Music

Birgit Nilsson

Birgit Nilsson (Märta Birgit Nilsson, 1918–2005), Swedish dramatic soprano famed as the era's leading Wagner interpreter (Isolde, Brünnhilde), also Strauss and Puccini; namesake of the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize and Svenstad museum.

Birha

Birha, also spelled Biraha (बिरहा), is a narrative Bhojpuri folk-song tradition of North India centered on viraha, the longing of separation, shaped in the 19th century around Varanasi by Bihari Lal Yadav.

Biri Marung

"Biri Marung" is a 2024 amapiano single by South African producers Mr Pilato, Ego Slimflow, and Tebogo G Mashego, featuring Sje Konka, Focalistic, and DJ Maphorisa.

Birth of the Cool

Birth of the Cool, first titled on a 1957 Capitol LP, collects Miles Davis Nonet recordings from 1949–50 with Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, and John Lewis arrangements, French horn and tuba textures, and credit as a starting point of cool jazz.

Birthday Blizzard '26

Birthday Blizzard '26 is J. Cole's surprise four-freestyle mixtape, hosted by DJ Clue and released around his 41st birthday in late 2026 over classic Bad Boy and LOX beats as a prelude to The Fall-Off.

Birthing (album)

Birthing is the seventeenth studio album by experimental rock band Swans, released May 30, 2025 on Young God/Mute. Seven tracks, about 1 hour 55 minutes; developed on the 2023–2024 tour; final album of the Big Sound era.

Birzhan Sal

Birzhan Sal (Біржан сал, Birzhan Kozhagululy) was a nineteenth-century Kazakh singer, composer, and improvising poet, best known for his 1871 poetic contest with Sara Tastanbekkyzy.

Bisa Kdei

Bisa Kdei, born Ronald Kwaku Dei Appiah in 1986, is a Ghanaian highlife singer-songwriter and producer who leads his own label, Black Legendary Music, and modernized the genre.

Bishnu Prasad Rabha

Bishnu Prasad Rabha, called Kalaguru (teacher of art), was a 20th-century Assamese poet, songwriter, playwright, and actor, remembered as a founder of modern Assamese culture and as a communist legislator.

Bishop Briggs

Bishop Briggs, stage name of Sarah Grace McLaughlin (born 1992), London-born, Los Angeles-based English singer-songwriter named after Bishopbriggs, Scotland; known for "River" (2016), albums Church of Scars and Champion, and winning The Masked Singer season 9 as Medusa.

Bisht

The bisht (بشت) is a men's cloak of wool or camel hair worn over the thobe across the Arab world, now reserved for weddings, funerals, and ceremonies.

Bismillah Khan

Ustad Bismillah Khan (21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006), born Qamaruddin Khan in Dumraon, Bihar, was the Indian shehnai virtuoso who took the double-reed folk instrument onto the classical concert stage, played at the 1947 Red Fort independence ceremony, and received the Bharat Ratna in 2001.

BIT20 Ensemble

BIT20 Ensemble, founded 1989 in Bergen from BIT 4 and Gruppe 20, is a leading Nordic contemporary music sinfonietta of 17 musicians, giving 30-40 concerts yearly, commissioning 100+ works, and recording 26 CDs.

Bitch (album)

Bitch is Lizzo's 2026 Atlantic Records studio album, 12 tracks, 35:44, rock-leaning pop/R&B/rap interpolating Meredith Brooks and Bon Jovi; it missed the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 46 on Top Album Sales.

Bitch Better Have My Money

Bitch Better Have My Money (BBHMM) is a 2015 Rihanna single produced by Deputy and Kanye West, sampling AMG's 1992 track, with a violent seven-minute revenge video; RIAA Diamond certified.

Bitch I'm Madonna

"Bitch I'm Madonna" is a 2015 self-referential club song by Madonna featuring Nicki Minaj, the third single from Rebel Heart, produced by Diplo and SOPHIE, with a celebrity-filled video directed by Jonas Åkerlund.

Bitches Brew

Bitches Brew, Miles Davis's 1970 Columbia double album recorded August 1969 with Teo Macero, defined jazz fusion with electric instruments and edited improvisations, sold over 100,000 copies, and won a 1971 Grammy.

Bite Me (album)

Bite Me (BITE ME) is Reneé Rapp's sophomore studio album, released August 1, 2025 on Interscope. Distinct from Avril Lavigne's single and Paula Dalla Corte's EP of similar names, it has 12 tracks, a UK Number 1 chart peak, and a Metascore of 79.

Bite Now

BITE NOW is the second EP (June 1, 2026, THEBLACKLABEL) by K-pop girl group MEOVV, five tracks led by "DDI RO RI," which samples Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor; members co-wrote, Dr. Luke produced two tracks.

Bitter Choco Decoration

Bitter Choco Decoration (ビターチョコデコレーション) is a Hatsune Miku song written and composed by Vocaloid producer syudou, released on January 4, 2019, and later added to the rhythm game Project SEKAI.

Bitter Sweet Symphony

Bitter Sweet Symphony: 1997 single by The Verve from Urban Hymns, built on a sample of the Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra's cover of The Last Time; royalties lost to ABKCO until returned by Jagger and Richards in 2019.

Bittersweet (Madison Beer song)

"Bittersweet" is a 2025 synth-pop breakup song by American singer Madison Beer, released as a single from her third album locket and her first Billboard Hot 100 entry.

Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke (Leon Bix Beiderbecke) was a leading American jazz cornetist and composer from Davenport, Iowa, known for his recordings with the Wolverine and Goldkette orchestras.

Bixiga 70

Bixiga 70 is a ten-piece instrumental band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2010, that mixes Brazilian, Afrobeat, and Latin influences and has played Glastonbury and Rock in Rio.

Biya Naam

Biya naam (Assamese: বিয়া নাম) are Assamese folk songs sung by women, not professional musicians, at weddings, teasing the couple and narrating the mythical marriages of gods.

Biz Markie

Biz Markie (Marcel Theo Hall, 1964–2021), American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, and Juice Crew member known as the Clown Prince of Hip-Hop; famous for "Just a Friend" (1989) and the landmark 1991 sampling lawsuit Grand Upright Music v. Warner Bros.

Bizarre (rapper)

Bizarre, born Rufus Arthur Johnson in 1976, is a Detroit rapper and D12 member (alter ego Peter S.) known for shock-humor horrorcore. Solo albums include Hannicap Circus (2005) and L.A.R.S. with King Gordy.

Bizarre (song)

"Bizarre" is a 2026 dance-pop song by Madonna and Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, released July 3, 2026 on Warner Records from her album Confessions II. Debuted live at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, its lyrics reference Sean Penn and a 1968 Shelby Cobra.

Bizzy Bone

Bizzy Bone (Bryon Anthony McCane II, born 1976, Cleveland) is an American rapper, founding member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and prolific solo artist from 1998's Heaven'z Movie onward, repeatedly leaving and rejoining the group.