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| 1 | David Lynch |  |
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A widely acclaimed filmmaker known for works full of mystery and surreal imagery such as the movies Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and the TV show Twin Peaks, David Lynch died at 78 as his already decayed health caused by emphysema (consequence of decades smoking) took a dive once he was forced to leave his Los Angeles home due to wildfires. Along with the directing gigs that even landed him an Academy Honorary Award, Lynch also worked on music, photography and literature, and also acted on occasion, such as a memorable appearance as John Ford on The Fabelmans. |
| 2 | MrBeast | |
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His reality competition show Beast Games, which is currently releasing weekly episodes on Amazon Prime Video, has become their most-streamed unscripted show in history. Despite its success, the show has received negative reviews from critics and some contestants alleged that they were mistreated during its production, with five of the contestants filing a class action lawsuit against MrBeast and his company. |
| 3 | Game Changer (film) |  |
1,160,501 |  |
Like past mainstay of this list Pushpa 2: The Rule, this is also from Tollywood, but a box-office bomb. This is the directorial debut of S. Shankar (pictured) in the Telugu industry but it ultimately became his fourth consecutive overall film to fail at box office. Yet, what really worries me is another film (from Kollywood) directed by him is releasing next week and its a sequel to the biggest disappointment of 2024. |
| 4 | Kumbh Mela |  |
1,079,008 |  |
An important Hindu pilgrimage that happens every 6 to 12 years, with the 2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela scheduled to take place from 13 January to 26 February at the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj. |
| 5 | Pete Hegseth | |
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#8's pick for the United States Secretary of Defense had his confirmation hearings this week. |
| 6 | Deaths in 2025 |  |
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From one of #1's movies: Turn off the sun; pull the stars from the sky The more I give to you, the more I die! |
| 7 | Pam Bondi | |
999,773 |  |
#8's pick for the United States Attorney General had her confirmation hearings this week. |
| 8 | Donald Trump | |
776,542 |  |
It’s been a long four years since Trump was last in the Oval Office, but, starting Monday, he will be sitting behind the Resolute desk once again. On his successful campaign to reclaim the Presidency, the 45th and 47th President sustained four indictments and 34 felony convictions, narrowly survived an assassination attempt at a rally by less than an inch, and kept going despite a swap at the top of the Democratic ticket. He won all seven battleground states and (narrowly) even the popular vote, robbing Grover Cleveland of his sole claim to fame in American history (before this point he was the only President elected to nonconsecutive terms). Whether you love him, loathe him, or simply don’t care about him, it’s indisputable that Trump definitely knows something about the art of the comeback! |
| 9 | Severance (TV series) | |
749,163 |  |
This American science fiction psychological thriller series, filmed mostly at Bell Labs (pictured), debuted on Apple TV+ in 2022. Its first season received 14 Emmy nominations but only won creative ones (title design and music). It was renewed for future seasons soon after the release of the first, the second of which premiered January 16. |
| 10 | Squid Game season 2 | |
699,841 |  |
Set three years after Seong Gi-hun won the Squid Game, he returns to the game in season 2 to stop them once and for all. Joining the cast are Park Sung-hoon as a transgender woman seeking a gender reassignment surgery, Im Si-wan as a former YouTube star who lost his fortune, Lee Jin-wook as a man trying to win the money for his cancer-battling daughter, Kang Ae-shim and Yang Dong-geun as mother and son who enter the game individually in a desperate bid to clear his debts just to find each other there, Choi Seung-hyun as a purple-haired rapper, known by his stage name "Thanos", and Jo Yu-ri as a heavily pregnant woman hoping to win enough money to support her baby as a single mother. The season garnered positive reviews and big viewership numbers, set record for highest premiere viewership for Netflix surpassing Wednesday season 1, and it is expected to be followed by the third and final season this year.|} |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Donald Trump | |
3,884,456 | |
On January 20, he was sworn in (#8) as the 47th President of the United States, taking over from Joe Biden. He immediately issued a series of executive orders to fulfil his agenda. They include withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreement, re-declaring a national emergency at the Mexico–United States border, directed the federal government to only recognize two genders, estabishing the Department of Government Efficiency to be headed by #6, rescinding artificial intelligence policy goals, reversed sanctions on Israeli settlers, pardoned around 1,200 January 6 defendants, commuted sentences for members of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, ordered the federal renaming of #9 to the "Gulf of America" and Denali back to Mount McKinley, and delayed a ban on TikTok by 75 days. An order to end birthright citizenship was quickly blocked by a federal judge. Several inspectors general were also informed of their immediate termination, which may be "inconsistent with the law" and subject to court challenge. |
| 2 | MrBeast | |
3,666,653 | |
From most-subscribed YouTube channel to most viewed show on Amazon Prime Video and now he's biding to buy TikTok. |
| 3 | JD Vance | |
2,319,253 |  |
The new Vice President, who prior to inauguration met his Chinese equivalent Han Zheng, and after getting in the role swore in Secretary of State Marco Rubio and cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. |
| 4 | Melania Trump |  |
2,173,494 |  |
The Slovenian First Lady and the Hindu American Second Lady of the United States. |
| 5 | Usha Vance | |
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| 6 | Elon Musk | |
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Elon Musk, Elon Musk. Why you choose that to greet me?
