COMPOSER

Yuzo Koshiro

1967 - Today

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Yuzo Koshiro (古代 祐三, Koshiro Yūzō, born December 12, 1967) is a Japanese composer and sound programmer. He is often regarded as one of the most influential innovators in chiptune and video game music, producing music in a number of genres including rock, jazz, symphonic, and various electronic genres such as house, electro, techno, trance, and hip hop.Koshiro and his sister Ayano founded the game development company Ancient in 1990, of which he remains the president. He has been cited as creating some of the most memorable game music of the 1980s and 1990s contributing for games such as Nihon Falcom's Dragon Slayer and Ys series, as well as Sega's The Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuzo Koshiro has received more than 568,895 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yuzo Koshiro is the 1,374th most popular composer (down from 1,283rd in 2019), the 1,768th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,558th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Japanese Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yuzo Koshiros by language

Over the past year Yuzo Koshiro has had the most page views in the with 76,658 views, followed by Japanese (44,595), and Spanish (4,734). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (164.94%), Azerbaijani (137.57%), and Egyptian Arabic (79.02%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Yuzo Koshiro ranks 1,374 out of 1,451. Before him are Kaoru Wada, Lou Harrison, Thomas Bergersen, Fred Ebb, Norman Dello Joio, and Stephen Warbeck. After him are Hans Abrahamsen, Poul Ruders, Inon Zur, Cecilia Seghizzi, Christophe Beck, and David Newman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Yuzo Koshiro ranks 432. Before him are Artūras Kasputis, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Schjønberg, Tara Fitzgerald, Bent Christensen Arensøe, and Michael Preetz. After him are Anderson Cooper, Tim McGraw, Ainars Bagatskis, Alberto García Aspe, Alain Roche, and Renata Litvinova.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuzo Koshiro ranks 1,768 out of 6,245. Before him are Michie Tomizawa (1961), Kin Endate (1960), Kenzo Suzuki (1950), Kinuko Tanida (1939), Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (1986), and Takashi Inui (1988). After him are Shinji Nakano (1971), Koda Kumi (1982), Toshihiko Koga (1967), Katsura Hoshino (1980), Nobuhiro Takeda (1967), and Yutaka Ikeuchi (1961).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Yuzo Koshiro ranks 22. Before him are Akira Yamaoka (1968), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Junichi Masuda (1968), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), and Kaoru Wada (1962). After him are Kazumi Totaka (1967), Michiru Yamane (1963), Hitoshi Sakimoto (1969), and Shoji Meguro (1971).

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