Indie music

Quality:

Independent music - collective term for music scene that acts independently of corporate music industry. Article “Indie music” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.67 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 2026 the article “Indie music” was edited by 4 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (177^th place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Indie music”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7899^th place) and edited by 1631 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 100 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13610 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #177 in June 2026
• Global: #2984 in April 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1019 in August 2020
• Global: #7741 in January 2008

There are 30 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) Indie music		87.7174
2	Italian (it) Musica indipendente		52.0031
3	Malay (ms) Muzik indie		49.7044
4	French (fr) Musique indépendante		43.6221
5	Dutch (nl) Indie (muziek)		36.9952
6	Ukrainian (uk) Незалежна музика		33.4825
7	Vietnamese (vi) Nhạc indie		31.0003
8	Indonesian (id) Musik indi		28.5643
9	Hebrew (he) מוזיקת אינדי		26.1945
10	Korean (ko) 독립 음악		25.0998

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Indie music		5 061 075
2	Japanese (ja) インディーズ		1 733 788
3	Italian (it) Musica indipendente		1 001 401
4	Dutch (nl) Indie (muziek)		772 800
5	Russian (ru) Инди (музыка)		632 886
6	Spanish (es) Música independiente		490 469
7	Chinese (zh) 獨立音樂		349 805
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nhạc indie		225 804
9	Korean (ko) 독립 음악		207 474
10	Swedish (sv) Indie		195 229

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) Indie music		10 109
2	Japanese (ja) インディーズ		3 074
3	Dutch (nl) Indie (muziek)		1 203
4	Russian (ru) Инди (музыка)		1 017
5	Italian (it) Musica indipendente		656
6	Chinese (zh) 獨立音樂		538
7	Spanish (es) Música independiente		461
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nhạc indie		387
9	French (fr) Musique indépendante		347
10	Polish (pl) Muzyka niezależna		231

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Indie music		678
2	Dutch (nl) Indie (muziek)		190
3	Japanese (ja) インディーズ		185
4	Italian (it) Musica indipendente		137
5	Hebrew (he) מוזיקת אינדי		58
6	Spanish (es) Música independiente		54
7	Korean (ko) 독립 음악		40
8	Russian (ru) Инди (музыка)		34
9	Swedish (sv) Indie		33
10	Chinese (zh) 獨立音樂		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	English (en) Indie music		4
2	Simple English (simple) Indie music		4
3	Arabic (ar) موسيقى مستقلة		1
4	Indonesian (id) Musik indi		1
5	Catalan (ca) Música independent		0
6	Danish (da) Indie (musik)		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Sendependa muziko		0
8	Spanish (es) Música independiente		0
9	Estonian (et) Indie		0
10	Basque (eu) Musika independente		0

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

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