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Whigfield II

album by Whigfield

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ7993590 ↗
Source-derived summary

Whigfield II is the second studio album by Italian Eurodance project Whigfield which was performed by Danish-born Sannie Charlotte Carlson, released in November 1997.

Five singles were released from this record: "Gimme Gimme", Last Christmas, "No Tears to Cry", "Baby Boy" and "Givin' All My Love".

Editorial summary

“Whigfield II” enters the record as album by Whigfield. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Whigfield and album 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—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Whigfield and album.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Whigfield II” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Whigfield and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7993590. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Whigfield II” 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.