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David Gates

1940 - Today

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David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is a retired American singer-songwriter, guitarist, musician and producer, frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread, which reached the top of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Gates has received more than 2,127,111 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). David Gates is the 2,033rd most popular musician (down from 1,846th in 2019), the 10,572nd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,413th in 2019) and the 800th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of David Gates by language

Over the past year David Gates has had the most page views in the with 342,246 views, followed by Spanish (13,784), and Japanese (5,231). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Quechua (67.55%), Southern Azerbaijani (62.90%), and Persian (44.15%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, David Gates ranks 2,033 out of 3,175Before her are Philip Selway, Jule Styne, Roger Taylor, Roger Miller, Salil Chowdhury, and Tony Thompson. After her are Hiromi Uehara, Jimmy Webb, Hiro Yamamoto, Iva Bittová, Paul Winter, and Necrobutcher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, David Gates ranks 537Before her are Robert Walker, Adriana Hoffmann, Raúl Magaña, Varsha Adalja, Hasan Muratović, and Chelato Uclés. After her are Lyudmila Shishova, Jürgen Heinsch, Ugo Colombo, Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, Brian Bennett, and Bjarne Andersson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Gates ranks 10,572 out of 20,380Before her are Bob Lanier (1948), David Dixon Porter (1813), Shirley Stobs (1942), Timothy Weah (2000), Bobby Rahal (1953), and Nicki Aycox (1975). After her are Beatrice Mintz (1921), Frank Church (1924), Mario Savio (1942), Jimmy Webb (1946), David Souter (1939), and Ron Eldard (1965).

Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, David Gates ranks 800Before her are Dwight Yoakam (1956), Kristen Pfaff (1967), Slim Whitman (1923), David Lindley (1944), Roger Miller (1936), and Tony Thompson (1954). After her are Jimmy Webb (1946), Hiro Yamamoto (1961), Paul Winter (1939), Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein (1964), Roy Bittan (1949), and Andrew Hill (1931).