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Tainted Love

original song written and composed by Ed Cobb; first recorded by Gloria Jones
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Tainted Love

Summary

Tainted Love is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.23% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,993 views/month, #45 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tainted Love is the creator of Coil[3].
  • Tainted Love's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[4].
  • Tainted Love's composer is recorded as Ed Cobb[5].
  • Tainted Love's genre is Northern soul[6].
  • Among the performers on Tainted Love was Gloria Jones[7].
  • Tainted Love was performed by Soft Cell[8].
  • Tainted Love was performed by Coil[9].
  • Among the performers on Tainted Love was Marilyn Manson[10].
  • Tainted Love's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].
  • Tainted Love was released on 1965[12].
  • Tainted Love's lyricist is recorded as Ed Cobb[13].
  • Tainted Love's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Tainted Love'}[14].
  • Tainted Love's different from is recorded as Tainted Love[15].
  • Tainted Love's form of creative work is recorded as song[16].

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: Song[17]

  • Genre(s): big band, jazz, pop, rock, soul[18]

  • Community tags: big band, jazz, pop, rock, soul, vocal[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 75ce5160-c7b5-373f-8400-12f03acb408f[20]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Gloria Jones[7], Soft Cell[8], Coil[9], and Marilyn Manson[10]. Tainted Love is the creator of Coil[3].

Publication

Tainted Love was published on 1965[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[11]. Its genre is Northern soul[6].

Why It Matters

Tainted Love ranks in the top 0.23% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,993 views/month, #45 of 19,375).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Tainted Love. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/tainted-love
MLA “Tainted Love.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/tainted-love.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_tainted-love_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Tainted Love}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/tainted-love}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 26d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Gloria Jones, Soft Cell, Coil +1
    Form of creative work → song
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0702441506, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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