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Sweet Child o' Mine
Sweet Child o' Mine: 1987 Guns N' Roses song from Appetite for Destruction, single June 1988 and the band's only US Billboard Hot 100 number one; riff by Slash, lyrics by Axl Rose for Erin Everly.
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This): 1983 Eurythmics new wave song by Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox, US Hot 100 No. 1, UK No. 2, built on duelling synths and a Movement Systems drum machine.
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (album)
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is Eurythmics' second album, released January 1983, self-produced by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart on an 8-track home setup funded by a £5,000 bank loan. Its title track hit UK No. 2 and US No. 1; the album reached UK No. 3 and US No. 15.
Sweet Home Alabama
"Sweet Home Alabama" is a 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd song by Ed King, Gary Rossington, and Ronnie Van Zant from Second Helping, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100; a response to Neil Young's "Southern Man" and "Alabama" that became the unofficial anthem of Alabama.
Sweet July (song)
Sweet July (song) is a single by the British pop group Take That, released on 3 July 2026. It is the second single from their tenth studio album, Dreamers.
Sweetener (album)
Sweetener is Ariana Grande's fourth studio album, released August 17, 2018 on Republic Records. Produced half by Pharrell Williams and half by Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and won her first Grammy, Best Pop Vocal Album.
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo, the Byrds' sixth album (Columbia, August 30, 1968), is the country-rock landmark recorded in Nashville and Hollywood with Gram Parsons, originally a commercial flop later ranked among the greatest albums.
Swim (BTS song)
SWIM (스윔) is a 2026 all-English single by BTS, lead track of fifth album ARIRANG, released March 20, 2026. Produced by Tyler Spry and Leclair with lyrics mainly by RM, it uses ocean imagery about persisting and topped UK sales charts and Spotify's global daily chart.
Swimming (Mac Miller album)
Swimming (2018) is Mac Miller's fifth studio album, released August 3, 2018 on Warner Bros. Records; 13 tracks produced largely with Jon Brion, featuring Thundercat, Dev Hynes, J. Cole and Snoop Dogg, nominated for the 2019 Grammy for Best Rap Album.
Swing Fever (album)
Swing Fever, a 2024 collaborative studio album by Rod Stewart and Jools Holland with his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, released 23 February 2024; 13 big band era covers, 38 minutes, East West/Rhino, UK number 1.
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is an African American spiritual first published in 1872 by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, traditionally attributed to Wallace Willis, recorded from 1894, and sung by England rugby fans since 1987.
Swing When You're Winning
Swing When You're Winning is a swing cover album by Robbie Williams, his fourth studio album, released in November 2001 with duets including "Somethin' Stupid" with Nicole Kidman.
Swish Swish
"Swish Swish" is a 2017 house-pop single by Katy Perry featuring Nicki Minaj from the album Witness, produced by Duke Dumont, widely read as a Taylor Swift diss track, peaking at UK No. 19 and No. 1 on Billboard Dance Club Songs.
Switched-On Bach
Switched-On Bach (1968) is Wendy Carlos's Columbia Masterworks album of 12 Bach pieces on a Moog modular synthesizer. It won three 1970 Grammys, was the first classical LP certified platinum, topped the classical chart over three years, and reached Billboard's pop top 10.
Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil is a 1968 Rolling Stones song by Jagger and Richards, opening Beggars Banquet. Recorded June 1968 at Olympic Studios, inspired by Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, filmed by Godard, ranked 32nd on Rolling Stone's 2004 500 list.
Sympathy Is a Knife
Sympathy Is a Knife (stylized "Sympathy is a knife") is a 2024 Charli XCX song, track 3 on Brat, about insecurity toward a rival pop star; its Ariana Grande remix charted at UK #7.
Symphonic Suite Akira
Symphonic Suite Akira (交響組曲アキラ) is Geinoh Yamashirogumi's 1988 Invitation album (VDR-1532) of Shoji Yamashiro's complete, unremixed score for Otomo's film Akira, distinct from the dialogue-containing original soundtrack.
Symphonie fantastique
Symphonie fantastique, also known as the Fantastic Symphony, is a five-movement program symphony by Hector Berlioz, first performed in Paris in 1830 and regarded as a landmark of French musical romanticism.
Symphony
Symphony: large-scale multi-movement work for orchestra, from Greek symphonia; grew from opera overtures, codified in four movements by Haydn, expanded by Beethoven and Mahler, still central to orchestral music.
Symphony (Clean Bandit song)
Symphony is a 2017 dance-pop single by Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson, written by Jack Patterson, Ina Wrolsden, Steve Mac, and Ammar Malik. A UK number one from the album What Is Love?, it passed 1.5 billion streams and went viral on TikTok in 2024.
Symphony No. 1 (Mahler)
Symphony No. 1 in D major ("Titan") by Gustav Mahler: his first symphony, mainly composed 1887–1888, premiered in Budapest in 1889 as a five-movement symphonic poem, later cut to four movements.
Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)
Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, the "Resurrection" Symphony (Auferstehungssinfonie), is an 1888–1894 five-movement work for orchestra, chorus, and soloists, premiered complete in Berlin on 13 December 1895, with a Klopstock-based choral finale.
Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, the Eroica (Sinfonia Eroica), composed 1803–1804, dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz, once titled Bonaparte, premiered publicly 7 April 1805, published 1806.
Symphony No. 40 (Mozart)
Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550, the "Great G minor," completed 25 July 1788 between Symphonies 39 and 41; one of only two minor-key Mozart symphonies, revised with clarinets for 1790 Vienna concerts.
Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, also known as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1803 to 1808 and premiered in Vienna in 1808.
Symphony No. 5 (Mahler)
Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor (1901–1902), premiered Cologne 18 October 1904; five movements in three parts, famous Adagietto for strings and harp, ends in D major.
Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)
Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, op. 100 (Симфония № 5), a 1944 wartime symphony premiered in Moscow on January 13, 1945, conducted by the composer, in four movements, about 46 minutes long.
Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)
Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, the Pastoral Symphony, is a five-movement 1808 work depicting country life, premiered 22 December 1808 in Vienna alongside the Fifth, titled 'More an expression of feeling than painting.'
Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, the Pathétique (Патетическая), his last completed symphony: composed February–August 1893, premiered in Saint Petersburg 28 October 1893, dedicated to Vladimir Davydov, famous for its 5/4 waltz and slow, despairing finale.
Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)
Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, composed 1811–1812, premiered 8 December 1813 in Vienna; Wagner's 'apotheosis of the dance', famous A-minor Allegretto encored at the premiere.