SINGER

Bruce Hornsby

1954 - Today

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Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. His music draws from folk rock, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Southern rock, country rock, jam band, rock, heartland rock, and blues rock musical traditions.Hornsby has won three Grammy Awards: a 1987 Grammy Award for Best New Artist with Bruce Hornsby and the Range, a 1990 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording, and a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Hornsby has worked with his touring band Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, his bluegrass project with Ricky Skaggs, and as a session and guest musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Hornsby has received more than 3,219,002 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Bruce Hornsby is the 1,900th most popular singer (down from 1,715th in 2019), the 10,200th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,307th in 2019) and the 497th most popular American Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bruce Hornsbies by language

Over the past year Bruce Hornsby has had the most page views in the with 478,388 views, followed by German (20,900), and Japanese (10,991). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Norwegian (Nynorsk) (168.14%), Simple English (93.59%), and Catalan (26.64%)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Bruce Hornsby ranks 1,900 out of 4,381. Before him are Boris Novković, Johnny Otis, Vani Jairam, Martin Solveig, Eddy Arnold, and MC Ren. After him are Julee Cruise, Deryck Whibley, Tonicha, Nigar Jamal, DJ Ötzi, and Carole Bayer Sager.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Bruce Hornsby ranks 503. Before him are Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji, Reiner Haseloff, Yuji Horii, Daina Taimiņa, Muammar Z.A., and Alejandro Casañas. After him are Wim Crusio, Stephen Furst, Donald Petrie, Olga Knyazeva, Aziz Salihu, and Louis Sachar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bruce Hornsby ranks 10,200 out of 20,380. Before him are MC Ren (1969), James Marshall (1967), Kristen Johnston (1967), Martin Luther King III (1957), Kurt Sutter (1960), and Merv Griffin (1925). After him are Julee Cruise (1956), Sidney Darlington (1906), John La Farge (1835), Lillian Wald (1867), Aline MacMahon (1899), and Edward Brooke (1919).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Bruce Hornsby ranks 497. Before him are Rakim (1968), Ronnie Hawkins (1935), June Anderson (1952), Johnny Otis (1921), Eddy Arnold (1918), and MC Ren (1969). After him are Julee Cruise (1956), Carole Bayer Sager (1947), Leroy Carr (1905), Mark Murphy (1932), Joey Belladonna (1960), and Ja Rule (1976).

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