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Badlands

1978 single by Bruce Springsteen
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Badlands

Summary

Badlands is a single[1]. Badlands ranks in the top 3% of single entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (273 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Badlands's instance of is recorded as single[3].
  • Badlands's genre is rock music[4].
  • Badlands followed Prove It All Night[5].
  • Badlands was followed by The Promised Land[6].
  • Badlands was produced by Jon Landau[7].
  • Badlands was performed by Bruce Springsteen[8].
  • Badlands's record label is recorded as Columbia Records[9].
  • Badlands is part of Darkness on the Edge of Town[10].
  • Badlands's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • Badlands was released on August 1978[12].
  • Badlands's lyricist is recorded as Bruce Springsteen[13].

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: Song[14]

  • Genre(s): heartland rock, rock, rock and roll[15]

  • Community tags: heartland rock, rock, rock and roll[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e8a5fe99-0aff-3e7b-840c-7ab96cb702be[17]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Badlands was Bruce Springsteen[8]. Badlands was produced by Jon Landau[7].

Publication

Badlands was published on August 1978[12]. Badlands's genre is rock music[4]. Badlands is part of Darkness on the Edge of Town[10].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Badlands followed Prove It All Night[5]. Badlands was followed by The Promised Land[6].

Why It Matters

Badlands ranks in the top 3% of single entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (273 views/month).[2] Badlands has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

Bruce Springsteen Columbia Records United States

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [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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