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Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/January 8 to 14, 2023

The Top 25 Report



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Prepared with commentary by Benmite, Igordebraga, Max BuddyRoo, Newtothisedit

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The first 5+ million view week of 2023 (and 90th overall) is the daughter of Elvis, who died shortly after a year where her late father was back in the spotlight.

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about
1 Lisa Marie Presley 5,999,702 45 and a half years ago, Elvis died. Now his only daughter with Priscilla Presley is gone too, having suffered a cardiac arrest at the age of 54, leading to the whole family of the King of Rock n' Roll getting a views boost here on Wikipedia. Lisa Marie was nearly 30 when she followed his father in music recording a posthumous duet with him of "Don't Cry Daddy", which was followed by three albums. She was married four times, with the middle two being well-publicized but brief ones with Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage, and the other two generating her four children. The oldest, Riley Keough, started her career as a model but has since made a name for herself following the other career of her grandpa as an actress, with roles in among others Mad Max: Fury Road, The Lodge and the upcoming Prime Video show Daisy Jones & The Six. Lisa Marie will be buried in Graceland alongside her father and Riley's brother Benjamin, who commited suicide in 2020.
2 Priscilla Presley 2,601,607
3 Riley Keough 2,219,723
4 Elvis Presley 2,136,427
5 Jeff Beck 2,045,864 The week had another high-profile musical departure in English guitarist Jeff Beck, widely considered one of the best in his instrument and who died at 78 of a bacterial meningitis infection.
6 Avatar: The Way of Water 1,574,932 The highest-grossing movie of all time now has an equally epic sequel, which follows the same thinly-veiled and probably offensive metaphor for Indigenous Americans totally futuristic race of svelte blue aliens vying for control of their land. Apparently people love to watch colonialism in action (or they just really like the cool CGI effects and exciting action sequences, but I guess we’ll never know which they came to see) because it became the highest-grossing film of 2022 as well as the seventh highest-grossing film of all time in the few weeks it’s been out. It inches closer to the next top spot as it nears almost $2 billion in ticket sales, an amount that no reasonable person should be able to imagine, and we have yet to see if it will surpass its predecessor at the box office. According to critics, though, it doesn’t hold a candle to the far superior sequel Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
7 Edgar Allan Poe 1,332,196 This famous author is on the list because of #17.
8 The Menu (2022 film) 1,171,873 An entertaining comedic thriller where Anya Taylor-Joy is brought to what was supposed to be an exclusive dinner and turned out to also be an elaborate and lethal trolling job by its chef Ralph Fiennes, The Menu earned some money in theaters in spite of sharing the marketplace with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and is now getting even more attention on digital, including streaming (HBO Max in the US, Star+ and Disney+ internationally).
9 ChatGPT 1,061,902 Journalists have been running fear-mongering articles about how AI will soon take over all of our jobs for years now, but few were probably aware that an AI could be writing those articles for them.

ChatGPT is the brand spankin' new generative AI that's got everyone talking about it – and to it. It's far from the first of its kind, with its origins in less sophisticated chatbots like ELIZA, the computer therapist, and Cleverbot, but it might be the first to be capable of successfully writing essays, debugging computer programs, and playing tic-tac-toe all in the same conversation. It will probably be surpassed soon enough by an AI that's far more advanced and independently capable, but for now, people whose incomes rely on writing wrestle with the possibility of being replaced by a machine. All I can say is, thank god I’m not being paid to write this!

10 Navarone Garibaldi 1,029,552 As part of the Wiki Walks on the Presley family emerges #2's other son, whose father is a Brazilian screenwriter-turned-computer-programmer, and like half-sister #1 Garibaldi also became a musician.
11 Deaths in 2023 1,021,467 The way she held your hand
The little things you planned
Her memory is with you yet
That's someone you never forget
That's someone you never forget
12 Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker 985,668 The eccentric subject of a viral video from 2013, in which he animatedly recounts the story of him saving a woman from being assaulted while hitchhiking, shares a title with the Netflix documentary about him released this week. Three months after the video shot him to brief Internet stardom, he was charged with the first-degree murder of an attorney who he says tried to drug and rape him and later given a sentence of 57 years in prison.
13 Varisu 897,121 January might be one of the dump months of North American cinema, but not India. From Kollywood, Vijay's 66th film as a lead actor had a huge opening that already earned half its budget back.
14 Andrew Tate 847,043 Our favorite kickboxer turned misogynist is on the report again for the 3rd time in a row, probably with him being arrested by Romanian authorities a few weeks back, with his hoard of losers fans somehow thinking he was a victim of "The IRL Matrix" (ironic because the creators of that movie were trans)
15 M3GAN 840,716 It's easy for journalists to stoke fear in people’s hearts with the letters AI (see: #12), and it’s apparently just as easy for filmmakers. The latest flick from horror giant Blumhouse Productions stars an autonomous killer doll in what is essentially an updated version of the Talky Tina episode of The Twilight Zone. M3GAN earned plenty of buzz online after its titular doll doing a funky little dance in the trailer became a TikTok meme, and critics and audiences have now deemed her a gay icon since the film's release. You betta werk, M3gan!
16 80th Golden Globe Awards 811,531 One year after a ceremony not even televised due to controversies regarding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes were back on the public eye. The nominees included many things that entered Wikipedia's most viewed articles of 2022, like #4 through biopic Elvis - in fact, the ceremony was the last public appearance by #1, who died two days later - plus #6, Top Gun: Maverick, Marilyn Monroe, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and RRR in the film side, and in the TV side there was #19, House of the Dragon, all the royals of The Crown, Euphoria, Anna Sorokin... and some guy who Evan Peters played that I might've shared some mean words about in that yearly list. In any case, the Globes indicated Steven Spielberg's autobiographical The Fabelmans and the very Irish tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin will have a strong presence in the awards circuit.
17 The Pale Blue Eye 807,970 This entry is a thriller film directed by Scott Cooper, about #7, which after a theatrical release in December, this week entered Netflix. I personally can't tell you about the quality, as I haven't seen it, but according to critics you're better off seeing the Puss in Boots sequel that just escaped this list.
18 Stetson Bennett 782,314 Once an overlooked walk-on, this college football quarterback helped lead his team to their second straight national championship victory.
19 Jenna Ortega 727,617 Among #16's nominees was the lead actress of Wednesday, whose runaway success on Netflix continues to keep her on this list (and even enter the 2022 annual one!).
20 Adam Rich 724,664 The child star of Eight is Enough, a four-season-long dramedy from the late ‘70s that kind of sounds like someone wanted to reference Three's Company without infringing on copyright, died this week at 54. Like countless kid actors, his heyday ended before his adolescence began, and his life in the public eye later became defined by rampant drug and alcohol abuse and the occasional clickbait pop-up ad asking if you wanted to know what he was up to now.
21 Michael Lockwood (guitarist) 674,159 #1's last wedding was to this musician, with whom she had twin daughters and a heated custody battle over them.
22 Jennifer Coolidge 671,365 I'm taking the Globe, dumb ass!

Even if these gays are trying to kill her, the gays at this week's Golden Globes were clearly rooting for Ms. Coolidge, an accomplished comedic actress who has spent most of her career looking and talking like she perpetually just ate a lemon, when she won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in HBO's The White Lotus at #16. In it, she plays Tanya, a spacey rich woman whose story doesn't end so well in the show's second season – but for some, her role on the show was just Stifler's mom at a resort.

23 List of highest-grossing films 670,221 #6 continues to climb, and should soon surpass Spider-Man: No Way Home and become the sixth movie to earn 2 billion dollars - making it three by James Cameron, the Avengers vs. Thanos duology, and a promising start ruined by two divisive follow-ups.
24 Ke Huy Quan 653,655 After a child actor career that kicked off with a bang in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies, the Vietnamese-American actor then known as Jonathan Ke Quan had problems picking up roles and started working behind the scenes. His return to acting in the incredibly weird Everything Everywhere All at Once, where he plays the multiverse-hopping husband of Michelle Yeoh, earned Quan much acclaim, to the point he won Best Supporting Actor at #16.
25 Thunivu 646,088 Keeping off one more Elvis-related entry in Austin Butler, who won Best Actor in a Drama at #16 for playing the King, is another Kollywood release that like #13 took advantage of a holiday to pick up the crore.