Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 21 to 27, 2026)

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Prepared with commentary by .

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	2026 FIFA World Cup	7,055,972	The past 7 World Cups, with 32 teams, had 64 games overall. This one expanded to 48 squads had 72 matches in the group stage alone. The downsides were pretty clear, with teams being terrible (newcomers Uzbekistan and Jordan lost all games, as did Tunisia, Iraq, Haiti and Panama - the last one also managing to be only team with no goals in the entire tournament!) or underwhelming (once traditional Czechia left with only a draw, two time champions Uruguay had no wins, and Turkey only played well and won in a game they entered already eliminated) leading to matches with little or no scoring - even more when right after the goal and ensuing celebration, VAR comes in and removes it, even costing a qualifying spot! But otherwise it's providing fun and emotion for football fans everywhere, specially on blowout wins or teams pulling off upsets - the same Ecuador that failed to score goals on Curaçao beat four time champions Germany!
2	Andy Burnham	1,752,739	4th times a charm for ol' Andy Burnham. The former Mayor of Greater Manchester returned to Westminster after a nine-year absence in a closely watched by-election which many saw as merely a formality in order to become Labour leader and Prime Minister. Burnham ran for Labour leadership in 2010 and 2015 previously and was seen as planning a comeback earlier this year when he tried to stand as Labour's candidate in the 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election. Labour's National Executive Committee, attempting to protect a challenge to #13's leadership, blocked his candidacy. The scandal that followed allowed the Green Party to secure its first by-election win and caused it to skyrocket in opinion polls. Burnham is (at least currently) viewed as a affable, competent and popular alternative to the current PM, especially following his work turning around the Greater Manchester area, with an ideology aptly named Manchesterism. Whether Manchesterism can be applied nationwide remains to be seen.
3	Lionel Messi	1,412,019
4	FIFA World Cup	1,369,195
5	Cape Verde	1,330,323	An archipelago of less than 500,000 people that got its independence from Portugal in 1975, and most of the world only really discovered at #1. Riding the heroics of goalkeeper Vozinha, the "Blue Sharks" tied three games against former champions Spain and Uruguay and future hosts Saudi Arabia and managed to qualify for the knockout rounds in their first World Cup! They're facing right away the Argentina of #3, but even if they fall it was already a historic run.
6	2026 FIFA World Cup knockout stage	1,272,782	Due to #1 having 48 teams, the playoffs were expanded to have a round of 32 and returned the repechage that qualified teams that finished third in the group stage. This led to the first knockout appearances of co-hosts Canada, the Bosnian squad they tied in their first game, and five African squads, three surprises (#5, South Africa and DR Congo) and two who had bad luck in their previous three Cup appearances (Ivory Coast and Egypt). The round of 32 starts with Canada x South Africa on Sunday, and then three games every day from Monday to Friday, leading to the round of 16 starting on a Saturday that is a national holiday in another host.
7	Cristiano Ronaldo	1,207,004
8	List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers	1,124,399	Took until the 21st century for Gerd Müller getting 14 across 1970 and 1974 (as champion in the latter) to be overcame. First with a Brazilian in Germany and a German in Brazil, namely Ronaldo (who unlike the Portuguese Ronaldo, has managed to both win a Cup and be its top scorer) in 2006 and then Miroslav Klose in 2014 (worth noting that Klose was born in Poland, and surpassed the Brazilian scoring against Brazil). And now #3 got to the top of the list with 6 in just three games of #1 that led to an overall tally of 19, that might only grow.
9	Erling Haaland	1,063,378
10	Deaths in 2026	941,359	From the catalog of 19's famous protégé: I need you here, I need you here to wipe away my tears, To kiss away my fears, no If you only knew, How much I wanna run to you...
11	I Will Find You (miniseries)	930,151
12	Supergirl (2026 film)	909,092	I'm Supergirl, and I'm here to save the world, but I wanna know, who's gonna save me? After a memorable cameo in last year's Superman, Milly Alcock gets a whole movie of her as Kara Zor-El, the cousin of the Man of Steel who in the DCU continuity is less concerned with helping the innocent than drink and party until she forgets all her traumas, before she's forced to revise her values facing a gang that poisoned her dog Krypto. Reviews were mixed deeming parts of the story quite familiar, and remains to be seen how well Supergirl will perform compared to its $170 million budget.
13	Keir Starmer	898,292	The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announced his resignation on June 26, stepping down from that role and as leader of the Labour Party. The honeymoon was short for the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. Despite winning a landslide victory in the 2024 United Kingdom general election, Starmer's feckless leadership has caused his personal popularity and that of Labour to tank. The beginning of the end came during the 2026 United Kingdom local elections, when Labour lost over a thousand local council seats, primarily to the right-wing Reform UK. When Starmer initially refused to step down, it opened up a leadership crisis within the party. After the results of the Makerfield by-election, Starmer relented and stepped down, expected to be replaced by #2 in Number 10 before you know it.
14	Kylian Mbappé	877,245	The most likely candidate to eventually surpass #3 at the top spot of #8 as he already tied Miroslav Klose for second place. France scored ten goals at #1 so far, with Mbappé accounting for four of them (Ousmane Dembélé is also responsible for four, whilst Bradley Barcola and Désiré Doué scored one each).
15	Obsession (2025 film)	877,028
16	Amelia Dimoldenberg	805,724	The most recent episode of Chicken Shop Date brought the viewers here, as Amelia left her date Zara Larsson cracking up with her Wikipedia photo, which has since been updated (you can see the old photo to the left).
17	Toy Story 5	790,055	Pixar managed to pull off for the second time continuing well what seemed like the definite ending of Toy Story 3. Little Bonnie keeps on playing with Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and all the gang, but once she receives a tablet, things get difficult for the toys to the point Sheriff Woody returns after leaving by the end of the fourth movie, in a story discussing society being overreliant on technology, and how the obsession with screens is not the best thing for children, specially regarding virtual relationships compared to true friendships. All with all the funny and emotional moments Pixar does so well. Hence very positive reviews and theaters bringing in audiences ranging from adults that have seen everything since the original 31 years ago to children that might've not been born when the fourth was released in 2019, leading to Pixar's best ever opening of $310.2 million world. Hard to not see Toy Story 5 joining The Super Mario Galaxy Movie as the second billion dollar movie of the year!
18	Lamine Yamal	724,590
19	Clive Davis	657,145
20	FIFA Men's World Ranking	637,705
21	Voicemails for Isabelle	602,241
22	List of FIFA World Cup finals	590,046
23	Curaçao	579,081
24	Sebastián Beccacece	579,355
25	Wyndham Clark	573,018

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.