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Berry Goodman
Berry Goodman (ベリーグッドマン) is a three-member Japanese vocal group from Osaka, formed in 2013, known for cheering-style power songs and a 2016 major debut on Universal Music.
Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy Jr. is an American record producer and entrepreneur who founded Motown Records in Detroit in 1959 and built it into the largest Black-owned American company of the 1960s.
Berry Oakley
Berry Oakley (Raymond Berry Oakley III, 1948–1972) was the founding bassist of the Allman Brothers Band, played a modified Fender 'Tractor' bass, and died in a 1972 Macon motorcycle crash.
Berryz Kobo
Berryz Kobo (Berryz工房) was a Japanese idol girl group in Hello! Project, formed in 2004 from the Hello! Project Kids, which released 36 singles before entering an indefinite suspension in 2015.
Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch (Herbert Jansch, 1943–2011), Scottish folk guitarist, singer-songwriter, and Pentangle founder. Debut album 1965; "Blackwaterside" arrangement became Led Zeppelin's "Black Mountain Side"; influenced Page, Young, Marr, Drake.
Bert McCracken
Bert McCracken (Robert Edward McCracken, b. 1982, Orem, Utah) is lead singer and lyricist of rock band The Used, formed 2001; platinum 2002 debut, The Canyon, Robbietheused solo project, 25th-anniversary tour.
Bertelsmann Music Group
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), also known as BMG Entertainment, was the music division of Germany's Bertelsmann and a major record company built around the RCA and Arista labels.
Bertran de Born
Bertran de Born (ca. 1140–before 1215), Occitan troubadour and lord of Hautefort castle in Périgord, wrote about 40–48 poems, mostly political war sirventes; only Rassa, tan creis survives with music. Dante damned him in Inferno XXVIII as a sower of discord.
Bertrand Cantat
Bertrand Cantat (born 1964, Pau) is the French singer-songwriter who led the rock band Noir Désir; convicted in 2004 in Vilnius to eight years for the fatal assault of actor Marie Trintignant, released conditionally in 2007, later in Détroit.
Bésame Mucho
Bésame Mucho, the Mexican bolero by Consuelo Velázquez (written 1938–1940, first performed 1941 by Emilio Tuero), the most covered Spanish-language song per Guinness 1996, translated into over 20 languages and recorded by The Beatles, Sinatra, and Dua Lipa.
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (1894-1937), the Empress of the Blues, was a Chattanooga-born blues and jazz singer whose 1923 Columbia recording Downhearted Blues sold about 800,000 copies; she made some 160 recordings, became the highest-paid Black entertainer of her day, and died in a 1937 car crash in Mississippi.
Best Artist (music)
Best Artist (ベストアーティスト) is an annual year-end live music special produced by Nippon TV in Tokyo, first aired in 2001 and hosted since 2009 by Sho Sakurai of Arashi.
Best Artist of the Year (Daesang)
Artist of the Year (올해의 아티스트) is a grand prize, or Daesang, of the Melon Music Awards, given to the act with the best streaming performance on Melon each year.
Best Coast
Best Coast is an American indie rock duo formed in Los Angeles in 2009 by Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, known for lo-fi pop drawing on 1960s surf rock and girl groups.
Best New International Act
Best New International Act, also run as Viewer's Choice: Best New International Act, is a fan-voted BET Awards category for emerging international artists, first presented in 2018 to Sjava.
BET Awards
The BET Awards, branded Culture's Biggest Night, are BET's annual ceremony honoring Black achievement in music, film, television, and sports, first held June 19, 2001 in Las Vegas, with the 25th edition on June 28, 2026 hosted by Druski.
Beth (song)
"Beth" is a 1976 orchestral ballad by KISS from Destroyer, credited to Peter Criss, Bob Ezrin, and Stan Penridge, originally written as "Beck" in the band Chelsea; reissued as an A-side, it peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Beth Ditto
Beth Ditto (Mary Beth Patterson, born 1981) is an American singer from Judsonia, Arkansas, frontwoman of dance-punk band Gossip ("Standing in the Way of Control"), later a solo artist (Fake Sugar, 2017), actress, and fashion designer; Gossip reunited for Real Power (2024).
Beth Elliott
Beth Elliott, American trans woman folk singer and activist, vice president of the San Francisco Daughters of Bilitis chapter until her 1972 expulsion, and central figure in the 1973 West Coast Lesbian Conference controversy.
Beth Gibbons
Beth Gibbons (born 1965), English singer of Portishead with Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley; Dummy (1994), Out of Season (2002), Górecki Symphony No. 3 (2019), and debut solo album Lives Outgrown (2024, Domino).
Beth Hart
Beth Hart (born 1972, Los Angeles) is an American blues-rock singer, songwriter, and keyboardist with six Billboard Blues chart toppers, three Joe Bonamassa albums, a 2014 Grammy nomination for Seesaw, and the 2024 album You Still Got Me.
Beth Liebling
Beth Liebling (born 1967, Chicago) is an American bassist and co-founder of the Seattle experimental instrumental band Hovercraft, performing as Sadie 7 on Akathisia (1997) and Experiment Below (1998), and the ex-wife of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder (1994-2000).
Beth Orton
Beth Orton (born 1970, Norfolk) is an English singer-songwriter of folktronica, known for Trailer Park (1996), Central Reservation (1999, 2000 Brit Award), and nine albums through The Ground Above (2026).
Beto Quintanilla
Beto Quintanilla (Norberto Quintanilla Iracheta) was a Mexican singer and songwriter of narcocorridos from General Terán, Nuevo León, active from 1976 until his death in 2007.
Betsy (Russian singer)
Betsy, also known as Betsy Girl, is a Russian child singer from Saint Petersburg whose 2024 single "Sigma Boy" became a viral international hit, reaching seventh on a Billboard dance chart.
Betsy Arakawa
Betsy Machiko Arakawa (1959-2025), Hawaiian-born American classical pianist, Gene Hackman's second wife, co-founder of Santa Fe store Pandora's; died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in February 2025.
Bette Davis Eyes
"Bette Davis Eyes": pop song written 1974 by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, first recorded by DeShannon on New Arrangement (1975); Kim Carnes' 1981 synth version spent nine weeks at Hot 100 No. 1 and won 1982 Grammys for Record and Song of the Year.
Bette Midler
Bette Midler, the Divine Miss M, American singer-actress born 1945 in Honolulu; Continental Baths cabaret star, Grammy, Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee for The Rose and For the Boys, Hello Dolly! Tony, NYRP founder.
Better Broken
Better Broken (2025) is Sarah McLachlan's tenth studio album and first in 11 years, released via Concord Records, produced by Tony Berg and Will Maclellan, centered on resilience themes.
Better Days (Yellowcard album)
Better Days is Yellowcard's eleventh studio album, released October 10, 2025 on Better Noise Music, produced by Travis Barker with Andrew Goldstein and Nick Long; guests Avril Lavigne and Matt Skiba; first full-length since the 2016 split.