Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 7 to 13, 2026)

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Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, CAWylie, Bkissin.

Given all the discussion on football, basketball and tennis, this week will be talking about you and me and the games people play.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	2026 FIFA World Cup	3,390,468	The biggest event of the world's most popular sport is being played in two countries that call it "soccer" and one that calls it "fútbol". It opened with co-host Mexico beating South Africa and Czechia letting South Korea get a comeback win. Then co-host Canada managed to have its first game that wasn't a loss (only took 3 editions, 7 games, and 40 years!) and co-host United States trampling Paraguay. And Saturday was the first with 4 games (plenty of those ahead given the tournament was bloated to 48 teams...), featuring Qatar tying Switzerland in the final moments, Brazil showing they still need to find their game back given they struggled in a tie with Morocco, Scotland beating lowly Haiti, and Australia surprising Turkey.
2	Obsession (2025 film)	1,658,423	A horror movie concerning a man wishing his friend would love him, and makes one wonder what's worse, the woman whose supernatural personality shift makes her unhinged and homicidal, or the entitled man who doesn't care if her love isn't genuine because at least he finally has her. Thus it's found the approval of both critics and audiences, and with $300 million worldwide it handily beat the latest in a long-running horror franchise while being incredibly profitable given it cost less than a million.
3	Disclosure Day	1,195,653	Steven Spielberg already made a seminal alien arrival movie in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (along with acclaimed works about alien encounter and alien invasion), and he returns to the subject in Disclosure Day, where hidden incidents of extraterrestrial visitors emerge in a world on the border of World War III. Reviews were positive and the film opened to over $90 million worldwide, nearly covering its budget and being expected to break Spielberg's recent box office rut.
4	FIFA World Cup	1,093,882	The only sports event with as much impact as the Olympics, running every four years since 1930 except when World War II cancelled the 1940s editions. #1 makes Mexico the first country to host thrice, after 1970 and 1986 (each a part of a legend's legacy, Pelé in the former and Diego Maradona in the latter), the United States get it again after 1994 (won by Brazil, and still the edition with the biggest average attendance even if the country notably dismisses what they call soccer), and Canada being a first-timer, though they were hosts of the female version in 2015.
5	Killing of Austin Metcalf	1,078,116	While last week's Top 25 had a murder that was used to scapegoat an entire ethnic group in the UK, this week's cause celebre for terrible people is brought to us from the United States, specifically Texas. On April 2, 2025, Karmelo Anthony (not the former player for this year's NBA Champions) stabbed Metcalf at a high school track meet, killing him. Because Anthony is black and Metcalf was white, some people used the incident to further racist ideas and viewpoints, with some even calling for Anthony to be lynched. Anthony was found guilty on June 6.
6	2026 Peruvian general election	1,041,358	While the rest of the world is paying attention to close results in #1, Peruvian politics is in the middle of one of its closest elections yet. Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori and perennial candidate for President in her own right, is currently .05% (or 18,488 votes) ahead of her opponent Roberto Sánchez with 98.552% of the votes counted. Regardless of who wins, people will be unhappy and it will probably continue the ongoing political crisis in Peru.
7	Folarin Balogun	996,143	On June 12, this American footballer scored twice in his team's opening group stage match of #1 against Paraguay. The game marked the first time an American had a multi-goal World Cup match in 96 years.
8	Backrooms (film)	990,693	Like #2, a cheap horror movie garnering much attention, this one adapting a famous creepypasta about a series of rooms that seem both empty and endless, only for further exploration by both scientists and an obsessed furniture store owner to uncover some creepy sights.
9	Deaths in 2026	919,202	First you whine away your hours In your concrete towers Soon you'll be covered up in flowers In the back of a black limousine...
10	OG Anunoby	820,507	Adequately in succession are the player who stole game 5 of the 2026 NBA Finals for the New York Knicks, tapping a ball that just bounced off the rim to get the lead with 1.2 seconds left, and the two standout players of the championship series: the enormous Frenchman who managed to steal a win for the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden; and the Knicks franchise player who was chosen as NBA Finals Most Valuable Player given the team only broke a record drought of 53 years thanks to Brunson leading the team's many comebacks, even scoring an outstanding 45 points on the decisive game 6 (only Bob Pettit, Michael Jordan, and Giannis Antetokounmpo made so many in a Finals game).
