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Mark Snow

1946 - Today

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Mark Snow (born Martin Fulterman; August 26, 1946) is an American composer for film and television. Among his most famous compositions is the theme music for science fiction television series The X-Files. The X Files instrumental was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where the series aired on BBC Two and BBC One, in early-1996, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Snow has received more than 558,975 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Snow is the 1,207th most popular composer (down from 1,172nd in 2019), the 7,361st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,140th in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Composer.

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  • 560k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mark Snow ranks 1,207 out of 1,451. Before him are Pauline Oliveros, Akira Yamaoka, Johanna Kinkel, Craig Armstrong, André Messager, and Granville Bantock. After him are Ivor Novello, Antón García Abril, Leonard Slatkin, Joonas Kokkonen, Hiroyuki Sawano, and William Bolcom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Mark Snow ranks 539. Before him are René Pijnen, Alan Dean Foster, Larry Graham, Abdul Qadir Bajamal, Oscar Más, and Charles Asati. After him are Alun Armstrong, Michael, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Yekaterina Gradova, Stephen P. Synnott, Tom Walkinshaw, and Milton Viera.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mark Snow ranks 7,361 out of 20,380. Before him are Leslie West (1945), Michael Nesmith (1942), Dorothy Provine (1935), Kane Hodder (1955), Mia Malkova (1992), and Andra Day (1984). After him are Kevin Gage (1959), Mel Ramos (1935), Charles Reidpath (1889), Pat Crawford Brown (1929), Jane Curtin (1947), and Richard Murphy (1931).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Mark Snow ranks 77. Before him are Conlon Nancarrow (1912), William Schuman (1910), Alf Clausen (1941), Brad Fiedel (1951), Marco Beltrami (1966), and Pauline Oliveros (1932). After him are Leonard Slatkin (1944), William Bolcom (1938), Peter Schickele (1935), Alan Hovhaness (1911), George Bruns (1914), and Glenn Branca (1948).

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