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XXXXX (album)
XXXXX is Arca's ninth studio album, released July 31, 2026 on XL Recordings; 16 tracks, 47 minutes, first full-length since kiCK iiiii (2021), conceived as a mixtape and framed as the Diva Experimental FM radio broadcast.
XXYYXX
XXYYXX is the stage name of Marcel Everett (born 1995), an Orlando, Florida electronic producer of future garage and instrumental hip hop. Known for the 2012 self-titled Relief in Abstract album, the track About You, the 2015 single Red, and a 2019 credit on XXXTentacion's Bad Vibes Forever.
Xylophone
Xylophone: a pitched percussion instrument of graduated wooden bars struck with mallets, from Greek xylon (wood) and phone (sound). Orchestral xylophone spans about F4–C8, uses quint-tuning, and entered the orchestra with Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre (1874).
Xzibit
Xzibit (Alvin Nathaniel Joiner), Detroit-born West Coast rapper; albums At the Speed of Life (1996), Restless (2000), Man vs. Machine (2003); host of MTV's Pimp My Ride 2004–2007; 2025 album Kingmaker.
Y:SY (이서연)
Y:SY (이서연), born 2000, is the stage name of Lee Seo-yeon, former main rapper of fromis_9, an Idol School finalist, now a H1GHR Music soloist who debuted solo with "Naked" in 2025 and released the mini album GOODIES in 2026.
Y.M.C.A. (song)
Y.M.C.A. is a 1978 disco single by Village People, written by Jacques Morali and lyricist Victor Willis, from the album Cruisin'. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, sold over ten million copies, spawned the arm-spelling dance, and entered the National Recording Registry.
Y&T
Y&T is an American hard rock band formed in Oakland, California, in 1974, originally named after the Beatles album Yesterday and Today and fronted throughout by Dave Meniketti.
Y2K!
Y2K! is the debut studio album by American rapper Ice Spice, released through 10K Projects and Capitol Records on July 26, 2024, with guests Travis Scott, Gunna, and Central Cee.
Ya Kid K
Ya Kid K (Manuela Barbara Kamosi Moaso Djogi) is a Congolese-Belgian rapper, born in Kinshasa, who wrote and sang Technotronic's 1989 hit "Pump Up the Jam" while model Felly Kilingi lip-synced it on video; she later released the solo album One World Nation (1992).
Ya Levis
Ya Levis, real name Prince Nemiala, is a Congolese singer-songwriter from Kinshasa who fuses rumba with R&B and afro-pop, breaking through in 2018 with the hit "Libala".
Ya Ya (Beyoncé song)
YA YA is a 2024 Beyoncé song, track 20 on Cowboy Carter, sampling Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin' and interpolating the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations; a Tina Turner-inspired country-R&B-rock fusion that peaked at number 39 on the Hot 100.
Yaam, Berlin
YAAM (Young African Art Market) is a beach club and reggae, dancehall venue on the Spree riverbank in Friedrichshain, Berlin, founded in 1994 and run by Kult e.V.
Yabby You
Yabby You, born Vivian Jackson, was a Jamaican roots reggae singer and producer known as the "Jesus Dread"; his 1972 single "Conquering Lion" made him a cult figure in Europe.
Yabujin
Yabujin (Rokas Tarulis per unconfirmed reports; also DJ GYROTTA ZAO) is an anonymous Lithuanian rapper and producer of cloud rap, hexD, bitcrushed ambient and jumpstyle, active since 2016, inspiration for the yabujincore TikTok trend.
Yabuki Nako
Yabuki Nako (矢吹 奈子, Korean 나코) is a Japanese singer and actress born in 2001, a member of HKT48 and, from 2018 to 2021, the girl group IZ*ONE.
Yacht rock
Yacht rock: retrospective name for smooth, jazz- and R&B-inflected late-1970s/early-1980s Southern California soft rock (Steely Dan, Toto, Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross). Term coined in 2005 by the Channel 101 comedy web series; not about boats; peaked 1981-82, faded by 1985.
YADA Moeka
YADA Moeka (矢田萌華), also romanized Moeka Yada, is a Japanese idol and sixth-generation member of Nogizaka46, announced in February 2025 as a 17-year-old from Akita Prefecture.
Yaelokre
Yaelokre, also known as Keath Ósk, is the Filipino-Icelandic artist's folk storytelling project set in the fictional world of Meadowlark, featuring the masked quartet The Lark; debut song Harpy Hare went viral in 2024, leading to an Atlantic Records deal.
Yah Ribon
Yah Ribon, also known as Yah Ribon Olam (יה ריבון), is an Aramaic Jewish Sabbath table hymn written in the sixteenth century by Rabbi Israel Najara of Safed.
Yailin La Más Viral
Yailin La Más Viral, born Jorgina Lulú Guillermo Díaz in 2002, is a Dominican rapper and urbano performer whose hit "Bing Bong" reached hundreds of millions of streams.
Yakety Sax
Yakety Sax, also called the Benny Hill theme, is an instrumental saxophone tune by Boots Randolph and Spider Rich, inspired by Yakety Yak, a 1963 US Top Forty hit famous for slapstick chase scenes.
Yakiv Stepovy
Yakiv Stepovy (Яків Степовий), born Yakiv Yakymenko, was a Ukrainian composer and music critic who helped found a national Ukrainian musical school, dying in Kyiv in 1921.
Yakov Zak
Yakov Zak was a Soviet pianist and teacher, born in Odessa, who won first prize at the 1937 Chopin Competition in Warsaw and taught for four decades at the Moscow Conservatory.
Yale Symphony Orchestra
The Yale Symphony Orchestra (YSO) is Yale University's undergraduate orchestra, founded in 1965, with 80–90 mostly non-music-major Yale College students, six concerts yearly in Woolsey Hall, a midnight Halloween show, tours to 13 countries, and directors from John Mauceri to Elizabeth Askren.
Yalın
Yalın, born Hüseyin Yalın in 1980 in Istanbul, is a Turkish pop singer who writes his own songs and rose to fame with his 2004 debut album Ellerine Sağlık.
Yalla Erhal Ya Bashar (song)
"Yalla Erhal Ya Bashar" (يلا إرحل يا بشار) is a Syrian protest song calling on President Bashar al-Assad to leave, sung by demonstrators in 2011.
Yama (singer)
yama is an anonymous masked Japanese solo singer who debuted in April 2020 with "Haru wo Tsugeru" and became known for anime themes including SPY×FAMILY's "Shikisai" and Gundam: The Witch from Mercury's "slash".
Yama Buddha (अनिल अधिकारी)
Yama Buddha (अनिल अधिकारी) was a Nepalese rapper and songwriter who was a central figure in NepHop. He died in his London apartment in 2017.
Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社)
Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社), formerly Nippon Gakki, is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment maker founded in Hamamatsu in 1887 by Torakusu Yamaha; distinct from Yamaha Motor (spun off 1955), listed as TSE 7951.
Yamaha DX7
Yamaha DX7, DX7 II successor, 1983 digital FM synthesizer with six operators, 32 algorithms, 16-voice polyphony, E.PIANO 1 preset on ~60% of 1986 US chart songs, about 160,000 built.