MUSICIAN

Matthias Jabs

1955 - Today

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Matthias Jabs (born 25 October 1955) is a German musician, best known as the lead/rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Scorpions. He has played on all but the first five Scorpions studio albums starting with Lovedrive (1979). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthias Jabs has received more than 1,014,722 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Matthias Jabs is the 472nd most popular musician (down from 425th in 2019), the 2,111th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,902nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Musician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Matthias Jabs ranks 472 out of 3,175Before him are Michael Hutchence, Milton Nascimento, Bill Ward, James Ingram, Tatiana Nikolayeva, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. After him are Anne-Sophie Mutter, Mikkey Dee, Edwin Fischer, Ivry Gitlis, Trevor Horn, and Matt Cameron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Matthias Jabs ranks 102Before him are Yuriy Sedykh, Debra Winger, Akira Nishino, Dominique Pinon, Jeff Daniels, and Ángela Molina. After him are David Julius, Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, Xander Berkeley, Thomas C. Südhof, Peter Gallagher, and Miguel Ferrer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Matthias Jabs ranks 2,111 out of 7,253Before him are Alfred Hettner (1859), Karl Baedeker (1801), William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Magdalene of Bavaria (1587), and Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810). After him are Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), Karl Rapp (1882), William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864), Walter Sickert (1860), Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809), and Helmuth Plessner (1892).

Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Matthias Jabs ranks 24Before him are Christian Lorenz (1966), Michael Schenker (1955), Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923), Christoph Schneider (1966), Kai Hansen (1963), and Ralf Hütter (1946). After him are Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715), Bert Kaempfert (1923), Rudolf Kempe (1910), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688), and Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724).