Sampling (music)

Sampling - reproduction of short extracts from a musical work. Article “Sampling (music)” in English Wikipedia has 91.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 109 references and 15 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.

In June 2025 the article “Sampling (music)” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sampling (music)”, its content was written by 541 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1039 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4660 times in English Wikipedia (5219^th place) and cited 11986 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4772 in March 2004
• Global: #3751 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #23291 in July 2008
• Global: #25661 in January 2008

There are 25 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	English (en) Sampling (music)		91.3736
2	German (de) Sampling (Musik)		40.2237
3	Japanese (ja) サンプリング		35.0493
4	Malay (ms) Sampling		33.5592
5	Italian (it) Campionamento (musica)		25.7768
6	Hebrew (he) דגימה (מוזיקה)		25.2212
7	Catalan (ca) Sampling		25.1111
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sample (âm nhạc)		21.9929
9	Kazakh (kk) Дыбыстық тип		21.2752
10	Portuguese (pt) Sampling (música)		17.6387

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sampling (music)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sampling (music)		4 481 647
2	German (de) Sampling (Musik)		959 539
3	Japanese (ja) サンプリング		946 940
4	Polish (pl) Sampling (muzyka)		441 831
5	Swedish (sv) Sampling (musik)		67 536
6	Czech (cs) Samplování		57 970
7	Italian (it) Campionamento (musica)		51 126
8	Korean (ko) 샘플링 (음악)		40 358
9	Chinese (zh) 取樣 (音樂)		24 248
10	Hebrew (he) דגימה (מוזיקה)		21 277

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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 "Sampling (music)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sampling (music)		14 407
2	Japanese (ja) サンプリング		1 852
3	German (de) Sampling (Musik)		1 737
4	Chinese (zh) 取樣 (音樂)		412
5	Polish (pl) Sampling (muzyka)		408
6	Italian (it) Campionamento (musica)		377
7	Korean (ko) 샘플링 (음악)		317
8	Czech (cs) Samplování		179
9	Portuguese (pt) Sampling (música)		151
10	Hebrew (he) דגימה (מוזיקה)		146

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sampling (music)		541
2	German (de) Sampling (Musik)		200
3	Japanese (ja) サンプリング		97
4	Polish (pl) Sampling (muzyka)		37
5	Swedish (sv) Sampling (musik)		19
6	Italian (it) Campionamento (musica)		18
7	Chinese (zh) 取樣 (音樂)		14
8	Czech (cs) Samplování		13
9	Korean (ko) 샘플링 (음악)		11
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sample (âm nhạc)		11

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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 "Sampling (music)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sampling (music)		3
2	Catalan (ca) Sampling		1
3	German (de) Sampling (Musik)		1
4	Chinese (zh) 取樣 (音樂)		1
5	Arabic (ar) أخذ العينات الموسيقية		0
6	Czech (cs) Samplování		0
7	Persian (fa) نمونه‌برداری (موسیقی)		0
8	Galician (gl) Sampling		0
9	Hebrew (he) דגימה (מוזיקה)		0
10	Croatian (hr) Uzorkovanje (glazba)		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 "Sampling (music)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sampling (music)		4 660
2	German (de) Sampling (Musik)		2 060
3	Japanese (ja) サンプリング		1 247
4	Italian (it) Campionamento (musica)		776
5	Polish (pl) Sampling (muzyka)		594
6	Hebrew (he) דגימה (מוזיקה)		592
7	Swedish (sv) Sampling (musik)		478
8	Korean (ko) 샘플링 (음악)		185
9	Czech (cs) Samplování		184
10	Chinese (zh) 取樣 (音樂)		172

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أخذ العينات الموسيقية
ca	Catalan Sampling
cs	Czech Samplování
de	German Sampling (Musik)
en	English Sampling (music)
fa	Persian نمونه‌برداری (موسیقی)
gl	Galician Sampling
he	Hebrew דגימה (מוזיקה)
hr	Croatian Uzorkovanje (glazba)
id	Indonesian Pemercontohan (musik)
it	Italian Campionamento (musica)
ja	Japanese サンプリング
kk	Kazakh Дыбыстық тип
ko	Korean 샘플링 (음악)
ms	Malay Sampling
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Musikksampling
no	Norwegian Sampling (musikk)
pl	Polish Sampling (muzyka)
pt	Portuguese Sampling (música)
simple	Simple English Sampling (music)
sv	Swedish Sampling (musik)
th	Thai แซมพลิง
tr	Turkish Ses örneği
vi	Vietnamese Sample (âm nhạc)
zh	Chinese 取樣 (音樂)

Best Rank

English: #23291 07.2008

Global: #25661 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #4772 03.2004

Global: #3751 09.2003

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