COMPOSER

Christopher Young

1958 - Today

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Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores.Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3 and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Young has received more than 513,521 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Christopher Young is the 1,330th most popular composer (down from 1,234th in 2019), the 9,845th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,701st in 2019) and the 108th most popular American Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Christopher Youngs by language

Over the past year Christopher Young has had the most page views in the with 59,147 views, followed by Russian (6,276), and French (4,364). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (262.72%), Egyptian Arabic (45.83%), and Galician (35.50%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Christopher Young ranks 1,330 out of 1,451. Before him are Erkki-Sven Tüür, Vicente Amigo, Horatio Parker, Henry Lawes, Tibor Serly, and Vincent Persichetti. After him are Detto Mariano, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, John Debney, Alexander Goehr, John Stanley, and Earl Scruggs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Christopher Young ranks 419. Before him are Roger L. Jackson, Vitaly Mutko, Phil Anderson, William Kircher, Peter Eriksson, and Chibly Langlois. After him are Antoine Kambanda, Eduard Azaryan, Alexander Wendt, Santiago Urquiaga, Mick Karn, and Vicki Peterson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christopher Young ranks 9,845 out of 20,380. Before him are Rebecca Solnit (1961), Sean Parker (1979), Bob Orton Jr. (1950), Clarence Hudson White (1871), Glenda Farrell (1904), and XXXTentacion (1998). After him are Neal Adams (1941), Alexander Acosta (1969), Betsy Russell (1963), Jonathan Gilbert (1967), Dianne Reeves (1956), and Charles Hartshorne (1897).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Christopher Young ranks 108. Before him are Harry Warren (1893), Brian Tyler (1972), Ned Rorem (1923), Joel Goldsmith (1957), Horatio Parker (1863), and Vincent Persichetti (1915). After him are John Debney (1956), Earl Scruggs (1924), Bruce Broughton (1945), Mark Mancina (1957), Jerry Bock (1928), and Eubie Blake (2).

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