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The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) is Rossini's 1816 two-act opera buffa, libretto by Sterbini after Beaumarchais's 1775 play, premiered at Rome's Teatro Argentina and famous for "Largo al factotum".
The Bartered Bride
The Bartered Bride (Prodaná nevěsta) is Bedřich Smetana's three-act comic opera to a libretto by Karel Sabina, premiered in Prague in 1866; the Czech national opera, famous for its overture, polka, furiant, and skočná.
The Best (song)
"The Best" (also called "Simply the Best") is a Holly Knight and Mike Chapman song, originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler in 1988 and made a worldwide hit by Tina Turner's 1989 cover, later the NSWRL rugby league anthem.
The Blue Danube
The Blue Danube (An der schönen, blauen Donau), Op. 314, is Johann Strauss II's 1867 Viennese waltz for choir and orchestra, premiered at Vienna's Dianabadsaal, famous after the 1867 Paris World's Fair, and the Vienna Philharmonic's most performed piece.
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" (Loch Lomond) is a traditional Scottish folk song first published in Vocal Melodies of Scotland in 1841, linked to a Jacobite prisoner after the 1745 Rising, with a pentatonic melody famous through Vaughan Williams and the band Runrig.
The Book of Love (The Magnetic Fields song)
"The Book of Love" is a 1999 song by Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields, track 12 on volume one of 69 Love Songs; Merritt calls it the album's manifesto. Peter Gabriel's cover (Shall We Dance? 2004, Scratch My Back 2010) made it the band's most-covered song.
The Book of Mormon (musical)
The Book of Mormon is a 2011 satirical Broadway musical by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez about two Mormon missionaries in Uganda; it won nine Tonys and four Oliviers and has run over 5,000 performances.
The Box (Roddy Ricch song)
"The Box" is a 2019 song by Roddy Ricch from Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 weeks in 2020, peaked at No. 2 in the UK, and was RIAA-certified Diamond.
The Boxer
The Boxer is a 1969 folk rock ballad written by Paul Simon and recorded by Simon & Garfunkel for Bridge Over Troubled Water; a US #7 single known for its lie-la-lie chorus, 100-hour recording, and elevator-shaft snare drum. Distinct from Kele's 2010 album and Sheridan's 1998 film.
The Boy Is Mine (Ariana Grande song)
the boy is mine is a 2024 Ariana Grande song from eternal sunshine, reimagining Brandy and Monica's 1998 duet and her leaked track fantasize; third single, Christian Breslauer video with Penn Badgley, Brandy-Monica remix, Grammy-nominated.
The Boys Are Back in Town
"The Boys Are Back in Town" is a 1976 Thin Lizzy song by Phil Lynott, first single from Jailbreak; No.1 in Ireland, No.8 UK, No.12 US, originally titled "G.I. Joe Is Back in Town".
The Boys of Summer (song)
"The Boys of Summer" is a 1984 song by Don Henley, written with Mike Campbell, that became his signature solo hit and won a Grammy Award.
The Candy Man
"The Candy Man" is a song by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, made famous by Sammy Davis Jr.'s number-one 1972 recording.
The Carnival of the Animals
Le carnaval des animaux (Carnival of the Animals, Grande fantaisie zoologique), Saint-Saëns's 14-movement comic suite for eleven instruments, composed February 1886, suppressed until its 1922 publication; famous for The Swan, Aquarium, and Fossils.
The Chain
"The Chain" is a 1977 Fleetwood Mac song from Rumours, the album's only track credited to all five band members, assembled from rejected material including Christine McVie's Keep Me There and the 1973 Buckingham Nicks song Lola (My Love), famous for John McVie's bass riff used as the BBC's Formula 1 theme.
The Chauffeur
"The Chauffeur" is a 1982 song by Duran Duran, the closing track on their album Rio, a slow, atmospheric electronic ballad never released as a single.
The Christmas Song
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire; Merry Christmas to You) is a 1945 Christmas standard by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells, made famous by Nat King Cole's 1946 and 1961 recordings, a 1974 Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.
The Code (Nemo song)
The Code is the song by Swiss non-binary artist Nemo (with Benji Alasu, Linda Dale, Lasse Nymann), mixing rap, opera, pop, and drum and bass; it won Eurovision 2024 in Malmö with 591 points, Switzerland's third win and first since 1988.
The Cure (Olivia Rodrigo song)
The Cure (stylized "the cure") is a 2026 Olivia Rodrigo song, second single from You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, produced with Dan Nigro; UK peak No. 2, Pitchfork Best New Track, unrelated to the band The Cure.
The Daemon Lover
The Daemon Lover (Child 243, Roud 14), also called James Harris or The House Carpenter, is a traditional ballad in which a woman leaves her carpenter husband for a returning, often demonic, sailor lover; their ship sinks. First printed as Laurence Price's 1657 broadside A Warning for Married Women.
The Days (Chrystal song)
"The Days" is a 2024 house single by British producer Chrystal (Chrystal Orchard), written in 2015 and released via Chaos/Polydor. Its viral NOTION remix drove UK top-five and international chart success in 2025.
The Dead Dance
"The Dead Dance" (also "Dead Dance") is a 2025 synth-pop single by Lady Gaga, co-produced with Andrew Watt and Cirkut, tied to Netflix's Wednesday season 2 and directed by Tim Burton in its music video.
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is the Charlie Daniels Band's 1979 fiddle-contest story song, also known from its sequel "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia." Written in December 1978 for Million Mile Reflections, it hit number 1 country and number 3 pop, won a 1980 Grammy, and joined the National Recording Registry in 2026.
The Door (Teddy Swims song)
"The Door" is a 2023 pop soul song by American singer Teddy Swims (Jaten Dimsdale) from I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1); written with Bunetta, Coleman, Ekko, Nicholls, and Ryan, it peaked at number 5 on the UK chart and charted 89 weeks.
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Drowsy Chaperone is a Canadian meta-musical by Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison, Bob Martin, and Don McKellar, born as a 1998 Toronto stag-party sketch, that reached Broadway in 2006, ran 674 performances, and won five Tony Awards.
The Duck Song
The Duck Song is a 2009 children's comedy song by Bryant Oden about a duck asking a lemonade stand man for grapes, which became a viral YouTube hit.
The Ecstasy of Gold
The Ecstasy of Gold (L'estasi dell'oro) is Ennio Morricone's 1966 instrumental cue for Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, scoring Tuco's Sad Hill cemetery search and famous as Metallica's concert entrance music since 1983.
The Elements (song)
The Elements is Tom Lehrer's 1959 comic song reciting the 102 chemical elements then known, up to nobelium, to the Major-General's Song from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance; recorded on More of Tom Lehrer and An Evening (Wasted) with Tom Lehrer, later covered by Daniel Radcliffe and updated for all 118 elements.
The Emptiness Machine
The Emptiness Machine is a 2024 song by Linkin Park, lead single of From Zero and the band's first new music after Chester Bennington's death, introducing vocalist Emily Armstrong; it topped Billboard rock airplay for 15 weeks and hit #1 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Portugal.
The End (The Doors song)
"The End" is an 11-minute closing track on the Doors' 1967 debut album, written by Morrison, Krieger, Manzarek, and Densmore, famous for its improvised Oedipal section and for opening Coppola's Apocalypse Now.