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Paranoid

1970 studio album by Black Sabbath
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Summary

Paranoid is an album[1]. Paranoid ranks in the top 0.31% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,292 views/month, #188 of 60,676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: heavy metal music[3]
  • Producer: Rodger Bain[4]
  • Performer: Black Sabbath[5]
  • Record label: Vertigo Records[6], Warner Bros. Records[7]
  • Place of publication: United States[8], United Kingdom[9]
  • Part of: Black Sabbath's albums in chronological order[10]
  • Language of work or name: English[11]
  • Distribution format: vinyl record[12], music streaming[13], music download[14]
  • Review score: 5[15]
  • Publication date: September 18, 1970[16]
  • Tracklist: Paranoid[17], Iron Man[18], Electric Funeral[19]
  • Distributed by: Tidal[20]
  • Topic has template: Šablona:Paranoid[21]
  • Title: Paranoid[22]
  • Duration: 2526 seconds[23]
  • Number of parts of this work: 8 audio track[24]
  • Form of creative work: studio album[25]

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: Album[26]

  • First release date: 1970-09-18[27]

  • Genre(s): blues rock, classic rock, doom metal, hard rock, heavy metal, heavy psych, metal, occult rock, rock, traditional doom metal[28]

  • Community tags: 70s, best songs ever, blues rock, classic, classic british metal, classic rock, doom metal, hard rock, heavy metal, heavy psych, metal, occult rock, ozzy, rock, traditional doom metal[29]

  • MusicBrainz ID: cc053745-c447-3566-8f27-bed5438c9133[30]

Why It Matters

Paranoid has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Paranoid is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Related Entities

United Kingdom United States Vertigo Records

References

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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.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . AllMusic. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Tidal. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Number of parts of this work → {'unit': 'Q7302866', 'amount': '+8'}
    Form of creative work → studio album
    Performer → Black Sabbath
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