Billy Joel

Quality:

Billy Joel - American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949). This person is the 1026^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 753^rd most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Billy Joel” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5698^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5510^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 753^rd most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3231^st most popular in all topics.

The 4645^th most popular in AI.

The 1026^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2440^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2629^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Billy Joel”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5510^th place) and edited by 3726 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4645^th place).

Billy Joel is on the 753^rd place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1026^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 581 times in Simple English Wikipedia (3193^rd place) and cited 12798 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #44 in November 2014
• Global: #1060 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #221 in August 2025
• Global: #136 in July 2025

There are 46 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	Slovenian (sl) Billy Joel		100
2	Korean (ko) 빌리 조엘		95.6811
3	English (en) Billy Joel		94.2473
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Billy Joel		87.5
5	Hindi (hi) बिली जोएल		72.6246
6	Spanish (es) Billy Joel		56.7571
7	German (de) Billy Joel		53.1839
8	Chinese (zh) 比利·乔尔		47.7811
9	Portuguese (pt) Billy Joel		47.3936
10	Russian (ru) Джоэл, Билли		44.7022

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Billy Joel		38 592 578
2	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ジョエル		3 820 796
3	German (de) Billy Joel		2 660 536
4	Spanish (es) Billy Joel		2 152 954
5	Italian (it) Billy Joel		1 158 267
6	French (fr) Billy Joel		1 089 582
7	Russian (ru) Джоэл, Билли		1 020 230
8	Dutch (nl) Billy Joel		694 307
9	Portuguese (pt) Billy Joel		690 717
10	Polish (pl) Billy Joel		500 001

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) Billy Joel		173 903
2	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ジョエル		15 883
3	German (de) Billy Joel		11 795
4	Spanish (es) Billy Joel		6 589
5	Italian (it) Billy Joel		6 326
6	Russian (ru) Джоэл, Билли		6 050
7	French (fr) Billy Joel		5 174
8	Portuguese (pt) Billy Joel		1 965
9	Dutch (nl) Billy Joel		1 580
10	Polish (pl) Billy Joel		1 473

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Billy Joel		2 004
2	German (de) Billy Joel		209
3	French (fr) Billy Joel		159
4	Italian (it) Billy Joel		149
5	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ジョエル		147
6	Dutch (nl) Billy Joel		131
7	Spanish (es) Billy Joel		104
8	Russian (ru) Джоэл, Билли		92
9	Hebrew (he) בילי ג'ואל		79
10	Portuguese (pt) Billy Joel		76

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) Billy Joel		9
2	French (fr) Billy Joel		2
3	Japanese (ja) ビリー・ジョエル		2
4	Hindi (hi) बिली जोएल		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Billy Joel		1
6	Italian (it) Billy Joel		1
7	Arabic (ar) بيلي جويل		0
8	Belarusian (be) Білі Джоэл		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Били Джоел		0
10	Catalan (ca) Billy Joel		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information