Uptown Records

American record label
Organization record_label Q2348254
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Uptown Records

Summary

Uptown Records is a record label[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (432 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Uptown Records is in the country of United States[3].
  • Uptown Records's instance of is recorded as record label[4].
  • Uptown Records's founder is recorded as Andre Harrell[5].
  • Uptown Records's genre is contemporary R&B[6].
  • Uptown Records's genre is hip-hop[7].
  • Uptown Records's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[8].
  • 1986 marks the founding of Uptown Records[9].
  • Uptown Records was dissolved in 1999[10].
  • Uptown Records's parent organization or unit is recorded as Universal Music Group[11].
  • Uptown Records's distributed by is recorded as MCA Records[12].
  • Uptown Records's different from is recorded as Uptown Records[13].

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

  • Country: US[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 98ff3848-3a73-4baf-abd6-2ca5b4f79f0b[15]

Body

Founding

Uptown Records's founder is recorded as Andre Harrell[5]. 1986 marks the founding of it[9].

Operations

Uptown Records's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[8]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Universal Music Group[11].

Dissolution

Uptown Records was dissolved in 1999[10].

Why It Matters

Uptown Records ranks in the top 7% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (432 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [12] . blackpast.org. Retrieved . blackpast.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [14] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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