Jacques Brel

Quality:

Jacques Brel - Belgian singer (1929–1978). This person is the 4344^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Jacques Brel” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7687^th most popular in AI.

The 4344^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Jacques Brel”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2879 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7687^th place).

Jacques Brel is on the 4344^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 15 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5483 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4330 in February 2017
• Global: #616 in November 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5847 in November 2020
• Global: #1372 in November 2020

There are 47 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	German (de) Jacques Brel		100
2	English (en) Jacques Brel		96.4336
3	French (fr) Jacques Brel		77.1876
4	Bulgarian (bg) Жак Брел		65.0355
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Jacques Brel		55.1579
6	Dutch (nl) Jacques Brel		53.0936
7	Slovenian (sl) Jacques Brel		49.0546
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Jacques Brel		45.0129
9	Simple English (simple) Jacques Brel		40.1056
10	Japanese (ja) ジャック・ブレル		37.7516

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Jacques Brel		8 933 452
2	English (en) Jacques Brel		3 984 560
3	Dutch (nl) Jacques Brel		1 344 065
4	German (de) Jacques Brel		1 343 456
5	Italian (it) Jacques Brel		656 461
6	Spanish (es) Jacques Brel		640 687
7	Russian (ru) Брель, Жак		507 566
8	Portuguese (pt) Jacques Brel		450 621
9	Polish (pl) Jacques Brel		324 234
10	Swedish (sv) Jacques Brel		214 192

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Jacques Brel		37 691
2	English (en) Jacques Brel		12 744
3	German (de) Jacques Brel		3 900
4	Dutch (nl) Jacques Brel		3 750
5	Italian (it) Jacques Brel		1 844
6	Russian (ru) Брель, Жак		1 566
7	Spanish (es) Jacques Brel		1 480
8	Polish (pl) Jacques Brel		619
9	Portuguese (pt) Jacques Brel		577
10	Swedish (sv) Jacques Brel		502

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Jacques Brel		658
2	English (en) Jacques Brel		451
3	German (de) Jacques Brel		249
4	Dutch (nl) Jacques Brel		242
5	Italian (it) Jacques Brel		151
6	Hebrew (he) ז'אק ברל		95
7	Russian (ru) Брель, Жак		82
8	Spanish (es) Jacques Brel		66
9	Portuguese (pt) Jacques Brel		60
10	Norwegian (no) Jacques Brel		48

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	French (fr) Jacques Brel		6
2	English (en) Jacques Brel		1
3	Japanese (ja) ジャック・ブレル		1
4	Turkish (tr) Jacques Brel		1
5	Arabic (ar) جاك بريل		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Jak Brel		0
7	Belarusian (be) Жак Брэль		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Жак Брел		0
9	Catalan (ca) Jacques Brel		0
10	Czech (cs) Jacques Brel		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 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