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Cranes

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Cranes

Summary

Cranes is a musical group[1]. Cranes ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (318 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cranes's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Cranes's genre is dream pop[4].
  • Cranes's genre is gothic rock[5].
  • Cranes's genre is dark wave[6].
  • Cranes's record label is recorded as RCA Records[7].
  • Cranes's Commons category is recorded as Cranes (band)[8].
  • Cranes's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[9].
  • 1986 marks the founding of Cranes[10].
  • Cranes's location of formation is recorded as Portsmouth[11].
  • Cranes's official website is recorded as http://www.cranes-fan.com/[12].
  • Cranes's start of work period is recorded as 1985[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

  • Type: Group[14]

  • Country: GB[15]

  • Began / founded: 1986[16]

  • Genre(s): alternative rock, dream pop, ethereal wave, gothic rock, shoegaze[17]

  • Community tags: alternative rock, darkwave, dream pop, ethereal wave, gothic rock, shoegaze[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f6dfc44d-5da4-4ed1-949b-32715630dff4[19]

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Founding

1986 marks the founding of Cranes[10]. Cranes's location of formation is recorded as Portsmouth[11].

Why It Matters

Cranes ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (318 views/month).[2] Cranes has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] Cranes is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Portsmouth RCA Records United Kingdom

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.
  5. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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