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Hipsway

Scottish pop/new wave band
Organization musical_group Q5768687
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Hipsway

Summary

Hipsway is a musical group[1]. Hipsway ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (214 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hipsway's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Hipsway's genre is pop rock[4].
  • Hipsway's record label is recorded as Mercury Records[5].
  • Hipsway's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • Hipsway comprises Johnny McElhone[7].
  • 1984 marks the founding of Hipsway[8].
  • Hipsway's start of work period is recorded as 1984[9].

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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  • Type: Group[10]

  • Country: GB[11]

  • Began / founded: 1984[12]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1989[13]

  • Genre(s): sophisti-pop[14]

  • Community tags: british, scotland, scottish, sophisti-pop, uk[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: b3694fe1-fc16-4f2e-bc1c-9187d8ea2358[16]

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Founding

1984 marks the founding of Hipsway[8].

Why It Matters

Hipsway ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (214 views/month).[2] Hipsway has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Related Entities

Mercury 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.

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

  1. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Hipsway. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/hipsway
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_hipsway_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Hipsway}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/hipsway}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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