Bad Company

British rock band
Organization musical_group Q745517
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Summary

Bad Company is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33,042 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bad Company's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Bad Company's genre is blues rock[4].
  • Bad Company's genre is hard rock[5].
  • Bad Company's record label is recorded as Island Records[6].
  • Bad Company's record label is recorded as Atco Records[7].
  • Bad Company's record label is recorded as Atlantic Records[8].
  • Bad Company's discography is recorded as Bad Company discography[9].
  • Bad Company's Commons category is recorded as Bad Company[10].
  • Bad Company's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[11].
  • 1973 marks the founding of Bad Company[12].
  • Bad Company's location of formation is recorded as Westminster[13].
  • Bad Company's official website is recorded as https://www.badcompany.com/[14].
  • Bad Company's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bad Company[15].
  • Bad Company's nominated for is recorded as Grammy Award for Best New Artist[16].
  • Bad Company's topic has template is recorded as Template:Bad Company[17].
  • Bad Company's has characteristic is recorded as supergroup[18].
  • Bad Company's has characteristic is recorded as rock band[19].
  • Bad Company's different from is recorded as Bad Company[20].
  • Bad Company's start of work period is recorded as 1973[21].
  • Bad Company's has list is recorded as list of band members of Bad Company[22].
  • Bad Company's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Bad Company'}[23].
  • Bad Company's member category is recorded as Category:Bad Company members[24].
  • Bad Company's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+40947'}[25].
  • Bad Company's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+84200'}[26].
  • Bad Company's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+42141'}[27].

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

  • Type: Group[28]

  • Country: GB[29]

  • Began / founded: 1973[30]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2023[31]

  • Genre(s): aor, blues rock, classic rock, hard rock, rock[32]

  • Community tags: aor, blues rock, classic rock, hard rock, rock[33]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 0053dbd9-bfbc-4e38-9f08-66a27d914c38[34]

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Founding

1973 marks the founding of Bad Company[12]. Its location of formation is recorded as Westminster[13].

Why It Matters

Bad Company ranks in the top 1% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33,042 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

It has been cited as an influence by Van Halen[37], a musical group[38], founded in 1972[39].

FAQs

Who did Bad Company influence?

Bad Company has been cited as an influence by Van Halen[37].

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.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . rockonthenet.com. rockonthenet.com. Provenance: 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.

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

  1. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · Duffseb · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.badcompany.com/
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'azb', 'bg', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Official website: https://www.badcompany.com/"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1973-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Topic's main category → Category:Bad Company
    Instance of → —
    Location of formation → —
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0343238-Bad-Company-hudebni-skupina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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