Music genre

Quality:

Music genre - category that identifies pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Article “Music genre” in English Wikipedia has 70.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 62 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7916^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6509^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Music genre”, its content was written by 730 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2128 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 222300 times in English Wikipedia (30^th place) and cited 857241 times in all languages (102^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2298 in September 2019
• Global: #3078 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #170 in August 2010
• Global: #434 in August 2010

There are 44 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	English (en) Music genre		70.2119
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Musikksjanger		48.6115
3	Japanese (ja) 音楽のジャンル		34.7068
4	Malay (ms) Genre muzik		31.7185
5	Italian (it) Genere musicale		31.152
6	Portuguese (pt) Gênero musical		30.5817
7	Hebrew (he) סוגה מוזיקלית		29.187
8	Slovak (sk) Hudobný žáner		27.97
9	Polish (pl) Gatunek muzyczny		27.5681
10	Galician (gl) Xénero musical		27.3976

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Music genre		16 691 970
2	Spanish (es) Género musical		7 047 563
3	Indonesian (id) Genre musik		2 118 862
4	Italian (it) Genere musicale		1 631 949
5	Portuguese (pt) Gênero musical		1 531 882
6	French (fr) Genre musical		1 244 826
7	Russian (ru) Музыкальный жанр		973 449
8	Thai (th) แนวเพลง		911 064
9	Persian (fa) ژانر موسیقی		579 794
10	Korean (ko) 음악 장르		481 818

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) Music genre		22 043
2	Spanish (es) Género musical		3 525
3	French (fr) Genre musical		2 338
4	Portuguese (pt) Gênero musical		1 887
5	Italian (it) Genere musicale		1 750
6	Russian (ru) Музыкальный жанр		1 607
7	Polish (pl) Gatunek muzyczny		1 032
8	Korean (ko) 음악 장르		658
9	Chinese (zh) 音乐类型		601
10	Indonesian (id) Genre musik		594

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Music genre		730
2	Italian (it) Genere musicale		231
3	Spanish (es) Género musical		198
4	French (fr) Genre musical		157
5	Portuguese (pt) Gênero musical		78
6	Hebrew (he) סוגה מוזיקלית		55
7	Indonesian (id) Genre musik		52
8	Russian (ru) Музыкальный жанр		51
9	Czech (cs) Hudební žánr		49
10	Danish (da) Musikgenre		49

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	French (fr) Genre musical		2
2	Polish (pl) Gatunek muzyczny		2
3	Russian (ru) Музыкальный жанр		2
4	Japanese (ja) 音楽のジャンル		1
5	Arabic (ar) نوع موسيقي		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Musiqi janrı		0
7	Belarusian (be) Музычны жанр		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Музикален жанр		0
9	Catalan (ca) Gènere musical		0
10	Czech (cs) Hudební žánr		0

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

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