MUSICIAN

Marco Hietala

1966 - Today

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Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala (born 14 January 1966) is a Finnish heavy metal vocalist, bassist and songwriter. Internationally, he is best known as the former bassist, male vocalist and secondary composer to Tuomas Holopainen, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marco Hietala has received more than 577,513 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Marco Hietala is the 452nd most popular musician (up from 525th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Finland (up from 84th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Marco Hietalas by language

Over the past year Marco Hietala has had the most page views in the with 33,884 views, followed by Finnish (31,888), and Russian (28,877). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are West Frisian (153.00%), Spanish (92.69%), and Arabic (65.44%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Marco Hietala ranks 452 out of 3,175Before him are Kai Hansen, Scott McKenzie, Christoph Eschenbach, John Frusciante, Dionisio Aguado y García, and Mitsuko Uchida. After him are Ralf Hütter, Bud Powell, Janick Gers, Jan Hammer, Serj Tankian, and Tansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Marco Hietala ranks 54Before him are Jorge Campos, Christoph Schneider, Sergey Surovikin, Paulo Futre, Gianluca Pagliuca, and Enrique Peña Nieto. After him are Jon Favreau, Rinat Akhmetov, Sean Harris, Kaliopi, Qusay Hussein, and Enzo Scifo.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Marco Hietala ranks 71 out of 751Before him are Mika Kaurismäki (1955), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Jaakko Hintikka (1929), Eero Aarnio (1932), and Juha Kankkunen (1959). After him are Juhani Aho (1861), Aarre Merikanto (1893), Leif Segerstam (1944), Paavo Lipponen (1941), Petteri Orpo (1969), and Ernst Linder (1868).

Among MUSICIANS In Finland

Among musicians born in Finland, Marco Hietala ranks 1After him are Aarre Merikanto (1893), Tuomas Holopainen (1976), Alexi Laiho (1979), Timo Tolkki (1966), Jukka Nevalainen (1978), Emppu Vuorinen (1978), Mr Lordi (1974), Juice Leskinen (1950), Darude (1975), Sami Vänskä (1976), and Carita Holmström (1954).