In a rally shortly after the inauguration (#8) of #1, the centibillionaire who will head DOGE saluted the crowd in a way that instantly caused a ruckus. His defenders and a few other organizations tried to claim it was not as it seemed, but as The Hollywood Reporter put it, "Sometimes a Nazi Salute is a Nazi Salute.” Then, on January 25, Musk made a surprise appearance via video link at a Alternative for Germany campaign rally, expressing his support for the far-right party. |
| 7 | Ross Ulbricht | |
1,840,003 |  |
Ulbricht created and operated Silk Road, a marketplace on the dark web in which illegal products and services could be traded. In October 2013, the website was shut down by the FBI and he was arrested. Ulbricht was serving a life imprisonment sentence when #1 granted him a full pardon. |
| 8 | Second inauguration of Donald Trump | |
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Due to freezing temperatures in DC, this was held inside the United States Capitol rotunda, the first indoors inauguration since the one for Reagan's reelection in 1985. Among the ones in attendance were all the living U.S. presidents, and lots of rich people - a much divulged picture had tech moguls #6, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai. |
| 9 | Gulf of Mexico | |
1,066,060 |  |
#1 signed an executive order to rename this to the "Gulf of America" for federal use. Even still, most of the world, including the majority of everyday Americans, will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 10 | Mariann Budde | |
1,061,367 |  |
As the Bishop of Washington, she gave a prayer service the day after #8, urging #1 to show mercy and compassion to vulnerable people, specifically citing the LGBTQ community, immigrants, and war refugees. #1 responded with insults and demanded an apology. |
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| 1 | DeepSeek | |
2,542,555 |  |
Actually, I’m not sure why I bother. In the end, it too will probably be Made in China.
An arms race to build the best large language model (LLM). OpenAI with ChatGPT, Google with Gemini, Microsoft with Copilot, character.ai, and so on. Established tech giants putting everything into AI. Billions of dollars and thousands of people working on LLMs. The U.S. president investing $500 billion in AI. An obscure Chinese company releasing DeepSeek. 20 times cheaper, 10 times less processing power, still just as good. People thinking, "Maybe we don't need to pump so much money into the industry?" A trillion-dollar stock market crash. |
| 2 | Karoline Leavitt | |
1,719,534 |  |
This gentlewoman is President #6's fifth White House Press Secretary, when including first-term predecessors Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephanie Grisham, and Kayleigh McEnany. Raised Catholic and hailing from the Live Free or Die state New Hampshire, she recently claimed that $50 million in taxpayer funds were to go to fund "condoms in Gaza". |
| 3 | 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision | |
1,585,882 |  |
On January 29, a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner collided mid-air with a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter of the United States Army over the Potomac River a half-mile (0.8 km) from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. All 67 people on board the two aircraft were killed in what was the deadliest air disaster on United States soil since 2009. |
| 4 | List of Super Bowl champions |  |
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As of this writing, a total of 20 franchises have won the NFL Super Bowl. The winner of each Super Bowl receives the famed Vince Lombardi Trophy. Super Bowl LIX next Sunday will have a repeat winner between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. |
| 5 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | |
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One more in the influential Kennedy Family, Mr. Robert F. K. Jr. is President #6's nominee for Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, highest-spending of all Government Departments by more than double the second-placed D. of Defense (see here; 2023 numbers). At a spunky 71 years young, environmental law and health topics have been among his interests; while appraising efforts like the Green New Deal and championing the adoption of solar-cell magic, he also denounces vaccines, claiming they cause autism. |
| 6 | Donald Trump | |
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Trump’s back (both in this report and to the presidency), and so are his tariffs. Several of his executive orders are being challenged in court such as the ones attempting to redefine birthright citizenship guaranteed under the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution and freeze federal spending. |
| 7 | Marianne Faithfull | |
1,052,186 |  |
An English singer and actress who died at the age of 78. Faithfull achieved popularity in the 1960s, with some help from The Rolling Stones (she dated Mick Jagger, co-wrote "Sister Morphine" with him, and he let Faithfull record "As Tears Go By" first, giving her a top 10 single), only for the following decade to have her face hardships, including laryngitis and drug abuse that led to what James Hetfield described as a "weathered, smellin'-the-cigarettes-on-the-CD voice" hauntingly employed in one of his songs. |
| 8 | Deaths in 2025 | |
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Speaking of said song: And can't the band play on? Just listen, they play my song Ash to ash Dust to dust Fade to black... |
| 9 | Royal Rumble (2025) | |
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WWE Royal Rumble 2025 held Lucas Oil Stadium at Indianapolis, Indiana. We shocked and surprised on the returning on the royal rumble like WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus, Nikki Bella, Alexa Bliss and many more. But, we didn't expect that AJ Lee not return on Royal Rumble. We didn't forget that IShowSpeed like... what the...?. We surprised too that in audience, RVD (Rob... Van... Dam!), Ron Simmons (Damn!) watching Royal Rumble too. 30 Men Royal Rumble, while Jey Uso and John Cena are fighting, we did not expect or was not in my bingo card! that Uso eliminated Cena and he will go and be the main event on WrestleMania 41. WWE Fans was disappointed too that in 30 Women Royal Rumble that Charlotte Flair has won, fans called "a predictable" and Flair will go on WrestleMania 41 too. I wonder if Drew Carey can go again on Royal Rumble just like he did on Royal 2001 Royal Rumble. Hmm... much worse. |
| 10 | Sky Force (film) | |
920,762 |  |
This Bollywood action drama film centred around India's first airstrike, the Sargodha airbase attack of Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani air war of 1965 was released last week coinciding with the Indian Republic Day weekend. The film stars Akshay Kumar in the lead role and is directed by Abhishek Anil Kapur and co-produced by Ambani's Jio Studios. It received positive reviews and has almost recovered its budget as of this writing. |
For the December 27 – January 27 period, per this database report.
