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Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" (Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)) is the 5th Dimension's 1969 Soul City single combining two songs from the musical Hair. Produced by Bones Howe, it spent six weeks at Billboard number one, won Record of the Year, and was 1969's best-selling single.

Aquasella Festival

Aquasella Festival, also known as Aquasella, is an electronic dance music festival held every August since 1997 in Arriondas and Cangas de Onís, Asturias, Spain, drawing 80,000 attendees in 2026.

Aquatic Ambience

Aquatic Ambience ("WATER MUSIC" in Japan) is David Wise's ambient underwater theme for Donkey Kong Country (1994), in C minor at 75 BPM, built by emulating a Korg Wavestation on SNES hardware over five weeks.

Aquemini

Aquemini (1998) is OutKast's third studio album on LaFace Records, named for Big Boi's Aquarius and André 3000's Gemini signs. It hit #2 on Billboard, went double platinum, earned The Source's first five-mic rating for a Southern rap album, and features live-instrument jam recordings with Raekwon, George Clinton, and Erykah Badu.

AR-Ab

AR-Ab, born Abdul Ibrahim West in 1982, is a Philadelphia battle rapper and OBH Records founder, name-checked by Drake on "Back to Back," who was sentenced in 2021 to 45 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.

Ara Ketu

Ara Ketu is an Afro-Bahian carnival bloco and pop band from Salvador, Bahia, founded in 1980, that became a leading axé music act with national hits from 1994.

Arab Music Festival

The Arab Music Festival, also called the Cairo Arab Music Festival (مهرجان الموسيقى العربية), is an annual Arab music festival in Cairo, Egypt, first staged in 1992.

Arab Music Institute

The Arab Music Institute is a Cairo state institution for teaching and preserving Arab music, founded in 1914 and housed at Ramses Square since 1929.

Arab Strap

Arab Strap are a Scottish indie rock duo from Falkirk, formed in 1995 by Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, named after a sex toy. Split in 2006, reformed 2016; albums include As Days Get Dark and Half-Told Tales.

Arabian Prince

Arabian Prince (Kim Renard Nazel, born 1965, Compton) is an American electro-funk rapper, producer, DJ, and founding N.W.A member who left in 1988, produced J.J. Fad's platinum "Supersonic," and later built a video game and music-technology career.

Arabic maqam

Arabic maqam (مقام), the modal system of Arabic music, built from ajnas with sayr melodic paths and quarter-tone intervals standardized at the 1932 Cairo Congress; distinct from Turkish makam in neutral-third tuning, with regional Egyptian, Levantine, Iraqi, and Maghrebi traditions.

Arabic music

Arabic music: modal musical tradition of the Arab world, built on maqamat (melodic modes with microtonal, non-equal-tempered intervals) and cyclical rhythms, centered on melody and improvisation rather than harmony, with roots in Umayyad and Abbasid theory.

Årabrot

Årabrot is a Norwegian noise rock band formed in 2001 in Haugesund and named after a garbage dump, led by Kjetil Nernes and Karin Park.

Arabs Got Talent

Arabs Got Talent is the Arabic version of the Got Talent format, broadcast by MBC since January 2011 and open to performers from across the Arab world.

Arai Mitsuru

Arai Mitsuru (新井 満, 1946–2021) was a Japanese singer-songwriter, novelist, and photographer who won the 1988 Akutagawa Prize and created the million-selling memorial song Sen no Kaze ni Natte.

Aram Khachaturian (Արամ Խաչատրյան)

Aram Khachaturian (Արամ Խաչատրյան, 1903–1978), Soviet Armenian composer of the ballets Gayane and Spartacus and the Sabre Dance; studied with Myaskovsky in Moscow, denounced in 1948, UNESCO Memory of the World honoree.

Arash (آرش لباف) (singer)

Arash (Arash Labaf, آرش لباف), Iranian-Swedish dance-pop singer born 1977 in Tehran, Sweden-based; known for "Boro Boro", the album Donya, Eurovision 2009 third place for Azerbaijan with "Always", and collaborations with Shaggy and Snoop Dogg.

Arashi (嵐)

Arashi (嵐), five-member Japanese idol group formed September 1999 under Johnny & Associates, debuted with A・RA・SHI, suspended activities end of 2020, disbanded 31 May 2026 after a final Tokyo Dome concert.

Aravindh (song)

Aravindh (Tamil அரவிந்த், Telugu అరవింద్) is Anirudh Ravichander's June 14, 2026 Tamil/Telugu indie single, his first release on his label Albuquerque Records with Universal Music India, a satirical alter-ego tribute to his late friend.

Arca (musician)

Arca (Alejandra Ghersi, born 1990) is a Venezuelan experimental electronic musician, producer, and vocalist; co-producer of Björk's Vulnicura and Kanye West's Yeezus, with albums Xen, Arca, the KiCk series, and XXXXX.

Arcade (song)

Arcade is a 2019 ballad by Dutch singer Duncan Laurence with Joel Sjöö and Wouter Hardy. It won Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv with 498 points and is the most-streamed Eurovision entry on Spotify.

Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire is a Grammy-winning Canadian indie rock band from Montreal led by Win Butler and Regine Chassagne; debut Funeral (2004) and The Suburbs, the 2011 Album of the Year Grammy winner, define its anthemic orchestral sound.

Arcadia (Alison Krauss & Union Station album)

Arcadia (2025) is the eighth studio album by Alison Krauss & Union Station, the bluegrass band, released on Down The Road Records, first album since 2011's Paper Airplane, featuring Russell Moore replacing Dan Tyminski; Metacritic score 84.

Arcane League of Legends: Season 2

Arcane League of Legends: Season 2 is the 2024 soundtrack album for the second and final season of Arcane, the Emmy-winning series based on League of Legends.

Arcángel & De La Ghetto

Arcángel & De La Ghetto, also written Arcángel y De la Ghetto, was a reggaeton duo formed in 2004, known for "Ven Pégate" on Sangre Nueva (2005).

Arcangelo Corelli

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713), Italian Baroque violinist and composer active in Rome under patrons Christina of Sweden and Cardinals Pamphili and Ottoboni; six opuses of sonatas and concerti grossi, including the Christmas Concerto, founded the modern violin school.

ARCH Copenhagen (music)

ARCH is a nightclub in central Copenhagen, Denmark, opened in 2016 by the Danish producer Remee at Nørregade 41, playing hip-hop, house, and commercial electronic music.

Arch Enemy

Arch Enemy: Swedish melodic death metal band from Halmstad, formed 1995 by ex-Carcass guitarist Michael Amott. Debut Black Earth (1996); four vocalists, Johan Liiva, Angela Gossow, Alissa White-Gluz, Lauren Hart; 12th album Blood Dynasty (2025).

Architects (British band)

Architects are a British metalcore band formed in Brighton, England, in 2004 by twin brothers Dan and Tom Searle, known for combining hardcore, death metal, and ambient elements.

Archive (band)

Archive is a British music collective formed in Croydon, South London, in 1994 by Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths. Debut Londinium (1996) was trip-hop; the sound evolved to progressive and art rock across 14 albums, with Glass Minds (2026) and Not In My Name (2027) on Dangervisit/[PIAS].