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The Top 50 Report – 2018

The most viewed articles weekly are a regular feature, the yearly list has had its third entry, and again we have the most viewed article each day, thanks to our data man West.andrew.g (who provided a daily top 5). Along with the big stories, deaths and cultural products of the year, the list also has entries regarding holidays, and whatever either receives a Google Doodle (27 entries) or a topic with an interesting hook on Reddit (26 entries).

Most viewed article of the day

Key
Reddit
Google
Television
Film
Other entertainment
Sports
Politics
In the news
History
Death
Holiday

Bold: Led the week's Top 25

January

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Jan. 1	Britney Spears	323,299	97
Jan. 2	Aokigahara	315,950	66
Jan. 3	Logan Paul	287,678	66
Jan. 4	Trash interceptor (Reddit)	282,274	33
Jan. 5	Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe) (Reddit)	327,904	41
Jan. 6	Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe) (Reddit)	292,094	41
Jan. 7	Genie (feral child) (Reddit)	369,387	50
Jan. 8	Fearless Nadia (Doodle)	376,183	58
Jan. 9	Har Gobind Khorana (Doodle)	1,692,497	30
Jan. 10	Robert Gould Shaw (Reddit)	351,777	23
Jan. 11	Prisencolinensinainciusol (Reddit)	215,471	34
Jan. 12	Tonya Harding	416,637	83
Jan. 13	Zhou Youguang(Doodle)	513,420	43
Jan. 14	Schöningen spears (Reddit)	485,857	38
Jan. 15	Dolores O'Riordan	930,052	60
Jan. 16		973,808	60
Jan. 17		273,784*	59
Jan. 18	Gianni Versace	413,068	83
Jan. 19	Alan Alda (Reddit)	269,869	34
Jan. 20	Government shutdowns in the United States	305,046	74
Jan. 21	UFC 220	488,675	67
Jan. 22	Sergei Eisenstein (Doodle)	984,616	31
Jan. 23	90th Academy Awards	312,489	51
Jan. 24	USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal	314,540	48
Jan. 25	Virginia Woolf (Doodle)	1,252,268	36
Jan. 26	Siskiwit Lake (Isle Royale) (Reddit)	607,246	44
Jan. 27	Caroline Wozniacki	438,858	81
Jan. 28	Roger Federer	716,998	79
Jan. 29	Royal Rumble (2018)	1,617,394	60
Jan. 30	Mark Salling	389,106	58
Jan. 31	Joe Kennedy III	933,718	78

February

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Feb. 1	Kamala Surayya	423,154	50
Feb. 2	Groundhog Day	320,977	58
Feb. 3	Larry Nassar	258,622	73
Feb. 4	Tom Brady	333,794	82
Feb. 5	Nick Foles	1,463,689	83
Feb. 6	John Mahoney	563,489	64
Feb. 7	Elon Musk	786,327	65
Feb. 8	Elon Musk	413,193	66
Feb. 9	2018 Winter Olympics	360,047	49
Feb. 10	2018 Winter Olympics	379,144	62
Feb. 11	UFC 221	314,164	66
Feb. 12	2018 Winter Olympics	332,074	47
Feb. 13	Chloe Kim	407,709	72
Feb. 14	Shaun White	1,398,653	82
Feb. 15	Columbine High School Massacre (Reddit, or Parkland)	324,581	75
Feb. 16	Black Panther (film)	577,932	70
Feb. 17		680,575	75
Feb. 18		726,579	75
Feb. 19	Sylvester Stallone (death hoax)	1,649,732	89
Feb. 20	Sylvester Stallone (death hoax)	664,639	87
Feb. 21	Billy Graham	775,078	66
Feb. 22	Billy Graham	575,330	70
Feb. 23	Black Panther (film)	316,353	67
Feb. 24	Emma Chambers	377,476	79
Feb. 25	Sridevi	3,210,922	88
Feb. 26		1,140,712	76
Feb. 27		718,388	79
Feb. 28		821,450	80

