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Payolas

Canadian new wave band
Organization musical_group Q7156869
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Payolas

Summary

Payolas is a musical group[1]. Payolas ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (331 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Payolas's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Payolas's genre is alternative rock[4].
  • Payolas's record label is recorded as A&M Records[5].
  • Payolas's discography is recorded as Payolas discography[6].
  • Payolas's country of origin is recorded as Canada[7].
  • 1978 marks the founding of Payolas[8].
  • Payolas's location of formation is recorded as Vancouver[9].
  • Payolas's name is recorded as Payola$[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: Group[11]

  • Country: CA[12]

  • Began / founded: 1978[13]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2008[14]

  • Genre(s): new wave[15]

  • Community tags: new wave[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 97508483-cc77-4e57-80c7-e423e2a6f83c[17]

Body

Founding

1978 marks the founding of Payolas[8]. Payolas's location of formation is recorded as Vancouver[9].

Why It Matters

Payolas ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (331 views/month).[2]

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] ↑ . Retrieved . 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.
  7. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_payolas_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Payolas}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/payolas}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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