Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 16 to 22, 2021

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 16 to 22, 2021)[edit]

Prepared with commentary by Mcrsftdog, Igordebraga, Kingsif

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As the delayed events of 2020 start to reappear (Eurovision Song Contest tops the list, Miss Universe also enters), 2021 continues to offer a variety of subjects - albeit none more present than the sadly nearly constant turmoil in the Middle-East.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Eurovision Song Contest 2021	1,610,619	The annual (if one forgets 2020, though why would you when it gave us a memerific Iceland-based Will Ferrell comedy and Iceland's real memerific group) competition took place in Rotterdam this year, in a venue that housed a COVID field hospital. As ever, the Eurovision Song Contest was pretty crazy, with highlights including vaporwave backgrounds, some of the most poorly executed green screening, and some guy who wouldn't put a shirt on. The winner: Italy, who sent the alt rock band Måneskin (including topless dude). The loser: the UK, who managed to get nil points. Twice.
2	Halston	1,525,141	Only the world's biggest song contest can distract from another television highlight, it seems. A Netflix miniseries about this fashion designer, played by Ewan McGregor, proves that Ryan Murphy can produce shows about literally anything (as long as they include fashion).
3	State of Palestine	1,435,120	Palestine might've been called Promised Land by the Jews, and yet the biggest claims of earning this piece of desert come from the Muslims, who downright call themselves "State of Palestine". As many other entries in this Report show, the land disputes tend to get violent.
4	Army of the Dead	1,211,833	Before his foray into comic book adaptations, Zack Snyder started his film career remaking Dawn of the Dead. So here's him back into zombies (in fact, it's apparently based on an idea he had while working on the remake), namely a Netflix original where Dave Bautista leads a team trying to steal a Las Vegas casino's vault before the city is nuked to contain its undead infestation.
5	Israel	1,137,113	The most recent flare-up of the decades-long conflict has caused the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians and the displacement of tens of thousands more.
6	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	1,033,002
7	Hamas	993,329
8	Deaths in 2021	935,941	'Till I finally died Which started the whole world living Oh if I'd only seen, that the joke was on me
9	The Woman in the Window (2021 film)	871,632	This schlocky modern retelling of Hitchcock's Rear Window, starring Amy Adams, made its way to Netflix on May 14.
10	Mare of Easttown	824,846	This Kate Winslet-starring HBO show, which John Oliver said is the only thing as white and depressing as his show's current backdrop, continues to raise viewership in both audience numbers and Wikipedia views.
11	2021 Israel–Palestine crisis	795,858	A truce was declared following 15 days of violence on the latest Middle-Eastern conflict - which included bombings in one of two tracts of land owned by Palestine, a Mediterranean territory slightly smaller than Las Vegas. Apparently it isn't really holding, no matter who you get your news from.
12	Gaza Strip	782,657
13	Kentaro Miura	743,261	Miura, a mangaka best known for his long-running Berserk (#24) series, passed away on May 6; this news was made public on Thursday.
14	Olivia Rodrigo	733,472	Rodrigo is the former star of Disney Channel's Bizaardvark and current star of Disney+'s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Rodrigo's debut album, SOUR, was released on Friday; it's mostly toned down whisper pop (including the #1-in-many-countries "drivers license") but also with a bit of mid-2000sy punkish pop.
15	Miss Universe 2020	668,778	Eurovision (#1) cancelled its 2020 edition to the goddamned pandemic. The supposedly intergalactic beauty pageant - it's the 69th competition, and every single time they award the title to a human, surely a sign of bias - only pushed last year's edition to halfway across this one, with Mexico's Andrea Meza (pictured) emerging as the winner.
16	Radhe (2021 film)	656,991	A Bollywood film released last week for Eid al-Fitr. It stars Salman Khan, who is a very big name in India: he's part of the Bollywood studio system that really came under fire last year, but (of course) is still powerful and successful.
17	Charles Grodin	624,837	Grodin, an actor known for appearing in countless comedy films, passed away on Tuesday. He was 86 years old.
18	Elon Musk	599,488	This guy just keeps himself on our list, doesn't he?
19	WrestleMania Backlash	516,800	Is this backlash against WrestleMania appearing on this list so much? No, it's the name of an event, obviously in Florida, at a skydome that the state has name SunDome because... Florida.
20	Dear Evan Hansen	496,667	A film adaptation of this musical will be released this September. A trailer for said film was released Tuesday, prompting people to ask questions like "Why did they cast a 27-year-old to play a high schooler?" and "Is that really what the plot of the show is?" and "So this is what the guys behind The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World are doing now?"
21	Non-binary gender	482,548	Another creation of the Disney stable (like #14) made news this week, as Demi Lovato came out as non-binary. The singer also now uses they/them pronouns. (Editors here on Wikipedia have had a lot of articles to update.)
22	Demi Lovato	475,862
23	Spiral (2021 film)	475,003	On its opening weekend, the newest Saw film was the #1 film at the box office, with about $8 million. That week last year was led by drive-in showings of Trolls World Tour, and the year before that it was led by John Wick: Chapter 3—which got over $50 million. The film industry just can't wait for the "new normal" to become a thing of the past, that's all.
24	Berserk (manga)	447,824	#13's best known work.
25	Liza Minnelli	432,875	The miniseries chronicling our #2 also brought in attention for one of his friends (who according to Andy Warhol, once entered Halston's house asking "Give me every drug you've got"), this very famous actress and singer played there by Krysta Rodriguez.

Exclusions[edit]

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.