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Note value

Note value (time value, duration): the Western notation symbol giving a note's relative duration via notehead shape, stem, and flags. Seven values from whole to sixty-fourth, each half the previous, with matching rests, dots, ties, and mensural-notation origins.

Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach

Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach): two 1722 and 1725 manuscript books J.S. Bach gave his second wife, containing French Suites, Partitas, arias, and the Petzold Minuet in G, now beginner piano staples.

Notes on a Conditional Form

Notes on a Conditional Form is the fourth studio album by English band The 1975 (also NOACF), released 22 May 2020: 22 tracks, 80 minutes, guests Greta Thunberg, Phoebe Bridgers, FKA twigs; UK number 1, Metascore 69.

Nothin' (Guns N' Roses song)

"Nothin'" is a song by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released as a single on December 4, 2025, alongside "Atlas", from Chinese Democracy sessions.

Nothing (band)

Nothing is a Philadelphia shoegaze band formed around 2010 by Domenic Palermo after prison, known for Guilty of Everything (2014) through a short history of decay (2026) and heavy, melody-driven shoegaze.

Nothing Breaks Like a Heart

Nothing Breaks Like a Heart: 2018 country-disco single by Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus; lead single from Late Night Feelings; peaked No. 2 UK, No. 43 Billboard Hot 100; Brit-nominated; Jolene-inspired.

Nothing but Thieves

Nothing but Thieves: English alternative rock band formed 2012 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex (Conor Mason, Joe Langridge-Brown, Dominic Craik, Philip Blake, James Price). Five RCA albums; Dead Club City was its first UK No. 1; Stray Dogs released 2026.

Nothing Compares 2 U

"Nothing Compares 2 U" is a song written by Prince, recorded solo in July 1984 at his Eden Prairie warehouse, first released by his band The Family in 1985, and turned into a worldwide 1990 number-one hit by Sinéad O'Connor, whose version topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks; Prince's original was finally released in 2018.

Nothing Else Matters

Nothing Else Matters: Metallica power ballad by Hetfield and Ulrich from the 1991 Black Album; third single April 20, 1992; No. 34 Hot 100, No. 6 UK; 1,332 live performances and orchestral S&M versions.

Nothing Matters (The Last Dinner Party song)

"Nothing Matters" is the 2023 debut single by British art-rock band The Last Dinner Party, released on Island Records; it peaked at UK No. 16 and reached Billboard's adult alternative top 10.

Nothing More

Nothing More is an American rock band from San Antonio, Texas, known for its 2014 breakthrough album, the song "Go To War," and a unique live show featuring Jonny Hawkins.

Nothing Safe: Best of the Box

Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (also Nothing Safe: The Best of the Box) is Alice in Chains' first greatest-hits compilation, released June 29, 1999 on Columbia as a sampler for the Music Bank box set, featuring the new single "Get Born Again" and alternate versions of several hits.

Nothing Was the Same

Nothing Was the Same is Drake's third studio album, released September 24, 2013. The standard 59-minute album was the second-highest-selling rap record in the United States that year.

Nothing's About to Happen to Me

Nothing's About to Happen to Me is Mitski's eighth studio album, a 2026 Dead Oceans concept record about a reclusive woman, produced by Patrick Hyland at home, Metascore 87, UK peak No. 4.

Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You

"Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You" is a Masser–Goffin ballad first recorded by George Benson on 20/20 (1985), made famous by Glenn Medeiros's 1987 cover: US #12, UK #1 for four weeks in 1988.

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now: 1987 Starship power ballad by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren, produced by Narada Michael Walden, from Mannequin and No Protection; US and UK number one.

Nothing's Shocking

Nothing's Shocking is the 1988 Warner Bros. debut studio album by Jane's Addiction, produced by Dave Jerden and Perry Farrell, famous for its banned conjoined-twins cover, "Jane Says," "Mountain Song," gold and platinum certification, and role in mainstreaming alternative rock.

Notis Sfakianakis

Notis Sfakianakis (Νότης Σφακιανάκης), born 1959 on Crete, is a Greek laiko-pop singer whose 1990s hits like "O Aetos" made him one of Greece's biggest-selling artists.

Notker the Stammerer

Notker the Stammerer, Latin Notker Balbulus, was a Benedictine monk, poet, and composer at the Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland from about 840 until his death in 912.

Notorious (Duran Duran album)

Notorious is Duran Duran's fourth studio album, released November 1986, produced with Nile Rodgers after Andy and Roger Taylor left; it peaked at No. 12 US and No. 16 UK, with the title track at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Notte della Taranta

La Notte della Taranta is a pizzica and taranta festival held each late August in the Salento peninsula of Apulia, Italy, first staged in 1998.

Notti Osama

Notti Osama (Ethan Reyes, born 2008) was a Harlem, New York drill rapper, brother of DD Osama, stabbed to death July 9, 2022 at the 137th Street–City College subway station at age 14; his killing inspired the viral "Notti Bop" dance.

Nouera

NouerA (누에라), seven-member multinational K-pop boy group under Nouer Entertainment, formed from KBS's MAKEMATE1, debuted February 26, 2025 with Chapter: New is Now; distinct from NuEar hearing aids and Nuera Irish retailer.

Nouman Ejaz

Nouman Ejaz, also known as Nauman Ijaz, is a Pakistani television actor from Lahore who has appeared in about 175 drama serials since 1989 and received the President's Pride of Performance award in 2012.

Nour Mhanna

Nour Mhanna, also written Nour Mahanna (نور مهنا), is a Syrian tarab vocalist from Aleppo, born in 1966, best known for reviving Souad Mohammed's "Wahashitni" in the early 1990s.

Noura (singer)

Noura (نورة), stage name of Fatima Zohra Badji, Algerian singer (1942 Cherchell – 1 June 2014 Paris) of 500+ songs in Arabic, Kabyle, and French; 1971 Pathé Marconi gold disc; wife of composer Kamel Hamadi. Distinct from Nouara the Kabyle singer and Noura Mint Seymali.

Nourished by Time

Nourished by Time is the musical project of Baltimore-born Marcus Brown, blending R&B, post-punk, and new wave into post-R&B. Debut Erotic Probiotic 2 (2023); second album The Passionate Ones (2025) on XL Recordings.

Nouvelle Vague (band)

Nouvelle Vague is a French musical collective led by Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux that covers punk, post-punk, and new wave songs in bossa nova arrangements.

Nova Twins

Nova Twins: London rock duo (Amy Love, Georgia South), formed 2014 as Braat. Albums Who Are the Girls? (2020), Supernova (2022), Parasites & Butterflies (2025). First Black rock band Mercury-shortlisted; 2026 MOBO winners; no synths, pedal-driven bass-led sound.

Novagang

Novagang (NOVAGANG, Nova Gang) is an American experimental underground music and internet art collective founded in 2018 by prblm, known for digicore and hyperpop-adjacent releases including the H.T.N.G. mixtapes.