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Danny Elfman

1953 - Today

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Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead singer and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Danny Elfman has received more than 11,622,387 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Danny Elfman is the 489th most popular composer (up from 496th in 2019), the 2,305th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,315th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Composer.

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  • 12M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Danny Elfman ranks 489 out of 1,216Before him are Vítězslav Novák, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Hans Pfitzner, Franz Xaver Richter, Reinhard Keiser, and Robert Stolz. After him are Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Luis Bacalov, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Frederick Delius, Alexandre Tansman, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Danny Elfman ranks 83Before him are Hans Krankl, Loalwa Braz, Dave Evans, Mary Steenburgen, Najib Razak, and András Schiff. After him are Claudio Gentile, Alpha Blondy, Nanni Moretti, Đorđe Balašević, Aleksandr Akimov, and Dominique de Villepin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Danny Elfman ranks 2,305 out of 18,182Before him are Bernard Malamud (1914), Jim Caviezel (1968), Selena Gomez (1992), William Sadler (1950), Van Heflin (1908), and Brad Dexter (1917). After him are Woody Strode (1914), LP (1981), Chad Hurley (1977), Edwin G. Krebs (1918), Donald Judd (1928), and John Phillips (1935).

Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Danny Elfman ranks 29Before him are Michael Kamen (1948), Richard Rodgers (1902), George Crumb (1929), Bill Conti (1942), Paul Bowles (1910), and James Newton Howard (1951). After him are Stephen Foster (1826), John Adams (1947), George Antheil (1900), Morton Feldman (1926), Carmine Coppola (1910), and Jonathan Larson (1960).

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