SINGER

Françoise Hardy

1944 - 2024

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Françoise Madeleine Hardy (French: [fʁɑ̃swaz madlɛn aʁdi]; 17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024) was a French singer-songwriter who was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure in French yé-yé music and became a cultural icon in France and internationally. In addition to her native French, she also sang in English, Italian, and German. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Françoise Hardy has received more than 2,964,703 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Françoise Hardy is the 87th most popular singer (up from 109th in 2019), the 592nd most popular biography from France (up from 750th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Singer.

Françoise Hardy is a French singer-songwriter who began her career in the early 1960s. She is most famous for her singles "Tous les garçons et les filles" and "Tu trouveras".

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  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Françoise Hardy ranks 87 out of 4,381. Before her are France Gall, Gwen Stefani, Klaus Meine, Johnny Hallyday, Rihanna, and Alla Pugacheva. After her are Lata Mangeshkar, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Teresa Teng, and Steven Tyler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Françoise Hardy ranks 34. Before her are Sepp Maier, Rem Koolhaas, Diana Ross, Danny Trejo, Dietrich Mateschitz, and Vojislav Koštunica. After her are Sebastião Salgado, Ulrich Beck, Luigi Riva, Yoweri Museveni, Helmut Berger, and Ibrahim Rugova. Among people deceased in 2024, Françoise Hardy ranks 13. Before her are Anouk Aimée, Alice Munro, Ismail Kadare, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, O. J. Simpson, and Arno Allan Penzias. After her are Sebastián Piñera, Alexei Navalny, Luigi Riva, Akira Toriyama, Johan Galtung, and Niklaus Wirth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Françoise Hardy ranks 592 out of 6,770. Before her are René Lacoste (1904), Gérard de Nerval (1808), Joseph Proust (1754), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Roger Garaudy (1913), and Margaret of Anjou (1430). After her are Antipope Clement VII (1342), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Lazare Carnot (1753), Anaïs Nin (1903), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), and Alain Resnais (1922).

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Among SINGERS In France

Among singers born in France, Françoise Hardy ranks 8. Before her are Charles Aznavour (1924), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Carlos Gardel (1890), France Gall (1947), and Johnny Hallyday (1943). After her are Gilbert Bécaud (1927), Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737), Manu Chao (1961), Maria Malibran (1808), and Georges Brassens (1921).

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