songwriter

person who writes the words or music to songs
Intangible musical_profession Q753110
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Summary

songwriter is a musical profession[1]. songwriter ranks in the top 5% of musical_profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,797 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • songwriter's instance of is recorded as musical profession[3].
  • songwriter's instance of is recorded as profession[4].
  • songwriter is a type of author[5].
  • songwriter is a type of composer[6].
  • songwriter's Commons category is recorded as Songwriters[7].
  • songwriter's field of this occupation is recorded as songwriting[8].
  • songwriter's said to be the same as is recorded as lyricist[9].
  • songwriter's said to be the same as is recorded as Q48956358[10].
  • songwriter's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Songwriters[11].
  • songwriter's ISCO-88 occupation class is recorded as 2451[12].
  • songwriter's partially coincident with is recorded as Liedermacher[13].
  • songwriter's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/SongWriter[14].
  • songwriter's has list is recorded as list of Puerto Rican songwriters[15].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'autorka písní'}[16].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'compositora de canciones'}[17].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'كاتبة أغاني'}[18].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'pesmopiska'}[19].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'lv', 'text': 'dziesmu autore'}[20].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Songschreiberin'}[21].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Songwriterin'}[22].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'he', 'text': 'פזמונאית'}[23].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'lb', 'text': 'Lidderméchesch'}[24].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'compositora de cançons'}[25].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'sw', 'text': 'Mtunzi wa nyimbo wa kike'}[26].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'compositora de cantares'}[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include musical profession[3] and profession[4]. Recorded subclass of include author[5] and composer[6].

Why It Matters

songwriter ranks in the top 5% of musical_profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,797 views/month).[2] songwriter has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] songwriter is known by 94 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . 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. 13d ago · Kolja21 · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Gnd id: 4580700-0"
  2. 24d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'av', 'ban', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bjn', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca
    Sitelink count → 63
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 10643902-n
    Interlingual index id → i93146
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||jv, min, su, ban */ import labels from sitelinks"
  3. 25w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → author, composer
    Instance of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Songwriters
    Said to be the same as → lyricist, Q48956358
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Isco-08 occupation class: 2641, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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