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Comedown Machine
Comedown Machine is the fifth studio album by The Strokes, released March 26, 2013 on RCA, produced by Gus Oberg. Known for its 1980s new-wave sound, falsetto vocals, RCA tape-box cover art, minimal promotion, and Metascore 68.
Comes in Waves
Comes in Waves is Carly Simon's 2026 album on Iris Records, her first of original songs since 2008's This Kind of Love, recorded on Martha's Vineyard after her Parkinson's diagnosis, featuring Ben and Sally Taylor, Andreas Vollenweider, and John Forté.
Cometh the Storm
Cometh the Storm is the ninth studio album by American stoner/sludge metal band High on Fire, released April 19, 2024 on MNRK Heavy; first album with drummer Coady Willis, recorded with Kurt Ballou, featuring Turkish folk influences.
Comfortably Numb
Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd song from The Wall (1979), music by David Gilmour, lyrics by Roger Waters; famous for Gilmour's two guitar solos, performed atop the wall on the 1980-81 tour.
Comic opera
Comic opera is a genre of humorous opera that developed in the early 18th century. It features alternating spoken dialogue and musical numbers across several national traditions, such as the French opéra-comique.
Coming Up Roses (Harry Styles song)
"Coming Up Roses" is a piano-and-orchestra ballad by Harry Styles from his 2026 album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally., the only song he wrote entirely himself.
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, formed 1967 in Ann Arbor by George Frayne IV, was an American country rock/bar band blending rockabilly, Western swing, and R&B; known for the 1972 Top Ten hit "Hot Rod Lincoln" and broke up after its 1976 European tour.
Commodores
The Commodores are an American funk, soul, and R&B band formed in 1968 at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, best known for Motown hits like "Easy" and "Brick House."
Common (rapper)
Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., born 1972, formerly Common Sense) is a Chicago rapper, actor, and activist known for Resurrection, Be, the Oscar-winning song Glory, and 2024's The Auditorium, Vol. 1 with Pete Rock.
Communiqué (Dire Straits album)
Communiqué, Dire Straits' second studio album (June 1979), produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett, recorded at Compass Point, Nassau; nine Mark Knopfler songs, UK #5, #1 in several European countries, last quartet album.
Community band
Community band: an amateur wind band (also concert band, town band, windband) of volunteer woodwind, brass, and percussion players. Roots in 19th-century civic and military band traditions; Sousa shaped the format; New Horizons serves 10,000 adult musicians.
Cómo Te Atreves
"Cómo Te Atreves" (Como Te Atreves) is a song by the Colombian pop band Morat, released in 2015 and their breakout hit in Spain, reaching number one on Los 40 Principales in 2016.
Company (musical)
Company is a 1970 Stephen Sondheim–George Furth concept musical about bachelor Bobby and his married friends in New York, directed by Harold Prince. Opened at the Alvin Theatre, ran 705 performances, won six Tonys; revived 1995, 2006, and as the gender-swapped Bobbie revival of 2018/2021.
Company Flow (group)
Company Flow is an American hip hop trio formed in 1992 in Queens, New York, whose debut album Funcrusher Plus made them underground rap leaders.
Compas
Compás is the repeating rhythmic cycle on which flamenco's metered styles are built, combining binary and ternary meters into 12-beat patterns with fixed accents that singer, guitarist, and dancer share.
Compilation album
Compilation album: a music release assembling tracks from multiple sources or artists, curated rather than a unified studio work; includes greatest hits, various-artists theme albums like Now That's What I Call Music!, DJ mixes, and box sets, with distinct copyright and streaming classification rules.
Complicated (Avril Lavigne song)
Complicated is the 2002 debut single by Avril Lavigne, also called her breakthrough pop-punk hit from Let Go. Written with The Matrix, it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, topped charts in Australia and Canada, and earned two 2003 Grammy nominations.
Composer
Composer: a person who writes music, especially classical music; the music sense of the word dates from the 1590s. Covers what composers do, composer versus songwriter, arranger, and orchestrator, screen and game composition, and AI exposure.
Compton (album)
Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre is Dr. Dre's third studio album, released August 7, 2015 on Aftermath/Interscope exclusively via Apple Music; inspired by the Straight Outta Compton biopic, it scrapped Detox and earned a Metacritic score of 82.
Compton's Most Wanted
Compton's Most Wanted (CMW) is an American gangsta rap group formed in 1987 in Compton, California, led by MC Eiht with Tha Chill, DJ Mike T, DJ Slip, and the Unknown DJ. Known for the 1990 debut It's a Compton Thang, the 1991 hit "Growin' Up in the Hood," and a laid-back, soul-sampling West Coast sound distinct from N.W.A.
Computer music
Computer music: music made or composed with digital computers, from CSIRAC and the 1951 Ferranti Mark 1 recording through Max Mathews' MUSIC, FM synthesis, DAWs, and AI text-to-music systems.
Con Altura
"Con Altura" is a 2019 reggaeton song by the Spanish singer Rosalía featuring J Balvin and El Guincho, released through Columbia Records and winner of the Latin Grammy for Best Urban Song.
Con Calma
Con Calma is a 2019 reggaeton single by Daddy Yankee featuring Canadian artist Snow, reworking Snow's 1992 hit Informer; released January 24, 2019 on El Cartel Records, it topped Hot Latin Songs for 14 weeks and won a Billboard Latin award.
Cơn Mưa Ngang Qua
"Cơn Mưa Ngang Qua" ("the passing rain") is a Vietnamese pop and hip-hop song by Sơn Tùng M-TP, his 2011 breakout hit about lost love returning with rain.
Con te partirò
Con te partirò ("Time to Say Goodbye") is an Italian song by Francesco Sartori and Lucio Quarantotto, premiered by Andrea Bocelli at Sanremo 1995 (fourth place) and, as a Sarah Brightman duet of 1996, a 12-million-selling international hit.
Conan Gray
Conan Gray, American singer-songwriter born 1998 in San Diego to an Irish father and Japanese mother, rose from YouTube with "Idle Town" (2017). Albums: Kid Krow, Superache, Found Heaven, Wishbone.
Concept album
Concept album: an album whose tracks share a single idea, theme, or narrative. Also called a unified or thematic album; forerunners include Sinatra's 1950s LPs and Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads, with Sgt. Pepper (1967) generally recognized as the first rock example.
Concert
Concert: a live music performance before an audience, from solo recitals to orchestral and popular events. Traces its 1672 London paid-audience origins, 18th-century rise, classical concert crisis, ageing audiences, and streaming.
Concert band
A concert band, also known as a wind symphony, symphonic band, or wind ensemble, is a large ensemble of woodwinds, brass, and percussion that performs in auditorium concerts, distinct from a marching band.
Concert for George
Concert for George: memorial tribute to George Harrison held 29 November 2002 at London's Royal Albert Hall, organized by Olivia Harrison and Eric Clapton; Grammy-winning 2003 film and album featuring McCartney, Starr, Petty, Lynne and Monty Python.