COMPOSER

Hiroyuki Sawano

1980 - Today

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Hiroyuki Sawano (澤野 弘之, Sawano Hiroyuki, born September 12, 1980), stylized as Hiroyuki SAWANO, is a Japanese composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, and music producer best known for his work on many anime series, video games, television dramas, and movies. His works include the musical scores for Attack on Titan, The Seven Deadly Sins, Solo Leveling, Sengoku Basara, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Blue Exorcist, Seraph of the End, Guilty Crown, Kill la Kill, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and 86. In addition to his role on the soundtrack, Sawano also composes many opening and ending theme songs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiroyuki Sawano has received more than 2,162,661 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Hiroyuki Sawano is the 1,212th most popular composer (down from 1,184th in 2019), the 1,320th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,232nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hiroyuki Sawano ranks 1,212 out of 1,451. Before him are Granville Bantock, Mark Snow, Ivor Novello, Antón García Abril, Leonard Slatkin, and Joonas Kokkonen. After him are William Bolcom, Peter Schickele, Fred Frith, Sanja Ilić, Havergal Brian, and Alan Hovhaness.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Hiroyuki Sawano ranks 93. Before him are Cecilia Cheung, Cicinho, Denys Monastyrsky, Katherine Waterston, Rebel Wilson, and Gong Hyo-jin. After him are Ivan Klasnić, Emir Spahić, Zach McGowan, Jason Schwartzman, Ricardo Oliveira, and Didier Zokora.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroyuki Sawano ranks 1,320 out of 6,245. Before him are Ken Akamatsu (1968), Ken Uehara (1909), Kazushi Kimura (1958), Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), and Kenyu Horiuchi (1957). After him are Toshi (1965), Nobuo Fujishima (1950), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Mitsunori Fujiguchi (1949), Hiromi Tsuru (1960), and Tarō Kōno (1963).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Hiroyuki Sawano ranks 17. Before him are Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Akira Ifukube (1914), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Shirō Sagisu (1957), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), and Akira Yamaoka (1968). After him are Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Junichi Masuda (1968), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Kaoru Wada (1962), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), and Kazumi Totaka (1967).

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