Material (band)

Material - American band led by Bill Laswell. Article “Material (band)” in English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.62 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.

Since the creation of article “Material (band)”, its content was written by 78 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 127 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 312 times in English Wikipedia and cited 419 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #62781 in August 2004
• Global: #123364 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #216701 in February 2012
• Global: #356210 in February 2012

There are 7 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) Material (band)		30.7349
2	Italian (it) Material (gruppo musicale)		29.7319
3	Russian (ru) Material		27.8434
4	Japanese (ja) マテリアル (バンド)		24.42
5	German (de) Material (Band)		21.225
6	Danish (da) Material (gruppe)		15.6642
7	French (fr) Material		9.3779

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Material (band)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Material (band)		366 462
2	French (fr) Material		18 987
3	German (de) Material (Band)		14 330
4	Russian (ru) Material		10 942
5	Japanese (ja) マテリアル (バンド)		5 039
6	Italian (it) Material (gruppo musicale)		4 813
7	Danish (da) Material (gruppe)		587

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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 "Material (band)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Material (band)		1 628
2	Japanese (ja) マテリアル (バンド)		100
3	German (de) Material (Band)		83
4	French (fr) Material		60
5	Italian (it) Material (gruppo musicale)		39
6	Russian (ru) Material		39
7	Danish (da) Material (gruppe)		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Material (band)		78
2	French (fr) Material		17
3	Italian (it) Material (gruppo musicale)		12
4	German (de) Material (Band)		10
5	Russian (ru) Material		7
6	Japanese (ja) マテリアル (バンド)		2
7	Danish (da) Material (gruppe)		1

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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 "Material (band)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Danish (da) Material (gruppe)		0
2	German (de) Material (Band)		0
3	English (en) Material (band)		0
4	French (fr) Material		0
5	Italian (it) Material (gruppo musicale)		0
6	Japanese (ja) マテリアル (バンド)		0
7	Russian (ru) Material		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 "Material (band)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Material (band)		312
2	German (de) Material (Band)		31
3	Japanese (ja) マテリアル (バンド)		26
4	French (fr) Material		22
5	Italian (it) Material (gruppo musicale)		20
6	Russian (ru) Material		7
7	Danish (da) Material (gruppe)		1

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Material (gruppe)
de	German Material (Band)
en	English Material (band)
fr	French Material
it	Italian Material (gruppo musicale)
ja	Japanese マテリアル (バンド)
ru	Russian Material

Best Rank

English: #216701 02.2012

Global: #356210 02.2012

Best Rank

English: #62781 08.2004

Global: #123364 08.2004

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