HMV

Quality:

HMV Retail Ltd. - UK entertainment retailing company. This shop is the 149^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of shops and the 192^nd most popular shop in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “HMV” in Japanese Wikipedia has 25.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 39 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Japanese Wikipedia:

The 192^nd most popular in shops in Japanese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 149^th most popular in shops.

The 1765^th most popular in business.

In June 2025 the article “HMV” was edited by 1 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “HMV”, its content was written by 119 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 672 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

HMV Retail Ltd. is on the 192^nd place in local ranking of shops in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 149^th place in global ranking of shops in all the time.

HMV Retail Ltd. is on the 1765^th place in global ranking of business on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1311 times in Japanese Wikipedia (7994^th place) and cited 4029 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #774 in August 2010
• Global: #6260 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #5130 in August 2010
• Global: #4366 in June 2008

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) HMV		95.9411
2	Chinese (zh) HMV		51.4028
3	Italian (it) HMV Group		36.9303
4	Catalan (ca) HMV		28.6182
5	Russian (ru) HMV		27.4125
6	Japanese (ja) HMV		25.7827
7	Norwegian (no) HMV		24.7335
8	Ukrainian (uk) HMV		24.6798
9	Polish (pl) HMV		23.736
10	Portuguese (pt) HMV		20.7818

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HMV		3 821 016
2	Japanese (ja) HMV		895 442
3	Chinese (zh) HMV		225 846
4	Portuguese (pt) HMV		14 579
5	Italian (it) HMV Group		12 495
6	Korean (ko) HMV		9 229
7	Catalan (ca) HMV		6 651
8	Russian (ru) HMV		4 950
9	Greek (el) HMV		4 079
10	Norwegian (no) HMV		2 451

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) HMV		9 734
2	Japanese (ja) HMV		1 954
3	Chinese (zh) HMV		609
4	Russian (ru) HMV		118
5	Italian (it) HMV Group		43
6	Portuguese (pt) HMV		38
7	Polish (pl) HMV		37
8	Korean (ko) HMV		23
9	Ukrainian (uk) HMV		22
10	Indonesian (id) HMV		21

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) HMV		450
2	Japanese (ja) HMV		119
3	Chinese (zh) HMV		48
4	Italian (it) HMV Group		13
5	Greek (el) HMV		8
6	Catalan (ca) HMV		7
7	Norwegian (no) HMV		6
8	Russian (ru) HMV		4
9	Ukrainian (uk) HMV		4
10	Indonesian (id) HMV		3

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) HMV		3
2	Japanese (ja) HMV		1
3	Korean (ko) HMV		1
4	Arabic (ar) اتش ام في		0
5	Catalan (ca) HMV		0
6	Greek (el) HMV		0
7	Indonesian (id) HMV		0
8	Italian (it) HMV Group		0
9	Norwegian (no) HMV		0
10	Polish (pl) HMV		0

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

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