The Boy Bands Have Won

Summary

The Boy Bands Have Won is an album^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (329 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• The Boy Bands Have Won's instance of is recorded as album^[3].
• The Boy Bands Have Won's genre is anarcho-punk^[4].
• The Boy Bands Have Won's genre is folk music^[5].
• Among the performers on The Boy Bands Have Won was Chumbawamba^[6].
• The Boy Bands Have Won's record label is recorded as No Masters^[7].
• The Boy Bands Have Won's record label is recorded as Westpark Music^[8].
• The Boy Bands Have Won is part of Chumbawamba's albums in chronological order^[9].
• The Boy Bands Have Won's language of work or name is recorded as English^[10].
• The Boy Bands Have Won was distributed by music streaming^[11].
• The Boy Bands Have Won was released on March 3, 2008^[12].
• The Boy Bands Have Won's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won"}^[13].
• The Boy Bands Have Won's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Boy Bands Have Won'}^[14].

Product Details

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• Release type: Album^[15]

• First release date: 2008-03-03^[16]

• Genre(s): folk, rock^[17]

• Community tags: alternative, folk, long title, rock^[18]

• MusicBrainz ID: 55bac59a-ef98-3086-a0a0-8036562c5eb1^[19]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on The Boy Bands Have Won was Chumbawamba^[6].

Publication

The Boy Bands Have Won was released on March 3, 2008^[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English^[10]. Genres include anarcho-punk^[4] and folk music^[5]. It is part of Chumbawamba's albums in chronological order^[9]. It was distributed by music streaming^[11].

Why It Matters

The Boy Bands Have Won ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (329 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[20]