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British brass band
The British brass band, or British-style brass band, is an all-brass ensemble. It developed in 19th-century Britain and is defined by its fixed instrumentation and contesting tradition.
British dance band
British dance bands were jazz-influenced British orchestras, roughly 1919-1945, playing anglicised, precisely arranged dance music for ballrooms, records, and the BBC, with bandleaders such as Ambrose and Jack Payne.
British Invasion
The British Invasion was the wave of British pop and rock acts, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, that dominated US charts and youth culture from 1964 to the mid-1960s, reshaping music, fashion, and film.
British Phonographic Industry
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), formally BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, is the UK recorded music trade body founded in 1973, representing about 500 labels covering roughly 90% of UK sales, and organising the BRIT Awards, Mercury Prize and Official Charts co-ownership.
British rock music
British rock music: rock by UK artists, from 1950s skiffle and the British Invasion to punk, metal, indie, and Britpop; 22.2% of 2025 UK singles consumption, its highest share since 2016.
British Steel (album)
British Steel is Judas Priest's sixth studio album, released April 1980 on CBS/Columbia. Recorded in about four weeks at Ringo Starr's Tittenhurst Park with producer Tom Allom, it peaked at UK number 4 and broke the band into the US Top 40.
Britney (album)
Britney is the third studio album by American pop singer Britney Spears, released by Jive Records in late 2001 and titled simply with her own name.
Britney Jean
Britney Jean is Britney Spears' eighth studio album, released December 3, 2013 on RCA. Promoted as her most personal record and executive-produced by will.i.am, it scored Metascore 50 and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200.
Britney Spears
Britney Spears (born 1981) is an American pop singer from Mississippi, known for "...Baby One More Time" and "Toxic," with nearly 100 million records sold, a 2008-2021 conservatorship, the memoir The Woman in Me, and a 2025 catalog sale to Primary Wave.
Britney Spears discography
Britney Spears discography: nine studio albums (1999–2016) from ...Baby One More Time to Glory, six UK No. 1 singles, six Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, ~100 million records sold, catalog sold to Primary Wave.
Britney: Piece of Me
Britney: Piece of Me was Britney Spears' first Las Vegas residency, at Planet Hollywood's AXIS Theater, December 2013 to December 2017: 248 shows, 915,000 attendees, $138 million grossed, and a template for modern pop residencies.
Britpop
Britpop was a mid-1990s British music movement reacting against American grunge, led by Blur, Oasis, and Pulp, and peaking with the 1995 Battle of Britpop.
Britpop (A. G. Cook album)
Britpop (2024) is the third studio album by British producer A. G. Cook, released on New Alias: a 24-song, three-disc triple album themed Past, Present, and Future, his first release after closing PC Music.
Britpop (Robbie Williams album)
Britpop is the thirteenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, released in January 2026, a guitar-heavy, 1990s-styled pop-rock record featuring Gary Barlow, Chris Martin, Tony Iommi, and Gaz Coombes.
Britpop Tour
Britpop Tour is Robbie Williams's 14th solo concert tour, renamed from Robbie Williams Live 2025 in May 2025 and named after his 13th album Britpop. It opened at Edinburgh's Murrayfield on 31 May 2025, spans Europe, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand into 2027.
Brittany Howard
Brittany Amber Howard (born 1988), American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Athens, Alabama; Alabama Shakes frontwoman (Boys & Girls, Sound & Color, I Must Be Dreaming) and solo artist (Jaime, What Now), with five Grammy Awards.
Brittany Murphy.
"BRITTANY MURPHY." is Slayyyter's closing track on WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA (2026, Records/Columbia), named for actress Brittany Murphy but written about Slayyyter's own suicidal thoughts; also distinguishable from Murphy's own songs like "Faster Kill Pussycat".
Brixton Academy
Brixton Academy (O2 Academy Brixton), a Grade II listed 4,921-capacity former 1929 Astoria cinema at 211 Stockwell Road, south London; bought for £1 by Simon Parkes in 1983, closed after the fatal December 2022 Asake crowd crush, reopened in 2024 under 77 licensing conditions.
Bro-country
Bro-country: pejorative term for the male-dominated, truck-and-party themed country subgenre of the early 2010s, coined by Jody Rosen in 2013; defined by Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" and undone by backlash and 2015-2016 decline.
Broadcast (band)
Broadcast: Birmingham, England art-pop band formed 1995 by James Cargill and Trish Keenan, signed to Warp Records; albums The Noise Made By People, Haha Sound, Tender Buttons; ended with Keenan's 2011 death and the 2013 Berberian Sound Studio score.
Broadcast Music, Inc.
Broadcast Music, Inc., known as BMI, is an American performing rights organization that licenses over 20 million works and was founded in 1939 by radio broadcasters as a competitor to ASCAP.
Broccoli City Festival
Broccoli City Festival is an annual hip hop and R&B music festival in Washington, D.C., founded in 2013 by Brandon McEachern and Marcus Allen and now part of Live Nation Urban.
Brockhampton (band)
Brockhampton, also known as BROCKHAMPTON, was a Los Angeles hip-hop boy band founded by Kevin Abstract via the KanyeToThe forum. The 14-member collective released the 2017 Saturation trilogy, topped the Billboard 200 with Iridescence, and disbanded in 2022.
Brody Dalle
Brody Dalle, born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson (also reported as Bree Leslie Pucilowski), Australian singer-guitarist of the Distillers, Spinnerette, and solo album Diploid Love.
Brohug
BROHUG is a Swedish bass house DJ trio of Christopher Lunde, Niklas Lunde, and John Dahlbäck, formed in Stockholm in 2016 and known for releases on Tchami's Confession label.
Broke Records
Broke Records (broke records) is a New York independent label founded in 2023 by Andre Benz and Brandon De Oliveira under Create Music Group; distinct from the UK breakbeat Broke Records of The Autobots.
Broken Bells
Broken Bells is an American indie rock duo of Shins frontman James Mercer and producer Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton, formed after meeting at Roskilde 2004; albums Broken Bells (2010), After the Disco (2014), Into the Blue (2022).
Broken by the Scream
Broken by the Scream (ブロークンバイザスクリーム, BBTS) is a Japanese metal screaming idol group formed in 2017, mixing high screams, low growls, and clean vocals; current lineup Io, Tsubaki, Shizuku, Yayoi since 2024; Metal Blade signees touring Europe and Wacken 2026.
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene: Canadian indie rock collective formed in Toronto in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, with over 20 rotating members, the Arts & Crafts label, albums You Forgot It in People (2002) and Remember the Humans (2026).
Broken Window Serenade
Broken Window Serenade is a song by Whiskey Myers that tells the story of a woman who dies of crystal meth addiction. It was certified 2x Platinum by 2025.