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Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings

1993 compilation album by The Police
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Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings

Summary

Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (251 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings's instance of is recorded as The Complete Recordings — instance of (P31): album[3].
  • Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings's genre is The Complete Recordings — genre (P136): new wave[4].
  • Among the performers on Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings was The Complete Recordings — performer (P175): The Police[5].
  • Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings's record label is recorded as The Complete Recordings — record label (P264): A&M Records[6].
  • Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is part of The Complete Recordings — part of (P361): The Police discography[7].
  • Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is part of The Complete Recordings — part of (P361): The Police's albums in chronological order[8].
  • Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings's language of work or name is recorded as The Complete Recordings — language of work or name (P407): English[9].
  • Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings was released on September 28, 1993[10].
  • Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings's form of creative work is recorded as The Complete Recordings — form of creative work (P7937): compilation album[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: Album[12]

  • Secondary type(s): Compilation[13]

  • First release date: 1993-09-28[14]

  • Genre(s): new wave, rock[15]

  • Community tags: 1993, new wave, rock[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 4479a656-9a69-3315-b3d2-4d0f030977a6[17]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings was performed by The Complete Recordings — performer (P175): The Police[5].

Publication

Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings was released on September 28, 1993[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as The Complete Recordings — language of work or name (P407): English[9]. Its genre is The Complete Recordings — genre (P136): new wave[4]. Part of include The Complete Recordings — part of (P361): The Police discography[7], a Wikimedia artist discography[18] and The Complete Recordings — part of (P361): The Police's albums in chronological order[8].

Why It Matters

Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (251 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

A&M Records

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.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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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