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Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes |
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1 | Pope Francis | 1,299,584 | The Pope visited the United States, a week after becoming the first pontifex in Cuba. | ||
2 | Pablo Escobar | 941,721 | Down from #1 after a three week lead, as those seeing Wagner Moura (pictured) playing the famed Colombian drug lord on Narcos keep on researching him. | ||
3 | Whitey Bulger | 876,879 | This American criminal got a biopic about his life, Black Mass, where he's played by Johnny Depp. | ||
4 | Yogi Berra | 861,806 | The Hall of Famer baseball player died at the age of 90. | ||
5 | Martin Shkreli | 859,883 | The founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals is now a widely hated person for medicine price hiking. | ||
6 | Night of Champions (2015) | 800,143 | The latest WWE pantomime, featuring among others Sting. | ||
7 | Scream Queens (2015 TV series) | 760,169 | Fox has released this comedy horror series that is the latest endeavor by Ryan Murphy of Glee and American Horror Story fame. | ||
8 | Everest (2015 film) | 610,990 | Universal Pictures took the unusual step of releasing this historical disaster pic (loosely based on the true-life account Into Thin Air) in premium widescreen and IMAX theatres only, before going wide next week. The strategy seems to have paid off, at least mildly, with a $7.5 million opening weekend. | ||
9 | Rockbitch | 609,064 | Reddit learned about this all-female metal British band which was pagan and overtly sexual. | ||
10 | Yom Kippur | 597,048 | The Jewish "Day of Atonement" occurs 10 days after Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), and involves fasting, repentance and prayer. | ||
11 | Jackie Collins | 586,769 | Best-selling romance novelist Jacqueline Collins died two weeks before her 78th birthday. | ||
12 | Eid al-Adha | 560,644 | The arrival of the other major Muslim holiday, after Eid al-Fitr, was marked by a sharp rise in interest. The "Feast of the Sacrifice" honours Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael (Muslims read that story a bit differently) by sacrificing animals and dividing the portions among family, friends and the poor. If that seems a bit old-fashioned to you, ask yourself how much sympathy you've ever felt for your Christmas turkey. | ||
13 | Deaths in 2015 | 545,309 | The viewing figures for this article have been remarkably constant; fluctuating week to week between 450 and 550 thousand on average, apparently heedless of who actually died. | ||
14 | George Hotz | 478,362 | Reddit remembered the 17 year old that unlocked the original iPhone back in 2007. | ||
15 | Robert Black (serial killer) | 450,255 | The most disturbing of those Reddit-propelled articles. | ||
16 | 2015 Rugby World Cup | 421,973 | The latest edition of rugby union's quadrennial tournament kicked off in England. | ||
17 | Carly Fiorina | 403,701 | The Republican potential presidential candidate continues to hold her own, even with the fierce competition of our next entry... | ||
18 | Donald Trump | 401,070 | The Donald's presidential campaign continues to stir the media, as shown by a New York article, Trump's appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and an episode of South Park where he is murdered. | ||
19 | List of Bollywood films of 2015 | 396,409 | Not an unusual visitor to the Top 25. | ||
20 | Gotham (TV series) | 380,498 | The second season of the televisual reboot of the Batman franchise premiered on September 21. | ||
21 | How to Get Away with Murder | 354,620 | One of the new shows that hit the airwaves was this drama where a teacher is caught in a murder plot. | ||
22 | John Boehner | 350,810 | One day after the Pope (#1) visited Washington, the Speaker of the House of Representatives announced his resignation. His sucessor will be elected in October. | ||
23 | Narcos | 349,481 | The TV series about the rise of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar (see #2) premiered in its entirety on Netflix on August 28. | ||
24 | List of superheroines | 345,207 | For some reason, this got a popularity bump, with legitimate views. Go figure. | ||
25 | Fear the Walking Dead | 339,370 | The first season of AMC's spin-off to their hit series The Walking Dead is about to end. |
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