MUSICIAN

Moby

1965 - Today

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Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, producer, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".After taking up guitar and piano at age nine, he played in several underground punk rock bands through the 1980s before turning to electronic dance music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moby has received more than 8,224,796 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia. Moby is the 349th most popular musician (down from 303rd in 2019), the 1,934th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,765th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mobies by language

Over the past year Moby has had the most page views in the with 1,265,590 views, followed by Russian (102,558), and German (85,845). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (82.01%), Esperanto (80.09%), and Southern Azerbaijani (60.93%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Moby ranks 349 out of 3,175. Before him are Robbie Robertson, Bruno Mars, George Young, Gustavo Santaolalla, Dave Murray, and Valery Gergiev. After him are Ram Narayan, Bo Diddley, Peggy Lee, Isaac Hayes, David Crosby, and John Entwistle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Moby ranks 37. Before him are Slash, Shamil Basayev, Khaled Hosseini, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, Diane Lane, and Michael Bay. After him are Mick Foley, Aldair, Jürgen Kohler, Chris Rock, The Undertaker, and Andrea M. Ghez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Moby ranks 1,934 out of 20,380. Before him are Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Bruce McCandless II (1937), Henry A. Wallace (1888), Maria Branyas (1907), and Ted Turner (1938). After him are Mick Foley (1965), Connie Francis (1938), Jim Henson (1936), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Martha Stewart (1941), and Avery Brundage (1887).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Moby ranks 98. Before him are Count Basie (1904), Paul Desmond (1924), Johnny Ramone (1948), Fred Durst (1970), Peter Criss (1945), and Bruno Mars (1985). After him are Bo Diddley (1928), Peggy Lee (1920), Isaac Hayes (1942), David Crosby (1941), Alan Menken (1949), and Robert Trujillo (1964).

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