March

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Mar 1	Jared Fogle (Reddit)	555,901	47
Mar 2	Holi	854,753	74
Mar 3	Artimus Pyle (Reddit)	303,267	39
Mar 4	Davide Astori	485,261	76
Mar 5	90th Academy Awards	976,389	45
Mar 6	Gabriel García Márquez (Doodle)	473,510	42
Mar 7	Honey Badger (Reddit)	315,807	35
Mar 8	International Women's Day	703,758	70
Mar 9	2018 Winter Paralympics	389,526	65
Mar 10	Black Panther (film)	207,209	75
Mar 11	Black Panther (film)	265,608	75
Mar 12	William Henry Perkin (Doodle)	780,161	38
Mar 13	Gina Haspel	465,407	45
Mar 14	Stephen Hawking	6,945,343	73
Mar 15		2,053,188	74
Mar 16		658,114	73
Mar 17	Saint Patrick's Day	976,137	78
Mar 18	Saint Patrick's Day	410,870	86
Mar 19	Stephen Hawking	302,220	70
Mar 20	Nowruz	210,188	24
Mar 21	Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (Reddit)	356,360	48
Mar 22	Katsuko Saruhashi (Doodle)	858,441	53
Mar 23	John R. Bolton	422,357	59
Mar 24	White Rose (Reddit)	238,229	32
Mar 25	Farooq Sheikh (Doodle)	178,182	66
Mar 26:	Chipko Movement (Doodle)	1,157,949	74
Mar 27	Stormy Daniels	181,500	71
Mar 28	Hannah Glasse (Doodle)	452,396	15
Mar 29	Roseanne	157,557	62
Mar 30	Good Frida y	342,979	73
Mar 31	Anandi Gopal Joshi (Doodle)	523,046	48

April

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Apr. 1	April Fools' Day	433,481	84
Apr. 2	Jesus Christ Superstar	601,831	82
Apr. 3	John Harrison (Doodle)	412,783	20
Apr. 4	Maya Angelou (Doodle)	410,862	30
Apr. 5	A Quiet Place (film)	222,514	64
Apr. 6		341,421	70
Apr. 7		379,420	78
Apr. 8	Patrick Reed	728,763	90
Apr. 9	Wrestlemania 34	1,533,424	69
Apr. 10	Omar Sharif (Doodle)	686,499	23
Apr. 11	Glenn Quinn	626,952	88
Apr. 12	A Quiet Place (film)	213,838	66
Apr. 13	India at the 2018 Commonwealth Games	231,828	71
Apr. 14	India at the 2018 Commonwealth Games	316,057	81
Apr. 15	Jeffrey Dahmer (Reddit)	301,916	46
Apr. 16	R. Lee Ermey	1,377,752	67
Apr. 17	Harry Anderson	522,064	64
Apr. 18	Barbara Bush	1,175,859	72
Apr. 19	Dale Winton	340,150	74
Apr. 20	Avicii	2,685,407	74
Apr. 21	Avicii	2,659,351	81
Apr. 22	Verne Troyer	1,090,406	82
Apr. 23	Avicii	403,855	62
Apr. 24	Avengers: Infinity War	443,674	64
Apr. 25		887,616	66
Apr. 26		979,322	66
Apr. 27		1,414,432	71
Apr. 28		1,231,458	76
Apr. 29		1,225,515	76
Apr. 30		1,180,594	67

May

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
May 1	Avengers: Infinity War	875,384	70
May 2		698,756	67
May 3		577,168	68
May 4		541,949	69
May 5		583,940	75
May 6		615,321	75
May 7		533,037	67
May 8	Met Gala	604,619	80
May 9	Avengers: Infinity War	365,537	68
May 10	Angad Bedi	367,342	87
May 11	Avengers: Infinity War	323,203	69
May 12	Blendo (Reddit)	369,316	58
May 13	Eurovision Song Contest 2017	472,605	58
May 14	Margot Kidder	403,696	57
May 15	Meghan Markle	450,944	74
May 16	Tamara de Lempicka (Doodle)	543,955	19
May 17	Meghan Markle/Meghan, Duchess of Sussex	588,330	75
May 18		955,267	76
May 19		6,274,322*	85
May 20		3,899,103*	85
May 21		2,021,250*	76
May 22		1,165,770*	77
May 23		642,928*	75
May 24		313997	79
May 25	James Wong Howe (Doodle)	516,269	31
May 26	Loris Karius :(	432,603	82
May 27	Loris Karius :(	311,837	74
May 28	LeBron James	403,758	84
May 29	Valerie Jarrett	598,247	60
May 30		742,426	70
May 31		238,295	70

Page views for Meghan Markle and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex are combined.

