Buddy Holly

Quality:

Buddy Holly - American rock and roll singer (1936–1959). This person is the 1791^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Buddy Holly” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 30.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

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The 9261^st most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia.

no

The 5864^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6217^th most popular in all topics.

The 7889^th most popular in AI.

The 1791^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 3379^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8180^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Buddy Holly” was edited by 1 authors in Norwegian Wikipedia (3379^th place) and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Buddy Holly”, its content was written by 72 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (5864^th place) and edited by 2844 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7889^th place).

Buddy Holly is on the 1791^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 126 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 6788 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #198 in August 2005
• Global: #977 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #949 in September 2010
• Global: #737 in February 2009

There are 45 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) Buddy Holly		94.4417
2	Chinese (zh) 巴迪·霍利		90.3079
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Buddy Holly		87.5
4	Japanese (ja) バディ・ホリー		71.1297
5	Spanish (es) Buddy Holly		65.1879
6	Korean (ko) 버디 홀리		52.9666
7	German (de) Buddy Holly		51.3756
8	Italian (it) Buddy Holly		50.1871
9	Finnish (fi) Buddy Holly		48.9917
10	Russian (ru) Холли, Бадди		37.3655

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Buddy Holly		25 820 792
2	German (de) Buddy Holly		1 976 368
3	Spanish (es) Buddy Holly		1 617 458
4	Russian (ru) Холли, Бадди		1 045 516
5	French (fr) Buddy Holly		939 933
6	Italian (it) Buddy Holly		783 343
7	Japanese (ja) バディ・ホリー		757 544
8	Portuguese (pt) Buddy Holly		590 076
9	Dutch (nl) Buddy Holly		547 379
10	Polish (pl) Buddy Holly		435 306

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) Buddy Holly		97 921
2	German (de) Buddy Holly		6 893
3	Spanish (es) Buddy Holly		4 614
4	Russian (ru) Холли, Бадди		3 297
5	Japanese (ja) バディ・ホリー		3 114
6	French (fr) Buddy Holly		2 702
7	Italian (it) Buddy Holly		2 317
8	Portuguese (pt) Buddy Holly		2 163
9	Dutch (nl) Buddy Holly		1 383
10	Swedish (sv) Buddy Holly		1 065

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Buddy Holly		1 171
2	German (de) Buddy Holly		215
3	French (fr) Buddy Holly		148
4	Italian (it) Buddy Holly		117
5	Dutch (nl) Buddy Holly		106
6	Russian (ru) Холли, Бадди		97
7	Spanish (es) Buddy Holly		88
8	Norwegian (no) Buddy Holly		72
9	Hungarian (hu) Buddy Holly		69
10	Japanese (ja) バディ・ホリー		61

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) Buddy Holly		8
2	Japanese (ja) バディ・ホリー		2
3	Turkish (tr) Buddy Holly		2
4	Arabic (ar) بودي هولي		1
5	Persian (fa) بادی هالی		1
6	Norwegian (no) Buddy Holly		1
7	Polish (pl) Buddy Holly		1
8	Russian (ru) Холли, Бадди		1
9	Chinese (zh) 巴迪·霍利		1
10	Belarusian (be) Бадзі Холі		0

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

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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