Sea shanty

Sea shanty - work song sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels. Article “Sea shanty” in English Wikipedia has 90.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 219 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.76 points.

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 2026 the article “Sea shanty” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sea shanty”, its content was written by 345 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 972 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 918 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2191 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5391 in January 2021
• Global: #11516 in February 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2115 in January 2021
• Global: #4856 in January 2021

There are 26 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) Sea shanty		90.4961
2	German (de) Shanty		28.1043
3	Arabic (ar) نهمة		28.0023
4	Italian (it) Canto marinaresco		27.8247
5	Dutch (nl) Shanty		27.6903
6	Swedish (sv) Sjömansvisa		26.69
7	Hebrew (he) שיר מלחים		24.5299
8	French (fr) Chant de marins		24.3059
9	Turkish (tr) Heyamola		23.6818
10	Chinese (zh) 船夫号子		20.8778

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sea shanty" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sea shanty		3 522 640
2	German (de) Shanty		743 012
3	Polish (pl) Szanta (pieśń)		366 571
4	Russian (ru) Шанти (жанр песен)		332 791
5	French (fr) Chant de marins		311 192
6	Spanish (es) Saloma		127 652
7	Dutch (nl) Shanty		96 104
8	Japanese (ja) シーシャンティ		57 165
9	Italian (it) Canto marinaresco		54 707
10	Norwegian (no) Sjanti		45 460

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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 "Sea shanty" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sea shanty		10 931
2	German (de) Shanty		1 404
3	Russian (ru) Шанти (жанр песен)		1 126
4	French (fr) Chant de marins		571
5	Polish (pl) Szanta (pieśń)		498
6	Japanese (ja) シーシャンティ		427
7	Dutch (nl) Shanty		210
8	Italian (it) Canto marinaresco		206
9	Spanish (es) Saloma		180
10	Chinese (zh) 船夫号子		171

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sea shanty		345
2	German (de) Shanty		154
3	French (fr) Chant de marins		146
4	Polish (pl) Szanta (pieśń)		73
5	Dutch (nl) Shanty		48
6	Russian (ru) Шанти (жанр песен)		40
7	Italian (it) Canto marinaresco		25
8	Swedish (sv) Sjömansvisa		18
9	Norwegian (no) Sjanti		15
10	Spanish (es) Saloma		14

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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 "Sea shanty" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) نهمة		2
2	English (en) Sea shanty		1
3	Spanish (es) Saloma		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Tengerésznóta		1
5	Russian (ru) Шанти (жанр песен)		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Şanti (mahnı janrı)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Sea Shanty		0
8	Danish (da) Sømandsvise		0
9	German (de) Shanty		0
10	Estonian (et) Shanty		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 "Sea shanty" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sea shanty		918
2	German (de) Shanty		199
3	French (fr) Chant de marins		164
4	Japanese (ja) シーシャンティ		129
5	Polish (pl) Szanta (pieśń)		119
6	Russian (ru) Шанти (жанр песен)		75
7	Dutch (nl) Shanty		64
8	Turkish (tr) Heyamola		64
9	Arabic (ar) نهمة		59
10	Spanish (es) Saloma		42

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نهمة
az	Azerbaijani Şanti (mahnı janrı)
ca	Catalan Sea Shanty
da	Danish Sømandsvise
de	German Shanty
en	English Sea shanty
es	Spanish Saloma
et	Estonian Shanty
fa	Persian نیمه
fr	French Chant de marins
he	Hebrew שיר מלחים
hu	Hungarian Tengerésznóta
id	Indonesian Yel-yel laut
it	Italian Canto marinaresco
ja	Japanese シーシャンティ
ko	Korean 뱃노래
nl	Dutch Shanty
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Sjanti
no	Norwegian Sjanti
pl	Polish Szanta (pieśń)
pt	Portuguese Celeuma
ru	Russian Шанти (жанр песен)
sv	Swedish Sjömansvisa
tr	Turkish Heyamola
uk	Ukrainian Шанті (жанр пісень)
zh	Chinese 船夫号子

Best Rank

English: #2115 01.2021

Global: #4856 01.2021

Best Rank

English: #5391 01.2021

Global: #11516 02.2021

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