Backup band

Backing band - band that accompanies a leading artist; group of musicians who accompany an artist at a live performance or on a recording. Article “Backup band” in English Wikipedia has 16.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Backup band”, its content was written by 90 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 199 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 420 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1491 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #73563 in October 2017
• Global: #98828 in November 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #325750 in April 2012
• Global: #379531 in May 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	Italian (it) Band di supporto		27.3408
2	Russian (ru) Аккомпанирующая группа		26.2316
3	Ukrainian (uk) Резервний гурт		17.4819
4	English (en) Backup band		16.0949
5	Croatian (hr) Pozadinski sastav		14.8442
6	Czech (cs) Doprovodná skupina		6.5213
7	French (fr) Backing band		6.5104
8	Japanese (ja) バックバンド		6.1857
9	German (de) Begleitband (Musik)		2.5323

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Backup band" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backup band		294 731
2	Japanese (ja) バックバンド		176 238
3	Italian (it) Band di supporto		41 245
4	French (fr) Backing band		13 791
5	Russian (ru) Аккомпанирующая группа		9 642
6	German (de) Begleitband (Musik)		3 229
7	Czech (cs) Doprovodná skupina		563
8	Croatian (hr) Pozadinski sastav		503
9	Ukrainian (uk) Резервний гурт		174

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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 "Backup band" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backup band		1 348
2	Japanese (ja) バックバンド		382
3	Italian (it) Band di supporto		127
4	French (fr) Backing band		69
5	German (de) Begleitband (Musik)		66
6	Russian (ru) Аккомпанирующая группа		55
7	Czech (cs) Doprovodná skupina		20
8	Ukrainian (uk) Резервний гурт		12
9	Croatian (hr) Pozadinski sastav		4

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Backup band		90
2	Japanese (ja) バックバンド		39
3	Italian (it) Band di supporto		23
4	French (fr) Backing band		18
5	German (de) Begleitband (Musik)		17
6	Russian (ru) Аккомпанирующая группа		6
7	Czech (cs) Doprovodná skupina		2
8	Croatian (hr) Pozadinski sastav		2
9	Ukrainian (uk) Резервний гурт		2

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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 "Backup band" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Резервний гурт		1
2	Czech (cs) Doprovodná skupina		0
3	German (de) Begleitband (Musik)		0
4	English (en) Backup band		0
5	French (fr) Backing band		0
6	Croatian (hr) Pozadinski sastav		0
7	Italian (it) Band di supporto		0
8	Japanese (ja) バックバンド		0
9	Russian (ru) Аккомпанирующая группа		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 "Backup band" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) バックバンド		486
2	English (en) Backup band		420
3	Italian (it) Band di supporto		280
4	German (de) Begleitband (Musik)		91
5	Russian (ru) Аккомпанирующая группа		80
6	French (fr) Backing band		79
7	Ukrainian (uk) Резервний гурт		39
8	Czech (cs) Doprovodná skupina		8
9	Croatian (hr) Pozadinski sastav		8

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Doprovodná skupina
de	German Begleitband (Musik)
en	English Backup band
fr	French Backing band
hr	Croatian Pozadinski sastav
it	Italian Band di supporto
ja	Japanese バックバンド
ru	Russian Аккомпанирующая группа
uk	Ukrainian Резервний гурт

Best Rank

English: #325750 04.2012

Global: #379531 05.2010

Best Rank

English: #73563 10.2017

Global: #98828 11.2004

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