SINGER

Toshi

1965 - Today

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Toshimitsu Deyama (Japanese: 出山 利三, Hepburn: Deyama Toshimitsu, born October 10, 1965), known exclusively by his stage name Toshi, is a Japanese singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist and a co-founder of the rock band X Japan, who rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s and is credited as founders of the visual kei movement. Toshi began an extensive solo career in 1992 before leaving X Japan at the end of 1997. Toshi laments he was "brainwashed" by a group called Home of Heart, whose leader would control his musical output for the next 12 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toshi has received more than 29,560 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Toshi is the 1,438th most popular singer (up from 1,439th in 2019), the 1,321st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,261st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 30k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Toshis by language

Over the past year Toshi has had the most page views in the with 508,232 views, followed by Chinese (85,184), and Spanish (8,007). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (567.17%), Italian (131.59%), and Galician (118.41%)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Toshi ranks 1,438 out of 4,381Before him are Peter Murphy, Cheb Hasni, Phil Mogg, Den Harrow, Ol' Dirty Bastard, and Jimmy Makulis. After him are Jim Kerr, Antonina Nezhdanova, Betty Carter, Víctor Balaguer, Curt Smith, and Olga Guillot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Toshi ranks 243Before him are Mia Mottley, Michael E. Brown, Ted Raimi, Andrew Stanton, Thomas Helmer, and Beth Gibbons. After him are Karl Logan, Jonathan Glazer, Carlos Mayor, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Santiago Segura, and Veronica Ferres.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toshi ranks 1,321 out of 6,245Before him are Ken Uehara (1909), Kazushi Kimura (1958), Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), Kenyu Horiuchi (1957), and Hiroyuki Sawano (1980). After him are Nobuo Fujishima (1950), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Mitsunori Fujiguchi (1949), Hiromi Tsuru (1960), Tarō Kōno (1963), and Maria Ozawa (1986).

Among SINGERS In Japan

Among singers born in Japan, Toshi ranks 16Before him are Atsushi Sakurai (1966), Izumi Sakai (1967), Akina Nakamori (1965), Tetsuya Komuro (1958), Yoko Kanno (1963), and Hironobu Kageyama (1961). After him are Masashi Tashiro (1956), Anri (1961), Yutaka Ozaki (1965), Nikka Costa (1972), Mika Nakashima (1983), and Tomohisa Yamashita (1985).