Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-01-28/Traffic report

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Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Chris Kyle		5,275,697		America needs heroes it seems, because when Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas .
2	American Sniper (film)		1,511,250		American Sniper. The biography of sniper Chris Kyle has earned over $200 million in just 11 days of wide release, and that in January, usually considered Hollywood's financial graveyard. There hasn't been a phenomenon like this since Frozen. Adjusted for inflation, the film has already eclipsed Unforgiven as Eastwood's highest grossing film as a director in the US, and shows no signs of slowing down.
3	Martin Luther King, Jr.		1,088,233		It is Martin Luther King Day this week, and, with public awareness of police killings of black men spiking, and claims that blacks are being blocked from voting by new voter fraud laws, it's fair to say the civil rights pioneer's life has more resonance than ever. On top of that, a mild controversy has also emerged concerning the exclusion of his biopic Selma from most major Oscar categories. You'd think that would be enough for him to top the list, but apparently not.
4	List of Super Bowl champions		799,871		This list invariably pops up once a year, as Americans scramble for facts to determine which team will win the Super Bowl; the foremost of all football fiestas (at least in the US- most of the rest of the world has never heard of it).
5	Tom Brady		727,008		The New England Patriots quarterback with the all-American name has led his team to the Super Bowl six times in the last thirteen years, and won thrice. His position on the list implies readers expect him to do so again.
6	Abdullah of Saudi Arabia		726,736		Thanks to the "pass the parcel" mode of succession practised in Saudi, which hands the crown not down the generations but between the sons of the country's first monarch, Ibn Saud, its now-late ruler was 81 when he assumed the throne, and held it for less than a decade before his death this week handed it to his brother Salman, who, at 79, is the youngest surviving son of Ibn Saud. After him, the grandchildren will finally be let in. Such a system ensures that Saudi Arabia will be a gerontocracy for the foreseeable future.
7	I (film)		726,736		The Bollywood film starring Vikram (left) opened this week to reasonable reviews and fairly spectacular box office, netting ₹1.84 billion ($30 million) worldwide in its first 12 days.
8	Greg Plitt		713,992		The fitness model and actor died this week after running between the rails of the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line in Burbank, California. His death was recorded on video and, while it hasn't been released, it apparently suggests he was trying to outrun a train.
9	Lil Wayne		692,652		A suspiciously high mobile count (93%) implies that this week's release of B***s Love Me ", might not be generating solely human interest, and that his views may be being artificially inflated. I'll leave it to you as to whether we should drop him.
10	Amber Rose		668,488		The hip-hop singer and former stripper caused a minor Internet storm this week when she released some revealing images of herself online, to much attention and a decent amount of criticism.