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Cocek

Cocek, or Čoček, is a fast Balkan dance and music genre of Ottoman origin, popularized by the Roma and performed at weddings in Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania.

Concerto del Primo Maggio

The Concerto del Primo Maggio, also called Concertone, is a free annual May Day concert in Rome, held since 1990 and promoted by the trade unions CGIL, CISL, and UIL with RAI.

Corina

Corina, full name Corina Bud, is a Romanian pop, dance, and R&B singer from Satu Mare who debuted in 2004 with the album Noi Doi.

Corinne Marchand

Corinne Marchand, stage name of Denise Marchand, is a French singer and actress best known as Cléo in Agnès Varda's Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962).

Corridor

Corridor is a Montreal-based francophone indie rock band with interlocking guitars and pop hooks sung in French, the first Francophone act signed to Sub Pop, in 2019.

Costa Cordalis

Costa Cordalis, born Konstantinos Kordalis, was a Greek-born Schlager singer who moved to Germany, scored his biggest hit with "Anita" in 1976, and died on Mallorca in 2019.

Cream Soda (group)

Cream Soda is a Russian house and electronic pop group founded in 2012 in Yaroslavl, best known for "Никаких больше вечеринок" (2019) and the 2020 cover "Плачу на техно".

Cristiano de Andrè

Cristiano de Andrè is an Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, born in Genoa in 1962, son of Fabrizio De André, and the principal interpreter of his father's repertoire since 1999.

Croatian tamburica music

Croatian tamburica music is the folk tradition of eastern Croatia played on tambura string instruments, centered on Slavonia and known for the UNESCO-listed bećarac song form.

Dalaras

Dalaras, also known as George or Yorgos Dalaras (Γιώργος Νταλάρας), is a Greek singer from Piraeus whose albums Mikra Asia and 50 Chronia Rebetiko set Greek sales records.

Daneliya Tuleshova

Daneliya Tuleshova (Данэлия Тулешова) is a Kazakh singer, born in 2006, who won The Voice Kids Ukraine in 2017 and sang Kazakhstan's debut Junior Eurovision entry in 2018, finishing sixth.

Đani

Đani, born Radiša Trajković, is a Serbian pop-folk singer from Kosovo and Metohija active on the Balkan folk scene since the mid-1990s, recording on the Grand Production label.

Daniel Lavoie

Daniel Lavoie, born in 1949 in Dunrea, Manitoba, is a Canadian francophone singer-songwriter known for "Ils s'aiment" and for originating Frollo in Notre-Dame de Paris.

Dara Bubamara

Dara Bubamara (Дара Бубамара) is the stage name of Radojka Adžić, a Serbian pop-folk singer born in 1976 in Novi Sad, active since the late 1980s.

Dargen D'Amico

Dargen D'Amico, real name Jacopo D'Amico, is an Italian rapper, songwriter, and producer from Milan who founded the label Giada Mesi and competed at Sanremo three times.

Das Fest

Das Fest is a mostly free annual open-air music festival held since 1985 in Karlsruhe's Günther-Klotz-Anlage park, drawing up to 260,000 visitors each late July.

David Hallyday

David Hallyday, born David Smet in 1966, is a French singer-songwriter, son of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, known for "High" (1988) and for composing his father's album Sang pour sang.

Dayte Tank (!)

Dayte Tank (!), or Дайте танк (!), is a Russian indie rock band formed in Kolomna in 2007 by Dmitry Mozzhukin and Alexander Romankin, known for ironic, conceptual albums.

Dead Dynasty

Dead Dynasty (Дэд Династи) is a Russian hip-hop creative collective founded by rapper PHARAOH, Gleb Golubin, in Moscow in 2013, a main representative of the YungRussia movement in 2015.

Dejan Matić

Dejan Matić is a Serbian folk singer, born blind in 1978 in Bihać, twin brother of singer Saša Matić, best known for the 2006 hit 'Niko i neko'.

Deluxe

Deluxe is a six-member French band formed in 2007 in Aix-en-Provence, playing music with funk and hip-hop accents and known for its moustache symbol and logo.

Demo

Demo (Демо) is a Russian pop-dance group formed in Moscow in 1999, fronted by vocalist Sasha Zvereva and known for the hit "Solnyshko", one of the main dance acts of the late 1990s.

Denis Teofikov

Denis Teofikov (Денис Теофиков) was a Bulgarian pop-folk singer who signed with the Payner label in 2018 and became known for duets with Emilia before dying in 2021, aged 21.

Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika

"Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika" ("The Boy with the Harmonica") is a German Schlager ballad recorded by Bernd Clüver, a number-1 hit in Germany and Switzerland in 1973.

Desireless

Desireless (Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop), born 1952 in Paris, is a French pop singer whose 1986 synth-pop hit "Voyage, voyage" topped charts across Europe and sold over 500,000 copies in France.

Deutsche Schlager-Festspiele

The Deutsche Schlager-Festspiele were an annual competition for German-language schlager songs, staged by Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden from 1961 to 1966 and revived in 1994 and from 1997 to 1999.

Deutschrock

Deutschrock is rock music with German lyrics, a loose label covering 1970s pioneers like Udo Lindenberg, the Neue Deutsche Welle, and bands still charting in 2026.

Diane Dufresne

Diane Dufresne, born 1944 in Montreal, is a Quebec singer and painter nicknamed "La Diva", known for the hit "J'ai rencontré l'homme de ma vie".

Diane Tell

Diane Tell, born Diane Fortin in 1959 in Québec City, is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in France since the early 1980s, known for "Si j'étais un homme".

Die ultimative Chartshow

Die ultimative Chartshow is a German music chart countdown program on RTL, hosted by Oliver Geissen since 2003, ranking songs by points from official German chart positions.