June

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
June 1	LeBron James	236,574	81
June 2	Ye (album)	130,742	66
June 3	Black Speech (Reddit)	156,075	44
June 4	Tom Longboat (Doodle)	487,781	22
June 5	Kate Spade	2,098,655	62
June 6	Kate Spade	1,259,892	76
June 7	Virginia Apgar (Doodle)	1,088,103	44
June 8	Anthony Bourdain	3,946,019	74
June 9		2,122,611	82
June 10		691,488	79
June 11		463,263	69
June 12	Kim Jong-Un	505,353	73
June 13	2018 FIFA World Cup	336,908	54
June 14		813,766	58
June 15		708,285	63
June 16		610,159	68
June 17		623,212	69
June 18	XXXTentacion	1,551,439	80
June 19		3,793,538	81
June 20		944,361	77
June 21	2018 FIFA World Cup	595,170	53
June 22		600,543	53
June 23		598,915	62
June 24		725,606	63
June 25		708,816	49
June 26		710,502	50
June 27		938,488	52
June 28		856,100	51
June 29	Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (Doodle)	716,882	48
June 30	Kylian Mbappé	791,834	86

July

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Jul 1	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Doodle)	670,947	43
Jul 2	LeBron James	627,128	80
Jul 3	2018 FIFA World Cup	589,473	54
Jul 4	Independence Day (United States)	436,070	76
Jul 5	2018 FIFA World Cup	237,882	50
Jul 6		531,807	60
Jul 7		634,106	66
Jul 8	UFC 226	379,712	67
Jul 9	Hailey Baldwin	654,513	80
Jul 10	Brett Kavanaugh	1,573,674	73
Jul 11	Croatia	733,706	73
Jul 12	Croatia	702,093	70
Jul 13	John Isner	452,361	82
Jul 14	2018 FIFA World Cup	409,915	67
Jul 15	Croatia	1,106,759	87
Jul 16	Extreme Rules (2018)	443,834	72
Jul 17	Great Pyramid of Cholula (Reddit)	364,803	58
Jul 18	Nelson Mandela	235,300	72
Jul 19	Rowan Atkinson (death hoax)	403,831	89
Jul 20	Rowan Atkinson (death hoax)	185352	89
Jul 21	Ariel Castro kidnappings (Reddit)	236,575	53
Jul 22	Francesco Molinari	215,781	87
Jul 23	Clay Shirky (Reddit)	243,693	44
Jul 24	Demi Lovato (Overdose)	518,400	77
Jul 25		1,143,594	83
Jul 26		398,924	84
Jul 27	July 2018 lunar eclipse	860,616	93
Jul 28	July 2018 lunar eclipse	212,745	93
Jul 29	Mission: Impossible - Fallout	262,565	78
Jul 30	Brian Christopher	175,551	72
Jul 31	Jack (baboon) (Reddit)	187,817	51

