Owl City

American electronic musical project by Adam Young
Organization musical_group Q207938

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
musical group
Inception
2007[8]
Country of origin
United States[6]
Has part(s)
Adam Young[7]
Location of formation
Owatonna[9]
Name
Owl City[14]
Social media followers
990k (990k–1.1M, n=4)[15][16][17][18]
Start of work period
2007[13]
Topic has template
Template:Owl City[12]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 57
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Owlcity.png ↗
1001Tracklists DJ ID
owlcity
AZLyrics.com artist ID
o/owlcity
Acharts.co artist ID
owl_city
Album of the Year artist ID
654
AllMovie person ID
an4801596
AllMusic artist ID
mn0001030695
AlloCiné person ID
613847
Apple Music artist ID
264481094
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Bandcamp profile ID
owlcityofficial
Billboard artist ID
owl-city
Boomplay artist ID
329711
Charts in France artist ID
Owl-City
DR music artist ID
10422732
Deezer artist ID
183201
Discogs artist ID
1494847
Europeana entity
agent/base/116212
Facebook username
owlcity
Freebase ID
/m/04dzm2z
Genius artist ID
Owl-city
Goodreads author ID
3399242
Google+ ID
+owlcity
Instagram username
owlcityofficial
Last.fm ID
Owl+City
Laut.de artist ID
Owl-City
LyricsTranslate ID
owl-city-lyrics.html
Metacritic ID
person/owl-city
MetroLyrics ID
owl-city-lyrics
Muziekweb performer ID
M00000136498
Myspace ID
owlcity
NME artist ID
owl-city
NRJ artist ID
owl-city
Quora topic ID
Owl-City
RERO ID (legacy)
A017575305
Rate Your Music artist ID
owl-city
Rolling Stone artist ID
owl-city
Rotten Tomatoes ID
celebrity/owl_city
SecondHandSongs artist ID
53486
Songkick artist ID
607163
SoundCloud ID
owlcityofficial
Spotify artist ID
07QEuhtrNmmZ0zEcqE9SF6
Subreddit
OWLCITY
Threads username
owlcityofficial
Tidal artist ID
3582596
Topic's main category
Category:Owl City
VGMdb artist ID
14648
Vikidia article ID
fr:Owl_City
WhoSampled artist ID
Owl-City
WikiKids ID
Owl_City
X (Twitter) username
owlcity, owlcity

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Summary

Owl City is a musical group[1].

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: Person[19]

  • Country: US[20]

  • Began / founded: 1986-07-05[21]

  • Genre(s): electronic, pop, synth-pop[22]

  • Community tags: electronic, pop, synth-pop, united states[23]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ad279295-653f-42e1-9aaa-b731df2e78ba[24]

FAQs

What awards did Owl City receive?

Honors received include The Record of the Year[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

  1. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    NME artist ID → owl-city
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ NME artist ID: owl-city, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/214798086|owl city (#214798086)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7190|NME artist]] #mix'n'ma"
  2. 26w ago · DanGFSouza · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image purged at → —
    Subreddit → OWLCITY
    Image purged license → —
    Image needs reharvest → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Subreddit: OWLCITY, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/144664738|OWLCITY (#144664738)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5569|Subreddit Directory]] #"
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