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Bands whose names are cases of You Are Number Six -- both real and fictional -- are so numerous they merit their own subpage.

Real Bands

• Numbers in band names appear frequently in Industrial Music.
  • 16Volt
  • 23 Skidoo
  • Ambassador 21
  • Assemblage 23
  • Bigod 20
  • Cynergy 67
  • Front 242
  • Kult 303
  • Lethal Dose 50
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Produkt13
  • Psyclon Nine
  • Satanismo Calibro 9
  • Maschinenzimmer 412
  • Virus 23
• Blink-182 were informed their chosen name "Blink" was already taken, and came up with their new title on the spot.
• Crush 40 used the number "40" as it was member Johnny Gioelli's lucky number.
• Sum 41 originally changed their name from 'Kaspir', allegedly on the 41st day of SUMmer.
• Eiffel 65
• Matchbox Twenty
• 50 Cent is probably not an example.
• Artie Shaw and His Gramercy 5. Although it sounds like a band named for the number of members it had, it was in fact named for a pre-1960s telephone exchange.
• Six Hits and a Miss was a swing-era singing group composed at its height of six men and one woman. The number of members varied over the years with concordant name changes, starting out as "Three Hits and a Miss" in 1936, and probably best known under the final name they worked under, "Four Hits and a Miss", all the way into the late 1940s.
• Pizzicato Five, usually abbreviated P5, got their name because there was initially five members in the band. By the time they became famous, through, they were a duet.
• 4 Non Blondes
• 2 Live Crew
  • And parody "Jewish Rap" group 2 Live Jews
• The 5.6.7.8's
• 10,000 Maniacs
• 2CELLOS
• 331Erock
• 2NU
• The B-52s
• A3 (AKA "Alabama 3")
• AKB48
• Area 7
• Classics IV
• deadmau5 is probably a borderline case, as the "5" is not treated as a numeral but is pronounced "s".
• Electric Six
• Five for Fighting
• Four Bitchin' Babes
• The Ivy Three
• Maroon 5
• Napoleon XIV
• Powerman 5000
• Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66
• Sixx AM
• SOL3 MIO
• SR-71
• The 1975
• Three Dog Night
• 3 Doors Down
• Timbuk 3
• Two-Mix
• Ben Folds Five
• The Four Tops
• Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

Fictional Bands

Film

• In The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, the list of bands from Grendel's bogus "Fred's Condom Factory" company includes "Todd Times Two" and "5000 Schizophrenics".

Literature

• Among the bands playing at the Walpurgisnacht rock festival in the Illuminatus! trilogy are "The 23rd Appendix" and "Consciousness III"; there are other bands with numbers in their names, but they are less random, such as "The 99-Year Lease".

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