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Eduard Khil

1934 - 2012

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Eduard Anatolyevich Khil (Russian: Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Хиль, IPA: [ɨdʊˈart ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈxʲilʲ]; 4 September 1934 – 4 June 2012), often anglicized as Edward Hill, was a Soviet-Russian baritone singer. Khil became known to international audiences in 2010, when a 1976 clip of him singing a non-lexical vocable version of the song "I Am Very Glad, As I Am Finally Returning Back Home" (Russian: "Я о́чень рад, ведь я, наконе́ц, возвраща́юсь домо́й", tr. "Ya ochen rad, ved ya, nakonets, vozvrashchayus' domoy") became an Internet meme, often referred to as "Trololol" or "Trololo", or as the "Russian Rickroll", and the song became associated with Internet trolling. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Khil has received more than 1,877,411 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Eduard Khil is the 163rd most popular singer (down from 149th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Russia (down from 296th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Singer.

Eduard Khil is most famous for his rendition of the song "I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home" in a video that went viral on YouTube.

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  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Eduard Khil ranks 163 out of 3,528. Before him are Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Chester Bennington, John Denver, Bob Geldof, Alessandro Moreschi, and Birgit Nilsson. After him are Engelbert Humperdinck, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Ivan Rebroff, Celia Cruz, Ben E. King, and Charles Trenet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Eduard Khil ranks 56. Before him are Jonas Savimbi, Jan Švankmajer, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Alfred Schnittke, Stanislav Shushkevich, and Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler. After him are David J. Thouless, Marshall Rosenberg, Fujiko Fujio, Giovanni Battista Re, Bettino Craxi, and Brian Epstein. Among people deceased in 2012, Eduard Khil ranks 40. Before him are Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, Matilde Camus, Antonio Tabucchi, Dave Brubeck, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Andrew Huxley. After him are Joseph Murray, Sun Myung Moon, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Etta James, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, and E. Donnall Thomas.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Eduard Khil ranks 325 out of 3,262. Before him are Alexandre Kojève (1902), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), George Balanchine (1904), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Simeon of Moscow (1316), and Leonid Hurwicz (1917). After him are Igor Smirnov (1941), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822), Eduard Limonov (1943), Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860), and Lila Kedrova (1918).

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Among SINGERS In Russia

Among singers born in Russia, Eduard Khil ranks 3. Before him are Alla Pugacheva (1949) and Feodor Chaliapin (1873). After him are Anna Netrebko (1971), Valery Leontiev (1949), Viktor Tsoi (1962), Galina Vishnevskaya (1926), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962), Lidia Ruslanova (1900), Georg Ots (1920), Martti Talvela (1935), and Elena Obraztsova (1939).

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