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1000 Kisses (album)

album by Patty Griffin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ4546017 ↗
Source-derived summary

1000 Kisses is the third studio album by Patty Griffin. It was released on April 9, 2002 on ATO Records.

Reception

The album reached a peak of number 101 on the Billboard 200 chart resulting in a number one peak on the Top Heatseekers chart. According to Billboard the album has sold 151,000 copies in the US up to May 2004. In 2009, the album was ranked number 15 on Paste Magazine's "The 50 Best Albums of the Decade" list.

Editorial summary

“1000 Kisses (album)” enters the record as album by Patty Griffin. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kisses, album and Patty can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1000, 2002, 2004, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kisses, album and Patty.
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Why this record matters

“1000 Kisses (album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kisses, album and Patty provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4546017. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1000, 2002, 2004 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “1000 Kisses (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.