Shazam

1970 studio album by The Move
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Shazam

Summary

Shazam is an album[1]. Shazam ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (222 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Shazam's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Shazam's genre is freakbeat[4].
  • Shazam's genre is hard rock[5].
  • Shazam's genre is psychedelic rock[6].
  • Shazam's genre is progressive rock[7].
  • Shazam's genre is psychedelic pop[8].
  • Shazam's genre is pop rock[9].
  • Shazam was produced by Roy Wood[10].
  • Shazam was performed by The Move[11].
  • Shazam's record label is recorded as Regal Zonophone[12].
  • Shazam's record label is recorded as A&M Records[13].
  • Shazam's place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[14].
  • Shazam is part of The Move's albums in chronological order[15].
  • Shazam's language of work or name is recorded as English[16].
  • Shazam was released on February 1970[17].
  • Shazam's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Shazam'}[18].
  • Shazam's different from is recorded as Shazam[19].
  • Shazam's form of creative work is recorded as studio album[20].

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[21]

  • First release date: 1970[22]

  • Genre(s): pop rock, psychedelic rock, rock[23]

  • Community tags: pop rock, psychedelic rock, rock[24]

  • MusicBrainz ID: dd5298d4-ee21-32f7-8d6d-3acc6f7ed122[25]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Shazam was The Move[11]. Shazam was produced by Roy Wood[10].

Publication

Shazam was released on February 1970[17]. Shazam's place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[14]. Shazam's language of work or name is recorded as English[16]. Genres include freakbeat[4], hard rock[5], psychedelic rock[6], progressive rock[7], psychedelic pop[8], and pop rock[9]. Shazam is part of The Move's albums in chronological order[15].

Why It Matters

Shazam ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (222 views/month).[2] Shazam has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [21] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [22] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [23] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [24] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [25] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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