Why?

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Organization musical_group Q1123936
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Why?

Summary

Why? is a musical group[1]. Why? ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (369 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Why?'s instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Why?'s genre is indie rock[4].
  • Why?'s record label is recorded as anticon.[5].
  • Why?'s Commons category is recorded as Why?[6].
  • Why?'s country of origin is recorded as United States[7].
  • Why? comprises Yoni Wolf[8].
  • 2004 marks the founding of Why?[9].
  • Why?'s location of formation is recorded as Berkeley[10].
  • Why?'s official website is recorded as http://www.whywithaquestionmark.com/[11].
  • Why?'s start of work period is recorded as 2004[12].
  • Why?'s social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+13276'}[13].
  • Why?'s social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+12987'}[14].

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[15]

  • Country: US[16]

  • Began / founded: 1997[17]

  • Genre(s): hip hop, indie pop[18]

  • Community tags: hip hop, indie pop[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 5dc8a187-443d-4fb2-a0fc-209ef241b9ce[20]

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Founding

2004 marks the founding of Why?[9]. Why?'s location of formation is recorded as Berkeley[10].

Why It Matters

Why? ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (369 views/month).[2] Why? has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

References

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

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.

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

  1. [15] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [16] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [17] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [19] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [20] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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