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Franzl Lang

1930 - 2015

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Franz "Franzl" Lang (28 December 1930 – 6 December 2015), known as the Yodel King (German: Jodlerkönig), was an alpine yodeller from Bavaria, Germany. Lang's genre is German folk music; he typically sang in the Bavarian dialect of the rural Alpine regions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franzl Lang has received more than 315,314 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Franzl Lang is the 407th most popular singer (down from 352nd in 2019), the 1,949th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,803rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Singer.

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  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Franzl Lang ranks 407 out of 4,381. Before him are Kanye West, La Toya Jackson, Dinah Washington, Alan Stivell, Kirsten Flagstad, and Miguel Bosé. After him are Iva Zanicchi, Christine McVie, Alizée, Joseph Kobzon, Fritz Wunderlich, and Solomiya Krushelnytska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Franzl Lang ranks 131. Before him are Marion Zimmer Bradley, Miljan Miljanić, Ted Hughes, Oleg Popov, Georgiy Daneliya, and Michel Rocard. After him are Lina Kostenko, Marshall Sahlins, Fritz Wunderlich, Kinji Fukasaku, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, and Ahmad Shah of Pahang. Among people deceased in 2015, Franzl Lang ranks 102. Before him are Philippe Honoré, Ieng Thirith, Geraldine McEwan, Omar Karami, Eileen Essell, and Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. After him are Jaakko Hintikka, Halldór Ásgrímsson, André Brink, Adrian Frutiger, Hyon Yong-chol, and Guy Ligier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franzl Lang ranks 1,949 out of 7,253. Before him are Hanns Martin Schleyer (1915), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach (1721), Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746), Fritz Fischer (1912), Juliana of Stolberg (1506), and Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1453). After him are Georg Ebers (1837), Isdal Woman (1940), Hans Wilsdorf (1881), John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1625), Rainer Bonhof (1952), and Niko Kovač (1971).

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Among SINGERS In Germany

Among singers born in Germany, Franzl Lang ranks 19. Before him are Fancy (1946), Tarkan (1972), Udo Dirkschneider (1952), Wolf Biermann (1936), Heino (1938), and Christa Ludwig (1928). After him are Fritz Wunderlich (1930), Gundula Janowitz (1937), Heidi Brühl (1942), Doro (1964), Michael Kiske (1968), and H.P. Baxxter (1964).

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