Heavy metal

Quality:

Heavy metal - 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 98.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 6185^th most popular in Indonesian Wikipedia.

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The 5253^rd most editable in Indonesian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2356^th most popular in all topics.

The 469^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8676^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5874^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Heavy metal” was edited by 1 authors in Indonesian Wikipedia and written by 27 authors in all languages (5874^th place).

Since the creation of article “Heavy metal”, its content was written by 47 registered users of Indonesian Wikipedia (5253^rd place) and edited by 8208 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (469^th place).

The article is cited 762 times in Indonesian Wikipedia and cited 92424 times in all languages (1535^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): #945 in February 2011
• Global: #492 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, 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	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		100
2	Chinese (zh) 重金属音乐		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		100
4	Hungarian (hu) Heavy metal		100
5	Indonesian (id) Heavy metal		98.7713
6	Czech (cs) Heavy metal		98.5758
7	Galician (gl) Heavy metal		98
8	Slovak (sk) Heavy metal		97.3913
9	Finnish (fi) Metallimusiikki		96.6315
10	Turkish (tr) 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		22 505 215
2	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		9 205 478
3	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		3 517 423
4	Russian (ru) Метал		3 335 424
5	German (de) Metal		3 142 853
6	French (fr) Metal		2 887 976
7	Italian (it) Heavy metal		2 594 219
8	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		2 513 641
9	Polish (pl) Heavy metal		1 918 499
10	Turkish (tr) Heavy metal		872 774

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		62 385
2	Russian (ru) Метал		9 180
3	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		8 402
4	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		7 835
5	French (fr) Metal		6 363
6	German (de) Metal		4 253
7	Italian (it) Heavy metal		3 670
8	Chinese (zh) 重金属音乐		2 836
9	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		2 769
10	Polish (pl) Heavy metal		2 586

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		2 512
2	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		748
3	French (fr) Metal		567
4	German (de) Metal		501
5	Italian (it) Heavy metal		420
6	Russian (ru) Метал		318
7	Portuguese (pt) Heavy metal		256
8	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		199
9	Dutch (nl) Heavy metal		185
10	Hebrew (he) הבי מטאל		184

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	German (de) Metal		6
2	English (en) Heavy metal music		4
3	Spanish (es) Heavy metal		3
4	Italian (it) Heavy metal		3
5	Japanese (ja) ヘヴィメタル		2
6	Russian (ru) Метал		2
7	Catalan (ca) Heavy metal		1
8	Persian (fa) موسیقی هوی متال		1
9	French (fr) Metal		1
10	Hebrew (he) הבי מטאל		1

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

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