Stand by Me (Ben E. King)

Quality:

Stand by Me - song written and composed by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, originally recorded by Ben E. King in 1961. Article “Stand by Me (Ben E. King)” in Dutch Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Stand by Me (Ben E. King)”, its content was written by 49 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 909 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 27 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 2376 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #512 in May 2015
• Global: #4171 in May 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #4530 in June 2016
• Global: #4830 in May 2018

There are 24 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) Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)		94.2857
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Stand by Me		67.133
3	Japanese (ja) スタンド・バイ・ミー (ベン・E・キングの曲)		66.7352
4	German (de) Stand by Me (Lied)		54.8812
5	Portuguese (pt) Stand by Me (canção de Ben E. King)		35.4093
6	Catalan (ca) Stand by Me (cançó)		31.1394
7	Swedish (sv) Stand by Me (sång)		26.4852
8	Greek (el) Stand by Me (τραγούδι, Μπεν Ε. Κινγκ)		25.1912
9	Polish (pl) Stand by Me		24.4995
10	Finnish (fi) Stand by Me (Ben E. Kingin kappale)		22.8552

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)		2 374 642
2	Spanish (es) Stand by Me (canción de Ben E. King)		1 423 412
3	French (fr) Stand by Me (chanson de Ben E. King)		817 452
4	Japanese (ja) スタンド・バイ・ミー (ベン・E・キングの曲)		556 779
5	German (de) Stand by Me (Lied)		535 885
6	Italian (it) Stand by Me (Ben E. King)		500 818
7	Portuguese (pt) Stand by Me (canção de Ben E. King)		251 218
8	Dutch (nl) Stand by Me (Ben E. King)		133 479
9	Russian (ru) Stand by Me		132 159
10	Swedish (sv) Stand by Me (sång)		119 791

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) Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)		21 445
2	Japanese (ja) スタンド・バイ・ミー (ベン・E・キングの曲)		2 218
3	French (fr) Stand by Me (chanson de Ben E. King)		1 713
4	German (de) Stand by Me (Lied)		1 706
5	Italian (it) Stand by Me (Ben E. King)		1 512
6	Spanish (es) Stand by Me (canción de Ben E. King)		910
7	Russian (ru) Stand by Me		624
8	Portuguese (pt) Stand by Me (canção de Ben E. King)		550
9	Simple English (simple) Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)		372
10	Swedish (sv) Stand by Me (sång)		357

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)		450
2	French (fr) Stand by Me (chanson de Ben E. King)		77
3	Spanish (es) Stand by Me (canción de Ben E. King)		69
4	German (de) Stand by Me (Lied)		66
5	Italian (it) Stand by Me (Ben E. King)		59
6	Dutch (nl) Stand by Me (Ben E. King)		49
7	Japanese (ja) スタンド・バイ・ミー (ベン・E・キングの曲)		25
8	Portuguese (pt) Stand by Me (canção de Ben E. King)		18
9	Swedish (sv) Stand by Me (sång)		17
10	Hebrew (he) Stand by Me (שיר)		13

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) Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)		3
2	Spanish (es) Stand by Me (canción de Ben E. King)		1
3	Croatian (hr) Stand by Me (pjesma)		1
4	Georgian (ka) Stand by Me (სიმღერა)		1
5	Catalan (ca) Stand by Me (cançó)		0
6	German (de) Stand by Me (Lied)		0
7	Greek (el) Stand by Me (τραγούδι, Μπεν Ε. Κινγκ)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Stand by Me (Ben E. Kingin kappale)		0
9	French (fr) Stand by Me (chanson de Ben E. King)		0
10	Hebrew (he) Stand by Me (שיר)		0

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

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