Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Bkissin, CAWylie.

In spite of opening right away with death, true crime and a horror movie, not a heavy edition, full of escapist topics.

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes/about
1	Kyle Busch		2,348,477		In this NASCAR driver's 25 year career, he ranked 9th all time for NASCAR Cup Series wins and first in overall wins between the top three divisions, with 3 national titles. Kyle's brother Kurt is famous in his own right as a driver. Busch died on May 23 as a result of pneumonia, he was 41.
2	Murder of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan		1,447,296		This 2022 double-murder case has everything that morbid true crime zombies love: it takes place in Nowheresville, Midwestern America, involves a teen social media influencer who fancied herself as Regina George, toxic teen relationships and things you didn't know were physically possible with a Toyota Camry. I guess that's why the vultures in the media have tried to wring every dollar and view they can out of the story, with at least three documentaries currently streaming, including one on Netflix which released on May 15.
3	Obsession (2025 film)		1,333,310		A cheap and really scary horror movie about a man (Michael Johnston) wishing for his co-worker (Inde Navarrette) to love him, resulting in her becoming absolutely unhinged. After a good opening weekend, Obsession managed to perform even better in the second, making more money and climbing to runner-up behind #13 and above #16. It also ranks as one of the most profitable movies ever reaching $80 million costing just $1 million! This certainly raises expectations for its writer/director Curry Barker being hired to a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
4	Aaron Rai		1,185,545		This English golfer won the 2026 PGA Championship on May 17, the first of which since Jim Barnes won it in 1919.
5	Cockroach Janta Party		1,109,697		Joke political parties have existed for decades, from the Rhinoceros Party in Canada to Die PARTEI in Germany. Now India has one too! Founded on May 16, the Cockroach Janta Party was formed. Formed in response to Surya Kant's statement that unemployed youth were Cockroaches and parodying the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, the party has already attracted 350,000 members and the interest of a couple Members of the Lok Sabha looking to cross the floor.
6	Eurovision Song Contest 2026		972,849		Vienna received the Old Continent's (plus Israel and Australia) annual music extravaganza, marked by the first victory of Bulgaria (see #19).
7	Deaths in 2026		928,352		Said that I was fine, said it from the coffin Remember how I died when you started walking? That's my life, that's my life...
8	Karuppu (film)		823,870		In just two weeks, this Kollywood fantasy action film made ₹300 crore and ranks as the third highest-grossing Indian film of the year, with a chance to take second place from Border 2.
9	The Boys season 5		809,542		Prime Video finished the show about a resistance against jerk superheroes, in an episode without the involvement of series creator Eric Kripke, who has moved onto prequel show Vought Rising (that released its first trailer during the week and will come out next year). Like many series finales fan reception was all over the place due to what the episode didn't do and the payoff to certain plot points of the final season, but those who liked it appreciated the just desserts given to the two men who had the show's central conflict and how there wasn't that much suffering inflicted onto the main characters (aside from keeping one death from the penultimate episode instead of finding a way to revive the character).
10	Off Campus		800,973		Another Prime Video release, which like Heated Rivalry is the adaptation of a Canadian book concerning a romance featuring a hockey player, only this time around it's a heterosexual relationship between a college hockey player and a music major.
11	Michael Jackson		748,403		Thanks to a hit movie about him (#16), the King of Pop continues to bring in readers to his article.
12	Gina Carano		695,934		The actress and mixed martial artist was probably hoping that a MMA fight between her and #17 would jumpstart her career and lead to a return to more than just Ben Shapiro movies. However, Rousey handily took care of Carano in 17 seconds. At least she can take solace in the fact that the entry below, based on the show she was fired from, released to mixed reviews.
13	The Mandalorian and Grogu		668,829		In 2019, Star Wars started its live-action shows with The Mandalorian while unknowingly having its last theatrical release in The Rise of Skywalker, given the following years had many film projects die in development hell. This changes exactly by continuing the story of that show, with Din Djarin and his adorable adoptive son once known as "Baby Yoda" being promoted from Disney+ to theaters, trying to help the New Republic (represented by Sigourney Weaver as a high-ranking officer) get reminiscents of the Empire in a plot featuring heavily the slug-like gangsters Hutts - including Jeremy Allen White as Jabba's son Rotta, also seen in another television-related Star Wars movie. Reviewers were mixed on how the movie feels like an extra-long episode of the show, but audiences wanting exactly that led to a big opening of $165 million worldwide.
