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Wave

1979 studio album by Patti Smith Group
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Wave

Summary

Wave is an album[1]. Wave ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (515 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wave's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Wave's genre is hard rock[4].
  • Wave was produced by Todd Rundgren[5].
  • Among the performers on Wave was Patti Smith Group[6].
  • Wave's record label is recorded as Arista Records[7].
  • Wave's place of publication is recorded as United States[8].
  • Wave is part of Patti Smith Group's albums in chronological order[9].
  • Wave's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Wave was distributed by music streaming[11].
  • Wave was released on May 17, 1979[12].
  • Wave's tracklist is recorded as Frederick[13].
  • Wave's tracklist is recorded as Dancing Barefoot[14].
  • Wave's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Wave'}[15].
  • Wave's different from is recorded as Wave[16].
  • Wave's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+2265'}[17].
  • Wave's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7302866', 'amount': '+9'}[18].
  • Wave's form of creative work is recorded as studio album[19].

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

  • Release type: Album[20]

  • First release date: 1979-04-27[21]

  • Genre(s): alternative rock, punk, rock[22]

  • Community tags: alternative rock, original new wave scene, punk, rock[23]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 412f2b72-9ab2-3033-a52f-e41bc5e595fa[24]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Wave was performed by Patti Smith Group[6]. Wave was produced by Todd Rundgren[5].

Publication

Wave was released on May 17, 1979[12]. Wave's place of publication is recorded as United States[8]. Wave's language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Wave's genre is hard rock[4]. Wave is part of Patti Smith Group's albums in chronological order[9]. Wave was distributed by music streaming[11].

Why It Matters

Wave ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (515 views/month).[2] Wave has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25]

Related Entities

Arista Records 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] ↑ . Spotify. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_wave-q262304_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Wave}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/wave-q262304}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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