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Hard Promises
Hard Promises is the fourth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Backstreet, May 5, 1981), produced with Jimmy Iovine, featuring the Stevie Nicks duet "Insider" and known for Petty's fight against MCA's $9.98 superstar pricing.
Hard rock
Hard rock: a rock and roll subgenre with distorted guitars, strong drums, and exertive vocals, distinguished from heavy metal by warmer distortion, blues-based riffs, and more syncopated rhythms.
Hard to Handle (song)
"Hard to Handle" is a soul song written by Otis Redding and recorded in 1967, best known through the Black Crowes' 1990 Top 40 cover.
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk, or hardcore, is the faster, harder, more extreme offshoot of punk rock that formed around 1978–81 in Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York, Boston, San Francisco, and the UK, spawning straightedge, grindcore, powerviolence, post-hardcore, and metalcore.
Heartland rock
Heartland rock is a style of American rock music that emerged in the late 1970s and flourished in the 1980s, associated with Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal music: rock genre from late 1960s/early 1970s UK and USA, also called metal, defined by distorted guitars and heaviness; spawned around 40 subgenres, a global fan culture, and the field of metal studies.
High Voltage (1976 album)
High Voltage (1976) is AC/DC's first international album on Atlantic: a compilation of the 1975 Australia-only High Voltage and T.N.T., sharing only Little Lover and She's Got Balls with the Australian debut.
Highway to Hell
Highway to Hell, AC/DC's sixth studio album released 27 July 1979, produced by Mutt Lange, the band's US breakthrough and final album with singer Bon Scott, recorded at London's Roundhouse Studios.
Hip hop dance
Hip hop dance covers street dance styles like breaking, locking, popping, and house that arose in US hip hop culture from the late 1960s, originating in 1970s Bronx parties and now spanning battles, syllabi, and Olympic breaking.
Hip Hop Is Dead
Hip Hop Is Dead is Nas's eighth studio album, released December 19, 2006 on Def Jam. Inspired by De La Soul Is Dead, it sparked a lasting debate about commercialism in hip-hop and earned a Metacritic score of 79.
Hipgnosis
Hipgnosis: British album-cover design studio founded 1968 in London by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell; made surreal photodesigns for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and 10cc until 1983; unrelated to Hipgnosis Songs Fund.
History of disco
Disco is a style of dance music that emerged in the early 1970s among Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ club communities in New York City and Philadelphia, peaking commercially from 1977 to 1979.
Hold Your Fire
Hold Your Fire is Rush's twelfth studio album, released September 8, 1987, produced with Peter Collins; the synth-era peak featuring Time Stand Still with Aimee Mann, charting at No. 13 on the Billboard 200.
Honky-tonk
Honky-tonk: a rowdy Southern bar or dance hall, the electrified country music born there in 1940s Texas and Oklahoma (Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams), and the tinny out-of-tune piano style named after such venues.
Honorific nicknames in popular music
Honorific nicknames in popular music, such as King of Pop and Queen of Soul, are metaphorical royal, religious, or familial titles given by media, labels, and fans to signal an artist's significance.
Hook (music)
Hook (music): a short, memorable repeated phrase, melody, riff, or lyric designed to catch listeners; core pop-songwriting concept from Tin Pan Alley to streaming. Also the name of a licensed short-form remix social music app.
Horrorcore
Horrorcore, also called horror rap or death rap, is a hip hop subgenre defined by horror-themed lyrics about death, violence, and the occult. Key acts include Geto Boys, Esham, Gravediggaz, and Insane Clown Posse; the term first appeared on KMC's 1991 album.
Hot Chip
Hot Chip are a British electronic pop band formed in London in 2000 by Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, known for The Warning, Mercury and Grammy nominations, and blending synths with live instruments.
Hot in Herre
"Hot in Herre" is Nelly's 2002 Neptunes-produced single from Nellyville, sampling Chuck Brown's go-go anthem "Bustin' Loose"; it spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the 2003 Grammy for Best Male Rap Solo Performance.
Hot in the Shade
Hot in the Shade is KISS's fifteenth studio album, released October 17, 1989 on Mercury: 15 demo-overdubbed tracks self-produced by Stanley and Simmons at The Fortress, Hollywood, peaking at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 and yielding the No. 8 hit "Forever."
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs is Billboard's weekly R&B/hip-hop songs chart, begun as the Harlem Hit Parade in 1942 and compiled today from Luminate streaming, airplay, and sales; Drake holds the record with 30 number-ones.
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, U2's eleventh studio album, released November 2004 on Island/Interscope, produced by Steve Lillywhite, No. 1 in 34 countries, eight Grammy winner including 2006 Album of the Year, remastered for its 2024 20th anniversary.
Human Clay
Human Clay, Creed's second studio album (September 28, 1999, Wind-Up), produced by John Kurzweg; Diamond-certified, Billboard 200 No.1 for 104 weeks, with "Higher" and "With Arms Wide Open."
Humble (song)
HUMBLE. (Humble) is Kendrick Lamar's March 30, 2017 lead single from DAMN., produced by Mike WiLL Made-It and Pluss, originally made for Gucci Mane; it was Lamar's first Hot 100 number one and won three Grammys.
Hype man
Hype man (hypeman): a hip-hop performer providing backup rapping, call-and-response chants, and crowd excitement beside a lead MC, exemplified by Flavor Flav of Public Enemy; the role originated in 1970s block parties and influenced recorded ad libs.
Hyperpop
Hyperpop: maximalist internet pop genre with pitched-up vocals, distorted 808s, and bright synths, rooted in PC Music, SOPHIE, and 100 gecs' 1000 gecs, named by Spotify's 2019 playlist.
Hypnagogic pop
Hypnagogic pop is a genre of pop or psychedelic music that evokes nostalgia for the popular culture of the 1970s through 1990s through lo-fi, dreamlike recordings.
Hysteria (Def Leppard album)
Hysteria, Def Leppard's fourth studio album (Mercury, August 3, 1987), produced by Mutt Lange over three years at a reported $5 million cost; No. 1 in US and UK, seven hit singles including "Love Bites" and "Pour Some Sugar on Me", over 20 million sold, 12x US platinum.
I Got You (I Feel Good)
I Got You (I Feel Good), James Brown soul/funk single recorded May 6, 1965 at Criteria Studios, Miami, and released on King Records; six weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart, number three pop, Grammy Hall of Fame 2013.
I Robot (album)
I Robot (1977) is the Alan Parsons Project's second album, a concept record about machines and humanity loosely based on Asimov's I, Robot, released on Arista after rights issues forced the comma to be dropped; it sold a million US copies.