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Musical Acts by Letter - M

Guess the musical acts that performed these songs. All the answers start with M.
Going by first names and ignoring "the"
Years active starts with their first major commercial release
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Last updated: January 2, 2025
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First submittedFebruary 8, 2011
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Years Active
Country
Songs
Band or Artist
2018–
Last Night | Whiskey Glasses
Morgan Wallen
2014–
All About That Bass | Dear Future Husband
Meghan Trainor
2011–
Thrift Shop | Can't Hold Us
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2007–
Party in the U.S.A. | Wrecking Ball
Miley Cyrus
2005–
Paper Planes | Bad Girls
M.I.A.
2002–
Moves like Jagger | Sugar
Maroon 5
2002–
Welcome to the Black Parade |
I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
My Chemical Romance
1999–
Supermassive Black Hole | Uprising
Muse
1997–
Get Ur Freak On | Work It
Missy Elliot
1990–
Always Be My Baby | All I Want for Christmas Is You
Mariah Carey
1988–1990
Blame It on the Rain | Girl You Know It's True
Milli Vanilli
1988–
U Can't Touch This | 2 Legit 2 Quit
MC Hammer
1983–
Like a Prayer | Vogue
Madonna
1983–
Enter Sandman | Nothing Else Matters
Metallica
1981–
Kickstart My Heart | Dr. Feelgood
Mötley Crue
1972–2009
Billie Jean | Bad
Michael Jackson
1971–2022
I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) |
Bat out of Hell
Meat Loaf
1966–2021
Last Train to Clarksville | I'm a Believer
The Monkees
1965–1969
California Dreamin' | Monday, Monday
The Mamas & The Papas
1961–1984
What's Going On? | Sexual Healing
Marvin Gaye
56 Comments
+9
Level 60
Feb 23, 2014
Milli Vanilli? Performed? Hahaha!!!
+2
Level 27
Feb 24, 2014
Yup, there whole life was a stage.
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Level 89
Sep 25, 2015
Inclusion of Milli Vanilli is just wrong.
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Level 53
Feb 24, 2020
They were a musical act in the sense that they did dance to music on stage....
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Level 59
Sep 3, 2020
stretching it by calling them a musical act.

