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BBC Proms

eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts
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Summary

BBC Proms is a music festival[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of music festival entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,039 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: London[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: series of concerts[5]
  • Commons category: BBC Proms[6]
  • Has part(s): Last Night of the Proms[7]
  • Inception: 1895[8]
  • Official website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms[9]
  • Native label: BBC Proms[10]
  • Historic county: Middlesex[11]
  • Social media followers: 91,878[12], 95,581[13], 98,792[14]

Why It Matters

BBC Proms has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

London United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Printstream · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Social media followers → {'amount': '+91878'}, {'amount': '+95581'}, {'amount': '+98792'}
    Inception → +1895-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → music festival, series of concerts
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → London
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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