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The Mountain Goats

American musical group
Organization musical_group Q145515
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The Mountain Goats

Summary

The Mountain Goats is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,277 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Mountain Goats's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Mountain Goats's genre is indie folk[4].
  • The Mountain Goats's record label is recorded as 4AD[5].
  • The Mountain Goats's record label is recorded as Merge Records[6].
  • The Mountain Goats's discography is recorded as The Mountain Goats discography[7].
  • The Mountain Goats's Commons category is recorded as The Mountain Goats[8].
  • The Mountain Goats's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • 1991 marks the founding of The Mountain Goats[10].
  • The Mountain Goats's location of formation is recorded as Claremont[11].
  • The Mountain Goats's official website is recorded as http://www.mountain-goats.com/[12].
  • The Mountain Goats's start of work period is recorded as 1991[13].
  • The Mountain Goats's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Mountain Goats'}[14].
  • The Mountain Goats's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+192461'}[15].
  • The Mountain Goats's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+181498'}[16].
  • The Mountain Goats's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+24900'}[17].
  • The Mountain Goats's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+210948'}[18].
  • The Mountain Goats's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+30800'}[19].
  • The Mountain Goats's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+209884'}[20].
  • The Mountain Goats's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+38800'}[21].

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[22]

  • Country: US[23]

  • Began / founded: 1991[24]

  • Genre(s): folk rock, indie folk, indie rock, lo-fi, rock, singer-songwriter[25]

  • Community tags: 4ad, american, folk rock, indie, indie folk, indie rock, lo-fi, rock, rock and indie, singer-songwriter[26]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9639cd52-c351-4a17-9797-58880e95a7ef[27]

Body

Founding

1991 marks the founding of The Mountain Goats[10]. Its location of formation is recorded as Claremont[11].

Why It Matters

The Mountain Goats ranks in the top 3% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,277 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Related Entities

4AD United States

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.

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

  1. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.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.

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  1. 4w ago · ZI Jony · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Start of work period → +1991-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Inception → —
    Facebook numeric id → 17314008126
    Aliases → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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