The Weeknd

Quality:

The Weeknd - Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1990). This person is the 462^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 504^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Weeknd” in Simple English Wikipedia has 46.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 10 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:

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The 4187^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2435^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 504^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1357^th most popular in all topics.

The 3484^th most popular in AI.

The 462^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6964^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1624^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1983^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Weeknd”, its content was written by 52 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2435^th place) and edited by 4199 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3484^th place).

The Weeknd is on the 504^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 462^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 77 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10893 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #83 in March 2021
• Global: #37 in January 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #414 in March 2023
• Global: #12 in February 2021

There are 47 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) Abel Tesfaye		94.6546
2	English (en) The Weeknd		94.2709
3	Chinese (zh) 威肯		91.7563
4	Italian (it) The Weeknd		88.4211
5	Portuguese (pt) The Weeknd		87.4102
6	Spanish (es) The Weeknd		87.1429
7	Slovak (sk) The Weeknd		84.8829
8	Vietnamese (vi) The Weeknd		82.2771
9	Uzbek (uz) The Weeknd		82.1714
10	Greek (el) The Weeknd		79.8073

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Weeknd		55 816 368
2	Spanish (es) The Weeknd		5 103 352
3	French (fr) The Weeknd		3 605 598
4	Russian (ru) The Weeknd		3 035 740
5	German (de) The Weeknd		2 832 045
6	Italian (it) The Weeknd		1 677 855
7	Portuguese (pt) The Weeknd		1 432 716
8	Polish (pl) The Weeknd		837 727
9	Japanese (ja) ザ・ウィークエンド		814 748
10	Chinese (zh) 威肯		565 765

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) The Weeknd		243 043
2	Russian (ru) The Weeknd		16 674
3	Spanish (es) The Weeknd		16 669
4	French (fr) The Weeknd		13 714
5	German (de) The Weeknd		9 534
6	Italian (it) The Weeknd		7 768
7	Portuguese (pt) The Weeknd		5 002
8	Chinese (zh) 威肯		4 489
9	Japanese (ja) ザ・ウィークエンド		3 670
10	Polish (pl) The Weeknd		2 318

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Weeknd		1 898
2	Spanish (es) The Weeknd		297
3	French (fr) The Weeknd		263
4	German (de) The Weeknd		186
5	Italian (it) The Weeknd		169
6	Portuguese (pt) The Weeknd		146
7	Russian (ru) The Weeknd		134
8	Hebrew (he) דה ויקנד		124
9	Dutch (nl) The Weeknd		79
10	Polish (pl) The Weeknd		66

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) The Weeknd		13
2	Spanish (es) The Weeknd		9
3	Italian (it) The Weeknd		5
4	Portuguese (pt) The Weeknd		4
5	Armenian (hy) The Weeknd		3
6	Indonesian (id) Abel Tesfaye		3
7	Hebrew (he) דה ויקנד		2
8	Chinese (zh) 威肯		2
9	Estonian (et) The Weeknd		1
10	Finnish (fi) The Weeknd		1

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

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 Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Manon Bannerman, Black, List of European countries, XXXTentacion, Jeffrey Epstein, Megan Skiendiel, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Katseye, List of people who have walked on the Moon, Golden Edge.

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