Hush (Billy Joe Royal)

Hush - song written by American composer and musician Joe South, for recording artist Billy Joe Royal, later covered by Deep Purple. Article “Hush (Billy Joe Royal)” in Italian Wikipedia has 31.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Hush (Billy Joe Royal)”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 273 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 132 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 1124 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #5082 in April 2019
• Global: #50676 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #107712 in September 2023
• Global: #146810 in August 2019

There are 15 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Hush		52.9245
2	English (en) Hush (Billy Joe Royal song)		41.6048
3	Greek (el) Hush (τραγούδι του Μπίλι Τζο Ρόγιαλ)		34.9293
4	Polish (pl) Hush (piosenka)		32.2307
5	Dutch (nl) Hush (Joe South)		31.8889
6	Italian (it) Hush (Billy Joe Royal)		31.553
7	Swedish (sv) Hush (låt)		28.3142
8	Russian (ru) Hush (песня Билли Джо Ройала)		22.6373
9	French (fr) Hush (chanson de Joe South)		17.7786
10	German (de) Hush (Lied)		17.1052

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Hush (Billy Joe Royal)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hush (Billy Joe Royal song)		993 079
2	Russian (ru) Hush (песня Билли Джо Ройала)		68 815
3	French (fr) Hush (chanson de Joe South)		40 577
4	Italian (it) Hush (Billy Joe Royal)		23 345
5	Polish (pl) Hush (piosenka)		21 386
6	German (de) Hush (Lied)		17 635
7	Dutch (nl) Hush (Joe South)		17 219
8	Spanish (es) Hush (canción de Billy Joe Royal)		14 296
9	Swedish (sv) Hush (låt)		11 288
10	Czech (cs) Hush		6 627

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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 "Hush (Billy Joe Royal)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hush (Billy Joe Royal song)		4 343
2	German (de) Hush (Lied)		410
3	French (fr) Hush (chanson de Joe South)		268
4	Russian (ru) Hush (песня Билли Джо Ройала)		268
5	Spanish (es) Hush (canción de Billy Joe Royal)		211
6	Italian (it) Hush (Billy Joe Royal)		191
7	Swedish (sv) Hush (låt)		69
8	Dutch (nl) Hush (Joe South)		56
9	Polish (pl) Hush (piosenka)		55
10	Czech (cs) Hush		31

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

Language versions of the article "Hush (Billy Joe Royal)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hush (Billy Joe Royal song)		161
2	Italian (it) Hush (Billy Joe Royal)		28
3	Spanish (es) Hush (canción de Billy Joe Royal)		11
4	Dutch (nl) Hush (Joe South)		11
5	Russian (ru) Hush (песня Билли Джо Ройала)		11
6	Georgian (ka) Hush (სიმღერა)		9
7	Polish (pl) Hush (piosenka)		9
8	German (de) Hush (Lied)		8
9	French (fr) Hush (chanson de Joe South)		8
10	Swedish (sv) Hush (låt)		6

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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 "Hush (Billy Joe Royal)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Hush (Lied)		1
2	English (en) Hush (Billy Joe Royal song)		1
3	Czech (cs) Hush		0
4	Greek (el) Hush (τραγούδι του Μπίλι Τζο Ρόγιαλ)		0
5	Spanish (es) Hush (canción de Billy Joe Royal)		0
6	Basque (eu) Hush (Billy Joe Royalen abestia)		0
7	French (fr) Hush (chanson de Joe South)		0
8	Galician (gl) Hush (canción de Billy Joe Royal)		0
9	Italian (it) Hush (Billy Joe Royal)		0
10	Georgian (ka) Hush (სიმღერა)		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 "Hush (Billy Joe Royal)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hush (Billy Joe Royal song)		282
2	Greek (el) Hush (τραγούδι του Μπίλι Τζο Ρόγιαλ)		234
3	Italian (it) Hush (Billy Joe Royal)		132
4	Polish (pl) Hush (piosenka)		116
5	Russian (ru) Hush (песня Билли Джо Ройала)		116
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Hush		93
7	Georgian (ka) Hush (სიმღერა)		61
8	French (fr) Hush (chanson de Joe South)		31
9	Spanish (es) Hush (canción de Billy Joe Royal)		16
10	Dutch (nl) Hush (Joe South)		12

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Hush
de	German Hush (Lied)
el	Greek Hush (τραγούδι του Μπίλι Τζο Ρόγιαλ)
en	English Hush (Billy Joe Royal song)
es	Spanish Hush (canción de Billy Joe Royal)
eu	Basque Hush (Billy Joe Royalen abestia)
fr	French Hush (chanson de Joe South)
gl	Galician Hush (canción de Billy Joe Royal)
it	Italian Hush (Billy Joe Royal)
ka	Georgian Hush (სიმღერა)
nl	Dutch Hush (Joe South)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Hush
pl	Polish Hush (piosenka)
ru	Russian Hush (песня Билли Джо Ройала)
sv	Swedish Hush (låt)

Best Rank

Italian: #107712 09.2023

Global: #146810 08.2019

Best Rank

Italian: #5082 04.2019

Global: #50676 05.2012

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