It Don't Mean a Thing

song by Duke Ellington
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q730605
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It Don't Mean a Thing

Summary

It Don't Mean a Thing is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (547 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • It Don't Mean a Thing's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • It Don't Mean a Thing's composer is recorded as Duke Ellington[4].
  • It Don't Mean a Thing's genre is swing[5].
  • Among the performers on It Don't Mean a Thing was Duke Ellington[6].
  • It Don't Mean a Thing's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • It Don't Mean a Thing was published on 1932[8].
  • It Don't Mean a Thing's lyricist is recorded as Irving Mills[9].
  • It Don't Mean a Thing's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "It Don't Mean a Thing"}[10].
  • It Don't Mean a Thing's form of creative work is recorded as song[11].

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[12]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 1d20addb-3555-3615-8232-2ba14863e351[13]

Body

Authorship and Creation

It Don't Mean a Thing was performed by Duke Ellington[6].

Publication

It Don't Mean a Thing was published on 1932[8]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[7]. Its genre is swing[5].

Why It Matters

It Don't Mean a Thing ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (547 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Grove Music Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved . secondhandsongs.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [12] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). It Don't Mean a Thing. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/it-don-t-mean-a-thing
MLA “It Don't Mean a Thing.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/it-don-t-mean-a-thing.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_it-don-t-mean-a-thing_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{It Don't Mean a Thing}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/it-don-t-mean-a-thing}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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