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record label

brand and trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos
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Summary

record label draws 15,122 Wikipedia views per month (brands category, ranking #1 of 3).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: trade name[2], brand[3], trademark[4], imprint[5], commercial name[6], organization[7]
  • Commons category: Record labels[8]
  • Industry: phonographic industry[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Record labels[10]
  • Facet of: phonographic industry[11], record company[12]
  • Partially coincident with: imprint[13]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox record label[14]
  • Has characteristic: possessor[15]
  • Main Wikidata property: P264[16]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/RecordLabel[17], https://musicbrainz.org/label/MusicLabel[18], https://www.freebase.com/music/release/label[19], https://www.freebase.com/music/artist/label[20], http://purl.org/ontology/mo/Label[21], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=RecordLabel[22]
  • Different from: record company[23]
  • Properties for this type: P2561[24], P3283[25], P1955[26], P8166[27], P966[28], P7313[29], P6601[30], P127[31]
  • Has list: lists of record labels[32]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Music[33]
  • Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after record labels[34]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for record label include Ku Label[35], in Japan[36], founded in 2005[37].

Why It Matters

record label has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

Entities named for it include Ku Label[35], in Japan[36], founded in 2005[37].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · Arpyia · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: organization"
  2. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → trade name, brand, trademark +3
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/RecordLabel, https://musicbrainz.org/label/MusicLabel, https://www.freebase.com/music/release/label +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=RecordLabel"
  3. 9w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Properties for this type → P2561, P3283, P1955 +5
    Has characteristic → possessor
    Interlingual index id → i72496
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06864566-n
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47826|batch #47826]]: OEWN"
  4. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → record-labels
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: record-labels, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289953817|record labels (#289953817)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
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