Billy Joel

Quality:

Billy Joel - American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949). This person is the 1088^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Billy Joel” in Dutch Wikipedia has 27.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Dutch Wikipedia:

nl

The 5119^th most popular in Dutch Wikipedia.

nl

The 6716^th most editable in Dutch Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3538^th most popular in all topics.

The 4815^th most popular in AI.

The 1088^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Dutch Wikipedia:

nl

The 1151^st most popular in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

nl

The 4530^th most editable in Dutch Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1192^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4955^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Billy Joel” was edited by 2 authors in Dutch Wikipedia (4530^th place) and written by 29 authors in all languages (4955^th place).

Since the creation of article “Billy Joel”, its content was written by 127 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia (6716^th place) and edited by 3609 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4815^th place).

Billy Joel is on the 1088^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 246 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 12447 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #523 in December 2018
• Global: #1061 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #83 in December 2024
• Global: #269 in April 2024

There are 46 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	Slovenian (sl) Billy Joel		100
2	English (en) Billy Joel		91.8152
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Billy Joel		87.5
4	Hindi (hi) बिली जोएल		71.263
5	Spanish (es) Billy Joel		57.8832
6	German (de) Billy Joel		53.3153
7	Chinese (zh) 比利·乔尔		47.8512
8	Russian (ru) Джоэл, Билли		44.6134
9	Portuguese (pt) Billy Joel		44.4013
10	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ジョエル		43.0638

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Billy Joel		34 920 790
2	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ジョエル		3 648 973
3	German (de) Billy Joel		2 453 619
4	Spanish (es) Billy Joel		2 041 510
5	Italian (it) Billy Joel		1 066 718
6	French (fr) Billy Joel		1 000 102
7	Russian (ru) Джоэл, Билли		908 570
8	Portuguese (pt) Billy Joel		652 332
9	Dutch (nl) Billy Joel		642 459
10	Polish (pl) Billy Joel		469 399

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) Billy Joel		340 444
2	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ジョエル		13 930
3	German (de) Billy Joel		11 171
4	Spanish (es) Billy Joel		10 610
5	Italian (it) Billy Joel		5 683
6	Dutch (nl) Billy Joel		5 228
7	French (fr) Billy Joel		5 205
8	Russian (ru) Джоэл, Билли		3 662
9	Portuguese (pt) Billy Joel		3 571
10	Polish (pl) Billy Joel		1 292

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Billy Joel		1 931
2	German (de) Billy Joel		202
3	French (fr) Billy Joel		155
4	Italian (it) Billy Joel		147
5	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ジョエル		140
6	Dutch (nl) Billy Joel		127
7	Spanish (es) Billy Joel		101
8	Russian (ru) Джоэл, Билли		89
9	Hebrew (he) בילי ג'ואל		75
10	Portuguese (pt) Billy Joel		74

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) Billy Joel		18
2	Dutch (nl) Billy Joel		2
3	Arabic (ar) بيلي جويل		1
4	Catalan (ca) Billy Joel		1
5	German (de) Billy Joel		1
6	Persian (fa) بیلی جول		1
7	Hebrew (he) בילי ג'ואל		1
8	Italian (it) Billy Joel		1
9	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ジョエル		1
10	Norwegian (no) Billy Joel		1

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

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In Dutch Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Vincent Kompany, Glennis Grace, Remko Pasveer, Kristi Noem, Lijst van James Bondfilms, Doemdagklok, Eddy Terstall, Maarten Paes, Rob Jetten, Raye.

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information