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. On English Wikipedia article about Michael Jackson recently has been very popular. Article “Michael Jackson” in English Wikipedia has 98.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 747 references and 40 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian 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 11^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 18^th 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 20^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 424^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 59^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Michael Jackson” was edited by 35 authors in English Wikipedia (424^th place) and written by 233 authors in all languages (59^th place).

Since the creation of article “Michael Jackson”, its content was written by 5316 registered users of English Wikipedia (11^th place) and edited by 19232 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 10331 times in English Wikipedia (1957^th place) and cited 48328 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 May 2026
• Global: #1 in May 2026

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, 2026 (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	Russian (ru) Джексон, Майкл		100
2	Spanish (es) Michael Jackson		100
3	German (de) Michael Jackson		100
4	Polish (pl) Michael Jackson		100
5	Hungarian (hu) Michael Jackson (énekes, 1958–2009)		100
6	Finnish (fi) Michael Jackson		100
7	Vietnamese (vi) Michael Jackson		100
8	Slovak (sk) Michael Jackson		100
9	Thai (th) ไมเคิล แจ็กสัน		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		192 910 950
2	Spanish (es) Michael Jackson		38 407 575
3	French (fr) Michael Jackson		29 967 939
4	German (de) Michael Jackson		24 167 540
5	Russian (ru) Джексон, Майкл		20 578 180
6	Japanese (ja) マイケル・ジャクソン		18 778 710
7	Portuguese (pt) Michael Jackson		14 838 046
8	Italian (it) Michael Jackson		14 396 131
9	Polish (pl) Michael Jackson		10 326 489
10	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·杰克逊		6 674 858

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		2 452 153
2	Japanese (ja) マイケル・ジャクソン		1 009 346
3	Russian (ru) Джексон, Майкл		877 656
4	Spanish (es) Michael Jackson		350 691
5	French (fr) Michael Jackson		295 884
6	German (de) Michael Jackson		263 190
7	Portuguese (pt) Michael Jackson		176 089
8	Italian (it) Michael Jackson		174 536
9	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·杰克逊		132 475
10	Polish (pl) Michael Jackson		86 989

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		5 316
2	French (fr) Michael Jackson		1 442
3	German (de) Michael Jackson		1 187
4	Italian (it) Michael Jackson		1 004
5	Spanish (es) Michael Jackson		745
6	Russian (ru) Джексон, Майкл		706
7	Portuguese (pt) Michael Jackson		634
8	Dutch (nl) Michael Jackson		564
9	Swedish (sv) Michael Jackson		548
10	Japanese (ja) マイケル・ジャクソン		535

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) Michael Jackson		35
2	Italian (it) Michael Jackson		30
3	Japanese (ja) マイケル・ジャクソン		25
4	Russian (ru) Джексон, Майкл		22
5	Polish (pl) Michael Jackson		19
6	German (de) Michael Jackson		13
7	Simple English (simple) Michael Jackson		11
8	French (fr) Michael Jackson		8
9	Swedish (sv) Michael Jackson		8
10	Korean (ko) 마이클 잭슨		6

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information