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Koji Kondo

1961 - Today

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Koji Kondo (Japanese: 近藤 浩治, Hepburn: Kondō Kōji, August 13, 1961) is a Japanese music composer, pianist, and sound director for the video game company Nintendo. He is best known for his many contributions to the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series of video games, among others produced by the company. Kondo was hired by Nintendo in 1984, becoming the first person hired by them to specialize in video game music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koji Kondo has received more than 1,370,602 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Koji Kondo is the 1,067th most popular composer (down from 1,043rd in 2019), the 1,096th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,075th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Koji Kondo ranks 1,067 out of 1,216Before him are Morton Gould, Avet Terterian, Sanja Ilić, Roger Sessions, Charles Avison, and Tristan Murail. After him are William Christie, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Jānis Ivanovs, Toivo Kuula, Julius Benedict, and Édouard Colonne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Koji Kondo ranks 183Before him are Raymond Cruz, Benny Chan, Gabrielle Carteris, Carey Lowell, Pumpuang Duangjan, and Ann Linde. After him are Doris Dragović, Mariel Hemingway, Steve Holmes, Joe Lando, Sigrid Kaag, and Lars Olsen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koji Kondo ranks 1,096 out of 6,048Before him are Masi Oka (1974), Hajime Isayama (1986), Ted Fujita (1920), Takeshi Okada (1956), Yumi Matsutoya (1954), and Takako Doi (1928). After him are Miyoshi Umeki (1929), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), Rinko Kikuchi (1981), Shunichiro Okano (1931), Masafumi Yokoyama (1956), and Daisuke Gōri (1952).

Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Koji Kondo ranks 14Before him are Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), and Fumio Hayasaka (1914). After him are Akira Yamaoka (1968), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Junichi Masuda (1968), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), and Yuzo Koshiro (1967).