# Artist names, one per line. '#' lines are ignored.
# Optional aliases go after the main name:  Main Name | Alias | Alias
# Matching is case- and accent-insensitive, so "beyonce" finds "Beyoncé".
# A name is only accepted at the start of a chunk (or after 1-2 words), so a
# title that merely mentions an artist is not mistaken for one.

# --- global pop / R&B ---
2 Unlimited
Adele
Ariana Grande | Ariana
Ava Max
Beyonce | Beyonce Knowles
Billie Eilish
Bruno Mars
BTS | Bangtan Sonyeondan
Britney Spears
Camila Cabello
Cardi B
Carly Rae Jepsen | Carly Rae
Charlie Puth
Coldplay
Demi Lovato
Dua Lipa
Ed Sheeran
Elton John
Ellie Goulding
En Vogue
FKA twigs
Florence and the Machine | Florence Welch
Frank Ocean
Gracie Abrams
Halsey
Harry Styles
Holly Humberstone
Janelle Monáe | Janelle Monae
Jesse McCartney
John Legend
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Lana Del Rey
Lorde
Mabel
Madonna
Maroon 5
Meghan Trainor
Miley Cyrus
Niall Horan
Normani
Olivia Rodrigo
OneRepublic | One Republic
Pink | P!nk
Rihanna
Rosalía | Rosalia
Rina Sawayama
Sabrina Carpenter
Selena Gomez
Shawn Mendes
Sia
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Stevie Wonder
Taylor Swift
The Chainsmokers
The Kid Laroi
The Weeknd | Weeknd
Tinashe
Troye Sivan
Zayn | Zayn Malik
Zedd
Doja Cat
NF
NF | Nero Flags

# --- hip hop / rap ---
21 Savage
50 Cent
6ix9ine | 6IX9INE
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
ASAP Mob
Aston Villa
Big Sean
Chief Keef
Dave East
Denzel Curry
Drake
Eminem
Fetty Wap
Flo Rida
Future
G-Eazy
Ice Spice
J. Cole | J Cole
JAY-Z | Jay Z
Juice Wrld | Juice WRLD
Kanye West | Ye
Kendrick Lamar
Kid Cudi
Koffee
Lil Baby
Lil Dicky
Lil Nas X
Lil Uzi Vert
Logic
M.I.A. | MIA
Macklemore
Megan Thee Stallion
Nicki Minaj
NLE Choppa
Offset
Playboi Carti
Post Malone
Pusha T
Rae Sremmurd
Run-DMC | Run DMC
Ski Mask The Slump God
Snoop Dogg
Stormzy
Travis Scott
Trippie Redd
Ty Dolla Sign | Ty Dolla $ign
Tyler, The Creator | Tyler The Creator
Vince Staples
Wizkid
Yeat
Young Thug
Yung Lean

# --- rock / metal / indie ---
Arctic Monkeys
Audioslave
Bastille
Bring Me The Horizon
Bullet for My Valentine
Cold War Kids
Daughter
Deftones
Disturbed
Enter Shikari
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
Fujii Kaze
Gorillaz
Green Day
Imagine Dragons
Interpol
Jimmy Eat World
Kodaline
Led Zeppelin
Linkin Park
Lorna Shore
Machine Gun Kelly | MGK
Marilyn Manson
Metallica
Mitski
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Nickelback
Nine Inch Nails
Nothing But Thieves
Papa Roach
Paramore
Pierce The Veil
Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Rammstein
Sleep Token
Smash Mouth
Snow Patrol
Stone Sour
Sum 41
System of a Down
The 1975
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Black Keys
The Cranberries
The Killers
The National
The Offspring
The Rolling Stones
The Strokes
Three Days Grace
Tokio Hotel
Touché Amoré | Touche Amore
Twenty One Pilots
Van Halen
Veach
Void Poets
Weezer
Wolf Alice

# --- EDM / dance ---
Above & Beyond | Above and Beyond
Alan Walker
Alok
Armin van Buuren
Axwell Λ Ingrosso | Axwell and Ingrosso
Calvin Harris
Cashmere Cat
Chase & Status
Claptone
David Guetta
Diplo
Dimitri Vegas
Don Diablo
DuckSauce
Fred Again.. | Fred Again
Kaskade
Kygo
LSDREAM
Major Lazer
Marshmello
Martin Garrix
Tiësto | Tiesto
TheFatRat
Topic
VIZE
Yello

