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Melodie Daoust
Melodie Daoust, Canadian ice hockey forward born 1992 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec; Olympic gold 2014 and 2022, silver 2018 as tournament MVP; 2021 world champion; retired 2024 to coach.
Melodifestivalen 2025
Melodifestivalen 2025, the 65th Swedish Eurovision selection, was won by Finnish-Swedish group KAJ with "Bara bada bastu" (164 points) over Måns Zelmerlöw (157); the song finished fourth at Eurovision 2025 in Basel.
Melodifestivalen 2026
Melodifestivalen 2026 was the 66th Swedish music competition, won by FELICIA with "My System." The entry was written by four women, setting a record for the contest.
Melodiya (Мелодия)
Melodiya (Мелодия) was the state-owned record company of the Soviet Union, created in 1964, which monopolized Soviet record production until 1989 and exported to 90 countries.
Melodrama
Melodrama, or mélodrame, is a genre of dramatic theater combining music with spoken drama, heightened emotion, and spectacular staging that dominated nineteenth-century Europe and America.
Melodrama (film genre)
Melodrama (film genre): a mode of heightened-emotion cinema, from stage melodrama via early film to Sirk's 1950s Hollywood and global traditions; defined by pathos, moral polarization, music, and excess.
Melodrama (Lorde album)
Melodrama, Lorde's second studio album (2017, Republic Records), an 11-track breakup-and-house-party record produced mainly with Jack Antonoff; Metacritic 91, Grammy Album of the Year nominee, Billboard 200 and ARIA number 1.
Melody
Melody, also called a tune or line, is a succession of pitches in rhythm perceived as a single coherent line. Distinguished from harmony and counterpoint by its horizontal dimension; defined by contour, conjunct or disjunct motion, and phrase structure ending in cadences.
Melody A.M.
Melody A.M. is the 2001 debut album by Norwegian electronic duo Röyksopp, released on Wall of Sound. Ten-track downtempo house record with singles Eple, Poor Leno, and Remind Me; sold a million copies, went platinum in three countries, scored 81 on Metacritic.
Melody Anderson
Melody Anderson, born 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta, is a Canadian actress and social worker, best known as Dale Arden in Flash Gordon (1980); also Dead & Buried, Firewalker; retired mid-1990s to become an LCSW trauma and addiction counselor.
Melody Communications Infrastructure
Melody Communications Infrastructure is the fund complex of Melody Investment Advisors, a New York private equity manager in communications infrastructure founded by Omar Jaffrey in 2018.
Melody Communications Infrastructure 892 & QFPF Fund II, L.P.
Melody Communications Infrastructure 892 & QFPF Fund II, L.P. is a Delaware private-equity fund vehicle managed by Melody Investment Advisors, filed with the SEC in 2019.
Melody Gardot
Melody Gardot, born 1985 in New Jersey, is an American jazz singer-songwriter and pianist based in Paris. After a near-fatal 2003 bicycle accident led to music therapy, she released Worrisome Heart (2008), My One and Only Thrill (2009), and chart-topping albums The Absence and Currency of Man.
Melody Hurd
Melody Hurd (born 2011, Prince George's County, Maryland) is an American child actress known for Gracie Emory in Them, Maddy Logelin in Fatherhood, and Janelle Cross in Cross; 2025 NAACP Image Award nominee.
Melody Journey (音乐缘计划)
Melody Journey (音乐缘计划, formerly 音乐潮计划) is a Jiangsu TV and iQIYI Chinese original-music reality show where singers claim unreleased demos and premiere them; three seasons since August 2024, no elimination format.
Melody Maker
Melody Maker was a British weekly music paper, founded 1926 as a jazz trade monthly, weekly from 1933, later a leading rock weekly rivaling NME; circulation fell from over 200,000 in the 1970s to 32,500, and IPC merged it into NME in December 2000.
Melody Music
Melody Music (ميلودي ميوزيك) is an Egyptian media group founded in August 2003 around the satellite music channels Melody and Mazzika, with radio, production, and artist management arms.
Melody of Secrets (ความลับในบทเพลงที่บรรเลงไม่รู้จบ)
Melody of Secrets (ความลับในบทเพลงที่บรรเลงไม่รู้จบ) is a 2025 Thai BL mystery thriller by GMMTV starring Force Jiratchapong and Book Kasidet, adapted from Baengpan Homchan's novel, airing 10 episodes on ONE31 from December 2025 to February 2026.
Melody Patterson
Melody Patterson (1949-2015) was an American actress best known as Wrangler Jane Angelica Thrift on ABC's F Troop (1965-1967), cast at about 16 after lying about her age; also known for Hawaii Five-O appearances and marriage to James MacArthur.
Melody Swartz
Melody Swartz is a bioengineer and William B. Ogden Professor at the University of Chicago who studies how lymphatic vessels regulate immunity, informing cancer immunotherapy approaches.
Melody Thornton
Melody Thornton (born 1984, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American singer and dancer, a Pussycat Dolls member 2003–2010 behind lead Nicole Scherzinger, Grammy-nominated for "Stickwitu", later a solo independent artist and 2022 Masked Singer Australia winner.
Melody Time
Melody Time is Walt Disney's 1948 seven-segment musical anthology (package) feature, released May 27, 1948, directed by Geronimi, Jackson, Kinney, and Luske, with segments including Johnny Appleseed, Little Toot, and Pecos Bill.
Melogliptin
Melogliptin (GRC 8200), an oral DPP-IV inhibitor developed by Glenmark Pharmaceuticals for type 2 diabetes, out-licensed to Merck KGaA in 2006 for US$31 million, returned in 2008, and discontinued in Phase 2 in 2011.
Meloidogyne chitwoodi
Meloidogyne chitwoodi, Columbia root-knot nematode (EPPO code MELGCH), a quarantine root-knot nematode described in 1980 in Washington, USA, that galls and necroses potato and tomato tubers; regulated on the EPPO A2 List and spreading in Europe.
Meloidogyne enterolobii
Meloidogyne enterolobii, guava root-knot nematode (syn. M. mayaguensis), a highly polyphagous plant-parasitic nematode that overcomes Mi-1 resistance, is an EPPO A2 and EU quarantine pest with a 0.25 J2/g damage threshold.
Meloidogyne graminicola
Meloidogyne graminicola, rice root-knot nematode (Golden & Birchfield 1965), a sedentary endoparasite of rice causing 28-87% yield losses in Asia; distinguished by hook-shaped root-tip galls and egg-laying within host tissues.
Meloidogyne incognita
Meloidogyne incognita, the southern or cotton root-knot nematode, is an asexual, sedentary plant-parasitic roundworm with the broadest known biotrophic host range, an 86 Mb hybrid genome, and major global crop losses.
Meloidogyne javanica
Meloidogyne javanica, the Javanese root-knot nematode (basionym Heterodera javanica), is a sedentary endoparasite of roots with nearly 800 host plants, reproducing by mitotic parthenogenesis (2n=42-48), second only to M. incognita in worldwide importance.
Melomys
Melomys, the mosaic-tailed rats, is a murid rodent genus established by Thomas in 1922, with about 21 species across New Guinea, Indonesia, and Australia; it includes the Bramble Cay melomys, the first mammal declared extinct due to climate change.
Melon
Melon: Cucumis melo (cantaloupe, muskmelon, honeydew), a Cucurbitaceae annual; also covers watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), whose closest wild relative is the Sudanese Kordofan melon.