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Spotify album ID
identifier for an album or single on Spotify

Associated item	Spotify (Q689141)
Applicable "stated in" value	Spotify (Q689141)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	According to this template: album (Q482994) According to statements in the property: musical release (Q2031291), release group (Q108346082) or radio drama (Q2635894) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values	[0-9A-Za-z]{22}
Example	Koska sä eroot (Q20251972) → 16BW7Z0h309liAUqhHlAg4 Power in Numbers (Q1239912) → 2w9KjhjN2oMGhEvE15HK5T B.T.R. (Q10382477) → 4uOhGvsIhZZMrMqWUt9hDB
Source	https://spotify.com
Formatter URL	https://open.spotify.com/album/$1 spotify:album:$1
Embed URL	https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:album:$1
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P2205 (Q53985669)
Related to country	Sweden (Q34) (See 135 others)
See also	Spotify artist ID (P1902), Spotify track ID (P2207), Spotify show ID (P5916), Spotify playlist ID (P8704), Spotify songwriter ID (P8347)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties Items with no other external identifier Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Items with deprecated claims Deprecated statements with this identifier as a source Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Chart by item creation date Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 40,291 Main statement 39,931 99.1% of uses Qualifier 23 <0.1% of uses Reference 337 0.8% of uses
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Format “[0-9A-Za-z]{22}”: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Format, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Type “musical release (Q2031291), release group (Q108346082), radio drama (Q2635894)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31), subclass of (P279)” with classes “musical release (Q2031291), release group (Q108346082), radio drama (Q2635894)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Type Q2031291, Q108346082, Q2635894, SPARQL

Distinct values: this property likely contains a value that is different from all other items. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Unique value, SPARQL (every item), SPARQL (by value)

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Entity types

Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as reference (Q54828450): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Scope, SPARQL

Item “distribution format (P437): music streaming (Q15982450)”: Items with this property should also have “distribution format (P437): music streaming (Q15982450)”. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Item P437, hourly updated report, search, SPARQL

Conflicts with “instance of (P31): human (Q5)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Conflicts with P31, hourly updated report, search, SPARQL

Conflicts with “instance of (P31): audio track (Q7302866), music track with vocals (Q55850593), music track without lyrics (Q55850643), song (Q7366), composed musical work (Q207628)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Conflicts with P31, search, SPARQL

Conflicts with “Spotify track ID (P2207)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Conflicts with P2207, search, SPARQL

Item “number of parts of this work (P2635)”: Items with this property should also have “number of parts of this work (P2635)”. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Item P2635, search, SPARQL

Conflicts with “recording or performance of musical work/composition (P2550)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Conflicts with P2550, search, SPARQL

Conflicts with “music video (P6718)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Conflicts with P6718, search, SPARQL

Label required in languages: mul: Entities using this property should have labels in one of the following languages: mul (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P2205#Label in 'mul' language, search, SPARQL

Pattern ^(?:https?://open.spotify.com/|/)?(?:[a-z\-]+/)*artist/([0-9A-Za-z]{22})(?:\?.+)?$ will be automatically replaced to \1 and moved to Spotify artist ID (P1902) property. Testing: TODO list

Pattern ^(?:https?://open.spotify.com/|/)?(?:[a-z\-]+/)*show/([0-9A-Za-z]{22})(?:\?.+)?$ will be automatically replaced to \1 and moved to Spotify show ID (P5916) property. Testing: TODO list

Pattern ^(?:https?://open.spotify.com/|/)?(?:[a-z\-]+/)*track/([0-9A-Za-z]{22})(?:\?.+)?$ will be automatically replaced to \1 and moved to Spotify track ID (P2207) property. Testing: TODO list

Pattern ^(?:https?://open.spotify.com/|/)?(?:[a-z\-]+/)*album/([0-9A-Za-z]{22})(?:\?.+)?$ will be automatically replaced to \1. Testing: TODO list

Pattern ^([0-9A-Za-z]{22})\?.+$ will be automatically replaced to \1. Testing: TODO list

This property is being used by:

• ast:Plantía:Spotify
• ca:Plantilla:Xarxes, ca:Plantilla:Xarxes/icones, ca:Plantilla:Identificadors, ca:Plantilla:Identificadors/icones
• id:Templat:Xarxes
• ja:Template:Spotify album
• jv:Cithakan:Xarxes
• ko:틀:스포티파이 음반
• min:Templat:Xarxes
• sv:Mall:Spotify
• vec:Modèl:Identifegadori, vec:Modeło:Identifegadori

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Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Constraints

Hi,

I see that Kefr4000 added the constraint item-requires-statement constraint (Q21503247)distributed by (P750)Spotify (Q689141) last February. Then Moebeus put it in the deprecated rank with the comment "self-evident / redundant" and IagoQnsi re-added it in the normal rank saying "useful to data consumers; it's obvious to a human, but this assumption is not encoded in data anywhere".

I must say, I'm very puzzled... How is it not obvious that an album with a Spotify ID is on Spotify?

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 11:22, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

PS: Jean-Frédéric pointed me to this discussion Property_talk:P750#Time_to_stop_the_madness_of_deduced_statements by Lockal. VIGNERON (talk) 13:24, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

The argument there makes sense to me; let's remove the constraint. Mea culpa. –IagoQnsi (talk) 16:29, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

There has been several discussions regarding this type of use of P750 (see eg this one for the use on video games) ; some take-aways:

• this style of constraint is certainly not limited to Spotify albums − it’s present on 50+ properties − mostly video-games, but also some music and movie/TV − see https://w.wiki/F9v6
• this is not really what distributed by (P750) was initially created for − Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archive/12#P750 was about film distributor (Q368290), with some mention of expanding it to games, with reference to the distributor field of en:Template:Infobox video game (said field was removed in 2017. If we really wanted to capture the store information, a dedicated property could make sense.
• that ship has somewhat sailed for games (see Wikidata:WikiProject_Video_games/Statistics/Distributor − hundreds of thousand of values >_>) but not for Music. If we don’t want that on music items, now’s the time :)

Jean-Fred (talk) 20:22, 27 August 2025 (UTC)