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Heat Wave (Alphabeat song)

Alphabeat single

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ5693226 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Heat Wave" is a song by Danish pop band Alphabeat from their second studio album, The Spell (2009). The song was released in Denmark on 21 June 2010 as the album's fourth and final single. "Heat Wave" peaked at number four on the Danish Singles Chart, and was certified gold by IFPI Denmark in October 2010, denoting sales in excess of 15,000 copies.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Heat Wave (Alphabeat song)” as alphabeat single. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Heat, Wave and Alphabeat can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as alphabeat single. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5693226. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Heat Wave (Alphabeat song)” 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.