About a Boy

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About a Boy

Summary

About a Boy is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (170 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • About a Boy's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • About a Boy's genre is folk rock[4].
  • About a Boy followed The Hour of Bewilderbeast[5].
  • About a Boy was followed by Have You Fed the Fish?[6].
  • Among the performers on About a Boy was Badly Drawn Boy[7].
  • About a Boy was released on 2002[8].
  • About a Boy's form of creative work is recorded as soundtrack album[9].

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[10]

  • Secondary type(s): Soundtrack[11]

  • First release date: 2002-04-08[12]

  • Genre(s): folk rock, pop, pop rock, rock[13]

  • Community tags: british chamber pop, folk rock, pop, pop rock, rock, rock and indie, soundtrack, stage & screen[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e9391f11-fb53-3f46-94b9-20c95a08098e[15]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on About a Boy was Badly Drawn Boy[7].

Publication

About a Boy was released on 2002[8]. Its genre is folk rock[4].

Adaptations and Inspiration

About a Boy followed The Hour of Bewilderbeast[5]. It was followed by Have You Fed the Fish?[6].

Why It Matters

About a Boy ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (170 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 25d ago · Iamcarbon · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Followed by → Have You Fed the Fish?
    Acclaimed music album id → 3968
    Wikidata description → soundtrack album
    Musicbrainz release group id → e9391f11-fb53-3f46-94b9-20c95a08098e
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||mul */ set default label"
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