SINGER

Chip Taylor

1940 - Today

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Chip Taylor (born James Wesley Voight; March 21, 1940) is an American songwriter and singer noted for writing "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chip Taylor has received more than 1,787,066 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Chip Taylor is the 892nd most popular singer (down from 604th in 2019), the 4,659th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,459th in 2019) and the 232nd most popular American Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Chip Taylors by language

Over the past year Chip Taylor has had the most page views in the with 198,128 views, followed by Persian (11,157), and German (10,545). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hindi (78.33%), Southern Azerbaijani (47.06%), and Arabic (37.38%)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Chip Taylor ranks 892 out of 4,381Before him are Gérard Lenorman, Marilyn Horne, Milka Ternina, Dave Benton, Richard Carpenter, and Alexander Bard. After him are Julie d'Aubigny, Serhat, Kirsti Sparboe, Alain Bashung, Kićo Slabinac, and Randy Meisner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Chip Taylor ranks 263Before him are Robby Müller, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Danilo Astori, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, and Stan Mikita. After him are Ronald Pickup, Silva Batuta, Barry Corbin, Vladica Kovačević, Alain Calmat, and José de Anchieta Fontana.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chip Taylor ranks 4,659 out of 20,380Before him are Nathaniel Palmer (1799), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Richard Carpenter (1946), Miriam Hopkins (1902), Carol Kane (1952), and Arthur Cronquist (1919). After him are Barbara Walters (1929), Jorja Fox (1968), Adolph Gottlieb (1903), Donald Lippincott (1893), Sammy Hagar (1947), and Milo Ventimiglia (1977).

Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Chip Taylor ranks 232Before him are Shirley Horn (1934), Nicole Scherzinger (1978), Bobby Vinton (1935), Adam Lambert (1982), Marilyn Horne (1934), and Richard Carpenter (1946). After him are Randy Meisner (1946), Vince Neil (1961), Loretta Lynn (1932), Prodigy (1974), Carmen McRae (1922), and Anita O'Day (1919).