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Alan Tam

1950 - Today

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Alan Tam Wing-lun (traditional Chinese: 譚詠麟; simplified Chinese: 谭咏麟; pinyin: Tán Yǒnglín; Cantonese Yale: Taam4 Wing6 leon4; born 23 August 1950) is a Hong Kong singer and actor. He played a major role in developing the Cantopop scene in the 1980s as he was known for singing romantic ballads with modern arrangements. From 1983 to 1987, Alan Tam received numerous music awards and won Most Popular Male Artist and IFPI Award for successive four years, which made him the most famous superstar singer of Hong Kong in 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Tam has received more than 680,826 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alan Tam is the 681st most popular singer (up from 726th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Hong Kong (up from 30th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chinese Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 680k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alan Tams by language

Over the past year Alan Tam has had the most page views in the with 203,317 views, followed by English (81,573), and Cantonese (20,560). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (54.43%), Indonesian (50.82%), and Egyptian Arabic (45.91%)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Alan Tam ranks 681 out of 4,381. Before him are Georg Ots, Lola Novaković, Alexander Rybak, Ronnie Van Zant, Malena Ernman, and Philipp Kirkorov. After him are Martti Talvela, Helen Reddy, Robertino Loreti, Lee Hazlewood, Grethe Ingmann, and Angelo Branduardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Alan Tam ranks 178. Before him are Charles, Prince Napoléon, Richard Galliano, Thomas Gottschalk, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, Kathy Baker, and Kurt Koch. After him are Seiichi Sakiya, Angelo Branduardi, Geraldine James, David Cassidy, Tatjana Ždanoka, and Adrian Năstase.

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In Hong Kong

Among people born in Hong Kong, Alan Tam ranks 25 out of 115. Before him are Anita Mui (1963), James Wong (1959), William Anders (1933), John Tong Hon (1939), John Lee Ka-chiu (1957), and Eric Tsang (1953). After him are Tony Leung Ka-fai (1958), Lam Ching-ying (1952), Adam Cheng (1947), Yuen Wah (1950), Leung Chun-ying (1954), and Robin Shou (1960).

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Among SINGERS In Hong Kong

Among singers born in Hong Kong, Alan Tam ranks 2. Before him are Anita Mui (1963). After him are Aaron Kwok (1965), Kelly Chen (1972), Jackson Wang (1994), Sammi Cheng (1972), Gillian Chung (1981), William Chan (1985), Joey Yung (1980), and Lucas Wong (1999).

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