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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 146,696 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alice Babs is the 586th most popular singer (down from 502nd in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 339th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swedish Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Alice Babs ranks 586 out of 3,528. Before her are Haddaway, La Toya Jackson, Al Green, Silvio Rodríguez, Bobby Brown, and Rosemary Clooney. After her are Claudio Villa, Heidi Brühl, Šaban Bajramović, Lola Novaković, Helen Kane, and Jay-Z.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Alice Babs ranks 167. Before her are S. R. Nathan, Gevork Vartanian, Haim Bar-Lev, Ken Tyrrell, Charles Bachman, and Claude Lefort. After her are Shintaro Abe, Dennis Weaver, Fud Leclerc, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Billy Wright, and Friaça. Among people deceased in 2014, Alice Babs ranks 134. Before her are Cristina Deutekom, Magda Olivero, Tadeusz Różewicz, Julian Rotter, Horace Silver, and Frans Brüggen. After her are Juan Gelman, Ramón José Velásquez, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Stanisław Mikulski, Carlos Borges, and Abdelmajid Lakhal.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alice Babs ranks 363 out of 1,612. Before her are Odd Nerdrum (1944), Carl Milles (1875), Rolf Lassgård (1955), Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660), Stefan Johansson (1956), and Art Spiegelman (1948). After her are Gunnar Nilsson (1948), Knut Nordahl (1920), Carl Adolph Agardh (1785), Alexander Skarsgård (1976), Sven Rydell (1905), and Oscar Swahn (1847).

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Among SINGERS In Sweden

Among singers born in Sweden, Alice Babs ranks 16. Before her are Lill-Babs (1938), Anette Olzon (1971), Siw Malmkvist (1936), Monica Zetterlund (1937), Anne Sofie von Otter (1955), and Evert Taube (1890). After her are Malena Ernman (1970), Dead (1969), E-Type (1965), Ingvar Wixell (1931), Loreen (1983), and Alexander Bard (1961).

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