14	2026 FIFA World Cup		663,938		Less than a month for all the best football national teams to play all over North America. Given most of the games are in the United States, things are chaotic regarding the country's current political situation (including a war with one of the qualified countries) and commercialism, with price hikes on hotels, transportation alternating between the gratuitous of previous Cups and getting overpriced, and lots of tickets going to scalpers brokers.
15	The Boys (TV series)		634,419		In 2019, Garth Ennis' subversive comic book about a ruthless group of people going against some very questionable superheroes was made into a Prime Video show full of swearing, blood, debauchery and overall absurdity. Along with lasting for five seasons (#9), the show had spin-offs in the animated anthology The Boys: Diabolical, the story set in a "supe" university Gen V (whose characters were folded into #9, but didn't have much to do), and an upcoming prequel following Soldier Boy and Stormfront, then known as Liberty, Vought Rising.
16	Michael (2026 film)		588,554		#11's fans didn't care about mixed reviews noting his biopic was formulaic and at times sanitized, leading to an impressive $800 million worldwide that makes it the second highest-grossing movie of the year behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (though in North America, the movie needs a few million to overtake Project Hail Mary as runner-up), and also second for musician movies behind Bohemian Rhapsody (adequately, Michael was a Queen fan, and upon his death the band finished a duet he had recorded with Freddie Mercury, "There Must Be More to Life Than This").
17	Ronda Rousey		574,612		Like #12, a woman who followed mixed martial arts with acting gigs, though Ronda didn't have as much success there compared to going to professional wresling, being the only woman to hold UFC and WWE titles. Add an Olympic bronze, and it's clear Ronda is as accomplished as it gets. So her first MMA match after 10 years against Carano was an easy win after just 17 seconds, with her afterwards declaring she was officially retiring from MMA and would only do the occasional wrestling match to focus on raising her two children.
18	Victor Wembanyama		522,984		The NBA conference finals are rolling, and while the East has shown domination by the New York Knicks in spite of the Cleveland Cavaliers forcing overtime in game 1, the West is an epic showdown between defending champions Oklahoma City Thunder and the rising San Antonio Spurs of this enormous Frenchman, whose body proportions and ball abilities (game 1 alone had him scoring 41 points, including 3 in an impressive shot, and 21 rebounds) earned him the nickname "Alien".
19	Dara (Bulgarian singer)		489,487		The woman responsible for Bulgaria's victory at #6, whose song "Bangaranga" is not an homage to Skrillex's "Bangarang", but an expression of Dara's experiences with ADHD, with the title being Jamaican Patois for "mischief".
20	Thomas Massie		487,219		In a situation that validates the saying "Politics makes strange bedfellows"; this Republican Congressman from Kentucky was mourned by his Democratic colleagues after losing the Republican primary to a Trump-backed opponent on May 19. Massie, a libertarian conservative first elected in 2012, was known as "Mr. No" in Congress, voting against bills that he believed to be "government overreach", including being one of three congressmen to vote against the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. However, Massie found favor among the anti-Trump crowd due to his positions against the President's numerous foreign interventions and his support for the release of the Epstein Files.
21	Tom Kane		452,405		This American actor, known for giving voice to various Star Wars characters, such as Yoda, Admiral Ackbar, Boba Fett, Qui-Gon Jinn, and C-3PO, as well as being the announcer at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, died on May 18 at age 64.
22	Ella Bright		448,426		The two stars of #10, an American-born British actress/singer with no images on Commons and an American actor who we can illustrate.
23	Belmont Cameli		409,748
24	Ebola		401,424		Last month, it was the hantavirus making a comeback; this month it's the viral hemorrhagic fever (symptoms pictured) first reported in 1976. The World Health Organization has declared it an epidemic with a suspected 246 cases (8 deaths), but the Democratic Republic of Congo authorities have their numbers much higher.
25	Dutton Ranch		389,732		This spinoff sequel (one of many to come) of the Yellowstone TV franchise heralds the return of fan-favorite characters Rip Wheeler and Beth Dutton (Cole Hauser and Kelly Reilly) starting their lives in Texas. The series airs weekly on Paramount+.

• This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.