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Got to Be There

1972 debut solo album by Michael Jackson
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Summary

Got to Be There is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 0.011% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,977 views/month, #7 of 60,676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: bubblegum music[3], soul[4], contemporary R&B[5]
  • Producer: Hal Davis[6]
  • Performer: Michael Jackson[7]
  • Record label: Motown[8]
  • Place of publication: United States[9]
  • Part of: Michael Jackson's albums in chronological order[10]
  • Language of work or name: English[11]
  • Distribution format: music streaming[12]
  • Review score: 2.5[13]
  • Publication date: January 24, 1972[14]
  • Tracklist: Ain't No Sunshine[15], I Wanna Be Where You Are[16], Girl Don't Take Your Love From Me[17], In Our Small Way[18], Got to Be There[19], Rockin' Robin[20], Wings of My Love[21], Maria (You Were the Only One)[22], Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone[23], You've Got a Friend[24]
  • Title: Got to Be There[25]
  • Has characteristic: debut solo album[26]
  • Different from: Got to Be There[27]
  • Number of parts of this work: 10 audio track[28]
  • Form of creative work: studio album[29]

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[30]

  • First release date: 1972-01-24[31]

  • Genre(s): ambient, blues, electronic, folk pop, jazz, motown, pop, pop soul, r&b, soul[32]

  • Community tags: am pop, ambient, blues, club/dance, contemporary pop/rock, electronic, folk pop, folk/country, jazz, motown, pop, pop soul, pop-soul, pop/rock, r&b, rhythm and blues, soul[33]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 97e0014d-a267-33a0-a868-bb4e2552918a[34]

Why It Matters

Got to Be There has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Related Entities

Motown United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . AllMusic. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · Iamcarbon · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Record label → Motown
    Publication date → +1972-01-24T00:00:00Z
    Language of work or name → English
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