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Ryuichi Sakamoto

1952 - 2023

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Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 龍一, Hepburn: Sakamoto Ryūichi, January 17, 1952 – March 28, 2023) was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. Sakamoto began his career as a session musician, producer, and arranger, while he was at university in the 1970s. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryuichi Sakamoto has received more than 3,738,641 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Ryuichi Sakamoto is the 243rd most popular composer (up from 270th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Japan (up from 195th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Composer.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is most famous for his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his film scores for the films Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and The Last Emperor.

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  • 3.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 243 out of 1,216. Before him are Giacomo Carissimi, Henryk Górecki, Francesco Geminiani, Luigi Nono, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Ion Ivanovici. After him are Carl Stamitz, Fromental Halévy, Anton Arensky, Thomas Tallis, Johann Christoph Bach, and Ignaz Pleyel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 44. Before him are Arkan, Christian Clavier, İbrahim Tatlıses, Shigeru Miyamoto, Maria Schneider, and David Hasselhoff. After him are Mr. T, Jimmy Connors, Cyril Ramaphosa, Bert van Marwijk, Lee Hsien Loong, and Desireless. Among people deceased in 2023, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 47. Before him are Harry Markowitz, Burt Young, Alain Touraine, Lucile Randon, William Friedkin, and Pervez Musharraf. After him are John B. Goodenough, Antonio Negri, David McCallum, Ivan Silayev, Astrud Gilberto, and Cormac McCarthy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 169 out of 6,048. Before him are Kitarō (1953), Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Satoshi Ōmura (1935), Emperor Tenji (626), and Akira Suzuki (1930). After him are Sugawara no Michizane (845), Edogawa Ranpo (1894), Emperor Kanmu (737), Empress Genshō (680), Emperor Richū (336), and Zeami Motokiyo (1363).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 1. After him are Toru Takemitsu (1930), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), and Yasushi Akutagawa (1925).

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