11	Victor Wembanyama	797,822
12	Jalen Brunson	741,101
13	Masters of the Universe (2026 film)	735,020	In 1987, He-Man got a terrible low budget adaptation. Nearly 40 years later the franchise was given justice on the big screen, providing adventure, comedy - including an appearance of "What's Up" for memetic reasons - and great visuals that cost a lot to be done, and given the sluggish box office (Masters of the Universe is not as relevant for newer audiences, 80s nostalgia might've ran its course, and some people won't go see anything with Jared Leto, even if many of his detractors had to admit he pulled off a funny and threatening Skeletor) it will probably lose money and only truly find a bigger audience once producers Amazon MGM Studios put it on Prime Video.
14	Alexander Zverev	731,474	On June 7, Zverev won the 2026 French Open – Men's singles title by defeating Flavio Cobolli, becoming the first German to win the Open since Henner Henkel in 1937 and the first to win any singles major since Boris Becker at the 1996 Australian Open.
15	Michael Jackson	711,250	Beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore Michael, waiting on a silver platter now And nothing matters now!
16	Peddi	663,491	Despite mixed reviews, this Indian film featuring Ram Charan as an athlete in a remote village facing multiple hardships has already become the highest grossing Tollywood production of the year in only one week of release.
17	Killing of Rachel Nickell	621,172	This 1992 murder in the United Kingdom is the latest to be used by Netflix to wring whatever money they can out of people's tragedy to satiate morbid true crime fans. Miniseries The Witness was released on June 4, and a documentary about the murder also appeared on the platform. Enjoy, ya filthy animals!
18	List of FIFA World Cup finals	614,736	On July 19, #1 will add one to this list, held at ~~MetLife Stadium~~ New York/New Jersey Stadium. Given 16 of the 22 titles of #4 went to Brazil, Germany, Italy, and as seen in the last final (#24) pictured to the left, Argentina, only 2010 and 2018 had none of those four at the decisive game. And Italy is the only one that can't try again this year, given they shamefully missed a third straight Cup.
19	Julián Quiñones	584,112	On June 11, this Colombian footballer scored the opening goal of #1 for Mexico.
20	Bharathiraja	577,931	A prolific Kollywood filmmaker who died at 84, known for realistic and sensitive portrayals of rural life.
21	Inde Navarrette	547,418	This American actress has received critical acclaim as the "stand-out" leading lady in #2, her first major horror film role. Others have said her performance has had the same impact on the genre as those in The Exorcist and Carrie.
22	Michael (2026 film)	546,297	After surpassing Bohemian Rhapsody as the highest-grossing musical biopic, Michael also beat Oppenheimer for biggest overall biopic. Joining The Super Mario Galaxy Movie as a billion dollar movie is a possibility, proving controversies and middling reviews haven't reduced public interest in #15 (played here by nephew Jaafar Jackson, along with a child actor for the Jackson 5 days).
23	Scary Movie (2026 film)	521,757	A more correct title would be the one to the left, but the name came from parodying the fifth Scream that also ditched the numbers. And that's far from the only spoof, which even goes for productions outside the horror movies that name the series (including their take on the above entry and a stoner version of KPop Demon Hunters!). Critics disapproved this disjointed approach that is not helped by uneven comedy that might target everything including the current political correctness, but mostly goes for heavy and dirty jokes the Wayans brothers like so much. Audiences mostly nostalgic for more Scary Movie made it a hit anyway, earning nearly $180 million costing only a sixth of that.
24	2022 FIFA World Cup	520,043	Ending with the before and the after of the article that started this list (right above the FIFA Men's World Ranking and some guy who pushed wealth inequality to the worst level), the previous edition of #4, hosted in a small nation thanks to its petrodollars - and in spite of the problems such as forcing the games to be played in November-December to avoid the scorching Middle East summer, had some great games like a final with 6 goals and penalty shooutous - and the next one that will be overtly complicated regarding hosts: instead of just having the centennial World Cup back in South America (1930 hosts Uruguay, plus Argentina and Paraguay), it will only be a few games there before crossing the ocean to three countries in two continents, Spain, Portugal and Morocco (the common line of thought was to use many continents to free 2034 to another Asian oil-rich country, Saudi Arabia, and indeed they got it... and there's the possibility of 2038 in North America again).
25	2030 FIFA World Cup	517,974

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.