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album

grouping of album releases by an artist usually released at the same time with the same title and tracks but in different formats for consumption (digital, CD, LP)
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Summary

album is a music release type[1]. album draws 15,300 Wikipedia views per month (music release type category, ranking #2 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: release group[3]
  • Commons category: Music albums[4]
  • Has part(s): album release[5], award–winning album[6]
  • Significant event: launch[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Albums[8]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox album[9]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Album[10], https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release_Group/Type#Album[11], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Album[12]
  • Properties for this type: P175[13], P1476[14], P407[15], P7937[16], P577[17], P264[18], P483[19], P136[20], P291[21], P162[22], P658[23], P2047[24], P2635[25], P437[26]
  • Uses: audio storage device[27], audio signal[28]
  • Narrower external class: https://schema.org/MusicAlbum[29]
  • Model item: 19[30]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Albums[31]

Why It Matters

album has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] album is known by 99 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

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References

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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.
  8. [10] ↑ . Q138362428. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Schema.org. wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Properties for this type: Country of origin"
  2. 17d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 90
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ add badge sitelink to redirect to trwiki sitelink; see [[Wikidata:Sitelinks to redirects]] for details #msynbotTask10"
  3. 29d ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → album release, award–winning album
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Album, https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release_Group/Type#Album, https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s): award–winning album"
  4. 20w ago · Anticeri · 2026-06-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → album release, award–winning album
    Subclass of → —
    Significant event → launch
    Instance of → music release type
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs; downgrade preferred ranks ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
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