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Cotton-Eyed Joe

Cotton-Eyed Joe, also Cotton Eye Joe, is a pre-Civil War American folk song and fiddle tune about a mysterious stranger who steals the singer's sweetheart; recorded from 1927 (Dykes Magic City Trio) and globally popularized by Rednex's 1994 Eurodance hit.

Cottonmouth (film)

Cottonmouth (2025 Western film by Brock Harris), a Monte Cristo-inspired Oklahoma Territory revenge Western starring Martin Sensmeier, Ron Perlman, and Esai Morales, released by Cineverse, streaming November 4, 2025; distinct from the 2001 Lethal Force drama and the 2020 and 2026 shorts.

Couch (American band)

Couch: Boston-based American seven-piece soul/funk-pop band (Tema Siegel, Zach Blankstein, and others) formed from college friendships; released debut album Big Talk in 2025. Distinct from the Munich post-rock Couch and the Ann Arbor noise rock duo of the same name.

Cougar Town

Cougar Town is an American sitcom (2009-2015, ABC then TBS) created by Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel, starring Courteney Cox as divorcée Jules Cobb; it dropped its cougar premise early and became an ensemble comedy about middle-aged friendship.

Couleur Café

Couleur Café is a world and urban music festival in Brussels, founded in 1990 and held each summer since 2017 in Osseghem Park at the foot of the Atomium.

Counsels (TV series)

Counsels is an upcoming eight-part British legal drama set in Glasgow, made by Balloon Entertainment for BBC iPlayer, BBC One, BBC Scotland and ZDFneo, created by Bryan Elsley and Gillian McCormack, premiering early 2027.

Count (카운트) (2023 film)

Count (카운트, also Countdown) is a 2023 South Korean boxing comedy-drama directed by Kwon Hyeok-jae, starring Jin Sun-kyu as Olympic gold medalist Park Si-heon, based on the 1988 Seoul Olympics Roy Jones Jr. controversy; released February 22, 2023 by CJ ENM.

Count Basie

Count Basie (William James Basie, 1904-1984), American jazz pianist and bandleader from Red Bank, New Jersey, credited with originating Kansas City jazz, led the Count Basie Orchestra for nearly 50 years, won nine Grammys, and recorded One O'Clock Jump.

Count Basie Orchestra

Count Basie Orchestra, American jazz big band founded 1935 in Kansas City by Count Basie as the Barons of Rhythm; known for "One O'Clock Jump," the All-American Rhythm Section, nine Basie Grammys, and continued performance under director Scotty Barnhart.

Count Dooku

Count Dooku, Darth Tyranus, is the Star Wars Sith Lord and Separatist leader, a former Jedi trained by Yoda, played by Christopher Lee, who trained Ventress, wielded a curved-hilt lightsaber, and was killed by Anakin Skywalker.

Count Duckula

Count Duckula: British Cosgrove Hall animated series (ITV, 1988–1993, 65 episodes) spin-off of Danger Mouse about a vegetarian vampire duck, voiced by David Jason, with servants Igor and Nanny.

Count Fenring

Count Hasimir Fenring, fictional Dune character: distaff Corrino cousin, closest friend of Emperor Shaddam IV, Imperial Agent on Arrakis, Siridar-Absentia of Caladan, failed Kwisatz Haderach invisible to prescience.

Count Nefaria

Count Nefaria (Count Luchino Nefaria) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, a Roman-born Italian nobleman who led the Maggia crime cartel and debuted in Avengers #13 (1965); later given hundredfold-amplified ionic powers, he is Madame Masque's father.

Count Orlok

Count Orlok (Graf Orlok) is the vampire of Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu, a renamed Dracula played by Max Schreck; bald, rat-toothed, plague-bearing, killed by sunlight, later portrayed by Kinski (1979) and Skarsgård (2024).

Count Vertigo

Count Vertigo (Werner Vertigo, later Werner Zytle) is a DC Comics supervillain, deposed ruler of Vlatava, created by Gerry Conway and Trevor von Eeden in World's Finest Comics #251 (1978); his inner-ear implant induces a disorienting Vertigo effect.

