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The most viewed articles for December 2009, derived from historical data.
In December 2007, the website stats.grok.se began offering comprehensive statistics where the viewcounts of all articles for each day could be reviewed. The site also contained a list of the most viewed articles for the month (though this appears to only have been done for some months). The December 2009 list is preserved at archive.org: [1]. After removing non-article pages, the below list of the Top 75 most viewed articles for December 2009 was created in January 2017.
December 2009[edit]
1 Brittany Murphy 5255255. American actress who unexpectedly died on December 20, 2009
2 Avatar (2009 film) 4563366. Film was released mid-December 2009.
3 Wiki 3207697
4 Script kiddie 2452569 (questionable legitimacy - probably affected by bots)
5 Lady Gaga 2231952.
6 Deaths in 2009 1923763
7 Christmas 1806479
8 Tiger Woods 1686639. The height of the golfer's "infidelity scandal."
9 YouTube 1654255
10 Avatar 1565635
11 The Beatles 1473478 (this was long subject to bot views and is not legitimately this popular)
12 Elin Nordegren 1302223 (wife of #8).
13 Glee (TV series) 1280753
14 Hanukkah 1213995
15 United States 1144760
16 Michael Oher 1055440. American football player; The Blind Side film about his youth came out in November 2009.
17 Michael Bublé 1045408 (views likely inflated by bots)
18 Facebook 1015937
19 Sex 1005832
20 Pear 994041 (bot influenced and not legitimately this popular. Bot stopped in January 2010.)
21 Wikipedia 939931
22 Lil Wayne 936056
23 Dexter (TV series) 931250
24 Portal:Current events 928620
25 Penélope Cruz 910226