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    15 Songs Focused Only on Me, Vol. 3 (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Rizwan Aslam from Pexels; AcatXIo, Gerd Altmann , No-longer-here from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    15 Songs Focused Only on Me, Vol. 3 | Playlist 🎧

    15 Songs Focused Only on Me, Vol. 3 features songs by CMAT, Jerry Butler + Betty Everett, Muni Long, Reneé Rapp, The Weeknd & Tonio Armani.

    By the musical hype, 3 weeksJune 25, 2025 ago
    A Dazzling Drove of D Songs (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; A Roy, Jonathan Goncalves, Niko Twisty, Leonardo Goncalves wild, Vanessa Loring from Pexels; AcatXIo, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Eugene, Gerd Altmann, LapinVert [AI photo], Ribhav Agrawal [AI photo] from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    A Dazzling Drove of D Songs | Playlist 🎧

    A Dazzling Drove of D Songs features songs by Kesha, Korn, Omar Apollo, Sebastián Yatra, Victoria Monét, and The Weeknd.

    By the musical hype, 1 monthJune 9, 2025 ago
    13 Songs Where YOU Are the Focus, Vol. 3 (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Ahmed Aziz from Pexels; AcatXlo, Niek Verlaan, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    13 Songs Where YOU Are the Focus, Vol. 3 | Playlist 🎧

    13 Songs Where YOU Are the Focus, Vol. 3 features songs by Alex Warren, LUKAS OSCAR, Noah Kahan, Prince, and Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco.

    By the musical hype, 2 monthsMay 7, 2025 ago
    11 Extremely Careful Songs (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Anna Pachenko, Berkant Akyüz, indol.ly house, Katya Wolf, Stephan Louis, Tim Mossholder from Pexels; Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    11 Extremely Careful Songs | Playlist 🎧

    11 Extremely Careful Songs features songs by Bad Omens, Cardi B, NF, Omar Apollo, and Xiuhtezcatl.

    By the musical hype, 6 monthsJanuary 10, 2025 ago
    60 Best Songs of 2024 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Artemas, Columbia, Darkroom, Interscope, Island, Kendrick Lamar, Parkwood Entertainment LLC, Republic, Rubyworks Ltd., Top Dawg Entertainment, Warner; faraindahouse (AI), OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    60 Best Songs of 2024 | Playlist 🎧

    60 Best Songs of 2024 features songs by Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Charli XCX, Hozier, Kendrick Lamar, and Omar Apollo.

    By the musical hype, 7 monthsDecember 30, 2024 ago
    13 Songs Driven by the Power of BE (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; The Digital Artist, Werner Moser from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    13 Songs Driven by the Power of BE | Playlist 🎧

    13 Songs Driven by the Power of BE features songs by Ariana Grande, CeCe Winans, Four Tops, Jimin, and Omar Apollo.

    By the musical hype, 9 monthsOctober 23, 2024 ago
    Omar Apollo, Drifting: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 63 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Omar Apollo / Warner; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, David, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]
    Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

    Omar Apollo, Drifting | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

    In the 63rd edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “Drifting” performed by Grammy-nominated pop singer/songwriter, Omar Apollo.

    By the musical hype, 10 monthsOctober 2, 2024 ago
    13 Terrific AWAY Songs [📷: Brent Faulkner, Dương Nhân, Gustavo Fring, Ketut Subiyanto, Michael Burrows, Monstera, The Musical Hype, Olya Kobruseva, Ono Kosuki, Trân Long] 
    Evergreen

    13 Terrific AWAY Songs | Playlist 🎧

    13 Terrific Away Songs features music courtesy of Brian McKnight, John Mayer, Miley Cyrus, Omar Apollo & Twenty One Pilots.

    By the musical hype, 3 yearsDecember 2, 2022 ago
    Go Away: 3 or 4 Bops [📷: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype]
    Evergreen

    Go Away | 3 or 4 BOPS

    On the 15th edition of 3 or 4 BOPS (2022), we select awesome songs that GO AWAY… somehow… somewhere…

    By the musical hype, 3 yearsJune 29, 2022 ago
    Omar Apollo, Ivory [📷: Warner]
    Album 💿

    Omar Apollo, Ivory | Album Review 💿

    Handsome and incredibly talented Mexican American musician Omar Apollo delivers a debut album for the ages with Ivory.

    By the musical hype, 3 yearsApril 12, 2022 ago
    Omar Apollo, “Go Away” [📷: Omar Apollo, Warner]
    Music

    Omar Apollo, Go Away | Track Review 🎵

    Rising alternative Chicano musician Omar Apollo shines once more on his groovy, love-fueled single, “Go Away.”

    By the musical hype, 4 yearsJuly 13, 2021 ago

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