Home › Entities › record_label › Flying Nun Records

Flying Nun Records

New Zealand independent record label
Organization record_label Q3074625
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Flying Nun Records

Summary

Flying Nun Records is a record label[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,455 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Flying Nun Records is in the country of New Zealand[3].
  • Flying Nun Records's instance of is recorded as record label[4].
  • Flying Nun Records's headquarters location is recorded as Auckland[5].
  • Flying Nun Records's Commons category is recorded as Flying Nun Records[6].
  • 1981 marks the founding of Flying Nun Records[7].
  • Flying Nun Records's location of formation is recorded as Christchurch[8].
  • Flying Nun Records's official website is recorded as http://www.flyingnun.co.nz/[9].
  • Flying Nun Records's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Flying Nun Records[10].

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

  • Type: Original Production[11]

  • Country: NZ[12]

  • Began / founded: 1981[13]

  • Genre(s): dunedin sound[14]

  • Community tags: 25 years, dunedin sound[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 59fd412e-71df-45b7-97be-37874136fe33[16]

Body

Founding

1981 marks the founding of Flying Nun Records[7]. Its location of formation is recorded as Christchurch[8].

Operations

Flying Nun Records's headquarters location is recorded as Auckland[5].

Why It Matters

Flying Nun Records ranks in the top 8% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,455 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Related Entities

New Zealand record label

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Flying Nun Records. Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/flying-nun-records
MLA “Flying Nun Records.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 4 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/flying-nun-records.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_flying-nun-records_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Flying Nun Records}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/flying-nun-records}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-04}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Flying Nun Records — https://4ort.xyz/entity/flying-nun-records (retrieved 2026-10-04)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/flying-nun-records · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'gl', 'it', 'ru']
    Website → —
    Inception → +1981-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.