Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 29 to June 4, 2022

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 29 to June 4, 2022)
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India lost two singers this week, and they top the list; below them is a list dominated by Stranger Things and Top Gun: Maverick.


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes/about
 * 1
 * Sidhu Moose Wala
 * 3,083,071
 * Sidhu_Moose_Wala_Interview_2019.jpg
 * In an unfortunate proof that violence in rap isn't limited to the U.S., this controversial Punjabi rapper was shot in his car by an unidentified group. Some significant controversy arose as his security had been cut shortly before he was killed.
 * 2
 * KK (singer)
 * 2,986,232
 * KK (124) (headshot).jpg
 * Moose Wala wasn't the only Indian singer to die this week; KK, a playback singer in multiple languages from a completely different genre of music, died of a heart attack shortly after a concert.
 * 3
 * Stranger Things (season 4)
 * 2,665,381
 * Wandmalerei Greifswalder Str 220 (Prenz) Stranger Things2.jpg
 * Most of the fourth season of Stranger Things was released last week, with the final episodes being held back to the start of July. The season is a bit darker than previous ones, and features strange (and stranger) things happening in Hawkins and a second, less fantasy-y storyline set in Kamchatka.
 * 4
 * Amber Heard
 * 2,176,373
 * rowspan=2|Black Mass 11 (21268540588).jpg
 * rowspan=2|The lawsuit (#19) revealing a seemingly mutually abusive marriage is over: on June 1, Heard was found liable on three counts of defaming her ex-husband Depp. (Though it wasn't a total victory for Depp; the jury found that one of his lawyer's statements regarding Heard was also defamatory.) If Depp's career was sent down after the last time this went to court, expect hers to suffer too—there are rumors of her Mera, a highlight of Aquaman, being cut from the sequel.
 * 5
 * Johnny Depp
 * 2,091,010
 * 6
 * Top Gun: Maverick
 * 2,066,402
 * Top Gun Maverick Cannes.jpg
 * After repeatedly being delayed, the #12-led Maverick was finally released on May 27, 36 years after its predecessor (#8). The film received rave reviews—with many considering it one of the best films of Tom Cruise's career and superior to the original Top Gun—and has already grossed over $548 million worldwide.
 * 7
 * Stranger Things
 * 1,837,177
 * Stranger_Things_logo.png
 * The Duffer Brothers revival of both Stephen King and Steven Spielberg from the 80s has returned to Netflix (#3).
 * 8
 * Top Gun
 * 1,226,408
 * F-14A Tomcat 160396 USS Nimitz NAS Atlanta GA2.jpg
 * rowspan=2|The biggest hit of 1986 concerned naval aviators going to the TOPGUN academy. Only two of its characters returned for the belated sequel at #6, Cruise's Maverick and Val Kilmer's Iceman - who has only one heartbreaking scene, especially as the character reflects Kilmer's health history being a cancer survivor who now can't even speak properly.
 * 9
 * Val Kilmer
 * 1,212,420
 * Val-Kilmer.jpg
 * 10
 * Elizabeth II
 * 1,208,775
 * Elizabeth II opens Welsh Parliament in 2021 I (cropped).jpg
 * The United Kingdom and a bunch of other places celebrated their Queen's Platinum Jubilee this week, with pageantry, salutes, shows and a ridiculous skit with Paddington Bear.
 * 11
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV series)
 * 1,200,712
 * Montreal Comiccon 2016 - Obi-Wan Kenobi (28249469755).jpg
 * Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi was one of the unquestionably good things in the Star Wars prequels, and so he gets a limited series on Disney+, that now even made him meet Darth Vader nearly a decade before their fatal re-encounter.
 * 12
 * Tom Cruise
 * 1,146,780
 * Tom_Cruise_May_2022_(cropped).jpg
 * One of the last bonafide movie stars, known for not using stuntmen and having stopped aging some time around the 2000s, returned to one of his greatest hits (#8) in #6. And next year he returns to his landmark franchise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
 * 13
 * Millie Bobby Brown
 * 955,780
 * Millie_Bobby_Brown_(43724155691)_(cropped).jpg
 * After lending a hand to Godzilla and King Kong and having Sherlock Holmes as a brother, this British actress is back as Eleven in #3.
 * 14
 * Vikram (2022 film)
 * 911,984
 * Kamal at 61st FF (cropped).jpg
 * This week's Indian film is this well-reviewed Tamil film about a black-ops squad fighting a drug syndicate.
 * 15
 * Deaths in 2022
 * 872,409
 * Podkowiński Fleeing skeleton.jpg
 * How could I ever forget It's the first time, the last time we ever met
 * 16
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * 797,950
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg
 * It keeps on falling, but it remains awful. At least Ukraine got some brief relief in the football pitch... and then Gareth Bale's Wales were in the way.
 * 17
 * Kelly McGillis
 * 765,710
 * Kelly_McGillis_(5644034115).jpg
 * The love interest of #8, also known for playing an Amish in Witness, an attorney in The Accused and not much else, was not brought back for #6. She says it didn't bother her.
 * 18
 * Kiyoshi Kuromiya
 * 691,069
