Key (music)

Key - tonic note and chord of a musical piece. Article “Key (music)” in English Wikipedia has 19.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.5 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Key (music)” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Key (music)”, its content was written by 153 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 731 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2436 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7390 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3666 in November 2003
• Global: #2554 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #41720 in October 2010
• Global: #23491 in March 2008

There are 25 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	French (fr) Tonalité		42.0998
2	Hungarian (hu) Hangnem		39.0772
3	German (de) Tonart		36.4302
4	Finnish (fi) Sävellaji		35.1484
5	Estonian (et) Helistik		25.9432
6	Turkish (tr) Anahtar (akor sistemi)		25.4705
7	English (en) Key (music)		19.5127
8	Chinese (zh) 调		18.8838
9	Arabic (ar) مفتاح (موسيقى)		18.713
10	Indonesian (id) Kunci nada		16.8505

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Key (music)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Key (music)		2 678 483
2	Japanese (ja) 調		1 326 568
3	French (fr) Tonalité		1 175 580
4	German (de) Tonart		1 055 639
5	Finnish (fi) Sävellaji		424 605
6	Polish (pl) Tonacja		344 117
7	Chinese (zh) 调		318 067
8	Portuguese (pt) Tom		302 088
9	Dutch (nl) Toonsoort		234 455
10	Swedish (sv) Tonart		215 347

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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 "Key (music)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Key (music)		8 532
2	Japanese (ja) 調		2 424
3	French (fr) Tonalité		1 897
4	German (de) Tonart		1 448
5	Chinese (zh) 调		1 264
6	Finnish (fi) Sävellaji		682
7	Dutch (nl) Toonsoort		476
8	Simple English (simple) Key (music)		474
9	Portuguese (pt) Tom		407
10	Polish (pl) Tonacja		391

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Key (music)		153
2	German (de) Tonart		107
3	French (fr) Tonalité		104
4	Dutch (nl) Toonsoort		50
5	Finnish (fi) Sävellaji		41
6	Hungarian (hu) Hangnem		37
7	Japanese (ja) 調		33
8	Polish (pl) Tonacja		29
9	Swedish (sv) Tonart		26
10	Portuguese (pt) Tom		22

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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 "Key (music)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Key (music)		2
2	Arabic (ar) مفتاح (موسيقى)		0
3	Czech (cs) Tónina		0
4	Danish (da) Toneart		0
5	German (de) Tonart		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Tonalo		0
7	Estonian (et) Helistik		0
8	Persian (fa) کلید (تونالیته)		0
9	Finnish (fi) Sävellaji		0
10	French (fr) Tonalité		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 "Key (music)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Key (music)		2 436
2	Japanese (ja) 調		1 009
3	French (fr) Tonalité		594
4	Hungarian (hu) Hangnem		574
5	German (de) Tonart		492
6	Portuguese (pt) Tom		346
7	Dutch (nl) Toonsoort		275
8	Chinese (zh) 调		219
9	Esperanto (eo) Tonalo		216
10	Swedish (sv) Tonart		203

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مفتاح (موسيقى)
cs	Czech Tónina
da	Danish Toneart
de	German Tonart
en	English Key (music)
eo	Esperanto Tonalo
et	Estonian Helistik
fa	Persian کلید (تونالیته)
fi	Finnish Sävellaji
fr	French Tonalité
hu	Hungarian Hangnem
id	Indonesian Kunci nada
ja	Japanese 調
ko	Korean 조 (음악)
lt	Lithuanian Tonacija
nl	Dutch Toonsoort
no	Norwegian Toneart
pl	Polish Tonacja
pt	Portuguese Tom
simple	Simple English Key (music)
sk	Slovak Tónina
sv	Swedish Tonart
tr	Turkish Anahtar (akor sistemi)
vi	Vietnamese Điệu tính
zh	Chinese 调

Best Rank

English: #41720 10.2010

Global: #23491 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #3666 11.2003

Global: #2554 11.2002

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