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The Chills

New Zealand band
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The Chills

Summary

The Chills is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (379 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Chills received the Aotearoa Music Award for Best Group[3].
  • The Chills's instance of is recorded as musical group[4].
  • The Chills's genre is alternative rock[5].
  • The Chills's record label is recorded as Flying Nun Records[6].
  • The Chills's record label is recorded as Creation Records[7].
  • The Chills's Commons category is recorded as The Chills[8].
  • The Chills's country of origin is recorded as New Zealand[9].
  • The Chills comprises Peter Gutteridge[10].
  • The Chills comprises Oli Wilson[11].
  • The Chills comprises Martin Phillipps[12].
  • 1980 marks the founding of The Chills[13].
  • The Chills's location of formation is recorded as Dunedin[14].
  • The Chills's official website is recorded as http://www.thechills.band/[15].
  • The Chills's topic's main category is recorded as Category:The Chills[16].
  • The Chills's topic has template is recorded as Template:The Chills[17].
  • The Chills's start of work period is recorded as 1980[18].
  • The Chills's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+3624'}[19].

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[20]

  • Country: NZ[21]

  • Began / founded: 1980[22]

  • Genre(s): dunedin sound, indie pop, jangle pop, post-punk[23]

  • Community tags: dunedin sound, indie pop, jangle pop, new zealand, post-punk[24]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 90b5813d-fbd7-4539-89d5-034094f64a2e[25]

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Founding

1980 marks the founding of The Chills[13]. Its location of formation is recorded as Dunedin[14].

Recognition

The Chills received the Aotearoa Music Award for Best Group[3].

Why It Matters

The Chills ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (379 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26]

FAQs

What awards did The Chills receive?

Honors received include Aotearoa Music Award for Best Group[3].

Related Entities

New Zealand

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . audioculture.co.nz. Retrieved . audioculture.co.nz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . creativestaff.massey.ac.nz. creativestaff.massey.ac.nz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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