Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/February 16 to 22, 2020

The Top 25 Report

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (February 16 to 22, 2020)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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The official data is still down, so through other tools we compiled a list featuring some politics, sports and drug dealers.

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Michael Bloomberg	1.865.322	A record $500 million were spent by the former Mayor of New York City in his presidential campaign, and yet his first debate appearance in Nevada was less than stellar.
2	Caroline Flack	1.774.503	This British television and radio host had a rough couple of months. In December 2019 she was charged with assaulting her boyfriend, tennis player Lewis Burton, and released on bail with the conditions that she would not contact Burton and would stand trial in March. Less than a month before the trial, Flack hung herself in her flat.
3	Parasite (2019 film)	1.560.205	Donald Trump might have complained about the Academy Awards recognizing a Korean movie and bragging about not having seen it. Meanwhile, many Americans have decided to overcome their laziness for subtitled movies and give Bong Joon-Ho's movie a chance, and Parasite has entered the box office top 10 as a result.
4	Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo	1.249.835	Narcos: Mexico has returned, and thus again readers seek more on the Guadalajara Cartel founder played by Diego Luna.
5	Pop Smoke	1.163.293	One more name to the list of murdered hip hop musicians, as Bashar Barakah Jackson died at just 20 during a home invasion.
6	Tyson Fury	795.113	This awesomely named boxer finally had a rematch for a 2018 fight that ended in a controversial split draw, and this time had a technical knockout on adversary Deontay Wilder (#23).
7	Sonic the Hedgehog (film)	765.770	After decades of terrible video game movies, Hollywood is finally providing some passable productions such as the live-action adaptation of Sega's mascot Sonic the Hedgehog, which along with positive reviews has led the box office for two straight weeks (with the #2 of the weekend being another movie of a man dealing with a computer-generated animal, The Call of the Wild).
8	Deaths in 2020	763.794	No I don't want to battle from beginning to end I don't want a cycle of recycled revenge I don't want to follow Death and All His Friends!
9	Ken Miles	727.814	Ford v Ferrari won two Oscars, so more people decided to give the movie a chance, and also research on the British driver portrayed in the movie by Christian Bale.
10	Billie Eilish	694.074	Already a big deal enough to present at the Academy Awards (though she wasn't pleased by her performance), the young singer proved the power of her ASMR- like music with her theme song for the next James Bond movie, "No Time to Die", having hit #1 in the UK Charts.
11	Rod Blagojevich	635.867	The former governor of Illinois who was impeached for corruption in 2009 and imprisoned three years later, now been pardoned with six years left in his sentence by a president who managed survive a possible impeachment and oversaw "Blago" once.
12	Coronavirus	624.229	The type of virus currently causing panic worldwide. The specific strain is now officially Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, officially making the epidemic a new SARS.
13	Ryan Newman (racing driver)	612.508	The last lap of the 2020 Daytona 500 saw the leading racer, 2014 NASCAR runner-up Ryan Newman, get tapped by the car right behind him and suffer an horrific crash. Newman was removed from the wreck and rushed to the hospital, where he is seemingly healthy but still needs rehabilitation.
14	Erling Braut Håland	602.486	Borussia Dortmund beat Paris Saint-Germain at the UEFA Champions League with two goals of this young Norwegian striker, who at just 19 has proven his ability to hit the nets in the group stage (8 goals for Red Bull Salzburg, with whom he played prior to January!).
15	Amado Carrillo Fuentes	586.007	José María Yazpik has been playing this drug lord since the Colombian seasons of Narcos, and the current one shows how Fuentes left our #4 to form the Juárez Cartel.
16	2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries	560.694	The Republicans just went for a possible Trump re-election, so the Democrats instead are having a tight race, with #21 as the front-runner.
17	Crash Landing on You	560.687	Korean technology, music, and movies (#3) are en vogue, so why not television too? This K Drama show starring Son Ye-jin as a woman who accidentally crash-lands in North Korea and falls in love with a local soldier had its final episode aired, and managed to become the top trending topic on Twitter.
18	Pete Buttigieg	554.946	The first openly gay presidential candidate, a former sailor and mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He got a few delegates in the primaries so far, but our #21 stands in the way.
19	Pablo Acosta Villarreal	554.318	The mentor of #15, played in Narcos by Gerardo Taracena.
20	2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak	544.276	While most of the infected are still in China, the disease also had thousand of cases in South Korea, and hundreds in Italy, Iran and Japan (not counting everywhere else), with over 82 thousand confirmed, 2,811 fatal. If people weren't already worried, sports fans can also hope the outbreak dies down before it can cancel the Olympics.
21	Bernie Sanders	523.622	After losing the Democratic presidential spot to Hillary Clinton in 2016, the Vermont Senator is currently leading the race for the 2020 run.
22	Birds of Prey (2020 film)	522.191	In spite of a positive response, The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn has not lit the box office like many previous superhero movies, which the high content ratings for violence and swearing might have had a hand in - the family-friendly #7 has already made more money even if Birds of Prey had a one week head start.
23	Deontay Wilder	471.887	The previously undefeated World Boxing Council heavyweight champion lost his belt to our #6 when the two boxers finally met again.
24	Kobe Bryant	446.742	The Oscars took the Black Mamba out of the report (even if opened the In Memoriam!) last week, but constant homages to Kobe in the 2020 NBA All-Star Game brought him back.
25	Narcos: Mexico	441.360	Finishing it all off, the Netflix show that brought all those Mexican drug dealers into the list.