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Islah (album)

Islah is the 2016 debut studio album by Baton Rouge rapper Kevin Gates, released on Atlantic/Bread Winners' Association, named after his daughter and an Arabic word meaning to improve; it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and scored 81 on Metacritic.

Islands (King Crimson album)

Islands is King Crimson's fourth studio album, released December 1971 on Island Records, the last with lyricist Peter Sinfield and the only studio record by the Fripp, Collins, Burrell, Wallace line-up.

Islands in the Stream (song)

Islands in the Stream: 1983 country-pop duet by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, written by the Bee Gees after Hemingway's novel; triple-platinum, three-week Billboard chart-topper.

Isn't She Lovely

Stevie Wonder's 1976 song from Songs in the Key of Life, written for his newborn daughter Aisha Morris and featuring her real bathtime sounds; never a US single but covered over 175 times.

Israel Houghton

Israel Houghton (born 1971, Oceanside, California) is an American worship leader, singer, songwriter, and producer who records as Israel & New Breed, led worship at Lakewood Church, and fuses gospel, jazz, rock, and Latin influences in songs like Friend of God and You Are Good.

Israelites (song)

"Israelites" (also "(Poor Me) Israelites") is a 1968 song by Desmond Dekker & the Aces, written by Dekker and Leslie Kong. First reggae UK number one (March 1969), US Billboard number nine, sung in Jamaican Patois about working poverty through biblical Israelite imagery.

Issa Album

Issa Album is the 2017 debut studio album by Atlanta rapper 21 Savage. The 14-track record, featuring the single "Bank Account," is named for a dagger tattoo between his eyes.

Issues (Korn album)

Issues (1999) is Korn's fourth studio album, released on Epic/Immortal, produced by Brendan O'Brien, and the first made by Jonathan Davis sober. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 575,000 first-week sales, used four fan-submitted MTV contest covers, and has sold over 13 million copies.

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a 1953 novelty song by Jimmy Kennedy and Nat Simon, first recorded by The Four Lads, about Turkey's 1930 official renaming of Constantinople; best known via They Might Be Giants' 1990 cover on Flood.

İstiklal Marşı

İstiklal Marşı (Independence March), Turkey's national anthem: ten-stanza poem by Mehmet Akif Ersoy, written February 1921, adopted by the TBMM on 12 March 1921; official melody by Osman Zeki Üngör in sol minor.

It Ain't Me

It Ain't Me (song), 2017 tropical house-pop single by Norwegian DJ Kygo featuring Selena Gomez, released February 2017 via Sony/Columbia; written by Tamposi, Watt, Lee, and Kygo; Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 and 2.9 billion streams. Distinct from Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" and T-Pain's "It Ain't Me."

It Ain't Me Babe

"It Ain't Me Babe" (also "It Ain't Me, Babe") is a 1964 Bob Dylan song closing Another Side of Bob Dylan, a refusal song covered within a year by Johnny Cash and June Carter, Joan Baez, and the Turtles, whose 1965 version was a Top-10 hit.

It Depends

"It Depends" is a 2025 single by Chris Brown featuring Bryson Tiller, released July 25, 2025 on RCA. Produced by Nico Baran and RIOTUSA, it samples Usher's "Nice & Slow" and hit No. 1 on Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and R&B Digital Song Sales.

It Goes On

It Goes On names several music releases: Storm Queen's 2011 house single by Morgan Geist with singer Damon C. Scott on Environ; Avalon Emerson's 2025 rework "On It Goes"; Westside Cowboy's 2026 Island debut album; and The Magic Es' 2017 album.

It Must Have Been Love

It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted) is a 1987 Roxette ballad by Per Gessle, reworked without Christmas references for Pretty Woman (1990); it topped the US Hot 100 and UK No. 3.

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is Public Enemy's second album, released June 28, 1988 on Def Jam; Bomb Squad production from hundreds of samples and Chuck D's political lyrics made it a landmark political rap record.

It Was a Good Day

"It Was a Good Day" (also "Today Was a Good Day") is a 1993 Ice Cube single from The Predator, sampling the Isley Brothers' "Footsteps in the Dark," narrating a trouble-free day in South Central Los Angeles.

It Was Written

It Was Written is Nas's second studio album, released July 2, 1996 on Columbia. Also known as the Nas Escobar album, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, went triple platinum, and features "If I Ruled the World" with Lauryn Hill.

It Wasn't Me

"It Wasn't Me" is a 2000 reggae fusion single by Shaggy featuring RikRok, from the album Hot Shot on MCA. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 2001, was the UK's best-selling single of 2001, and inspired the "Shaggy defense" of flat denial.

It Won't Be Soon Before Long

It Won't Be Soon Before Long is Maroon 5's second studio album, released May 2007 on A&M/Octone and Interscope, 13 songs in 43 minutes, peaking at number 1 on the UK Official Albums Chart.

It's a Long Way to Tipperary

"It's a Long Way to Tipperary" is a 1912 British music hall song by Jack Judge and Harry Williams, allegedly written for a five-shilling bet, that became the most famous marching song of the First World War after the Connaught Rangers were reported singing it at Boulogne in August 1914.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

It's a Man's Man's Man's World: 1966 soul ballad by James Brown, co-written with Betty Newsome, arranged by Sammy Lowe, UK No. 13; born from Newsome's 1964 'It's a Man's World' and later covered by Cher.

It's a Sin

It's a Sin: 1987 Pet Shop Boys synth-pop single by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from Actually; UK number 1 about Catholic guilt, later title of Russell T Davies' 2021 AIDS drama.

It's All Coming Back to Me Now

Power ballad written by Jim Steinman, inspired by Wuthering Heights; first recorded by Pandora's Box in 1989 (UK No. 51), made famous by Celine Dion's 1996 version (US No. 2, UK No. 3), later a 2006 Meat Loaf and Marion Raven duet.

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue is a 1965 Bob Dylan song closing the acoustic side of Bringing It All Back Home, known for its Newport 1965 acoustic performance after the booed electric set, the influential Van Morrison/Them cover, and many versions by the Byrds, Hole, Joni Mitchell, and the Grateful Dead.

It's Been Awful

It's Been Awful (IT'S BEEN AWFUL) is Isaiah Rashad's third studio album, released May 1, 2026 on Top Dawg Entertainment/Warner Records. His first album in five years after The House Is Burning, it features SZA, Dominic Fike, and Julian Sintonia, and scored 83 on Metacritic.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (also titled It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas) is a 1951 Meredith Willson Christmas song first recorded by Perry Como and the Fontane Sisters, later covered by Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis, and Michael Bublé.

It's Hard

It's Hard (The Who, 1982): the band's tenth studio album, released 4 September 1982 on Polydor and Warner Bros., produced by Glyn Johns, reaching #11 UK and #8 US, the last Who album with Entwistle and Kenney Jones.

It's Me (Illit song)

"It's Me" is a 2026 techno song by K-pop girl group ILLIT (아일릿), title track of the fourth mini album MAMIHLAPINATAPAI, released April 30, 2026; known for the "Who's your bias?" hook, Melon TOP 100 peak #2, and 100 million streams in Japan.

It's My Birthday

"It's My Birthday" (originally "Birthday") is a 2014 Interscope single by will.i.am featuring Cody Wise, sampling A. R. Rahman's "Urvasi Urvasi" from Kadhalan; it hit UK number 1, will.i.am's tenth chart-topper.