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Music of the Spheres World Tour
Coldplay's Music of the Spheres World Tour (2022–2025) supported their 2021 album; it set records for tour attendance (about 13.2 million tickets) and gross ($1.52 billion), with a 59% emissions cut.
Music of the Sun
Music of the Sun is Rihanna's debut album, released by Def Jam in August 2005. The R&B, dancehall, and reggae-influenced record, led by "Pon de Replay" (Hot 100 number 2), debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200 and was later certified platinum by the RIAA.
Music of the United States
Music of the United States spans concert, sacred, folk, and popular traditions built from Indigenous, European, African American, and immigrant sources. Genres including spirituals, blues, jazz, gospel, country, rock, and hip hop originated there; US recorded music revenue hit a record $11.5 billion in 2025.
Music on The Sopranos
Music on The Sopranos: the HBO series' licensed-song soundtrack. Key facts: almost no original score, David Chase personally chose nearly all music with Martin Bruestle and Kathryn Dayak, Alabama 3 theme, Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'' finale.
Music organizations
Music organizations are institutions that work above the level of individual deals, lobbying for musicians, collectively licensing their rights, and setting standards; collecting societies alone distributed €13.97 billion in royalties in 2024.
Music organizations in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Music organizations in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong are the collecting societies licensing music copyrights: MCSC and CAVCA on the mainland, MÜST, TMCA, and ACMA in Taiwan, and CASH and HKRIA in Hong Kong.
Music organizations in Japan
Music organizations in Japan are the industry bodies, copyright societies, and performer associations that manage rights and distribute royalties, centered on JASRAC, founded in 1939.
Music organizations in South Korea
Music organizations in South Korea center on KOMCA, the copyright society founded in 1964 that collected ₩445.3 billion in 2025, alongside RIAK, KMPA, KPIA, and KOSCAP.
Music publisher (profession)
A music publisher is a business professional or company that develops, protects, and earns money from songs on behalf of songwriters, handling the business side so writers can focus on creative work.
Music Publishers Association (UK)
Music Publishers Association (MPA), UK music publishing trade association founded 1881, oldest UK music trade body; owns MCPS and PMLL, represents over 95% of UK song rights, CEO Paul Clements, chair Richard King.
Music recording certification
Music recording certification: official Gold, Platinum, Multi-Platinum, and Diamond sales-and-stream awards issued by bodies such as the RIAA, BPI, Music Canada, and ARIA, with market-specific unit thresholds and audit rules.
Music Rights Australia
Music Rights Australia, formerly Music Industry Piracy Investigations, is an Australian advocacy body representing songwriters, publishers, and record labels on copyright policy, run jointly by ARIA and APRA AMCOS.
Music sequencer
Music sequencer: hardware device or software tool recording, arranging and playing back MIDI notes, audio clips, and automation in order; types include step, linear, tracker, and hardware sequencers like Roland MC-8 and Elektron Digitakt.
Music Sounds Better with You
"Music Sounds Better with You" is the only single by French house trio Stardust (Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, Alan Braxe, Benjamin Diamond), released 1998 on Roulé, sampling Chaka Khan's "Fate"; distinct from Acid House Kings' 2011 album of the same name.
Music theory
Music theory is the study of how music is organized in pitch, rhythm, harmony, and form, spanning Western tonal traditions, Schenkerian and Riemannian analysis, global theoretical systems, pedagogy, and cross-cultural scale research.
Music therapy
Music therapy is the clinical, evidence-based use of music by trained professionals to meet individualized goals, addressing needs from stress and pain to memory and communication across all ages.
Music to Be Murdered By
Music to Be Murdered By (MTBMB) is Eminem's eleventh studio album, a surprise release on January 17, 2020 via Shady/Aftermath/Interscope, titled after Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 compilation, with the song Darkness about the Las Vegas shooting and a Side B deluxe in December 2020.
Music Travel Love
Music Travel Love is the Canadian duo of identical twin brothers Bob and Clint Moffatt, ex-The Moffatts, filming acoustic cover performances in scenic locations; over 6 million YouTube subscribers and 20 million social followers.
Music venues by place
Music venues by place surveys how music venues are distributed and documented across countries and major cities, pointing to per-place coverage rather than profiling individual venues.
Music venues in Canada
Music venues in Canada range from 19th-century heritage halls like Toronto's Massey Hall, opened in 1894, through 1960s performing-arts centers to arenas such as Montreal's Bell Centre, which holds about 21,000.
Music, Fashion, Film
Music, Fashion, Film is the eighth studio album by British pop artist Charli xcx, released July 2026 on Atlantic; an 11-track, 30-minute guitar-based rock-pop record made in Paris with A. G. Cook and Finn Keane, debuting at UK Number 1.
Musica Aeterna of Cologne
Musica Aeterna was an early music ensemble founded in 1973 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, by Professor Ján Albrecht, devoted to European music performed on period instruments.
Musica Studio's
Musica Studio's (PT Musica Studio's) is an Indonesian music company in Jakarta, founded in 1970, with a catalog of more than 10,000 songs by artists including Rhoma Irama and NOAH.
Musical composition
Musical composition: the creation of a musical work containing original musical ideas, also called composing. Related to notation, improvisation, composition assessment, and AI music generation (Suno, Udio). Distinguished by original musical ideas and documented teacher lineages since 1450.
Musical ensemble
Musical ensemble: a group performing instrumental or vocal music together, from duo to symphony orchestra; from French 'together'. Covers chamber music, orchestra history, conducting, coordination research, and contemporary ensembles.
Musical form
Musical form, also called structure, is the patterning of music over time through repetition, contrast, and variation. Covers verse-chorus design, phrase structure, letter labels, sonata and rondo forms, and Formenlehre.
Musical Freedom
Musical Freedom, known as Musical Freedom Records since October 2014, is a Dutch record label founded by DJ Tiësto in August 2009 as a Spinnin' Records sub-label.
Musical instrument
Musical instrument: devices for producing musical sound, classified by Hornbostel-Sachs (1914) into idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, plus Galpin's 1937 electrophones; covers sound mechanisms, bayin and Indian schemes, ancient bone flutes, and classification disputes.
Musical instrument classification
Musical instrument classification, the core concern of organology, is dominated by the 1914 Hornbostel-Sachs system: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, plus electrophones, with Mahillon's 1880 scheme as predecessor and modular, decolonial alternatives proposed.
Musical keyboard
Musical keyboard: the row of pressed levers operating keyboard instruments such as the organ, clavichord, harpsichord, piano, and electronic keyboards; standard 12-note layout, 88 keys on a full piano, MIDI-linked digital versions.