# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-frith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:50:44.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-frith"
name: "Simon Frith"
slug: "simon-frith"
description: "Simon Webster Frith is a British sociomusicologist and rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is professor emeritus of Music at the University of Edinburgh. Frith has written a number of sociological analyses of popular music, including The Sociology of Rock (1978) and Performing Rites: On the value of popular music (1996). Frith was the chair of the Mercury Prize from its inception in 1992 until his resignation in 2016."
tagline: "British sociomusicologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.957813333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "سيمون فريث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Frith"
    title: "Simon Frith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Frith"
    title: "Simon Frith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simon_Frith"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3484280"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations