Matchbox (song)

Matchbox - original song written and composed by Carl Perkins. Article “Matchbox (song)” in English Wikipedia has 39.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.09 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Matchbox (song)”, its content was written by 107 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 224 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 244 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1679 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #33869 in May 2019
• Global: #80412 in September 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #133092 in February 2014
• Global: #213697 in February 2014

There are 14 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Matchbox		59.9372
2	English (en) Matchbox (song)		39.698
3	Finnish (fi) Matchbox (kappale)		38.7544
4	Swedish (sv) Matchbox (sång)		36.9988
5	Dutch (nl) Matchbox (nummer)		33.3928
6	French (fr) Matchbox (chanson)		32.1149
7	Norwegian (no) Matchbox (sang fra 1957)		31.9047
8	Japanese (ja) マッチボックス (曲)		28.1748
9	Italian (it) Matchbox (brano musicale)		24.0101
10	German (de) Matchbox (Lied)		20.3452

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Matchbox (song)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Matchbox (song)		460 807
2	Japanese (ja) マッチボックス (曲)		29 410
3	Spanish (es) Matchbox (canción)		29 013
4	French (fr) Matchbox (chanson)		20 439
5	Russian (ru) Matchbox (песня)		17 748
6	Italian (it) Matchbox (brano musicale)		6 002
7	Finnish (fi) Matchbox (kappale)		3 704
8	German (de) Matchbox (Lied)		2 715
9	Dutch (nl) Matchbox (nummer)		2 370
10	Norwegian (no) Matchbox (sang fra 1957)		2 073

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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 "Matchbox (song)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Matchbox (song)		2 033
2	Japanese (ja) マッチボックス (曲)		153
3	French (fr) Matchbox (chanson)		80
4	Spanish (es) Matchbox (canción)		59
5	German (de) Matchbox (Lied)		48
6	Swedish (sv) Matchbox (sång)		41
7	Italian (it) Matchbox (brano musicale)		28
8	Russian (ru) Matchbox (песня)		28
9	Norwegian (no) Matchbox (sang fra 1957)		26
10	Simple English (simple) Matchbox (song)		13

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Matchbox (song)		107
2	French (fr) Matchbox (chanson)		29
3	Italian (it) Matchbox (brano musicale)		15
4	Japanese (ja) マッチボックス (曲)		15
5	Norwegian (no) Matchbox (sang fra 1957)		14
6	Spanish (es) Matchbox (canción)		11
7	German (de) Matchbox (Lied)		10
8	Finnish (fi) Matchbox (kappale)		8
9	Swedish (sv) Matchbox (sång)		6
10	Russian (ru) Matchbox (песня)		4

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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 "Matchbox (song)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Matchbox (Lied)		0
2	English (en) Matchbox (song)		0
3	Spanish (es) Matchbox (canción)		0
4	Finnish (fi) Matchbox (kappale)		0
5	French (fr) Matchbox (chanson)		0
6	Italian (it) Matchbox (brano musicale)		0
7	Japanese (ja) マッチボックス (曲)		0
8	Georgian (ka) Matchbox (სიმღერა)		0
9	Dutch (nl) Matchbox (nummer)		0
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Matchbox		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 "Matchbox (song)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Matchbox (Lied)		368
2	Dutch (nl) Matchbox (nummer)		323
3	English (en) Matchbox (song)		244
4	Japanese (ja) マッチボックス (曲)		231
5	French (fr) Matchbox (chanson)		121
6	Simple English (simple) Matchbox (song)		109
7	Russian (ru) Matchbox (песня)		106
8	Georgian (ka) Matchbox (სიმღერა)		46
9	Swedish (sv) Matchbox (sång)		35
10	Italian (it) Matchbox (brano musicale)		28

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#	Language	Value
de	German Matchbox (Lied)
en	English Matchbox (song)
es	Spanish Matchbox (canción)
fi	Finnish Matchbox (kappale)
fr	French Matchbox (chanson)
it	Italian Matchbox (brano musicale)
ja	Japanese マッチボックス (曲)
ka	Georgian Matchbox (სიმღერა)
nl	Dutch Matchbox (nummer)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Matchbox
no	Norwegian Matchbox (sang fra 1957)
ru	Russian Matchbox (песня)
simple	Simple English Matchbox (song)
sv	Swedish Matchbox (sång)

Best Rank

English: #133092 02.2014

Global: #213697 02.2014

Best Rank

English: #33869 05.2019

Global: #80412 09.2021

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