 * Born in a Japanese internment camp, Kiyoshi Kuromiya rose to prominence as part of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and later became a noted gay rights activist. He got a Google Doodle 22 years after his death as part of Pride Month.
 * 19
 * Depp v. Heard
 * 645,072
 * ¡Oh, la sierra! de Xaudaró (cropped).jpg
 * You hit me once, I hit you back I gave a kick, you gave a slap You smashed a plate over my head Then I do something to our bed
 * 20
 * Ray Liotta
 * 613,259
 * Ray_Liotta_(8140672892).jpg
 * The American actor best known for Field of Dreams and Goodfellas is still being mourned.
 * 21
 * Jamie Campbell Bower
 * 586,992
 * Jamie_Campbell_Bower_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
 * A new addition to the cast of Stranger Things (#7), in which he plays the main villain of season 4 (#3).
 * 22
 * Robb Elementary School shooting
 * 568,396
 * Robb_Elementary_Memorial.png
 * Americans are still reeling from the devastating mass shooting that left 22 dead (including the perpetrator) and 18 injured, and criticism of Uvalde law enforcement's response to the shooting continues to mount as more details come to light. (Depressingly, people seem to already be moving on, given that it's fallen 20 places from last week.)
 * 23
 * Miles Teller
 * 566,652
 * Miles_Teller_March_18,_2014_(cropped)-2.jpg
 * #6 has as Rooster, the son of Goose, #12's doomed wingman in #8, the star of Whiplash and War Dogs (and a movie people would rather forget) who had been only in two streaming shows for five years. And adequately, his last movie was directed by the same Joseph Kosinski of Maverick.
 * 24
 * Winona Ryder
 * 536,320
 * Actress_Winona_Ryder_at_a_press_conference_for_Frankenweenie_2012_(cropped).jpg
 * rowspan=2|Two of #3's most prominent women, the suffering mother Joyce Byers, played by the best known cast member upon debut (Beetlejuice, Heathers, two Oscar noms, etc.), and her daughter-in-law Nancy Wheeler, who is trying to make a name for herself in movies like Velvet Buzzsaw and Yes, God, Yes.
 * 25
 * Natalia Dyer
 * 532,108
 * Natalia_Dyer_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
 * }
 * Born in a Japanese internment camp, Kiyoshi Kuromiya rose to prominence as part of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and later became a noted gay rights activist. He got a Google Doodle 22 years after his death as part of Pride Month.
 * 19
 * Depp v. Heard
 * 645,072
 * ¡Oh, la sierra! de Xaudaró (cropped).jpg
 * You hit me once, I hit you back I gave a kick, you gave a slap You smashed a plate over my head Then I do something to our bed
 * 20
 * Ray Liotta
 * 613,259
 * Ray_Liotta_(8140672892).jpg
 * The American actor best known for Field of Dreams and Goodfellas is still being mourned.
 * 21
 * Jamie Campbell Bower
 * 586,992
 * Jamie_Campbell_Bower_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
 * A new addition to the cast of Stranger Things (#7), in which he plays the main villain of season 4 (#3).
 * 22
 * Robb Elementary School shooting
 * 568,396
 * Robb_Elementary_Memorial.png
 * Americans are still reeling from the devastating mass shooting that left 22 dead (including the perpetrator) and 18 injured, and criticism of Uvalde law enforcement's response to the shooting continues to mount as more details come to light. (Depressingly, people seem to already be moving on, given that it's fallen 20 places from last week.)
 * 23
 * Miles Teller
 * 566,652
 * Miles_Teller_March_18,_2014_(cropped)-2.jpg
 * #6 has as Rooster, the son of Goose, #12's doomed wingman in #8, the star of Whiplash and War Dogs (and a movie people would rather forget) who had been only in two streaming shows for five years. And adequately, his last movie was directed by the same Joseph Kosinski of Maverick.
 * 24
 * Winona Ryder
 * 536,320
 * Actress_Winona_Ryder_at_a_press_conference_for_Frankenweenie_2012_(cropped).jpg
 * rowspan=2|Two of #3's most prominent women, the suffering mother Joyce Byers, played by the best known cast member upon debut (Beetlejuice, Heathers, two Oscar noms, etc.), and her daughter-in-law Nancy Wheeler, who is trying to make a name for herself in movies like Velvet Buzzsaw and Yes, God, Yes.
 * 25
 * Natalia Dyer
 * 532,108
 * Natalia_Dyer_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
 * }
 * #6 has as Rooster, the son of Goose, #12's doomed wingman in #8, the star of Whiplash and War Dogs (and a movie people would rather forget) who had been only in two streaming shows for five years. And adequately, his last movie was directed by the same Joseph Kosinski of Maverick.
 * 24
 * Winona Ryder
 * 536,320
 * Actress_Winona_Ryder_at_a_press_conference_for_Frankenweenie_2012_(cropped).jpg
 * rowspan=2|Two of #3's most prominent women, the suffering mother Joyce Byers, played by the best known cast member upon debut (Beetlejuice, Heathers, two Oscar noms, etc.), and her daughter-in-law Nancy Wheeler, who is trying to make a name for herself in movies like Velvet Buzzsaw and Yes, God, Yes.
 * 25
 * Natalia Dyer
 * 532,108
 * Natalia_Dyer_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
 * }
 * 532,108
 * Natalia_Dyer_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
 * }
 * }

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.