Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/January 7 to 13, 2024

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (January 7 to 13, 2024)[edit]

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, CAWylie, Krimuk2.0, and Rahcmander.

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Much of what opened the year is still here, including the same movie atop the list, with new articles including recent deaths, college football coaches, and the start of awards season.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Saltburn (film)	2,212,357	It's murder on the Dancefloor But you'd better not steal the moves DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down!
2	Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571	1,633,713	This gruesome flight crash and subsequent survival tale is dramatized in the Netflix film Society of the Snow by Spanish director J. A. Bayona (pictured).
3	Jeffrey Epstein	1,336,605	He's still dead, and over 170 of his associates were given until the first of the year to disassociate from him. I suppose people look at his wiki, in hopes of finding names?
4	Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard	1,206,375	The woman allegedly abused her daughter and passed her off as disabled to gain sympathy and defraud people. So daughter got her online boyfriend to kill the mother, they had sex after the fact, and later got caught and convicted. The daughter is now a free woman and married, while the now ex-boyfriend is still in prison.
5	Barry Keoghan	1,171,071	Viewers continue to be curious about the young Irish star of #1, who performs graveyard sex, licks bodily fluids, and dances in the nude.
6	12th Fail	1,007,134	This Bollywood sleeper hit, about a poor teen who strives hard to become a police service officer, gains much more popularity after its streaming release on Disney+ Hotstar.
7	Jim Harbaugh	960,486	College football's second top story of the week (see #10) was Harbaugh's Michigan Wolverines winning the national championship.
8	Kalen DeBoer	936,711	Following the resignation of #10, DeBoer, the head coach at the University of Washington, has accepted an offer to become head coach at the University of Alabama.
9	Deaths in 2024	936,637	I have spoken with the tongue of angels. I have held the hand of a devil. It was warm in the night, I was cold as a stone. But I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For...
10	Nick Saban	904,986	Arguably one of the greatest college football coaches ever retired this week.
11	Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire	855,673	Views continue to rack up for the biggest Telugu film hit of 2023.
12	Poor Things (film)	844,251	Another film after #1 that ups the sexual shock factor. It also won two awards at #13, including one for star Emma Stone's bravura perf as a dead woman who is resurrected by a mad scientist with the brain of her own baby.
13	81st Golden Globe Awards	828,363	Awards season is officially underway with the Globes. We hope that the rest of the opening monologues are better than whatever we got this time from #20. Big winners included #12 and #25 on the movie side and the shows Succession and The Bear in the television one.
14	Fool Me Once (TV series)	818,577	The adaptation of yet another Harlan Coben page-turner has unsurprisingly turned into yet another binge-watch hit for Netflix.
15	Lakshadweep	816,539	Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited these islands off the Malabar Coast (Kalpeni atoll pictured) and told all about it. Indians were soon interested in going there as well, but the local MP has already issued a warning that the archipelago is not suited for a huge number of visitors.
16	Gabriel Attal	812,335	The youngest and first openly gay Prime Minister of France took office this week.
17	Franz Beckenbauer	799,706	AKA "The Kaiser", possibly the best German footballer (of the association kind, not the one that #7, #8 and #10 coached) ever, died at 78, leaving behind a legacy that included being one of three people who won the FIFA World Cup as player and manager. (Coincidentally, he died two days after the first to do so, Mário Zagallo - the third and only surviving one is Didier Deschamps.)
18	Maldives	774,243	An archipelago nation widely considered to have some of the most beautiful beaches in the world (Bathala pictured). #15 and the British Indian Ocean Territory are in the same ecoregion, and some pundits were thinking if Modi was trying to make people visit an India territory rather than a "neighbor" that relies heavily on tourists.
19	Echo (miniseries)	770,876	Disney+ did something different with this Marvel Cinematic Universe show, releasing it on the "all episodes at once" model - adequately, it features Daredevil, whose show was one of a few done this way back when they were Netflix's thing. Deaf-mute Native badass Maya Lopez (played by Alaqua Cox, whose missing leg was also added to the adaptation), already caused an impact in the Hawkeye series, and now she stars in her own miniseries, reconnecting with her roots by returning to her Oklahoma hometown while being targeted by the Kingpin, who was her adoptive uncle but did not take lightly on Maya shooting him in the eye.
20	Jo Koy	759,440	Ricky Gervais, Seth Meyers, and the pairing of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler all did well hosting the Golden Globes. Not so much for this Filipino-American best known for his appearances on Chelsea Lately, who got the job for #12 only ten days prior and whose attempts at comedy were visibly not landing.
21	Houthi movement	737,531	A Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen has been involved in the Israel–Hamas war. The US and UK lit up a few of their factions this week.
22	Katt Williams	729,610	This comedian continues to bring in attention after appearing on Shannon Sharpe's podcast Club Shay Shay.
23	Adan Canto	694,065	The Mexican actor and filmmaker, whose notable roles included a fiery mutant in X-Men: Days of Future Past and a vice president in Designated Survivor, died this week at age 42 from appendix cancer.
24	Jeremy Allen White	692,823	Another winner at #13, for his career defining role as chef Carmy in The Bear, a show that's intense enough to give you heart palpitations and is yet characterized as a "comedy".
25	Oppenheimer (film)	598,095	The leading contender for this year's awards season won a leading five awards at #13, including the top honor. This should continue to rack up views until the grand finale in March.