Heroin (chanson)

Heroin - original song written and composed by Lou Reed; first recorded by The Velvet Underground & Nico. Article “Heroin (chanson)” in French Wikipedia has 19.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Heroin (chanson)”, its content was written by 28 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 276 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 48 times in French Wikipedia and cited 569 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #44412 in March 2018
• Global: #68741 in April 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #62718 in October 2013
• Global: #218858 in April 2015

There are 14 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) Heroin (The Velvet Underground song)		44.9912
2	Portuguese (pt) Heroin		32.4899
3	German (de) Heroin (Lied)		29.7579
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Heroin av The Velvet Underground		29.4491
5	Dutch (nl) Heroin (The Velvet Underground)		27.8432
6	Czech (cs) Heroin (skladba)		22.9488
7	Ukrainian (uk) Heroin		20.5735
8	French (fr) Heroin (chanson)		19.8879
9	Spanish (es) Heroin (canción)		18.4353
10	Italian (it) Heroin (Velvet Underground)		17.2453

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Heroin (chanson)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heroin (The Velvet Underground song)		530 431
2	Italian (it) Heroin (Velvet Underground)		72 849
3	German (de) Heroin (Lied)		57 377
4	Russian (ru) Heroin		48 445
5	Spanish (es) Heroin (canción)		35 075
6	French (fr) Heroin (chanson)		32 889
7	Japanese (ja) ヘロイン (ヴェルヴェット・アンダーグラウンドの曲)		11 729
8	Portuguese (pt) Heroin		10 152
9	Czech (cs) Heroin (skladba)		6 349
10	Dutch (nl) Heroin (The Velvet Underground)		4 213

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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 "Heroin (chanson)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heroin (The Velvet Underground song)		3 328
2	Japanese (ja) ヘロイン (ヴェルヴェット・アンダーグラウンドの曲)		160
3	Russian (ru) Heroin		149
4	Spanish (es) Heroin (canción)		126
5	German (de) Heroin (Lied)		124
6	French (fr) Heroin (chanson)		103
7	Italian (it) Heroin (Velvet Underground)		86
8	Czech (cs) Heroin (skladba)		34
9	Korean (ko) Heroin (벨벳 언더그라운드의 노래)		32
10	Dutch (nl) Heroin (The Velvet Underground)		19

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Heroin (The Velvet Underground song)		147
2	Italian (it) Heroin (Velvet Underground)		29
3	French (fr) Heroin (chanson)		28
4	German (de) Heroin (Lied)		25
5	Russian (ru) Heroin		12
6	Portuguese (pt) Heroin		11
7	Vietnamese (vi) Heroin (bài hát)		6
8	Spanish (es) Heroin (canción)		4
9	Dutch (nl) Heroin (The Velvet Underground)		4
10	Czech (cs) Heroin (skladba)		3

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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 "Heroin (chanson)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ヘロイン (ヴェルヴェット・アンダーグラウンドの曲)		1
2	Czech (cs) Heroin (skladba)		0
3	German (de) Heroin (Lied)		0
4	English (en) Heroin (The Velvet Underground song)		0
5	Spanish (es) Heroin (canción)		0
6	French (fr) Heroin (chanson)		0
7	Italian (it) Heroin (Velvet Underground)		0
8	Korean (ko) Heroin (벨벳 언더그라운드의 노래)		0
9	Dutch (nl) Heroin (The Velvet Underground)		0
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Heroin av The Velvet Underground		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 "Heroin (chanson)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Heroin (The Velvet Underground song)		151
2	Italian (it) Heroin (Velvet Underground)		68
3	Russian (ru) Heroin		66
4	German (de) Heroin (Lied)		63
5	Czech (cs) Heroin (skladba)		53
6	French (fr) Heroin (chanson)		48
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Heroin av The Velvet Underground		34
8	Portuguese (pt) Heroin		26
9	Dutch (nl) Heroin (The Velvet Underground)		23
10	Spanish (es) Heroin (canción)		14

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Heroin (skladba)
de	German Heroin (Lied)
en	English Heroin (The Velvet Underground song)
es	Spanish Heroin (canción)
fr	French Heroin (chanson)
it	Italian Heroin (Velvet Underground)
ja	Japanese ヘロイン (ヴェルヴェット・アンダーグラウンドの曲)
ko	Korean Heroin (벨벳 언더그라운드의 노래)
nl	Dutch Heroin (The Velvet Underground)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Heroin av The Velvet Underground
pt	Portuguese Heroin
ru	Russian Heroin
uk	Ukrainian Heroin
vi	Vietnamese Heroin (bài hát)

Best Rank

French: #62718 10.2013

Global: #218858 04.2015

Best Rank

French: #44412 03.2018

Global: #68741 04.2017

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