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Parachute (Hayley Williams song)
"Parachute" is a 2025 song by Hayley Williams, the previously unreleased closing track of Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party referencing her first marriage; it won the 2026 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.
Parade (musical)
Parade is a 1998 musical drama by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown, directed by Harold Prince, about the 1913 trial and 1915 lynching of Leo Frank; it won 1999 Tonys for book and score and the 2023 Tony for Best Revival.
Paradise (Coldplay song)
Paradise (Coldplay song): 2011 single from Mylo Xyloto, written by the band with Brian Eno, produced by Dravs, Green, Simpson. UK #1 on 1 January 2012, Hot 100 #15, million-seller; elephant-unicycle video by Mat Whitecross.
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" is Meat Loaf's 8:28 1977 duet with Ellen Foley from Bat Out of Hell, written by Jim Steinman, featuring Phil Rizzuto's baseball play-by-play and Karla DeVito in the video.
Paranoid (Black Sabbath song)
Paranoid (Black Sabbath song): 1970 single and title track of the album Paranoid, written as filler in about 30 minutes, UK No. 4, Billboard Hot 100 No. 61, the band's signature song.
Paranoid Android
Paranoid Android, Radiohead song (also Marvin the Paranoid Android reference), lead single from OK Computer released May 26, 1997; a six-and-a-half-minute multi-section track fused from three compositions, named for Douglas Adams's character.
Parsifal
Parsifal (WWV 111), Wagner's last opera, a three-act Bühnenweihfestspiel premiered at Bayreuth on 26 July 1882, based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, reserved for Bayreuth until the Met's 1903 production.
Party 4 U
party 4 u (Party for You) is a 2020 Charli XCX song from how i'm feeling now, written with A. G. Cook, first performed in Tokyo in 2017, unreleased for years, then a 2025 TikTok-driven chart hit with a Mitch Ryan video.
Party in the U.S.A.
"Party in the U.S.A." is a 2009 pop song by Miley Cyrus that reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the era's best-selling digital singles.
Party Rock Anthem
Party Rock Anthem: 2011 LMFAO single (feat. Lauren Bennett, GoonRock) from Sorry for Party Rocking; six weeks at Hot 100 #1 from July 16, 2011, multi-country chart-topper, RIAA Diamond, shuffle-dance hit.
Pasek and Paul
Pasek and Paul, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, American songwriting team behind Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, and The Greatest Showman; EGOT winners in 2024 with two Tonys, two Grammys, two Emmys, and an Oscar each.
Pass the Dutchie
Pass the Dutchie: 1982 Musical Youth single, a bowdlerized cover of the Mighty Diamonds' cannabis song Pass the Kouchie; UK No. 1, US No. 10, first Black-artist MTV heavy-rotation video.
Passenger (Alex Warren song)
PASSENGER is a 2026 pop single by Alex Warren from his album WILDCHILD, released June 5, 2026 on Atlantic Records; written with Cal Shapiro, Mags Duval, and Adam Yaron; UK peak number 22, Billboard Hot 100 peak 100.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man (also Patty Cake, Pattycake) is an English nursery rhyme and clapping game, first recorded in Thomas d'Urfey's play The Campaigners in 1698, among the oldest surviving English nursery rhymes.
Payphone (song)
Payphone is a 2012 pop single by Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa, lead single from Overexposed. Peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, first UK number one for both acts, 493,000 first-week downloads, RIAA 7x Platinum.
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy is a 1977 Christmas medley duet by Bing Crosby and David Bowie, recorded for Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas, released as a 1982 single that reached number 3 in the UK.
Pedro (song)
"Pedro" is a 1980 Raffaella Carrà single on CBS 8321, built on Bach's Siciliana; a 2024 Jaxomy and Agatino Romero remix went viral via a TikTok raccoon video, topping Spotify's global Viral 50.
Peekaboo (song)
peekaboo (feat. AzChike) is a Kendrick Lamar song from the 2024 album GNX, produced by Sounwave, Bridgeway and Sean Momberger, sampling Little Beaver's "Give Me a Helping Hand," performed at Super Bowl LIX, and the only GNX track without Jack Antonoff.
Peer Gynt (Grieg)
Peer Gynt, Op. 23 is Edvard Grieg's 1874–75 incidental music for Ibsen's verse drama, premiered 24 February 1876 in Christiania; known through the two suites Opp. 46 and 55 with Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Penny Lane
Penny Lane, Beatles song written mainly by Paul McCartney, released February 1967 as a double A-side with Strawberry Fields Forever; recorded at EMI Studios with David Mason's piccolo trumpet solo, US number one, UK number two.
People Watching (Sam Fender song)
People Watching is a 2024 song by Sam Fender, released as the lead single from his third album. It peaked at Number 4 on the UK Singles Chart.
Perfect (Ed Sheeran song)
"Perfect" (Ed Sheeran song): 2017 ballad from the album ÷ (Divide), written for Cherry Seaborn; fourth UK No. 1, 2017 UK Christmas Number 1, certified 8x Platinum in the US, with Beyoncé and Andrea Bocelli versions.
Perfect (One Direction song)
Perfect is a 2015 One Direction song, the second single from Made in the A.M., co-written by Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson; UK No. 2, US Hot 100 No. 10, Ireland No. 1.
Perfect Day (Lou Reed song)
"Perfect Day" is a 1972 Lou Reed ballad from Transformer, produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson and issued as a double A-side with "Walk on the Wild Side". Known for disputed heroin readings, the Trainspotting soundtrack, and the 1997 BBC Children in Need charity version that topped the UK chart.
Perfect Illusion
Perfect Illusion: September 2016 Lady Gaga single, lead track of Joanne, co-produced with Mark Ronson, Kevin Parker, and BloodPop, guitar by Josh Homme; UK No. 12, US No. 15, France No. 1.
Petal (song)
"petal" (Petal) is a 2026 song by Ariana Grande, title track and second single from her eighth album petal, released July 31, 2026 via Republic/Babydoll Music; sole-written by Grande, produced with Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin, peaking at number 4.
Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf (Петя и волк), Prokofiev's 1936 symphonic fairy tale Op. 67, commissioned by Natalia Sats for the Moscow Children's Theatre, assigns each story character a distinct orchestral instrument to teach children the orchestra.
Peter Pan (1954 musical)
Peter Pan (1954 musical): Broadway musical by Mark Charlap, Carolyn Leigh, Jule Styne, Comden and Green, directed by Jerome Robbins, starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard; 152 performances at the Winter Garden and a record 65-million-viewer NBC telecast.
Peter Piper
Peter Piper is a famous English tongue twister that first appeared in 1813 in London. It is known for its alliterative structure and its use in pronunciation studies.
Philadelphia Freedom (song)
Philadelphia Freedom: 1975 Elton John/Bernie Taupin single by the Elton John Band, written for Billie Jean King's World TeamTennis Philadelphia Freedoms; number one on the Billboard Hot 100 April 12, 1975 for two weeks, produced by Gus Dudgeon with Gene Page orchestration.