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Wave to Earth

Wave to Earth (웨이브투어스) is a three-piece South Korean indie rock band from Seoul, formed in 2019, best known for the viral 2020 song "seasons" and over a billion streams.

Wave-Gotik-Treffen

The Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT) is the world's largest gothic/black-scene festival, held each Pentecost weekend since 1992 at about 50 venues across Leipzig, drawing roughly 20,000 visitors and including the Victorian Picnic and medieval markets.

Wavin' Flag

Wavin' Flag: 2009 song by Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan from the album Troubadour, written with Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Jean Daval; reworked as the Coca-Cola Celebration Mix anthem of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and a Haitian charity single.

Wavves

Wavves (also styled Wavvves for the 2009 album) is a San Diego rock band formed in 2008 by Nathan Williams, known for lo-fi surf punk, the Fat Possum albums Wavvves and King of the Beach, and later records through Ghost Ramp.

Wavy the Creator

Wavy the Creator is the stage name of Jennifer Ejoke, a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and photographer in the alté scene, known for 'H.I.G.H', 'Body Deep', and 'Star'.

Wax Trax! Records discography

The Wax Trax! Records discography surveys releases by the Chicago industrial label founded by Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, active from 1980 and absorbed by TVT Records in 1992.

Waxahatchee

Waxahatchee is the alt-country and indie rock project of Alabama singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield, also of Plains and Snocaps; known for American Weekend (2012), Saint Cloud (2020), and the Grammy-nominated Tigers Blood (2024).

Way Out West (group)

Way Out West is an English progressive house and trance duo from Bristol formed by Jody Wisternoff and Nick Warren, whose 1996 single "The Gift" reached the UK top 15.

Wayfarer (group)

Wayfarer is an American black metal band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2012, whose self-described "black metal of the American West" sound earned acclaim for its 2023 album American Gothic.

Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings (1937–2002), American outlaw country singer-guitarist from Littlefield, Texas; Buddy Holly's bassist, RCA star, first platinum country album with Wanted! The Outlaws, Highwaymen member.

Waylon Wyatt

Waylon Wyatt (Waylon Wyatt Potter, born 2006, Hackett, Arkansas) is an American country/Americana singer-songwriter who broke out on TikTok with "Everything Under the Sun" in 2023, released EPs Til the Sun Goes Down and Out of the Blue, and the 2026 debut album Dustpiles on Music Soup/Darkroom Records.

Wayne County & the Electric Chairs

Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, also known as the Electric Chairs, were a London punk/new wave band led by American singer Wayne (later Jayne) County, active 1977–1979, known for the single "Fuck Off" and the album Things Your Mother Never Told You.

Wayne Coyne

Wayne Coyne, born 1961 in Pittsburgh, is the Oklahoma City frontman and co-founder of psychedelic rock band The Flaming Lips, known for space-bubble crowd-surfing, three Grammys, and visual art including The King's Mouth installation.

Wayne Hancock

Wayne "The Train" Hancock (born 1965, Dallas, Texas) is an American alt-country singer-songwriter, king of his self-coined "juke joint swing" blending honky-tonk, Western swing, rockabilly, and blues; debut Thunderstorms and Neon Signs (1995), Bloodshot Records artist, no drummer, relentless touring.

Wayne Newton

Wayne Newton (Carson Wayne Newton, born 1942, Norfolk, Virginia), "Mr. Las Vegas": singer and multi-instrumentalist, Vegas performer since 1959, hits "Danke Schoen" and "Red Roses for a Blue Lady", 165 albums, Flamingo residency extended into 2024.

Wayne Osmond

Wayne Osmond (Melvin Wayne Osmond, 1951-2025), founding member and baritone guitarist of the Osmond Brothers/The Osmonds, brother of Donny and Marie; co-creator of Crazy Horses, died of a stroke aged 73.

Wayne Sermon

Wayne Sermon (Daniel Wayne Sermon), born 1984 in American Fork, Utah, is the lead guitarist of Imagine Dragons. Berklee-trained in jazz guitar, he is known for textural, song-first playing, vintage guitars, and composer credits on Radioactive, Believer, and Thunder.

Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter (1933-2023), Newark-born jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis's second great quintet, and Weather Report; 12 Grammy Awards, Blue Note classics like Speak No Evil, and the opera Iphigenia.

Wayne Static

Wayne Static (Wayne Richard Wells, 1965–2014), American industrial metal frontman of Static-X, 'evil disco' pioneer, Wisconsin Death Trip, Pighammer solo album, died at 48.

WayV

WayV (威神V, 웨이션브이) is a Chinese boy group under SM Entertainment's Label V, the fourth NCT sub-unit, debuting January 17, 2019 with 'The Vision'; known for Mandarin releases, 'Love Talk', and albums like On My Youth.

WC (rapper)

WC (Dub-C), William LaShawn Calhoun Jr., born 1970, is a West Coast rapper from Los Angeles of Low Profile, WC and the Maad Circle, and Westside Connection, and a solo artist since The Shadiest One (1998).

WCK

WCK (Windward Caribbean Kulture) is a Dominican band formed in 1988 in Grand Bay, Dominica, credited with creating bouyon, a genre fusing cadence-lypso, jing ping, and lapo kabwit drumming with soca.

WDA (Whole Different Animal)

"WDA (Whole Different Animal)" is a 2026 hip-hop dance single by K-pop girl group aespa featuring G-DRAGON, released May 11, 2026 as a pre-release single of the album LEMONADE, peaking at number 4 on Billboard Taiwan.

WDR Big Band

WDR Big Band: Cologne-based professional jazz big band of German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk, descended from a 1946 dance orchestra, Grammy-winning for Some Skunk Funk (2005), chief conductor Bob Mintzer since 2016.

We Are Charlie Kirk

We Are Charlie Kirk is an AI-generated gospel power ballad credited to anonymous act Spalexma, released September 16, 2025, six days after Charlie Kirk's assassination; it topped Spotify's Viral 50 Global chart and became a viral ironic meme.

We Are Family (song)

"We Are Family" is a 1979 disco song written and produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for Sister Sledge, peaking at No. 2 Hot 100 and No. 1 R&B, adopted by the 1979 World Series champion Pittsburgh Pirates and the LGBT community, and added to the National Recording Registry in 2016.

WE ARE FURY

WE ARE FURY is a Canadian electronic duo from Vancouver, formed in 2016 by Joachim Speidel and Stuart Brookes, releasing bass- and melody-driven music on Seeking Blue Records.

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together": Taylor Swift single from Red, released August 13, 2012, written with Max Martin and Shellback, her first Billboard Hot 100 number one, with a spoken bridge and an extra "ever" in every chorus.

We Are Not Your Kind

We Are Not Your Kind is Slipknot's sixth studio album, released August 9, 2019 on Roadrunner Records; the Chris Fehn-era band's first UK and Billboard 200 number one, with Metacritic score 89.

We Are Number One

We Are Number One is a villain song from Iceland's LazyTown, performed by Stefán Karl Stefánsson as Robbie Rotten in the 2014 episode Robbie's Dream Team, composed by Máni Svavarsson. It became a massive 2016 remix meme tied to a GoFundMe for Stefánsson, who died of bile duct cancer in 2018.