History FanNickname / Music

* The three members of {{Rush}} gave themselves nicknames, which fans soon adapted to: Geddy Lee (Dirk), Alex Lifeson (Lerxst) and Neil Peart (Pratt).

* The King - Not Jack Kirby, but ElvisPresley.

** "The King of Pop" is an odd case in that it was ''Jackson's handlers'' who [[Main/ForcedMeme pushed it]] into common usage rather than his fans or the press, supposedly creating the nickname because Jackson was jealous that ElvisPresley had the nickname "The King". Fox and [=MTV=] [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316363,00.html had to agree to use the phrase]] if they wanted to air videos from ''Dangerous'' in 1991; rumors flew that the [=VJs=] on the latter had to use it whenever he was mentioned. While Jackson's fans and his publicity machine still use this one unironically, in his final years it was common for entertainment journalists to qualify it as "self-proclaimed King of Pop".

* ''Disco? Very!'' - ElectricLightOrchestra's album ''Discovery''. One listen to "Shine a Little Love" or "Last Train to London" should show you exactly how it got this name. May also be applied to the Music/DaftPunk album of the same name, for similar reasons.

** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}: A fan weilding multiple (especially three) lightsticks in one hand.

*** In KPop fandom, the equivalent term is "bias", e.g. "[[Music/BlackPink Rosé]] is my bias."

* The official name of {{Music/Chicago}}'s second album is simply ''Chicago'', but most people refer to it as ''Chicago II''.

* Somehow, the man on the couch depicted on the cover of {{Weezer}}'s ''Maladroit'' became known to fans as "Rupert Peasley". This was acknowledged by the band themselves via {{Credits Gag}}s - ''The Lion And The Witch'' and ''Winter Weezerland'', two [=EPs=] released after ''Maladroit'', both credit Rupert Peasley as a RecordProducer.

** "Arthur": another nickname for the haircuts, George's especially (thanks to a dialogue in ''AHardDaysNight'': "What do you call your haircut?" "Arthur.")

** His famous dance move (where he glides smoothly across the floor backwards), was nicknamed the "moonwalk" by the media and not by Jackson himself, but when he made his 1988 anthology film ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'', Jackson did choose the name for the movie (all according to TheOtherWiki).

** Paulie: affectionate nickname for PaulMcCartney. It has been used in ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', but isn't official.

* Music/IdinaMenzel is often called "Adele Dazeem" after JohnTravolta's infamous gaffe at the Oscars.

** Geo, Hari: Fan nicknames for GeorgeHarrison.

* Fans of OwlCity tend to refer to {{Lights}} as the female-Owl City, and vice-versa.

* Tim "Ripper" Owens is known by some of his fans as The Man of a Thousand Bands due to his relatively large number of projects he's worked on (and been fired from.) So far, he's worked with British Steel, a Judas Priest tribute band, Music/JudasPriest themselves (who fired him to make room for his predecessor, Rob Halford,) IcedEarth (who fired him to make room for his predecessor, Matt Barlow,) Brainicide, Winter's Bane (who he left to join Iced Earth,) BeyondFear, Music/YngwieMalmsteen's Rising Force and his solo project. He lampshaded his tendency to get fired from bands to make room for old vocalists in an interview with ''Series/ThatMetalShow'', first by joking that he started his solo project so he could have a band he couldn't be fired from, then by joking that his solo band tried to fire him.

* No-Talent Ass-Clown - MichaelBolton, thanks to a quote from an unfortunately named character from ''Film/OfficeSpace''. When asked why he doesn't just go by "Mike", he responds with, "Why should I? ''He's'' the one who sucks!"
* John Deacon of {{Queen}} is often (affectionately) referred to as 'Deaky'.

* John Mayall's Bluesbreakers' self-titled album with EricClapton is often nicknamed "The Beano Album," for the magazine Clapton is reading on the cover.

* The GratefulDead's iconic but terrible live album, Steal Your Face, is referred to as Steal Your Money.

* Van Morrison is Van the Man, and occasionally the Belfast Cowboy, both names Robbie Robertson used for him in ''The Last Waltz''. Robertson first coined Belfast Cowboy in the lyrics to the 1971 Band song "4% Pantomime", which featured a guest vocal by Morrison.

* "Cletus" - A derisive term used to describe backup dancer/rapper/actor Kevin Federline, in reference to the Slack-Jawed Yokel from ''TheSimpsons''. By extension, his ex-wife BritneySpears has jokingly become known as "Brandine" to some in the wake of her FreakOut after their divorce.

* JamesBrown, the "Godfather of Soul", "Soul Brother #1" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business."
* ArethaFranklin, the "Queen of Soul"

* Keith Moon of TheWho is "Moon the Loon" or simply "Moony". Less commonly, John Entwistle is "The Ox", and Roger Daltrey is "Rog".

* The Lizard King and Mister Mojo Risin': [[TheDoors Jim Morrison]], after the songs "Not to Touch the Earth" and "L.A. Woman", respectively.

* DuranDuran have two self titled albums, one from 1981 and another form 1993. The latter is often called "The Wedding Album" due to the band's use of their parents' wedding pictures on the front cover.

* Each member of the K-Pop girl group Music/GirlsGeneration has a ''plethora'' of nicknames, of which a more complete list can be found [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/GirlsGeneration here.]]

*** This set a standard for various other self-titled albums with one-colored covers: Metallica's 1991 self-titled album is called ''The Black Album'' and Weezer's three self-titled albums are called ''The Blue Album'', ''The Green Album'' and ''The Red Album'' in respect to chronology.

** Similarly One Direction, the biggest band in the world at the time, and their sister group Little Mix have a lot of this. First and foremost are the shorthand versions of their nicnkames (1D and LM respectively). The romance between 1D Zayn and LM Perrie is labelled Zerrie by fans, whilst Jade and Harry's friendships are called Jarry. Within the groups, LeighAnne and Perrie are called Lerrie, Jade and Perrie are called Jerrie, Jade and Jesy are called Jadesy, Jesy and Perrie Pesy, LeighAnne and Jesy Lesy, and LeighAnne and Jade are Jeigh. For 1D, Zayn and Louis are nicknamed Zouis.

* The UK band [[Music/{{McFly}} [=McFly=]]] has names for the relationship between the band members. Danny Jonas and Tom Fletcher is known as Flones and Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd are known as Pudd. Fans of McFly are known as Galaxy Defenders, Star Girls, and McFans.

** Also, Yoshiki referred to his same certain bodily appendage as a 'rocket' in a couple of songs, and it got picked up by fans. ItGetsBetter for those into HoYay (or the occasional cheap laugh). hide, the late guitarist, wrote and performed a song called "Rocket Dive" and once drunkenly yelled in an interview "Rocket dive to my spread beaver!" He was talking about his song and his solo band....

* Music/IggyAzalea is often called "Igloo Australia" by her haters.

** "Flansy" even comes up in one of their songs, albeit one co-written and sung by a guest vocalist: The [[SoulCoughing Mike Doughty]] collaboration "Mr. Xcitement" includes the line [[WordSaladLyrics "Like Flansy in a soda can, it's trooky-trooky-trooky"]].
* {{Gackt}}'s fans and staff sometimes refer to him as Mau-sama. Which is Japanese for Devil King.

* {{Iamamiwhoami}} is an AnonymousBand, so at least at first the main participants were unknown. iamamiwhoami (Jonna Lee) is known as Iam or Mandragora; the main male figure (probably Claes Björklund) is referred to as Captain Underpants, CP, or the Knight. The German fan in the concert, known only by his Website/{{Youtube}} name [=ShootUpTheStation=] is SUTS for short.