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What Is Beat?

1983 compilation album by The Beat
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What Is Beat?

Summary

What Is Beat? is an album[1]. What Is Beat? ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What Is Beat?'s instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • What Is Beat?'s genre is ska[4].
  • What Is Beat? was produced by Bob Sargeant[5].
  • Among the performers on What Is Beat? was The Beat[6].
  • What Is Beat?'s place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[7].
  • What Is Beat?'s place of publication is recorded as United States[8].
  • What Is Beat? is part of The Beat's albums in chronological order[9].
  • What Is Beat?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • What Is Beat? was distributed by LP record[11].
  • What Is Beat? was distributed by 2 × LP[12].
  • What Is Beat? was released on 1983[13].
  • What Is Beat?'s title is recorded as What Is Beat?[14].
  • What Is Beat?'s form of creative work is recorded as compilation album[15].

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.

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  • Release type: Album[16]

  • Secondary type(s): Compilation[17]

  • First release date: 1983-11-15[18]

  • Genre(s): new wave, rock, ska[19]

  • Community tags: new wave, rock, ska[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 6bfa78c1-398b-3766-8547-b32294b13d3e[21]

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Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on What Is Beat? was The Beat[6]. What Is Beat? was produced by Bob Sargeant[5].

Publication

What Is Beat? was published on 1983[13]. Place of publication include United Kingdom[7] and United States[8]. What Is Beat?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is ska[4]. What Is Beat? is part of The Beat's albums in chronological order[9]. Recorded distribution format include LP record[11] and 2 × LP[12].

Why It Matters

What Is Beat? ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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