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Melissa Molinaro

Melissa Molinaro, born Melissa Ann Smith in 1982, is a Canadian-American singer, actress, dancer, and model known for Honey 2, Hit the Floor, Command Performance, and dance-pop singles like Dance Floor.

Melissa Naschenweng

Melissa Naschenweng, born 1990 in Villach, Carinthia, is an Austrian Schlager singer and Steirische-Harmonika player who blends Alpine folk with pop and has four Austrian number-one albums.

Melissa Reese

Melissa Reese is an American keyboardist and composer who joined Guns N' Roses in 2016 as its first female member and, as half of Brain and Melissa with Bryan Mantia, scores games, film, and TV.

Melissa Schuman

Melissa Schuman, American singer and actress, original member of Bad Boy girl group Dream (It Was All a Dream, 2001); left in 2002, later accused Nick Carter of sexual assault in 2017 and sued him in 2023.

Mella Dee

Mella Dee is the stage name of Ryan Aitchison, a Doncaster-born, London-based DJ and producer whose 2017 track "Techno Disco Tool" topped BBC Radio 1's Dance Chart.

Melle Mel

Melle Mel, born Melvin Glover, is an American rapper from the Bronx. He is best known as the lead lyricist for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

Mello & Sleazy

Mello & Sleazy, who release music as Mellow & Sleazy, are a South African amapiano and Bacardi production duo from Tshwane, known for the 2021 hit "Bopha".

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, The Smashing Pumpkins' 1995 double album (28 songs, Virgin Records), debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, earned seven Grammy nominations, and was RIAA Diamond certified.

Mellotron

Mellotron, tape-replay electromechanical keyboard derived from Harry Chamberlin's Chamberlin and built in Birmingham by the Bradley brothers from 1963. One ~8-second tape strip per key; M400, Strawberry Fields, prog rock; revived by Streetly and as the digital M4000D.

Mellow & Sleazy

Mellow & Sleazy, also known as Bafana Ba Kwa-kwa, are a South African amapiano production duo from Soshanguve and Ga-Rankuwa who spearheaded the bacardi-infused wing of amapiano from 2021.

Mellow Gold

Mellow Gold is Beck Hansen's major-label debut album, released March 1, 1994 on Geffen/DGC. Built from home-recorded tapes with producers Karl Stephenson, Tom Rothrock, and Rob Schnapf, it fuses folk, rap, psychedelia, and rock, and launched with the platinum-selling hit single "Loser".

Mellow Yellow

Mellow Yellow: 1966 Donovan single and title track of his fourth album, produced by Mickie Most, arranged by John Paul Jones; US #2, UK #8, gold for over one million sales, famous for the banana-peel rumor.

Melly Goeslaw

Mellyana "Melly" Goeslaw, born 1974 in Bandung, is an Indonesian singer and songwriter known as the Ratu Soundtrack, frontwoman of Potret and composer of the Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? soundtrack.

Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal, or the Gothenburg sound, is a death metal subgenre from 1990s Gothenburg, Sweden (At The Gates, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity), pairing growled vocals with melodic lead guitars, quasi-tonal harmony, and chorus-centered songwriting.

Melodic hardcore (Japanese)

Melodic hardcore (Japanese), known in Japan as メロコア (merokoa), is a punk subscene that took shape around Hi-STANDARD in the 1990s and boomed in the late 1990s.

Melodica

Melodica, also called pianica or blow-organ: a mouth-blown free-reed keyboard instrument invented in modern form by Hohner in the 1950s, used in schools worldwide and made famous in dub reggae by Augustus Pablo.

Melodifestivalen 2025

Melodifestivalen 2025, the 65th Swedish Eurovision selection, was won by Finnish-Swedish group KAJ with "Bara bada bastu" (164 points) over Måns Zelmerlöw (157); the song finished fourth at Eurovision 2025 in Basel.

Melodifestivalen 2026

Melodifestivalen 2026 was the 66th Swedish music competition, won by FELICIA with "My System." The entry was written by four women, setting a record for the contest.

Melodiya (Мелодия)

Melodiya (Мелодия) was the state-owned record company of the Soviet Union, created in 1964, which monopolized Soviet record production until 1989 and exported to 90 countries.

Melodrama (Lorde album)

Melodrama, Lorde's second studio album (2017, Republic Records), an 11-track breakup-and-house-party record produced mainly with Jack Antonoff; Metacritic 91, Grammy Album of the Year nominee, Billboard 200 and ARIA number 1.

Melody

Melody, also called a tune or line, is a succession of pitches in rhythm perceived as a single coherent line. Distinguished from harmony and counterpoint by its horizontal dimension; defined by contour, conjunct or disjunct motion, and phrase structure ending in cadences.

Melody A.M.

Melody A.M. is the 2001 debut album by Norwegian electronic duo Röyksopp, released on Wall of Sound. Ten-track downtempo house record with singles Eple, Poor Leno, and Remind Me; sold a million copies, went platinum in three countries, scored 81 on Metacritic.

Melody Gardot

Melody Gardot, born 1985 in New Jersey, is an American jazz singer-songwriter and pianist based in Paris. After a near-fatal 2003 bicycle accident led to music therapy, she released Worrisome Heart (2008), My One and Only Thrill (2009), and chart-topping albums The Absence and Currency of Man.

Melody Music

Melody Music (ميلودي ميوزيك) is an Egyptian media group founded in August 2003 around the satellite music channels Melody and Mazzika, with radio, production, and artist management arms.

Melody Thornton

Melody Thornton (born 1984, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American singer and dancer, a Pussycat Dolls member 2003–2010 behind lead Nicole Scherzinger, Grammy-nominated for "Stickwitu", later a solo independent artist and 2022 Masked Singer Australia winner.

Melon (music)

Melon (멜론) is a South Korean online music streaming platform launched by SK Telecom in 2004, now operated by Kakao Entertainment, whose chart is a barometer of Korean taste.

Melon Chart

The Melon Chart (멜론차트), also known as Melon Top 100, is the song ranking system of Melon, South Korea's main music streaming platform, operated by Kakao Entertainment since 2004.

Melon Kinenbi

Melon Kinenbi (メロン記念日) was a four-member Japanese idol group formed in 1999 within Hello! Project, produced by Tsunku, disbanded in 2010 and briefly reunited in 2025.

Melon Music Awards (멜론 뮤직 어워드)

The Melon Music Awards (멜론 뮤직 어워드, MMA) is Kakao Entertainment's annual Korean music awards show, held since 2005. Winners are decided mainly by Melon streaming data (60%), with panel review and fan votes at 20% each; physical sales are excluded from top awards.

Melonbooks

Melonbooks (メロンブックス) is a Japanese retail chain specializing in doujinshi, doujin music, games, and character goods, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.