MUSICIAN

Cliff Williams

1949 - Today

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Clifford Williams (born 14 December 1949) is an English musician, best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He started his professional music career in 1967 and had previously been in the English groups Home and Bandit. His first studio album with AC/DC was Powerage in 1978. Williams was inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of AC/DC in 2003. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cliff Williams has received more than 2,161,244 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Cliff Williams is the 229th most popular musician (up from 343rd in 2019), the 831st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,205th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Cliff Williams by language

Over the past year Cliff Williams has had the most page views in the with 323,132 views, followed by German (58,061), and Spanish (42,925). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (198.80%), Serbo-Croatian (174.26%), and Ukrainian (169.58%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Cliff Williams ranks 229 out of 3,175. Before him are Mike Shinoda, Jaco Pastorius, Oscar Peterson, Gianna Nannini, Thelonious Monk, and Carla Bley. After him are Enrico Macias, Alan Parsons, Romano Mussolini, Ian Stewart, Farid al-Atrash, and Alfred Brendel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Cliff Williams ranks 70. Before him are Hugh David Politzer, Tom Berenger, Teófilo Cubillas, Sissy Spacek, Issei Sagawa, and Kurmanbek Bakiyev. After him are Philippe Petit, Valery Leontiev, Philippe Starck, Ivana Trump, Vicky Leandros, and Mick Taylor.

Others Born in 1949

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Cliff Williams ranks 831 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Whymper (1840), Peter Cushing (1913), H. L. A. Hart (1907), Derek Jacobi (1938), Mairead Maguire (1944), and Godfrey Hounsfield (1919). After him are Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), David Coverdale (1951), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), William Bateson (1861), and John William Polidori (1795).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Cliff Williams ranks 50. Before him are Bill Wyman (1936), John Cale (1942), John Paul Jones (1946), Amy Winehouse (1983), Ken Hensley (1945), and Stuart Sutcliffe (1940). After him are Alan Parsons (1948), Ian Stewart (1938), Mick Taylor (1949), Bob Klose (1945), Karl Jenkins (1944), and Steve Harris (1956).

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