Empire

1990 studio album by Queensrÿche
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Empire

Summary

Empire is an album[1]. Empire ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,094 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Empire's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Empire's genre is traditional heavy metal[4].
  • Empire's genre is progressive metal[5].
  • Empire's genre is heavy metal music[6].
  • Empire was produced by Peter Collins[7].
  • Empire was performed by Queensrÿche[8].
  • Empire's record label is recorded as EMI USA[9].
  • Empire's place of publication is recorded as United States[10].
  • Empire is part of Queensrÿche's albums in chronological order[11].
  • Empire's language of work or name is recorded as English[12].
  • Empire was distributed by compact disc[13].
  • Empire was published on August 20, 1990[14].
  • Empire's tracklist is recorded as Best I Can[15].
  • Empire's tracklist is recorded as Jet City Woman[16].
  • Empire's tracklist is recorded as Another Rainy Night (Without You)[17].
  • Empire's tracklist is recorded as Empire[18].
  • Empire's tracklist is recorded as Silent Lucidity[19].
  • Empire's tracklist is recorded as Anybody Listening?[20].
  • Empire's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Empire'}[21].
  • Empire's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7302866', 'amount': '+11'}[22].
  • Empire's form of creative work is recorded as studio album[23].

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: Album[24]

  • First release date: 1990-08-20[25]

  • Genre(s): hard rock, heavy metal, metal, progressive metal, rock[26]

  • Community tags: 5+ wochen, album rock, hard rock, heavy metal, metal, offizielle charts, pop/rock, prog-rock, progressive metal, rock[27]

  • MusicBrainz ID: fd4bb9f4-c263-392a-8d71-3e96e26880d7[28]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Empire was Queensrÿche[8]. Empire was produced by Peter Collins[7].

Publication

Empire was released on August 20, 1990[14]. Empire's place of publication is recorded as United States[10]. Empire's language of work or name is recorded as English[12]. Genres include traditional heavy metal[4], progressive metal[5], and heavy metal music[6]. Empire is part of Queensrÿche's albums in chronological order[11]. Empire was distributed by compact disc[13].

Why It Matters

Empire ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,094 views/month).[2] Empire has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Empire is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . spirit-of-metal.com. spirit-of-metal.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Discogs. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [24] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [25] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [26] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [27] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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