
KT Tunstall
Rights position
| Company | Relationship | Ownership classification | Status | Verification | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Wave Music | listed in artist directory | artist association only | current | verified | directory page |
“Artist association only” is the accurate classification for a directory listing. No composition or recording of this artist has a documented Primary Wave publishing or master ownership interest in the supplied dataset, and SPEC §10 forbids inferring one from the relationship.
Biography
Scottish singer-songwriter, Katie“K.T.” Tunstall launched into the international spotlight with a memorable TV performance of “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” on Later….with Jools holland. The song debuted on Billboard’s Hot 100 charts, ultimately reaching the Top 20. It was awarded Best Track by Q Magazine in 2005 and received a Grammy nomination for Tunstall’s Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and a BRIT Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Act (2005). Singles, “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” and “Suddenly I See”, written solely by Tunstall, displaying her signature loop pedal style, were featured on her debut album, 2004’s Eye to the Telescope. Released in August 2005, the album’s third single, “Suddenly I See”, became KT’s highest-charting single in the U.K. “Eye to the Telescope” went on to be certified multiplatinum. Tunstall has released six albums internationally: Eye to theTelescope (2004), Drastic Fantastic (2007), TigerSuit (2010), InvisibleEmpire//CrescentMoon (2013), KIN (2016) and WAX (2018) and is a Grammy Award Nominee (2005), BritAward (2006), Ivor Novello Award winner (2006).
Short biography only; no full biography is published for this artist.
Digital profiles and identifiers
| Scheme | Value | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| https://www.facebook.com/kttunstall | high | |
| https://www.instagram.com/kttunstall/ | high | |
| Publisher profile | https://primarywave.com/artists/kt-tunstall/ | high |
| Spotify artist | 5zzrJD2jXrE9dZ1AklRFcL | high |
| Spotify playlist | 6CcZ2LNrGK1nIpNT5mUvIM | high |
| X | https://twitter.com/kttunstall | high |
| Official website | https://www.kttunstall.com/ | high |
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KT_Tunstall | high |
| YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAzFFWjI1h9DvqHXd6wxZQ | high |
No MusicBrainz, Discogs, IPI, ISWC or ISRC identifier is present for any artist in this dataset. Those schemes exist in the schema and are unpopulated.
News mentions 3 posts
| Date | Title | Matched by | Confidence | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-21 | KT Tunstall Sings Amongst the Brown Bears of Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge in New Music Video The 5x Platinum singer-songwriter partnered with Sustain Music and Nature and the US Fish & Wildlife Service to create music inspired by our public lands. “Century Trail” will be released through Green Hill Music and available across all digital platforms on 21 April, ahead of Earth Day. Listen to “Century […] | tag+title | high | 1,494 |
| 2022-09-26 | KT TUNSTALL TO COMPOSE MUSIC INSPIRED BY ALASKA’S KODIAK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 5X PLATINUM AND GRAMMY-NOMINATED SINGER-SONGWRITER KT TUNSTALL TO COMPOSE MUSIC INSPIRED BY ALASKA’S KODIAK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE Scotland-born KT Tunstall teams up with nonprofit Sustain Music & Nature and the Alaska Region of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to create music for our public lands. Kodiak, AK — […] | tag+title | high | 1,086 |
| 2021-01-12 | CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SINGER -SONGWRITER KT TUNSTALL AND PRIMARY WAVE MUSIC PUBLISHING ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP TERMS OF THE PARTNERSHIP WILL SEE THE PUBLISHER ACQUIRE A STAKE IN TUNSTALL’S MUSIC PUBLISHING CATALOG SONGS INCLUDE “SUDDENLY I SEE,” “OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD,” AND “BLACK HORSE AND THE CHERRY TREE” Grammy and Mercury Prize-nominated singer KT Tunstall is the latest songwriter to join the Primary Wave Music […] | title | medium | 967 |
“Matched by” and the confidence are carried through from the source extraction rather than flattened: a tag or tag+title match is high confidence, a title-only match is medium or low. A mention is not a transaction.
Associated repertoire (SPEC §22 category C)
| Embed | Type | Owner | Tracks in embed | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KT Tunstall | playlist | Primary Wave Music | 100 | truncated at 100 |
This capture was truncated at 100 tracks, so the figures below are a floor and the real playlist is longer. An embed evidences association with this artist. It evidences no ownership, administration or licensing of any recording in it.
No ISRC is held for any of these recordings, and none is linked to an underlying composition, because the dataset contains neither.
Identity and aliases
| Alias | Type | Confidence | Status | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KT Tunstall | source spelling | high | accepted | verbatim name as published in the Primary Wave artist directory |
A candidate alias is not used for matching until a reviewer accepts it. SPEC §12 forbids automatically merging low-confidence matches.