Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 6 to 12, 2018

| Avengers: Infinity War

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| Infinity War completes three weeks atop both the box office and the Top 25 Report. And the one that can break this streak finished just off our list at #26: Deadpool 2.

| Donald Glover

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| style=text-align:right;| 2,309,716

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| Along with hosting Saturday Night Live, Glover also was the musical guest under the guise of Childish Gambino, debuting the racially charged single "This Is America", which afterwards topped the Billboard Hot 100. In the meantime, he's also in his show Atlanta and will soon appear in theaters as a young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

| Met Gala

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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art continues to hold an yearly fundraiser ball. And this year, the theme was Roman Catholicism, leading to weird sights such as [https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201847/rs_634x1024-180507161238-634-Rihanna-Best-Dressed-Met-Gala.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&output-quality=90 Pope] Rihanna.

| List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films

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| style=text-align:right;|1,038,228

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| The 18 movies that led into #1, and future releases as well. The twentieth, out in July, will show why Ant-Man and the Wasp weren't there to fight Thanos (#13).

| Eurovision Song Contest 2018

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| style=text-align:right;| 989,168

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| It was again time to see Europe's musical offerings. Israel won its first title in twenty years with Netta Barzilai (pictured) and her song "Toy".

| List of highest-grossing films

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| style=text-align:right;| 782,244

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| Infinity War (#1) continues to climb this list, and is soon to only have the $2 billion films Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Titanic and Avatar in front of it.

| Meghan Markle

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| style=text-align:right;| 732,868

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| London will be busy Saturday, with both the 2018 FA Cup Final and Ms. Markle's royal wedding. Wonder who will walk Markle down the aisle given her father will skip it due to a heart surgery.

| Deaths in 2018

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| style=text-align:right;|724,908

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| "There's a time to live and a time to die
When it's time to meet the maker"

| Sonam Kapoor

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| style=text-align:right;|695,213

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| This Bollywood actress brought in views due to her marriage to an Indian businessman.

| Carol Danvers

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| style=text-align:right;| 668,581

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| The one character expected to do what all the heroes in Infinity War (#1) couldn't against Thanos (#13). So of course expectations are high for Captain Marvel and her portrayer Brie Larson.

| Savitri (actress)

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| style=text-align:right;|647,870

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| Bollywood again, this time a late star who's the subject of biopic Mahanati, starring Keerthy Suresh (pictured).

| Mahathir Mohamad

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| style=text-align:right;| 640,035

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| Mohamad was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003, and thanks to the election (#22) on May 9 he will be back in the post at the age of 92, the world's oldest sitting head of government.

| Thanos

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| style=text-align:right;| 623,435

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| The Mad Titan who is both the villain and central character of #1. And for those who want more Josh Brolin, he's playing Cable in Deadpool 2.

| Backlash (2018)

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| style=text-align:right;| 620,933

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| The latest WWE pantomime was held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey (pictured).

| Black Panther (film)

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| style="text-align:right;"| 603,318

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| Infinity War (#1) still has to surpass the domestic box office gotten by one of its heroes, King T'Challa of Wakanda, who's soon to break $700 million in the United States alone.

| Angad Bedi

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| style=text-align:right;| 570,214

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| If an Indian actress got views for her wedding (#9), why not an actor - who married actress and former Miss India Neha Dhupia in a private ceremony - as well? Indian viewers seem to be equal opportunity ones.

| Exo (band)

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| style=text-align:right;|570,183

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| K-Pop keeps its foothold on the list. The week was sad for member Kai, who lost his father to a disease.

| Elon Musk

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| style=text-align:right;| 551,725

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| rowspan=2|The Met Gala (#2) served to introduce the world to a new couple of innovative people, the South African billionaire owner of SpaceX, and a Canadian synthpop musician who makes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2EJMd7ZN7w some interesting music] to hear in one of Musk's Teslas.

| Grimes (musician)

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| Mother's Day

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| style=text-align:right;| 521,654

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| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZRqPPTNjE In the words of] Mr. T, "Mother, there is no other, like Mother, so treat her right!" The second Sunday of May is used in many countries to celebrate motherhood.

| Marvel Cinematic Universe

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| style=text-align:right;|519,681

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| Ten years ago, Marvel Studios started adapting the comics instead of waiting for other people to do so. And it's still going strong!

| Malaysian general election, 2018

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| style=text-align:right;| 507,057

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| Along with returning Mahathir Mohamad (#12) as prime minister, the May 9 election also marked the first time the Barisan Nasional party stopped being the governing one for thirty years.

| Gemini Ganesan

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| style=text-align:right;| 493,118

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| An Indian actor who was the widower of Savitri (#11). He's in her biopic, of course.

| Elizabeth Olsen

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| style=text-align:right;|468,098

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| The Scarlet Witch continues to be the most searched cast member of #1. Pretty clear she's broken out of Mary Kate and Ashley's shadow.

| Untitled Avengers film

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| We open and close with Marvel's congregation of superheroes. Fans just can't wait to see how the downer that is #1's ending will be solved, even if Avengers 4 is still a year away.