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Forrest Frank

Forrest Frank (born 1995, Houston, Texas) is an American Christian pop singer-songwriter-producer, formerly of Surfaces with Colin Padalecki ('Sunday Best'). Known for Child of God (2024), Child of God II (2025), 'Your Way's Better,' five Dove Awards, three Grammy nominations, and the 2026 Jesus Generation Tour.

Forró

Forró is a Northeastern Brazilian dance-music genre built on the accordion, zabumba, and triangle, popularized by Luiz Gonzaga and central to June festivals like Caruaru's São João.

Forró pé de serra

Forró pé de serra is the traditional acoustic branch of forró from Northeast Brazil, built on accordion, zabumba, and triangle, and standardized by Luiz Gonzaga.

Fort Minor

Fort Minor is Mike Shinoda's hip-hop side project (founded 2004, Los Angeles). Its one album, The Rising Tied (2005), went platinum; singles Where'd You Go hit No. 4 and Remember the Name went 4x platinum.

Fortepiano

The fortepiano, or hammer piano, is an early piano, invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence around 1700 and used by Mozart, Haydn, and the young Beethoven.

Fortnight (song)

Fortnight: 2024 Taylor Swift song featuring Post Malone, lead single and opener of The Tortured Poets Department; two weeks at Hot 100 number one, Grammy-nominated Song and Record of the Year.

Fortunate Son

Fortunate Son: 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival song written by John Fogerty, B-side of "Down on the Corner" on Willy and the Poor Boys; a protest against draft class privilege, peaked at No. 3, National Recording Registry inductee.

Fortune (Chris Brown album)

Fortune is Chris Brown's fifth studio album, released July 3, 2012 on RCA Records. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 134,000 copies, gave Brown his first UK Number 1, scored 38 on Metacritic, and was Grammy-nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album.

Forty Licks

Forty Licks (2002) is the Rolling Stones' double-CD, 40-track career-spanning compilation on ABKCO/Virgin, the first to unite their Decca-era and post-1970 catalogs, adding four new songs and selling over 7 million copies.

Forty Six & 2

Forty Six & 2 is a 1996 Tool song, fifth track on Ænima, referencing Drunvalo Melchizedek's 46+2 chromosome idea and Jung's shadow, with a Justin Chancellor bass riff in D Phrygian Dominant.

Forum Theatre

Forum Theatre is a heritage-listed live music venue in Melbourne, Australia. Built in 1929 as the largest picture palace in the country, it hosts major acts like Harry Styles.

Foster the People

Foster the People, aka Foster and the People, are an LA indie pop band formed in 2009 by Mark Foster, Cubbie Fink, and Mark Pontius, behind the 2010 viral hit "Pumped Up Kicks" and four albums.

Fou Malade

Fou Malade, born Malal Almamy Talla in 1974, is a Senegalese rapper from Guédiawaye, Dakar, who leads Bat'Haillons Blin-D and co-founded Y'en a Marre in 2011.

FouKi

FouKi, born Léo Fougères in 1996 in Montreal, is a Quebec rapper and songwriter who has released six albums since 2018 and won Félix awards for "Copilote".

Found Heaven

Found Heaven is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Conan Gray, released April 5, 2024 on Republic Records. A 13-track, 36-minute retro album of 1980s-style synth-pop, glam rock, and new wave produced mainly by Max Martin, Greg Kurstin, and Shawn Everett.

Fountains of Wayne

Fountains of Wayne, American power-pop band from New York (formed 1995 or 1996) by Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood; five albums, the 2003 hit "Stacy's Mom" (Hot 100 No. 21), two 2004 Grammy nominations, and Schlesinger's 2020 death from COVID-19.

Fountains of Wayne (album)

Fountains of Wayne is the American power pop band's 1996 self-titled debut album on Atlantic/TAG: 12 songs, 36 minutes, written and recorded in about two weeks by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, with singles Radiation Vibe and Sink to the Bottom.

Four (One Direction album)

Four (stylized FOUR) is One Direction's fourth studio album, released 17 November 2014 by Syco and Columbia. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 387,000 copies, sold 3.2 million worldwide in 2014, and was the band's last album with Zayn Malik.

Four Last Songs

Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) is Richard Strauss's 1948 set of four orchestral songs for soprano, setting three Hermann Hesse poems and Eichendorff's Im Abendrot; titled and ordered posthumously by Ernst Roth, premiered by Flagstad and Furtwängler in London in 1950.

Four on the floor (music)

Four on the floor is a rhythm pattern with the bass drum on every beat of a 4/4 measure, the foundation of disco and electronic dance music.

Four Tet

Four Tet, the alias of Kieran Hebden, is a British electronic musician with a 20-year career. He has performed at Madison Square Garden and closed Coachella in 2023.

Four Tops

Four Tops: Detroit Motown vocal quartet, originally the Four Aims, formed mid-1950s by Levi Stubbs, Duke Fakir, Obie Benson, and Lawrence Payton. Known for 1964–67 Holland-Dozier-Holland hits, two No. 1 singles, 1990 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, and an unchanged lineup lasting over 40 years.

FourFiveSeconds

FourFiveSeconds: 2015 acoustic folk-pop single by Rihanna with Kanye West and Paul McCartney, released January 24, 2015, peaked at No. 4, in D major, later excluded from the album Anti.

Fourth Nattawat

Fourth Nattawat (Nattawat Jirochtikul, born 2004) is a Thai actor and singer under GMMTV and Riser Music, best known as the lead of the 2022 series My School President.

Fox on the Run (Sweet song)

"Fox on the Run" is a 1975 glam rock single by British band Sweet, written and produced by Connolly, Priest, Scott, and Tucker; their first self-written A-side, it hit No. 2 in the UK and No. 5 in the US.

Foxes (singer)

Foxes is the stage name of Louisa Rose Allen (born 1989, Southampton), British electro-pop singer. Known for Zedd's Grammy-winning "Clarity" and albums Glorious, All I Need, and The Kick.

Foxes in the Snow

Foxes in the Snow is the tenth studio album by Jason Isbell, released March 7, 2025. It is his first solo acoustic album, featuring 11 songs.

Foxtrot (album)

Foxtrot, Genesis's fourth studio album (October 1972, Charisma), the Gabriel-era progressive rock landmark containing the 23-minute "Supper's Ready"; first Genesis album to chart in the UK at No. 12; recorded at Island Studios in five final days under David Hitchcock.

Foxy Brown (rapper)

Foxy Brown, born Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand, is a Brooklyn rapper signed to Def Jam in 1996. Her debut Ill Na Na reached number seven on the Billboard 200, Chyna Doll hit number one, and she rapped with Nas in The Firm.

Foxy Shazam

Foxy Shazam is an American theatrical rock band formed in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2004, known for piano-driven, glam-flavored rock whose showmanship is often compared to Queen and Freddie Mercury.