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New Zealand Music Awards
The New Zealand Music Awards, now the Aotearoa Music Awards, are New Zealand's annual national recorded-music honors, run by Recorded Music NZ and presented since 1965.
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026: NRK selected Jonas Lovv with "Ya Ya Ya" via Melodi Grand Prix 2026 in Lillehammer; he placed 4th in semi-final two with 206 points and 14th in the Vienna grand final with 134 points.
NRJ Music Award
NRJ Music Awards: annual French music awards by radio NRJ and TF1, first held 22 January 2000 in Cannes; public-voted trophies for Francophone and international artists, most won by M. Pokora (16).
Number Ones (Janet Jackson album)
Number Ones (internationally Janet Jackson: The Best) is Janet Jackson's second greatest-hits album, released November 17, 2009 on A&M/UMe: a 34-track double CD of 33 global number-one hits plus the new single "Make Me."
Nyusha (Нюша)
Nyusha (Нюша), born Anna Shurochkina in Moscow in 1990, is a Russian pop/R&B singer and actress. She won STS Zazhigaet Superzvezdu 2007, won MTV EMA Best Russian Act 2011, holds eight Russian number-one singles, and in 2026 reverted her passport name to Anna.
Paul McKercher
Paul McKercher, Australian music recordist, producer and mixer; five-time ARIA Award winner (Engineer of the Year 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004; Producer of the Year 2004) known for Augie March, You Am I, Eskimo Joe and over 50 albums.
Paulino Bernal
Paulino Bernal (1939-2022), Tejano accordionist and vocalist, co-founded El Conjunto Bernal with brother Eloy, pioneered three-part conjunto harmonies, hit with Mi Único Camino, then led Bernal Christian Records and earned a 2009 Best Polka Album Grammy nomination.
PLUG Independent Music Awards
The PLUG Independent Music Awards, known as the Plug Awards, were a New York-based program founded in 2001 that honored US independent music artists, labels, stores, and bloggers, with ceremonies from 2005 to 2008.
Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry
Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry, or ZPAV (Związek Producentów Audio-Video), Poland's record producers association and collecting society since 1991; publishes OLiS charts, awards gold, platinum, and diamond certifications, and organizes the Fryderyk awards.
Poncho Sanchez
Poncho Sanchez (Ildefonso Sanchez, born 1951, Laredo, Texas) is a Grammy-winning American conguero and Latin jazz bandleader who played with Cal Tjader from 1975 to 1982 and won Best Latin Jazz Performance for Latin Soul in 2000.
Premio Tenco
Premio Tenco: annual Italian singer-songwriter festival (Rassegna della Canzone d'Autore) at Sanremo's Teatro Ariston since 1974, run by Club Tenco (founded 1972, named for Luigi Tenco), with career Premi, journalist-voted Targhe, and the Amnesty-linked Premio Yorum.
Premios Gardel
The Premios Gardel are Argentina's national recording awards, presented by CAPIF since 1999; the Gardel de Oro, given for Album of the Year, is the top prize.
Premios Lunas del Auditorio
The Premios Lunas del Auditorio are annual awards given by Mexico's Auditorio Nacional to the best live entertainment in the country, instituted in 2002 for the hall's 50th anniversary.
Premios Nuestra Tierra
The Premios Nuestra Tierra are Colombia's national music awards, first delivered in Bogotá in 2007 to honor Colombian artists across genres from vallenato and urbano to pop and tropical music.
Premios Ondas
Premios Ondas: Spain's oldest annual communication awards, founded 1954 by Radio Barcelona (Cadena SER, Grupo PRISA), honoring radio, television, music, radio advertising, and since 2026 podcast, with a bronze Pegasus statuette and over 1,500 awards granted.
Premios Oye!
Premios Oye! were Mexico's national recorded-music awards, presented by the Academia Nacional de la Música and judged on artistic merit rather than sales, given from 2002 until their end in 2013.
Premios Pulsar
The Premios Pulsar (Pulsar Awards) are Chile's national music awards, organized by the SCD since 2015, broadcast on TVN, and described as Chile's equivalent of the Grammys.
Radio Disney Music Awards
The Radio Disney Music Awards (RDMAs, later ARDYs) were annual listener-voted music awards from Radio Disney: audio-only from about 2001–2002, televised Disney Channel ceremonies 2013–2019, ending with Radio Disney's 2021 shutdown.
Ranky Tanky
Ranky Tanky is a Grammy-winning quintet formed in 2016 in Charleston, South Carolina, performing jazz and gospel arrangements of Gullah music; two-time Best Regional Roots Music Album winner for Good Time and Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Rebirth Brass Band
Rebirth Brass Band: New Orleans brass band founded in 1983 by Phil and Keith Frazier with Kermit Ruffins at Clark High School in Treme; Grammy winner for Rebirth of New Orleans, famed for its Tuesday Maple Leaf Bar residency.
Recorded Music NZ
Recorded Music NZ (Recorded Music New Zealand Limited) is New Zealand's industry body for recording artists and labels: it licenses recordings via OneMusic with APRA AMCOS, compiles the Official Aotearoa Music Charts, runs the Aotearoa Music Awards, and distributed just over $12m in 2025.
Redbone (song)
"Redbone" (Childish Gambino, 2016) is a psychedelic funk single from "Awaken, My Love!", written and produced by Donald Glover and Ludwig Göransson; it peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, opened Get Out, won the 2018 Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance, and is certified multi-platinum, distinct from the 1970s band Redbone.
Redrama
Redrama (Lasse Mellberg) is a Finnish rapper who won the Finnish English-language rap championship in 2001 and the Emma award for best hip hop album in 2005.
Reg Lindsay
Reg Lindsay (Reginald John Lindsay OAM, 1929-2008), Australian country music singer, songwriter, and TV host; won the 1951 Tim McNamara talent quest, recorded "Armstrong", three Golden Guitars, first Australian at the Grand Ole Opry.
Requiem (Lloyd Webber)
Requiem (Andrew Lloyd Webber) is a 1985 Latin Requiem Mass setting premiered at St. Thomas Church, New York, conducted by Lorin Maazel; it won the 1986 Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition and spawned the hit Pie Jesu.
Ricky Kej
Ricky Kej is a Bengaluru-based Indian composer and environmentalist, three-time Grammy winner for Winds of Samsara and Divine Tides, Padma Shri recipient, UNCCD Goodwill Ambassador, and first Indian-origin artist to top the US Billboard New Age chart.
Robert Mirabal
Robert Mirabal, also known as Johnny Whitehorse, is a Native American flutist, composer, and instrument maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, known for fusing traditional flute music with rock.
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time: July 30, 2021 ranked list marking MTV's 40th anniversary, topped by Beyoncé's Formation, ahead of Johnny Cash's Hurt and Madonna's Vogue, with Thriller omitted.
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, an August 2015 ranked list topped by Bob Dylan, co-branded with Apple Music and criticized for being over 70% white, male-dominated, and skewed toward classic-rock-era writers.
Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026: TVR returned after missing 2024 and 2025; Selecția Națională on 4 March 2026 chose Alexandra Căpitănescu's "Choke Me" by jury vote (82 points); she qualified second in semi-final two and finished third in the Vienna Grand Final with 296 points, Romania's record total.