Folk music

Quality:

Folk music - music meta-genre encompassing traditional folk music, contemporary folk music (evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival), and derivatives of these two branches. Article “Folk music” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.75 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Folk music” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (794^th place) and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Folk music”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7427^th place) and edited by 2250 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 625 times in Simple English Wikipedia (2357^th place) and cited 46878 times in all languages (3398^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #32 in March 2017
• Global: #770 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #185 in March 2022
• Global: #2309 in November 2014

There are 33 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Folk music		88.3469
2	Norwegian (no) Folkemusikk		48.0193
3	Russian (ru) Фолк		40.3392
4	German (de) Folk		33.2997
5	Ukrainian (uk) Національна музика		33.2285
6	Armenian (hy) Ֆոլկ երաժշտություն		31.9264
7	Spanish (es) Música folclórica		28.6161
8	Arabic (ar) موسيقى شعبية		28.2418
9	Hebrew (he) מוזיקת פולק		27.2566
10	Serbian (sr) Фолк музика		26.9557

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Folk music		13 691 491
2	Spanish (es) Música folclórica		2 876 404
3	Indonesian (id) Lagu daerah		1 931 158
4	French (fr) Musique folk		963 655
5	German (de) Folk		943 207
6	Persian (fa) موسیقی فولکلور		347 515
7	Norwegian (no) Folkemusikk		335 959
8	Dutch (nl) Folk		257 572
9	Russian (ru) Фолк		254 286
10	Chinese (zh) 民間音樂		236 327

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) Folk music		36 054
2	Spanish (es) Música folclórica		2 848
3	French (fr) Musique folk		2 383
4	German (de) Folk		2 012
5	Indonesian (id) Lagu daerah		1 380
6	Simple English (simple) Folk music		1 272
7	Chinese (zh) 民間音樂		982
8	Russian (ru) Фолк		841
9	Persian (fa) موسیقی فولکلور		667
10	Hebrew (he) מוזיקת פולק		556

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Folk music		1 010
2	German (de) Folk		249
3	Spanish (es) Música folclórica		164
4	French (fr) Musique folk		144
5	Dutch (nl) Folk		105
6	Norwegian (no) Folkemusikk		78
7	Indonesian (id) Lagu daerah		73
8	Hebrew (he) מוזיקת פולק		68
9	Chinese (zh) 民間音樂		30
10	Persian (fa) موسیقی فولکلور		28

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) Folk music		4
2	Simple English (simple) Folk music		3
3	Catalan (ca) Folk		2
4	French (fr) Musique folk		1
5	Serbian (sr) Фолк музика		1
6	Chinese (zh) 民間音樂		1
7	Arabic (ar) موسيقى شعبية		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Xalq musiqisi		0
9	Belarusian (be) Фолк-музыка		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Фолклорна музика		0

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

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