Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

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The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 29 to July 5, 2025)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, -insert valid name here-, Shuipzv3, GN22, and CAWylie.

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A change of month with a few deaths, sports, movies and many topics returning.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Diogo Jota	4,163,751	Portuguese footballer Diogo José Teixeira da Silva (hence the nickname Diogo J. - pronounced Jota in Portuguese) had already helped Wolverhampton Wanderers return to the Premier League and his national team win the UEFA Nations League when in 2020 he joined Liverpool FC, with whom he won the FA Cup and EFL Cup. Jota was having a great 2025, winning the Premier League with the Reds and a second Nations League title with Portugal, and also married his high school sweetheart with whom he had three children. Due to a lung surgery, he was advised not to fly back to England, so Jota and his brother André Silva left the hospital in Porto in a Lamborghini Huracán to drive all the way to Port of Santander in Spain and take a ferry. Sadly, on the way there they blew a tyre on a Spanish highway, the car veered off the road and caught fire, killing both men. The football world mourned losing a talented player at just 28 and at the height of his career, leading to hundreds attending Jota's funeral in the small city of Gondomar, where he started his career, and many tributes, including by Oasis in the opening concert of their reunion tour and Nuno Bettencourt in the Black Sabbath farewell concert.
2	Michael Madsen	1,817,568	Two actors died this week. Michael Madsen passed at 67 of cardiac arrest, made his name with tough guy roles in movies such as Reservoir Dogs, Species and Donnie Brasco, and had his sister Virginia Madsen follow him to Hollywood. Julian McMahon died at 56 of cancer, went to the United States after some works in his native Australia, and along with many TV roles in shows like Charmed and Nip/Tuck, played Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four and its sequel (ironically in the same month of a new Fantastic Four that won't feature Doom, who has been promoted to Avengers villain).
3	Julian McMahon	1,815,121
4	Jurassic World Rebirth	1,615,355	The Jurassic Park sequels are mostly derided but made lots of money, so those dinosaurs can't remain extinct. In a new take directed by Gareth Edwards and written by the same David Koepp who made the screenplays for the Spielberg-directed first two movies, a new abandoned island where InGen bred dinosaurs was discovered, and Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali are mercenaries helping scientists visit it to get blood samples from the dinos for pharmaceutical research. Rebirth earned mixed to positive reviews given that as uninspired as the script was, it was less convoluted than Jurassic World Dominion and provided plenty of scenes of people chased and/or attacked by dinosaurs. The film also earned $318 million worldwide in a single weekend, raising the possibility of following the preceding Jurassic World trilogy in making over a billion dollars!
5	Squid Game season 3	1,390,761	The third and final season of this South Korean television series is the biggest-ever television launch for Netflix, getting more than 60.1 million views in the first three days. Critical reviews have been generally positive. While its creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk has said there is no official decision on a remake, there are rumors that David Fincher is developing an English-language version. The last scene in the final episode, in which a well-known Hollywood actor cameos in, does little to dissuade the possibility as well.
6	Zohran Mamdani	1,378,129	Mamdani is the Democratic Party's nominee for the 2025 New York City mayoral election, having defeated ten other candidates, including former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo in an upset. Mamdani's platform includes free public buses, public childcare, public grocery stores, rent freezes, additional affordable housing, police reform, and a $30 minimum wage by 2030. He also called for tax increases on corporations and those earning more than $1 million annually, and criticized Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Mamdani has already attracted the attention of MAGA politicians and influencers, who have attacked him using Islamophobic, racist and xenophobic language, with some even calling for his deportation.
7	F1 (film)	1,153,045	Formula 1 has never been so popular in the United States compared to NASCAR or IndyCar (if only for the Indianapolis 500), but this movie centered around Brad Pitt as a veteran driver hired to revert the fortunes of a flailing F1 team topped the North American box office with $57 million following a positive critical response. By its second week F1 had surpassed Napoleon as the highest-grossing Apple Studios production, and its earnings continue at fast speed, with over $300 million worlwide.
8	Lauren Sánchez	1,092,005	This media personality married #21 in a lavish three-day event in Venice from June 26 to 28, with an impressive guest list to boot.
9	One Big Beautiful Bill Act	1,054,989	This long-awaited megabill inevitably passed the House and was signed by President Donald Trump on #19. Despite widespread criticism, Trump claimed it was the "most popular bill ever signed". The act extends the tax cuts that Trump set in his first term and does much, much more to benefit the wealthy while stripping millions of Americans of benefits from services like Medicare and Social Security.
