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18 Essential Songs

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18 Essential Songs

Summary

18 Essential Songs is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 18 Essential Songs's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • 18 Essential Songs followed This is Janis Joplin[4].
  • 18 Essential Songs was followed by Live at Winterland '68[5].
  • 18 Essential Songs was performed by Q1514[6].
  • 18 Essential Songs's record label is recorded as Columbia Records[7].
  • 18 Essential Songs's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • 18 Essential Songs was distributed by music streaming[9].
  • 18 Essential Songs was published on 1995[10].
  • 18 Essential Songs's form of creative work is recorded as compilation album[11].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[12]

  • Secondary type(s): Compilation[13]

  • First release date: 1995-01-24[14]

  • Genre(s): blues, blues rock, classic rock, electric blues, hard rock, pop, rock, soul[15]

  • Community tags: album rock, blues, blues rock, blues-rock, classic rock, electric blues, hard rock, pop, pop/rock, rock, rock & roll, soul[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 35d3fca3-3d42-31d0-b126-17aa6a3a29fb[17]

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Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on 18 Essential Songs was Q1514[6].

Publication

18 Essential Songs was published on 1995[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[8]. It was distributed by music streaming[9].

Adaptations and Inspiration

18 Essential Songs followed This is Janis Joplin[4]. It was followed by Live at Winterland '68[5].

Why It Matters

18 Essential Songs ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

Columbia Records

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Discogs. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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