Count von Count

Count von Count is the vampire-like Sesame Street Muppet, a Bela Lugosi Dracula parody created by Norman Stiles, first seen in 1972, voiced by Jerry Nelson then Matt Vogel, who compulsively counts everything.

Count Your Blessings (Bring Me the Horizon album)

Count Your Blessings is the 2006 deathcore debut album by British band Bring Me the Horizon, released on Visible Noise (US: Epitaph), 10 songs, 36 minutes; re-recorded in 2026 as Count Your Blessings | Repented with producer Buster Odeholm.

Count Your Blessings: Repented

Count Your Blessings | Repented is Bring Me The Horizon's July 10, 2026 20th-anniversary full re-recording of their 2006 deathcore debut, produced with Buster Odeholm, adding the new track Dehumanized and retitling Liquor & Love Lost as Dragon Slaying.

Count Your Lucky Stars (我好喜欢你)

Count Your Lucky Stars (我好喜欢你, aka 交换吧,运气) is a 2020 Chinese romantic comedy drama adapted from Mo Xi's novel, starring Jerry Yan and Shen Yue as a lucky fashion editor and unlucky designer whose fortunes swap after an accidental kiss; 34 episodes on Youku and Mango TV, distinct from the similarly titled Dating in the Kitchen.

Countdown (2019 film)

Countdown is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Justin Dec, about a smartphone app that predicts when each user will die, starring Elizabeth Lail as a nurse given three days to live.

Countdown (American TV series)

Countdown is a 2025 American Prime Video crime drama created by Derek Haas, starring Jensen Ackles as LAPD detective Mark Meachum on a secret task force; 13 episodes, canceled October 2025.

Countdown (game show)

Countdown is a British Channel 4 daytime game show, first broadcast 2 November 1982 and adapted from the French Des chiffres et des lettres, featuring letters rounds, numbers rounds, and the nine-letter conundrum, hosted by Colin Murray with Rachel Riley and Susie Dent.

Countdown 2024

Countdown NYE is Insomniac's New Year's Eve electronic dance music festival, held each December 31 in San Bernardino, California, billed as the West Coast's largest NYE celebration.

Countdown to Ecstasy

Countdown to Ecstasy is Steely Dan's second studio album, released July 1973 on ABC Records. Eight tracks, Gary Katz production, Donald Fagen's first full turn as lead vocalist; a critical success that peaked at number 35 in the US.

Countdown to Extinction

Countdown to Extinction is Megadeth's fifth studio album (Capitol, September 14, 1992), produced with Max Norman, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200, double Platinum, featuring Symphony of Destruction and Sweating Bullets.

Counterpart (TV series)

Counterpart, Starz spy-fi series (2017–2019) by Justin Marks, not to be confused with other works titled Counterpart: J.K. Simmons plays dual Howard Silks across parallel Berlins; two seasons, 20 episodes, canceled after Starz's audience pivot.

Counterpoint

Counterpoint (punctus contra punctum) is the technique of combining independent melodic lines that each remain melodies while forming harmony; taught through Fux's 1725 five species against a cantus firmus.

Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival

CounterPoint Music & Arts Festival, also called CounterPoint Festival, was an EDM-centric music and arts camping festival in Georgia from 2012 to 2015, peaking at over 65,000 attendees in 2014.

Counterstrike (2025 film)

Counterstrike (Contraataque, also Counterattack) is a 2025 Mexican action film by Chava Cartas on Netflix: army special forces Murciélagos ambushed by the El Enjambre cartel; #1 non-English Netflix film, 22.1M views in two weeks.

Countertenor

Countertenor: male classical singer using trained falsetto or head voice in contralto/mezzo range. Subtypes bassus and altus; modern revival founded by Alfred Deller after Tippett's 1943 discovery; core repertory Handel, Britten's Oberon, Glass's Akhnaten.