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Allen Klein

1931 - 2009

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Allen Klein (December 18, 1931 – July 4, 2009) was an American businessman whose aggressive negotiation tactics affected industry standards for compensating recording artists. He founded ABKCO Music & Records Incorporated. Klein increased profits for his musician clients by negotiating new record company contracts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allen Klein has received more than 1,592,157 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Allen Klein is the 358th most popular businessperson (down from 305th in 2019), the 4,128th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,628th in 2019) and the 108th most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Allen Klein ranks 358 out of 847. Before him are Wang Jianlin, Gennady Timchenko, Haim Saban, Oleg Deripaska, Siegfried Bing, and Uğur Şahin. After him are Karl Wittgenstein, Emil Rathenau, John D. Rockefeller III, Maxwell Perkins, Nino Cerruti, and Thomas Blake Glover.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Allen Klein ranks 238. Before him are Tab Hunter, Ryuzo Hiraki, Michel Deville, Georgy Grechko, David Cooper, and Duško Gojković. After him are Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi III, Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Charlie Logg, Ingvar Wixell, Dino da Costa, and Moira Orfei. Among people deceased in 2009, Allen Klein ranks 153. Before him are Aram Tigran, Ryuzo Hiraki, Valentin Varennikov, Jim Carroll, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, and Stephen Kim Sou-hwan. After him are Lucian Pulvermacher, Joan Martí i Alanis, Merce Cunningham, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Dušan Džamonja, and Lyudmila Zykina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Allen Klein ranks 4,128 out of 20,380. Before him are Mickey Spillane (1918), Harry Carey Jr. (1921), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), George C. Homans (1910), and E. G. Marshall (1914). After him are Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), Sally Kirkland (1941), Terry Dischinger (1940), Raymond Moody (1944), and Sammy Gravano (1945).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Allen Klein ranks 108. Before him are Edwin Drake (1819), Timothy Dexter (1747), Chris Gardner (1954), Arthur D. Levinson (1950), Arnold Rothstein (1882), and Charles Geschke (1939). After him are John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Maxwell Perkins (1884), Tommy Mottola (1949), Ray Dalio (1949), Cyrus West Field (1819), and Franklin Clarence Mars (1883).

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