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MUSICIAN

The Big Bopper

1930 - 1959

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Jiles Perry "J.P." Richardson Jr. (October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959), better known by his stage name The Big Bopper, was an American musician and disc jockey. His best-known compositions include "Chantilly Lace," "Running Bear", and "White Lightning", the latter of which became George Jones's first number-one hit in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of The Big Bopper has received more than 4,191,468 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). The Big Bopper is the 685th most popular musician (down from 550th in 2019), the 3,535th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,904th in 2019) and the 225th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, The Big Bopper ranks 685 out of 2,662. Before him are Adam Levine, Tim Buckley, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Scotty Moore, Mike Rutherford, and Fritz Busch. After him are Paul Kantner, Jörg Demus, Chris Squire, Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Ahmad Jamal, and Jan Akkerman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, The Big Bopper ranks 210. Before him are Juan Gelman, Ross Perot, María Elena Walsh, Lawrence Eagleburger, Sa'dun Hammadi, and Venantino Venantini. After him are Eugenio Castellotti, Ahmad Jamal, Goro Shimura, Ryszard Kukliński, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, and Theodore Edgar McCarrick. Among people deceased in 1959, The Big Bopper ranks 71. Before him are Adolf Ziegler, Štefan Tiso, Max Baer, Imre Schlosser, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, and Ki Hajar Dewantara. After him are Luigi Sturzo, Ingrid Vang Nyman, Ramón Fonst, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Eduard van Beinum, and Georges Lefebvre.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, The Big Bopper ranks 3,535 out of 18,182. Before him are Mitch Pileggi (1952), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Doug Savant (1964), Jennifer Doudna (1964), Peter Boyle (1935), and Kit Carson (1809). After him are Lloyd Bacon (1889), Beatrice Wood (1893), Paul Kantner (1941), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), and Sylvia Sidney (1910).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, The Big Bopper ranks 225. Before him are Herb Alpert (1935), Erroll Garner (1923), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Adam Levine (1979), Tim Buckley (1947), and Scotty Moore (1931). After him are Paul Kantner (1941), Ahmad Jamal (1930), T-Bone Walker (1910), John Petrucci (1967), Steven Van Zandt (1950), and Chrissie Hynde (1951).

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