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I'm Every Woman
I'm Every Woman: Ashford & Simpson song, 1978 debut solo single by Chaka Khan; Whitney Houston's 1992 Bodyguard cover peaked at US No. 4 Hot 100 and No. 1 Dance Club Songs, RIAA Platinum, GRAMMY-nominated.
Icky Thump
Icky Thump is the sixth and final studio album by The White Stripes, released June 2007 on Warner Bros./XL. Recorded in three weeks at Nashville's Blackbird Studios with Joe Chiccarelli, it became the duo's first UK Number 1 album, scored Metacritic 80, and spawned the UK top-2 title-track single.
If You Don't Know Me by Now
"If You Don't Know Me by Now" is a 1972 Gamble and Huff soul ballad recorded by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes with Teddy Pendergrass on lead; it topped the Billboard R&B chart, hit number three pop, and Simply Red's 1989 cover reached number one.
Ignition (Remix)
"Ignition (Remix)" is a 2003 R. Kelly single from Chocolate Factory that reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks; despite its title, it was largely written before the original "Ignition."
Impact and popularity of K-pop
K-pop (케이팝), Korean popular music, is a global idol-based music industry; a $9.2 billion-a-year business (2024) that spread from 1990s regional exports through "Gangnam Style" and BTS, with the Big 4 agencies selling over 70% of albums.
Imploding the Mirage
Imploding the Mirage is the Killers' sixth studio album, released August 21, 2020 on Island Records, produced by Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, first LP without Dave Keuning, Metascore 76.
In Your Honor
In Your Honor is Foo Fighters' fifth studio album, a 2005 double album on RCA split into a rock disc and an acoustic disc, recorded at Studio 606, featuring guests John Paul Jones, Norah Jones, and Josh Homme, with the single "Best of You".
Incelcore
Incelcore, also called E-Punk or losercore, is a vaguely defined internet rock microgenre coined by Negative XP in 2018, defined by lyrics about alienation, romantic failure, and incel culture rather than by sound.
Indie folk
Indie folk: a popular music genre blending traditional folk's acoustic instrumentation and intimate storytelling with indie rock's DIY ethos; originated in the United States in the 2000s via labels like Saddle Creek, Sub Pop, and Jagjaguwar and artists such as Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, and Sufjan Stevens.
Indie pop
Indie pop is a melodic branch of alternative music that emerged from the British independent scene of the 1980s, known for jangly guitars, prominent melody, and a DIY sensibility.
Indie rock
Indie rock, from "independent," is rock music made by small DIY labels, originating in the British post-punk era (1979–86), splitting from alternative rock after Nirvana's 1991 crossover, and becoming a global pop phenomenon in the 2000s.
Industrial music
Industrial music: experimental electronic genre named after Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records label (1976); Monte Cazazza's "Industrial Music for Industrial People"; first-wave acts Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten; 1990s peak with Nine Inch Nails.
Industrial rock
Industrial rock is a fusion genre of industrial music and rock, using distorted guitars, drum machines, and samplers. Defined by Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, and KMFDM, it emerged in the 1980s, peaked commercially with The Downward Spiral (1994), and borders industrial metal.
Industry plant
Industry plant: pejorative for a musician presented as independent or grassroots while secretly backed by a label or financier. Coined in early-2010s hip-hop fan forums; now applied loosely to fast-rising artists, disproportionately women and artists of color.
Innervisions
Innervisions is Stevie Wonder's August 3, 1973 Tamla/Motown album of soul, funk, and social commentary, produced with TONTO synth designers Margouleff and Cecil; it won the 1974 Album of the Year Grammy. Distinct from the 2005 Berlin techno label of the same name.
Internet music
Internet music: music created, distributed, or aesthetically shaped by the Internet, spanning network-based performance, file-sharing culture, internet-born genres like vaporwave and meme music, and platform-mediated streaming.
Internet rap
Internet rap, popularly called SoundCloud rap, is a hip hop genre born online in the 2010s via SoundCloud releases by artists like Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti, defined by trap-based, punk- and metal-inflected sounds, internet rather than regional roots, and generational tension with traditional hip hop.
Into the Great Wide Open
Into the Great Wide Open (1991) is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' eighth studio album, produced by Jeff Lynne at Rumbo Recorders, featuring "Learning to Fly" and a Johnny Depp music video.
Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas (born Irma Lee, 1941), the "Soul Queen of New Orleans," is an American soul and R&B singer whose 1960s hits include "Wish Someone Would Care" and "Time Is on My Side"; she won the 2007 Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album for After the Rain.
Is This Band Emo?
Is This Band Emo? is a novelty website by Tom Mullen of the Washed Up Emo podcast, launched late 2014, where an "Emo Council" rules yes or no on whether typed band names are emo; it rejects My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy while accepting Taking Back Sunday.
It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)
It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll), the AC/DC song written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott: 1975 T.N.T. opener with bagpipes, first Top 5 hit, Swanston Street flatbed-truck video, NFSA Sounds of Australia inductee.
It's Only Rock 'n Roll
It's Only Rock 'n Roll is the Rolling Stones' 1974 album, their last with Mick Taylor and first produced as the Glimmer Twins; US No.1, UK No.2, title track co-written with Ronnie Wood.
Item number
Item number (item song) is a distinct genre in Indian commercial cinema, primarily Hindi films, established since the 1970s. It serves as a self-contained unit of spectacle and marketing.
J-pop (ジェイポップ)
J-pop (ジェイポップ) is the umbrella term for Japanese popular music from the 1990s onward, coined by FM radio and Tower Records Japan, succeeding kayōkyoku; over two-thirds of its songs contain English, and Japan is the world's second-largest music market.
Jack White
Jack White (born 1975, Detroit; born John Gillis) is an American rock musician, founder of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather, owner of Third Man Records, a 12-time Grammy winner, and 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Jaheim
Jaheim (Jaheim Hoagland), American R&B singer from New Brunswick, NJ; platinum 2001 debut Ghetto Love, 2006 number-one Ghetto Classics, three 2011 Grammy nominations, and current album Been Too Long.
Jailbreak (album)
Jailbreak is Thin Lizzy's sixth studio album, released March 26, 1976 (Vertigo UK, Mercury US), recorded at Ramport Studios with producer John Alcock. Its singles The Boys Are Back in Town and Jailbreak made it the band's first Gold album and codified their twin-lead guitar sound.
Jangle pop
Jangle pop, also known as jangle rock, is a pop rock subgenre built on jangly guitars and 1960s-style melodies, peaking in American college rock around 1984 to 1987.
Jazz rap
Jazz rap (Jazz-HipHop) is a hip-hop subgenre blending jazz samples, live instrumentation, and improvisation, emerging in the late 1980s and early 1990s through the Native Tongues collective, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, and Guru's Jazzmatazz, later revived by Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly.
Jeff Gutt
Jeff Gutt (Jeffrey Adam Gutt, born 1976) is an American rock singer from Marine City, Michigan, Dry Cell frontman and X Factor USA season 3 runner-up, lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots since November 2017.