The Breaks
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
“ The Breaks ” is a 1980 single by Kurtis Blow from his self-titled debut album. It peaked at #87 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the first certified gold rap song for Hip-Hop, and the second certified gold 12 inch single in the history of music. In 2008, the song ranked #10 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. The track hit #4 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart, and #9 on the U.S. Billboard dance chart. The song has also featured in few video games: the 2002 game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , the 2005 game True Crime: New York City , the 2006 game Scarface: The World Is Yours and 2011 Kinect game Dance Central 2.
Short biography only; no full biography is published for this artist.
Digital profiles and identifiers
| Scheme | Value | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher profile | https://primarywave.com/artists/the-breaks/ | high |
| Spotify playlist | 19tYXOfQFZ7gdGA3LAH76I | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-21 | WHITNEY HOUSTON NFT BREAKS RECORD FOR HIGHEST SELLING NFT ON THE TEZOS BLOCKCHAIN! WHITNEY HOUSTON NFT BREAKS RECORD FOR HIGHEST-SELLING NFT ON THE TEZOS BLOCKCHAIN AT $999,999 USD Features a Full-Length Song Demo Recording of a 17-year-old Houston That Was Discovered by the Primary Wave and Estate Teams Last Year Whitney Houston breaks yet another record. Just one month after announcing a […] | title | low | 526 |
| 2020-06-14 | Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks” celebrates 40th anniversary! Check out the Billboard interview below with Kurtis Blow! A quick flashback to the simpler times of 1980 takes you to a place where 50 cents gets you a dozen eggs, $2.25 could purchase a movie ticket, and hip-hop was still in its commercial infancy. And then Kurtis Blow arrived. A wide-eyed […] | title | low | 2,149 |
| 2020-06-13 | Jib-Jab celebrates 40 years of Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks” with a new e-card! JibJab designed a really fun eCard to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of our song “The Breaks” by Kurtis Blow. Click here to check it out. | title | low | 26 |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Breaks | track | not stated | 1 | complete |
1 of these embeds is not owned by Primary Wave Music, so it is not even a curation claim. An embed evidences association with this artist. It evidences no ownership, administration or licensing of any recording in it.
| # | Track | Credited artists | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Breaks | not stated | 7:49 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Breaks | 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.