Controversy (Prince album)

Controversy - 1981 studio album by Prince. Article “Controversy (Prince album)” in English Wikipedia has 48.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.55 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Controversy (Prince album)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Controversy (Prince album)”, its content was written by 130 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 280 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 90 times in English Wikipedia and cited 671 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17315 in May 2016
• Global: #41100 in May 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1078 in April 2016
• Global: #3722 in April 2016

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) Controversy (Album)		78.3233
2	Hebrew (he) Controversy		49.2402
3	English (en) Controversy (Prince album)		48.5183
4	Russian (ru) Controversy		31.8525
5	Georgian (ka) Controversy (პრინსის ალბომი)		31.7611
6	Thai (th) คอนโทรเวอร์ซี (อัลบั้มพรินซ์)		31.7207
7	Portuguese (pt) Controversy		29.51
8	Hungarian (hu) Controversy		29.0284
9	Ukrainian (uk) Controversy (альбом Прінса)		28.0746
10	French (fr) Controversy (album de Prince)		28.0198

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Controversy (Prince album)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Controversy (Prince album)		2 186 067
2	German (de) Controversy (Album)		29 249
3	Spanish (es) Controversy (álbum)		27 043
4	French (fr) Controversy (album de Prince)		26 647
5	Dutch (nl) Controversy (album)		24 754
6	Italian (it) Controversy (album Prince)		23 381
7	Russian (ru) Controversy		13 552
8	Finnish (fi) Controversy		7 754
9	Polish (pl) Controversy (album)		2 578
10	Portuguese (pt) Controversy		1 975

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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 "Controversy (Prince album)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Controversy (Prince album)		9 328
2	French (fr) Controversy (album de Prince)		154
3	Spanish (es) Controversy (álbum)		136
4	German (de) Controversy (Album)		109
5	Italian (it) Controversy (album Prince)		104
6	Russian (ru) Controversy		85
7	Dutch (nl) Controversy (album)		50
8	Portuguese (pt) Controversy		43
9	Polish (pl) Controversy (album)		23
10	Finnish (fi) Controversy		16

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Controversy (Prince album)		130
2	German (de) Controversy (Album)		29
3	Italian (it) Controversy (album Prince)		24
4	Dutch (nl) Controversy (album)		24
5	French (fr) Controversy (album de Prince)		21
6	Finnish (fi) Controversy		9
7	Spanish (es) Controversy (álbum)		7
8	Hebrew (he) Controversy		7
9	Russian (ru) Controversy		7
10	Ukrainian (uk) Controversy (альбом Прінса)		5

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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 "Controversy (Prince album)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Controversy (Prince album)		1
2	German (de) Controversy (Album)		0
3	Spanish (es) Controversy (álbum)		0
4	Finnish (fi) Controversy		0
5	French (fr) Controversy (album de Prince)		0
6	Hebrew (he) Controversy		0
7	Croatian (hr) Controversy		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Controversy		0
9	Italian (it) Controversy (album Prince)		0
10	Georgian (ka) Controversy (პრინსის ალბომი)		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 "Controversy (Prince album)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Controversy (album Prince)		135
2	French (fr) Controversy (album de Prince)		98
3	German (de) Controversy (Album)		95
4	English (en) Controversy (Prince album)		90
5	Hungarian (hu) Controversy		84
6	Russian (ru) Controversy		60
7	Dutch (nl) Controversy (album)		34
8	Thai (th) คอนโทรเวอร์ซี (อัลบั้มพรินซ์)		20
9	Finnish (fi) Controversy		13
10	Portuguese (pt) Controversy		13

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#	Language	Value
de	German Controversy (Album)
en	English Controversy (Prince album)
es	Spanish Controversy (álbum)
fi	Finnish Controversy
fr	French Controversy (album de Prince)
he	Hebrew Controversy
hr	Croatian Controversy
hu	Hungarian Controversy
it	Italian Controversy (album Prince)
ka	Georgian Controversy (პრინსის ალბომი)
ko	Korean Controversy
nl	Dutch Controversy (album)
pl	Polish Controversy (album)
pt	Portuguese Controversy
ru	Russian Controversy
th	Thai คอนโทรเวอร์ซี (อัลบั้มพรินซ์)
uk	Ukrainian Controversy (альбом Прінса)

Best Rank

English: #1078 04.2016

Global: #3722 04.2016

Best Rank

English: #17315 05.2016

Global: #41100 05.2016

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