Heavy metal music

Quality:

Heavy metal music - genre of rock music characterized by slack-tuned instruments, and unconventional changes of tonality (key) and time signature (metre). Article “Heavy metal music” in English Wikipedia has 93.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 401 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.93 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4230^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 404^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2421^st most popular in all topics.

The 483^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6427^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Heavy metal music” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 26 authors in all languages (6427^th place).

Since the creation of article “Heavy metal music”, its content was written by 2525 registered users of English Wikipedia (404^th place) and edited by 8235 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (483^rd place).

The article is cited 16831 times in English Wikipedia (1076^th place) and cited 94114 times in all languages (1569^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #80 in November 2003
• Global: #88 in March 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1207 in May 2010
• Global: #477 in August 2008

There are 51 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	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		100
2	Chinese (zh) 重金属音乐		100
3	Turkish (tr) Heavy metal		100
4	Hungarian (hu) Heavy metal		100
5	Slovak (sk) Heavy metal		99.1304
6	Indonesian (id) Heavy metal		98.7468
7	Czech (cs) Heavy metal		98.5587
8	Galician (gl) Heavy metal		98
9	Finnish (fi) Metallimusiikki		96.7984
10	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		95

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heavy metal music		23 284 281
2	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		9 312 967
3	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		3 756 798
4	Russian (ru) Метал		3 610 057
5	German (de) Metal		3 196 620
6	French (fr) Metal		2 978 119
7	Italian (it) Heavy metal		2 657 868
8	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		2 553 725
9	Polish (pl) Heavy metal		1 954 303
10	Turkish (tr) Heavy metal		888 738

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) Heavy metal music		51 642
2	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		6 407
3	Russian (ru) Метал		5 815
4	French (fr) Metal		5 552
5	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		5 493
6	Italian (it) Heavy metal		3 670
7	German (de) Metal		3 068
8	Polish (pl) Heavy metal		2 737
9	Chinese (zh) 重金属音乐		2 290
10	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		1 956

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Heavy metal music		2 525
2	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		753
3	French (fr) Metal		579
4	German (de) Metal		504
5	Italian (it) Heavy metal		426
6	Russian (ru) Метал		323
7	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		258
8	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		204
9	Dutch (nl) Heavy metal		188
10	Hebrew (he) הבי מטאל		185

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) Heavy metal music		7
2	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		3
3	Chinese (zh) 重金属音乐		3
4	German (de) Metal		2
5	Romanian (ro) Heavy metal		2
6	Russian (ru) Метал		2
7	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		1
8	Hebrew (he) הבי מטאל		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Heavy metal		1
10	Indonesian (id) Heavy metal		1

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

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