urban contemporary

music genre
Intangible music_genre Q2529400
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urban contemporary

Summary

urban contemporary is a music genre[1]. It draws 134 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #427 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • urban contemporary's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • urban contemporary's instance of is recorded as radio format[4].
  • urban contemporary's subclass of is recorded as music of the African diaspora[5].
  • urban contemporary's subclass of is recorded as popular music[6].
  • urban contemporary's said to be the same as is recorded as African-American music[7].
  • urban contemporary's country of origin is recorded as United States[8].
  • +1975-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of urban contemporary[9].
  • urban contemporary's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02c8d7[10].
  • urban contemporary's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Urban contemporary[11].
  • urban contemporary's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/urban-contemporary-music[12].
  • urban contemporary's GTAA ID is recorded as 263121[13].
  • urban contemporary's different from is recorded as Orban[14].
  • urban contemporary's Quora topic ID is recorded as Urban-Contemporary[15].
  • urban contemporary's Quora topic ID is recorded as Urban-Music[16].
  • urban contemporary's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as urban-music[17].
  • urban contemporary's IAB code is recorded as 377[18].
  • urban contemporary's Canadian Encyclopedia article ID is recorded as urban-music-emc[19].
  • urban contemporary's AllMusic genre/style ID is recorded as ma0000011965[20].
  • urban contemporary's Every Noise at Once ID is recorded as urbancontemporary[21].

Why It Matters

urban contemporary draws 134 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #427 of 1,946).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). urban contemporary. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/urban-contemporary
MLA “urban contemporary.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/urban-contemporary.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_urban-contemporary_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{urban contemporary}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/urban-contemporary}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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