SINGER

Gladys Knight

1944 - Today

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Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer. A ten-time Grammy Award-winner, Knight recorded hits through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her family group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins William Guest and Edward Patten. Knight has recorded two number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles ("Midnight Train to Georgia" and "That's What Friends Are For" which she did with Dionne Warwick, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder), eleven number-one R&B singles and six number-one R&B albums. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gladys Knight has received more than 7,841,116 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Gladys Knight is the 717th most popular singer, the 3,779th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,082nd in 2019) and the 197th most popular American Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gladys Knights by language

Over the past year Gladys Knight has had the most page views in the with 837,971 views, followed by German (31,827), and Spanish (23,937). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (212.93%), Hebrew (192.14%), and Ido (155.09%)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Gladys Knight ranks 717 out of 4,381. Before her are Renaud, Fyodor Stravinsky, SZA, Dragana Mirković, H.P. Baxxter, and Polad Bülbüloğlu. After her are Arik Einstein, Paul Young, Maria Carta, Christopher Cross, Júlia Várady, and Tanita Tikaram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Gladys Knight ranks 290. Before her are Glen Cook, Aleksandr Serebrov, Sandra Faber, Boris Mikhailov, Jerry Springer, and Pedro Barreto. After her are Han Myeong-sook, Vlastimil Hort, Lars Norén, Catherine Schell, Alex Metreveli, and Sigiswald Kuijken.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gladys Knight ranks 3,779 out of 20,380. Before her are McCoy Tyner (1938), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), Black Hawk (1767), Jim Rohn (1930), Eric Singer (1958), and Edna Parker (1893). After her are Dean Jones (1931), Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906), Milton Glaser (1929), Nikki Haley (1972), Gordon Gould (1920), and Kaʻahumanu (1768).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Gladys Knight ranks 197. Before her are Lee Hazlewood (1929), Peggy March (1948), Tiffany Trump (1993), Tracy Chapman (1964), Fergie (1975), and SZA (1990). After her are Christopher Cross (1951), Peter Steele (1962), Ronnie Spector (1943), Sheryl Crow (1962), Aaliyah (1979), and Billy Vaughn (1919).

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