SINGER

Yoko Kanno

1963 - Today

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Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子, Kanno Yōko, born 18 March 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer of soundtracks for anime series, video games, television dramas and movies. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop, Terror in Resonance, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Turn A Gundam and Darker than Black. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoko Kanno has received more than 1,621,354 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Yoko Kanno is the 1,299th most popular singer (down from 862nd in 2019), the 1,243rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 975th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Yoko Kanno ranks 1,299 out of 4,381. Before her are Yasmin Levy, Leonie Rysanek, Mick Jones, Clara Nunes, Dany Dauberson, and Lyle Lovett. After her are Mississippi John Hurt, Ulla Pia, Kim Gordon, Bernie Shaw, Simón Díaz, and Roy Eldridge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Yoko Kanno ranks 256. Before her are R. J. Palacio, Yann Martel, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Jean-Marc Vallée, Angus Macfadyen, and Andrei Tchmil. After her are Juan Ramón López Caro, Andy Rubin, Glória Pires, Luc Frieden, Jens Johansson, and Kevin Smith.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoko Kanno ranks 1,243 out of 6,245. Before her are Hitoshi Sasaki (1891), Hiroyuki Usui (1953), Isao Okano (1944), Shōhei Ōoka (1909), Kei Kumai (1930), and Shigeo Arai (1916). After her are Takayuki Kubota (1934), Akira Matsunaga (1948), Kazumi Tsubota (1956), Mitsugu Nomura (1956), Shinji Okazaki (1986), and Naohiro Takahara (1979).

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Among SINGERS In Japan

Among singers born in Japan, Yoko Kanno ranks 14. Before her are Yumi Matsutoya (1954), Namie Amuro (1977), Atsushi Sakurai (1966), Izumi Sakai (1967), Akina Nakamori (1965), and Tetsuya Komuro (1958). After her are Hironobu Kageyama (1961), Toshi (1965), Masashi Tashiro (1956), Anri (1961), Yutaka Ozaki (1965), and Nikka Costa (1972).

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