Billy Idol

Quality:

Billy Idol - English singer. This person is the 2414^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Billy Idol” in Swedish Wikipedia has 26.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.39 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Swedish Wikipedia:

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The 8498^th most popular in Swedish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8486^th most popular in all topics.

The 2414^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Swedish Wikipedia:

sv

The 6799^th most popular in Swedish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3795^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Billy Idol” was edited by 1 authors in Swedish Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Billy Idol”, its content was written by 44 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 2063 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Billy Idol is on the 2414^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 93 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 3727 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #70 in July 2014
• Global: #2853 in October 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #578 in June 2015
• Global: #2231 in June 2024

There are 38 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) Billy Idol		95.6566
2	Bulgarian (bg) Били Айдъл		82.5287
3	German (de) Billy Idol		75.2908
4	Polish (pl) Billy Idol		64.6497
5	Russian (ru) Айдол, Билли		61.1791
6	Hungarian (hu) Billy Idol		53.6034
7	Finnish (fi) Billy Idol		38.9988
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Billy Idol		36.7219
9	Italian (it) Billy Idol		31.2154
10	Spanish (es) Billy Idol		29.1376

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Billy Idol		18 397 092
2	German (de) Billy Idol		2 751 273
3	Spanish (es) Billy Idol		1 645 641
4	Italian (it) Billy Idol		1 364 051
5	Russian (ru) Айдол, Билли		1 067 901
6	French (fr) Billy Idol		1 061 294
7	Portuguese (pt) Billy Idol		992 643
8	Polish (pl) Billy Idol		530 827
9	Japanese (ja) ビリー・アイドル		465 842
10	Swedish (sv) Billy Idol		300 187

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) Billy Idol		149 367
2	German (de) Billy Idol		22 570
3	Spanish (es) Billy Idol		6 036
4	French (fr) Billy Idol		5 282
5	Russian (ru) Айдол, Билли		4 461
6	Italian (it) Billy Idol		4 298
7	Portuguese (pt) Billy Idol		2 941
8	Japanese (ja) ビリー・アイドル		2 165
9	Polish (pl) Billy Idol		1 504
10	Danish (da) Billy Idol		1 126

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Billy Idol		834
2	German (de) Billy Idol		212
3	French (fr) Billy Idol		142
4	Italian (it) Billy Idol		129
5	Spanish (es) Billy Idol		81
6	Dutch (nl) Billy Idol		74
7	Portuguese (pt) Billy Idol		60
8	Russian (ru) Айдол, Билли		59
9	Finnish (fi) Billy Idol		52
10	Polish (pl) Billy Idol		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) Billy Idol		13
2	Danish (da) Billy Idol		1
3	Swedish (sv) Billy Idol		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Біллі Айдол		1
5	Arabic (ar) بيلي أيدول		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Били Айдъл		0
7	Catalan (ca) Billy Idol		0
8	Czech (cs) Billy Idol		0
9	German (de) Billy Idol		0
10	Greek (el) Billy Idol		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