SINGER

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

1946 - 2020

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Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (4 June 1946 – 25 September 2020), shortened as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam or SPB, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Indian singers of all time. He predominantly worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi films and sang in a total of 16 languages.S. P. Balasubrahmanyam made a debut as a playback singer on 15 December 1966 with a Telugu film Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna scored by his mentor, S. P. Kodandapani. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. P. Balasubrahmanyam has received more than 9,558,901 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). S. P. Balasubrahmanyam is the 742nd most popular singer (up from 925th in 2019), the 396th most popular biography from India (up from 439th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Indian Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of S. P. Balasubrahmanyams by language

Over the past year S. P. Balasubrahmanyam has had the most page views in the with 648,789 views, followed by Simple English (40,026), and Tamil (35,966). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (103.02%), Finnish (96.21%), and Sinhalese (85.83%)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 742 out of 4,381. Before him are Floor Jansen, Limahl, Billy Vaughn, Mike Love, Frank Sinatra Jr., and Edita Piekha. After him are Juanes, Indila, Hugues Aufray, Michael Bublé, Carlos do Carmo, and José Luis Perales.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 291. Before him are Andrew Yao, Nataša Kandić, Jeffrey Jones, Robert Fisk, Jürgen Croy, and Blake Clark. After him are Hamengkubuwono X, Frank Marshall, Henrique Rosa, Roméo Dallaire, Allan Holdsworth, and Gilbert O'Sullivan. Among people deceased in 2020, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 229. Before him are Alex Olmedo, Idir, Robert Fisk, Annie Cordy, Hans-Jochen Vogel, and Ken Robinson. After him are Gisèle Halimi, Ken Shimura, Rubem Fonseca, Nexhmije Pagarusha, Nina Bocharova, and Julian Bream.

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In India

Among people born in India, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 396 out of 1,861. Before him are Iskander Mirza (1899), Sundar Pichai (1972), Mala Sinha (1936), Rekha (1954), Fatima Jinnah (1893), and Jaimini (-390). After him are B. D. Jatti (1912), Suriya (1975), Akshata Murty (1980), Shibli Nomani (1857), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931), and Joseph Vaz (1651).

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Among SINGERS In India

Among singers born in India, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 8. Before him are Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Kishore Kumar (1929), Mohammed Rafi (1924), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Asha Bhosle (1933), and Udit Narayan (1955). After him are Jagjit Singh (1941), Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Girija Devi (1929), Gangubai Hangal (1913), Kumar Sanu (1957), and K. J. Yesudas (1940).

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