Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 21 to 27, 2023

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 21 to 27, 2023)[edit]

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga and a helpful IP

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Artists dying brought the most attention in a week full of entertainment like sports, movies, TV shows and wrestling.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Tina Turner	6,432,226	The "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll" died after years of illnesses, leading to a surge of tributes from musicians, film and television figures, and several US Presidents. Much has been said about her in the wake of her passing, but one thing's for sure: she was indeed, simply the best.
2	Ray Stevenson	1,568,016	Coming in second place to the late Queen of Rock 'n' Roll is another celebrity death. This Northern Irish actor had numerous film and television roles throughout his career.
3	ChatGPT	1,506,373	After one more of several weeks of being the most viewed article on this report, the passing of the above two celebrities led to this chatbot being kicked off the top spot.
4	Ike Turner	1,384,053	The late ex-husband of #1, whom he worked with in the 1960s and 1970s as part of Ike & Tina Turner, and also inflicted a lot of domestic abuse off stage (as told in her 1986 autobiography I, Tina and the 1993 film adaptation What's Love Got to Do with It).
5	Fast X	1,323,311	The tenth movie in this series about cars, unbelievable stunts and family, which is also the first part of the overall franchise conclusion (the filmmakers are certainly needing to finish things, given these movies have gone anywhere from Japan, Russia and Brazil to space and Antarctica!). Reviewers were unimpressed, while audiences have already brought its world box office to half a billion dollars.
6	Deaths in 2023	1,005,541	From #1's foray into acting: You can't stop the pain of your children crying out in your head They always said that the living would envy the dead
7	The Little Mermaid (2023 film)	967,345	Disney again decided to earn some cash remaking their beloved cartoons in live action, this time the 1989 fairy tale adaptation that started the Disney Renaissance, with Halle Bailey as Ariel (who thankfully is still a redhead). Like most of those remakes, The Little Mermaid delivers most of what audiences liked in the original but padding it to two hours with things that mostly don't improve the story and only serve to remind how tight and well-paced those animated features were. Hence reviews were average, but box office prospects are still big, probably on par with the Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast remakes.
8	Night of Champions (2023)	793,475	The tenth edition of this WWE event, which is also the ninth time wrestling held an event in Saudi Arabia. The two people in its poster, Bianca Belair (pictured) and Roman Reigns, both lost their matches, costing the first the Raw Women's Championship, and the latter a shot at the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship.
9	Josh Freese	717,947	A drummer who played with just about everyone, such a testament of skill that he will fill the enormous gap left by Taylor Hawkins' death in the Foo Fighters.
10	Nikola Jokić	697,020	After already being chosen twice as the NBA Most Valuable Player, this Serbian carried the oft-unlucky Denver Nuggets to the Finals by sweeping the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. Jokić will even arrive in the final with extra rest over his Eastern opponents, as the Miami Heat couldn't sweep the Boston Celtics, who managed to bring the series to the seventh game.
11	Shubman Gill	695,144	Indian Premier League and 2023 Indian Premier League don't enter this list because the mobile views are too high, but the tournament is still present with this batsman who took the Gujarat Titans to the final, and is also about to voice Indian Spider-Man in the Punjabi dub of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse!
12	Ron DeSantis	691,979	The 46th and current governor of Florida announced his candidacy for the 2024 United States presidential election. He initially stated he would not stand in it but later opted to do so.
13	Rolf Harris	666,196	The Kangaroos got their own back and tied him down, sport. For decades, Rolf Harris was a successful Australian entertainer, who was a musician, television personality, painter and actor. He often used unusual instruments like the didgeridoo and the stylophone in his performances, and is credited with the invention of the wobble board. He was convicted in England in 2014 of the sexual assault of four underage girls, which effectively ended his career and led to Harris being stripped of various honours and his television programs being pulled from syndication.
14	Premier League	595,686	The 2022-23 season of English football ended, marked by Erling Haaland scoring a record-breaking 36 goals to lead Manchester City to their third title. (And the 2023 Indian Premier League ends this week, making all those views that probably came from cricket fans cease as well.)
15	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	592,586	The latest MCU feature. Already quite profitable at $748 million worldwide, remains to be seen if it will get the additional $100 million to match the box office of Vol 2 given it now has to dispute the market with movies like #5, #7, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
16	The Kerala Story	579,211	From Hollywood to Bollywood, in this controversial movie about Kerala women whose Muslim conversion also leads them to join the Islamic State that nevertheless has already piled up on the crore.
17	Barbara May Cameron	578,717	Google homaged in a Doodle the birthday of a photographer who was an activist for both gay and Native American rights.
18	Succession (TV series)	542,195	This acclaimed HBO TV show aired its series finale.
19	Ashish Vidyarthi	535,050	More Indian cinema, in an actor who announced his second marriage.
20	Michael Jordan	531,123	In 1984, Nike signed promising rookie Michael Jordan to a deal that would create the still thriving Air Jordan shoe line, something chronicled in the movie Air. One of the basketballers who would sign an exclusivity deal with the brand and even get some signature sneakers was Carmelo Anthony, who announced his retirement at 38 of a career who started in the same Nuggets of #10 (who 'Melo couldn't bring to the finals over the Lakers).
21	Carmelo Anthony	529,330
22	George III	529,002	One of the main characters of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. To the left is a statue of him decorated with traffic cones, something more often associated with the Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow.
23	John Wick: Chapter 4	516,691	Splitting the royal couple is the overlong but impressive return of Keanu Reeves killing lots of people, which hit video on demand after making over $400 million worldwide.
24	Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz	513,443	The title character of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, two spots below the one who made her Queen of England.
25	Brooks Koepka	506,304	Keeping off a fourth basketballer in LeBron James, who #10 eliminated, is the golfer who won the 2023 PGA Championship.