August

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Aug 1	Gerda Taro (Doodle)	565,644	21
Aug 2	Mission: Impossible - Fallout	117,319	70
Aug 3	Rick Genest	416,110	75
Aug 4	Fearless Girl (Reddit)	169,148	57
Aug 5	Chuckle Brothers	389,537	85
Aug 6	Charlotte Rae	155,909	67
Aug 7	M. Karunanidhi	591,760	81
Aug 8	M. Karunanidhi	585,727	82
Aug 9	Mary G. Ross (Doodle)	423,691	16
Aug 10	Allen Funt	145,387	31
Aug 11	Richard Klinkhamer (Reddit)	219,283	49
Aug 12	Brooks Koepka	358,861	90
Aug 13	Brooks Koepka	444,456	81
Aug 14	Aretha Franklin	517,205	82
Aug 15		351,287	82
Aug 16		1,926,343	71
Aug 17		1,455,870	74
Aug 18	Nick Jonas	543,253	92
Aug 19	Nick Jonas	483,274	92
Aug 20	SummerSlam (2018)	768,268	73
Aug 21	Ismat Chughtai (Doodle)	286,509	39
Aug 22	Stefán Karl Stefánsson	420,061	69
Aug 23	Asia Argento	181,301	69
Aug 24	Scott Morrison	388,415	62
Aug 25	KSI vs. Logan Paul	202,442	73
Aug 26	John McCain	2,487,396	79
Aug 27		911,068	67
Aug 28		419,547	67
Aug 29		371,369	67
Aug 30		489,639	70
Aug 31		498,386	72

September

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Sep 1	John McCain	1,009,833	81
Sep 2	John McCain	482,313	76
Sep 3	Labor Day	370,254	72
Sep 4	Colin Kaepernick	316,354	73
Sep 5	Colin Kaepernick	341,859	73
Sep 6	Burt Reynolds	1,723,166	74
Sep 7	Burt Reynolds	1,827,253	78
Sep 8	Mac Miller	2,140,912	84
Sep 9	Naomi Osaka	919,235	75
Sep 10	Naomi Osaka	446,373	62
Sep 11	September 11 attack	812,839	57
Sep 12	September 11 attack	374,973	72
Sep 13	Audie Murphy (Reddit)	239,205	53
Sep 14	The Predator (film)	225,101	66
Sep 15	M. Visvesvaraya (Doodle)	675,833	75
Sep 16	Gennady Golovkin	421,219	87
Sep 17	Hell in a Cell (2018)	508,616	75
Sep 18	70th Primetime Emmy Awards	210,672	50
Sep 19	Yom Kippur	178,365	66
Sep 20	America's Got Talent (season 13)	116,942	67
Sep 21	Fred Rogers	224,223	19
Sep 22	Anthony Joshua	181,139	84
Sep 23	Tiger Woods	177,120	88
Sep 24	Tiger Woods	226,192	73
Sep 25	Bill Cosby	251,429	71
Sep 26	Bill Cosby	300,500	75
Sep 27	Brett Kavanaugh	747,246	66
Sep 28		772,781	68
Sep 29		378,995	73
Sep 30		223,452	73

October

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Oct 1	Govindappa Venkataswamy (Doodle)	405,094	42
Oct 2	Patrick Mahomes	408,764	84
Oct 3	Venom (2018 film)	302,639	67
Oct 4		326,442	69
Oct 5		378,856	71
Oct 6	WWE Super Show-Down	402,523	78
Oct 7	Khabib Nurmagomedov	1,522,563	79
Oct 8	Khabib Nurmagomedov	633,892	71
Oct 9	Drew Brees	547,284	85
Oct 10	Nikki Haley	289,080	67
Oct 11	2011 Norway attacks	175,413	74
Oct 12	Roberto Clemente (Doodle)	385,921	31
Oct 13	A Star Is Born (2018 film)	169,654	81
Oct 14	Raymond Robinson (Green Man) (Reddit)	295,715	70
Oct 15	Patrick Mahomes	322,725	88
Oct 16	Paul Allen	679,451	62
Oct 17	Jamal Khashoggi	216,528	56
Oct 18	Jamal Khashoggi	236,264	59
Oct 19	Halloween (2018 film)	202,173	70
Oct 20	Jamal Khashoggi	262,826	72
Oct 21	The Haunting of Hill House (TV series)	207,712	82
Oct 22	Patrick Mahomes	325,323	87
Oct 23	Roman Reigns	576,608	80
Oct 24	George Soros	174,244	63
Oct 25	Tyrus Wong (Doodle)	434,503	16
Oct 26	Red Dead Redemption 2	277,889	69
Oct 27	Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series)	265,068	73
Oct 28	Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha	821,359	75
Oct 29	Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha	443,211	66
Oct 30	Whitey Bulger	436,165	60
Oct 31	Halloween	638,862	63