# --- K-pop / J-pop ---
aespa
ATEEZ
BABYMONSTER
BLACKPINK | Blackpink
Enhypen
EXO
IU | Lee Ji-eun
Jimin | Park Jimin
Jungkook | Jeon Jungkook
NewJeans
NMIXX
Red Velvet
SEVENTEEN | SVT
Stray Kids | StrayKids
TWICE
VIXX
Zico

# --- latin / reggaeton ---
Bad Bunny
Carlos Vives
Daddy Yankee
Feid
J Balvin
Karol G
Maluma
Nicky Jam
Ozuna
Paulo Londra
Peso Pluma
Rauw Alejandro
Sebastián Yatra | Sebastian Yatra
Shakira
TINI | Martina Stoessel
Tokischa

# --- India: legacy playback singers ---
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Alka Yagnik
Asha Bhosle
Kumar Sanu
Lata Mangeshkar
Mohammed Rafi
Mohd Aziz
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Sharda Sinha
Udit Narayan

# --- India: playback singers ---
Amit Trivedi
Amitabh Bhattacharya
Anuradha Sriram
Arijit Singh | Arijit
Armaan Malik
Badal Barmer
Bappi Lahiri
Dhvani Bhanushali
Divya Kumar
Harshdeep Kaur
Himesh Reshammiya
Jasleen Royal
Jubin Nautiyal
Kailash Kher
Karan Aujla
Keerthy Ponnappa
Kishore Kumar
Neha Bhasin
Neha Kakkar
Palak Muchhal
Payal Dev
Pritam
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Raftaar
Sanam Reet
Shaan
Shreya Ghoshal
Sonu Nigam
Sunidhi Chauhan
Sukhwinder Singh
Vishal Dadlani

# --- India: composers / bands / labels ---
A.R. Rahman | AR Rahman
Ajay-Atul | Ajay Atul
Anu Malik
Badshah
Desi Beats
Ilaiyaraaja
Kishore Kumar
Laxmikant-Pyarelal | Laxmikant Pyarelal
Mithoon
Mickey Virus Mal
Nadeem-Shravan | Nadeem Shravan
Ravi Shankar
Salim-Sulaiman | Salim Sulaiman
Saregama
Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy | Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Shiv-Hari | Shiv Hari
Sona Mohapatra
Tips Music
Times Music
T-Series | T Series | TSeries
Vijay Antony
Warner Music India

# --- India: indie / rock / regional ---
Agnee | Agni
Ankur Tewari
Band of Boys
Chai-Town | Chai Town
Colonial Cousins
Fossils
Great Khali
Indian Ocean
Parvaaz
Peter Cat Recording Co. | Peter Cat
Prateek Kuhad
Raghav Meattle
Shaan Rahman
The F16s
The Local Train
The Raghu Dixit Project | Raghu Dixit
The Ska Vengers
Tetseo Sisters
Yashpal Sharma

# --- Pakistan / South Asia ---
Atif Aslam
Bohemia
Diljit Dosanjh
Faris Shafi
Imran Khan
Meesha Shafi
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Runa Laila
Saif Ali Lohar
Sajjad Ali
Shafqat Amanat Ali
Tahir | Tahir Raj

# --- Nordics / misc international ---
MØ
Röyksopp | Royksopp
Sigala
Sigrid
Tove Lo
Zara Larsson

# --- punjabi / recent indian pop ---
Dhanda Nyoliwala
Hammy Muzic
Shab
Harshdeep Tarsem
Rupinder Raghu
Amit Sagar
Parmish Verma

# --- more playback singers / bands seen on film and pop channels ---
One Direction
AUR
Darshan Raval
Dharal Surelia
Stebin Ben
Nilesh Ahuja | Kumaar
Palwinder Dhami
Prabhat Paudyal
Sajjan Raj Vaidya
Tulsi Kumar
Vishal Mishra
Aditya A
Hammal Husain
Hassan Sadiq
Ami Sheth
Shirley Setia
Sikandar Kandar
Nirmal Panwar
Daler Mehndi
Badshah
Amit Trivedi
Arjun Ahuja | Arko
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

# --- channels and labels: never a title, and never the artist when they show
# --- up as their own chunk ("Kesariya - Arijit Singh | T-Series | 2023")
# Prefix a line with "!" to mark it as one.
!Saregama
!Tips Music
!Times Music
!T-Series | T Series | TSeries
!Warner Music India
!Desi Beats
!Sony Music India
!Speed Music
!Anodidas
!V4 Records
!T-Series Bhakti Sagar
!Aditya Music
!Tips
!Saregama Music
!Zee Music
!GMM Grammy
!Dice Media
!Desi Beats Music
!Zee Music Company | Zee Music Originals
