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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. P. Balasubrahmanyam has received more than 9,616,938 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). S. P. Balasubrahmanyam is the 929th most popular singer (up from 1,457th in 2019), the 443rd most popular biography from India (up from 580th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Singer.

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  • 9.6M

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  • 49.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 929 out of 3,528. Before him are Eydie Gormé, Adolphe Nourrit, Serhat, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Nikolai Slichenko, and María Dolores Pradera. After him are Kićo Slabinac, Leland Sklar, Helen Reddy, Célestine Galli-Marié, Caterina Caselli, and Oleg Gazmanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 352. Before him are Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Valentina Tolkunova, Ricky Hui, Zsuzsa Koncz, Wubbo Ockels, and Rabah Saâdane. After him are Ognyan Gerdzhikov, Catharine MacKinnon, Caterina Caselli, Nataša Kandić, Stephen McHattie, and Óscar Berger. Among people deceased in 2020, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 304. Before him are John Shrapnel, Pamela Tiffin, Tomás Balcázar, Frederick Ballantyne, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, and Ronald Graham. After him are Kićo Slabinac, Helen Reddy, Ray Clemence, Mike Resnick, Ewa Demarczyk, and Éva Székely.

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In India

Among people born in India, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 443 out of 1,493. Before him are Prahlad Jani (1929), Bhagwan Das (1869), Meena Kumari (1933), Udham Singh (1899), Rajinikanth (1950), and Roshan Seth (1942). After him are Balaji Baji Rao (1720), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Yashpal (1903), Shammi Kapoor (1931), Rekha (1954), and Derek Prince (1915).

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Among SINGERS In India

Among singers born in India, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam ranks 9. Before him are Asha Bhosle (1933), Mohammed Rafi (1924), Kishore Kumar (1929), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Bhimsen Joshi (1922), and Kumar Sanu (1957). After him are Gangubai Hangal (1913), Peter Sarstedt (1941), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), Girija Devi (1929), Manna Dey (1919), and Usha Mangeshkar (1935).

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