November

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Nov 1	Halloween	440,601	78
Nov 2	WWE Crown Jewel	481,948	72
Nov 3	Freddie Mercury	625,068	85
Nov 4		739,175	84
Nov 5		625,733	75
Nov 6		489,726	75
Nov 7	Beto O'Rourke	670,382	71
Nov 8	Freddie Mercury	370,876	74
Nov 9	Freddie Mercury	366,599	75
Nov 10	Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (Doodle)	658,029	63
Nov 11	Freddie Mercury	555,331	84
Nov 12	Stan Lee	2,204,370	72
Nov 13		2,373,092	76
Nov 14		629,954	73
Nov 15		288,728	70
Nov 16	Arecibo message (Doodle)	973,016	53
Nov 17	Freddie Mercury	319,369	85
Nov 18	Freddie Mercury	329,529	84
Nov 19	Survivor Series (2018)	542,078	72
Nov 20	Patrick Mahomes	259,824	87
Nov 21	Anne Hegerty	341,989	93
Nov 22	Thanksgiving	419,242	68
Nov 23	Steve Gleason	383,553	95
Nov 24	Charles-Michel de l'Épée (Doodle)	343,954	45
Nov 25	Freddie Mercury	302,591	85
Nov 26	Freddie Mercury	196,606	75
Nov 27	Stephen Hillenberg	397,442	64
Nov 28	Stephen Hillenberg	657,878	62
Nov 29	Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Doodle)	453,834	64
Nov 30	2.0 (film)	495,974	86

December

Date	Article	Views	% Mobile
Dec 1	George H. W. Bush	662,460	73
Dec 2		731,512	80
Dec 3		832,786	65
Dec 4		563,517	70
Dec 5		1,248,758	78
Dec 6		913,181	58
Dec 7		323,206	72
Dec 8	Miss World 2018	250,972	80
Dec 9	Jason Momoa	422,438	89
Dec 10	List of most-disliked YouTube videos (It's Rewind Time)	290,566	57
Dec 11		245,653	58
Dec 12		305,364	57
Dec 13		659,830	61
Dec 14	Jason Momoa	402,742	82
Dec 15		314,059	88
Dec 16		252,178	88
Dec 17	Catriona Gray	716,576	77
Dec 18	Penny Marshall	649,240	68
Dec 19		968,614	73
Dec 20		211,920	78
Dec 21	Winter solstice	278,475	48
Dec 22	Bird Box (film)	301,913	78
Dec 23		290,171	86
Dec 24		292,298	87
Dec 25		321,067	89
Dec 26	Boxing Day	502,050	78
Dec 27	Bird Box (film)	545,758	85
Dec 28		579,860	84
Dec 29		587,998	86
Dec 30		532,616	87
Dec 31		433,064	82

Records

Most days at #1: 2018 FIFA World Cup, 18; Avengers: Infinity War, 16; Freddie Mercury, 11; Meghan Markle and Bird Box (film), 9
Most consecutive days at #1: Avengers: Infinity War, 14; 2018 FIFA World Cup and John McCain, 8
Highest single day views: Stephen Hawking, 6,945,343; Meghan Markle, 6,274,322
Longest gap between #1 appearances: Brett Kavanaugh (following his nomination in July, and the confirmation hearings in September)
Top 50 entries that topped at least one day: 2018 FIFA World Cup (#2), Avengers: Infinity War (#3), Meghan Markle (#4), Freddie Mercury (#5), Black Panther (film) (#6), Stephen Hawking (#8), Elon Musk (#12), XXXTentacion(#14), LeBron James (#18), Jason Momoa (#20), A Quiet Place (film) (#22), George H. W. Bush (#23), Anthony Bourdain (#25), Venom (2018 film) (#30), Avicii (#32), Stan Lee (#34), John McCain (#36), Tonya Harding (#41), Nick Jonas (#46), Sridevi (#50)

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