COMPOSER

Percy Faith

1908 - 1976

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Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian–American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of instrumental ballads and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the "easy listening" or "mood music" format. He became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Percy Faith has received more than 594,073 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Percy Faith is the 1,010th most popular composer (down from 946th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from Canada (down from 229th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Percy Faiths by language

Over the past year Percy Faith has had the most page views in the with 75,988 views, followed by Japanese (11,840), and Spanish (10,625). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (121.29%), Turkish (46.35%), and Egyptian Arabic (38.32%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Percy Faith ranks 1,010 out of 1,451. Before her are Richard Heuberger, Hamilton Harty, Édouard Colonne, Alessandro Grandi, Gottfried August Homilius, and Rebecca Clarke. After her are Balys Dvarionas, Paul Taffanel, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Emil von Sauer, Victor Massé, and Knut Nystedt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Percy Faith ranks 220. Before her are Ethel Merman, Ethel Catherwood, Agustín Sauto Arana, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Marina Semyonova, and Oddbjørn Hagen. After her are Nicholas Kurti, Aleksander Ford, Jenő Vincze, František Kriegel, Louis Jordan, and Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev. Among people deceased in 1976, Percy Faith ranks 151. Before her are Gina Bachauer, Viggo Kampmann, Giuseppe Cavanna, Maurice Dobb, Pierre Jean Jouve, and Julius Döpfner. After her are Otto Tief, Ivo Van Damme, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Yakov Zak, Murtala Mohammed, and Alexander Lernet-Holenia.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Percy Faith ranks 265 out of 1,622. Before her are Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879), Alan Thicke (1947), Anne Hébert (1916), Guy Laliberté (1959), Mario Lemieux (1965), and Louis St. Laurent (1882). After her are Agnes Martin (1912), Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661), Albert S. Ruddy (1930), Anna Paquin (1982), Manly P. Hall (1901), and Robert Langlands (1936).

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Among COMPOSERS In Canada

Among composers born in Canada, Percy Faith ranks 3. Before her are Howard Shore (1946), and R. Murray Schafer (1933). After her are Mychael Danna (1958), Claude Vivier (1948), Christophe Beck (1972), Erik Mongrain (1980), and Venetian Snares (1975).

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