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The Beatles

1968 studio album by the Beatles
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Summary

The Beatles is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 0.04% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (27,089 views/month, #24 of 60,676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: rock music[3], folk rock[4], hard rock[5], psychedelic rock[6], British blues[7]
  • Producer: George Martin[8]
  • Performer: The Beatles[9]
  • Record label: Apple Records[10]
  • Place of publication: United Kingdom[11], United States[12]
  • Part of: The Beatles' albums in chronological order[13], The Beatles UK albums discography[14]
  • Commons category: The Beatles (album)[15]
  • Language of work or name: English[16]
  • Distribution format: 2 × LP[17], 2 × CD[18], music streaming[19], music download[20]
  • Review score: 5[21]
  • Recorded at studio or venue: Trident Studios[22]
  • Publication date: November 22, 1968[23]
  • Tracklist: Back in the U.S.S.R.[24], Dear Prudence[25], Glass Onion[26], Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da[27], Wild Honey Pie[28], The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill[29], While My Guitar Gently Weeps[30], Happiness Is a Warm Gun[31], Martha My Dear[32], I'm So Tired[33], Blackbird[34], Piggies[35], Rocky Raccoon[36], Don’t Pass Me By[37]
  • Cover art by: Richard Hamilton[38]
  • Nickname: The White Album[39]
  • Title: The Beatles[40]
  • Has characteristic: eponymously titled work[41], double album[42]
  • Different from: The Beatles[43]
  • Duration: 5615 seconds[44]
  • Number of parts of this work: 30 audio track[45]
  • Form of creative work: studio album[46]

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[47]

  • First release date: 1968-11-22[48]

  • Genre(s): art rock, beat music, blues rock, classic rock, experimental, folk, folk rock, hard rock, merseybeat, pop, pop rock, psychedelic, psychedelic rock, rock[49]

  • Community tags: 60s, album rock, am pop, art rock, beat, beat music, bittersweet, blues rock, blues-rock, british, british invasion rock, british psychedelia, classic rock, conscious, contemporary pop/rock, dense, double album, eclectic, energetic, experimental, folk, folk rock, great album cover, hard rock, humorous, introspective, love, male vocalist, melodic, merseybeat, optimistic, playful, pop, pop rock, psychedelic, psychedelic rock, quirky, raw, rebellious, rock, sarcastic, satirical, self-titled, surreal, vyrzukhisuc-album[50]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 055be730-dcad-31bf-b550-45ba9c202aa3[51]

Why It Matters

The Beatles has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]

Related Entities

2 × CD Apple Records George Martin Richard Hamilton The Beatles United Kingdom United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  19. [21] ↑ . AllMusic. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  43. [45] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [47] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [50] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [51] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [52] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [53] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · Xeroctic · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Distribution format → 2 × LP, 2 × CD, music streaming +1
    Has characteristic → eponymously titled work, double album
    Duration → {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+5615'}
    Instance of → —
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Tv tropes id: Music/TheWhiteAlbum"
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