1961 in music

1961 in music - music-related events during 1961. Article “1961 in music” in English Wikipedia has 48.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 28 references and 23 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “1961 in music” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “1961 in music”, its content was written by 209 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 432 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 222 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3768 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1173 in January 2003
• Global: #2659 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #66464 in December 2010
• Global: #99046 in December 2010

There are 14 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	German (de) Musikjahr 1961		54.8818
2	English (en) 1961 in music		48.8143
3	Russian (ru) 1961 год в музыке		25.6337
4	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1961		24.8432
5	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1961		21.9834
6	Croatian (hr) Glazba u 1961.		21.8342
7	Polish (pl) 1961 w muzyce		20.1403
8	Portuguese (pt) 1961 na música		19.8336
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) 1961 nî im-ga̍k		19.1267
10	Japanese (ja) 1961年の音楽		14.6671

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

The most popular language versions of the article "1961 in music" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1961 in music		480 227
2	French (fr) 1961 en musique		121 610
3	Polish (pl) 1961 w muzyce		54 002
4	Japanese (ja) 1961年の音楽		51 401
5	Russian (ru) 1961 год в музыке		44 426
6	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1961		38 570
7	Portuguese (pt) 1961 na música		30 408
8	Czech (cs) 1961 v hudbě		14 037
9	Finnish (fi) Musiikkivuosi 1961		1 616
10	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1961		974

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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 "1961 in music" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1961 in music		1 158
2	French (fr) 1961 en musique		361
3	Japanese (ja) 1961年の音楽		311
4	Russian (ru) 1961 год в музыке		150
5	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1961		105
6	Portuguese (pt) 1961 na música		76
7	Polish (pl) 1961 w muzyce		72
8	German (de) Musikjahr 1961		68
9	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1961		32
10	Croatian (hr) Glazba u 1961.		19

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

Language versions of the article "1961 in music" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1961 in music		209
2	French (fr) 1961 en musique		54
3	Portuguese (pt) 1961 na música		34
4	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1961		30
5	Russian (ru) 1961 год в музыке		28
6	Polish (pl) 1961 w muzyce		25
7	Japanese (ja) 1961年の音楽		22
8	Czech (cs) 1961 v hudbě		12
9	German (de) Musikjahr 1961		6
10	Croatian (hr) Glazba u 1961.		4

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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 "1961 in music" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1961 in music		3
2	German (de) Musikjahr 1961		2
3	Portuguese (pt) 1961 na música		1
4	Belarusian (be) 1961 год у гісторыі музыкі		0
5	Czech (cs) 1961 v hudbě		0
6	Finnish (fi) Musiikkivuosi 1961		0
7	French (fr) 1961 en musique		0
8	Croatian (hr) Glazba u 1961.		0
9	Japanese (ja) 1961年の音楽		0
10	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1961		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 "1961 in music" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) 1961 en musique		1 179
2	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1961		881
3	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1961		467
4	Russian (ru) 1961 год в музыке		400
5	English (en) 1961 in music		222
6	Polish (pl) 1961 w muzyce		219
7	Japanese (ja) 1961年の音楽		146
8	Portuguese (pt) 1961 na música		65
9	Czech (cs) 1961 v hudbě		59
10	German (de) Musikjahr 1961		55

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian 1961 год у гісторыі музыкі
cs	Czech 1961 v hudbě
de	German Musikjahr 1961
en	English 1961 in music
fi	Finnish Musiikkivuosi 1961
fr	French 1961 en musique
hr	Croatian Glazba u 1961.
ja	Japanese 1961年の音楽
no	Norwegian Musikkåret 1961
pl	Polish 1961 w muzyce
pt	Portuguese 1961 na música
ru	Russian 1961 год в музыке
sv	Swedish Musikåret 1961
zhminnan	Min Nan 1961 nî im-ga̍k

Best Rank

English: #66464 12.2010

Global: #99046 12.2010

Best Rank

English: #1173 01.2003

Global: #2659 01.2003

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