Sam Cooke

Quality:

Sam Cooke - American singer and songwriter (1931–1964). This person is the 3167^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Sam Cooke” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3167^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Sam Cooke”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1741 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sam Cooke is on the 3167^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5907 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #613 in November 2025
• Global: #3746 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3771 in February 2019
• Global: #356 in January 2021

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) Sam Cooke		91.3832
2	Greek (el) Σαμ Κουκ		76.2347
3	Portuguese (pt) Sam Cooke		65.9276
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sam Cooke		59.2237
5	Korean (ko) 샘 쿡		45.7707
6	German (de) Sam Cooke		43.059
7	Croatian (hr) Sam Cooke		30.532
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sam Cooke		30.31
9	Armenian (hy) Սեմ Կուկ		29.7713
10	Bulgarian (bg) Сам Кук		28.4587

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sam Cooke		20 542 785
2	German (de) Sam Cooke		999 220
3	French (fr) Sam Cooke		889 088
4	Spanish (es) Sam Cooke		832 874
5	Japanese (ja) サム・クック		697 736
6	Italian (it) Sam Cooke		691 590
7	Dutch (nl) Sam Cooke		383 648
8	Russian (ru) Кук, Сэм		314 718
9	Portuguese (pt) Sam Cooke		264 857
10	Swedish (sv) Sam Cooke		201 655

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) Sam Cooke		60 334
2	German (de) Sam Cooke		2 902
3	Japanese (ja) サム・クック		2 531
4	French (fr) Sam Cooke		2 480
5	Spanish (es) Sam Cooke		2 095
6	Italian (it) Sam Cooke		1 767
7	Russian (ru) Кук, Сэм		1 140
8	Dutch (nl) Sam Cooke		996
9	Portuguese (pt) Sam Cooke		751
10	Finnish (fi) Sam Cooke		658

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sam Cooke		742
2	German (de) Sam Cooke		134
3	French (fr) Sam Cooke		132
4	Dutch (nl) Sam Cooke		83
5	Italian (it) Sam Cooke		68
6	Spanish (es) Sam Cooke		63
7	Japanese (ja) サム・クック		43
8	Russian (ru) Кук, Сэм		40
9	Swedish (sv) Sam Cooke		36
10	Polish (pl) Sam Cooke		33

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) Sam Cooke		2
2	Korean (ko) 샘 쿡		2
3	Catalan (ca) Sam Cooke		1
4	German (de) Sam Cooke		1
5	Greek (el) Σαμ Κουκ		1
6	Hebrew (he) סם קוק		1
7	Russian (ru) Кук, Сэм		1
8	Arabic (ar) سام كوك		0
9	Belarusian (be) Сэм Кук		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Сам Кук		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