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M. S. Subbulakshmi

1916 - 2004

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Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. S. Subbulakshmi has received more than 2,783,989 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). M. S. Subbulakshmi is the 509th most popular singer (up from 714th in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from India (up from 363rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 509 out of 4,381. Before her are Don McLean, Haykanoush Danielyan, Selena, Cristina Deutekom, Faustina Bordoni, and Noel Gallagher. After her are Anita Mui, Carlo Bergonzi, Rita Marley, Amadou & Mariam, Aristide Bruant, and Gary Glitter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 101. Before her are Archie Moore, Mercedes McCambridge, Chiang Wei-kuo, John Basilone, Julio César Turbay Ayala, and Bismillah Khan. After her are Chiang Fang-liang, Lung Chien, Yekaterina Budanova, Ivo Lola Ribar, Zail Singh, and Alexey Maresyev. Among people deceased in 2004, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 99. Before her are Vasili Mitrokhin, Laura Betti, Umberto Agnelli, René Laloux, P. V. Narasimha Rao, and Jean Lefebvre. After her are Chiang Fang-liang, Helmut Griem, Gordon Cooper, Walter Frentz, Czesław Niemen, and Artie Shaw.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 293 out of 1,861. Before her are Alamgir II (1699), Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897), Mohammed Rafi (1924), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Rahul Sankrityayan (1893), and Hyder Ali (1720). After her are Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), Sarada Devi (1853), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), Inayat Khan (1882), and Nana Sahib (1824).

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Among SINGERS In India

Among singers born in India, M. S. Subbulakshmi ranks 5. Before her are Lata Mangeshkar (1929), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Kishore Kumar (1929), and Mohammed Rafi (1924). After her are Asha Bhosle (1933), Udit Narayan (1955), S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946), Jagjit Singh (1941), Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Girija Devi (1929), and Gangubai Hangal (1913).

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