much like calling pole dancing a sport

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Level 15
Feb 24, 2014
hut hum ..... IT'S MUSICAL ARTS BY LETTER-M the monkeys is T get it right :p
+12
Level 74
Apr 6, 2016
You've never alphabetized anything before have you?
+9
Level 43
Feb 24, 2014
MCR <3
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Level 66
Apr 1, 2016
No Mumford and Sons? I was very much expecting them to be on the list :)
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Level 57
Apr 1, 2016
I would've had better success with this if I could hear the songs, instead of just reading the titles lol.
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Level 71
Apr 1, 2016
No Moody Blues?
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Level 85
Apr 3, 2017
A straight up crime.
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Level 66
May 14, 2017
MCR doesn't work for My Chemical Romance? I don't anyone who actually says the full name......
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Level 26
Dec 31, 2017
I do
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Level ∞
Feb 23, 2020
MCR works now
+6
Level 55
Jun 27, 2018
Morrissey, MIKA, Michael Sembello, Men At Work, Moody Blues, Moon Martin, Martika, Muse...
+3
Level 68
Jul 29, 2018
Mary J Blige, Michael Buble
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Level 72
Jun 8, 2019
Dont know most of which you mentioned but yea thought of muse and moby myself
+4
Level ∞
Feb 23, 2020
Added Muse.
+1
Level 75
Feb 4, 2019
Merrilee Rush - "Angel of the Morning" (1968). Great song!
+3
Level 64
Sep 4, 2019
I'm from Australia so, Midnight Oil? Remember them? Anyone?
+1
Level 89
Nov 1, 2019
I remember seeing them on SNL years ago
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Level 81
Sep 3, 2020
I had one date once with the daughter of their drummer.
+4
Level 71
Sep 9, 2020
How can I remember Midnight Oil when my beds are burning?
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Level 53
Mar 1, 2022
Dude I love MO!
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Level 91
Feb 24, 2020
I thought for sure that The Monkees were very much a British band until I looked it up and found that only Davy Jones was from the UK. Everyone else is American. Good thing I paid more attention to the songs than the flags, otherwise I would’ve been really thrown off.
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Level 86
Feb 24, 2020
Fun trivia: David Bowie, real name David Robert Jones, took the stage name Bowie to avoid confusion with the Monkees' Davy Jones.
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Level 53
Feb 24, 2020
Menudo anyone?
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Level 76
Feb 25, 2020
I love this series, even though I'm total crap at it. Most of these quizzes I get less than half, meaning I get zero points:)
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2020
I actually got 11 on this one! on others I get about 3-4 haha
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Level 43
Jun 11, 2020
Remember when Milli Vanilli was ostracized for lip syncing? If only that still happened today.
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Level 79
Jan 2, 2025
They were not ostracized just over lip syncing, which was pretty common. It’s because they never performed any of the music and the real musicians were two old guys behind the scenes (actually, that’s the same for the Monkees, who didn’t play their own instruments—they got away with it, though). Ashlee Simpson did get ostracized pretty good for her SNL lip syncing flub, though.
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Level 84
Jan 2, 2025
IIRC plenty of disco acts did similar, where the producer came from, but MV were in the wrong genre/generation.
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Level 81
Sep 3, 2020
What about Marilyn Manson? Double M...
+4
Level 29
Sep 3, 2020
What about Mabel or Megan Thee Stallion
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Level 64
Mar 27, 2021
Megan the Stallion is wack
+1
Level 67
Jun 19, 2021
Speaking of modern rappers, Migos is another act I think should be added if the quiz gets expanded or something
+1
Level 77
Sep 3, 2020
Damn. I just found out I'm old.
+2
Level 60
Sep 6, 2020
Had a similar feeling about Metallica being Danish, but then found out it was just Ulrich who was Danish. Huh.
+1
Level 61
May 9, 2022
Lars Ulrich is Danish? Damn, I never knew that!
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Level 67
Mar 1, 2022
Meat Loaf died. :)
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Level 79
Mar 1, 2022
All About That Bass is in contention for the worst song ever.
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Level 35
Apr 4, 2022
Honestly surprised Metallica was up there. Legit my favorite band.
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Level 61
May 9, 2022
Enter Sandman had to be listed for Metallica, greatest metal song ever written.
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Level 85
Jan 3, 2025
Metallica fan here.

Enter Sandman is not even in their top 10.

It's their best-known song, though.

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Level 45
Jan 12, 2023
i cant beleive i didnt get metallica, i wasnt paying attention
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Level 90
Jan 2, 2025
Sad but True... ;)
+1
Level 57
Oct 4, 2023
I think its time to update, Meat loaf died and this whole series could use an update
+1
Level 93
Jan 2, 2025
I'm a little disappointed in the Motley Crue numbers.

Kickstart My Heart & Dr Feelgood are 80's hairband staples/classics.

We've done a disservice to society if people don't know who the Crew are.

+1
Level 71
Jan 2, 2025
Please accept "Mike Jackson" for "Michael Jackson".
+1
Level 73
Jan 3, 2025
I have never heard anyone say "Mike Jackson" in my life
+1
Level 67
Jan 3, 2025
Full marks for The Robbster,
+1
Level 70
Jan 3, 2025
Drew a complete blank on Mariah Carey--I could see her singing that damn Christmas song, too but my brain blocked her name. Last 2 seconds it came to me and now I've got that song stuck on autoreplay in my head.
+1
Level 75
Jan 3, 2025
Morgan Wallen on a featured quiz is so awesome - but the dates are off his first EP was from 2015 and if you wanted to stretch the meaning of active he was on The Voice all the way back in 2013.
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Level 69
Jan 7, 2025
Literally never heard of the guy
+1
Level 45
Jan 4, 2025
Where's Måneskin? :-(