IU (entertainer)

Quality:

IU - South Korean singer, songwriter and actress. This person is the 1274^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “IU (entertainer)” in English Wikipedia has 94.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 436 references and 27 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5382^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4217^th most popular in all topics.

The 7908^th most popular in AI.

The 1274^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6855^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 5976^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3832^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3098^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “IU (entertainer)” was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (5976^th place) and written by 37 authors in all languages (3098^th place).

Since the creation of article “IU (entertainer)”, its content was written by 701 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2841 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7908^th place).

IU is on the 1274^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1098 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6121 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #336 in March 2012
• Global: #338 in May 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1250 in September 2016
• Global: #649 in March 2025

There are 42 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	Turkish (tr) IU (şarkıcı)		99.0837
2	German (de) IU (Sängerin)		98.5714
3	Polish (pl) IU (piosenkarka)		96.6217
4	Indonesian (id) IU		96.1387
5	Vietnamese (vi) IU (ca sĩ)		95.9398
6	English (en) IU (entertainer)		94.8288
7	Italian (it) IU (cantante)		92.6316
8	Spanish (es) IU (cantante)		91.6623
9	Japanese (ja) IU (歌手)		90.0773
10	Portuguese (pt) IU (artista)		85.8589

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) IU (entertainer)		19 543 859
2	Chinese (zh) IU (歌手)		10 584 339
3	Japanese (ja) IU (歌手)		3 442 026
4	Korean (ko) 아이유		2 285 177
5	Indonesian (id) IU		1 438 581
6	Spanish (es) IU (cantante)		1 239 048
7	Thai (th) ไอยู		1 156 259
8	Russian (ru) IU (певица)		1 061 308
9	Vietnamese (vi) IU (ca sĩ)		1 045 231
10	Persian (fa) آی‌یو		759 555

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) IU (entertainer)		85 720
2	Chinese (zh) IU (歌手)		42 233
3	Japanese (ja) IU (歌手)		19 261
4	Spanish (es) IU (cantante)		14 721
5	Russian (ru) IU (певица)		6 985
6	Korean (ko) 아이유		6 232
7	Persian (fa) آی‌یو		5 318
8	Indonesian (id) IU		3 956
9	Vietnamese (vi) IU (ca sĩ)		3 484
10	French (fr) IU (chanteuse)		3 435

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) IU (entertainer)		701
2	Korean (ko) 아이유		459
3	Chinese (zh) IU (歌手)		413
4	Japanese (ja) IU (歌手)		135
5	Spanish (es) IU (cantante)		129
6	Vietnamese (vi) IU (ca sĩ)		113
7	Russian (ru) IU (певица)		86
8	French (fr) IU (chanteuse)		85
9	Portuguese (pt) IU (artista)		85
10	German (de) IU (Sängerin)		71

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) IU (entertainer)		12
2	Chinese (zh) IU (歌手)		10
3	Indonesian (id) IU		3
4	Persian (fa) آی‌یو		2
5	Armenian (hy) IU (երգչուհի)		2
6	Japanese (ja) IU (歌手)		2
7	Russian (ru) IU (певица)		2
8	Spanish (es) IU (cantante)		1
9	Korean (ko) 아이유		1
10	Polish (pl) IU (piosenkarka)		1

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

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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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information