Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/January 28 to February 3, 2024

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (January 28 to February 3, 2024) edit

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Shuipzv3, Rahcmander, CAWylie, and I am RedoStone

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The same Colombian drug dealer at the top again (bringing two articles along), along with deaths, faked deaths, and lots of movies and sports.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Griselda Blanco	4,444,663	Netflix, a regular source of high Wikipedia view counts, has caused this female drug lord (lately portrayed by Sofía Vergara) to remain at number one due to its original miniseries Griselda (#22). While it is not Dahmer views, 4.44 million is the highest weekly view count so far this year.
2	Carl Weathers	2,191,425	An actor best known for "strong Black man" roles, starting with Apollo Creed in Rocky and its sequels and later extending to Predator, Action Jackson and The Mandalorian, as well as parodic turns in Happy Gilmore, Arrested Development and Toy Story 4, Carl Weathers died at the age of 76.
3	Royal Rumble (2024)	1,926,255	The latest WWE pay-per-view event, held at Tropicana Field in Florida.
4	Poonam Pandey	1,906,337	On February 1, it was announced that this Indian actress had died of cervical cancer at the age of 32. The next day, it was revealed that she was still alive, with the faked death being a publicity stunt to raise awareness for the disease, earning her widespread criticism.
5	Fighter (2024 film)	1,377,325	After many production delays this film, directed by Siddharth Anand (pictured), was released January 25. It has received mixed reviews from critics, but has grossed ₹264 crore (US$33 million) worldwide as of February 4.
6	2023 AFC Asian Cup	1,223,998	The knockout stages of the Asian football tournament rolled on in Qatar. The week covered by this report finished by defining the two semifinals, Jordan x South Korea and Iran x Qatar - and let's just the first was an upset where the former that never qualified for a World Cup beat the much more traditional adversary (who also surprisingly only won the Asian Cup once, a four team affair in 1960!).
7	List of Super Bowl champions	1,191,071	#16 will determine if the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs will get their fourth entry on this list, or if the San Francisco 49ers will get their sixth.
8	Jannik Sinner	1,161,628	After defeating one of tennis's all-time greats Novak Djokovic in the semifinal, this young Italian expectedly won the 2024 Australian Open, coming from two sets down to defeat #21 in a five-set thriller to raise his first Grand Slam trophy.
9	Deaths in 2024	1,006,267	Sad to say I'm on my way Won't be back for many a day...
10	Travis Kelce	902,893	The star tight end of the Kansas City Chiefs and boyfriend of #13 helped his team win the 2023 AFC Championship Game against the Baltimore Ravens 17–10, scoring a touchdown with a pass from #12. The Chiefs are now heading to #16, hoping to add themselves to #7 for a consecutive year.
11	Africa Cup of Nations	874,232	The 2023 edition of this tournament kicked off a few months late on January 13, hosted by the Ivory Coast, who upset last year's winner Senegal in the Round of 16.
12	Patrick Mahomes	864,803	The quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs led his team to its sixth consecutive AFC Championship Game, and together with #10 they broke the record for the most career touchdowns in the playoffs for a quarterback/tight end duo. His appearance at #16 will be his fourth Super Bowl appearance in five seasons.
13	Taylor Swift	853,467	We live in a bizarre timeline. This week, this international superstar and girlfriend of #10 found herself at the center of conspiracy theories from the right-wing. Since Swift endorsed Joe Biden for president and criticized Donald Trump in 2020, newspapers reported that Biden's reelection campaign was hoping to secure her endorsement again. Conservative commentators and allies of Trump in the Republican Party attacked Swift, accusing her of being a "Pentagon asset" who has conspired with unnamed left-wing forces to rig #16 with the eventual goal of endorsing Biden. Needless to say it is all rubbish, considering Swift has so far made zero indications if she'll endorse anyone in the 2024 United States presidential election.
14	Brock Purdy	833,756	The starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, who was dubbed Mr. Irrelevant less than two years ago, will now face off against #12 in #16.
15	The Beekeeper (2024 film)	745,370	Jason Statham wrecking up people while spewing bee analogies, what's not to like? Hence The Beekeeper got a positive reaction from reviewers and audiences alike, and it's the biggest 2024 release so far, with $107 million worldwide (albeit domestically it's second behind the musical remake of Mean Girls).
16	Super Bowl LVIII	722,874	The biggest match in the American football calendar will take place on February 11, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada, with defending champions Kansas City Chiefs facing the San Francisco 49ers.
17	Bigg Boss (Hindi season 17)	696,616	Munawar Faruqui won the latest season of the Indian version of Big Brother, which concluded on January 28.
18	Argylle	685,660	This spy action comedy starring Bryce Dallas Howard as a writer dragged onto an espionage plot was released on February 1 in theaters and streaming to generally unfavorable reviews and poor box office performance, and is shaping up to be a box-office bomb. For a while, there was a theory that #13 had written the book on which the script was based on, though this was denied by director Matthew Vaughn, and the book was revealed to be written by Terry Hayes and Tammy Cohen.
19	Saltburn (film)	647,690	Maybe if the Academy Awards nominated this for anything it wouldn't have a steep a drop? In any case, again let's note this thriller made Americans discover the awesomeness of "Murder on the Dancefloor" (add Anyone But You reviving "Unwritten", and both members of the New Radicals got a boost in late 2023!).
20	Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League	639,962	The Batman: Arkham series are some of the most exceptional games around, so hopes were up for Rocksteady Studios returning to it, even if now following the supervillainous black ops team Suicide Squad (consisting of Harley Quinn, Deadshot, King Shark, and Captain Boomerang), with Batman and his Super Friends of the Justice League on the hit list given Brainiac has brainwashed them during his invasion of Earth. Yet the final result has received mixed reviews, complaining about repetitive gameplay and the games as a service elements, as well as wasting one of the last times Kevin Conroy voiced Batman before his 2022 death.
21	Daniil Medvedev	627,769	This Russian tennis player lost the 2024 Australian Open – Men's singles final to #8, winning the first two sets but ultimately unable to capitalize on the lead.
22	Griselda (miniseries)	603,037	The Netflix show about #1, that certainly aims for authenticity given its star and director are as Colombian as the title character.
23	ChatGPT	601,372	The chatbot that earned so much attention that it was last year's most viewed article somehow returns. Developer OpenAI also now sells customized chatbots at the GPT Store.
24	Animal (2023 Indian film)	589,457	One of Bollywood's biggest hits of 2023, now available on Netflix. And the animal to the left reminds me the guy who sang "Buffalo Soldier" is also coming to theaters.
25	Jorge Ayala	585,784	The hitman for #1 is featured in #22.