Music censorship

Music censorship - practice of censoring musical works for various reasons. Article “Music censorship” in English Wikipedia has 94.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 254 references and 26 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Music censorship” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Music censorship”, its content was written by 67 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 169 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 369 times in English Wikipedia and cited 698 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #32299 in April 2022
• Global: #28803 in August 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #65903 in April 2008
• Global: #106887 in April 2008

There are 9 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	Turkish (tr) Müzik sansürü		97.0208
2	English (en) Music censorship		94.8081
3	Italian (it) Censura musicale		82.4123
4	Finnish (fi) Musiikkisensuuri		44.5582
5	Simple English (simple) Music censorship		33.0583
6	Chinese (zh) 禁歌		21.5204
7	Japanese (ja) 要注意歌謡曲指定制度		20.8919
8	Korean (ko) 금지곡		16.0323
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kìm-koa		0.6278

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Music censorship" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Music censorship		1 103 264
2	Japanese (ja) 要注意歌謡曲指定制度		297 472
3	Chinese (zh) 禁歌		81 777
4	Korean (ko) 금지곡		17 304
5	Finnish (fi) Musiikkisensuuri		16 044
6	Italian (it) Censura musicale		9 813
7	Turkish (tr) Müzik sansürü		5 409
8	Simple English (simple) Music censorship		801
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kìm-koa		173

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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 "Music censorship" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Music censorship		1 930
2	Chinese (zh) 禁歌		1 804
3	Japanese (ja) 要注意歌謡曲指定制度		1 096
4	Italian (it) Censura musicale		149
5	Korean (ko) 금지곡		77
6	Turkish (tr) Müzik sansürü		62
7	Finnish (fi) Musiikkisensuuri		40
8	Simple English (simple) Music censorship		14
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kìm-koa		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Music censorship		67
2	Japanese (ja) 要注意歌謡曲指定制度		24
3	Chinese (zh) 禁歌		21
4	Finnish (fi) Musiikkisensuuri		17
5	Korean (ko) 금지곡		15
6	Italian (it) Censura musicale		14
7	Turkish (tr) Müzik sansürü		7
8	Simple English (simple) Music censorship		2
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kìm-koa		2

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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 "Music censorship" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Music censorship		4
2	Finnish (fi) Musiikkisensuuri		0
3	Italian (it) Censura musicale		0
4	Japanese (ja) 要注意歌謡曲指定制度		0
5	Korean (ko) 금지곡		0
6	Simple English (simple) Music censorship		0
7	Turkish (tr) Müzik sansürü		0
8	Chinese (zh) 禁歌		0
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kìm-koa		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 "Music censorship" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Music censorship		369
2	Chinese (zh) 禁歌		102
3	Japanese (ja) 要注意歌謡曲指定制度		90
4	Turkish (tr) Müzik sansürü		53
5	Finnish (fi) Musiikkisensuuri		41
6	Korean (ko) 금지곡		31
7	Italian (it) Censura musicale		11
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kìm-koa		1
9	Simple English (simple) Music censorship		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English Music censorship
fi	Finnish Musiikkisensuuri
it	Italian Censura musicale
ja	Japanese 要注意歌謡曲指定制度
ko	Korean 금지곡
simple	Simple English Music censorship
tr	Turkish Müzik sansürü
zh	Chinese 禁歌
zhminnan	Min Nan Kìm-koa

Best Rank

English: #65903 04.2008

Global: #106887 04.2008

Best Rank

English: #32299 04.2022

Global: #28803 08.2024

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