MUSICIAN

Yoko Shimomura

1967 - Today

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Yoko Shimomura (下村 陽子, Shimomura Yōko, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese composer and pianist primarily known for her work in video games such as the Kingdom Hearts series. She graduated from the Osaka College of Music in 1988 and began working in the video game industry by joining Capcom the same year. She wrote music for several games there, including Final Fight, Street Fighter II, and The King of Dragons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoko Shimomura has received more than 1,249,229 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Yoko Shimomura is the 1,734th most popular musician (down from 1,630th in 2019), the 1,467th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,308th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Japanese Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yoko Shimomuras by language

Over the past year Yoko Shimomura has had the most page views in the with 184,876 views, followed by Japanese (88,498), and Spanish (12,551). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (151.73%), Japanese (21.22%), and Portuguese (19.80%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Yoko Shimomura ranks 1,734 out of 3,175. Before her are Richard Sinclair, Unsuk Chin, Booker T. Jones, Holly Johnson, Jackie McLean, and Cedar Walton. After her are Hardwell, Khatia Buniatishvili, Eric Prydz, Howard Jones, Maksim Mrvica, and Andy Mackay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Yoko Shimomura ranks 274. Before her are Pieter Huistra, John Romero, Yael Abecassis, Ron Livingston, Gaston Browne, and Nathalie Tauziat. After her are Melora Hardin, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Galab Donev, Klaus Tschütscher, Jonas Thern, and Sasha Mitchell.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoko Shimomura ranks 1,467 out of 6,245. Before her are Kaoru Ikeya (1943), Wataru Takagi (1966), Tomokazu Seki (1972), Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Inio Asano (1980), and Junko Ishida (1966). After her are Toshihiko Seki (1962), Katsuya Okada (1953), Kono Yasui (1880), Sumi Shimamoto (1954), Eiji Kawashima (1983), and Noriko Hidaka (1962).

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Among MUSICIANS In Japan

Among musicians born in Japan, Yoko Shimomura ranks 24. Before her are Nujabes (1974), Miyavi (1981), Nobuko Imai (1943), Ryo Kawasaki (1947), Heath (1968), and Nigo (1970). After her are Tomoyasu Hotei (1962), Takanori Nishikawa (1970), Ringo Sheena (1978), Hirokazu Tanaka (1957), Keiko Matsui (1961), and Midori (1971).

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