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Beat Happening

American musical group; indie pop band
Organization musical_group Q813076
Beat Happening
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Facts

11 properties
Instance of
musical group
Inception
1982[9]
Genre
twee pop, indie pop[1][2]
Country of origin
United States[5]
Discography
Beat Happening discography[4]
Has part(s)
Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis, Bret Lunsford[6][7][8]
Location of formation
Olympia[10]
Member category
Category:Beat Happening members[13]
Name
Beat Happening[12]
Record label
K Records[3]
Start of work period
1982[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Beat Happening es Beat happening ja ビート・ハプニング ko 비트 해프닝 pt Beat happening
🔖 Identifiers · 22
ISNI
0000000107201305
VIAF cluster ID
123950721
Library of Congress authority ID
no98023018
GND ID
10295766-6
Album of the Year artist ID
3621
AllMusic artist ID
mn0000154530
Apple Music artist ID
14835761
Deezer artist ID
1705
Discogs artist ID
243267
Facebook username
56959120464
Freebase ID
/m/016_9d
Jaxsta profile ID
26227798-4319-4a9e-ba72-409b7091376d
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Last.fm ID
Beat+Happening
MusicBrainz artist ID
449e44cb-bcae-4c48-a1af-5d8df0f81456
Musik-Sammler.de artist ID
24834
Muziekweb performer ID
M00000037270
Quora topic ID
Beat-Happening
Rate Your Music artist ID
beat_happening
Songkick artist ID
417505
Spotify artist ID
1qHR9DMfOJQjvWLEfMZQlG
Tidal artist ID
4208149
Topic's main category
Category:Beat Happening

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Bibliothèque nationale de France IDP268
139943134 2026-10-01 isni_public (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-10-01
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Source
isni_public
Edition
20261001 · as of 2026-10-01
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
ISNI International Agency (isni.org), CC0 1.0 — no attribution required, credited by choice
Bronze
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ISNI International Agency (isni.org), CC0 1.0 — no attribution required, credited by choice
🔗 Connections
Mb:performer of 7
Beat Happening, Black Candy, Crashing Through, Dreamy, Jamboree, Music to Climb the Apple Tree By, You Turn Me On
Genre 2
indie pop, twee pop
← Mb:member of band 2
Heather Lewis, Bret Lunsford
Country of origin 1
United States
Has part(s) 1
Calvin Johnson
Instance of 1
musical group
Location of formation 1
Olympia
Record label 1
K Records
← Performer 1
Beat Happening
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  1. 2d ago · Nicereddy · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member category → Category:Beat Happening members
    Topic's main category → Category:Beat Happening
    Has part(s) → Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis, Bret Lunsford
    Location of formation → Olympia
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/63220|batch #63220]]: Import Tidal artist ID from MusicBrainz, also matching on name. Part1.: import Tidal artist ID (P4576) f"
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