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Charles Trenet

1913 - 2001

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Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (French pronunciation: [lwi ʃaʁl oɡystɛ̃ ʒɔʁʒ tʁenɛ]; 18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years. These songs include "Boum!" (1938), "La Mer" (1946) and "Nationale 7" (1955). Trenet is also noted for his work with musicians Michel Emer and Léo Chauliac, with whom he recorded "Y'a d'la joie" (1938) for the first and "La Romance de Paris" (1941) and "Douce France" (1947) for the latter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Trenet has received more than 637,591 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Charles Trenet is the 173rd most popular singer (down from 169th in 2019), the 1,096th most popular biography from France (down from 1,082nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Singer.

Charles Trenet is most famous for his song "La Mer" which means "The Sea".

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  • 640k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Charles Trenet ranks 173 out of 4,381. Before him are Gianni Morandi, Beniamino Gigli, Feodor Chaliapin, Claude François, Desireless, and Ivan Rebroff. After him are Jon Bon Jovi, Tom Jones, Birgit Nilsson, Suzi Quatro, Paul Anka, and Tom Morello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Charles Trenet ranks 49. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry, Jacobo Árbenz, Vinicius de Moraes, Muddy Waters, Aimé Césaire, and Masanobu Fukuoka. After him are Mary Ainsworth, Gert Fröbe, Tito Gobbi, Mehmet Shehu, Xi Zhongxun, and Jan Kubiš. Among people deceased in 2001, Charles Trenet ranks 36. Before him are John Lee Hooker, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Morris, W. G. Sebald, and Timothy McVeigh. After him are Juan Antonio Villacañas, Giovanni Leone, Balthus, Chung Ju-yung, Anna Mani, and Isaac Stern.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Trenet ranks 1,096 out of 6,770. Before him are George Steiner (1929), Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), Jean de Dunois (1402), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737). After him are Odo the Great (650), Lucien Tesnière (1893), Victorien Sardou (1831), Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), Heinrich Kramer (1430), and Theobald II of Navarre (1239).

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Among SINGERS In France

Among singers born in France, Charles Trenet ranks 16. Before him are Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737), Manu Chao (1961), Maria Malibran (1808), Georges Brassens (1921), and Desireless (1952). After him are Caterina Valente (1931), Jacqueline Boyer (1941), Barbara (1930), Warda Al-Jazairia (1939), Sacha Distel (1933), and Théo Sarapo (1936).

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