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Breakaway Philadelphia

Breakaway Philadelphia is the Philadelphia-area edition of Breakaway Music Festival, an electronic and multi-genre series held at the Festival Grounds at Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, since 2025.

Breakbeat

Breakbeat: the drum pattern from a song's drum break, and the electronic genre family built on sampling it. Also called breaks. From DJ Kool Herc's Bronx merry-go-round technique through breakbeat hardcore, jungle, drum & bass, and big beat.

Breakbot

Breakbot, real name Thibaut Berland, is a French producer and DJ on Ed Banger Records, known for "Baby I'm Yours" and the albums By Your Side and Still Waters.

Breakcore

Breakcore, also known as industrial drum'n'bass, is an electronic dance music genre that fragments sampled drum loops like the Amen break into chaotic, fast-changing patterns, emerging in the mid-1990s.

Breakfast at Tiffany's (song)

Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1995 single by Deep Blue Something written by Todd Pipes, about a couple united only by liking the 1961 film; first on 11th Song, hit on Home, UK number 1 in 1996, US Hot 100 top 5.

Breakfast Club (band)

Breakfast Club was an American dance-pop and new wave band from New York, best known for the 1987 hit "Right On Track" and for Madonna's early stint as its drummer.

Breakfast in America

Breakfast in America is Supertramp's sixth studio album, released March 1979 on A&M. Recorded over eight months in Los Angeles, it topped the US chart for six weeks, sold over 18 million copies, and spawned The Logical Song, Goodbye Stranger, and Take the Long Way Home.

Breakin' Dishes

Breakin' Dishes is a 2007 Rihanna song from Good Girl Gone Bad, written by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart. Never a single, it hit No. 4 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart, then went TikTok-viral in 2025, debuting on the Hot 100 at No. 86 and passing one billion Spotify streams.

Breaking Benjamin

Breaking Benjamin is an American post-grunge/alternative metal band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, founded by Benjamin Burnley; known for Phobia, Dear Agony, the Billboard 200-topping Dark Before Dawn, ten No. 1 rock radio hits, and a 2014 lineup rebuild.

Breaking the Habit (song)

"Breaking the Habit" is a 2003 Linkin Park song from Meteora, released June 14, 2004 as its fifth and final single. Written by Mike Shinoda over about five years, built on piano and live strings arranged by David Campbell, with an anime video by Joe Hahn that won the 2004 MTV Viewer's Choice award.

Breakout (Miley Cyrus album)

Breakout is the second studio album by Miley Cyrus, released by Hollywood Records on July 22, 2008, and her first album credited to Miley Cyrus alone, outside the Hannah Montana franchise.

Breathe (British band)

Breathe (British band) was an English pop group formed in London in 1984. They were the first British act to place three Top 10 pop hits from their 1988 debut album.

Breezy Bowl XX

Breezy Bowl XX is Chris Brown's 2025 20th-anniversary stadium world tour, promoted by Live Nation, running June 8 to October 16, 2025 across Europe and North America with Summer Walker, Bryson Tiller, and Jhené Aiko, grossing about $298 million and ranking No. 7 on Pollstar's 2025 year-end list.

Brenda K. Starr

Brenda K. Starr (Brenda Joy Kaplan, born 1966, New York) is an American freestyle-pop and salsa singer, known for the 1988 number 13 hit "I Still Believe" and for giving Mariah Carey's demo to Tommy Mottola.

Brenda Lee

Brenda Lee (Brenda Mae Tarpley, born 1944), "Little Miss Dynamite," American singer of "I'm Sorry" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"; 1960s chart leader, first woman in both the Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame.

Brenda Lee singles discography

Brenda Lee singles discography: 89 lead-artist singles from the 1956 Decca debut "Jambalaya" through the 2023 Hot 100 return of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"; 46 US Hot 100 hits in the 1960s and a country comeback after 1971.

Brendon Moeller

Brendon Moeller, also known as Beat Pharmacy and Echologist, is a South African-born, New York-based producer of deep, dubby techno and house who moved to New York in 1993.

Brendon Urie

Brendon Boyd Urie (born 1987, Las Vegas) is an American singer and multi-instrumentalist, frontman and sole remaining original member of Panic! at the Disco (2004–2023), a lyric tenor with a D2–C7 range, later a Broadway Kinky Boots lead and Taylor Swift duet partner.

Brennan Heart & Jonathan Mendelsohn

Brennan Heart & Jonathan Mendelsohn are a Dutch–American hardstyle pairing of producer Fabian Bohn and American vocalist Jonathan Mendelsohn, best known for their 2013 track "Imaginary".

Brennen Grey

Brennen Grey is an American dark, high-energy techno DJ and producer from Los Angeles, now based between Los Angeles and Berlin, who runs the label GRY LBL.

Brent Faiyaz

Brent Faiyaz (Christopher Brent Wood), independent R&B singer from Columbia, Maryland; Sonder member; albums Sonder Son, Wasteland (No. 2 Billboard 200), Larger Than Life, Icon (2026).

Brent Hinds

Brent Hinds (1974–2025), American guitarist and co-vocalist who co-founded metal band Mastodon; known for Leviathan, Crack the Skye, Grammy-winning Emperor of Sand, side projects Fiend Without a Face and West End Motel; died in an Atlanta motorcycle crash.

Brent Mydland

Brent Mydland (1952-1990) was an American keyboardist and vocalist, the Grateful Dead's longest-tenured keyboardist (1979-1990), formerly of Silver and Bobby and the Midnites; he died of a speedball overdose.

Brent Smith

Brent Smith is the American singer, lyricist, and primary songwriter of Shinedown, the Jacksonville, Florida rock band he founded in 2001 after Dreve; holder of a record 25 Mainstream Rock Airplay number ones and over 10 million albums sold.

Bret McKenzie

Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician and comedian of Flight of the Conchords (with Jemaine Clement), Grammy 2008 winner, Oscar 2012 winner for "Man or Muppet", The Black Seeds founder, and Sub Pop solo artist (Songs Without Jokes, Freak Out City).

Bret Michaels

Bret Michaels (Bret Michael Sychak), American singer from Pennsylvania, lead singer of glam metal band Poison ("Every Rose Has Its Thorn"), later solo artist, Rock of Love and Celebrity Apprentice reality TV star, diabetic.

Brett Anderson

Brett Anderson (Brett Lewis Anderson), born 1967 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, is the English lead singer and lyricist of Suede, whose 1993 debut topped the UK chart and won the Mercury Prize; he later fronted the Tears, released four solo albums, wrote two memoirs, and rejoined Suede in 2010.

Brett Eldredge

Brett Ryan Eldredge (born 1986, Paris, Illinois) is an American country singer-songwriter known for Bring You Back, three early Country Airplay No. 1s, the 2014 CMA New Artist award, and the Glow holiday albums and tour.

Brett Gurewitz

Brett Gurewitz (Mr. Brett, born 1962) is an American punk musician, co-founder, guitarist and songwriter of Bad Religion, and founder-owner of Epitaph Records, the indie label behind The Offspring's Smash, plus sister label ANTI-.

Brett Hudson

Brett Hudson, born Brett Salerno in Portland, Oregon in 1953, is the youngest member of the 1970s pop trio the Hudson Brothers, bassist on "So You Are a Star" and later a television producer, distinct from the New Zealand politician of the same name.