Elvis Costello

Quality:

Elvis Costello - English singer-songwriter (born 1954). This person is the 3826^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Elvis Costello” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 3 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:

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The 8910^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3826^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Elvis Costello”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8910^th place) and edited by 2213 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Elvis Costello is on the 3826^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 53 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8151 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #391 in July 2005
• Global: #1034 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5574 in September 2016
• Global: #2932 in January 2022

There are 42 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) Elvis Costello		90
2	French (fr) Elvis Costello		52.0934
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Elvis Costello		50.0086
4	German (de) Elvis Costello		43.6201
5	Swedish (sv) Elvis Costello		38.7294
6	Italian (it) Elvis Costello		33.9083
7	Ukrainian (uk) Елвіс Костелло		32.9414
8	Lithuanian (lt) Elvis Costello		31.4269
9	Portuguese (pt) Elvis Costello		31.0246
10	Greek (el) Έλβις Κοστέλο		30.3356

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elvis Costello		16 254 781
2	Japanese (ja) エルヴィス・コステロ		1 393 822
3	German (de) Elvis Costello		1 118 064
4	Spanish (es) Elvis Costello		940 008
5	French (fr) Elvis Costello		708 574
6	Italian (it) Elvis Costello		667 346
7	Russian (ru) Элвис Костелло		353 581
8	Portuguese (pt) Elvis Costello		333 305
9	Dutch (nl) Elvis Costello		287 588
10	Polish (pl) Elvis Costello		178 860

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) Elvis Costello		68 520
2	German (de) Elvis Costello		3 719
3	Japanese (ja) エルヴィス・コステロ		3 683
4	Italian (it) Elvis Costello		2 350
5	French (fr) Elvis Costello		2 287
6	Spanish (es) Elvis Costello		2 286
7	Dutch (nl) Elvis Costello		1 360
8	Swedish (sv) Elvis Costello		1 176
9	Russian (ru) Элвис Костелло		907
10	Portuguese (pt) Elvis Costello		749

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elvis Costello		981
2	German (de) Elvis Costello		160
3	French (fr) Elvis Costello		146
4	Italian (it) Elvis Costello		119
5	Dutch (nl) Elvis Costello		86
6	Japanese (ja) エルヴィス・コステロ		83
7	Russian (ru) Элвис Костелло		68
8	Spanish (es) Elvis Costello		62
9	Hebrew (he) אלביס קוסטלו		54
10	Polish (pl) Elvis Costello		47

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) Elvis Costello		2
2	Arabic (ar) إلفيس كوستيلو		1
3	Catalan (ca) Elvis Costello		1
4	German (de) Elvis Costello		1
5	French (fr) Elvis Costello		1
6	Italian (it) Elvis Costello		1
7	Japanese (ja) エルヴィス・コステロ		1
8	Belarusian (be) Элвіс Кастэла		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Елвис Костело		0
10	Czech (cs) Elvis Costello		0

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

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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