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Platero y Tú

Platero y Tú was a Spanish rock band formed in Bilbao in 1989, fronted by Fito Cabrales, releasing eight albums before breaking up in 2001.

Platinum (Miranda Lambert album)

Platinum is Miranda Lambert's fifth studio album, a 16-track 2014 RCA Nashville release named for her hair color and a title-track song. Guests include Carrie Underwood, Little Big Town, and the Time Jumpers; critics were largely positive.

Platon Maiboroda

Platon Maiboroda (1918–1989) was a Ukrainian composer of more than 200 popular songs, including the Kyiv Waltz and the Rushnychok song, and winner of the Shevchenko Prize.

PLAVE

PLAVE (플레이브) is a five-member South Korean virtual boy group under Vlast, whose animated characters are performed live by human actors using motion capture, debuting in 2023.

Plavi Orkestar

Plavi Orkestar (Плави Оркестар, "Blue Orchestra") is a pop-rock band formed in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in 1983 and fronted by Saša Lošić, whose 1985 debut album Soldatski bal sold over 600,000 copies.

Play (Ed Sheeran album)

Play is Ed Sheeran's eighth studio album, released September 12, 2025 on Gingerbread Man/Atlantic UK. First of a new symbol-titled series after the Mathematics albums, recorded on tour and finished in Goa, India, with the singles Azizam and Sapphire featuring Arijit Singh.

Play (Moby album)

Play, Moby's fifth album (Richard Melville Hall), released May 17, 1999 on V2/Mute; 18 tracks sampling Alan Lomax blues and gospel field recordings; first album with every track licensed; sold over 12 million copies and topped the UK chart after a slow start.

PLAY HOUSE

Playhouse is a German house record label founded in 1993 in Frankfurt am Main by Heiko Schäfer (M/S/O) and Ata, central to minimal house through releases by Isolée and Villalobos.

Play It Again Sam

Play It Again Sam (PIAS) is a Belgian record-label group founded in Brussels in 1982 by Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot, owned by Universal Music Group since 2024.

Play Me (Kim Gordon album)

Play Me is a 2026 studio album by Kim Gordon, co-founder of Sonic Youth. The 12-track release blends experimental hip hop with krautrock and was produced by Justin Raisen.

Play That Funky Music

Play That Funky Music: 1976 funk rock single by Wild Cherry, written by Rob Parissi after Pittsburgh club crowds demanded funk from the hard rock band; Billboard Hot 100 and R&B number one.

Playback singer

Playback singer, also known as Hindi pārśvagāyak, is a vocalist whose songs are studio-recorded for Indian films. The tradition began in 1935 when actors performed to the pre-recorded tracks.

Playback singer Bhupinder Singh

Bhupinder Singh (1940–2022) was an Indian playback and ghazal singer and guitarist from Amritsar, known for 'Dil Dhoondta Hai' and for recording ghazals with his wife Mitali Singh.

Playback Singer Hema Sardesai

Hema Sardesai is an Indian playback singer, born in Mumbai and raised in Goa, whose 1997 solo 'Awaara Bhanwre' from Sapnay, composed by A. R. Rahman, brought nationwide fame.

Playback singing

Playback singing (प्लेबैक गायन) is the Indian film practice in which trained singers record a film's songs in the studio and actors lip-sync, often dancing, on screen, standard since 1935.

Playboi Carti

Playboi Carti (Jordan Terrell Carter, born 1996, Atlanta) is an American rapper behind the 2017 mixtape, Die Lit, Whole Lotta Red, the 2025 album Music, and the Opium label.

Playboi Carti (mixtape)

Playboi Carti (2017) is the Atlanta rapper's debut commercial mixtape on AWGE/Interscope: 15 tracks, No. 12 on the Billboard 200, Pi'erre Bourne-produced hit "Magnolia," RIAA Platinum.

Player (band)

Player is a Los Angeles soft rock band formed in the mid-1970s by Peter Beckett, J.C. Crowley, Ronn Moss, and John Friesen, whose "Baby Come Back" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in 1978.

Player piano

Player piano (pianola): pneumatic, roll-operated self-playing piano invented by Edwin Votey 1895, marketed by Aeolian as the Pianola from 1897; golden age 1900-1930; reproducing pianos (Welte, Ampico, Duo-Art) replay recorded pianists.

Playero DJ

Playero DJ, known as DJ Playero, is a Puerto Rican DJ and producer born Pedro Torruellas in 1964 whose underground mixtapes incubated reggaeton and launched Daddy Yankee.

Playing by ear

Playing by ear, also known as learning by ear, is the ability to play back music one has heard without ever seeing it written as sheet music, often with improvisation.

Playlunch (band)

Playlunch: Melbourne (Naarm) seven-piece "Bogan Funk" band founded by Liam Bell during COVID lockdown; albums Who's Ready for a Good Time? (2023) and Sex Ed (2025); "Keith" reached number 4 in the triple j Hottest 100 of 2025; signed to ABC Music in late 2024.

Playmen

Playmen is a Greek dance-pop production and DJ act formed in Athens in 2009, known for "Fallin'" with Demy and as the first Greek DJs at Tomorrowland.

Please (Pet Shop Boys album)

Please is the 1986 debut album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on Parlophone and produced by Stephen Hague. It reached UK number 3, went platinum in the US, and sold over three million copies.

Please Don't Cry

Please Don't Cry is Rapsody's fourth studio album, released May 17, 2024 on We Each Other/Jamla/Roc Nation. A 22-track therapy-framed record with Phylicia Rashad interludes, production from Hit-Boy, S1, BLK ODYSSY, and Eric G, and features from Erykah Badu and Lil Wayne; distinct from other works of the same name.

Please Mr. Postman

Please Mr. Postman: 1961 debut single by the Marvelettes on Motown's Tamla label, the label's first Billboard Hot 100 number one; later covered by the Beatles and the Carpenters.

Please Please Me

Please Please Me is the Beatles' debut album, released by Parlophone on 22 March 1963. Ten of its fourteen tracks were recorded in one day at Abbey Road; it topped the UK chart for 30 weeks.

Please Please Me (song)

Please Please Me is the Beatles' second single, a 2:00 Lennon-McCartney song recorded 26 November 1962, released 11 January 1963 on Parlophone with Ask Me Why, number one on several UK charts but number two on Record Retailer.

Please Please Please (Sabrina Carpenter song)

"Please Please Please" is a 2024 pop single by Sabrina Carpenter from Short n' Sweet, written with Jack Antonoff and Amy Allen; her first Billboard Hot 100 and UK No. 1, Grammy Song of the Year nominee.

Pleasure P

Pleasure P, stage name of Marcus Ramone Cooper Sr. (born 1984), American R&B singer, lead vocalist of Pretty Ricky on Bluestars and Late Night Special, then solo with "Boyfriend #2" and the Grammy-nominated The Introduction of Marcus Cooper (2009).