Alternative rock

Quality:

Alternative rock - subgenre of rock music. Article “Alternative rock” in English Wikipedia has 96.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 182 references and 28 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6094^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5854^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5172^nd most popular in all topics.

The 5811^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Alternative rock” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Alternative rock”, its content was written by 1070 registered users of English Wikipedia (5854^th place) and edited by 3345 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5811^th place).

The article is cited 26070 times in English Wikipedia (537^th place) and cited 112594 times in all languages (1166^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1066 in August 2003
• Global: #1474 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2203 in April 2010
• Global: #2213 in July 2010

There are 49 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, 2026 (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	Russian (ru) Альтернативный рок		100
2	Korean (ko) 얼터너티브 록		99.2075
3	English (en) Alternative rock		96.8433
4	Indonesian (id) Musik rok alternatif		95.2923
5	Chinese (zh) 另类摇滚		95
6	Ukrainian (uk) Альтернативний рок		91.5942
7	Thai (th) ออลเทอร์นาทิฟร็อก		87.7176
8	Portuguese (pt) Rock alternativo		84.6314
9	Catalan (ca) Rock alternatiu		63.8541
10	Spanish (es) Rock alternativo		58.215

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alternative rock		19 267 298
2	Japanese (ja) オルタナティヴ・ロック		4 261 203
3	Spanish (es) Rock alternativo		4 124 241
4	Russian (ru) Альтернативный рок		3 577 138
5	German (de) Alternative Rock		1 349 319
6	Polish (pl) Rock alternatywny		1 257 650
7	French (fr) Rock alternatif		1 230 263
8	Portuguese (pt) Rock alternativo		1 212 333
9	Italian (it) Rock alternativo		1 198 289
10	Turkish (tr) Alternatif rock		441 668

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alternative rock		43 153
2	Japanese (ja) オルタナティヴ・ロック		16 353
3	Russian (ru) Альтернативный рок		5 367
4	Spanish (es) Rock alternativo		4 191
5	German (de) Alternative Rock		2 645
6	French (fr) Rock alternatif		2 246
7	Italian (it) Rock alternativo		1 983
8	Portuguese (pt) Rock alternativo		1 488
9	Chinese (zh) 另类摇滚		1 400
10	Polish (pl) Rock alternatywny		1 191

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alternative rock		1 070
2	Spanish (es) Rock alternativo		316
3	Russian (ru) Альтернативный рок		206
4	Italian (it) Rock alternativo		183
5	German (de) Alternative Rock		165
6	French (fr) Rock alternatif		119
7	Portuguese (pt) Rock alternativo		84
8	Dutch (nl) Alternatieve rock		81
9	Japanese (ja) オルタナティヴ・ロック		74
10	Hebrew (he) רוק אלטרנטיבי		67

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alternative rock		6
2	French (fr) Rock alternatif		2
3	Arabic (ar) روك بديل		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Alternativ rok		1
5	Catalan (ca) Rock alternatiu		1
6	Persian (fa) آلترناتیو راک		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Alternatív rock		1
8	Indonesian (id) Musik rok alternatif		1
9	Korean (ko) 얼터너티브 록		1
10	Serbian (sr) Алтернативни рок		1

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

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