songwriter

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

Summary

songwriter is a musical profession[1]. songwriter ranks in the top 5% of musical_profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,413 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's GND ID is recorded as 4580700-0[5].
  • songwriter's GND ID is recorded as 7628929-1[6].
  • songwriter's subclass of is recorded as author[7].
  • songwriter's subclass of is recorded as composer[8].
  • songwriter's Commons category is recorded as Songwriters[9].
  • songwriter's field of this occupation is recorded as songwriting[10].
  • songwriter's said to be the same as is recorded as lyricist[11].
  • songwriter's said to be the same as is recorded as Q48956358[12].
  • songwriter's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0nbcg[13].
  • songwriter's ROME Occupation Code is recorded as 11433[14].
  • songwriter's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Songwriters[15].
  • songwriter's ISCO-88 occupation class is recorded as 2451[16].
  • songwriter's partially coincident with is recorded as Liedermacher[17].
  • songwriter's BBC Things ID is recorded as cb514c88-44a2-4049-a430-18ed65f28bd3[18].
  • songwriter's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/SongWriter[19].
  • songwriter's has list is recorded as list of Puerto Rican songwriters[20].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'autorka písní'}[21].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'compositora de canciones'}[22].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'كاتبة أغاني'}[23].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'pesmopiska'}[24].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'lv', 'text': 'dziesmu autore'}[25].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Songschreiberin'}[26].
  • songwriter's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Songwriterin'}[27].

Why It Matters

songwriter ranks in the top 5% of musical_profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,413 views/month).[2] songwriter has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] songwriter is known by 64 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.
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  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Retrieved . 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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  1. 23d 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| */ [[Property:P8283]]: 2641, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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