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The Ultimate Sin

The Ultimate Sin (1986) is Ozzy Osbourne's fourth studio album, produced by Ron Nevison, featuring Jake E. Lee. Peaked at No. 6 Billboard 200 and No. 8 UK; double platinum in the US; deleted from catalog in 2002.

The Underworld Awaits Us All

The Underworld Awaits Us All is Nile's tenth studio album, released August 23, 2024 on Napalm Records. The 11-track, 53:34 brutal/technical death metal album was produced by Karl Sanders at Serpent Headed Studio with Mark Lewis mixing.

The Unforgiven (song)

The Unforgiven is a 1991 Metallica song by Hetfield, Ulrich, and Hammett, track 4 on the Black Album, its second single, reaching number 10 on Billboard Mainstream Rock and starting a three-song trilogy.

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is a 1987 studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was the band's third release and first to enter the Billboard 200.

The Velvet Rope

The Velvet Rope is Janet Jackson's sixth studio album, released October 7, 1997 on Virgin Records, produced with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. A dark, confessional concept album on depression, sexuality, and homophobia, it topped the Billboard 200 and sold over 10 million copies.

The Velvet Underground discography

The Velvet Underground discography: four studio albums (The Velvet Underground & Nico 1967, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground 1969, Loaded 1970), the 1973 Squeeze album, live albums, box sets, and reissues.

The Vicar of Bray (song)

The Vicar of Bray is an 18th-century English satirical song of unknown authorship about a clergyman who changes faith with each monarch; earliest text 1712/1714, first sung to Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, later to Country Gardens.

The Visitor (song)

"The Visitor" is a 13 March 2026 Capitol Records single by British singer Sienna Spiro, title track of her debut album Visitor; a string-led ballad about impermanence, UK #11, Hot 100 debut #43, distinct from Of Monsters and Men's 2020 "Visitor."

The Visitors (ABBA album)

The Visitors is ABBA's eighth studio album, released in Sweden on November 30, 1981, recorded after both couples' divorces; "One of Us" was its major hit.

The Wall – Live in Berlin

The Wall – Live in Berlin: Roger Waters' 21 July 1990 all-star staging of Pink Floyd's The Wall at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, commemorating the Berlin Wall's fall, benefiting the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, with Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and Bryan Adams.

The Wanderer (Dion song)

The Wanderer: 1961 rock and roll song by Dion, written by Ernie Maresca, released on Laurie 3115 with The Majestic; peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 10 in the UK, Grammy Hall of Fame 2017.

The Warning discography

The Warning discography covers the Mexican hard rock trio of the Villarreal sisters: two EPs (Escape the Mind 2015, MAYDAY 2021), five studio albums from XXI Century Blood (2017) to Everything's Falling (2026), and the 2025 live album Live From Auditorio Nacional, CDMX.

The Washington Post (march)

The Washington Post (march) is an 1889 John Philip Sousa march in 6/8 time, written for the Washington Post Amateur Authors Association, famous as two-step dance music, in F major modulating to B-flat major.

The Water Is Wide (song)

The Water Is Wide, also called O Waly, Waly, is a Scottish folk song (Roud 87, related to Child 204 Jamie Douglas) compiled by Cecil Sharp from Somerset singers in 1906 and popularized by Pete Seeger's 1958 recording.

The Way (Ariana Grande song)

"The Way" is Ariana Grande's 2013 debut solo single featuring Mac Miller, produced by Harmony Samuels, sampling Big Pun's "Still Not a Player"; it peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and launched her album Yours Truly.

The Way (Fastball song)

"The Way" is a 1998 song by American rock band Fastball, written by Tony Scalzo, which spent seven weeks at number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The Way I Am (Luke Combs album)

The Way I Am is Luke Combs' sixth studio album, released March 20, 2026 on Sony Music Nashville/Seven Ridges. A 22-track, 73-minute set produced with Jonathan Singleton and Chip Matthews, featuring Alison Krauss on "Ever Mine"; it debuted at No. 1 on Top Country Albums and No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

The Way You Look Tonight

The Way You Look Tonight: 1936 Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields song from Swing Time, introduced by Fred Astaire, 1936 Oscar winner for Best Song, number one for six weeks, and a jazz standard.

The Way You Make Me Feel

The Way You Make Me Feel: 1987 Michael Jackson song, third single from Bad, written by Jackson, produced with Quincy Jones, originally titled Hot Fever; number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1988, UK number 3, 2x Platinum in the US and UK.

The Wayfaring Stranger (song)

Wayfaring Stranger (Roud 3339), also "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" or "Going Over Jordan", is an early-19th-century American folk and gospel hymn first printed in Bever's 1858 Christian Songster, recorded commercially from 1929, and associated with Burl Ives and the film 1917.

The Weeknd discography

The Weeknd discography: catalog of Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye (the Weeknd), spanning the 2011 mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, six studio albums from Kiss Land (2013) to Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025), and hits like Blinding Lights.

The Weight

The Weight is a 1968 song by The Band, written by Robbie Robertson for Music From Big Pink, recorded at A&R Studios with producer John Simon; a No. 63 US single that became a roots-rock standard through covers by Aretha Franklin and its use in Easy Rider.

The Well-Tempered Clavier

The Well-Tempered Clavier (Das wohltemperierte Klavier) is J.S. Bach's two-book set of 48 preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, Book I of 1722 at Köthen and Book II of the 1740s; first printed in 1801, it is the keyboard teaching canon.

The Wheels on the Bus

The Wheels on the Bus is an American children's song attributed to Verna Hills, published in American Childhood in 1939 (an earlier 1937 poem version exists), sung to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, with verses for wheels, wipers, doors, horn, driver, and passengers.

The White Goblin (虹伝説II~THE) (Masayoshi Takanaka album)

The White Goblin (虹伝説II THE WHITE GOBLIN) is Masayoshi Takanaka's 1997 instrumental concept album, sequel to his 1981 Rainbow Goblins; 12 tracks, reissued on SHM-CD in 2014 and first vinyl in 2021.

The White Stripes (album)

The White Stripes (album): 1999 debut album by the Detroit duo The White Stripes, released June 15, 1999 on Sympathy for the Record Industry; 17 tracks, 43:38, recorded at Ghetto Recorders, produced by Jack White, dedicated to Son House.

The Who by Numbers

The Who by Numbers is The Who's seventh studio album (1975), produced by Glyn Johns, featuring Townshend's confessional songwriting, the hit "Squeeze Box," Entwistle's join-the-dots cover, and a 2026 50th-anniversary Super Deluxe reissue.

The Whole of the Moon

The Whole of the Moon: 1985 Waterboys single from This Is the Sea, written by Mike Scott on a dare in Manhattan, UK No. 26 in 1985 and No. 3 on 1991 re-release.

The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is Bruce Springsteen's second album, recorded with the E Street Band at 914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, New York, and released in 1973 on Columbia; critically praised, commercially weak, home of Rosalita, Sandy, and Kitty's Back.

The Windmills of Your Mind

The Windmills of Your Mind (Les Moulins de mon cœur) is a 1968 Michel Legrand song with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman for The Thomas Crown Affair, sung by Noel Harrison, Oscar-winning in 1969 and covered over 400 times.