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Kranky Records

American record label
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Kranky Records

Summary

Kranky Records is a record label[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (145 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Kranky Records is in the country of United States[3].
  • Kranky Records's instance of is recorded as record label[4].
  • Kranky Records's headquarters location is recorded as Chicago[5].
  • 1993 marks the founding of Kranky Records[6].
  • Kranky Records's location of formation is recorded as Chicago[7].
  • Kranky Records's official website is recorded as http://kranky.net[8].

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: Original Production[9]

  • Began / founded: 1993[10]

  • Genre(s): ambient, experimental[11]

  • Community tags: ambient, american, américain, experimental, usa[12]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 4536e738-6350-4cae-af70-79d56d106c45[13]

Body

Founding

1993 marks the founding of Kranky Records[6]. Its location of formation is recorded as Chicago[7].

Operations

Kranky Records's headquarters location is recorded as Chicago[5].

Why It Matters

Kranky Records ranks in the top 10% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (145 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

Related Entities

record label United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . discogs.com. Retrieved . discogs.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [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.

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