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Abraxas (album)
Abraxas is Santana's second studio album, released September 23, 1970 on Columbia. It hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200, yielded "Black Magic Woman" (No. 4) and "Oye Como Va" (No. 13), and defined Latin rock.
Abraxis
Abraxis is a conceptual psytrance supergroup formed by Seven Lions and the Seattle duo Dimibo, announced in June 2019 and built around a fictional institute.
Abril Pro Rock
Abril Pro Rock is a rock festival held in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, first staged in 1993 and organized since then by producer Paulo André Pires, closely tied to the manguebeat movement.
Absolute Elsewhere
Absolute Elsewhere is Blood Incantation's two-track, 43:39 studio album blending death metal with 1970s prog, released October 4, 2024 on Century Media and recorded at Berlin's Hansa Studios with producer Arthur Rizk.
Absolute pitch
Absolute pitch (AP), or perfect pitch, is the rare ability to identify or produce a musical note without a reference tone. Covers prevalence, genetics (AVPR1A, twin and family studies), early training, adult learnability evidence since 2019, brain correlates, and measurement problems.
Absolutely (musician)
Absolutely is the stage name of Abby-Lynn Keen, a British alt-pop singer, songwriter, and producer from Tooting, South London, sister of RAYE. After writing for Anitta, Guetta, and Normani, she released CEREBRUM (2023) and Paracosm (2026) on Epic Records.
Absolutely Free
Absolutely Free is the 1967 second album by Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention on Verve, recorded November 1966 on an $11,000 MGM budget, structured as two linked suites including "Plastic People" and "Brown Shoes Don't Make It."
Absolution (album)
Absolution is Muse's third studio album (2003), produced by Rich Costey, their first UK number 1 with 86 Top 100 weeks, an apocalyptic symphonic rock record, reissued as the XX Anniversary edition in 2023.
Abu Bakr Salem Balfaqih
Abu Bakr Salem Balfaqih (أبو بكر سالم) was a Yemeni singer, poet, and composer known as the father of Khaleeji, or Gulf, music; he died in 2017.
Abu Dhabi TV (music)
Abu Dhabi TV (تلفزيون أبوظبي), or Abu Dhabi Television, is a state-owned broadcaster in Abu Dhabi, the first television station in the United Arab Emirates, founded in 1969.
Abz Love
Abz Love (Richard Abidin Breen, born 1979), also Abs Breen, English singer and rapper, member of boy band Five (20 million records, 2000 Brit Award), later solo artist, Celebrity Big Brother runner-up, Welsh farmer, rejoined Five in 2025.
AC/DC
AC/DC, nicknamed Acca Dacca, is an Australian hard rock band formed in Sydney in November 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Over 200 million albums sold; Back in Black (1980) is the bestselling album by any band; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees since 2003, currently on the Power Up Tour.
AC/DC discography
AC/DC discography: recorded catalog of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, 17 studio albums from High Voltage (1975) to Power Up (2020), plus live albums, soundtrack compilations, and over 5,000 documented worldwide release variants.
Academia da Berlinda
Academia da Berlinda is a Brazilian band formed in 2004 in Olinda, Pernambuco, whose seven members blend forró, cumbia, coco, and maracatu into dance-floor music rooted in Olinda's backyards.
Academy Award for Best Original Score
Academy Award for Best Original Score: Oscars category honoring the best substantial body of original music composed specifically for a film, distinct from Best Original Song. Requires 60% original music, 20% pre-existing cap for franchise sequels; Music Branch shortlists 15 scores then picks 5 nominees.
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song, created in 1934 with "The Continental" as first winner, honors original words and music written specifically for a feature film; voted by the Music Branch, capped at two songs per film, with "Golden" the first K-pop winner in 2026.
Academy of Country Music Awards
Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM Awards): annual peer-voted country music honors from the Academy of Country Music, first held in 1966; longest-running country awards show, streamed exclusively on Prime Video since 2022, held at MGM Grand Las Vegas for the 61st ceremony in 2026.
Academy of Music (New York City)
Academy of Music, also called the New-York Academy of Music: Manhattan opera house at 14th Street and Irving Place, opened 1854, New York's grand-opera home until the Metropolitan Opera opened 1883; later vaudeville and film, demolished 1926, site now NYU's Palladium Hall.
Acapulco Shore, temporada 6
Acapulco Shore season 6 is the sixth season of the Mexican MTV reality series, first aired in 2019 and the first filmed in Mexico City rather than on a beach.
Accent (music)
Accent (music): emphasis on a note or chord, realized as loudness, duration, pitch, or metric position, and marked in notation by the > articulation sign; distinct from sforzando and from metric accent.
Accept (band)
Accept is a German heavy metal band from Solingen, formed as Band X in 1968 and renamed Accept in 1971, known for Balls to the Wall, Metal Heart, and the speed-metal pioneer Fast as a Shark, currently fronted by Mark Tornillo with Wolf Hoffmann.
Access All Areas (Flo album)
Access All Areas is the 2024 debut album by British girl group FLO, released on Island Records and executive produced by MNEK. 16 R&B tracks; peaked at No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart; Metacritic metascore 69.
Accidental (music)
Accidental (music): sign placed before a note to alter or cancel its pitch, distinct from the key signature. Sharp, flat, natural, double sharp, double flat; measure-long scope, same line or space only; rooted in musica ficta and hexachord theory.
Accor Arena
Accor Arena, formerly Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy (POPB) or Bercy Arena, is a 20,300-capacity indoor sports and concert arena at Bercy in Paris's 12th arrondissement, opened in 1984, renovated in 2015, host of the Paris Masters, NBA and UFC events and Paris 2024 gymnastics and basketball finals.
Accordion
Accordion (Akkordeon, fisarmonica): portable free-reed bellows instrument with keys or buttons, patented by Cyrill Demian in Vienna in 1829; types include piano, chromatic button, and diatonic accordions, used in folk, jazz, and classical music.
Ace (band)
Ace (band): English pub rock band formed in Sheffield in December 1972 (originally Ace Flash and the Dynamos), led by Alan 'Bam' King and singer Paul Carrack; known for the 1974 hit 'How Long,' which reached No. 3 in the US and No. 20 in the UK. Disbanded July 1977 after three Anchor albums; distinct from Ace Frehley and the Los Angeles ACE band.
Ace Frehley
Ace Frehley (Paul Daniel Frehley, 1951–2025), American guitarist, founding lead guitarist of Kiss as the Spaceman, 1973–1982 and 1996–2002; solo hit New York Groove; died of fall injuries in Morristown, NJ.
Ace Frehley (album)
Ace Frehley (1978) is the Casablanca solo debut by Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, released September 18, 1978 with three bandmate solo albums; produced by Eddie Kramer, it yielded the hit "New York Groove" (No. 13) and shipped the most copies of the four.
Ace Hood
Ace Hood (Antoine McColister, born 1988) is a Florida rapper, first artist signed to DJ Khaled's We the Best Music; known for "Bugatti" (platinum) and the album Trials & Tribulations, independent since 2016 via Hood Nation.
Ace of Base
Ace of Base: Swedish pop group from Gothenburg (Berggren siblings and Ulf Ekberg), formed from Tech Noir; 1990s hits All That She Wants, The Sign, Don't Turn Around; over 50 million records sold; Swedish Music Hall of Fame 2024.