Tour
Coldplay's Music of the Spheres World Tour (2022–2025) supported their 2021 album; it set records for tour attendance (about 13.2 million tickets) and gross ($1.52 billion), with a 59% emissions cut.
Music of the Sun
Music of the Sun is Rihanna's debut album, released by Def Jam in August 2005. The R&B, dancehall, and reggae-influenced record, led by "Pon de Replay" (Hot 100 number 2), debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200 and was later certified platinum by the RIAA.
Music of the United States
Music of the United States spans concert, sacred, folk, and popular traditions built from Indigenous, European, African American, and immigrant sources. Genres including spirituals, blues, jazz, gospel, country, rock, and hip hop originated there; US recorded music revenue hit a record $11.5 billion in 2025.
Music on The Sopranos
Music on The Sopranos: the HBO series' licensed-song soundtrack. Key facts: almost no original score, David Chase personally chose nearly all music with Martin Bruestle and Kathryn Dayak, Alabama 3 theme, Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'' finale.
Music organizations
Music organizations are institutions that work above the level of individual deals, lobbying for musicians, collectively licensing their rights, and setting standards; collecting societies alone distributed €13.97 billion in royalties in 2024.
Music organizations in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Music organizations in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong are the collecting societies licensing music copyrights: MCSC and CAVCA on the mainland, MÜST, TMCA, and ACMA in Taiwan, and CASH and HKRIA in Hong Kong.
Music organizations in Japan
Music organizations in Japan are the industry bodies, copyright societies, and performer associations that manage rights and distribute royalties, centered on JASRAC, founded in 1939.
Music organizations in South Korea
Music organizations in South Korea center on KOMCA, the copyright society founded in 1964 that collected ₩445.3 billion in 2025, alongside RIAK, KMPA, KPIA, and KOSCAP.
Music programs of South Korea
Music programs of South Korea (음악방송, eumbang): weekly live TV shows such as Music Bank, Inkigayo, M Countdown, Show! Music Core, Show Champion, and The Show where K-pop acts promote new releases and weekly number ones are decided by show-specific weighted charts.
Music publisher (profession)
A music publisher is a business professional or company that develops, protects, and earns money from songs on behalf of songwriters, handling the business side so writers can focus on creative work.
Music Publishers Association (UK)
Music Publishers Association (MPA), UK music publishing trade association founded 1881, oldest UK music trade body; owns MCPS and PMLL, represents over 95% of UK song rights, CEO Paul Clements, chair Richard King.
Music recording certification
Music recording certification: official Gold, Platinum, Multi-Platinum, and Diamond sales-and-stream awards issued by bodies such as the RIAA, BPI, Music Canada, and ARIA, with market-specific unit thresholds and audit rules.
Music Rights Australia
Music Rights Australia, formerly Music Industry Piracy Investigations, is an Australian advocacy body representing songwriters, publishers, and record labels on copyright policy, run jointly by ARIA and APRA AMCOS.
Music sequencer
Music sequencer: hardware device or software tool recording, arranging and playing back MIDI notes, audio clips, and automation in order; types include step, linear, tracker, and hardware sequencers like Roland MC-8 and Elektron Digitakt.
Music Sounds Better with You
"Music Sounds Better with You" is the only single by French house trio Stardust (Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, Alan Braxe, Benjamin Diamond), released 1998 on Roulé, sampling Chaka Khan's "Fate"; distinct from Acid House Kings' 2011 album of the same name.
Music source separation
Music source separation is a signal processing and machine learning method that splits a mixed music recording into stems such as vocals, drums, bass, and other instruments.
Music theory
Music theory is the study of how music is organized in pitch, rhythm, harmony, and form, spanning Western tonal traditions, Schenkerian and Riemannian analysis, global theoretical systems, pedagogy, and cross-cultural scale research.
Music therapy
Music therapy is the clinical, evidence-based use of music by trained professionals to meet individualized goals, addressing needs from stress and pain to memory and communication across all ages.
Music to Be Murdered By
Music to Be Murdered By (MTBMB) is Eminem's eleventh studio album, a surprise release on January 17, 2020 via Shady/Aftermath/Interscope, titled after Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 compilation, with the song Darkness about the Las Vegas shooting and a Side B deluxe in December 2020.