Bessie Smith

Quality:

Bessie Smith - American blues singer (1892–1937). Article “Bessie Smith” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Bessie Smith”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1653 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 22 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5183 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #324 in October 2012
• Global: #1181 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1025 in May 2015
• Global: #314 in May 2015

There are 37 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) Bessie Smith		76.8178
2	Turkish (tr) Bessie Smith		73.7513
3	Greek (el) Μπέσι Σμιθ		53.9789
4	Japanese (ja) ベッシー・スミス		51.2039
5	Catalan (ca) Bessie Smith		45.2263
6	French (fr) Bessie Smith		40.929
7	German (de) Bessie Smith		38.477
8	Portuguese (pt) Bessie Smith		35.7974
9	Swedish (sv) Bessie Smith		35.1731
10	Armenian (hy) Բեսսի Սմիթ		32.3364

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bessie Smith		7 951 194
2	Spanish (es) Bessie Smith		497 792
3	French (fr) Bessie Smith		437 760
4	German (de) Bessie Smith		414 903
5	Italian (it) Bessie Smith		323 138
6	Portuguese (pt) Bessie Smith		197 556
7	Japanese (ja) ベッシー・スミス		173 784
8	Russian (ru) Смит, Бесси		152 199
9	Polish (pl) Bessie Smith		106 630
10	Swedish (sv) Bessie Smith		69 676

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) Bessie Smith		15 405
2	Spanish (es) Bessie Smith		1 118
3	German (de) Bessie Smith		969
4	French (fr) Bessie Smith		787
5	Italian (it) Bessie Smith		755
6	Japanese (ja) ベッシー・スミス		551
7	Russian (ru) Смит, Бесси		417
8	Portuguese (pt) Bessie Smith		413
9	Dutch (nl) Bessie Smith		130
10	Polish (pl) Bessie Smith		101

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bessie Smith		686
2	German (de) Bessie Smith		154
3	French (fr) Bessie Smith		127
4	Italian (it) Bessie Smith		80
5	Spanish (es) Bessie Smith		48
6	Dutch (nl) Bessie Smith		48
7	Hebrew (he) בסי סמית'		47
8	Russian (ru) Смит, Бесси		39
9	Japanese (ja) ベッシー・スミス		32
10	Galician (gl) Bessie Smith		31

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	German (de) Bessie Smith		2
2	English (en) Bessie Smith		2
3	Arabic (ar) بيسي سميث		1
4	Basque (eu) Bessie Smith		1
5	Japanese (ja) ベッシー・スミス		1
6	Russian (ru) Смит, Бесси		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Беси Смит		0
8	Catalan (ca) Bessie Smith		0
9	Czech (cs) Bessie Smithová		0
10	Danish (da) Bessie Smith		0

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

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