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Robert Christgau

1942 - Today

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Robert Thomas Christgau ( KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as hip hop, riot grrrl, and the import of African popular music in the West. Christgau spent 37 years as the chief music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice, during which time he created and oversaw the annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Christgau has received more than 2,007,888 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Robert Christgau is the 5,202nd most popular writer (down from 4,875th in 2019), the 8,069th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,920th in 2019) and the 642nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Christgau ranks 5,202 out of 5,755. Before him are John Clare, Guy Gavriel Kay, Snorri Hjartarson, Marieluise Fleißer, Julia Navarro, and Viivi Luik. After him are Christoph Hein, Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov, Daniel Goldhagen, Tim LaHaye, Patrik Ouředník, and Svetlana Makarovič.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Robert Christgau ranks 504. Before him are Mike Summerbee, Bibi Besch, Robert Costanzo, Françoise Dürr, Jo Vonlanthen, and Catharina Lodders. After him are Diana Yorgova, Horst Wolter, Meave Leakey, Asha Parekh, Colin Groves, and Eddie Kramer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Christgau ranks 8,069 out of 18,182. Before him are H. C. Robbins Landon (1926), Anthony Denison (1949), Talia Balsam (1959), Lewis Teague (1938), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), and Alan Reed (1907). After him are Patrick Kilpatrick (1949), Jada Fire (1976), Leslie Bibb (1974), Andy Devine (1905), Rogers Hornsby (1896), and Cornelia Fort (1919).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Christgau ranks 642. Before him are Richard Wilbur (1921), Larry Kramer (1935), William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), Michael Bishop (1945), J. Michael Straczynski (1954), and Elizabeth Hawley (1923). After him are Daniel Goldhagen (1959), Tim LaHaye (1926), Amy Tan (1952), Peter Orlovsky (1933), Michael Shermer (1954), and Jonathan Safran Foer (1977).

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