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Peter Cetera

1944 - Today

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Peter Paul Cetera ( sə-TERR-ə; born September 13, 1944) is a retired American musician best known for being a frontman, vocalist, and bassist for the American rock band Chicago from 1967 until his departure in 1985. His career as a recording artist encompasses 17 studio albums with Chicago and eight solo studio albums.With "If You Leave Me Now", a song written and sung by Cetera on the group's tenth album, Chicago received its first Grammy Award. It was also the group's first number one single.As a solo artist, Cetera has scored six Top 40 singles, including two that reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1986, "Glory of Love" and "The Next Time I Fall". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Cetera has received more than 5,224,490 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Peter Cetera is the 481st most popular musician (up from 617th in 2019), the 2,530th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,238th in 2019) and the 139th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Peter Ceteras by language

Over the past year Peter Cetera has had the most page views in the with 732,796 views, followed by Spanish (53,527), and German (41,365). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (551.52%), Estonian (67.68%), and Hungarian (60.33%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Peter Cetera ranks 481 out of 3,175. Before him are Edwin Fischer, Ivry Gitlis, Trevor Horn, Matt Cameron, Henri Herz, and Archie Shepp. After him are Willy DeVille, Isao Tomita, Maria Yudina, Yann Tiersen, Greg Lake, and Gregor Piatigorsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Peter Cetera ranks 191. Before him are Pierre Deligne, Kim Yong-il, Leif Segerstam, Terry Funk, Steve Fossett, and Robert Powell. After him are Kay Parker, Dennis Farina, Oqil Oqilov, Igor Mitoraj, Karen Armstrong, and Kelly Bishop.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Cetera ranks 2,530 out of 20,380. Before him are George Chakiris (1934), Jane Darwell (1879), Annie Sprinkle (1954), Donald Judd (1928), Archie Shepp (1937), and James Franco (1978). After him are Dusty Hill (1949), John L. Sullivan (1858), Ellison Onizuka (1946), Dennis Farina (1944), Barbara Eden (1931), and Chris Pine (1980).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Peter Cetera ranks 139. Before him are Bud Powell (1924), Richie Sambora (1959), James Ingram (1952), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Matt Cameron (1962), and Archie Shepp (1937). After him are Willy DeVille (1950), Pat Metheny (1954), Billy Ray Cyrus (1961), Chad Smith (1961), Suzanne Vega (1959), and Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914).

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