Independent music

Quality:

Independent music - collective term for music scene that acts independently of corporate music industry. Article “Independent music” in English Wikipedia has 89.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 106 references and 17 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 “Independent music” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Independent music”, its content was written by 669 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1406 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3888 times in English Wikipedia (6637^th place) and cited 11369 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1337 in April 2006
• Global: #3047 in April 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5519 in January 2008
• Global: #8241 in January 2008

There are 28 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) Independent music		89.7533
2	Italian (it) Musica indipendente		52.1032
3	Malay (ms) Muzik indie		47.2399
4	French (fr) Musique indépendante		43.6834
5	Ukrainian (uk) Незалежна музика		34.0044
6	Vietnamese (vi) Nhạc indie		31.1552
7	Indonesian (id) Musik indi		28.256
8	Hebrew (he) מוזיקת אינדי		26.7426
9	Korean (ko) 독립 음악		25.1623
10	Armenian (hy) Ինդի երաժշտություն		24.2369

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Independent music		4 984 454
2	Japanese (ja) インディーズ		1 689 639
3	Italian (it) Musica indipendente		987 230
4	Russian (ru) Инди (музыка)		586 870
5	Spanish (es) Música independiente		482 672
6	Chinese (zh) 獨立音樂		340 568
7	Vietnamese (vi) Nhạc indie		218 592
8	Korean (ko) 독립 음악		205 036
9	Swedish (sv) Indie		185 362
10	Hebrew (he) מוזיקת אינדי		128 763

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) Independent music		13 132
2	Japanese (ja) インディーズ		3 237
3	Russian (ru) Инди (музыка)		1 762
4	Italian (it) Musica indipendente		1 614
5	Chinese (zh) 獨立音樂		1 244
6	Vietnamese (vi) Nhạc indie		1 091
7	Spanish (es) Música independiente		971
8	French (fr) Musique indépendante		554
9	Simple English (simple) Indie (music)		395
10	Indonesian (id) Musik indi		349

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Independent music		669
2	Japanese (ja) インディーズ		179
3	Italian (it) Musica indipendente		136
4	Hebrew (he) מוזיקת אינדי		58
5	Spanish (es) Música independiente		53
6	Korean (ko) 독립 음악		40
7	Russian (ru) Инди (музыка)		33
8	Swedish (sv) Indie		33
9	Chinese (zh) 獨立音樂		31
10	Danish (da) Indie (musik)		26

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	French (fr) Musique indépendante		4
2	English (en) Independent music		2
3	Indonesian (id) Musik indi		2
4	Japanese (ja) インディーズ		1
5	Arabic (ar) موسيقى مستقلة		0
6	Catalan (ca) Música independent		0
7	Danish (da) Indie (musik)		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Sendependa muziko		0
9	Spanish (es) Música independiente		0
10	Basque (eu) Musika independente		0

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

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