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Fats Domino

1928 - 2017

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Antoine Caliste Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American singer-songwriter and pianist. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fats Domino has received more than 4,980,718 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Fats Domino is the 315th most popular musician (down from 261st in 2019), the 1,760th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,529th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Musician.

Fats Domino is most famous for his rock and roll hits from the 1950s and 1960s.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Fats Domino ranks 315 out of 3,175. Before him are Joe Satriani, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Richard Z. Kruspe, Jacques Dutronc, Robby Krieger, and Don Airey. After him are Manu Dibango, Stevie Young, Per Gessle, Joe Zawinul, Lee Soo-man, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Fats Domino ranks 107. Before him are Ida Haendel, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Sol LeWitt, Seymour Papert, Torben Ulrich, and Daniel Nathans. After him are Takeshi Inoue, Malcolm Glazer, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Djivan Gasparyan, Al Lettieri, and Paul Elvstrøm. Among people deceased in 2017, Fats Domino ranks 87. Before him are Michael Nyqvist, Anita Pallenberg, Nicolai Gedda, Anne Wiazemsky, René Préval, and Konstantinos Mitsotakis. After him are Tomas Milian, Hans Rosling, Colin Dexter, Paolo Villaggio, Karin Dor, and Tom Regan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fats Domino ranks 1,760 out of 20,380. Before him are Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Robby Krieger (1946), Lloyd Bridges (1913), Kenneth Waltz (1924), Daniel Nathans (1928), and Virginia Henderson (1897). After him are Bob Newhart (1929), Peter Coyote (1941), Brion James (1945), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), Henry Steel Olcott (1832), and Madeleine Stowe (1958).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Fats Domino ranks 88. Before him are Art Tatum (1909), Sixto Rodriguez (1942), Jerry Reed (1937), John Densmore (1944), Joe Satriani (1956), and Robby Krieger (1946). After him are Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954), Sonny Rollins (1930), Eric Carr (1950), Count Basie (1904), Paul Desmond (1924), and Johnny Ramone (1948).

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