MusicBrainz

online music metadata database

Thing online_music_database Q14005

Facts

21 properties

Instance of: online music database, metadata registry, social cataloging application^[3]^[4]
Inception: July 17, 2000^[15]
Founder: Robert Kaye^[5]
Country: United States^[2]
Language of work or name: English, German, French, Dutch, Italian^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]
Official website: musicbrainz.org^[16]
Part of: Semantic Web^[9]
Alexa rank: +27889
Main Wikidata property: P434, P436, P982, P1004, P966, P435, P1330, P1407, P6423, P4404, P5813, P8052
Maintained by: MetaBrainz Foundation^[7]
Maintains linking to: IMDb, Bandcamp, Spotify, Discogs, Wikidata, last.fm, Rate Your Music, SecondHandSongs, German National Library, WorldCat, WhoSampled, Deezer, Tidal, Songkick, AllMusic, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bandsintown, BookBrainz, Choral Public Domain Library, International Music Score Library Project, VGMdb, VIAF ID, Myspace, PureVolume, SoundCloud, YouTube, Apple Music, CD Baby, BBC Music
Official app: MusicBrainz for Android
On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikiproject Wikidata use
Programmed in: Perl^[8]
Publisher: MetaBrainz Foundation^[6]
Replaces: CD Index^[17]
Search formatter URL: musicbrainz.org, musicbrainz.org, musicbrainz.org, musicbrainz.org, musicbrainz.org, musicbrainz.org
Social media followers: +4070
Stylized name: MusicBrainz
Subject has role: ISNI Direct Data Contributor
Uses: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, Creative Commons CC0 License

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 34

Image (Wikimedia Commons): MusicBrainz homepage 2023.png ↗
AlternativeTo software ID: musicbrainz
BabelNet ID: 01351508n
Bing entity ID: b317c041-76e7-d79a-e67e-d7ddb9cceeb5
Bluesky handle: musicbrainz.org
ComputerLanguage.com definition: MusicBrainz
Datahub page: musicbrainz
Discord server numeric ID: 937555302251905084
Domain name: musicbrainz.org
FAQ URL: musicbrainz.org, musicbrainz.org
Facebook username: 12390437194
Freebase ID: /m/0575m

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GitHub topic: musicbrainz
Golden ID: MusicBrainz-333A
IRC channel URL: irc://irc.freenode.net/musicbrainz, irc://irc.freenode.net/musicbrainz-de, irc://irc.freenode.net/musicbrainz-ja, irc://irc.freenode.net/musicbrainz-devel, ircs://irc.libera.chat/musicbrainz, ircs://irc.libera.chat/musicbrainz-de, ircs://irc.libera.chat/musicbrainz-ja
Interwiki prefix at Wikimedia: musicbrainz, musicbrainz
Issue tracker URL: tickets.metabrainz.org
LC and MARC vocabularies ID: identifiers/musicb
Linked Open Data Cloud ID: zitgist-musicbrainz
Login URL: musicbrainz.org
Mastodon address: musicbrainz@mastodon.social
Official blog URL: blog.musicbrainz.org, blog.metabrainz.org
Official forum URL: community.metabrainz.org
Official wiki URL: wiki.musicbrainz.org
Open Hub ID: musicbrainz-server
OpenSUSE package: libtunepimp
Quora topic ID: MusicBrainz
Registration page URL: musicbrainz.org
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com
Subreddit: MusicBrainz
Topic's main category: Category:MusicBrainz
User manual URL: musicbrainz.org
Web feed URL: blog.musicbrainz.org, blog.musicbrainz.org
X (Twitter) username: MusicBrainz

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Summary

MusicBrainz is an online music database^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ MusicBrainz — country (P17): United States. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ MusicBrainz — instance of (P31): metadata registry. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ MusicBrainz — instance of (P31): social cataloging application. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ MusicBrainz — founder (P112): Robert Kaye. blog.metabrainz.org. blog.metabrainz.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ MusicBrainz — publisher (P123): MetaBrainz Foundation. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ MusicBrainz — maintained by (P126): MetaBrainz Foundation. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ MusicBrainz — programmed in (P277): Perl. Open Hub. Retrieved 2022-09-20. openhub.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ MusicBrainz — part of (P361): Semantic Web. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ MusicBrainz — language of work or name (P407): English. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ MusicBrainz — language of work or name (P407): German. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ MusicBrainz — language of work or name (P407): French. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ MusicBrainz — language of work or name (P407): Dutch. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ MusicBrainz — language of work or name (P407): Italian. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ MusicBrainz — inception (P571): July 17, 2000. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ MusicBrainz — official website (P856): https://musicbrainz.org/. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ MusicBrainz — replaces (P1365): CD Index. musicbrainz.org. musicbrainz.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ MusicBrainz is an instance of online music database (Q59825643) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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4w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Official app → MusicBrainz for Android

Uses → Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, Creative Commons CC0 License

Alexa rank → {'amount': '+27889'}

Search formatter URL → https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=$1&type=artist&method=i, https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=$1&type=work&method=ind, https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=$1&type=place&method=in +3

+ 60 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ LC and MARC vocabularies ID: identifiers/musicb, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/149288378|MusicBrainz (#149288378)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5763|"

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