COMPOSER

Bruce Broughton

1945 - Today

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Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career and has contributed many pieces to music archives, including the 1994 version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare with short versions for 20th Century Fox Television and Foxstar Productions and conducting the Cinergi Pictures logo composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Broughton has received more than 377,146 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bruce Broughton is the 1,338th most popular composer (down from 1,292nd in 2019), the 9,988th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,872nd in 2019) and the 111th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bruce Broughtons by language

Over the past year Bruce Broughton has had the most page views in the with 44,800 views, followed by French (4,655), and German (2,896). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (884.52%), French (97.58%), and Southern Azerbaijani (47.17%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Bruce Broughton ranks 1,338 out of 1,451. Before him are Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, John Debney, Alexander Goehr, John Stanley, Earl Scruggs, and R. D. Burman. After him are Claude Vivier, Dave Stewart, Jesper Kyd, Mark Mancina, Jerry Bock, and Eubie Blake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Bruce Broughton ranks 574. Before him are Harry Steevens, Gail Chanfreau, Kibonge Mafu, Marianne Mendt, Henri Emmanuelli, and Gianfranco Bedin. After him are Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Asparuh Nikodimov, Paul Le Mat, Terry Callier, Peder Pedersen, and Miklós Haraszti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bruce Broughton ranks 9,988 out of 20,380. Before him are Crane Wilbur (1886), Armistead Maupin (1944), Penny Hardaway (1971), Rufus King (1755), Erin Gray (1950), and Ryan White (1971). After him are Lauren Shuler Donner (1949), Nick de Firmian (1957), Clarence Clark (1859), Danny Ongais (1942), Maurice Stokes (1933), and Horace Elgin Dodge (1868).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Bruce Broughton ranks 111. Before him are Joel Goldsmith (1957), Horatio Parker (1863), Vincent Persichetti (1915), Christopher Young (1958), John Debney (1956), and Earl Scruggs (1924). After him are Mark Mancina (1957), Jerry Bock (1928), Eubie Blake (2), Lowell Mason (1792), Robert Russell Bennett (1894), and Roy Harris (1898).

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