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I Want to Know What Love Is

original song written and composed by Mick Jones; first recorded by Foreigner in 1983 and released in 1984
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q1607572
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I Want to Know What Love Is

Summary

I Want to Know What Love Is is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.96% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,661 views/month, #186 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • I Want to Know What Love Is's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • I Want to Know What Love Is's composer is recorded as Mick Jones[4].
  • I Want to Know What Love Is's genre is popular music[5].
  • Among the performers on I Want to Know What Love Is was Foreigner[6].
  • I Want to Know What Love Is was performed by Ane Brun[7].
  • I Want to Know What Love Is was performed by Mariah Carey[8].
  • I Want to Know What Love Is's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • I Want to Know What Love Is was published on November 1984[10].
  • I Want to Know What Love Is's lyricist is recorded as Mick Jones[11].
  • I Want to Know What Love Is's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'I Want to Know What Love Is'}[12].
  • I Want to Know What Love Is's form of creative work is recorded as song[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

  • Release type: Song[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: b58826eb-8910-3d77-93b4-b540bf25eea3[15]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Foreigner[6], Ane Brun[7], and Mariah Carey[8].

Publication

I Want to Know What Love Is was published on November 1984[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is popular music[5].

Why It Matters

I Want to Know What Love Is ranks in the top 0.96% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,661 views/month, #186 of 19,375).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

Related Entities

Foreigner Mariah Carey

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Iswc → T-070.083.437-2
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0104842810, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
  2. 9w ago · Sin bin im the teal one · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lyricist → Mick Jones
    Publication date → +1984-11-00T00:00:00Z
    Composer → Mick Jones
    Genre → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P1476]]: I Want to Know What Love Is"
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