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Pet Shop Boys

British synth-pop duo
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Summary

Pet Shop Boys is a musical duo[1]. It ranks in the top 0.89% of musical duo entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34,338 views/month, #7 of 787).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: BRIT Awards[3]
  • Genre: synth-pop[4], new wave[5], house music[6], electronic dance music[7], alternative dance[8], sophisti-pop[9], art pop[10]
  • Record label: Parlophone[11], Rhino[12]
  • Discography: Pet Shop Boys discography[13]
  • Commons category: Pet Shop Boys[14]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[15]
  • Has part(s): Neil Tennant[16], Chris Lowe[17]
  • Inception: August 19, 1981[18]
  • Location of formation: London[19]
  • Official website: https://petshopboys.co.uk[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pet Shop Boys[21]
  • Topic has template: Template:Pet Shop Boys[22]
  • Official name: Pet Shop Boys[23]
  • Native label: Pet Shop Boys[24]
  • Start of work period: 1982[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.

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  • Type: Group[26]

  • Country: GB[27]

  • Began / founded: 1981-08-19[28]

  • Genre(s): art pop, dance-pop, disco, electronic, electropop, house, new wave, pop, synth-pop[29]

  • Community tags: art pop, dance-pop, disco, electronic, electropop, house, new wave, pop, queer, synth-pop, synthpop[30]

  • MusicBrainz ID: be540c02-7898-4b79-9acc-c8122c7d9e83[31]

Why It Matters

Pet Shop Boys has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

FAQs

What awards did Pet Shop Boys receive?

Honors received include BRIT Awards[3].

Related Entities

London Neil Tennant Parlophone United Kingdom

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . brits.co.uk. Retrieved . brits.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . rhino.com. Retrieved . rhino.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . general catalog of BnF. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . general catalog of BnF. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . 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.
  6. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 14w ago · Horcrux · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → musical duo
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Instance of: male duo, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259998|batch #259998]]"
  2. 16w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nme artist id → pet-shop-boys
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Nme artist id: pet-shop-boys, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/214798415|pet shop boys (#214798415)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7190|NME artist]]"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → k0003666-Pet-Shop-Boys-hudebni-skupina
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: k0003666-Pet-Shop-Boys-hudebni-skupina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  4. 23w ago · Lmerice · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → lyrics:Pet_Shop_Boys
    Museum of modern art artist id → 46477
    Record label → Parlophone, Rhino
    Aliases → —
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Tabakalera id: 58249, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257367|batch #257367]]"
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