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Heavy metal

Quality:

Heavy metal - genre of rock music characterized by slack-tuned instruments, and unconventional changes of tonality (key) and time signature (metre). Article “Heavy metal” in Swedish Wikipedia has 26.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.38 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Swedish Wikipedia:
The 3808th most popular in Swedish Wikipedia.
The 1613th most editable in Swedish Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 2356th most popular in all topics.
The 469th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Swedish Wikipedia:
The 7351st most popular in Swedish Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 8676th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 5874th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Heavy metal”, its content was written by 116 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia (1613th place) and edited by 8208 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (469th place).

The article is cited 2594 times in Swedish Wikipedia (1409th place) and cited 92424 times in all languages (1535th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Swedish): #166 in July 2004
  • Global: #88 in March 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Swedish): #329 in April 2008
  • Global: #492 in August 2008

There are 51 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Spanish (es)
Heavy metal
100
2Chinese (zh)
重金属音乐
100
3Portuguese (pt)
Heavy metal
100
4Hungarian (hu)
Heavy metal
100
5Indonesian (id)
Heavy metal
98.7713
6Czech (cs)
Heavy metal
98.5758
7Galician (gl)
Heavy metal
98
8Slovak (sk)
Heavy metal
97.3913
9Finnish (fi)
Metallimusiikki
96.6315
10Turkish (tr)
Heavy metal
95
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Heavy metal" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Heavy metal music
22 505 215
2Spanish (es)
Heavy metal
9 205 478
3Japanese (ja)
ヘヴィメタル
3 517 423
4Russian (ru)
Метал
3 335 424
5German (de)
Metal
3 142 853
6French (fr)
Metal
2 887 976
7Italian (it)
Heavy metal
2 594 219
8Portuguese (pt)
Heavy metal
2 513 641
9Polish (pl)
Heavy metal
1 918 499
10Turkish (tr)
Heavy metal
872 774
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Heavy metal" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Heavy metal music
62 385
2Russian (ru)
Метал
9 180
3Spanish (es)
Heavy metal
8 402
4Japanese (ja)
ヘヴィメタル
7 835
5French (fr)
Metal
6 363
6German (de)
Metal
4 253
7Italian (it)
Heavy metal
3 670
8Chinese (zh)
重金属音乐
2 836
9Portuguese (pt)
Heavy metal
2 769
10Polish (pl)
Heavy metal
2 586
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Heavy metal" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Heavy metal music
2 512
2Spanish (es)
Heavy metal
748
3French (fr)
Metal
567
4German (de)
Metal
501
5Italian (it)
Heavy metal
420
6Russian (ru)
Метал
318
7Portuguese (pt)
Heavy metal
256
8Japanese (ja)
ヘヴィメタル
199
9Dutch (nl)
Heavy metal
185
10Hebrew (he)
הבי מטאל
184
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Heavy metal" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Metal
6
2English (en)
Heavy metal music
4
3Spanish (es)
Heavy metal
3
4Italian (it)
Heavy metal
3
5Japanese (ja)
ヘヴィメタル
2
6Russian (ru)
Метал
2
7Catalan (ca)
Heavy metal
1
8Persian (fa)
موسیقی هوی متال
1
9French (fr)
Metal
1
10Hebrew (he)
הבי מטאל
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Heavy metal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Heavy metal music
16 599
2Italian (it)
Heavy metal
8 329
3Spanish (es)
Heavy metal
7 435
4French (fr)
Metal
6 884
5Japanese (ja)
ヘヴィメタル
4 084
6Polish (pl)
Heavy metal
3 871
7German (de)
Metal
3 381
8Portuguese (pt)
Heavy metal
3 316
9Swedish (sv)
Heavy metal
2 594
10Czech (cs)
Heavy metal
2 203
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
موسيقى الميتال
azAzerbaijani
Metal musiqi
beBelarusian
Метал (музыка)
bgBulgarian
Хевиметъл
caCatalan
Heavy metal
csCzech
Heavy metal
daDanish
Heavy metal
deGerman
Metal
elGreek
Heavy metal
enEnglish
Heavy metal music
eoEsperanto
Metalroko
esSpanish
Heavy metal
etEstonian
Heavy metal
euBasque
Heavy metal
faPersian
موسیقی هوی متال
fiFinnish
Metallimusiikki
frFrench
Metal
glGalician
Heavy metal
heHebrew
הבי מטאל
hrCroatian
Heavy metal
huHungarian
Heavy metal
hyArmenian
Մետալ
idIndonesian
Heavy metal
itItalian
Heavy metal
jaJapanese
ヘヴィメタル
kaGeorgian
მძიმე მეტალი
koKorean
헤비 메탈
laLatin
Metallum (musica)
ltLithuanian
Sunkusis metalas (muzikos stilius)
msMalay
Muzik heavy metal
nlDutch
Heavy metal
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Heavy metal
noNorwegian
Heavy metal
plPolish
Heavy metal
ptPortuguese
Heavy metal
roRomanian
Heavy metal
ruRussian
Метал
shSerbo-Croatian
Heavy metal
simpleSimple English
Heavy metal music
skSlovak
Heavy metal
slSlovenian
Metal
srSerbian
Хеви-метал
svSwedish
Heavy metal
taTamil
கனமாழை இசை
thThai
เฮฟวีเมทัล
trTurkish
Heavy metal
ukUkrainian
Хеві-метал
uzUzbek
Xevi-metal
viVietnamese
Heavy metal
zhChinese
重金属音乐
zhminnanMin Nan
Tāng-kim-sio̍k im-ga̍k

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Swedish:
#329
04.2008
Global:
#492
08.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Swedish:
#166
07.2004
Global:
#88
03.2007

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Heavy metal from Wikipedia articles about Rock music, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Hard rock and Thrash metal. Whereas reading the article about Heavy metal people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Death metal, Black Sabbath, Black metal, Thrash metal and Led Zeppelin.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

de: Metal
fr: Metal
sl: Metal

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