Burning Down the House

Burning Down the House - 1983 single by Talking Heads. Article “Burning Down the House” in English Wikipedia has 72.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 74 references and 21 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.

In June 2025 the article “Burning Down the House” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Burning Down the House”, its content was written by 153 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 190 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 257 times in English Wikipedia and cited 386 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24883 in September 2021
• Global: #74762 in November 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #66516 in June 2009
• Global: #113060 in June 2009

There are 7 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	English (en) Burning Down the House		72.4747
2	Spanish (es) Burning Down the House		42.4096
3	Russian (ru) Burning Down the House		35.9959
4	Dutch (nl) Burning Down the House		32.8602
5	Italian (it) Burning Down the House		23.4935
6	French (fr) Burning Down the House		19.8279
7	Japanese (ja) バーニング・ダウン・ザ・ハウス		17.1242

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Burning Down the House" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Burning Down the House		1 428 895
2	Italian (it) Burning Down the House		23 696
3	Japanese (ja) バーニング・ダウン・ザ・ハウス		16 388
4	Spanish (es) Burning Down the House		8 723
5	Russian (ru) Burning Down the House		8 509
6	French (fr) Burning Down the House		4 719
7	Dutch (nl) Burning Down the House		304

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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 "Burning Down the House" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Burning Down the House		8 248
2	Japanese (ja) バーニング・ダウン・ザ・ハウス		234
3	Russian (ru) Burning Down the House		145
4	Italian (it) Burning Down the House		142
5	Spanish (es) Burning Down the House		66
6	French (fr) Burning Down the House		55
7	Dutch (nl) Burning Down the House		25

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Burning Down the House		153
2	Italian (it) Burning Down the House		13
3	Russian (ru) Burning Down the House		8
4	Spanish (es) Burning Down the House		6
5	Japanese (ja) バーニング・ダウン・ザ・ハウス		6
6	French (fr) Burning Down the House		2
7	Dutch (nl) Burning Down the House		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 "Burning Down the House" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Burning Down the House		2
2	Japanese (ja) バーニング・ダウン・ザ・ハウス		1
3	Spanish (es) Burning Down the House		0
4	French (fr) Burning Down the House		0
5	Italian (it) Burning Down the House		0
6	Dutch (nl) Burning Down the House		0
7	Russian (ru) Burning Down the House		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 "Burning Down the House" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Burning Down the House		257
2	French (fr) Burning Down the House		35
3	Russian (ru) Burning Down the House		27
4	Japanese (ja) バーニング・ダウン・ザ・ハウス		26
5	Italian (it) Burning Down the House		20
6	Spanish (es) Burning Down the House		13
7	Dutch (nl) Burning Down the House		8

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#	Language	Value
en	English Burning Down the House
es	Spanish Burning Down the House
fr	French Burning Down the House
it	Italian Burning Down the House
ja	Japanese バーニング・ダウン・ザ・ハウス
nl	Dutch Burning Down the House
ru	Russian Burning Down the House

Best Rank

English: #66516 06.2009

Global: #113060 06.2009

Best Rank

English: #24883 09.2021

Global: #74762 11.2024

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