1988 in music

1988 in music - music-related events during 1988. Article “1988 in music” in English Wikipedia has 57.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 75 references and 38 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 “1988 in music” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “1988 in music”, its content was written by 422 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 945 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 355 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10537 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #52 in December 2002
• Global: #252 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #43667 in January 2012
• Global: #63177 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 1988		60
2	English (en) 1988 in music		57.4401
3	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1988		47.2336
4	Croatian (hr) Glazba u 1988.		34.4409
5	Russian (ru) 1988 год в музыке		32.2427
6	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1988		30.6609
7	Japanese (ja) 1988年の音楽		26.4697
8	French (fr) 1988 en musique		25.5425
9	Polish (pl) 1988 w muzyce		22.1654
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) 1988 nî im-ga̍k		20.4737

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

The most popular language versions of the article "1988 in music" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1988 in music		1 303 768
2	French (fr) 1988 en musique		360 388
3	Japanese (ja) 1988年の音楽		303 540
4	Russian (ru) 1988 год в музыке		211 123
5	Polish (pl) 1988 w muzyce		114 611
6	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1988		109 696
7	Portuguese (pt) 1988 na música		59 788
8	Czech (cs) 1988 v hudbě		21 131
9	German (de) Musikjahr 1988		11 132
10	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1988		2 910

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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 "1988 in music" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1988 in music		4 174
2	Japanese (ja) 1988年の音楽		1 430
3	French (fr) 1988 en musique		966
4	Russian (ru) 1988 год в музыке		815
5	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1988		317
6	German (de) Musikjahr 1988		309
7	Polish (pl) 1988 w muzyce		159
8	Portuguese (pt) 1988 na música		126
9	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1988		60
10	Czech (cs) 1988 v hudbě		47

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

Language versions of the article "1988 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) 1988 in music		422
2	French (fr) 1988 en musique		128
3	Japanese (ja) 1988年の音楽		104
4	Russian (ru) 1988 год в музыке		65
5	Polish (pl) 1988 w muzyce		56
6	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1988		49
7	Portuguese (pt) 1988 na música		36
8	Czech (cs) 1988 v hudbě		31
9	German (de) Musikjahr 1988		26
10	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1988		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 "1988 in music" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1988 in music		4
2	German (de) Musikjahr 1988		3
3	Japanese (ja) 1988年の音楽		1
4	Polish (pl) 1988 w muzyce		1
5	Portuguese (pt) 1988 na música		1
6	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1988		1
7	Belarusian (be) 1988 год у гісторыі музыкі		0
8	Czech (cs) 1988 v hudbě		0
9	Finnish (fi) Musiikkivuosi 1988		0
10	French (fr) 1988 en musique		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 "1988 in music" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) 1988 en musique		3 576
2	Swedish (sv) Musikåret 1988		1 802
3	Polish (pl) 1988 w muzyce		1 282
4	Russian (ru) 1988 год в музыке		1 130
5	Norwegian (no) Musikkåret 1988		931
6	Hebrew (he) 1988 במוזיקה		374
7	English (en) 1988 in music		355
8	Japanese (ja) 1988年の音楽		283
9	German (de) Musikjahr 1988		277
10	Portuguese (pt) 1988 na música		183

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian 1988 год у гісторыі музыкі
cs	Czech 1988 v hudbě
de	German Musikjahr 1988
en	English 1988 in music
fi	Finnish Musiikkivuosi 1988
fr	French 1988 en musique
he	Hebrew 1988 במוזיקה
hr	Croatian Glazba u 1988.
ja	Japanese 1988年の音楽
ka	Georgian 1988 წელი მუსიკაში
nl	Dutch Muziek in 1988
no	Norwegian Musikkåret 1988
pl	Polish 1988 w muzyce
pt	Portuguese 1988 na música
ru	Russian 1988 год в музыке
sv	Swedish Musikåret 1988
zhminnan	Min Nan 1988 nî im-ga̍k

Best Rank

English: #43667 01.2012

Global: #63177 01.2012

Best Rank

English: #52 12.2002

Global: #252 12.2002

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