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Britpop

music genre; 1990s UK pop culture movement
Intangible music_genre Q189045
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Summary

Britpop is a music genre[1]. Britpop ranks in the top 4% of music genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,592 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: art movement[3]
  • Followed by: post-Britpop[4]
  • Subclass of: pop rock[5], alternative rock[6]
  • Commons category: Britpop[7]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[8]
  • Inception: 1991[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Britpop[10]
  • Native label: Britpop[11]
  • Different from: bitpop[12], British popular music[13]

Why It Matters

Britpop has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Britpop is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Blur Damon Albarn Gustavo Cerati Harry Styles Kaiser Chiefs Liam Gallagher Melanie C Placebo Radiohead Richard Ashcroft Robbie Williams United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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