Lou Reed

Quality:

Lou Reed - American rock musician (1942–2013). This person is the 2066^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Lou Reed” in French Wikipedia has 57.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 93 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.03 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 7941^st most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 8084^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7026^th most popular in all topics.

The 7213^th most popular in AI.

The 2066^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6479^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8594^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Lou Reed” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8594^th place).

Since the creation of article “Lou Reed”, its content was written by 242 registered users of French Wikipedia (8084^th place) and edited by 3015 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7213^th place).

Lou Reed is on the 2066^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1058 times in French Wikipedia and cited 11091 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #24 in October 2013
• Global: #6 in October 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #32 in October 2013
• Global: #14 in October 2013

There are 45 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) Lou Reed		97.0064
2	Russian (ru) Рид, Лу		89.6983
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Lou Reed		82.5
4	Czech (cs) Lou Reed		82.381
5	Italian (it) Lou Reed		82.0323
6	German (de) Lou Reed		81.4028
7	Norwegian (no) Lou Reed		77.9993
8	French (fr) Lou Reed		57.6259
9	Dutch (nl) Lou Reed		47.2944
10	Armenian (hy) Լու Ռիդ		41.5068

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lou Reed		21 200 580
2	Spanish (es) Lou Reed		2 182 257
3	Italian (it) Lou Reed		2 179 808
4	French (fr) Lou Reed		2 045 448
5	German (de) Lou Reed		1 963 896
6	Japanese (ja) ルー・リード		1 194 410
7	Russian (ru) Рид, Лу		1 067 270
8	Portuguese (pt) Lou Reed		710 144
9	Dutch (nl) Lou Reed		541 254
10	Polish (pl) Lou Reed		513 335

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) Lou Reed		95 774
2	German (de) Lou Reed		6 276
3	Italian (it) Lou Reed		5 847
4	Spanish (es) Lou Reed		4 824
5	French (fr) Lou Reed		4 522
6	Japanese (ja) ルー・リード		4 178
7	Russian (ru) Рид, Лу		2 662
8	Swedish (sv) Lou Reed		1 800
9	Portuguese (pt) Lou Reed		1 461
10	Dutch (nl) Lou Reed		1 406

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lou Reed		984
2	French (fr) Lou Reed		242
3	German (de) Lou Reed		235
4	Italian (it) Lou Reed		189
5	Spanish (es) Lou Reed		118
6	Dutch (nl) Lou Reed		112
7	Russian (ru) Рид, Лу		101
8	Hebrew (he) לו ריד		95
9	Portuguese (pt) Lou Reed		75
10	Japanese (ja) ルー・リード		72

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	English (en) Lou Reed		8
2	Arabic (ar) لو ريد		2
3	German (de) Lou Reed		2
4	Japanese (ja) ルー・リード		2
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Lou Reed		2
6	Catalan (ca) Lou Reed		1
7	Spanish (es) Lou Reed		1
8	French (fr) Lou Reed		1
9	Italian (it) Lou Reed		1
10	Romanian (ro) Lou Reed		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 French Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Michael Olise, Liste des buteurs de la Coupe du monde de football, Coupe du monde de football 2026, Kylian Mbappé, All Her Fault, Rudi Garcia, Romelu Lukaku, Coupe du monde de football, Sadio Mané, Didier Deschamps.

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