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New Year's Day

1983 single by U2
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Summary

New Year's Day is a single[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of single entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,474 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: post-punk[3], rock music[4]
  • Follows: A Celebration[5], Seconds[6]
  • Producer: Steve Lillywhite[7]
  • Performer: U2[8]
  • Record label: Island Records[9], Columbia Records[10]
  • Part of: War[11]
  • Language of work or name: English[12]
  • Distribution format: compact disc[13]
  • Inception: 1982[14]
  • Publication date: January 10, 1983[15]
  • Inspired by: Solidarity[16]
  • Time signature: quadruple time[17]
  • Narrative motif: New Year[18]

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[19]

  • Genre(s): arena rock, classic rock, pop, pop rock, rock[20]

  • Community tags: arena rock, classic rock, pop, pop rock, rock[21]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f2231fb7-0947-383d-b82d-64f3622968cf[22]

Why It Matters

New Year's Day has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Adam Clayton Bono Columbia Records compact disc Island Records Larry Mullen Jr. The Edge U2

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.
  13. [15] ↑ . u2.com. u2.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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