Recent years have seen rapid developments in our knowledge and understanding of meson spectroscopy, especially in the charm quark sectors. In my invited overview I discussed some of these recent new developments, including theoretical developments, new production mechanisms such as B decays and double charmonium production, and the discovery of several of the many new candidates for excited charmonia, charm meson molecules, and hybrid (excited glue) mesons, in both charmonium and light quark sectors. In this writeup, due to length constraints I will restrict my discussion to a few examples of these new states, some of their broader theoretical implications, and future prospects.
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