War
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
An American Original; WAR was the first and most successful musical crossover phenomenon that forever fused rock, jazz, Latin, and R&B while transcending racial and cultural barriers with a multi-ethnic line-up; a musical melting pot, and an enduring influence that has sold nearly 50 million records to date. Today, WAR is a permanent part of America’s pop-cultural landscape. A touring act that performs 150 shows a year and whose catalog of timeless hits permeates our everyday lives. WAR classics have been featured in countless movies, television shows, and commercials. Films such as The Mexican, How High, Remember The Titans, A Knight’s Tale, Boogie Nights and Lethal Weapon 4; T.V. shows such as ER, That Seventies Show, Bernie Mac, The Job, The Simpsons and the theme to the George Lopez Show; TV ads for products like Nissan, Mitsubishi, Miller Brewing, Burger King and Sprint PCS have kept WAR music in the fore. The music has also been re-spun by many contemporary artists from Janet Jackson to Korn, Smashmouth to Shaggy and from Macy Gray to TLC with covers or samples of WAR hits.
Short biography only; no full biography is published for this artist.
Digital profiles and identifiers
| Scheme | Value | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| https://www.facebook.com/WARTHEBAND | high | |
| https://www.instagram.com/wartheband/ | high | |
| Publisher profile | https://primarywave.com/artists/war/ | high |
| Spotify artist | 3ICyfoySNDZqtBVmaBT84I | high |
| Spotify playlist | 5ssC4qakBrGJjxtrvZuRGX | high |
| X | https://twitter.com/WARtheBand | high |
| Official website | https://war.com/ | high |
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(American_band) | high |
| YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgPaTUpVC41YiHFTLMhu-7w | 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 0 posts
No news mentions
This artist is not linked to any post in the archive. 150 of 178 artists have at least one mention.
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| War Discography | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| War | 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.