SINGER

Nena

1960 - Today

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Gabriele Susanne Kerner (born 24 March 1960), better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer who rose to international fame in 1983 as the lead vocalist of the band Nena with the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons". In that same year, the band re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". Nena's re-recording of some of the band's old hit songs as a solo artist, produced by the co-composer of most of them, her former Nena band colleague and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, rekindled her solo career in 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nena has received more than 3,096,471 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Nena is the 242nd most popular singer (down from 220th in 2019), the 1,251st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,179th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Nena ranks 242 out of 4,381. Before her are Lara Fabian, Victoria de los Ángeles, Rashid Behbudov, Sabrina Salerno, DJ Khaled, and Tereza Kesovija. After her are The Singing Nun, Corry Brokken, Milva, Bessie Smith, Lepa Brena, and Sam Cooke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Nena ranks 46. Before her are Anne Parillaud, David Duchovny, Gary Lineker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mohamed Bazoum, and Jorge Sampaoli. After her are Hiroyuki Sanada, Gustavo Petro, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lepa Brena, Naoki Urasawa, and Neil Gaiman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nena ranks 1,251 out of 7,253. Before her are Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883), Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1837), and Anselm Feuerbach (1829). After her are Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Walter Simons (1861), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Theodor Busse (1897), August von Wassermann (1866), and Klaus Störtebeker (1360).

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Among SINGERS In Germany

Among singers born in Germany, Nena ranks 11. Before her are Nina Hagen (1955), Sandra (1962), Constanze Mozart (1762), Thomas Anders (1963), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), and Ivan Rebroff (1931). After her are Marian Gold (1954), Fancy (1946), Tarkan (1972), Udo Dirkschneider (1952), Wolf Biermann (1936), and Heino (1938).

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