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Koji Kondo

1961 - Today

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Koji Kondo (Japanese: 近藤 浩治, Hepburn: Kondō Kōji, born August 13, 1961) is a Japanese composer and senior executive at the video game company Nintendo. He is best known for his contributions for the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series, with his Super Mario Bros. theme being the first piece of music from a video game included in the American National Recording Registry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koji Kondo has received more than 1,493,967 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Koji Kondo is the 798th most popular composer (up from 1,065th in 2019), the 875th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,093rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Koji Kondo ranks 798 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Rosenmüller, Jan Václav Voříšek, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Alexander Spendiaryan, Emil Paur, and Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger. After him are Johann Caspar Kerll, Julius Röntgen, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Isaak Dunayevsky, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, and Jean Guillou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Koji Kondo ranks 119. Before him are Tony Rominger, James Rollins, Isiah Thomas, Moungi Bawendi, Peter Machajdík, and Guido Westerwelle. After him are Ahmed Aboutaleb, Veselin Vujović, José Luis Mendilibar, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Jean-Christophe Grangé, and Virginia Madsen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koji Kondo ranks 875 out of 6,245. Before him are Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (1434), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Tadao Horie (1913), Yoshito Usui (1958), Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889), and Kyuichi Tokuda (1894). After him are Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759), Kiyonao Ichiki (1892), Nobuyuki Oishi (1939), Inō Tadataka (1745), Yuki Fushimi (1950), and Kishin Shinoyama (1940).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Koji Kondo ranks 9. Before him are Toru Takemitsu (1930), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Kenji Kawai (1957), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), and Koichi Sugiyama (1931). After him are Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Akira Ifukube (1914), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Shirō Sagisu (1957), and Fumio Hayasaka (1914).

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