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Truth Hurts (song)
Truth Hurts (song): 2017 Lizzo single on Nice Life/Atlantic, revived via TikTok and Netflix's Someone Great; six weeks at Hot 100 No. 1 in 2019, Grammy Best Pop Solo Performance winner, subject of settled credit disputes.
Tunak Tunak Tun
Tunak Tunak Tun (ਤੁਨਕ ਤੁਨਕ ਤੁਨ), 1998 Bhangra pop song by Daler Mehndi from the Magnasound album of the same name; four-clone chroma-key video made to rebut critics, later a meme and the WoW Draenei dance.
Turandot
Turandot is Puccini's final opera, a three-act dramma lirico on Gozzi's fairy-tale princess, unfinished at his 1924 death and completed by Franco Alfano; premiered 25 April 1926 at La Scala under Toscanini, who stopped the music where Puccini's score ends.
Turkey in the Straw
Turkey in the Straw, also known as Old Zip Coon, is a 19th-century American folk tune. It was copyrighted in 1861 and is famous for its use in Steamboat Willie.
Turn Down for What
Turn Down for What is a 2013 Columbia single by DJ Snake and Lil Jon, a trap-dubstep party track. UK peak 23, 61 weeks on the Dance chart; ISRC USUM70731278, ISWC T-914019054-1; Daniels-directed video.
Turn the Lights Back On
Turn the Lights Back On: Billy Joel single released February 1, 2024 by Columbia Records, written with Freddy Wexler, Arthur Bacon, and Wayne Hector; his first new pop song since 2007's All My Life, debuted at No. 62 on the Hot 100.
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) is a Pete Seeger folk song from Ecclesiastes 3, first recorded in 1962 and made a 1965 Billboard number one by the Byrds.
Turning Japanese
"Turning Japanese" is a 1980 new wave single by the English band the Vapors, written by David Fenton. It reached number 3 in the UK, number 1 in Australia, and number 36 in the US, and is famous for a masturbation rumor the band denies.
Tutti Frutti (song)
Tutti Frutti, Little Richard's 1955 Specialty Records single recorded at Cosimo Matassa's New Orleans studio, with lyrics sanitized by Dorothy LaBostrie; his breakthrough hit, a National Recording Registry entry, later covered by Pat Boone and Elvis.
TV Off
TV Off (stylized "tv off") is a 2024 Kendrick Lamar song featuring Lefty Gunplay from the album GNX, produced by Mustard, Sounwave, Sean Momberger, and Jack Antonoff; famous for the viral "Mustard" shout, it topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and won the 2026 Grammy for Best Rap Song.
Tweaker (song)
Tweaker is the January 3, 2025 debut single by GELO (LiAngelo Ball), a viral early-2000s-nostalgia rap hit that reached #1 on Spotify Viral and led to a reported $13 million Def Jam deal.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, proverbial pair of near-identical twins from a 1725 John Byrom epigram on Handel and Bononcini, an 1805 nursery rhyme, and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
Twilight Zone (Ariana Grande song)
"Twilight Zone" (stylized lowercase) is a 2025 synth-pop song by Ariana Grande from eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead, written with Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh, peaking at number 5 in the UK and 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Twist and Shout
Twist and Shout is a 1961 song by Phil Medley and Bert Berns, first recorded by the Top Notes, a 1962 hit for the Isley Brothers (#17 pop, #2 R&B), and famous through the Beatles' one-take 1963 Please Please Me cover.
Two Princes
Two Princes is a 1991 Spin Doctors song from Pocket Full of Kryptonite, re-released 1992; peaked at No. 7 US, No. 3 UK, No. 1 Sweden and Iceland; written by all four band members with a signature drum intro.
Two Tribes
Two Tribes: 1984 anti-war single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, written by Gill, Johnson, and O'Toole, produced by Trevor Horn for ZTT; nine weeks at UK number 1, Mad Max 2-derived title, Godley & Creme Reagan-Chernenko wrestling video.
Type Dangerous
Type Dangerous is a 2025 Mariah Carey song, lead single from Here for It All, sampling Eric B. & Rakim's Eric B. Is President; her 50th Hot 100 entry and a 2025 MTV VMA Best R&B winner.
Tyrant (Beyoncé song)
TYRANT is a 2024 Beyoncé song featuring Dolly Parton from Cowboy Carter, a violin-heavy country-trap track produced by d.a. got that dope that peaked at number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100.
U + Me = ＜3
u + me = <3 ("you plus me equals heart") is an Olivia Rodrigo song, track five on her 2026 album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, written with Daniel Nigro, a jangle-pop love song linked by fans to Louis Partridge.
Ugly Heart
Ugly Heart is a 2014 pop single by the girl group G.R.L. (formed by Robin Antin), a kiss-off to a handsome man with a bad character. Written by Ester Dean and others, it peaked at UK No. 11 and anchors the group's debut EP.
Ulterior Motives (song)
Ulterior Motives, aka "Everyone Knows That" (EKT), is a 1985 synth-pop song by twin brothers Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth (Who's Who?), found in the 1986 film Angels of Passion after a three-year lostwave search.
Ultraviolence (song)
Ultraviolence is the 2014 title track of Lana Del Rey's album Ultraviolence, produced by Dan Auerbach. It narrates an abusive relationship, quotes the Crystals' 'He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)' and became the album's most controversial song.
Uma Thurman (song)
"Uma Thurman" is a 2015 Fall Out Boy single from American Beauty/American Psycho that samples Jack Marshall's Munsters TV theme, honors the Pulp Fiction dance scene, peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, and won the 2015 MTV VMA for Best Rock Video.
Umbrella (song)
Umbrella, Rihanna's 2007 single featuring Jay-Z from Good Girl Gone Bad, written by Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Kuk Harrell, and Jay-Z; ten weeks at UK number one, Grammy-winning, originally offered to Britney Spears.
Un-Break My Heart
Un-Break My Heart, Toni Braxton ballad from Secrets (1996), written by Diane Warren, produced by David Foster; 11 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and a 1997 Grammy winner.
Unchained Melody
Unchained Melody: 1955 Alex North/Hy Zaret song from the prison film Unchained, first sung by Todd Duncan; famously covered by the Righteous Brothers (1965) and revived by Ghost (1990), with over 1,500 recordings.
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, Paul and Linda McCartney medley from Ram (1971), first post-Beatles US Billboard Hot 100 number one for McCartney; Grammy-winning, flugelhorn-featured, unreleased as a UK single.
Under Pressure
Under Pressure, a 1981 duet by Queen and David Bowie recorded at Mountain Studios, Montreux, built on John Deacon's seven-note bass riff; UK number one from Hot Space, later central to the Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby" dispute.
Under the Bridge
Under the Bridge: 1991 Red Hot Chili Peppers ballad from Blood Sugar Sex Magik, written by Kiedis, Flea, Frusciante, Smith, produced by Rick Rubin; about Kiedis's heroin addiction in Los Angeles; US No. 2, All Saints 1998 UK No. 1 cover. Distinct from the 2024 Hulu miniseries, 1983 Chinese film, and 2022 compilation album of the same name.
Undressed (Sombr song)
Undressed is a 2025 single by American singer-songwriter sombr (Shane Michael Boose), released March 21, 2025 via Warner Records, written solo and co-produced with Tony Berg. It peaked at UK No. 4 and Billboard Hot 100 No. 16 and appears on I Barely Know Her.