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We Wish You a Merry Christmas

traditional English Christmas song
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We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Summary

We Wish You a Merry Christmas is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (219 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's genre is Christmas carol[4].
  • Among the performers on We Wish You a Merry Christmas was The Weavers[5].
  • Among the performers on We Wish You a Merry Christmas was Kevin MacLeod[6].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas was performed by Bing Crosby[7].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's Commons category is recorded as We Wish You A Merry Christmas[8].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[10].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas was published on 1850[11].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'}[12].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's derivative work is recorded as God jul önskar vi er alla[13].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's derivative work is recorded as We Wish You a Twisted Christmas[14].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's copyright status is recorded as public domain[15].
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas's form of creative work is recorded as song[16].

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: Song[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 4b6c5072-4672-49cc-95a2-f3f70848c81a[18]

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Authorship and Creation

Performers include The Weavers[5], Kevin MacLeod[6], and Bing Crosby[7].

Publication

We Wish You a Merry Christmas was released on 1850[11]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is Christmas carol[4].

Why It Matters

We Wish You a Merry Christmas ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (219 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

Bing Crosby Kevin MacLeod public domain United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . incompetech.com. Retrieved . incompetech.com. Provenance: 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.

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

  1. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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