Ray Charles

Quality:

Ray Charles - American singer, pianist and songwriter (1930–2004). This person is the 948^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ray Charles” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 4406^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3086^th most popular in all topics.

The 2796^th most popular in AI.

The 948^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 4215^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4828^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ray Charles” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4215^th place) and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ray Charles”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4406^th place) and edited by 4565 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2796^th place).

Ray Charles is on the 948^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 93 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16675 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #9 in February 2005
• Global: #35 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2906 in February 2009
• Global: #666 in September 2016

There are 52 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	Indonesian (id) Ray Charles		96.3588
2	English (en) Ray Charles		94.2226
3	Japanese (ja) レイ・チャールズ		60.886
4	Polish (pl) Ray Charles		58.0944
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Ray Charles		52.8753
6	Ukrainian (uk) Рей Чарльз		52.631
7	Greek (el) Ρέι Τσαρλς		51.6447
8	German (de) Ray Charles		50.8871
9	Spanish (es) Ray Charles		50.3734
10	Finnish (fi) Ray Charles		49.529

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ray Charles		27 480 075
2	Spanish (es) Ray Charles		4 159 653
3	French (fr) Ray Charles		3 955 189
4	German (de) Ray Charles		3 247 009
5	Russian (ru) Рэй Чарльз		2 653 320
6	Italian (it) Ray Charles		2 489 445
7	Japanese (ja) レイ・チャールズ		1 806 705
8	Portuguese (pt) Ray Charles		1 805 345
9	Polish (pl) Ray Charles		1 159 043
10	Dutch (nl) Ray Charles		572 890

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) Ray Charles		115 957
2	Spanish (es) Ray Charles		13 423
3	Russian (ru) Рэй Чарльз		7 797
4	French (fr) Ray Charles		7 699
5	Japanese (ja) レイ・チャールズ		6 900
6	German (de) Ray Charles		6 059
7	Italian (it) Ray Charles		5 762
8	Portuguese (pt) Ray Charles		4 177
9	Dutch (nl) Ray Charles		1 257
10	Polish (pl) Ray Charles		1 248

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ray Charles		1 787
2	French (fr) Ray Charles		373
3	German (de) Ray Charles		351
4	Italian (it) Ray Charles		206
5	Spanish (es) Ray Charles		179
6	Russian (ru) Рэй Чарльз		143
7	Dutch (nl) Ray Charles		112
8	Japanese (ja) レイ・チャールズ		98
9	Polish (pl) Ray Charles		97
10	Norwegian (no) Ray Charles		88

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) Ray Charles		3
2	Turkish (tr) Ray Charles		2
3	Estonian (et) Ray Charles		1
4	Armenian (hy) Ռեյ Չարլզ		1
5	Italian (it) Ray Charles		1
6	Polish (pl) Ray Charles		1
7	Russian (ru) Рэй Чарльз		1
8	Simple English (simple) Ray Charles		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Рей Чарльз		1
10	Arabic (ar) ري تشارلز		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