| Title | Revisions | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 8 | 3725 | Kollywood didn't have a good 2024 with many expected films being met with criticism and becoming box-office bombs, line-up for 2025 isn't very promising either; but this reality show from Tamil Nadu which is part of the Big Brother franchise has made it here. The eighth season hosted by Vijay Sethupathi for the first time premiered on last October and concluded with the Finale on 19 January. |
| Deaths in 2025 | 2013 | New year, new notable deaths, and the two biggest of January 2025 were directors, the aforementioned David Lynch and Jeff Baena, which aside from one exception made a few unconventional comedies featuring his wife Aubrey Plaza. |
| January 2025 Southern California wildfires | 1920 | California has been hit by extreme weather in the last decade, with an extensive drought from 2011 to 2017, floods last year, and now a combination of dry weather and strong winds leading to massive fires in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. 27 people died and hundreds of thousands were forced to evacuate, many of whom wound up losing their homes as the flames destroyed lots of buildings. |
| 2025 New Orleans truck attack | 1547 | At around 3:15 a.m. on January 1, a man drove a pickup truck into a crowd celebrating the New Year in New Orleans, then engaged in a shootout with police before being shot dead. Fifteen people were killed, including the perpetrator (identified as Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar) and 35 more wounded. According to investigators, the perpetrator had been radicalized in 2024, and pledged allegiance to Islamic State in the minutes before the attack. |
| Jeju Air Flight 2216 | 1506 | Jeju Air Flight 2216 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by Jeju Air from Bangkok, Thailand to Muan International Airport in South Korea. On December 29, the aircraft operating the flight landed on its second attempt with no landing gear, possibly due to damage from a bird strike. It skidded down the runway, overrunning it and crashed into an embankment, where it immediately burst into flames. Out of the 181 occupants, two cabin crew survived. |
| Margaret Sanger | 1475 | Noleander did extensive work on the page for the Planned Parenthood founder so it could become a Good Article. |
| Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) season 18 | 1246 | We mentioned the Kollywood Big Brother, here's the Bollywood one. |
| Donald Trump | 1061 | Four more years with this guy splitting his time between Mar-a-Lago and the White House. |
| 2024–25 NFL playoffs | 918 | The lead-up to Super Bowl LIX ended up in a slightly disappointing match-up that is also a rerun of the 2023 edition, namely the Philadelphia Eagles facing the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs. At least there will be Kendrick Lamar at the half-time show! |
| Bigg Boss Kannada season 11 | 895 | Again, the Sandalwood Big Brother (there are eight Indian versions of the famed reality show). |
| 2025 Australian Open – Men's singles | 854 | Jannik Sinner successfully defended his title in Melbourne, postponing the dream Alexander Zverev has of a first Grand Slam. |
| 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election | 850 | Justin Trudeau, who's been prime minister of Canada since 2015, announced on January 6 his pending resignation, to take effect once his party elects a new leader on March 9. His announcement came after a series of by-election losses and the resignation of several members of his cabinet in 2024, most notably his deputy Chrystia Freeland, which triggered the 2024–2025 Canadian political crisis. |
| 2025 | 795 | All is quiet on New Year's Day A world in white gets underway I want to be with you Be with you night and day Nothing changes on New Year's Day... |
| Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter | 794 | 39th president of the United States Jimmy Carter died on December 29, 2024. His state funeral took place from January 4 to 9, starting in his home state of Georgia, where his body laid in repose at the Carter Center from January 4 to 7. His body was then flown to the capital, where it laid in state in the United States Capitol rotunda until January 9, when a state funeral service was conducted at Washington National Cathedral, attended by the Carter family as well as domestic and foreign dignitaries. After the service, his remains were transported to the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter House in Plains, Georgia, where Carter lived for decades and spent his final years, for a private burial. |
| Palisades Fire (2025) | 793 | The most affected area of the aforementioned wildfire was Pacific Palisades, which were basically all burned down, destroying homes of celebrities and commoners alike. |
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