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17 (XXXTentacion album)
17 is XXXTentacion's debut studio album, released August 25, 2017 on Bad Vibes Forever/EMPIRE. 11 short acoustic, emo-rap tracks about depression, it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard album chart, unlike his aggressive SoundCloud single "Look At Me!".
1776 (musical)
1776 is a 1969 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone, dramatizing the Second Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence. It won five Tonys including Best Musical, ran over 1,200 performances, and was filmed in 1972.
17th Annual Grammy Awards
The 17th Annual Grammy Awards, held March 1, 1975 at New York's Uris Theater, honored 1973-74 recordings; Olivia Newton-John won Record of the Year, Stevie Wonder Album of the Year, and Marvin Hamlisch Best New Artist.
17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards
The 17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards (2016) honored recordings from July 2015 to June 2016 at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, on Univision; "La Bicicleta" and Juan Gabriel's Los Dúo 2 won top prizes.
1812 Overture
The 1812 Overture (1812 год), Tchaikovsky's Op. 49 festival overture in E-flat major composed 1880, commemorates Russia's defeat of Napoleon in 1812. Premiered 1882 in Moscow, it quotes God Save the Tsar and La Marseillaise and features bells and cannon effects.
187 Strassenbande (group)
187 Strassenbande is a German gangsta-rap crew from Hamburg consisting of rappers Bonez MC, Gzuz, Maxwell, LX, and Sa4, known for multiple number-1 German albums and members' criminal convictions.
18th Annual Grammy Awards
18th Annual Grammy Awards: ceremony held February 28, 1976 at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, honoring recordings from October 1974 to October 1975. Big four winners: Captain & Tennille (Record), Paul Simon (Album), Stephen Sondheim (Song), Natalie Cole (Best New Artist); Andy Williams hosted.
19 (Adele album)
19 is Adele's debut studio album, released January 28, 2008 on XL Recordings; named for her age at writing, it hit UK number one, sold 6.5 million copies, and won her the 2009 Best New Artist Grammy.
1900Rugrat
1900Rugrat, real name Miles Spiel (born 2003), is an American rapper from Limestone Creek, Florida, who went viral in 2024 with "One Take Freestyle" over Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." and signed to Remain Solid/300 Entertainment.
1920s in jazz
The 1920s in jazz, the Jazz Age: New Orleans jazz spread via Prohibition speakeasies, records, and radio; Armstrong's Hot Five (1925) and early big bands in Chicago and New York led to swing.
1944 (song)
"1944" is Jamala's self-penned Eurovision 2016 winning song for Ukraine (534 points, Stockholm), about Stalin's 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars, with a Crimean Tatar chorus from "Ey, Güzel Qırım".
1950s in music
1950s in music: the decade rock and roll emerged (term popularized by Alan Freed, 1951), 45 rpm singles and 33 rpm LPs standardized in 1951, Top 40 youth radio, Elvis Presley's Sun sessions, and State Department jazz tours from 1956.
1960s in music
1960s in music: the decade when rock split into folk rock, Motown soul, blues rock, and psychedelic rock; the Beatles led the British Invasion from 1964, and multitrack tape recording made the studio a creative instrument.
1962–1966
The Beatles 1962–1966, known as the Red Album, is a 1973 double compilation of early Beatles hits from "Love Me Do" to "Yellow Submarine", released with the Blue Album.
1967–1970
The Beatles 1967–1970, commonly known as The Blue Album, is a 1973 compilation album by The Beatles, gathering their later-period recordings from the Sgt. Pepper era through the dissolution.
1969 in music
1969 in music: the year of Woodstock (August, Bethel NY), the Harlem Cultural Festival, Atlanta Pop, and Altamont; Abbey Road and Led Zeppelin's debut; heavy metal, prog, and jam emerged.
1970 (album)
1970 is a three-disc Bob Dylan box set of 74 unreleased studio recordings from 1970, credited to Dylan with special guest George Harrison, widely released on February 26, 2021.
1970 in music
1970 in music: the Beatles' group career ended, Bridge Over Troubled Water and other singer-songwriter landmarks appeared, American Top 40 debuted, the Minimoog launched, and David Mancuso held the first disco party.
1970s in music
The 1970s in music: the decade of disco, punk, album-oriented rock, early hip-hop, salsa, reggae, and Afrobeat, when a billion-dollar record industry stratified into niche genres and multitrack studios reached 24 tracks.
1971 in music
1971 in music: the album landmark year of What's Going On, Tapestry, Led Zeppelin IV, and the Concert for Bangladesh; also called rock's golden year in Hepworth's Never a Dull Moment.
1973 in music
1973 in music: the year of The Dark Side of the Moon, Tubular Bells, Innervisions, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and Bowie's Ziggy retirement, with $1.246 billion in US LP sales and an oil crisis that squeezed vinyl production.
1979 (song)
"1979" is a 1996 single by The Smashing Pumpkins from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, written by Billy Corgan, the last song recorded for the album, built on an Alesis HR-16 drum machine beat, nearly cut before producer Flood's ultimatum.
1979 in music
1979 in music: the year of disco's peak and backlash (Disco Demolition Night), first charting hip-hop singles ("Rapper's Delight"), Sony Walkman and Fairlight CMI, and albums from London Calling to Off the Wall.
1980 in music
1980 in music: transitional year when disco receded and post-punk, synth-pop, ska, and metal rose; Police topped UK sales, London Calling led critics' polls, and Lennon's December murder framed the year's chart story.
1980s in music
1980s in music: decade of MTV (launched 1981), synthesizers, drum machines, and digital recording; synth-pop, hip-hop, and house went mainstream, with a 1983 chart revolution identified by the 17,000-song Mauch study.
1981 in music
1981 in music: the year MTV launched (August 1), Sony and Philips presented the Compact Disc, Christopher Cross swept the Grammys, and The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" topped UK sales, bridging late-1970s pop and the synth-pop era.
1982 in music
1982 in music: the year of Michael Jackson's Thriller release, MTV's growth, Kim Carnes and Double Fantasy Grammy wins, and Dexy's Midnight Runners topping UK sales.
1983 in music
1983 in music: the year of Michael Jackson's Thriller (US best-seller, eight Grammys across its campaign), UK synth-pop from Eurythmics and New Order, the introduction of MIDI, CD players in Europe, and a stylistic revolution in chart pop.
1984 (Van Halen album)
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is Van Halen's sixth studio album, released January 9, 1984, the last with David Lee Roth, Michael Anthony, Eddie and Alex Van Halen; recorded at Eddie's 5150 home studio, it peaked at Billboard number 2 and is RIAA Diamond certified.
1984 in music
1984 in music, the year Billboard called pop music's greatest, brought Purple Rain's 24-week No. 1 run, Van Halen's 1984, nationwide MTV, Def Jam's founding, the 'Relax' BBC ban, and major festivals at Glastonbury and Narara.