That'll Be the Day

That'll Be the Day - song written and composed by Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, originally recorded by The Crickets in 1957. Article “That'll Be the Day” in English Wikipedia has 47.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 28 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.51 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “That'll Be the Day” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “That'll Be the Day”, its content was written by 159 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 265 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 375 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1100 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #30830 in July 2017
• Global: #73247 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #103451 in February 2009
• Global: #168229 in February 2009

There are 15 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) That'll Be the Day		61.738
2	French (fr) That'll Be the Day (chanson)		51.4427
3	English (en) That'll Be the Day		47.7837
4	Japanese (ja) ザットル・ビー・ザ・デイ		35.117
5	Italian (it) That'll Be the Day (brano musicale)		34.5385
6	Norwegian (no) That’ll Be the Day		29.749
7	Russian (ru) That’ll Be the Day		28.3889
8	Spanish (es) That'll Be the Day		24.1434
9	Swedish (sv) That'll Be the Day		23.6633
10	Danish (da) That'll Be the Day		22.5041

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

The most popular language versions of the article "That'll Be the Day" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) That'll Be the Day		1 003 768
2	Spanish (es) That'll Be the Day		44 171
3	Russian (ru) That’ll Be the Day		31 068
4	French (fr) That'll Be the Day (chanson)		15 552
5	Italian (it) That'll Be the Day (brano musicale)		10 169
6	Swedish (sv) That'll Be the Day		7 795
7	Japanese (ja) ザットル・ビー・ザ・デイ		7 304
8	Dutch (nl) That'll Be the Day		3 071
9	Norwegian (no) That’ll Be the Day		1 904
10	Danish (da) That'll Be the Day		1 554

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

The most popular language versions of the article "That'll Be the Day" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) That'll Be the Day		3 964
2	Japanese (ja) ザットル・ビー・ザ・デイ		152
3	French (fr) That'll Be the Day (chanson)		94
4	Spanish (es) That'll Be the Day		90
5	Russian (ru) That’ll Be the Day		70
6	Italian (it) That'll Be the Day (brano musicale)		58
7	Dutch (nl) That'll Be the Day		38
8	Portuguese (pt) That'll Be the Day		26
9	Danish (da) That'll Be the Day		23
10	Swedish (sv) That'll Be the Day		17

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

Language versions of the article "That'll Be the Day" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) That'll Be the Day		159
2	Italian (it) That'll Be the Day (brano musicale)		20
3	French (fr) That'll Be the Day (chanson)		18
4	Spanish (es) That'll Be the Day		16
5	Russian (ru) That’ll Be the Day		12
6	Norwegian (no) That’ll Be the Day		10
7	Swedish (sv) That'll Be the Day		8
8	Portuguese (pt) That'll Be the Day		5
9	Japanese (ja) ザットル・ビー・ザ・デイ		4
10	Danish (da) That'll Be the Day		3

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

Language versions of the article "That'll Be the Day" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) That'll Be the Day		1
2	French (fr) That'll Be the Day (chanson)		1
3	Danish (da) That'll Be the Day		0
4	Spanish (es) That'll Be the Day		0
5	Italian (it) That'll Be the Day (brano musicale)		0
6	Japanese (ja) ザットル・ビー・ザ・デイ		0
7	Georgian (ka) That'll Be the Day		0
8	Korean (ko) That'll Be the Day		0
9	Dutch (nl) That'll Be the Day		0
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) That'll Be the Day		0

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

Language versions of the article "That'll Be the Day" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) That'll Be the Day		375
2	Dutch (nl) That'll Be the Day		327
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) That'll Be the Day		80
4	French (fr) That'll Be the Day (chanson)		70
5	Russian (ru) That’ll Be the Day		60
6	Japanese (ja) ザットル・ビー・ザ・デイ		56
7	Spanish (es) That'll Be the Day		50
8	Italian (it) That'll Be the Day (brano musicale)		20
9	Korean (ko) That'll Be the Day		18
10	Swedish (sv) That'll Be the Day		16

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish That'll Be the Day
en	English That'll Be the Day
es	Spanish That'll Be the Day
fr	French That'll Be the Day (chanson)
it	Italian That'll Be the Day (brano musicale)
ja	Japanese ザットル・ビー・ザ・デイ
ka	Georgian That'll Be the Day
ko	Korean That'll Be the Day
nl	Dutch That'll Be the Day
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) That'll Be the Day
no	Norwegian That’ll Be the Day
pt	Portuguese That'll Be the Day
ru	Russian That’ll Be the Day
sh	Serbo-Croatian That'll Be The Day
sv	Swedish That'll Be the Day

Best Rank

English: #103451 02.2009

Global: #168229 02.2009

Best Rank

English: #30830 07.2017

Global: #73247 01.2004

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