Buddy Holly

Quality:

Buddy Holly - American rock and roll singer (1936–1959). This person is the 1841^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Buddy Holly” in English Wikipedia has 94.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 141 references and 19 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3127^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4374^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6187^th most popular in all topics.

The 8023^rd most popular in AI.

The 1841^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4619^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6570^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Buddy Holly” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Buddy Holly”, its content was written by 1197 registered users of English Wikipedia (4374^th place) and edited by 2865 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8023^rd place).

Buddy Holly is on the 1841^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1775 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7075 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #526 in October 2002
• Global: #984 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #296 in February 2009
• Global: #723 in February 2009

There are 46 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	English (en) Buddy Holly		94.65
2	Chinese (zh) 巴迪·霍利		90.3688
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Buddy Holly		87.5
4	Japanese (ja) バディ・ホリー		70.5137
5	Spanish (es) Buddy Holly		64.3006
6	Korean (ko) 버디 홀리		53.1634
7	German (de) Buddy Holly		50.4976
8	Italian (it) Buddy Holly		50.1562
9	Finnish (fi) Buddy Holly		48.9488
10	Russian (ru) Холли, Бадди		38.0856

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Buddy Holly		27 166 685
2	German (de) Buddy Holly		2 092 696
3	Spanish (es) Buddy Holly		1 683 264
4	Russian (ru) Холли, Бадди		1 139 119
5	French (fr) Buddy Holly		986 991
6	Italian (it) Buddy Holly		818 645
7	Japanese (ja) バディ・ホリー		795 598
8	Portuguese (pt) Buddy Holly		610 316
9	Dutch (nl) Buddy Holly		569 773
10	Polish (pl) Buddy Holly		451 959

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) Buddy Holly		98 893
2	German (de) Buddy Holly		7 180
3	Spanish (es) Buddy Holly		5 285
4	French (fr) Buddy Holly		3 512
5	Russian (ru) Холли, Бадди		3 076
6	Japanese (ja) バディ・ホリー		2 677
7	Italian (it) Buddy Holly		2 580
8	Portuguese (pt) Buddy Holly		1 927
9	Dutch (nl) Buddy Holly		1 365
10	Polish (pl) Buddy Holly		1 118

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Buddy Holly		1 197
2	German (de) Buddy Holly		219
3	French (fr) Buddy Holly		149
4	Italian (it) Buddy Holly		117
5	Dutch (nl) Buddy Holly		107
6	Russian (ru) Холли, Бадди		98
7	Spanish (es) Buddy Holly		90
8	Hungarian (hu) Buddy Holly		70
9	Japanese (ja) バディ・ホリー		62
10	Swedish (sv) Buddy Holly		56

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) Buddy Holly		5
2	Catalan (ca) Buddy Holly		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Buddy Holly		1
4	Estonian (et) Buddy Holly		1
5	Korean (ko) 버디 홀리		1
6	Romanian (ro) Buddy Holly		1
7	Arabic (ar) بودي هولي		0
8	Belarusian (be) Бадзі Холі		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Бъди Холи		0
10	Czech (cs) Buddy Holly		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information