SINGER

Jacques Pills

1906 - 1970

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Jacques Pills (born René Jacques Ducos; 6 March 1906 – 12 September 1970) was a French singer and actor. His impresario was Bruno Coquatrix. In 1959, Pills was the Monegasque entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "Mon ami Pierrot". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Pills has received more than 156,666 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Pills is the 480th most popular singer (up from 487th in 2019), the 2,448th most popular biography from France (up from 2,487th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Singer.

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  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Jacques Pills ranks 480 out of 4,381Before him are Haddaway, Neil Tennant, Emilio Pericoli, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marek Grechuta, and IU. After him are Facundo Cabral, Katy Perry, R. Kelly, Ahmad Zahir, Mari Boine, and Miley Cyrus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Jacques Pills ranks 119Before him are Enrico Mattei, Yasuo Haruyama, Denis de Rougemont, Musa Cälil, William Joyce, and Ladislao Vajda. After him are Jack Churchill, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Jean Dieudonné, Philippe Halsman, Pierre Fournier, and Gabriel Ramanantsoa. Among people deceased in 1970, Jacques Pills ranks 96Before him are Erle Stanley Gardner, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Franz Schlegelberger, Pavel Belyayev, and Abraham Zapruder. After him are Amadeo Bordiga, Agustín Lara, René Schneider, Café Filho, John Barbirolli, and Folco Lulli.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Pills ranks 2,448 out of 6,770Before him are Maximilien Luce (1858), Roger Peyrefitte (1907), Geneviève Page (1927), Jo Schlesser (1928), Bérenger Saunière (1852), and Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788). After him are Marguerite Gérard (1761), Antoine Coysevox (1640), Blanche of Artois (1248), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Roman Opałka (1931), and Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (1624).

Among SINGERS In France

Among singers born in France, Jacques Pills ranks 33Before him are André Claveau (1911), Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951), Patricia Kaas (1966), Line Renaud (1928), Michel Sardou (1947), and Séverine (1948). After him are Adolphe Nourrit (1802), Zaz (1980), Aristide Bruant (1851), Sheila (1945), Emma Calvé (1858), and Christophe (1945).