COMPOSER

Craig Armstrong

1959 - Today

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Craig Armstrong, (born 29 April 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981, and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. Armstrong's score for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Craig Armstrong has received more than 28,822 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Craig Armstrong is the 1,204th most popular composer (down from 1,159th in 2019), the 3,804th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,639th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 29k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Craig Armstrongs by language

Over the past year Craig Armstrong has had the most page views in the with 8,703 views, followed by Russian (5,634), and German (5,565). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (178.54%), Southern Azerbaijani (102.25%), and Georgian (84.15%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Craig Armstrong ranks 1,204 out of 1,451. Before him are Luís de Freitas Branco, Marco Beltrami, Eino Tamberg, Pauline Oliveros, Akira Yamaoka, and Johanna Kinkel. After him are André Messager, Granville Bantock, Mark Snow, Ivor Novello, Antón García Abril, and Leonard Slatkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Craig Armstrong ranks 273. Before him are Prithvirajsing Roopun, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Timoleón Jiménez, Guy Ecker, David Blatt, and Alan Taylor. After him are John Hawkes, Roland Grapow, Panagiotis Giannakis, Kevin Gage, Ameenah Gurib, and Hennadiy Kernes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Craig Armstrong ranks 3,804 out of 8,785. Before him are Paul Kossoff (1950), George Milne, 1st Baron Milne (1866), Allan Clarke (1942), Wallace Ford (1898), William McGregor (1846), and May Sutton (1886). After him are John Higgins (1975), Ron Harris (1944), Cecil Griffiths (1900), Katherine Waterston (1980), John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (1431), and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (1663).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Craig Armstrong ranks 55. Before him are Henry Bishop (1786), Clint Mansell (1963), Thomas Morley (1557), Adolph Deutsch (1897), Cyril Scott (1879), and Harrison Birtwistle (1934). After him are Granville Bantock (1868), Ivor Novello (1893), Fred Frith (1949), Havergal Brian (1876), Arthur Bliss (1891), and Nicholas Hooper (1952).

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