SINGER

Alice Babs

1924 - 2014

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Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice Babs has received more than 155,020 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Babs is the 443rd most popular singer (up from 584th in 2019), the 295th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 362nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swedish Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Alice Babs ranks 443 out of 4,381. Before her are Vera Lynn, Maggie Reilly, Raphael, Bobby Solo, Rafael Orozco Maestre, and Marcia Barrett. After her are Camarón de la Isla, Dusty Hill, Jimin, Maria Bethânia, Darío Moreno, and Leila Mourad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Alice Babs ranks 122. Before her are Bud Powell, Raymond Barre, Geraldine Page, Maria Riva, Tatiana Nikolayeva, and Gene Deitch. After her are Yehuda Amichai, Roland Petit, Dawda Jawara, Rik Van Steenbergen, Bayezid Osman, and Neville Marriner. Among people deceased in 2014, Alice Babs ranks 113. Before her are Serge Moscovici, Vasily Petrov, Shulamit Aloni, Ken Takakura, Marina Ginestà, and Alice Herz-Sommer. After her are Carlos Páez Vilaró, Igor Mitoraj, Edward Herrmann, Ralph Waite, Go Seigen, and Viktor Tikhonov.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alice Babs ranks 295 out of 1,879. Before her are Eva Dahlbeck (1920), Oskar Backlund (1846), Olof Björnsson (950), Arvid Lindman (1862), Magdalena Andersson (1967), and Mikkey Dee (1963). After her are Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken (1670), Ivar Kreuger (1880), Siw Malmkvist (1936), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1540), Lill-Babs (1938), and Lennart Skoglund (1929).

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Among SINGERS In Sweden

Among singers born in Sweden, Alice Babs ranks 11. Before her are Basshunter (1984), Zarah Leander (1907), Nicolai Gedda (1925), Loreen (1983), Jussi Björling (1911), and Joey Tempest (1963). After her are Siw Malmkvist (1936), Lill-Babs (1938), Lasse Berghagen (1945), Anette Olzon (1971), Anne Sofie von Otter (1955), and Evert Taube (1890).

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