10	Deaths in 2025	997,939	Lookin' for some happiness But there is only loneliness to find Jump to the left, turn to the right Lookin' upstairs, lookin' behind
11	Emma Raducanu	871,255	After breaking out at Wimbledon 2021, this British tennis player was one of the most surprising Grand Slam winners ever at the U.S. Open, but in spite of all the resulting fans and endorsements Raducanu struggled ever since, either falling early or not playing due to injuries. Earlier this year she reached her first Australian Open round 3, and repeated this before her crowd in the Wimbledon grass, eliminating Mimi Xu and 2023 champion Markéta Vondroušová before being downed by WTA's current number one Aryna Sabalenka.
12	Ilia Topuria	846,017	On June 28 at UFC 317, this German-born Georgian Spaniard knocked out Charles Oliveira in the first round to become the UFC Lightweight Champion and was soon announced as No. 1 in the division's pound-for pound rankings.
13	Shefali Jariwala	799,398	On June 27, this Indian model and Bollywood actress died at age 42, following a suspected cardiac arrest and drop in blood pressure. An autopsy is underway, however her family has announced that she had been fasting for Satyanarayana Puja.
14	Jayne Mansfield	766,215	This actress, Playboy Playmate, and very public figure (down to her body measurements being frequently published in news outlets), known as a sex symbol and Hollywood's "smartest dumb blonde", was the subject of the documentary My Mom Jayne directed by Mariska Hargitay, one of her 5 children across 3 marriages and an accomplished actress and director in her own right. It was released to streaming services on June 27th and has received very positive reviews, with a 100% rating by critics on Rotten Tomatoes. It's also nice to see some appreciation for one of our good articles!
15	Bob Vylan	743,660	No, not a counterfeit Bob Dylan, but a British punk rap duo. Their performance at Glastonbury Festival complained about the Gaza war with quite violent terms, and part of the resulting controversy had the US Department of State revoking the duo's entry visas ahead of a planned autumn tour, with deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau saying: "Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country." The duo then made a statement that in spite of chants of "Death, death to the IDF!" they "are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people", all they want is for the war and its resulting atrocities to stop.
16	Squid Game	728,504	A South Korean Netflix show about people going through 6 rounds of deadly versions of children's games, that became a worldwide phenomenon during the pandemic lockdowns of 2021, and returned with two seasons, a second last December and the recently released third that's up there at #5.
17	André Silva (footballer, born 2000)	728,376	#1's younger brother was just 25, with two seasons as a professional in Portugal's lower leagues and a recently finished college degree, when he and Jota died in a car crash.
18	2025 FIFA Club World Cup	681,922	The worldwide soccer (it's held in the United States) tournament's quarterfinals ended on July 5th when Real Madrid CF beat Borussia Dortmund 3 to 2. The preceding round had an incredible upset in Al-Hilal SFC eliminating Manchester City. The four semifinalists (Fluminense FC vs. Chelsea FC, and Real Madrid vs. Paris St. Germain) will soon be headed to the MetLife Stadium for the finals.
19	Independence Day (United States)	671,325	Friday marked America's 249th birthday and the start of the one-year countdown to the United States Semiquincentennial.
20	KPop Demon Hunters	668,069	While Sony Pictures Animation doesn't finish the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse sequel, they released an equally colorful animation on Netflix following a KPop girl group who are secretly demon-fighting warriors.
21	Jeff Bezos	631,986	The founder of Amazon married #8, his second wife, on June 27. Venice officials praised the event for bringing an estimate $1.1 billion boost to the region, but environmentalists complained on the impact of 90 private jets arriving.
22	28 Years Later	602,405	The third part of the film series about the UK being ravaged by a zombie apocalypse, that started with 28 Days Later and was followed by 28 Weeks Later, but skipped 28 Months to go straight to this. The critical and comercial success is a good omen for the incoming fourth 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, arriving in January.
23	Ironheart (miniseries)	571,890	Marvel decided to reduce the release schedule of the return of Riri Williams (actress Dominique Thorne to the left), a gadgeteer genius introduced in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, with 3 episodes one week and the other 3 in the following. Riri is expelled from MIT for not studying enough while getting paid to make school works for others, so she uses her Iron Man-inspired armor to fly back to her native Chicago, where she crosses her path with the gang of supernatural criminal Parker Robbins aka The Hood. While misogynistic MCU fans who somehow can't accept leading women, specially black ones, review bombed the show prior to release, regular people who actually watched Ironheart mostly liked it.
24	ChatGPT	557,399	After a week off, the chatbot returns. And finding things to say about it gets hard.
25	Sonay Kartal	544,202	Like #11 in 2021, this young Brit (less than a year older than Raducanu) had a breakout appearance that went all the way to round 4 before her home crowd in Wimbledon, ended by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

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.