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Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew (born 1949) is an American experimental rock guitarist and singer, frontman of King Crimson for three decades and sideman to Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Nine Inch Nails, and Paul Simon, known for animal-noise guitar effects and the Beat project.
Adrian Smith (musician)
Adrian Smith, fully Adrian Frederick Smith, is an English guitarist born in 1957 in Hackney, London, best known as a member of Iron Maiden, which he joined in 1980.
Adrianne Lenker
Adrianne Lenker (born 1991, Indiana) is an American singer-songwriter, frontwoman of Big Thief and solo artist behind songs/instrumentals (2020) and Bright Future (2024), a Grammy-nominated folk album.
Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano, "il Molleggiato" (born 1938, Milan), Italian singer, actor, and TV host; founder of Clan Celentano; hits Azzurro, Prisencolinensinainciusol; about 150 million records sold.
Adriel Favela
Adriel Favela is a Mexican-American norteño singer and songwriter of original corridos, born in San Francisco and raised in Sonora, Mexico, whose breakthrough came with the 2014 hit "Mujeres de Tu Tipo."
Adrien Nunez
Adrien Nunez (born 1999), Brooklyn-born former University of Michigan basketball player and TikTok influencer, is a country-pop singer signed to Warner Music Nashville. Known for the Gold single "Low Road" with Avery Anna, EPs LOW ROAD and Don't Wanna Go Home, a Diplo collaboration, and 2026 Grand Ole Opry and Stagecoach debuts.
Adult Contemporary (chart)
Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, begun July 17, 1961 as Easy Listening and renamed in 1979, ranks songs by AC radio airplay audience impressions from a Mediabase-measured panel of over 80 stations via Luminate; record reigns include Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" (37 weeks).
Adult contemporary music
Adult contemporary (AC) music: soft, lyric-focused popular music for listeners 25–55, a US radio format and Billboard chart since 1961 (Easy Listening, renamed 1979). Records: Elton John 16 No. 1s; 'Girls Like You' 36 weeks on top.
Adult DVD
Adult DVD is a six-piece dance-punk band from Leeds, England, formed in 2020 lockdown by Harry Hanson and Greg Lonsdale. Known for synth-heavy rave-punk and comic characters, it released EPs Fountain of Youth and Next Day Shipping before its self-titled 2026 debut album on Fat Possum Records.
Advance Australia Fair
Advance Australia Fair is Australia's national anthem, written by Peter Dodds McCormick in 1878, chosen in polls in 1974 and 1977, proclaimed by Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen on 19 April 1984, and amended in 2021 to "For we are one and free".
Adventure of a Lifetime
Adventure of a Lifetime is a 2015 Coldplay disco-funk single, first release from A Head Full of Dreams, written with Stargate, UK peak number 7, with a chimp motion-capture video.
Aegukga (애국가)
Aegukga (애국가, 愛國歌) is South Korea's national anthem: lyrics attributed to Yun Chi-ho, melody composed by Ahn Eak-tai in 1935, sung to Auld Lang Syne until 1948, approved by the Provisional Government in 1940.
Ænima
Ænima (1996) is Tool's second studio album, produced with David Bottrill at Ocean Way and The Hook; a 77-minute platinum progressive-metal record whose single "Ænema" won the 1997 Grammy for Best Metal Performance.
Aeolian mode
Aeolian mode (natural minor) is the sixth mode of the major scale, acting as the default minor mode in Western music and having the degree pattern 1-2-b3-4-5-b6-b7.
ÆON:MODE
ÆON:MODE is the drum & bass project of Australian-born, Denver-based producer JP Orchison, better known as Blanke, launched in 2022 on Deadbeats to separate his drum & bass output.
Aerophone
Aerophone: class 4 of the Hornbostel-Sachs (1914) instrument classification, instruments sounding mainly by vibrating air, free (accordion, harmonica) or non-free (flutes, reeds, brass); also Roland's digital wind instrument line.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American hard rock band formed in Boston in 1970 by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. Known for Toys in the Attic, Walk This Way, the Run-D.M.C. collaboration, and a 1980s comeback; over 70 million albums sold.
Aerosmith (album)
Aerosmith (1973) is the Boston hard rock band's self-titled debut on Columbia, recorded at Intermedia Studios; includes Dream On and Mama Kin, reissued as the 2026 Legendary Edition.
Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock is an American underground hip-hop rapper and producer from New York, also known for the vocabulary study ranking him first of 85 rappers. Albums include Labor Days, Skelethon, and Garbology with Blockhead.
Aespa (에스파)
Aespa (에스파) is a four-member SM Entertainment K-pop girl group (Karina, Winter, Giselle, Ningning) that debuted November 17, 2020 with "Black Mamba", known for its avatar metaverse concept, the Melon-record "Supernova", and albums Armageddon and LEMONADE.
Affirmation (Savage Garden album)
Affirmation is the second and final studio album by Australian pop duo Savage Garden, released November 9, 1999 on Sony. Written remotely by Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones, produced partly by Walter Afanasieff, it reached No. 6 in the US.
Afgan
Afgan (Afgansyah Reza) is an Indonesian pop singer born in Jakarta in 1989 who debuted in 2008, has released seven studio albums, and passed one billion Spotify streams by 2025.
AFI (Associazione dei Fonografici Italiani)
AFI, or Associazione dei Fonografici Italiani, is an Italian trade association of independent record producers, founded in Milan in 1948, which runs a chart of independent labels with FIMI.
AFI (band)
AFI (A Fire Inside), American rock band formed 1991 in Ukiah, California by Davey Havok and Adam Carson; hardcore punk origins, platinum Sing the Sorrow (2003) and chart-topping Decemberunderground (2006), 2025 album Silver Bleeds the Black Sun.
AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs
AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs is the American Film Institute's June 2004 ranked list of the 100 greatest American movie songs, its seventh 100 Years polling, announced via a CBS special hosted by John Travolta, judged on song, cultural impact, and legacy.
Afida Turner
Afida Turner, born Haffida Messaï in 1976 in Auchel, France, is a singer and TV personality from Loft Story 2 (2002), with albums Roc Attitude and Paris-Hollywood, married to Ronnie Turner, Tina Turner's son.
Afinarte
Afinarte, also called AfinArte Music, is an independent regional Mexican record label founded in 2013 in California by the Sánchez brothers and Jorge Gaxiola of Voz de Mando.
Afreen Afreen
"Afreen Afreen" (آفرین آفرین) is a qawwali song written by Javed Akhtar and composed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, best known from Coke Studio Pakistan's 2016 rendition.
Africa Express (organization)
Africa Express is a British music organization founded in 2006 by Damon Albarn and Ian Birrell, staging collaborative shows and train tours pairing African and Western artists; not to be confused with the financial-services firm African Express.
African blues
African blues is a label for blues traditions and blues-adjacent guitar music from African countries, most prominently Mali and the Tuareg communities of the Sahara, named after Ali Farka Touré's 1990 album.