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Reasons to Hang Around

album by Minor Majority

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ1764916 ↗
Source-derived summary

Reasons to Hang Around is the fourth album by Norwegian band Minor Majority, released in 2006. All of the songs on the album were written by Pål Angelskår, except "Don't Say You Love Me" and "Keep Coming Around", which were written by Pål Angelskår, Hein Goemans, and Jon Arild Stieng, and "There Will Come Another", written by Kevin Clarke and Gregory Wicky.

Reasons To Hang Around earned Minor Majority a Spellemannsprisen award for best pop group in 2006.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Reasons to Hang Around” as album by Minor Majority. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. The account is most persuasive where Reasons, Hang and Around can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Minor Majority. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1764916. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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.

How to read it

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Reasons to Hang Around”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Reasons to Hang Around primary sources, Reasons to Hang Around archive and Reasons research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Reasons to Hang Around”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Reasons to Hang Around” 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.