SINGER

Lepa Brena

1960 - Today

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Fahreta Živojinović (née Jahić; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Фахрета Живојиновић, née Јахић; born 20 October 1960), known by her stage name Lepa Brena (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Лепа Брена), is a Bosnian singer, actress, and businesswoman. With around 40 million sold records, she is regarded as the commercially most successful recording artist from the former Yugoslavia. Brena is also often credited with creating the turbo-folk genre with her first two albums Čačak, Čačak (1982) and Mile voli disko (1982).Lepa Brena grew up in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, but has lived in Belgrade, Serbia since 1980, where she started her career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lepa Brena has received more than 1,006,161 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Lepa Brena is the 247th most popular singer (up from 396th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 55th in 2019) and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lepa Brenas by language

Over the past year Lepa Brena has had the most page views in the with 152,165 views, followed by Croatian (78,872), and Bulgarian (76,740). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbo-Croatian (227.26%), Bulgarian (95.06%), and Romanian (75.92%)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Lepa Brena ranks 247 out of 4,381. Before her are Tereza Kesovija, Nena, The Singing Nun, Corry Brokken, Milva, and Bessie Smith. After her are Sam Cooke, F. R. David, Debbie Harry, Shane MacGowan, Sade, and Giuseppina Strepponi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Lepa Brena ranks 50. Before her are Mohamed Bazoum, Jorge Sampaoli, Nena, Hiroyuki Sanada, Gustavo Petro, and Kristin Scott Thomas. After her are Naoki Urasawa, Neil Gaiman, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Damon Hill, Michael Nyqvist, and Jafar Panahi.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lepa Brena ranks 37 out of 375. Before her are Fikret Abdić (1939), Safet Sušić (1955), Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia (1292), Ljupko Petrović (1947), Husein Gradaščević (1802), and Sinan Pasha (1500). After her are Zdravko Čolić (1951), Jazzar Pasha (1722), Dino Merlin (1962), Momčilo Krajišnik (1945), Silvana Armenulić (1939), and Mate Boban (1940).

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Among SINGERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among singers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lepa Brena ranks 1. After her are Zdravko Čolić (1951), Dino Merlin (1962), Željko Bebek (1945), Kemal Monteno (1948), Halid Bešlić (1953), Davorin Popović (1946), Sena Jurinac (1921), Seid Memić Vajta (1950), Ljiljana Petrović (1939), Rodoljub Roki Vulović (1955), and Sabahudin Kurt (1935).

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