Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/March 7 to 13, 2021

The Top 25 Report

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 7 to 13, 2021)

Prepared with commentary by Mcrsftdog, Igordebraga, SecretName101

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You know it's a good Report when half of the entries are about a single media event. It's a welcome change of pace - especially since it means we don't have to try and explain what an NFT is.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Meghan, Duchess of Sussex	3,328,817	Meghan married Harry (sixth in line to the British throne) in 2018; by 2020, the couple was making plans to leave the royal family and move to America. On Monday, a tell-all interview with Oprah aired, with Meghan and Harry detailed the racism faced from the British press and the royal family itself. As expected when the monarchy enters the news, lots of its members earned entries on the Report, including the previous highly publicized case of problems within the royal family, Harry's mother - but when Diana left, she went alone, without Charles.
2	Elizabeth II	1,853,347
3	Diana, Princess of Wales	1,692,599
4	Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex	1,605,555
5	Charles, Prince of Wales	1,240,394
6	Coming 2 America	1,145,665	Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall are back as two members of an African royal family (plus a lot of extra roles!) in the sequel to 1989's Coming to America, which hit Amazon Prime Video and has had a divisive reception.
7	WandaVision	1,011,725	The final episode aired last week, which means that the Report has a brief respite from weekly Marvel movies (brief being the operative word - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier airs its first episode next week.)
8	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	957,570	The Commonwealth's prince consort has been in the hospital for nearly a month; currently, he's recovering from a successful heart operation. His spot on this list probably owes more to #1 than anything else.
9	Deaths in 2021	891,714	The game of life is hard to play I'm gonna lose it, anyway...
10	Piers Morgan	858,927	The controversial TV personality was formerly a friend of #1. After the interview, he went on air doubting her claims; he refused to apologize, and was soon forced off Good Morning Britain.
11	UFC 259	783,204	Happening on Saturday night ensured even higher views on Sunday for the latest MMA event.
12	International Women's Day	769,030	This holiday was created by early-20th-century socialists, and a strike on IWD 1917 started the February Revolution. Since then, it's been adopted by second-wave feminism, and was observed by major corporations this Monday.
13	Archie Mountbatten-Windsor	758,218	#1's son and mother.
14	Doria Ragland	756,806	#1's son and mother.
15	Prince William, Duke of Cambridge	694,110	Responding to #1's claims, William said that the royal family is "very much not a racist family."
16	Raya and the Last Dragon	685,949	In the words of Honest Trailers, "If you can't choose between spending thirty bucks on Raya and the Last Dragon or groceries..."
17	Wu Lien-teh	652,492	We've been dealing with this godforsaken pandemic for the past year - depending on where you live, you either just passed or are coming up on lockdowniversary. The N95 mask that's helped so many through this was pioneered by Wu, whose birthday (this Wednesday) was commemorated with a Google Doodle.
18	Kike	632,312	Meyers Leonard, a player for the Miami Heat, used the slur during a heated gaming moment while streaming on Twitch, resulting in a $50,000 fine and a week's suspension.
19	George VI	578,457	#2's father, who rose to the throne after his brother caused a ruckus for marrying a divorced American - #1 was the same when getting hitched to #4, but society had grown more acceptive by then.
20	Oprah Winfrey	542,086	You get an entry, you get an entry, you get an entry, everybody gets an entry!
21	Thomas Markle	526,943	#1's father, who is not the owner of the jewelry to the left - it's just that we lack pictures of the man.
22	Prince Andrew, Duke of York	492,687	#2's son, has stepped back from public engagements because of his connections with Jeffrey Epstein.
23	Elizabeth Olsen	473,555	#7's end means people will need to get their fix of its lovely star elsewhere. (it's even worse for those who want the Scarlet Witch instead of just Elizabeth, given her next movie is still a year away)
24	Eddie Murphy	470,981	#6 is Murphy's newest hit movie, albeit relegated to streaming, and without the glowing praise of his previous "web cinema" release.
25	Elon Musk	461,467	He explained why Starship SN10 exploded and also saw his fortune grow even bigger. And after the week covered by this report, named himself "Technoking of Tesla"!

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 7 to 13, 2021)

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.