Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

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The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 20 to 26, 2025)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, CAWylie, Ollieisanerd, and Shuipzv3.

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Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Ozzy Osbourne	9,742,896	"My father always said I would do something big one day. 'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers. 'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.' And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday." But afterwards he formed one of the most influential bands of rock n' roll, Black Sabbath, and after being fired from the group in 1979, Ozzy started an equally successful solo career, and because of his contributions to music and showmanship based on scary imagery he earned the nicknames "Godfather of Heavy Metal" and "Prince of Darkness". In the meantime Ozzy had a colourful life marked by more imprisonment, tons of drugs, weird stories like the one where he bit the head of a bat on stage, and showing the peculiarities of his family in the reality show The Osbournes. Advanced Parkinson's led Ozzy to organize earlier this month a massive farewell concert in his native Birmingham, Back to the Beginning, that raised over £140 million for charities, and 17 days later he died at the age of 76, leaving behind an extensive body of work (counting just studio albums, 7 with Sabbath and 13 solo!), 6 children and many grandchildren.
2	Hulk Hogan	4,940,939	Terry Gene Bollea was one of the biggest wrestlers ever under the ring name Hulk Hogan (derived from one time where he appeared alongside TV Hulk Lou Ferrigno, and Vince McMahon wanting a wrestler with an Irish surname), even extending his career to movies - he fought Rocky Balboa, threatened the Gremlins, and starred in questionable productions like Santa with Muscles and Suburban Commando - and reality shows. He died at 71 of cardiac arrest, and obituaries noted how Hogan's last 15 years tarnished his legacy with controversies like a sex tape, racist tirades and endorsing Donald Trump.
3	Malcolm-Jamal Warner	4,115,373	On July 20, this American actor, best known for his work on The Cosby Show, was swimming with his daughter off a beach in Limón Province, Costa Rica, when they got caught in a rip tide. Two surfers tried to help them to safety; Warner's daughter was saved, but CPR efforts failed to revive him and he was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 54 years old.
4	Superman (2025 film)	1,956,197	DC and Marvel face off in theaters with two restarts for some of their most iconic superheroes that are included in a bigger franchise. Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman starts the DC Universe in a movie helmed by the same James Gunn who helped Marvel get massive hits out of the obscure Guardians of the Galaxy. "Marvel's First Family" of Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm enters the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a 1960s period piece set in a parallel universe (though between the post-credits scene of Thunderbolts* and the cast being confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday, where the menace is the F4's archenemy in the comics, a trip to the MCU's Earth is a certainty!), directed by Matt Shakman after he made the MCU's first Disney+ show. Both movies were praised for being colorful and idealistic while also featuring threatening villains, and are making all the money possible at the box office.
5	The Fantastic Four: First Steps	1,869,467
6	Saiyaara	1,571,767	This relatively low-budget Indian musical romance film was released on July 18 to mixed and positive reviews. It is directed by Mohit Suri (pictured) and stars Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda. The film has quickly become a box office success at a time when Indian films with fairly unknown actors rarely break even. Saiyaara is currently the second highest grossing Indian and Hindi film of the year.
7	Sharon Osbourne	1,547,665	SHAROOOOON! #1 started dating his manager in 1981, she became his second wife, they had three children (#14, #15, #21), and Sharon helped Ozzy both get clean from substance abuse and earn lots of money from actions such as the creation of the Ozzfest festival.
8	Deaths in 2025	1,199,871	Out of many fitting songs from #1: "Death is so final for only the living The spirit will always remain Bury me deep just to cover my sins My soul is redeemed as the journey begins..."
9	Jeffrey Epstein	1,191,092	The matter of the Jeffrey Epstein client list continues to haunt US president Donald Trump, who is still struggling to contain the fallout. Thomas Massie, a Republican representative from Kentucky, attempted to get a majority to sign a petition to ultimately force a vote on releasing the files, but this was blocked by speaker Mike Johnson, who placed the House of Representatives into recess several days earlier than scheduled, delaying the vote until September. On July 22, Trump abruptly ended a call with a CNN reporter after he was questioned about photographs with Epstein taken in the 1990s. The next day, with a lawsuit from Trump still pending, The Wall Street Journal reported that the United States Department of Justice told Trump in May about his name being in the files. On July 25, Trump contradicted his attorney general Pam Bondi's claim that she had briefed him about his naming in the files, while also denying that he had been to "Epstein Island".
10	Happy Gilmore 2	1,169,220	Adam Sandler named his production company Happy Madison after the two breakout movies following his departure from Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison. The former, about an unsuccessful hockey player who manages to translate his strong swing into a golf career, became the latest to get into the wave of revival sequels, with a second movie that hit Netflix 30 years after the original was in theaters.
