Waiting for a Star to Fall

sv

WikiRank.net
ver. 1.6.2

Waiting for a Star to Fall

Quality:

Waiting for a Star to Fall - song written and composed by Shannon Rubicam and George Merrill; originally recorded by Boy Meets Girl and released in 1988. Article “Waiting for a Star to Fall” in Swedish Wikipedia has 4.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.22 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Waiting for a Star to Fall”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 170 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 77 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Swedish): #7301 in November 2009
  • Global: #94642 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Swedish): #66735 in March 2011
  • Global: #191518 in September 2020

There are 5 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
1English (en)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
75.132
2Dutch (nl)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
26.8117
3German (de)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
23.0354
4Finnish (fi)
Waiting For a Star to Fall
4.5795
5Swedish (sv)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
4.1322
More...

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 "Waiting for a Star to Fall" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
997 487
2German (de)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
27 839
3Swedish (sv)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
10 552
4Finnish (fi)
Waiting For a Star to Fall
2 516
5Dutch (nl)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
16
More...

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 "Waiting for a Star to Fall" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
5 142
2German (de)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
130
3Swedish (sv)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
18
4Dutch (nl)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
16
5Finnish (fi)
Waiting For a Star to Fall
9
More...

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

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Waiting for a Star to Fall" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
109
2German (de)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
49
3Swedish (sv)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
6
4Finnish (fi)
Waiting For a Star to Fall
5
5Dutch (nl)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
1
More...

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 "Waiting for a Star to Fall" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
3
2Dutch (nl)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
1
3German (de)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
0
4Finnish (fi)
Waiting For a Star to Fall
0
5Swedish (sv)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
0
More...

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

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Waiting for a Star to Fall" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
64
2German (de)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
6
3Swedish (sv)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
4
4Dutch (nl)
Waiting for a Star to Fall
2
5Finnish (fi)
Waiting For a Star to Fall
1
More...

Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Swedish:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
Swedish:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
Swedish:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
Swedish:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
Swedish:
Global:
Citations:
Swedish:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Waiting for a Star to Fall
enEnglish
Waiting for a Star to Fall
fiFinnish
Waiting For a Star to Fall
nlDutch
Waiting for a Star to Fall
svSwedish
Waiting for a Star to Fall

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Swedish:
#66735
03.2011
Global:
#191518
09.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank Swedish:
#7301
11.2009
Global:
#94642
11.2009

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Waiting for a Star to Fall from Wikipedia articles about Boy Meets Girl, Shannon Rubicam, George Merrill, Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1989 and Cabin Crew. Whereas reading the article about Waiting for a Star to Fall people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Boy Meets Girl, Shannon Rubicam, George Merrill, Reel Life and Three Men and a Little Lady.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

News from 21 February 2026

On 21 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Alysa Liu, Eric Dane, 2026 Winter Olympics, Rebecca Gayheart, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Wuthering Heights, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, John F. Kennedy Jr..

In Swedish Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Timo Räisänen, Ted Gärdestad, Meira Omar, Smash Into Pieces, Cimberly Wanyonyi, Zara Larsson, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Eric Dane, Erika Jonsson, Gösta Engzell.

About WikiRank

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