MusicRelease

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A MusicRelease is a specific release of a music album.

Usage: Between 10 and 100 domains
PropertyExpected TypeDescription
Properties from MusicRelease
catalogNumber Text The catalog number for the release.
creditedTo Organization  or
Person 		The group the release is credited to if different than the byArtist. For example, Red and Blue is credited to "Stefani Germanotta Band", but by Lady Gaga.
duration Duration The duration of the item (movie, audio recording, event, etc.) in ISO 8601 date format.
musicReleaseFormat MusicReleaseFormatType Format of this release (the type of recording media used, ie. compact disc, digital media, LP, etc.).
recordLabel Organization The label that issued the release.
releaseOf MusicAlbum The album this is a release of.
Inverse property: albumRelease.
Properties from MusicPlaylist
numTracks Integer The number of tracks in this album or playlist.
track ItemList  or
MusicRecording 		A music recording (track)—usually a single song. If an ItemList is given, the list should contain items of type MusicRecording. Supersedes tracks.
Properties from CreativeWork
audience Audience An intended audience, i.e. a group for whom something was created. Supersedes serviceAudience.
funder Organization  or
Person 		A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
hasPart CreativeWork Indicates a CreativeWork that is (in some sense) a part of this CreativeWork.
Inverse property: isPartOf.
inLanguage Language  or
Text 		The language of the content or performance or used in an action. Please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. See also availableLanguage. Supersedes language.
isPartOf CreativeWork Indicates a CreativeWork that this CreativeWork is (in some sense) part of.
Inverse property: hasPart.
sponsor Organization  or
Person 		A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. e.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event.
translator Organization  or
Person 		Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market, or that translates during some event.
Properties from Thing
description Text A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription Text A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
image ImageObject  or
URL 		An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage CreativeWork  or
URL 		Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
Inverse property: mainEntity.
name Text The name of the item.
potentialAction Action Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
url URL URL of the item.


Instances of MusicRelease may appear as values for the following properties
PropertyOn TypesDescription
albumRelease MusicAlbum A release of this album.
inverse property: releaseOf.

Available properties in extensions

Acknowledgement

This vocabulary was improved through collaboration with the MusicBrainz project (www.musicbrainz.org), and is partially inspired by the MusicBrainz and Music Ontology schemas.



Examples

Example 1
Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD 
An example of possible JSON-LD for Let It Be by the Beatles.

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<script type="application/ld+json">
{
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "@type": "MusicAlbum",
    "@id": "http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/bff544a7-56e0-3ed6-9e0f-3b676cca9111",
    "name": "Let It Be",
    "sameAs": [
        "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be",
        "http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199585"
    ],
    "image": "http://coverartarchive.org/release-group/bff544a7-56e0-3ed6-9e0f-3b676cca9111/front.jpg",
    "albumProductionType": "http://schema.org/StudioAlbum",
    "albumReleaseType": "http://schema.org/AlbumRelease",
    "genre": "rock",
    "byArtist": {
        "@type": "MusicGroup",
        "name": "The Beatles",
        "@id": "http://musicbrainz.org/artist/b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d"
    },
    "albumRelease": {
        "@type": "MusicRelease",
        "name": "Let It Be",
        "@id": "http://musicbrainz.org/release/8d5347a5-9ecb-44be-a213-860aaaf5d0b8"
    },
    track: {
	    "@type": "ItemList",
	    "numberOfItems": 12,
	    "itemListElement": [
		    {
		      "@type": "ListItem",
		      "position": 1,
		      "item": {
			      "@type": "MusicRecording",
			      "name": "Two Of Us"
		      }
		    },
		    {
		      "@type": "ListItem",
		      "position": 2,
		      "item": {
			      "@type": "MusicRecording",
			      "name": "Dig a Pony"
		      }
		    },
		    {
		      "@type": "ListItem",
		      "position": 3,
		      "item": {
			      "@type": "MusicRecording",
			      "name": "Across the Universe"
		      }
		    }
	    ]
    }
}
</script>
Example 2
Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD 
An example of a single release of
the Beatles White Album, which was
released in the US and Canada on different dates.

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<script type="application/ld+json">
{
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "@type": "MusicRelease",
    "name": "The Beatles",
    "alternateName": "White Album",
    "musicReleaseFormat": "http://schema.org/VinylFormat",
    "duration": "PT1H33M50S",
    "inLanguage": "EN",
    "recordLabel": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "@id": "http://musicbrainz.org/label/cf7fc5cf-e011-4ef4-b511-cd0188537910",
        "name": "Apple Records"
    },
    "catalogNumber": "SWBO 101",
    "releasedEvent": [
        {
            "@type": "PublicationEvent",
            "startDate": "1968-11-22",
            "location": {
                "@type": "Country",
                "name": "Canada"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "PublicationEvent",
            "startDate": "1968-11-25",
            "location": {
                "@type": "Country",
                "name": "United States"
            }
        }
    ],
    "producer": [
        {
            "@type": "Person",
            "name": "George Martin"
        },
        {
            "@type": "Person",
            "name": "Chris Thomas"
        }
    ]
}
</script>

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