Ray Charles

Quality:

Ray Charles - American singer, pianist and songwriter (1930–2004). This person is the 979^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ray Charles” in English Wikipedia has 94.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 175 references and 25 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:

en

The 2765^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1317^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3085^th most popular in all topics.

The 2872^nd most popular in AI.

The 979^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5066^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5122^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8544^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Ray Charles” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8544^th place).

Since the creation of article “Ray Charles”, its content was written by 1811 registered users of English Wikipedia (1317^th place) and edited by 4575 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2872^nd place).

Ray Charles is on the 979^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 4334 times in English Wikipedia (6046^th place) and cited 17274 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #39 in June 2004
• Global: #35 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #217 in September 2016
• Global: #669 in September 2016

There are 52 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) Ray Charles		94.3417
2	Indonesian (id) Ray Charles		93.7942
3	Japanese (ja) レイ・チャールズ		60.213
4	Polish (pl) Ray Charles		58.7612
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Ray Charles		52.8753
6	Greek (el) Ρέι Τσαρλς		51.6268
7	Ukrainian (uk) Рей Чарльз		50.0697
8	Spanish (es) Ray Charles		49.5453
9	Finnish (fi) Ray Charles		49.4813
10	German (de) Ray Charles		49.4737

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ray Charles		28 757 775
2	Spanish (es) Ray Charles		4 285 112
3	French (fr) Ray Charles		4 071 434
4	German (de) Ray Charles		3 346 961
5	Russian (ru) Рэй Чарльз		3 028 736
6	Italian (it) Ray Charles		2 584 708
7	Japanese (ja) レイ・チャールズ		1 895 874
8	Portuguese (pt) Ray Charles		1 847 362
9	Polish (pl) Ray Charles		1 184 610
10	Dutch (nl) Ray Charles		604 456

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) Ray Charles		93 796
2	Japanese (ja) レイ・チャールズ		11 422
3	Russian (ru) Рэй Чарльз		7 719
4	Spanish (es) Ray Charles		7 522
5	German (de) Ray Charles		6 960
6	French (fr) Ray Charles		6 956
7	Italian (it) Ray Charles		5 976
8	Portuguese (pt) Ray Charles		2 851
9	Polish (pl) Ray Charles		1 758
10	Dutch (nl) Ray Charles		1 159

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ray Charles		1 811
2	French (fr) Ray Charles		386
3	German (de) Ray Charles		353
4	Italian (it) Ray Charles		208
5	Spanish (es) Ray Charles		180
6	Russian (ru) Рэй Чарльз		146
7	Dutch (nl) Ray Charles		112
8	Polish (pl) Ray Charles		103
9	Japanese (ja) レイ・チャールズ		100
10	Portuguese (pt) Ray Charles		82

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	German (de) Ray Charles		4
2	English (en) Ray Charles		3
3	French (fr) Ray Charles		3
4	Catalan (ca) Ray Charles		2
5	Ukrainian (uk) Рей Чарльз		2
6	Arabic (ar) ري تشارلز		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Ray Charles		1
8	Italian (it) Ray Charles		1
9	Japanese (ja) レイ・チャールズ		1
10	Korean (ko) 레이 찰스		1

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