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Butterfly on a Wheel

1990 studio single by The Mission
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Butterfly on a Wheel

Summary

Butterfly on a Wheel is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (56 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Butterfly on a Wheel's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Butterfly on a Wheel's genre is gothic rock[4].
  • Butterfly on a Wheel is part of Carved in Sand[5].
  • Butterfly on a Wheel's form of creative work is recorded as song[6].

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: Single[7]

  • First release date: 1989[8]

  • Genre(s): alternative rock, gothic rock, indie rock, rock[9]

  • Community tags: alternative rock, gothic rock, indie rock, rock[10]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 810887cc-8dbf-324e-8abc-af1d04e26b88[11]

Body

Publication

Butterfly on a Wheel's genre is gothic rock[4]. It is part of Carved in Sand[5].

Why It Matters

Butterfly on a Wheel ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (56 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [7] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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