Major scale

Quality:

Major scale - one of the most commonly used musical scales in Western music. Article “Major scale” in English Wikipedia has 45 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.37 points.

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 “Major scale” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Major scale”, its content was written by 186 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 655 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 426 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1854 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2168 in October 2002
• Global: #3762 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #25132 in September 2008
• Global: #6008 in October 2020

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	English (en) Major scale		44.9932
2	Polish (pl) Skala durowa		44.7066
3	Greek (el) Μείζονα κλίμακα		33.2507
4	Malay (ms) Skala major		27.8708
5	Simple English (simple) Major scale		27.718
6	Slovenian (sl) Durova lestvica		27.5799
7	Portuguese (pt) Escala maior		25.0814
8	Korean (ko) 장음계		24.8778
9	Chinese (zh) 大調		17.5604
10	Arabic (ar) سلم كبير		16.578

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Major scale		3 826 051
2	Indonesian (id) Tangga nada mayor		2 599 203
3	Italian (it) Scala maggiore		825 670
4	Portuguese (pt) Escala maior		652 778
5	Polish (pl) Skala durowa		479 398
6	Czech (cs) Durová stupnice		457 664
7	Slovenian (sl) Durova lestvica		345 251
8	Japanese (ja) 長音階		275 500
9	Slovak (sk) Durová stupnica		190 261
10	Hungarian (hu) Dúr hangsor		171 123

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) Major scale		9 459
2	Italian (it) Scala maggiore		1 093
3	Czech (cs) Durová stupnice		814
4	Portuguese (pt) Escala maior		739
5	Japanese (ja) 長音階		612
6	Polish (pl) Skala durowa		538
7	Persian (fa) گام ماژور		420
8	Korean (ko) 장음계		359
9	Slovak (sk) Durová stupnica		334
10	Indonesian (id) Tangga nada mayor		282

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Major scale		186
2	Italian (it) Scala maggiore		84
3	Hebrew (he) סולם מז'ורי		60
4	Hungarian (hu) Dúr hangsor		43
5	Polish (pl) Skala durowa		30
6	Japanese (ja) 長音階		26
7	Czech (cs) Durová stupnice		23
8	Indonesian (id) Tangga nada mayor		23
9	Vietnamese (vi) Âm giai Trưởng tự nhiên		23
10	Portuguese (pt) Escala maior		22

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) Major scale		2
2	Korean (ko) 장음계		1
3	Thai (th) บันไดเสียงเมเจอร์		1
4	Vietnamese (vi) Âm giai Trưởng tự nhiên		1
5	Chinese (zh) 大調		1
6	Arabic (ar) سلم كبير		0
7	Catalan (ca) Escala major		0
8	Czech (cs) Durová stupnice		0
9	Greek (el) Μείζονα κλίμακα		0
10	Persian (fa) گام ماژور		0

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

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