MUSICIAN

Jimmy Bain

1947 - 2016

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James Stewart Bain (19 December 1947 – 23 January 2016) was a Scottish musician, best known for playing bass guitar in the bands Rainbow and Dio. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jimmy Bain has received more than 724,657 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jimmy Bain is the 1,165th most popular musician (down from 1,040th in 2019), the 3,068th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,784th in 2019) and the 184th most popular British Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jimmy Bains by language

Over the past year Jimmy Bain has had the most page views in the with 69,364 views, followed by Spanish (7,346), and German (5,928). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Norwegian (Nynorsk) (1,239.13%), Simple English (50.54%), and Serbo-Croatian (40.89%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Jimmy Bain ranks 1,165 out of 3,175. Before him are Rolf Løvland, Frankie Laine, Alexander Gradsky, Tony Joe White, Mike Stern, and Ole Beich. After him are Valery Afanassiev, Ian Stuart Donaldson, Martin Barre, Laurindo Almeida, Jorma Kaukonen, and Terry Bozzio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Jimmy Bain ranks 434. Before him are Jeffrey C. Alexander, Abraham Laboriel, Steve Marriott, Željko Franulović, André Wilms, and Lupita Ferrer. After him are Juliet Berto, Valery Afanassiev, Stefano Benni, Goran Paskaljević, Michael Ignatieff, and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. Among people deceased in 2016, Jimmy Bain ranks 283. Before him are Mrinalini Sarabhai, Alan Young, Ruth Leuwerik, Merle Haggard, Edmonde Charles-Roux, and Benoîte Groult. After him are William Trevor, Aurèle Nicolet, Fritz Stern, Georges Balandier, Akhtar Mansour, and Pierre Aubert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jimmy Bain ranks 3,068 out of 8,785. Before him are Jeremy Northam (1961), James Legge (1815), Madeleine Carroll (1906), Paul Cook (1956), Anthony Caro (1924), and Jesse Carver (1911). After him are Anne Seymour Damer (1748), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Roger Rees (1944), Pamela Colman Smith (1878), Rhona Mitra (1976), and Sam Smith (1992).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Jimmy Bain ranks 184. Before him are Paul Simonon (1955), Hank Marvin (1941), Anthony Phillips (1951), Geoff Nicholls (1948), Andrew Loog Oldham (1944), and Jimmie Nicol (1939). After him are Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957), Martin Barre (1946), Dave Holland (1948), Geoff Downes (1952), Martin Birch (1948), and John Steel (1941).

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