Tom Cochrane
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
Thomas William Cochrane (born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian musician known as the front man for the Canadian rock band Red Rider, and for his work as a solo singer-songwriter. Cochrane has won eight Juno Awards. He is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, an officer of the Order of Canada, and has an honorary doctorate from Brandon University. In September 2009 he was inducted onto the Canadian Walk of Fame. Cochrane has also been recognized for his significant charitable work.
Short biography only; no full biography is published for this artist.
Digital profiles and identifiers
| Scheme | Value | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| https://www.facebook.com/TomCochraneMus/ | high | |
| Publisher profile | https://primarywave.com/artists/tom-cochrane/ | high |
| Spotify artist | https://open.spotify.com/user/primarywavemusic/playlist/5IfT3sJEIpf5AO1FM57Oez?si=TFP9I2_rT9meAPxLcMUPZA | high |
| Spotify playlist | 5IfT3sJEIpf5AO1FM57Oez | 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 4 posts
| Date | Title | Matched by | Confidence | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-02 | Primary Wave’s Iconic Echoes Episode One is Out Now! If you haven’t heard – Iconic Echoes is our new web series highlighting the stories and giving a behind-the-scenes look at the most iconic songs on your playlist. Back in 1990, Tom Cochrane found himself inspired after seeing the poverty and life experiences of other countries in the world. When […] | tag | high | 107 |
| 2019-09-20 | Tom Cochrane releases new EP – Bare Buy and Stream Now! | title | medium | 4 |
| 2019-03-15 | Tom Cochrane releases ‘Tom Cochrane Revisited’! Enjoy revisiting the classics! | title | medium | 4 |
| 2018-10-03 | Tom Cochrane’s “Life is a Highway” features in the latest promo for ABC’s “The Conners”! Watch Now! | title | medium | 2 |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Cochrane | playlist | Primary Wave Music | 24 | complete |
An embed evidences association with this artist. It evidences no ownership, administration or licensing of any recording in it.
| # | Track | Credited artists | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life Is A Highway | Tom Cochrane | 4:26 |
| 2 | Lunatic Fringe | Red Rider | 4:23 |
| 3 | Lunatic Fringe | Tom Cochrane | 4:38 |
| 4 | Big League (For Humboldt) | Tom Cochrane | 4:59 |
| 5 | Boy Inside The Man | Tom Cochrane | 3:41 |
| 6 | Voices at 4AM | Andrew Cole, Tom Cochrane | 3:48 |
| 7 | I Wish You Well | Tom Cochrane | 4:45 |
| 8 | White Hot | Tom Cochrane | 4:39 |
| 9 | Ashes To Diamonds | Tom Cochrane, Red Rider | 4:39 |
| 10 | Citizen Cain | Tom Cochrane, Red Rider | 3:32 |
| 11 | Love Under Fire | Tom Cochrane, Red Rider | 4:48 |
| 12 | Lasting Song | Tom Cochrane, Red Rider | 4:55 |
| 13 | One More Time (Some Old Habits) | Tom Cochrane, Red Rider | 4:26 |
| 14 | River Of Stone | Tom Cochrane, Red Rider | 3:54 |
| 15 | The Loading | Tom Cochrane, Red Rider | 3:36 |
| 16 | The Untouchable One | Tom Cochrane, Red Rider | 4:31 |
| 17 | Avenue "A" | Red Rider | 3:24 |
| 18 | Brave And Crazy - Remastered | Tom Cochrane | 5:52 |
| 19 | Human Race | Tom Cochrane | 3:19 |
| 20 | Can't Turn Back | Red Rider | 3:54 |
| 21 | Napoleon Sheds His Skin | Red Rider | 5:53 |
| 22 | Ocean Blues (Emotion Blue) | Tom Cochrane, Red Rider | 4:39 |
| 23 | Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me) | Red Rider | 3:32 |
| 24 | White Hot | Red Rider | 5:09 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Cochrane | 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.