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What Is Love?

original song composed by Howard Jones, lyrics by Bill Bryant; first recorded by Howard Jones
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What Is Love?

Summary

What Is Love? is a musical work/composition[1]. What Is Love? ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (280 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What Is Love?'s instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • What Is Love?'s composer is recorded as Howard Jones[4].
  • What Is Love?'s genre is synth-pop[5].
  • Among the performers on What Is Love? was Howard Jones[6].
  • What Is Love?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • What Is Love? was released on November 26, 1983[8].
  • What Is Love?'s lyricist is recorded as William Bryant[9].
  • What Is Love?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'What Is Love?'}[10].
  • What Is Love?'s different from is recorded as What Is Love[11].
  • What Is Love?'s form of creative work is recorded as song[12].

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[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: bdae83a5-153c-3431-a54d-c05ab7b81d79[14]

Body

Authorship and Creation

What Is Love? was performed by Howard Jones[6].

Publication

What Is Love? was published on November 26, 1983[8]. What Is Love?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[7]. Its genre is synth-pop[5].

Why It Matters

What Is Love? ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (280 views/month).[2] What Is Love? has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_what-is-love-q7991245_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{What Is Love?}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/what-is-love-q7991245}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 7w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Howard Jones
    Form of creative work → song
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0112940245, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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