The Lion King (musical)

The Lion King - 1997 stage musical with music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name. Article “The Lion King (musical)” in English Wikipedia has 75.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 100 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.34 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 2025 the article “The Lion King (musical)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Lion King (musical)”, its content was written by 402 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1024 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1053 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3144 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10895 in January 2009
• Global: #10895 in July 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10032 in July 2019
• Global: #13415 in July 2019

There are 19 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) The Lion King (musical)		75.0866
2	Greek (el) Ο Βασιλιάς των Λιονταριών (μιούζικαλ)		53.0668
3	Spanish (es) El rey león (musical)		46.5029
4	German (de) Der König der Löwen (Musical)		39.9859
5	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão (musical)		39.1781
6	Catalan (ca) The Lion King (musical)		38.3373
7	French (fr) Le Roi lion (comédie musicale)		36.8347
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング (ミュージカル)		33.5913
9	Italian (it) The Lion King (musical)		31.0304
10	Bulgarian (bg) Цар лъв (мюзикъл)		30.4135

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Lion King (musical)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Lion King (musical)		5 447 369
2	German (de) Der König der Löwen (Musical)		1 579 187
3	Spanish (es) El rey león (musical)		637 507
4	French (fr) Le Roi lion (comédie musicale)		531 742
5	Dutch (nl) The Lion King (musical)		330 889
6	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング (ミュージカル)		199 646
7	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão (musical)		152 123
8	Russian (ru) Король Лев (мюзикл)		134 759
9	Italian (it) The Lion King (musical)		115 014
10	Polish (pl) Król lew (musical)		37 308

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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 "The Lion King (musical)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Lion King (musical)		19 408
2	French (fr) Le Roi lion (comédie musicale)		3 979
3	German (de) Der König der Löwen (Musical)		3 097
4	Spanish (es) El rey león (musical)		1 918
5	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング (ミュージカル)		943
6	Dutch (nl) The Lion King (musical)		472
7	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão (musical)		412
8	Russian (ru) Король Лев (мюзикл)		373
9	Italian (it) The Lion King (musical)		299
10	Simple English (simple) The Lion King (musical)		282

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

Language versions of the article "The Lion King (musical)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Lion King (musical)		402
2	German (de) Der König der Löwen (Musical)		161
3	French (fr) Le Roi lion (comédie musicale)		90
4	Dutch (nl) The Lion King (musical)		64
5	Italian (it) The Lion King (musical)		61
6	Spanish (es) El rey león (musical)		44
7	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão (musical)		40
8	Russian (ru) Король Лев (мюзикл)		39
9	Polish (pl) Król lew (musical)		22
10	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング (ミュージカル)		21

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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 "The Lion King (musical)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Lion King (musical)		1
2	French (fr) Le Roi lion (comédie musicale)		1
3	Italian (it) The Lion King (musical)		1
4	Arabic (ar) الأسد الملك (مسرحية موسيقية)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Цар лъв (мюзикъл)		0
6	Catalan (ca) The Lion King (musical)		0
7	Danish (da) Løvernes Konge (musical)		0
8	German (de) Der König der Löwen (Musical)		0
9	Greek (el) Ο Βασιλιάς των Λιονταριών (μιούζικαλ)		0
10	Spanish (es) El rey león (musical)		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 "The Lion King (musical)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Lion King (musical)		1 053
2	Italian (it) The Lion King (musical)		405
3	French (fr) Le Roi lion (comédie musicale)		302
4	Russian (ru) Король Лев (мюзикл)		242
5	Dutch (nl) The Lion King (musical)		226
6	German (de) Der König der Löwen (Musical)		183
7	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング (ミュージカル)		153
8	Polish (pl) Król lew (musical)		116
9	Hebrew (he) מלך האריות (מחזמר)		107
10	Spanish (es) El rey león (musical)		102

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الأسد الملك (مسرحية موسيقية)
bg	Bulgarian Цар лъв (мюзикъл)
ca	Catalan The Lion King (musical)
da	Danish Løvernes Konge (musical)
de	German Der König der Löwen (Musical)
el	Greek Ο Βασιλιάς των Λιονταριών (μιούζικαλ)
en	English The Lion King (musical)
es	Spanish El rey león (musical)
fr	French Le Roi lion (comédie musicale)
he	Hebrew מלך האריות (מחזמר)
it	Italian The Lion King (musical)
ja	Japanese ライオン・キング (ミュージカル)
ko	Korean 라이온 킹 (뮤지컬)
nl	Dutch The Lion King (musical)
pl	Polish Król lew (musical)
pt	Portuguese O Rei Leão (musical)
ru	Russian Король Лев (мюзикл)
simple	Simple English The Lion King (musical)
sv	Swedish Lejonkungen (musikal)

Best Rank

English: #10032 07.2019

Global: #13415 07.2019

Best Rank

English: #10895 01.2009

Global: #10895 07.2019

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