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Nina Hagen discography

Wikimedia artist discography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7037965 ↗
Source-derived summary

German singer Nina Hagen has released 17 studio albums, 25 compilation albums, one soundtrack album and one extended play. Hagen first signed with CBS Records in 1976 with her group the Nina Hagen Band. In 1982, she detached herself from the band and released three solo albums on the label. In 1986, her contract with CBS expired and was not renewed. In 1989, Hagen signed with Mercury Records, on which label she released three new albums.

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“Nina Hagen discography” enters the record as wikimedia artist discography. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nina, Hagen and discography can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 1982, 1986, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nina, Hagen and discography.
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“Nina Hagen discography” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nina, Hagen and discography provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7037965. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976, 1982, 1986 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nina Hagen discography” 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.