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National anthem of Russia
National anthem of Russia (Государственный гимн Российской Федерации): official anthem since 25 December 2000, using Alexandrov's Soviet-anthem melody with new lyrics by Sergei Mikhalkov; preceded 1990–2000 by Glinka's Patriotic Song.
National anthem of Scotland
National anthem of Scotland: none is official. Flower of Scotland, written by Roy Williamson of the Corries in the mid-1960s, is the de facto anthem at football, rugby, and Commonwealth Games events, with Scotland the Brave as the main alternative.
National anthem of South Africa
National Anthem of South Africa: hybrid anthem adopted 1997, combining Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika (Enoch Sontonga, 1897) and Die Stem van Suid-Afrika (Langenhoven/de Villiers), sung in five languages, the only neo-modal national anthem.
National Association of Recording Merchandisers
The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) was the American trade association for music retailers, founded in 1958 and renamed the Music Business Association in 2013.
National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院), the "Giant Egg", is Beijing's national opera house, concert hall and theatre complex on West Chang'an Avenue, designed by Paul Andreu, opened in 2007.
National Concert Hall, Taipei
The National Concert Hall is a shoebox-shaped classical music venue in Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall grounds, opened in 1987 with 2,022 seats and a large Flentrop pipe organ.
National Film Award for Best Music Direction (music)
The National Film Award for Best Music Direction is an Indian state honor for film composers, awarded since 1954 and now split into songs and background music.
National Jazz Museum in Harlem
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is a Smithsonian-affiliated museum in New York City founded in 1997, known for the Savory Collection of live jazz recordings.
National Live Music Awards
The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are annual Australian awards honoring the country's live music industry, founded by Larry Heath and first held in 2016, with national and state categories voted by the live industry.
National Music Publishers' Association
The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) is the American trade association for music publishers and songwriters, founded in 1917 and representing over 90% of the US publishing market.
National Pledge (India)
The National Pledge of India (Telugu original, ప్రతిజ్ఞ), an oath of allegiance recited in schools and at public events, was written in Telugu in 1962 by Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao of Visakhapatnam, translated into seven languages, and adopted nationally from 26 January 1965.
National Puerto Rican Day Parade
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade, also called the Puerto Rican Day Parade, is an annual June parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City celebrating Puerto Rican culture.
National Schools Symphony Orchestra
National Schools Symphony Orchestra (NSSO), UK residential music course founded 1994 in Suffolk, now run by Malvern College; three graded orchestras (Academy, Sinfonia, Philharmonic) for players aged 8-17, grade 3 to diploma standard, with video auditions and means-tested bursaries.
National Socialist black metal
National Socialist black metal (NSBM) is a neo-Nazi offshoot of black metal that emerged in the early 1990s, promoting Aryan superiority, paganism and anti-globalization through bands such as Graveland, Absurd, and Burzum.
National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei
National Theater and Concert Hall (國家兩廳院, NTCH): Taiwan's first national performing arts complex, opened 1987 in Taipei; palace-style buildings by Yang Cho-cheng with a 2,022-seat Concert Hall and ~1,500-seat National Theater.
National Treasures (song)
National Treasures is a 2026 Drake song, track 9 on ICEMAN (OVO/Republic), released May 15, 2026. A trap track sampling Gregory Hines, dissing DeMar DeRozan, it peaked at No. 6 on the Hot 100 and No. 3 in Canada, Ireland, and the UK.
National youth orchestras
National youth orchestras are pre-professional ensembles recruiting talented young musicians from across an entire country, with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain founded in 1948 as the world's first.
Native American Music Awards
The Native American Music Awards, or Nammys, founded in 1998 by Ellen Bello, are the annual US awards honoring Native American recordings in over 30 categories, decided by advisory members and public vote; distinct from Namibia's NAMAs.
Native Tongues
Native Tongues (Native Tongues Posse), a New York hip-hop collective of the late 1980s and 1990s centered on Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest, pioneered Afrocentric, jazz-sampling rap; no joint album was released.
Natori (なとり) (musician)
Natori (なとり), Japanese singer-songwriter who began on TikTok in 2021; breakthrough song "Overdose" (2022) hit 100 million streams and placed 9th on Billboard JAPAN's 2023 year-end Hot 100; albums 劇場 (2023) and 深海 (2026); writes anime themes including WIND BREAKER's Absolute Zero and Oshi no Ko's Serenade.
Natsuiro Matsuri
Natsuiro Matsuri (夏色まつり) is a Japanese VTuber with hololive's 1st Generation under Cover Corp, whose singing and gaming streams have drawn over 1.5 million YouTube subscribers since her 2018 debut.
Natsuko Godai
Natsuko Godai (伍代夏子) is a Japanese enka singer whose 1987 debut single "Modorigawa" sold over 350,000 copies, and who has appeared on NHK's Kōhaku Uta Gassen 22 times.
Nattefrost
Nattefrost, born Roger Rasmussen in 1974 in Sandnes, Norway, is a black metal vocalist and songwriter who founded Carpathian Forest in 1992 and leads a solo project.
Natti Natasha
Natti Natasha (Natalia Alexandra Gutiérrez Batista, born 1986) is a Dominican reggaetón and bachata singer from Santiago de los Caballeros, known for "Dutty Love", "Criminal" with Ozuna, "Sin Pijama", and the 2025 Romeo Santos-produced album En Amargue.
Natty Dread
Natty Dread (1974) is Bob Marley & The Wailers' reggae album, the first credited to Bob Marley & the Wailers, first without Tosh and Bunny Wailer, first with the I-Threes, featuring No Woman, No Cry.
Natural horn
The natural horn is the valveless ancestor of the modern French horn: a coiled brass tube with crooks for key changes, limited to its harmonic series, played chromatically via Hampel's 18th-century hand-stopping technique until valves arrived in 1814.
Nature Boy
Nature Boy is a 1947 song by eden ahbez (Alexander Aberle), made famous by Nat King Cole's 1948 number-one Capitol recording; a jazz standard subject of a Yablokoff plagiarism suit.
Natya Sangeet
Natya Sangeet (नाट्यसंगीत) is the musical drama tradition of Marathi theater, in which raga-based songs carry the drama; commercially dominant from 1880 to 1930, it peaked with singers like Balgandharva.
Naughty Boy
Naughty Boy is the stage name of Shahid Khan (born 1985), an English producer, DJ, and songwriter from Watford who produced Emeli Sande's Our Version of Events and scored the 2013 UK Number 1 single La La La with Sam Smith.
Naughty by Nature
Naughty by Nature, also known as NBN, is an East Orange, New Jersey hip hop trio of Treach, Vin Rock, and DJ Kay Gee, formerly the New Style, behind "O.P.P." and "Hip Hop Hooray" and winners of the first Best Rap Album Grammy.