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The Boomtown Rats

Irish rock band
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The Boomtown Rats

Summary

The Boomtown Rats is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,565 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Boomtown Rats's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Boomtown Rats's genre is punk rock[4].
  • The Boomtown Rats's genre is art punk[5].
  • The Boomtown Rats's genre is power pop[6].
  • The Boomtown Rats's genre is new wave[7].
  • The Boomtown Rats's record label is recorded as Mercury Records[8].
  • The Boomtown Rats's record label is recorded as Ensign Records[9].
  • The Boomtown Rats's record label is recorded as Mulligan[10].
  • The Boomtown Rats's discography is recorded as The Boomtown Rats discography[11].
  • The Boomtown Rats's Commons category is recorded as The Boomtown Rats[12].
  • The Boomtown Rats's country of origin is recorded as Ireland[13].
  • The Boomtown Rats comprises Johnnie Fingers[14].
  • 1975 marks the founding of The Boomtown Rats[15].
  • The Boomtown Rats's location of formation is recorded as Dún Laoghaire[16].
  • The Boomtown Rats's official website is recorded as https://www.theboomtownratsofficial.com/[17].
  • The Boomtown Rats's IPA transcription is recorded as ˈbumtaʊn ˈɹæts[18].
  • The Boomtown Rats's participant in is recorded as Live Aid[19].
  • The Boomtown Rats's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Boomtown Rats'}[20].
  • The Boomtown Rats's start of work period is recorded as 1975[21].
  • The Boomtown Rats's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+1849'}[22].
  • The Boomtown Rats's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+1868'}[23].

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

  • Type: Group[24]

  • Country: IE[25]

  • Began / founded: 1975[26]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1986[27]

  • Genre(s): art punk, new wave, pop rock, post-punk, power pop, punk rock[28]

  • Community tags: art punk, new wave, pop rock, post-punk, power pop, punk rock[29]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 47aa3e97-f623-4472-8e54-da886c6a6e20[30]

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Founding

1975 marks the founding of The Boomtown Rats[15]. Its location of formation is recorded as Dún Laoghaire[16].

Why It Matters

The Boomtown Rats ranks in the top 4% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,565 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31]

Related Entities

Bob Geldof Dún Laoghaire Ireland Mercury Records

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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