top 25 Report/June 23 To 29, 2019

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

Girls, Girls, Girls

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It's been a week with many entries driven by women: the Bollywood movie that tops the list also brings along the lead actress (#25); the female football World Cup appears four times (#4, #8, #21, #24); three women politicians try to run for president (#5, #7, #18); returning entries include a teenage singer (#15) and a scandal caused by an assaulted woman (#17); and a reality TV star (#11) only appears because his wife joined the yearly deaths (#12). Otherwise, it's the usual offenders, most of whom already appeared last week: movies (#2,#6, #10, #14, #16, #20, #22), sports (#9, #13), TV (#3), Netflix (#23), and wrestling (#19).

For the week of June 23 to 29, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	About
1	Kabir Singh		1,470,837		In another one of those articles that makes our readers seek what does crore mean, Shahid Kapoor is an alcoholic surgeon who goes on a self-destructive path once his girlfriend (played by Kiara Advani, in the picture with Shahid) is forced to marry someone else. Reviews were mixed, with claims that Kabir Singh glamorises misogyny and toxic masculinity, but it is the third highest grossing Bollywood movie so far this year.
2	Toy Story 4		1,123,417		Pixar started the 2010s with Toy Story 3, and is closing the decade (which also featured four other sequels and a prequel) by returning to Sheriff Woody and his pals, thankfully in a movie that provides as much of an emotional and entertaining closure as its predecessor. Unsurprisingly, Toy Story 4 got glowing reviews and already emassed half a billion dollars worldwide.
3	Chernobyl disaster		1,072,936		After quite a long hold atop the list, the 1986 disaster dramatized in an HBO miniseries falls but without leaving the podium.
4	Megan Rapinoe		1,021,012		Colin Kaepernick, move over for political protests within real football. The U.S. team that is the big favorite in the World Cup (#8) is captained by someone who is refusing to sing along with the anthem and said she'll not go to the White House if the team wins (which it seems they will, to the chagrin of this writer and everyone who'd like to see someone else with the title rather than a squad which already won 3 out of 7 tournaments), given her fierce opposition to the man currently living there.
5	Kamala Harris		977,593		Speaking of He Who We Prefer Not To Name, given he ran against Hillary Clinton in the last election, the Democractic Party is all full of women who want to follow her footsteps. One of them is this Californian Senator.
6	Avengers: Endgame		848,358		The final confrontation with Thanos never left the top 10 here, but after dropping out from the box office rankings for a week, returned there as the film was reissued with extra scenes (see #14 as for why). Meanwhile, Marvel fans get ready for the first follow-up (#10), coming out this week.
7	Marianne Williamson		811,846		Another woman pushing to be the Democrat candidate, known for her books, plus involvement with peace and AIDS relief causes.
8	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup		773,035		Everyone who likes this competition having some emotion instead of the certainty that the U.S. team will win certainly mourned that both the host team and the Lionesses (pictured) couldn't make it through. How I wish I could root for the dark orange horse this Sunday without it feeling like a lost cause.
9	2019 Cricket World Cup		771,533		The other tournament currently played on European grass fields.
10	Spider-Man: Far From Home		769,347		"Spider-Man! Where are you coming from, Spider-Man? Nobody knows who you are!" (Bark, bark, bark, bark!)
11	Duane Chapman		767,325		Dog the Bounty Hunter (relevant link) just lost his wife\partner Beth to a cancer.
12	Deaths in 2019		750,651		"And it looks like we might have made it Yes, it looks like we've made it To the End"
13	2019 Copa América		747,454		The return of international football to Brazil hasn't had Neymar or the same filled up\lively stadia from the 2014 FIFA World Cup to really fire up the local populace, but provided a few good moments and a surprising run by Peru, who are about to face the hosts in the final.
14	List of highest-grossing films		696,715		Less than $25 million are keeping our #6 from ending the reign of Avatar from the top of this list. In the meantime, Aladdin is almost breaking into the Top 50 featured in the article.
15	Billie Eilish		656,245		Along with those songs that simply evade the writers of this report, but were enough for Dave Grohl to compare her to Morrissey, Ms. Eilish has made her fans "fight for honor" after an objectifying picture with a tank top surfaced.
16	Keanu Reeves		626,462		Apparently it's the Summer of Keanu Reeves given he killed on John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, cameod in Always Be My Maybe, surprised at E3 with Cyberpunk 2077, and is now making people laugh in our #2. There was even a KeanuCon in Glasgow!
17	Central Park jogger case		594,297		Netflix tells about the wrongly imprisoned suspects of this crime in When They See Us, and readers seek more info.
18	Tulsi Gabbard		552,557		Yet another woman from the Democractic Party hoping to run for president. Samantha Bee already adviced many of the potential candidates "Run for Senate, Goddammit!"
19	WWE Stomping Grounds		514,894		A new WWE pantomime was held at the Tacoma Dome, with the main event won by Seth Rollins (pictured).
20	Annabelle Comes Home		474,073		Horror movies are certainly as big of a deal as superhero ones (#4, #9), with its cheap budgets and sequel potential helping the industry make heaps of money. The Conjuring Universe is one of the key players, and has returned to theaters with the third movie centered around the haunted doll Annabelle.
21	FIFA Women's World Cup		472,091		Between two killer dolls, a tournament filled with people who'd probably not take it well if you call them "doll".
22	Child's Play (2019 film)		457,488		In another demonstration of Hollywood just making sequels and remakes, the assassin toy Chucky is back, now having the same voice as The Joker. Child's Play opened the same day as the toys of #2 (leading to some amusing posters), got positive reviews and already recouped its low $10 million budget.
23	Bob Lazar		455,574		More Netflix as the service uploaded Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers, about this man's claims that he attempted reverse-engineering alien spacecraft for the United States military at a secret base near Area 51 called S-4. Maybe something like this could've made Men in Black: International more appealing to audiences?
24	Alex Morgan		434,808		If the US team continues to be the favorites for the World Cup (#8), it certainly owes to this beautiful striker, who is currently the tournament's top scorer and celebrated her 30th birthday winning the semifinal in the French fields.
25	Kiara Advani		407,524		And we end on the same note we started, namely the female star of Kabir Singh (#1).

 

Exclusions

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