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Discogs

Website and database about audio recordings

Entityonline music database social cataloging applicationQ504063

Also known as discogs.com

Instance of: online music database
, social cataloging application
Country: United States
Founded: October 2000
Website: discogs.com

Overview

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Discogs is an online database and marketplace for audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in The New York Times as "Wikipedia-like", and users can purchase vinyl records, CDs, cassette tapes, and other music formats from online sellers. Its specialty and innovation is to distinguish the specific releases of music.

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Headquarters: Portland
Name in kana: ディスコグス
Main Wikidata property: Discogs artist ID
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Alexa rank: 595(November 28, 2017)
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1.Stated in Alexa Internetalexa.com/siteinfo/discogs.comRetrieved 2017-11-28
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Language: American English reason for preferred rank: most precise value
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Named after: discography language: English
Name: Discogs
Owned by: Zink Media
Social media followers: 84,113(February 9, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 22235282
78,312(March 2, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 22235282
68,175(January 3, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 22235282
48,183(May 10, 2018) x (twitter) numeric user id: 22235282
Founded by: Kevin Lewandowski(2000)
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1.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/media/discogs-turns-record-collectors-obsessions-into-big-business.html
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