11	Black Sabbath	1,118,127	In late 1960s Birmingham, four working class musicians got together to record what they described as "horror films turned into music", to the point their band is named after a scary movie. The result created heavy metal music with seminal songs like "Paranoid", "N.I.B." and "Iron Man", and guitarist Tony Iommi (whose distinctive guitar tone was created to compensate for lost fingertips!) kept the band alive for decades even replacing members, most famously the singer at #1 for Ronnie James Dio and Tony Martin, until a farewell tour in 2017, aside from reuniting the original quartet (Ozzy, Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward) for Ozzy's farewell concert.
12	Chuck Mangione	1,049,805	One final celebrity death this week in the form of the American jazz musician who died on Tuesday aged 84. Mangione was best known for his 1978 jazz instrumental "Feels So Good", which achieved chart success in many countries. He later found more fame in the '90s after voicing himself in the animated sitcom King of the Hill for nine episodes.
13	Scottie Scheffler	1,013,913	This American golfer has spent the past 115 weeks ranked world number one. On July 20, he won the Open Championship, placing him with Tiger Woods as the only other person to win the Open while holding that ranking.
14	Aimee Osbourne	959,996	#1 and #7's daughters, both of whom became singers. Aimee is the lesser known one given she refused to take part in The Osbournes. Kelly launched her career from that reality show, and her duet with daddy covering #11's "Changes" became Ozzy's only #1 hit in the UK.
15	Kelly Osbourne	906,799
16	Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley	903,510	In March 1998, a 23-year-old American woman was on a Royal Caribbean cruise aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas (pictured in 2018) with her parents and brother. She disappeared without a trace from the ship when it was about to dock in Curaçao. Police investigations ruled out the possibility that she fell overboard and drowned or that she disappeared voluntarily, but failed to locate her. On July 16, 2025, a three-part documentary series titled Amy Bradley Is Missing was released on Netflix; on July 25, YouTuber Ethan Klein announced he will pay a reward of US$1,000,000 for any information leading to the return of Bradley and her potential children, after learning about the case from the documentary.
17	Ghislaine Maxwell	885,888	The former associate of #9, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee for child sex trafficking and other offences, faces a second trial for perjury in relation to Epstein's abuse of underage girls. On July 23, a House subcommittee voted for Maxwell to be deposed in relation to the Epstein files. On July 24 and 25, Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general appointed by Trump and who represented Trump in the 2024 hush money criminal case, met with Maxwell in which she was given limited immunity. Blanche had previously called Maxwell's lawyer a "friend". When asked if he would pardon Maxwell, Trump replied that he was allowed to, but he hadn't thought about it.
18	ChatGPT	830,177	Release your mind Fast forward to the secrets of your code Your life's on overload Delete or save...
19	Untamed (miniseries)	825,063	This Netflix murder mystery set in Yosemite National Park was released on July 17. This week, the series was renewed for a second season, following strong viewership numbers and critical reviews. Untamed debuted at number one on the site's global Top 10 English language shows chart for the week of July 14–20. Within a few days, the series had 24.6 million views (defined as total hours viewed divided by total runtime), more than double the numbers for the documentary about #16.
20	2022 University of Idaho murders	801,818	On July 3, Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students, pleaded guilty to all charges, avoiding the death penalty. On July 23, he was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole plus 10 years for burglary.
21	Jack Osbourne	744,190	The youngest son of #1 and #7, who after appearing in The Osbournes as a hard-partying teen who constantly fought with #15, has since pursued a career as a fitness and travel reporter.
22	Michelle Thomas	723,044	This American television actress of the 1980s and 1990s died from stomach cancer in 1998. She was a longtime friend, Cosby co-star, and former boyfriend of #3, who was at her bedside in her later days.
23	Vanessa Kirby	674,772	The Invisible Woman of #5, who already has in her filmography an Oscar nomination for Pieces of a Woman, a royal role in The Crown, and a few blockbusters like Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (the latter had its Part 2 earlier this year, where Kirby appears only in archive footage). During the promotional circuit for First Steps Kirby is grabbing extra attention for being pregnant like her character (wonder if she'll also call the baby Franklin!).
24	Jurassic World Rebirth	651,837	Scarlett Johansson and dinosaurs (including some weird hybrids, namely a pack of winged Velociraptors, and a giant deformed Tyrannosaurus with Alien and Rancor characteristics), a combination that was enough to draw in a sizeable audience. Whether viewers found it a good movie is another story (after all the first Jurassic Park is the only one people don't complain about).
25	Brooke Hogan	635,553	Keeping off I Know What You Did Last Summer is the daughter of #2 who followed him into wrestling, while also singing and showing off Hulk's overprotective side in the reality show Hogan Knows Best.

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.