COMPOSER

Akira Yamaoka

1968 - Today

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Akira Yamaoka (山岡 晃, Yamaoka Akira, born February 6, 1968) is a Japanese composer and music producer. He is best known for composing music for several video games in the Silent Hill series by Konami, among other games. Yamaoka also worked as a producer on the series, as well as composing for the Silent Hill film and its sequel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Yamaoka has received more than 775,355 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Akira Yamaoka is the 1,202nd most popular composer (down from 1,133rd in 2019), the 1,307th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,163rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 780k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Akira Yamaoka ranks 1,202 out of 1,451. Before him are Mychael Danna, Cláudio Santoro, Luís de Freitas Branco, Marco Beltrami, Eino Tamberg, and Pauline Oliveros. After him are Johanna Kinkel, Craig Armstrong, André Messager, Granville Bantock, Mark Snow, and Ivor Novello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Akira Yamaoka ranks 210. Before him are Rachel Griffiths, Navid Negahban, Yasmine Bleeth, Ellen Allien, Molly Ringwald, and Matteo Garrone. After him are Ľuboš Micheľ, Wendelin Werner, Edward Burns, Yevgeny Shevchuk, Pete Docter, and Eagle-Eye Cherry.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Yamaoka ranks 1,307 out of 6,245. Before him are Kazuo Saito (1951), Hironobu Kageyama (1961), Takeshi Shudo (1949), Toshiyuki Morikawa (1967), Shu Kamo (1939), and Haruhiro Yamashita (1938). After him are Ukyo Katayama (1963), Sakai Toshihiko (1871), Hyde (1969), Shinobu Ikeda (1962), Tsutomu Seki (1930), and Peter Takeo Okada (1941).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Akira Yamaoka ranks 16. Before him are Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Akira Ifukube (1914), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Shirō Sagisu (1957), and Fumio Hayasaka (1914). After him are Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Junichi Masuda (1968), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Kaoru Wada (1962), and Yuzo Koshiro (1967).

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