Parental Advisory
Sign in to saveAlso known as Explicit Content, Parental Advisory—Explicit Content, Parental Advisory—Explicit Lyrics, Explicit Lyrics, PAL
Notice placed on audio recordings with content inappropriate for children
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics (1990 - 2001).svg
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- maintained by
- British Phonographic Industry
- inception
- 1985-00-00
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Music
- Commons category
- Parental Advisory
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Encyclopedic overview
The current Parental Advisory warning label, introduced in 1996.
Parental Advisory (short for Parental Advisory: Explicit Content/Lyrics) is a warning label placed on audio recordings that contain explicit content. It was introduced by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1990 and adopted by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in 2011. The label was first affixed on physical 33⅓ rpm records, compact discs, and cassette tapes, and it has been included on digital listings offered by online music stores. In PAL-region territories, some video games featuring licensed music were labeled as such in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parental Advisory” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.