Background music

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Background music

Quality:

Background music - music in a film, video game or other medium that establishes mood. Article “Background music” in Simple English Wikipedia has 50.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.64 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Background music”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 424 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3873 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #890 in July 2024
  • Global: #55612 in May 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #7437 in March 2022
  • Global: #83715 in February 2009

There are 16 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Simple English (simple)
Background music
50.1632
2English (en)
Background music
41.0343
3Russian (ru)
Фоновая музыка
36.2364
4Italian (it)
Musica di sottofondo
34.719
5Finnish (fi)
Taustamusiikki
33.4829
6Ukrainian (uk)
Фонова музика
31.5702
7German (de)
Hintergrundmusik
28.1331
8Japanese (ja)
背景音楽
16.7171
9French (fr)
Musique d'ambiance
16.2843
10Chinese (zh)
背景音乐
10.2484
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Background music" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Background music
1 104 701
2Japanese (ja)
背景音楽
594 775
3German (de)
Hintergrundmusik
287 222
4Chinese (zh)
背景音乐
190 559
5French (fr)
Musique d'ambiance
83 181
6Spanish (es)
Música de fondo
79 559
7Russian (ru)
Фоновая музыка
51 045
8Italian (it)
Musica di sottofondo
33 619
9Dutch (nl)
Achtergrondmuziek
33 329
10Korean (ko)
배경 음악
30 768
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Background music" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Background music
2 738
2Japanese (ja)
背景音楽
772
3Chinese (zh)
背景音乐
510
4German (de)
Hintergrundmusik
347
5Russian (ru)
Фоновая музыка
245
6French (fr)
Musique d'ambiance
138
7Italian (it)
Musica di sottofondo
132
8Hebrew (he)
מוזיקת אווירה
130
9Spanish (es)
Música de fondo
115
10Korean (ko)
배경 음악
91
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Background music" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Background music
190
2Japanese (ja)
背景音楽
41
3French (fr)
Musique d'ambiance
29
4German (de)
Hintergrundmusik
27
5Dutch (nl)
Achtergrondmuziek
25
6Italian (it)
Musica di sottofondo
21
7Chinese (zh)
背景音乐
17
8Korean (ko)
배경 음악
12
9Vietnamese (vi)
Nhạc nền
12
10Polish (pl)
Muzyka tła
10
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Background music" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Hintergrundmusik
0
2English (en)
Background music
0
3Spanish (es)
Música de fondo
0
4Finnish (fi)
Taustamusiikki
0
5French (fr)
Musique d'ambiance
0
6Hebrew (he)
מוזיקת אווירה
0
7Italian (it)
Musica di sottofondo
0
8Japanese (ja)
背景音楽
0
9Korean (ko)
배경 음악
0
10Dutch (nl)
Achtergrondmuziek
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Background music" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Japanese (ja)
背景音楽
2 566
2English (en)
Background music
501
3Chinese (zh)
背景音乐
250
4German (de)
Hintergrundmusik
101
5French (fr)
Musique d'ambiance
97
6Korean (ko)
배경 음악
64
7Spanish (es)
Música de fondo
55
8Vietnamese (vi)
Nhạc nền
55
9Russian (ru)
Фоновая музыка
51
10Italian (it)
Musica di sottofondo
45
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Hintergrundmusik
enEnglish
Background music
esSpanish
Música de fondo
fiFinnish
Taustamusiikki
frFrench
Musique d'ambiance
heHebrew
מוזיקת אווירה
itItalian
Musica di sottofondo
jaJapanese
背景音楽
koKorean
배경 음악
nlDutch
Achtergrondmuziek
plPolish
Muzyka tła
ruRussian
Фоновая музыка
simpleSimple English
Background music
ukUkrainian
Фонова музика
viVietnamese
Nhạc nền
zhChinese
背景音乐

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#7437
03.2022
Global:
#83715
02.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#890
07.2024
Global:
#55612
05.2019

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Background music from Wikipedia articles about Muzak, Ambient music, Easy listening, Elevator music and Furniture music. Whereas reading the article about Background music people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Muzak, Elevator music, Video game music, Incidental music and Ambient music.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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