Once Upon a Time: The Singles

1981 greatest hits album by Siouxsie and the Banshees
MusicAlbum album Q653128
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Once Upon a Time: The Singles

Summary

Once Upon a Time: The Singles is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (113 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles's instance of is recorded as The Singles — instance of (P31): album[3].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles's genre is The Singles — genre (P136): post-punk[4].
  • Among the performers on Once Upon a Time: The Singles was The Singles — performer (P175): Siouxsie and the Banshees[5].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles's record label is recorded as The Singles — record label (P264): Polydor[6].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles is part of The Singles — part of (P361): Siouxsie and the Banshees's albums in chronological order[7].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles was distributed by The Singles — distribution format (P437): LP record[8].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles was published on December 4, 1981[9].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles's tracklist is recorded as The Singles — tracklist (P658): Israel[10].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles's has characteristic is recorded as The Singles — has characteristic (P1552): greatest hits album[11].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles's different from is recorded as The Singles — different from (P1889): Once Upon a Time[12].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7302866', 'amount': '+5'}[13].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7302866', 'amount': '+5'}[14].
  • Once Upon a Time: The Singles's form of creative work is recorded as The Singles — form of creative work (P7937): compilation album[15].

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[16]

  • Secondary type(s): Compilation[17]

  • First release date: 1981[18]

  • Genre(s): new wave, punk, rock[19]

  • Community tags: new wave, punk, rock[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: c9048202-3e20-3485-8b88-358c814e2b0b[21]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Once Upon a Time: The Singles was The Singles — performer (P175): Siouxsie and the Banshees[5].

Publication

Once Upon a Time: The Singles was published on December 4, 1981[9]. Its genre is The Singles — genre (P136): post-punk[4]. It is part of The Singles — part of (P361): Siouxsie and the Banshees's albums in chronological order[7]. It was distributed by The Singles — distribution format (P437): LP record[8].

Why It Matters

Once Upon a Time: The Singles ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (113 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [16] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [19] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [20] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [21] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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