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Big Beat

1976 album by Sparks
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Big Beat

Summary

Big Beat is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (235 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Big Beat's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Big Beat's genre is art rock[4].
  • Big Beat's genre is glam rock[5].
  • Among the performers on Big Beat was Sparks[6].
  • Big Beat's record label is recorded as Columbia Records[7].
  • Big Beat's record label is recorded as Island Records[8].
  • Big Beat is part of Sparks' albums in chronological order[9].
  • Big Beat's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Big Beat was distributed by music streaming[11].
  • Big Beat was published on 1976[12].

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.

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  • Release type: Album[13]

  • First release date: 1976[14]

  • Genre(s): art rock, hard rock, pop, power pop, rock[15]

  • Community tags: art rock, hard rock, pop, power pop, rock[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9ed2dce2-f94a-3209-9d22-6ad52dc135db[17]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Big Beat was Sparks[6].

Publication

Big Beat was published on 1976[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Genres include art rock[4] and glam rock[5]. It is part of Sparks' albums in chronological order[9]. It was distributed by music streaming[11].

Why It Matters

Big Beat ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (235 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

Columbia Records Island Records

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.

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

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [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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