1987 in music

1987 in music - music-related events during 1987. Article “1987 in music” in English Wikipedia has 43.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 39 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 “1987 in music” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “1987 in music”, its content was written by 403 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 925 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 360 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10564 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #42 in December 2002
• Global: #196 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #35083 in January 2012
• Global: #52928 in January 2012

There are 17 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 1987		58.5714
2	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1987		47.6752
3	Croatian (hr) Glazba u 1987.		46.2431
4	Russian (ru) 1987 год в музыке		45.5008
5	English (en) 1987 in music		43.4501
6	Japanese (ja) 1987年の音楽		24.6933
7	French (fr) 1987 en musique		24.36
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) 1987 nî im-ga̍k		23.1492
9	Polish (pl) 1987 w muzyce		22.5058
10	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1987		19.2059

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

The most popular language versions of the article "1987 in music" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1987 in music		1 301 781
2	French (fr) 1987 en musique		335 022
3	Japanese (ja) 1987年の音楽		301 415
4	Russian (ru) 1987 год в музыке		207 586
5	Polish (pl) 1987 w muzyce		133 454
6	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1987		104 015
7	Portuguese (pt) 1987 na música		65 911
8	Czech (cs) 1987 v hudbě		22 877
9	German (de) Musikjahr 1987		13 311
10	Estonian (et) 1987. aasta muusikas		4 612

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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 "1987 in music" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1987 in music		4 945
2	Japanese (ja) 1987年の音楽		1 507
3	French (fr) 1987 en musique		1 131
4	Russian (ru) 1987 год в музыке		811
5	German (de) Musikjahr 1987		301
6	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1987		237
7	Polish (pl) 1987 w muzyce		236
8	Portuguese (pt) 1987 na música		144
9	Czech (cs) 1987 v hudbě		53
10	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1987		44

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

Language versions of the article "1987 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) 1987 in music		403
2	French (fr) 1987 en musique		120
3	Japanese (ja) 1987年の音楽		88
4	Russian (ru) 1987 год в музыке		66
5	Polish (pl) 1987 w muzyce		64
6	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1987		52
7	Portuguese (pt) 1987 na música		40
8	German (de) Musikjahr 1987		29
9	Czech (cs) 1987 v hudbě		26
10	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1987		9

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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 "1987 in music" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1987 in music		6
2	Russian (ru) 1987 год в музыке		3
3	German (de) Musikjahr 1987		2
4	Estonian (et) 1987. aasta muusikas		1
5	Japanese (ja) 1987年の音楽		1
6	Belarusian (be) 1987 год у гісторыі музыкі		0
7	Czech (cs) 1987 v hudbě		0
8	Finnish (fi) Musiikkivuosi 1987		0
9	French (fr) 1987 en musique		0
10	Hebrew (he) 1987 במוזיקה		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 "1987 in music" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) 1987 en musique		3 501
2	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1987		1 670
3	Polish (pl) 1987 w muzyce		1 326
4	Russian (ru) 1987 год в музыке		1 182
5	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1987		947
6	Hebrew (he) 1987 במוזיקה		386
7	English (en) 1987 in music		360
8	German (de) Musikjahr 1987		332
9	Japanese (ja) 1987年の音楽		325
10	Portuguese (pt) 1987 na música		188

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian 1987 год у гісторыі музыкі
cs	Czech 1987 v hudbě
de	German Musikjahr 1987
en	English 1987 in music
et	Estonian 1987. aasta muusikas
fi	Finnish Musiikkivuosi 1987
fr	French 1987 en musique
he	Hebrew 1987 במוזיקה
hr	Croatian Glazba u 1987.
ja	Japanese 1987年の音楽
nl	Dutch Muziek in 1987
no	Norwegian Musikkåret 1987
pl	Polish 1987 w muzyce
pt	Portuguese 1987 na música
ru	Russian 1987 год в музыке
sv	Swedish Musikåret 1987
zhminnan	Min Nan 1987 nî im-ga̍k

Best Rank

English: #35083 01.2012

Global: #52928 01.2012

Best Rank

English: #42 12.2002

Global: #196 12.2002

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