Michael Jackson

Quality:

Michael Jackson - American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1958–2009). This person is the 6^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 6^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Michael Jackson” in English Wikipedia has 97.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 744 references and 40 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 17^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 8^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 6^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 22^nd most popular in all topics.

The 11^th most popular in AI.

The 6^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 229^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 2636^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 160^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 198^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Michael Jackson” was edited by 17 authors in English Wikipedia (2636^th place) and written by 132 authors in all languages (198^th place).

Since the creation of article “Michael Jackson”, its content was written by 5290 registered users of English Wikipedia (8^th place) and edited by 18887 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (11^th place).

Michael Jackson is on the 6^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 6^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 10013 times in English Wikipedia (1973^rd place) and cited 46945 times in all languages (3390^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in November 2003
• Global: #1 in July 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1 in July 2009
• Global: #1 in July 2009

There are 55 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	Spanish (es) Michael Jackson		100
2	German (de) Michael Jackson		100
3	Russian (ru) Джексон, Майкл		100
4	Italian (it) Michael Jackson		100
5	Polish (pl) Michael Jackson		100
6	Vietnamese (vi) Michael Jackson		100
7	Thai (th) ไมเคิล แจ็กสัน		100
8	Slovak (sk) Michael Jackson		100
9	Estonian (et) Michael Jackson		100
10	Galician (gl) Michael Jackson		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michael Jackson		178 932 351
2	Spanish (es) Michael Jackson		36 033 391
3	French (fr) Michael Jackson		27 945 262
4	German (de) Michael Jackson		22 579 943
5	Russian (ru) Джексон, Майкл		17 437 146
6	Japanese (ja) マイケル・ジャクソン		16 953 931
7	Portuguese (pt) Michael Jackson		13 817 798
8	Italian (it) Michael Jackson		13 041 954
9	Polish (pl) Michael Jackson		9 875 015
10	Dutch (nl) Michael Jackson		6 111 509

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) Michael Jackson		543 723
2	Spanish (es) Michael Jackson		70 436
3	Japanese (ja) マイケル・ジャクソン		61 229
4	German (de) Michael Jackson		57 959
5	French (fr) Michael Jackson		56 852
6	Russian (ru) Джексон, Майкл		51 025
7	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·杰克逊		35 960
8	Italian (it) Michael Jackson		32 319
9	Portuguese (pt) Michael Jackson		27 043
10	Polish (pl) Michael Jackson		16 190

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Michael Jackson		5 290
2	French (fr) Michael Jackson		1 393
3	German (de) Michael Jackson		1 160
4	Italian (it) Michael Jackson		967
5	Spanish (es) Michael Jackson		722
6	Russian (ru) Джексон, Майкл		684
7	Portuguese (pt) Michael Jackson		624
8	Dutch (nl) Michael Jackson		556
9	Swedish (sv) Michael Jackson		543
10	Japanese (ja) マイケル・ジャクソン		510

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	Italian (it) Michael Jackson		20
2	English (en) Michael Jackson		17
3	French (fr) Michael Jackson		15
4	Japanese (ja) マイケル・ジャクソン		12
5	Simple English (simple) Michael Jackson		9
6	Hebrew (he) מייקל ג'קסון		7
7	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·杰克逊		7
8	Finnish (fi) Michael Jackson		5
9	Turkish (tr) Michael Jackson		5
10	Hungarian (hu) Michael Jackson (énekes, 1958–2009)		4

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

On 16 March 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Sinners, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, One Battle After Another, Amy Madigan, Hamnet, Timothée Chalamet.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jessie Buckley, Sinners (2025 film), Amy Madigan, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Maya Rudolph, Sean Penn, Academy Awards.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information