Samba

Quality:

Samba - Brazilian music genre. Article “Samba” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 95 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 743 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Samba”, its content was written by 260 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia (885^th place) and edited by 2243 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2241 times in Portuguese Wikipedia (2183^rd place) and cited 8992 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #44 in October 2003
• Global: #921 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #89 in November 2013
• Global: #9210 in November 2008

There are 48 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, 2026 (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) Samba		100
2	French (fr) Samba (musique)		96.1538
3	Portuguese (pt) Samba		95
4	Esperanto (eo) Sambo (muziko)		93.1562
5	Basque (eu) Sanba		89.2045
6	Chinese (zh) 森巴 (巴西音樂)		64.5238
7	Spanish (es) Samba (música)		45.2916
8	Catalan (ca) Samba (música)		44.1527
9	Serbian (sr) Самба (музика)		43.9994
10	Greek (el) Σάμπα		41.8576

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Portuguese (pt) Samba		5 576 218
2	English (en) Samba		4 979 060
3	Spanish (es) Samba (música)		1 883 320
4	Japanese (ja) サンバ (ブラジル)		998 566
5	French (fr) Samba (musique)		658 266
6	Italian (it) Samba		466 997
7	German (de) Samba (Musik)		317 965
8	Polish (pl) Samba		285 232
9	Russian (ru) Самба (музыка)		146 563
10	Arabic (ar) سامبا		140 522

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) Samba		11 195
2	Portuguese (pt) Samba		3 478
3	Japanese (ja) サンバ (ブラジル)		2 164
4	Spanish (es) Samba (música)		1 339
5	French (fr) Samba (musique)		1 258
6	Italian (it) Samba		969
7	German (de) Samba (Musik)		799
8	Chinese (zh) 森巴 (巴西音樂)		320
9	Dutch (nl) Samba (muziek)		293
10	Persian (fa) سامبا		291

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Samba		679
2	Portuguese (pt) Samba		260
3	French (fr) Samba (musique)		169
4	German (de) Samba (Musik)		145
5	Spanish (es) Samba (música)		124
6	Italian (it) Samba		119
7	Dutch (nl) Samba (muziek)		105
8	Japanese (ja) サンバ (ブラジル)		76
9	Hebrew (he) סמבה		48
10	Galician (gl) Samba		38

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) Samba		2
2	Basque (eu) Sanba		1
3	Hebrew (he) סמבה		1
4	Korean (ko) 삼바		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Samba (muzika)		1
6	Arabic (ar) سامبا		0
7	Belarusian (be) Самба (музыка)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Самба		0
9	Catalan (ca) Samba (música)		0
10	Czech (cs) Samba (hudba)		0

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

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