I Want It That Way

I Want It That Way - song written Max Martin och Andreas Carlsson; originally recorded by Backstreet Boys in 1998 and released in 1999. Article “I Want It That Way” in English Wikipedia has 85.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 177 references and 23 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 “I Want It That Way” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “I Want It That Way”, its content was written by 438 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 743 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 332 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1130 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #792 in November 2018
• Global: #4708 in November 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17846 in July 2016
• Global: #36095 in July 2016

There are 24 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) I Want It That Way		85.5944
2	Portuguese (pt) I Want It That Way		52.6463
3	Italian (it) I Want It That Way		49.5281
4	Russian (ru) I Want It That Way		47.404
5	Vietnamese (vi) I Want It That Way		40.4817
6	Hebrew (he) I Want It That Way		40.4524
7	Danish (da) I Want It That Way		34.3086
8	Armenian (hy) I Want It That Way		33.5204
9	Spanish (es) I Want It That Way		32.844
10	German (de) I Want It That Way		32.6508

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

The most popular language versions of the article "I Want It That Way" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) I Want It That Way		3 091 109
2	Japanese (ja) アイ・ウォント・イット・ザット・ウェイ		295 022
3	Spanish (es) I Want It That Way		189 199
4	Italian (it) I Want It That Way		102 781
5	Portuguese (pt) I Want It That Way		70 143
6	Russian (ru) I Want It That Way		60 188
7	Swedish (sv) I Want It That Way		47 707
8	French (fr) I Want It That Way		44 534
9	Dutch (nl) I Want It That Way		34 933
10	German (de) I Want It That Way		28 258

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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 "I Want It That Way" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) I Want It That Way		16 591
2	Japanese (ja) アイ・ウォント・イット・ザット・ウェイ		1 516
3	Spanish (es) I Want It That Way		1 101
4	German (de) I Want It That Way		816
5	French (fr) I Want It That Way		612
6	Russian (ru) I Want It That Way		486
7	Italian (it) I Want It That Way		464
8	Chinese (zh) I Want It That Way		431
9	Simple English (simple) I Want It That Way		320
10	Portuguese (pt) I Want It That Way		288

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

Language versions of the article "I Want It That Way" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) I Want It That Way		438
2	Italian (it) I Want It That Way		63
3	Dutch (nl) I Want It That Way		34
4	Portuguese (pt) I Want It That Way		30
5	Spanish (es) I Want It That Way		29
6	Russian (ru) I Want It That Way		23
7	German (de) I Want It That Way		22
8	Japanese (ja) アイ・ウォント・イット・ザット・ウェイ		19
9	Vietnamese (vi) I Want It That Way		15
10	Danish (da) I Want It That Way		9

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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 "I Want It That Way" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) I Want It That Way		7
2	Simple English (simple) I Want It That Way		1
3	Danish (da) I Want It That Way		0
4	German (de) I Want It That Way		0
5	Spanish (es) I Want It That Way		0
6	Estonian (et) I Want It That Way		0
7	Basque (eu) I Want It That Way		0
8	Persian (fa) من آنگونه می‌خواهمش		0
9	Finnish (fi) I Want It That Way		0
10	French (fr) I Want It That Way		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 "I Want It That Way" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) I Want It That Way		332
2	Italian (it) I Want It That Way		109
3	Portuguese (pt) I Want It That Way		95
4	Russian (ru) I Want It That Way		95
5	German (de) I Want It That Way		70
6	Spanish (es) I Want It That Way		59
7	French (fr) I Want It That Way		58
8	Finnish (fi) I Want It That Way		56
9	Vietnamese (vi) I Want It That Way		48
10	Dutch (nl) I Want It That Way		38

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish I Want It That Way
de	German I Want It That Way
en	English I Want It That Way
es	Spanish I Want It That Way
et	Estonian I Want It That Way
eu	Basque I Want It That Way
fa	Persian من آنگونه می‌خواهمش
fi	Finnish I Want It That Way
fr	French I Want It That Way
he	Hebrew I Want It That Way
hy	Armenian I Want It That Way
id	Indonesian I Want It That Way
it	Italian I Want It That Way
ja	Japanese アイ・ウォント・イット・ザット・ウェイ
ka	Georgian I Want It That Way
kk	Kazakh I Want It That Way
nl	Dutch I Want It That Way
pt	Portuguese I Want It That Way
ru	Russian I Want It That Way
simple	Simple English I Want It That Way
sv	Swedish I Want It That Way
tr	Turkish I Want It That Way
vi	Vietnamese I Want It That Way
zh	Chinese I Want It That Way

Best Rank

English: #17846 07.2016

Global: #36095 07.2016

Best Rank

English: #792 11.2018

Global: #4708 11.2018

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