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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

song written and composed by Meredith Willson, originally recorded by Bing Crosby and released in 1951
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q3803956
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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Summary

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (236 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas's composer is recorded as Meredith Willson[4].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas's genre is Christmas music[5].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas was performed by Bing Crosby[6].
  • Among the performers on It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas was Q153694[7].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas was performed by Jill Johnson[8].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas was published on 1951[10].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas's lyricist is recorded as Meredith Willson[11].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"}[12].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas's derivative work is recorded as Nu börjar det likna jul[13].
  • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas's form of creative work is recorded as song[14].

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[15]

  • Genre(s): christmas music, easy listening, jazz[16]

  • Community tags: christmas music, easy listening, holiday, jazz[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ffb60de2-3c6c-4c1f-b883-491075db11e1[18]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Bing Crosby[6], Q153694[7], and Jill Johnson[8].

Publication

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas was released on 1951[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is Christmas music[5].

Why It Matters

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (236 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

Bing Crosby Jill Johnson

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.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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