COMPOSER

Hitoshi Sakimoto

1969 - Today

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Hitoshi Sakimoto (崎元 仁, Sakimoto Hitoshi, born February 26, 1969) is a Japanese composer and sound producer. He is best known for scoring the video games Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy XII, though he has composed soundtracks for over 80 other games. Sakimoto first played music and video games in elementary school and began composing music professionally in 1988. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hitoshi Sakimoto has received more than 321,944 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hitoshi Sakimoto is the 1,411th most popular composer (down from 1,326th in 2019), the 2,036th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,864th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Japanese Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hitoshi Sakimotos by language

Over the past year Hitoshi Sakimoto has had the most page views in the with 40,824 views, followed by Japanese (20,011), and Chinese (3,133). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Thai (93.81%), Egyptian Arabic (42.86%), and Korean (33.52%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Hitoshi Sakimoto ranks 1,411 out of 1,451. Before him are Arturo Rodas, Steve Roach, Michiru Yamane, Vivian Kubrick, Ludovic Bource, and Walter Murphy. After him are George Perle, Meredith Willson, Ezio Bosso, Anu Malik, Marc Shaiman, and Randall Thompson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Hitoshi Sakimoto ranks 625. Before him are Jeffrey Lieber, Billy Porter, Paea Wolfgramm, Yoshihiro Natsuka, Joan Llaneras, and Dmitri Cheryshev. After him are Mai Charoenpura, Rafael Guijosa, Dieter Thoma, Billy Gardell, Justin Kirk, and Ramón Ramírez.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hitoshi Sakimoto ranks 2,036 out of 6,245. Before him are Inesu Emiko Takeoka (1971), Shoichi Funaki (1968), Koji Uehara (1975), Yoshihiro Natsuka (1969), Masataka Imai (1959), and Eri Fukatsu (1973). After him are Sayaka Kanda (1986), Shinzo Koroki (1986), Mike Havenaar (1987), Aki Toyosaki (1986), Emiko Kubo (1966), and Masashi Oguro (1980).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Hitoshi Sakimoto ranks 25. Before him are Junichi Masuda (1968), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Kaoru Wada (1962), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Kazumi Totaka (1967), and Michiru Yamane (1963). After him are Shoji Meguro (1971).

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