Behind the Mask (Lied)

Behind the Mask - song by Yellow Magic Orchestra. Article “Behind the Mask (Lied)” in German Wikipedia has 28.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Behind the Mask (Lied)”, its content was written by 12 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 234 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 289 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1274 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #61788 in June 2016
• Global: #28199 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #435490 in August 2018
• Global: #50390 in December 2010

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Behind the Mask (song)		61.9454
2	Greek (el) Behind the Mask (τραγούδι, Yellow Magic Orchestra)		49.5769
3	Vietnamese (vi) Behind the Mask (bài hát)		30.9405
4	German (de) Behind the Mask (Lied)		28.248
5	Simple English (simple) Behind the Mask (song)		21.4972
6	Korean (ko) Behind the Mask (노래)		18.5577
7	Japanese (ja) ビハインド・ザ・マスク (曲)		13.1232
8	Italian (it) Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra)		12.4047
9	French (fr) Behind the Mask (chanson)		7.4164

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Behind the Mask (Lied)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Behind the Mask (song)		660 456
2	Japanese (ja) ビハインド・ザ・マスク (曲)		397 989
3	French (fr) Behind the Mask (chanson)		17 831
4	German (de) Behind the Mask (Lied)		6 548
5	Simple English (simple) Behind the Mask (song)		3 222
6	Vietnamese (vi) Behind the Mask (bài hát)		2 586
7	Greek (el) Behind the Mask (τραγούδι, Yellow Magic Orchestra)		2 304
8	Italian (it) Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra)		609
9	Korean (ko) Behind the Mask (노래)		212

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Behind the Mask (Lied)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Behind the Mask (song)		2 452
2	Japanese (ja) ビハインド・ザ・マスク (曲)		1 334
3	Simple English (simple) Behind the Mask (song)		390
4	French (fr) Behind the Mask (chanson)		99
5	Greek (el) Behind the Mask (τραγούδι, Yellow Magic Orchestra)		43
6	German (de) Behind the Mask (Lied)		36
7	Korean (ko) Behind the Mask (노래)		13
8	Vietnamese (vi) Behind the Mask (bài hát)		9
9	Italian (it) Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra)		8

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Behind the Mask (Lied)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Behind the Mask (song)		135
2	Japanese (ja) ビハインド・ザ・マスク (曲)		35
3	French (fr) Behind the Mask (chanson)		21
4	Vietnamese (vi) Behind the Mask (bài hát)		14
5	German (de) Behind the Mask (Lied)		12
6	Greek (el) Behind the Mask (τραγούδι, Yellow Magic Orchestra)		6
7	Simple English (simple) Behind the Mask (song)		6
8	Italian (it) Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra)		4
9	Korean (ko) Behind the Mask (노래)		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Behind the Mask (Lied)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Behind the Mask (Lied)		0
2	Greek (el) Behind the Mask (τραγούδι, Yellow Magic Orchestra)		0
3	English (en) Behind the Mask (song)		0
4	French (fr) Behind the Mask (chanson)		0
5	Italian (it) Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra)		0
6	Japanese (ja) ビハインド・ザ・マスク (曲)		0
7	Korean (ko) Behind the Mask (노래)		0
8	Simple English (simple) Behind the Mask (song)		0
9	Vietnamese (vi) Behind the Mask (bài hát)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Behind the Mask (Lied)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Behind the Mask (song)		359
2	German (de) Behind the Mask (Lied)		289
3	Japanese (ja) ビハインド・ザ・マスク (曲)		201
4	French (fr) Behind the Mask (chanson)		157
5	Vietnamese (vi) Behind the Mask (bài hát)		112
6	Greek (el) Behind the Mask (τραγούδι, Yellow Magic Orchestra)		73
7	Simple English (simple) Behind the Mask (song)		71
8	Italian (it) Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra)		8
9	Korean (ko) Behind the Mask (노래)		4

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#	Language	Value
de	German Behind the Mask (Lied)
el	Greek Behind the Mask (τραγούδι, Yellow Magic Orchestra)
en	English Behind the Mask (song)
fr	French Behind the Mask (chanson)
it	Italian Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
ja	Japanese ビハインド・ザ・マスク (曲)
ko	Korean Behind the Mask (노래)
simple	Simple English Behind the Mask (song)
vi	Vietnamese Behind the Mask (bài hát)

Best Rank

German: #435490 08.2018

Global: #50390 12.2010

Best Rank

German: #61788 06.2016

Global: #28199 02.2011

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