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Vanilla Ice

1967 - Today

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Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host. Born in Dallas and raised there and in Miami, he was the first solo white rapper to achieve commercial success following the 1990 release of his best-known hit "Ice Ice Baby".Ice released his debut album, Hooked, on the independent Ichiban Records before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group, which released a reformatted version under the title To the Extreme; it became the fastest-selling hip hop album of all time and "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts. Followed by the live album Extremely Live (1991), Ice made a cameo appearance on the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) where he performed "Ninja Rap", which he co-wrote. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vanilla Ice has received more than 9,054,652 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Vanilla Ice is the 919th most popular singer (down from 806th in 2019), the 5,114th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,530th in 2019) and the 262nd most popular American Singer.

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  • 9.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Vanilla Ice ranks 919 out of 3,528. Before him are Valentina Tolkunova, Benny Moré, Alain Bashung, Chiquito de la Calzada, Harry Styles, and Mango. After him are Lightnin' Hopkins, Zsuzsa Koncz, Ayumi Hamasaki, Eydie Gormé, Adolphe Nourrit, and Serhat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Vanilla Ice ranks 131. Before him are Sable, Dino Rađa, Steve Zahn, Sue Gardner, Željka Cvijanović, and Nicolae Ciucă. After him are Ken Block, Ty Burrell, Markus Söder, Mario Cipollini, Melina Kanakaredes, and Daron Acemoglu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vanilla Ice ranks 5,114 out of 18,182. Before him are Horace Mann (1796), Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Moses Gunn (1929), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), and Walter Bedell Smith (1895). After him are Denver Pyle (1920), Lightnin' Hopkins (1912), Ossie Davis (1917), Arthur Dove (1880), D'arcy Wretzky (1968), and Joe Simon (1913).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Vanilla Ice ranks 262. Before him are Richard Carpenter (1946), Melanie (1947), Adrian Belew (1949), Lizzo (1988), Johnny Nash (1940), and Nate Dogg (1969). After him are Lightnin' Hopkins (1912), Eydie Gormé (1928), Leland Sklar (1947), Sonny Boy Williamson II (1912), Belinda Carlisle (1958), and Phil Anselmo (1968).

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