Black metal

simple

WikiRank.net
ver. 1.6.2

Black metal

Quality:

Black metal - subgenre of heavy metal music. Article “Black metal” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 9518th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 8013th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 2253rd most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Black metal”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8013th place) and edited by 4854 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2253rd place).

The article is cited 68 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 23561 times in all languages (6962nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #539 in May 2007
  • Global: #152 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #2466 in August 2023
  • Global: #2226 in July 2008

There are 49 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
1English (en)
Black metal
100
2Indonesian (id)
Black metal
100
3Finnish (fi)
Black metal
96
4Slovak (sk)
Black metal
93.8462
5German (de)
Black Metal
93.1905
6Romanian (ro)
Black metal
89.3333
7Vietnamese (vi)
Black metal
75.6812
8Russian (ru)
Блэк-метал
75.2083
9French (fr)
Black metal
73.8714
10Danish (da)
Black metal
73.7111
More...

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 "Black metal" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Black metal
11 694 105
2Spanish (es)
Black metal
3 023 463
3Russian (ru)
Блэк-метал
2 277 776
4German (de)
Black Metal
1 813 601
5Portuguese (pt)
Black metal
1 216 141
6French (fr)
Black metal
972 672
7Italian (it)
Black metal
961 545
8Polish (pl)
Black metal
830 565
9Japanese (ja)
ブラックメタル
823 015
10Finnish (fi)
Black metal
460 498
More...

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 "Black metal" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Black metal
36 189
2Russian (ru)
Блэк-метал
7 353
3Spanish (es)
Black metal
3 889
4French (fr)
Black metal
3 420
5German (de)
Black Metal
3 369
6Japanese (ja)
ブラックメタル
2 322
7Portuguese (pt)
Black metal
1 925
8Italian (it)
Black metal
1 918
9Polish (pl)
Black metal
1 373
10Finnish (fi)
Black metal
715
More...

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

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Black metal" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Black metal
1 271
2German (de)
Black Metal
373
3French (fr)
Black metal
367
4Spanish (es)
Black metal
355
5Russian (ru)
Блэк-метал
266
6Italian (it)
Black metal
249
7Portuguese (pt)
Black metal
184
8Finnish (fi)
Black metal
153
9Dutch (nl)
Black metal
142
10Polish (pl)
Black metal
117
More...

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 "Black metal" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Black metal
9
2Hebrew (he)
בלאק מטאל
2
3German (de)
Black Metal
1
4Spanish (es)
Black metal
1
5Persian (fa)
بلک متال
1
6Indonesian (id)
Black metal
1
7Dutch (nl)
Black metal
1
8Russian (ru)
Блэк-метал
1
9Arabic (ar)
بلاك ميتال
0
10Azerbaijani (az)
Blək metal
0
More...

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

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Black metal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Black metal
3 205
2German (de)
Black Metal
1 829
3Italian (it)
Black metal
1 657
4Polish (pl)
Black metal
1 636
5French (fr)
Black metal
1 491
6Russian (ru)
Блэк-метал
1 408
7Finnish (fi)
Black metal
1 401
8Spanish (es)
Black metal
1 232
9Swedish (sv)
Black metal
1 030
10Norwegian (no)
Black metal
869
More...

Scores

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

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بلاك ميتال
azAzerbaijani
Blək metal
beBelarusian
Блэк-метал
bgBulgarian
Блек метъл
caCatalan
Black metal
csCzech
Black metal
daDanish
Black metal
deGerman
Black Metal
elGreek
Black metal
enEnglish
Black metal
eoEsperanto
Nigra metalroko
esSpanish
Black metal
etEstonian
Black metal
euBasque
Black metal
faPersian
بلک متال
fiFinnish
Black metal
frFrench
Black metal
glGalician
Black metal
heHebrew
בלאק מטאל
hrCroatian
Black metal
huHungarian
Black metal
hyArmenian
Բլեք մետալ
idIndonesian
Black metal
itItalian
Black metal
jaJapanese
ブラックメタル
kaGeorgian
ბლეკ-მეტალი
koKorean
블랙 메탈
laLatin
Metallum nigrum
ltLithuanian
Juodasis metalas
msMalay
Black Metal
nlDutch
Black metal
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Svartmetall
noNorwegian
Black metal
plPolish
Black metal
ptPortuguese
Black metal
roRomanian
Black metal
ruRussian
Блэк-метал
shSerbo-Croatian
Black metal
simpleSimple English
Black metal
skSlovak
Black metal
slSlovenian
Black metal
srSerbian
Блек метал
svSwedish
Black metal
taTamil
மெட்டல் இசை
thThai
แบล็กเมทัล
trTurkish
Black metal
ukUkrainian
Блек-метал
viVietnamese
Black metal
zhChinese
黑金屬音樂

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2466
08.2023
Global:
#2226
07.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#539
05.2007
Global:
#152
08.2002

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Black metal from Wikipedia articles about Heavy metal, Death metal, Extreme metal, Thrash metal and Mayhem. Whereas reading the article about Black metal people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Mayhem, Death metal, Corpse paint, Venom and National Socialist black metal.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Black metal

News from 26 January 2026

On 26 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: killing of Alex Pretti, Alex Honnold, Nipah virus, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Donald Trump, Sam Darnold, Sinners, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Marty Supreme, deaths in 2026.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Pornhub, List of European countries, Black, XXXTentacion, XVideos, List of people who have walked on the Moon, SOLID (object-oriented design), List of U.S. states, Super Bowl XLVIII, Wikipedia.

About WikiRank

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