Heavy metal

Quality:

Heavy metal music - genre of rock music characterized by slack-tuned instruments, and unconventional changes of tonality (key) and time signature (metre). Article “Heavy metal” in Indonesian Wikipedia has 98.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 365 references and 25 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Indonesian Wikipedia:

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The 6383^rd most popular in Indonesian Wikipedia.

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The 5567^th most editable in Indonesian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2421^st most popular in all topics.

The 483^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Indonesian Wikipedia:

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The 8488^th most editable in Indonesian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6427^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Heavy metal” was edited by 1 authors in Indonesian Wikipedia (8488^th place) and written by 26 authors in all languages (6427^th place).

Since the creation of article “Heavy metal”, its content was written by 48 registered users of Indonesian Wikipedia (5567^th place) and edited by 8235 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (483^rd place).

The article is cited 830 times in Indonesian Wikipedia (4220^th place) and cited 94114 times in all languages (1569^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Indonesian): #41 in May 2009
• Global: #88 in March 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Indonesian): #969 in February 2011
• Global: #477 in August 2008

There are 51 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	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		100
2	Chinese (zh) 重金属音乐		100
3	Turkish (tr) Heavy metal		100
4	Hungarian (hu) Heavy metal		100
5	Slovak (sk) Heavy metal		99.1304
6	Indonesian (id) Heavy metal		98.7468
7	Czech (cs) Heavy metal		98.5587
8	Galician (gl) Heavy metal		98
9	Finnish (fi) Metallimusiikki		96.7984
10	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		95

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heavy metal music		23 284 281
2	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		9 312 967
3	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		3 756 798
4	Russian (ru) Метал		3 610 057
5	German (de) Metal		3 196 620
6	French (fr) Metal		2 978 119
7	Italian (it) Heavy metal		2 657 868
8	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		2 553 725
9	Polish (pl) Heavy metal		1 954 303
10	Turkish (tr) Heavy metal		888 738

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) Heavy metal music		51 642
2	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		6 407
3	Russian (ru) Метал		5 815
4	French (fr) Metal		5 552
5	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		5 493
6	Italian (it) Heavy metal		3 670
7	German (de) Metal		3 068
8	Polish (pl) Heavy metal		2 737
9	Chinese (zh) 重金属音乐		2 290
10	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		1 956

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Heavy metal music		2 525
2	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		753
3	French (fr) Metal		579
4	German (de) Metal		504
5	Italian (it) Heavy metal		426
6	Russian (ru) Метал		323
7	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		258
8	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		204
9	Dutch (nl) Heavy metal		188
10	Hebrew (he) הבי מטאל		185

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) Heavy metal music		7
2	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		3
3	Chinese (zh) 重金属音乐		3
4	German (de) Metal		2
5	Romanian (ro) Heavy metal		2
6	Russian (ru) Метал		2
7	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		1
8	Hebrew (he) הבי מטאל		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Heavy metal		1
10	Indonesian (id) Heavy metal		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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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