# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-eggum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:04:36.221Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-eggum"
name: "Jan Eggum"
slug: "jan-eggum"
description: "Jan Eggum is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. He has been characterized as a \"face for the melancholy\", and the themes in his songs often revolve around broken hearts, loneliness, and sorrow. Sometimes, his lyrics include social criticism, but he also reveals trivial and funny sides of himself."
tagline: "Norwegian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Eggum_Kongsberg_Jazzfestival_2022_(171737)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.25
  momentum:             17.24770642201835
  historical:           10.54294533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/janeggum"
    handle:    "janeggum"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1854615/"
    handle:    "nm1854615"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/544893"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "چان اجوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Eggum"
    title: "Jan Eggum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Eggum"
    title: "Jan Eggum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Eggum"
    title: "Jan Eggum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Eggum"
    title: "Jan Eggum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Eggum"
    title: "Jan Eggum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Eggum"
    title: "Jan Eggum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Eggum"
    title: "Jan Eggum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B3%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BC%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD"
    title: "Эггум, Ян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Eggum"
    title: "Jan Eggum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/22feb3d6-d1b7-420e-92b8-cd84e912101b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2602306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1642736"
    title: "Jan Eggum"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump