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Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 7 to 13, 2023

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Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga and Max BuddyRoo

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India and their former colonizers England make up most of this list.

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about
1 The Kerala Story 2,299,171 Another Indian movie on the list, this time based on the Islamophobic conspiracy theory "love jihad", where a group of women from Kerala convert to Islam and join ISIS, has received awful reviews from critics, and also getting push-back from the Indian National Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for "defaming the state of Kerala and promoting the agenda of the Sangh Parivar". Despite this, it's become the 3rd highest grossing grossing Hindi film of 2023.
2 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 1,955,778 The Marvel Cinematic Universe's most unexpected success story returned for a third go, and has already earned better reviews and box office than Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
3 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1,908,758 Netflix released the Bridgerton spinoff Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, centering around a Queen of the United Kingdom during both the end of her life and her romance with King George III.
4 George III 1,896,483
5 ChatGPT 1,759,107 People are still intrigued and worried by AI, which is already becoming a co-author of scientific papers.
6 Eurovision Song Contest 2023 1,650,872 This here writer arrived in Liverpool to find a chaos of blocked streets and such around Lime Street, and this musical extravaganza was to blame. Sweden won with the song "Tattoo".
7 Charles III 1,303,416 Nine months after his mother died and made him king at the ripe age of 72, Charles had a proper coronation.
8 Hannah Waddingham 1,249,873 #6 had as one of its hosts this British actress best known as Rebecca from Ted Lasso, who among other things made a moving eulogy out of a Rick Roll.
9 Robert De Niro 1,097,400 One of the greatest actors in history, who later this year will see his 11th(!) movie with Martin Scorsese released, revealed he just fathered a daugther at the age of 79.
10 2023 SEA Games 1,049,182 Cambodia hosted this multisport event, with the most medals going to Vietnam.
11 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election 1,006,221 Over 50 million Indians voted to choose their representatives.
12 Queen Victoria 955,603 A famed British Queen, the third after #4 and sixth before #7 (and by extension, fifth before #14).
13 Deaths in 2023 949,938 Let's just quote #6's winning song:
14 Elizabeth II 939,519 #7's mother and predecessor in the throne.
15 Mother's Day 887,264 The United States and many other countries celebrate their mommies on the second Sunday of May. (The first covered by the week of this Report is the holiday in Portugal, its former colonies bar Brazil, neighbor Spain, and also Hungary and Romania.)
16 Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story 798,918 The reason why #3 and #4 figure so high.
17 Queen Camilla 790,196 British Royals everywhere! #7's wife, who went from queen consort to plain queen; #4's son, who appears in #16 played by Ryan Gage; and #14's father.
18 George IV 690,174
19 George VI 579,789
20 Loreen 590,479 11 years after performing the Eurovision winner "Euphoria", this Swedish singer struck gold again at #6, helped by a dramatic and emotional performance at the event.
21 Backlash (2023) 574,779 WWE held its latest event in Puerto Rico.
22 William, Prince of Wales 571,935 #7's son, next in line for the throne.
23 J. Robert Oppenheimer 557,176 A second trailer was released for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's biopic of the father of the atom bomb starring Cillian Murphy. It opens the same day as Barbie, and seemingly half of Hollywood appears in those two movies.
24 Evil Dead Rise 549,106 As mentioned last week, the worst possible movie for #15. Along with how the villain is an undead, possessed woman trying to kill her children, most mothers would rather not see grisly injuries involving cheese graters and such.
25 Katy Perry 516,649 Keeping off Jamie Foxx, who has spent the last few weeks recovering from an unspecified medical emergency, is the pop star who delivered a free concert to #7 at the coronation.