Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (April 19 to 25, 2026)

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Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Bkissin, CAWylie, and Rahcmander.

India shows as much interest in its elections as to their movies, but other places prefer entertainment, including wrestling at the top, to forget how weird and difficult life is.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	WrestleMania 42	1,859,594	After two years not making it to the top, mostly due to a famous death (O.J. in 2024 and Pope Francis in 2025), WWE's premier event gets the #1 spot in our report again. This edition was in Las Vegas and the next one will also be in the desert... but the Arabian one, continuing WWE's partnership with the Saudis. The decision was already criticized as sportswashing to cover for the poor human rights in Saudi Arabia.
2	Michael (2026 film)	1,100,057	This is where I'll be, so heavenly, so come and dance with me Michael! The latest music biopic concerns the King of Pop Michael Jackson (#9), portrayed by both his nephew Jaafar (#13) as an adult and Juliano Krue Valdi in the Jackson 5 days. The movie ends before Jackson's life became a neverending string of controversies, but wouldn't originally - the 1993 trial accusing Jackson of abusing a child would be featured, only for the crew to discover late that part of the settlement included no depictions of the kid in any dramatizations of MJ's life, forcing some reshoots - and thus part of the criticisms involve painting a glossy and sanitized view of him aside from the greedy and at times violent interventions of his stage dad Joe Jackson. And like with Bohemian Rhapsody the fans ignored bad reviews to just go to theater and remember their idol, thus Michael had a big opening weekend of nearly $100 million in North America alone and $217 million overall, that might grow even further and make good of the ending card reading "His Story Continues" and promising a sequel.
3	Patrick Muldoon	1,056,710	This American actor, best known for his roles in Melrose Place, Starship Troopers and Days of Our Lives died on April 19 at the age of 57.
4	List of highest-grossing Indian films	1,017,249	#6 on our list has risen to #2 on this one, and it has a chance of taking the top spot. Its predecessor sits at #5.
5	2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election	955,280	It is election season in the world's largest democracy! On April 9, elections were held in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry. April 23 was election day in the Southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and the first day of voting in #8. In Tamil Nadu, the incumbent Secular Progressive Alliance, led by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and its leader, Chief Minister M. K. Stalin (no relation to the other one) will look to stay in power following their victory in #18. The opposition AIADMK-led Alliance of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and its leader, former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami will look to return to power following their loss in #18.
6	Dhurandhar: The Revenge	943,904	As listed at #4, only 2016's Dangal has made more money than this Bollywood action movie.
7	Deaths in 2026	906,811	Of All People, you survived When no one else could stay alive You know you should be dead But you're alive instead...
8	2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election	832,872	The first phase of these elections took place on April 23, with the second phase taking place on April 29.
9	Michael Jackson	831,092	The subject of #2. Born in Gary, Indiana, he was a well-known pop artist from his early youth, performing with his brothers in The Jackson 5 before moving on to a solo career. Known as the King of Pop, his reign was not without controversy, and ended abruptly with allegations of sexual abuse of minors. His death in 2009 and nostalgia have done a little in repairing his public image, but allegations and investigations into his actions continue to this day.
10	John Ternus	830,802	On April 20, Apple Inc. announced that their CEO Tim Cook would be stepping down and that Ternus would be replacing him. Previously Senior Vice President for Hardware Engineering at the company, he has long been floated as a possible successor to Cook, and is viewed as "charismatic and well liked" by those in the company.
11	2026 NFL draft	782,376	This annual spectacle in American football, in which the National Football League teams choose which poor young men will be paid millions of dollars to develop Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and retire at 40, took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this weekend, with Indiana Hoosiers Quarterback Fernando Mendoza selected first overall by the Las Vegas Raiders, causing Raider Nation to all shout MENDOZA!!!
12	D4vd	723,492	On April 20, this American R&B artist was charged with first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with an individual under 14 and mutilating a body after the body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found in his Tesla Model Y on September 8. In addition to the massive amounts of child pornography allegedly found on his iCloud account, he had also allegedly written a song about the victim.
13	Jaafar Jackson	707,449	One of the many children of Jermaine Jackson, he followed the Jackson family business and started singing, and this led to him taking the part of his uncle #9 at #2, and even negative reviews made sure to praise Jaafar's recreation of Michael's voice, mannerisms and dance moves.
14	Bhooth Bangla	691,062	After delays to avoid #6, this Bollywood comedy horror about a haunted mansion hit theaters and is also piling up crore of rupees, currently sixth among India's highest-grossing of the year.
15	Beef (TV series)	620,052	In spite of the nice steak to the left, this Netflix show is about people starting a feud and going over the line in delivering retribution. Season 1 back in 2023 centered around Steven Yeun vs. Ali Wong, and the newly released second one is about couples, Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan vs. Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton.
16	Euphoria (American TV series)	585,433	Zendaya had to film her return to the show full of sex and drugs that cemented her as a star in a truncated schedule, given this year she's in three movies! And between number one and number two Euphoria airs its third season on HBO.
17	Project Hail Mary (film)	524,602	#2 took the top of the box office from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which has passed $800 million worldwide, and third place is this science fiction work that made over $600 million and features one of the songs #9 used to own back when he bought the rights for the Beatles' catalogue.
18	2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election	498,196	Five years ago, voters in Tamil Nadu went to the polls to vote for members of the Legislative Assembly. In that election, M.K. Stalin of the Secular Progressive Alliance won the election, ending the ten-year rule of the National Democratic Alliance in the state.
19	Lee Cronin's The Mummy	475,077	In spite of the name, this is more like Evil Dead in Cairo from the writer/director of Evil Dead Rise, as the supposed mummies are just the means for some possession horror. Hence a mixed reception, though it remains on the box office top 5 and is about to reach $70 million, recovering its modest budget many times over.
20	Charlize Theron	458,666	The renowned actress is currently doing press for the upcoming Christopher Nolan film The Odyssey and for the #24, but had plenty to say about Timothee Chalamet's comments on opera and ballet and opened up about her mother killing her alcoholic father in self-defense when Theron was a child.
21	The Boys season 5	418,326	We're halfway through the final season of subversive superhero show, with Homelander having evolved his god complex to the point he's asking for a church, and the title characters who hate Homelander seeking for a way to kill him.
22	David Wilcock	403,205	This American paranormal media personality (known for his work on Ancient Aliens and his writing about UFOs) died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 20, though that won't stop consumers of his content from suggesting that it was connected to the conspiracy theory around missing UFO scientists.
23	2026 Iran war	397,430	"War. War never changes. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. But war never changes. In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired."
24	Apex (2026 film)	381,175	Taron Egerton co-stars with #20 in this survival thriller recently released on Netflix. Theron plays a mountain climber trying to recover following the death of her husband and learning about a string of disappearances in an Australian national park.
25	Anna's Archive	375,897	Keeping off the 2026 Bulgarian parliamentary election (a contrast to Hungarian one topping last week), is an open source search engine for shadow libraries, that on April 15 had a US district court entering a default judgment ordering it to pay $322 million to Spotify for copyright infringement and granted a permanent injunction ordering service providers, notably including domain registrars, to stop providing services to the site.

Exclusions

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.