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Frank Farian

1941 - 2024

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Franz Reuther (18 July 1941 – 23 January 2024), known professionally as Frank Farian, was a German record producer and singer who founded the 1970s disco-pop group Boney M., the Latin pop band No Mercy, and the pop band Milli Vanilli. He frequently created vocal groups in which the publicised members merely lip-synced to songs sung by session performers. Farian owned the record label MCI and several subsidiaries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Farian has received more than 2,571,264 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Frank Farian is the 97th most popular musician (up from 153rd in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from Germany (up from 749th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Musician.

Frank Farian is best known as a German record producer and songwriter, the mastermind behind iconic acts like Boney M. and Milli Vanilli. He is celebrated for creating catchy hits but also infamous for controversies, including Milli Vanilli’s lip-syncing scandal.

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  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Frank Farian ranks 97 out of 3,175. Before him are Paul Simon, Charlie Parker, David Oistrakh, Alice Cooper, Dschinghis Khan, and Chet Baker. After him are Angus Young, Quincy Jones, Lemmy, John Coltrane, Paul Mauriat, and Gheorghe Zamfir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Frank Farian ranks 40. Before him are Dick Cheney, Nick Nolte, Faye Dunaway, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Paul Simon, and Nathalie Delon. After him are Dennis Ritchie, Michael D. Higgins, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Bobby Moore, Gheorghe Zamfir, and Wolfgang Petersen. Among people deceased in 2024, Frank Farian ranks 29. Before him are Sebastián Piñera, Alexei Navalny, Luigi Riva, Akira Toriyama, Johan Galtung, and Niklaus Wirth. After him are Carl Weathers, Quincy Jones, Roger Guillemin, Kurt Hamrin, Nguyễn Phú Trọng, and Dries van Agt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frank Farian ranks 507 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), and Erwin Panofsky (1892). After him are Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), Henning von Tresckow (1901), Rabanus Maurus (780), Walter Schellenberg (1910), Helmut Newton (1920), and Josef Kramer (1906).

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Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Frank Farian ranks 4. Before him are Clara Schumann (1819), Leopold Mozart (1719), and Till Lindemann (1963). After him are Carlos Kleiber (1930), Hans von Bülow (1830), James Last (1929), Klaus Nomi (1944), Rudolf Schenker (1948), Wilhelm Kempff (1895), André Previn (1929), and Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806).

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