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Sónar Lisboa

Sónar Lisboa, also known as Sonar Lisbon, is an annual electronic music festival in Lisbon, Portugal, held since 2022 as a Lisbon edition of Barcelona's Sónar festival.

Sonata

Sonata: an instrumental composition, from Italian sonare ("to sound"), usually in several movements for one or few players. Distinguished from sonata form, which also governs symphonies and quartets; Baroque da chiesa and da camera types, Classical four-movement scheme.

Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica, Finnish power metal band from Kemi formed 1996 as Tricky Beans, then Tricky Means; debut Ecliptica (1999), Unia (2007) shift, Clear Cold Beyond (2024) return to power metal, 30th anniversary 2026.

Sonata form

Sonata form is the three-section movement structure (exposition, development, recapitulation) of Classical and Romantic instrumental music, originating in Baroque rounded binary and central to symphonies, sonatas, and concertos.

Sondia

Sondia (손디아), real name Son Min-kyung, is a South Korean singer and vocal trainer who debuted in 2016 and is known as the "OST Queen" for K-drama soundtracks.

Sondre Lerche

Sondre Lerche (Sondre Lerche Vaular, born 1982, Bergen) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist; debut Faces Down (2001), Dan in Real Life soundtrack, Spellemann winner for Avatars of Love (2022).

Soneo

Soneo is the improvised sung part of salsa music, performed by the lead singer in call-and-response with the chorus during the montuno section of a song.

Song

Song: a short piece of music with sung words, per Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries. Covers verse-chorus form, folk vs art song, textsetting, forensics, and AI lyric-to-melody generation.

Song 2

Song 2 is a 1997 song by English band Blur, second track and single from their self-titled fifth album. A two-minute grunge sendup with the "woo-hoo" hook, it hit UK number 2, became their biggest US hit, and a stadium anthem via FIFA 98.

Song and album list-making: themes, charts and media catalogs

Song and album list-making is the practice of ordering musical works by popularity, quality, theme, or franchise membership, spanning quantitative charts like Billboard's, critics' greatest-ever canons, and streaming-era catalogs.

Song cycle

Song cycle: a unified group of individually complete art songs, German Liederkreis, from Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte (1816) through Schubert's Winterreise to modern cross-genre works.

Song Ji-eun (송지은)

Song Ji-eun (송지은), born 1990, South Korean singer and actress; main vocalist of girl group Secret (debuted October 13, 2009), solo hits "Yesterday" and "Are You Crazy" (2011), founder of One Soul E&M, married to creator Park Wi in 2024. Distinct from the JYP Entertainment executive of the same name.

Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez

Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez is Gorillaz's seventh studio album (23 October 2020, Parlophone), compiling the band's monthly Song Machine episodes begun with "Momentary Bliss" in January 2020; 11 standard and 17 deluxe tracks, UK number 2, US Billboard 200 number 12.

Song picturisation

Song picturisation is the Indian film-industry term for the on-screen staging of a film song: the song is recorded in a studio first, and visuals are filmed afterwards.

Song structure

Song structure (song form): the arrangement of verses, choruses, prechoruses, and bridges in popular music. AABA/32-bar form dominated 1920s–1960s Tin Pan Alley; verse-chorus form overtook it in the late 1960s; streaming-era pop compresses sections.

Songline

A songline, also called a Dreaming Track, is a path across Australia traced by Ancestral beings in Aboriginal tradition, sung as an oral map and body of law.

Songo

Songo is a Cuban dance rhythm created by Juan Formell and drummer Changuito within Los Van Van in Havana in 1969, fusing son with rock and bossa nova.

Songs About Jane

Songs About Jane is Maroon 5's debut album, released June 25, 2002 on J/Octone Records, produced by Matt Wallace. Twelve funk- and R&B-influenced pop rock songs about Adam Levine's relationship with Jane Herman; over 10 million copies sold.

Songs About Us

Songs About Us is Jason Aldean's 12th studio album, released April 24, 2026 on Broken Bow Records. 20 tracks produced by Michael Knox, with guests Luke Bryan, David Lee Murphy, and Brittany Aldean; 14th consecutive Top 10 country album.

Songs for a Nervous Planet

Songs for a Nervous Planet is Tears for Fears' first official live album, released October 25, 2024 on Concord, pairing an 18-song July 2023 Tennessee concert with four new studio tracks including Astronaut.

Songs for the Deaf

Songs for the Deaf (2002) is the third album by Queens of the Stone Age, a radio-drive concept record from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree with Dave Grohl on drums; its lead single "No One Knows" became the band's signature song, and it reached number 4 in the UK.

Songs from Les Misérables

Songs from Les Misérables: numbers of the sung-through musical by Schönberg, Boublil, Natel and Kretzmer, from the 1980 French concept album to the 1985 English score, including I Dreamed a Dream, On My Own, One Day More and Do You Hear the People Sing?

Songs from the Big Chair

Songs from the Big Chair is Tears for Fears' second album, released 25 February 1985 on Mercury. Produced by Chris Hughes with Ian Stanley, it spawned five singles including US No. 1s "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World".

Songs from the Last Century

Songs from the Last Century is George Michael's covers album of pre-war ballads, jazzy standards, and big-band swing, following Older; NME found it incoherent but praised his Miss Sarajevo.

Songs from the Wedding Cake

Songs from the Wedding Cake is the sixth studio album by English indie pop band Blossoms, released 2 October 2026. Produced by Shawn Lee, recorded to tape, a marriage-themed concept album named for Stockport Town Hall.

Songs in A Minor

Songs in A Minor is Alicia Keys' 2001 debut album on J Records, a self-produced classical-R&B fusion. It debuted at No. 1 with 236,000 copies, spawned "Fallin'" (six weeks at No. 1), and won five 2002 Grammys.

Songs in the Key of Life

Songs in the Key of Life is Stevie Wonder's 1976 double album plus bonus EP on Tamla, which spent 14 weeks at Number One and won Album of the Year.

Songs in the Key of Springfield

Songs in the Key of Springfield is a 1997 Rhino Records soundtrack album of music from The Simpsons, the second Simpsons album after The Simpsons Sing the Blues, with 39 tracks including the Stonecutters' Song, and a 2LP vinyl reissue due 2026.

Songs of a Lost World

Songs of a Lost World is The Cure's 14th studio album, released 1 November 2024 on Fiction/Polydor, their first in 16 years, eight tracks written by Robert Smith, Metascore 93, UK Number 1.

Songs of Experience (U2 album)

Songs of Experience is U2's 14th studio album, released 1 December 2017 on Island/Universal, companion to Songs of Innocence and inspired by William Blake's poems. Produced by Jacknife Lee and Ryan Tedder among others, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 186,000 units and a Metacritic score of 63.