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King

British New Wave pop band
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King

Summary

King is a musical group[1]. King ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (313 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • King's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • King's genre is new wave[4].
  • King's record label is recorded as Columbia Records[5].
  • King's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • King comprises Paul King[7].
  • 1984 marks the founding of King[8].
  • King'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.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[10]

  • Country: GB[11]

  • Began / founded: 1984[12]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1986[13]

  • Genre(s): new wave[14]

  • Community tags: new wave[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e6b770d2-4fb6-4416-8722-471717fdd41d[16]

Body

Founding

1984 marks the founding of King[8].

Why It Matters

King ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (313 views/month).[2] King has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Related Entities

Columbia 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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