MUSICIAN

Mana

1969 - Today

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Mana (Japanese: 魔名) is a Japanese musician, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer, best known as guitarist of the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer from their formation in 1992 until their indefinite hiatus in 2001. A year later, Mana formed the gothic metal band Moi dix Mois as his solo project. Mana founded the independent record label Midi:Nette (French for "starry-eyed girl") in 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mana has received more than 1,999,318 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Mana is the 1,497th most popular musician (up from 1,570th in 2019), the 1,336th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,274th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Manas by language

Over the past year Mana has had the most page views in the with 180,247 views, followed by Japanese (62,371), and Spanish (20,864). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (63.27%), Spanish (56.54%), and Portuguese (47.85%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Mana ranks 1,497 out of 3,175. Before him are Zhanna Bichevskaya, Tim Sköld, Cassandra Wilson, Duane Eddy, Bobby Timmons, and Skrillex. After him are Carol Kaye, Masaharu Fukuyama, Tommy Johnson, Jim Capaldi, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Albert Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Mana ranks 241. Before him are Ben Chaplin, Shea Whigham, Christy Turlington, Masrour Barzani, Jan Axel Blomberg, and Lotay Tshering. After him are Masaharu Fukuyama, Yariv Levin, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Ilie Dumitrescu, Marco Bode, and Ilham Tohti.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mana ranks 1,336 out of 6,245. Before him are Fumio Gotō (1884), Noboru Terada (1917), Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926), Keiko Awaji (1933), Kaori Momoi (1951), and Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965). After him are Masaharu Fukuyama (1969), Hiroshi Kaneda (1953), Takekazu Asaka (1952), Kiyonori Kikutake (1928), Masae Suzuki (1957), and Masashi Nakayama (1967).

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Among MUSICIANS In Japan

Among musicians born in Japan, Mana ranks 16. Before him are Susumu Hirasawa (1954), Mitski (1990), Yuki Kajiura (1965), LiSA (1987), Gackt (1973), and Hyde (1969). After him are Masaharu Fukuyama (1969), Nujabes (1974), Miyavi (1981), Nobuko Imai (1943), Ryo Kawasaki (1947), and Heath (1968).

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